History Series / OnceUponATimeInWonderland

* GardenOfEvil: The Queen of Hearts's living hedge maze.
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* HeldGaze: Happens frequently between Alice and Cyrus in the flashbacks.

* CompositeCharacter: The Knave of Hearts is [[RobinHood Will Scarlet]], and the Red Queen is [[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'s stepsister Anastasia]].

** Later, RobinHood, also appearing in the then-current OUAT Baelfire arc, has a crossover.

** RobinHood steals from [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]].

Rather than being related only in name to ''Once Upon a Time'', it has a SharedUniverse. Given that ''Wonderland'' stars a protagonist from Victorian England (Alice), whereas Storybrooke has a protagonist from modern-day [[BigApplesauce New York]], it was up in the air how connected the two series would be. WordOfGod tells us that they avoid a TimeyWimeyBall in that Alice's Victorian Britain is a separate story world, like the Austria-inspired one Frankenstein comes from in the parent show. Several significant characters like Cora, Robin Hood and Maleficent cross over, but only in backstory. Apart from cameos, {{flashback}} {{cross over}}s, and Alice briefly visiting contemporary Storybrooke, ''Wonderland'' is its own self-contained HeroOfAnotherStory.

Rather than being related only in name to ''Once Upon a Time'', it has a SharedUniverse. Given that ''Wonderland'' stars a protagonist from Victorian England (Alice), whereas Storybrooke has a protagonist from modern-day [[BigApplesauce New York]], it was up in the air how connected the two series would be. WordOfGod tells us that they avoid a TimeyWimeyBall in that Alice's Victorian Britain is a separate story world, like the Austria-inspired one Frankenstein comes from in the parent show. Several significant characters like Cora, Robin Hood and Maleficent cross over, but only in backstory. Apart from cameos and {{flashback}} {{cross over}}s, Wonderland is its own self-contained HeroOfAnotherStory.

Rather than related only in name to ''Once Upon a Time'', it has a SharedUniverse. Given that ''Wonderland'' stars a protagonist from Victorian England (Alice), whereas Storybrooke has a protagonist from modern-day [[BigApplesauce New York]], it was up in the air how connected the two series would be. WordOfGod tells us that they avoid a TimeyWimeyBall in that Alice's Victorian Britain is a separate story world, like the Austria-inspired one Frankenstein comes from in the parent show. Several significant characters like Cora, Robin Hood and Maleficent cross over, but only in backstory. Apart from cameos and {{flashback}} {{cross over}}s, Wonderland is its own self-contained HeroOfAnotherStory.

Rather than being distantly related to ''Once Upon a Time'', it has a SharedUniverse. Given that ''Wonderland'' stars a protagonist from Victorian England (Alice), whereas Storybrooke has a protagonist from modern-day [[BigApplesauce New York]], it was up in the air how connected the two series would be. WordOfGod tells us that they avoid a TimeyWimeyBall in that Alice's Victorian Britain is a separate story world, like that of Frankenstein in the parent show. Several significant characters cross-over, but only in backstory. Apart from cameos and {{flashback}} {{cross over}}s, Wonderland is its own self-contained HeroOfAnotherStory.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In Episode 4, we get a brief look at Amara’s spellbook. The wording over the picture of the lamp says الساحرة, which is Arabic for “the sorceress,” nothing to do with genies. Also, it’s written backwards and the individual letters are disconnected, which looks terrible.

* AGlassInTheHand: Alice breaks a glass after her stepmother suggests geting her married to a young man.
* AllMythsAreTrue[=/=]CanonWelding: Takes place in the same universe, or rather TheMultiverse, as ''Series/OnceUponATime'', which includes pretty much every classic fictional character from [[Literature/PeterPan Captain Hook]] to Literature/{{Frankenstein}}.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In Episode 4, we get a brief look at Amara’s spellbook. The wording over the picture of the lamp says الساحرة, which is Arabic for “the sorcereress,” nothing to do with genies. Also, it’s written backwards and the individual letters are disconnected, which looks terrible.

** He does it again to the Jabberwocky immediately after achieving his goal.

* ShootTheMessenger: The Red Queen threatens Tweedledum after he revealed the treason of his brother.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This show's version of Alice falls closer to the warrior Alice of the Tim Burton movie than the innocent girl of the original stories and most earlier treatments.
** Also, ''Jafar''. If you thought he was evil in the original animated movie...
** Wonderland was always a little twisted and loopy, but it ''was'' originally intended for the delight of a six-year old girl. Now it's more akin to the nightmare at the end of the Disney animated version than the whimsical first half. It owes ''much'' more to American [=McGee=]'s Alice than that, though. Violent and weird, and you can't trust anyone.

* BedlamHouse: Alice is kept '''the''' Bedlam House[[note]]WordOfGod says Alice's Victorian London is a different world to our own so it's more like a version of the real Bethlem Royal[[/note]] after coming back from Wonderland - and everyone believing she's mad.

* MoralDissonance: Amara, even ''prior'' to meeting Jafar, gained a reputation as a powerful and deadly sorceress, so feared by the public that her mere presence in the bazaar was enough to make everyone there hide for fear they'd be seen by her. ''After'' meeting Jafar, she poisoned a man for his liver after he had rescued her goat, turned another man to stone, and is directly responsible for taking Jafar's justified hatred and twisting him into the monster he is now.
** [[spoiler: Subverted in the finale. She later regrets her actions (which it seems [[IDidWhatIHadToDo were all done to get her sons back anyway]]) and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices her life]] to stop him.]]