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's 1865 novel ''
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'' and its 1871 sequel, ''
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''.


Appearing in ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''


Alice's sister

Alice's unnamed older sister, who reads a book without illustrations or dialogues, sits on the bank with Alice at the beginning of the book. Alice falls asleep with her head in her sister's lap and has the dream about Wonderland. When Alice awakes, she tells her sister about her dream, and the book closes with her sister daydreaming about what Alice will be like as a grown-up. Some believe that she is named Lorina after Alice's real-life sister. In the Disney's film, Alice's sister (voiced by Heather Angel) was never named. She was named Mathilda in Disney's ''Alice in Wonderland Jr''. She is named Ada in the 1995 Jetlag animated film. In the 2010 film, she is married and her name is Margaret (portrayed by
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). In the Cashville series, a 10 year old Alice had an oldest sister named
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as she is 25 years old woman.


Dinah

Dinah is Alice's cat and bosom companion in ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There''. Alice talks to Dinah, and mentions her frequently to Wonderland residents. When Alice describes Dinah's hunting skills to the animals in the Caucus Race, they become very uncomfortable. Dinah appears in the
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, and a descendant of her with the same name belonged to Alice's great-granddaughter that came to Wonderland and lived there in '' Alice's Wonderland Bakery''.


The Duchess's Cook

The ill-mannered, belligerent and volatile cook works as a servant to the
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. The copious amounts of pepper (which alludes to a quick temper) she uses in her soup cause Alice, the Duchess, and her son to sneeze incessantly. Her fury at being disrupted during her cooking is made clear when she throws various pots and pans, aiming to hit both Alice and the baby. She makes another brief appearance as a key witness at the Queen of Hearts's trial, where she claims that the stolen tarts were made with pepper. The Cook appears in the 1999 film played by
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.


The Eaglet, the Lory, the Duck, and the Dodo

The Eaglet, the Lory, the Duck, and the Dodo are characters appearing in chapters two and three of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. Carroll incorporated references in his works to a group of his friends present on a boating outing on the
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which occurred on 4 July 1862. Carroll at the time was relating his newly forming story to the three girls, their family, and some friends.
Alice Liddell Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (''née'' Liddell, ; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll. One of the stories he told her during a boating trip becam ...
became
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; with the others represented by birds in these passages from the book. The
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character was based on Lorina Charlotte Liddell,
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's older sister reflecting on the
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that older siblings had more power over the younger sibling. The Eaglet was also another sister, Edith Liddell; and the Duck was a caricature of Rev.
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. The Dodo referenced
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(Carroll) himself.Carroll, Lewis & Gardner, Martin (2000)
''The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition''
pp. 27–28. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
It began to rain during the outing, and the group left for a nearby house. As they walked, only Alice, Lorina, and Edith could keep up. Carroll and the sisters got there first, as they walked the fastest. According to ''The Annotated Alice'', Carroll had originally had the characters dry off by having the Dodo lead them to a nearby house for towels. Carroll ultimately replaced this scene in the book with the "Caucus race", as he felt that the original story would have been funny only to the people familiar with the incident. The Dodo appears in the 1951 Disney film, though the Eaglet, the Lory and the Duck do not appear. A family of horn-shaped ducks that are seen in the Tulgey Wood appear in the film.


The Executioner

He is the royal Executioner of the
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and
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. The Queen of Hearts ordered the
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to be decapitated, but the Executioner argued that he couldn't because the Cat lacked a body to decapitate. This led to an argument between the Queen, the King and the Executioner about whether or not a disembodied head could be decapitated. The Executioner then argued that the Cat belonged to the
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, so he couldn't behead it without her permission. He is most commonly depicted as a
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(similar to the Card painters) and his suit is clubs, though he has also been a spade, a heart and, in ''
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'', a joker. In the 1951 film, several of the Card Soldiers in the Queen's court are executioners. They are all spades, rather than clubs, and carry axes. As are all of the Card Soldiers they are voiced by Don Barclay and Larry Grey. In
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's 2010 film, the executioner is an assassin working for the Red Queen, rather than the Queen of Hearts. He made a brief appearance in the film, where he was assigned to behead the Mad Hatter. Before executing him, the Executioner wanted to remove his hat, but when the Hatter insisted that he wanted to keep it on, he agreed when as long as he could get at his neck. When he swings his axe, it hit the block instead of the neck of the
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, as it was the Cheshire Cat in disguise as the Hatter. As the Cheshire Cat floats away with Hatter's hat, the Executioner looks as shocked as other inhabitants of the Red Queen's court. Soon after that, the Red Queen ordered for her courtiers to be executed. Whether the Executioner actually ended their lives or not is unknown. In the film, the Executioner uses a heart shaped axe, hinting his suit is hearts. The Executioner was voiced by the English actor Jim Carter. The executioner is the only humanoid character, in the film, to be completely CGI and he speaks only one line in the entire film. He wears a long grey cloak and a hood that covers his face. The Executioner appears as an enemy in the
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'' Alice: Madness Returns''. He stays in the Queen's castle and is completely invulnerable to any of
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's attacks. He has the appearance of an extremely large humanoid made of several different Card Guard parts, each piece of his sewn-together body showing a symbol of a certain suit of a card deck. The top of his head is masked by a large horned hat, and several of the Queen's tentacles are wrapped around the top of his body, even going through his eye sockets. On his is head is what looks like a jester's hat and all Card colors may imply that Executioner is a Joker Card (hence its special abilities), but it is not confirmed.


Fish Footman

In Lewis Carroll's novel ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', the Fish Footman delivers a
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invitation from the Queen of Hearts to the Duchess's Frog Footman, which he then delivers to the Duchess. In
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's 2010 remake of ''Alice in Wonderland'', the Red Queen has a Fish Footman working in her castle as a
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. Both the Frog Footmen and the Fish Footman have been shown in a
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for Tim Burton's adaptation, which premiered March 5, 2010. A gentleman fish appears in the sequel '' Alice Through the Looking Glass'', voiced by
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.


Frog Footman

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with a bow tie and white hair who serves as a footman to The Duchess. He received a letter from a fish-footman to give it to the duchess. The Frog Footman does not appear in Walt Disney's 1951 film, though there is a drum frog with a detached green head and green legs and a cymbal frog with eyes on top and blue legs in the Tulgey Wood. In the 2010 film, there are multiple Frog Footmen who work for the Red Queen. One of them was about to be executed for eating the queen's tarts as he was too hungry. A delivery frog appears in the sequel '' Alice Through the Looking Glass'', voiced by Owain Rhys Davies.


Mary Ann

The White Rabbit's
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. Alice is mistaken for her. She does not appear at all and is only mentioned.


The Pig Baby

The
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Baby is mentioned in Chapter 6 of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', titled "Pig and Pepper." When Alice enters the Duchess's house, she sees the Duchess holding a human baby, as shown in
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's illustration. The baby is wailing and sneezing due to the pepper particles in the air. The Duchess then goes on to sing "Speak Roughly to your little boy", shaking the baby wildly and adding to the already chaotic scene in the house. The Duchess flings the baby at Alice who catches it and then walks outside. She starts to realize that the baby is not really human after all, since it starts to grow pig ears and a turnt-up nose. Alice finally sets down the pig, as it then scurries off into the woods.


The Playing Cards

They are
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s with a human head, arms and legs. The playing cards are loyal servants as well as guards for the Queen of Hearts. They mainly carry spears with the tip shaped as a heart. Alice first meets three cards at the Queen's castle painting white
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s red. One of them explains that they accidentally planted white roses, and because the Queen hates white roses they have to paint them red or the Queen will behead them. After the Queen arrives, she finds white roses and orders the execution of all three. Alice declares that they "shan't be beheaded" and hides them in a flowerpot. Their would-be executioners spend a minute or two looking for them before giving up. When Alice joins a game of croquet with the Queen and the other playing cards, the card soldiers act as arches. They have to leave being arches every time the Queen has an executioner drag the victim away. They also appear in the trial where the Knave of Hearts is accused for stealing the Queen's tarts. The Playing Cards also appear in the 1951 ''
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'' animated film as playing cards with masks shaped like card symbols that match their spears and gloves. Three of the Playing Cards were first seen by Alice painting roses on white rose bushes red until the Queen had them taken away to be beheaded for painting her roses red. They also march as they chase Alice even over the hedges of the labyrinth. They are voiced by
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, Don Barclay and Larry Grey. The Playing Cards also appeared in ''
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'' voiced by
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. They appear in the 2010 film as playing cards with red armor that covers their body, masks and shoulder plates shaped like hearts, and spears with tips shaped like hearts. There are no cards of spades, clubs or diamonds, for only cards of hearts appear in this film. They are called "Red Knights" and serve the Red Queen. They appear in the video game, ''American McGee's Alice'' where they carry axes and bow guns. In the novel ''
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'', they appear as robots with their outer layer shaped as cards and spears. They can fly while in card form and can walk as well as spear in soldier form. They work for Queen Redd, the main antagonist of the series. In the
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''
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'' (''Heart no Kuni no Alice''), they are humans with card-marked uniforms that have different numbers for each servant and British hats. There appear to be female versions of these as well.


Tortoise

Tortoise is the
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's teacher. He does not appear, but is only mentioned. He is a
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and when Alice asks why he was called Tortoise if he was a turtle, the Mock Turtle replies with a play on words; "We called him tortoise because he taught us!"


Appearing in ''Alice Through the Looking-Glass''


Returning characters – Dinah, Alice's sister, Frog Footman, Hatter, Hare

Several characters from the original book, other than Alice, appear. The most prominent is Dinah who reappears now the mother of two kittens. She assumes the role of
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. Though Alice's sister does not appear, she is briefly mentioned. The Frog Footman makes a minor reappearance as a gardener. The Hatter and the Hare also reappear as messengers for the White King, renamed Hatta and
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, "one to come, and one to go". Haigha is notable for adopting "
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attitudes", referring to a ninth- to eleventh-century style in English drawing, in which the figures are shown in swaying positions with the palms held out in exaggerated positions.


Kitty

Kitty is Dinah's black kitten and a character of the Lewis Carroll's novel ''Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There''. Kitty, who assumes the role of the Red Queen, appears in chapters I and XII.


Snowdrop

Snowdrop is Dinah's white kitten and a character of Lewis Carroll's novel ''Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There''. Snowdrop, who assumes the role of the White Queen, appears in chapters I and XII.


Nobody

A character the White King mentions when Alice says "I see nobody on the road". Considering how the king refers to Nobody like a person he was familiar with, it suggests that the king actually knew somebody named Nobody. Nobody appears in '' Alice Through the Looking Glass'', voiced by
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.


Talking Flowers

The flowers Alice meet include a tiger-lily, a
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, a
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,
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,
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s,
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,
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,
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,
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, daisies, a
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,
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,
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s,
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,
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and lilies of the valley,
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, lazy daisies, and a larkspur. Alice first meets them in the garden, where they mistake her for a type of flower that can move. The one Alice first makes contact with is a tiger-lily, who sets the other flowers straight. When Alice asks if they are frightened when no one takes care of them, the rose tells her that the tree in the middle is there. The daisies tell her that it says "Bough-wough", which is why branches are called boughs. Then all of them make shrill voices and don't stop until Alice whispers that she will pick them if they don't hold their tongues. The violet rudely tells Alice that she had never seen anyone looked stupider, of course, she had never seen anybody herself as explained by the tiger-lily. The rose tells her there is another flower that can move like her and looks like her but that she is redder, her petals are shorter, and she wears her thorns on her head. The larkspur hears this flower on the gravel-walk. Alice discovers that the red flower is the Red Queen, her hair the petals and thorns the points of her crown. Alice leaves the flowers to meet the Queen. Some of the flowers are pawns with the daisies being both red and white, while the tiger-lily and the rose are red. In 1998, the
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17768 Tigerlily was named after tiger-lily. In the
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, Alice meets them just before she meets the
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. They sing her a song called the "Golden Afternoon", from " All in the golden afternoon...". They are voiced by
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(who voices the Rose),
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(who voices the Tulips),
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(who voices the Snooty Iris),
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(who voices the unnamed flowers),
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(who voices the White Rose), and Jimmy and Tommy Luske (who voice the Young Pansies). The flowers reappeared in the 1985 TV movie. Performers included
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as the tiger-lily and
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as the rose. They were also among the Looking Glass land characters to appear in the 1999 film, with
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voicing the tiger-lily. They also appear in the 2010 movie. They are voiced by
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, whose head was filmed and digitally added to the Flower Heads. Two flowers: the daffodils and the pansies appear in second special of ''
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'': "The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse".


Red Knight

The Knight comes across Alice while riding through a wood at the start of chapter VIII. He attempts to capture her for the Red side, but then the
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suddenly appears and exclaims that he has rescued her. They decide to fight over her, in the manner according to Looking-glass world's bizarre "Rules of Battle." Alice remarks to herself that these rules seem to be: (1) "if one Knight hits the other, he knocks him off his horse, and if he misses, he tumbles off himself", (2) both combatants must "hold their clubs with their arms, as if they were
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", and (3) both combatants must always fall on their heads. The contests ends when both knights fall from their horses and the White is inexplicably decided the victor. They shake hands and then the Red mounts and gallops away. He is the Red King's
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. Actors who have portrayed him onscreen include
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and
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.Dramatis Personae
at alice-in-wonderland.net


Train Passengers

While taking a train across the third square, Alice encounters several passengers, including a man dressed entirely in white paper, a
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, a
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with a cold, a
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, and the Gnat (see below).


Guard

A guard on the train through the third square. He collects the passengers' giant tickets. He gets angry at Alice when she doesn't have one. The guard was played in the 1985 TV movie by
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.


Aged Man

He only appears within the poem,
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that the White Knight recites to Alice in chapter VIII. According to the poem, the Knight met the Aged Man sitting atop a gate in a field and questioned him as to his profession. The Man responds with a long list of absurd occupations, including making waistcoat buttons from the eyes of haddocks and digging for buttered rolls. The last stanza closes by describing him as: ...that old man I used to know— Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow Whose hair was whiter than the snow, Whose face was very like a crow, With eyes, like cinders, all aglow, Who seemed distracted with his woe, Who rocked his body to and fro, And muttered mumblingly and low, As if his mouth were full of dough... The Aged Man represents the White King's
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.


Lily

Lily is the daughter of the White Queen. The Queen is looking for her daughter Lily. Since she is too young to play, Alice takes her place as a pawn.


The Monstrous Crow

The Monstrous Crow is listed as the Red King's bishop, but Alice never encounters it over the course of the story. According to the rhyme, it is "black as a tar-barrel" and of a monstrous size. The Tweedle brothers ( white rooks) are terrified of the Monstrous Crow, and when the pair see the White Queen's shawl being blown around by the wind at the end of chapter IV, they mistake it for the dread bird and flee through the woods. because the shaul is black.


Bread-and-Butterfly

The Bread-and-Butterfly is an insect from ''Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There''. Its name and form is a pun on bread and butter. Its wings are thin slices of bread-and-butter, with a crust as its body and a lump of sugar as its head. It lives on weak tea with cream in it. In the 1951 Disney movie, it appears as a butterfly that has wings of bread with butter spread on them.


Rocking-Horsefly

The Rocking-Horsefly is an insect from ''Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There''. Its name and form is a pun on the rocking-horse. Its body is that of a horse with black dots and wings on its back, while its legs are connected to rockers. It is made entirely of wood and rocks about. It lives on sap and sawdust. In the 1951 Disney movie its body is yellow, while its saddle, tail, and rockers are red. In the 2010 adaptation, it has a black-and-white polka-dotted body. It has a mane and tail. A Rocking-Horse-Fly was seen defending itself against a Snap-Dragonfly; another was seen rocking on a mushroom in the mushroom garden. In the
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''
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'', which is basically saturated with references to the books, there is a Chain that bears a resemblance to the Rocking-Horse Fly.


Snap-Dragonfly

The Snap-Dragonfly is an insect from ''Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There''. Its name and form is a pun on a traditional game called snap-dragon combined with a plant called a
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and a
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. In the 2010 adaptation, the Snap-Dragonfly's body, head, and tail are those of a dragon with antennae resembling long and thin horns; therefore, its name and form is a pun on 'dragon' from dragonfly. Snap-Dragonflies are seen flying around, with one of them fighting a Rocking-Horse-Fly.


The Gnat

Alice meets the
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on her head. He calls Alice an old friend, but Alice doesn't recognize him—causing him to become depressed. During the train ride, Alice hears the Gnat mentioning topics he believes would make good jokes. The Gnat seems to love jokes; however, he doesn't like telling them himself—he prefers others to tell the jokes. After the journey on the train, the Gnat introduces her to three insects: the Rocking-Horse-Fly, the Snap-Dragonfly, and the Bread-and-Butterfly. He then sighs himself away. Actors who have played the gnat on screen include
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and
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. Though he doesn't make an appearance in the 1999 film, he was mentioned in the second verse of '
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,' when the
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was recognized by the Queen of Hearts.


The Fawn

Alice meets the fawn in Chapter 3 after getting off the train, and coming to an open field. No longer being able to remember her name, she sees the fawn. They have both forgotten their names, and decide to walk together as they ponder them. The fawn then remembers its name, and realizes Alice is a human, instinctively running away. Alice cries after it, but is glad that he helped her to remember her own name. In the 1985 film, Alice meets it after meeting the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse. The fawn doesn't speak, but it sucks on Alice's fingers while she pets it. Alice sings a song to it, and then it leaves to find its mother while Alice leaves to try and get back home.


Characters created for films

* The Doorknob (voiced by
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) is a character created for the 1951 Disney Film. It likes to sleep, and therefore prefers silence over noise. The Doorknob also appears in ''
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'' voiced by
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. As shown in ''
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''
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, The Doorknob also hides the world's Keyhole and is reprised by Corey Burton. The Doorknob is the only character from the 1951 film to not have appeared in the book itself. It also uses the phrase "One good turn deserves another", an
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first recorded at the end of the 14th century.one good turn deserves another – idioms and phrases
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Contrary to the entry in Jiminy's Journal, Sora and company never enter through the door on which the Doorknob is fixed. The Doorknob appears again in ''
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'', this time having a conversation with Roxas. * The Owl appears in the second segment of the 1985 movie version, first as a painting, then at other points as a character who gives Alice advice about courage. He is played by
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. In the 2010 Tim Burton film several characters were created. These include: * Bayard the Bloodhound (voiced by
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) – On older version of the
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from chapter IV of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. The film also includes his wife and their puppies. * The Ascots – A family whose son Hamish ( Leo Bill) wishes to marry Alice. Lord and Lady Ascot are played by
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and
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, respectively. * Charles Kingsleigh was Alice's beloved father who later passes away in the second film. Charles is played by the New Zealand actor
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. His wife is played by
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.


References

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Lewis Carroll characters
Alice Alice may refer to: * Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Literature * Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll * ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by ...