History WMG / AliceInWonderland

Of course, it all goes horribly wrong, and he's gives up.

*** OR, he was Willy Wonka first, but when he lost his [[NiceHat awesome hat]] he couldn't find any more in the style he liked...SO he went into hat making, as well as continuing to make chocolate. The mercury started to affect his brain and he started to go wilder and wilder with his chocolate experiments, until he punched a hole between dimensions. Travelling through this sent him back in time (to the Victorian era), and made him younger (hence how he was able to be a younger version of himself in the flashback).

** Also, Willy has a [[NiceHat pretty kickin' hat]]

** Her sister takes after Belle.

Alice has multiple moments of CasualDangerDialogue (seemingly unconcerned with the fact that she could be falling to her death while she worries dropping the marmalade might kill someone below, acknowledging that she'll likely drown in the pool of tears and only considers it "a queer thing") in the series, seemingly more concerned with the strangeness of the situation than the fact that she could die. Not to mention in Through the Looking-Glass, she encounters Humpty Dumpty who states that with "proper assistance"—as in, dying or being killed—she could have stopped aging at seven rather than being at her "uncomfortable age" of seven years and six months". Maybe Alice has some hidden DeathSeeker tendencies that only shows up in her DreamWorld, since it's an internal projection of her thoughts/people she knows/etc.

* Because Poe wrote on both. -???, Johnny Depp (paraphrase)

** The mushrooms are probably picked by bakers to make their cookies. Alice is the only affected by this because she isn't from Wonderland.

Her parents were never mentioned at all in the course of the books, either by Alice herself or in the narration. Her sister is mentioned several times and her brother once, but even then only by the narration, not Alice herself. The only one she mentions potentially missing her at home as she falls down the rabbit hole is her cat Dinah. She seems to spend much of her time pretending to be two people, and whereas in the animated Disney version she cries because she'll never get home after eating the cake, in the original book she cries because she can't get to the garden and she doesn't want to be alone. Along with seeming lonely and distant from her family (possibly as a case of ParentalNeglect [[AbusiveParents or worse]]), Alice constantly berates herself, and is described as not only having a tendency to scold herself so harshly she cries, but she also hit herself for cheating herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself. We don't know if the latter point is a frequent tactic [[SelfHarm to punish herself]], as it's all only dwelled on for a single sentence, but since it's mentioned in the same sentence as her constant berating of herself, it could have one wonder if [[FridgeHorror physically harming herself is a regular thing]].

* Look out! She's RAVEN mad! - The March Hare, [[Disney/AliceInWonderland Disney edition]]

[[WMG: Wonderland and [[{{Disney/PeterPan}} Neverland]] are the same place.]]

[[WMG: Alice has deep self-esteem issues.]]

The Hatter tells Alice that he and Time "quarreled last March—just before ''he'' went mad, you know". While out-of-universe it's a play on the phrase "mad as a March Hare", so of course it makes sense. In-universe, however, the argument between the Hatter and Time was just before the Hare went mad. The Hare might have been the OnlySaneMan before the incident, and Time might have punished Hatter not only by making it always tea-time (until they were freed from it by ''Looking-Glass''), but also ''causing the Hare to go mad in the first place''.

Alice has multiple moments of CasualDangerDialogue (seemingly unconcerned with the fact that she could be falling to her death while she worries dropping the marmalade might kill someone below, acknowledging that she'll likely drown in the pool of tears and only considers it "a queer thing") in the series, seemingly more concerned with the strangeness of the situation than the fact that she could die. Not to mention in Through the Looking-Glass, she encounters Humpty Dumpty who states that with "proper assistance"—as in, dying or being killed—she could have stopped aging at seven rather than being at her "uncomfortable age" of seven years and six months". Maybe Alice has some hidden DeathSeeker tendencies that only shows up in her DreamWorld, since it's an internal projection of her thoughts/people she knows/etc.

[[WMG: Wonderland and [[{{Disney/PeterPan}} Neverland]] are the same place.]]

I know that's not the author's intent, but, hear me out. Many of the characters found in Wonderland can be seen as metaphors for the various traits of Autistic children. The White Rabbit represents the obsessive-compulsive nature many people in Autism have. Both the March Hare and Mad Hatter represent the classic ritualistic behaviors found in Autistic people. The Cheshire Cat represents the random quirks or unsusual sense of humor. And, the Queen Of Hearts represents the over-emotional side people with Autism sometimes express.

Yes, it's [[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice cliched]] and [[PoisonOakEpilepticTrees bad]], but so many Gothic [[{{Grimmification}} Grimmifications]] had been made by the time that [[Tropers/{{Cue}} this troper]] had read the original that it made too much sense and brought down the humor at points.

** [[PansLabyrinth No wait, that's a different movie. It wasn't this one, but it was similar.]]

* because neither is much like a bicycle

* [[BecauseISaidSo Because I said so.]]