- “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
- ―Alice[src]
Alice is the titular protagonist of Disney's 1951 animated feature film Alice in Wonderland. She is a young girl who uses her surreal imagination to escape her mundane life. Alice's curiosity and yearn for something new leads her to a mysterious realm known as Wonderland. As she traverses through the wacky world, Alice finds herself appreciating the normality that she once rejected.
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Background[]
Voice[]
Walt Disney himself had specific instructions for how Alice should sound. For the voice of Alice, Walt Disney wanted one "that would be English enough to satisfy British audiences and preserve the feeling of an English literary classic, but not so English that it would put off American audiences." He found that in the young actress Kathryn Beaumont, and within hours of her audition, Disney gave Beaumont the part. Like many Disney animated heroines, Alice was portrayed by a real-life actress as reference material for the animators. This was performed by Beaumont, the voice of Alice, who was drawn looking a bit older than her 7-year-old storybook counterpart. This enabled keeping the wonder and childlike quality of a young girl while allowing for some maturity. After Beaumont retired from acting in 2005, Hynden Walch has now taken over the role of Alice for Beaumont and has been her current voice actress since. However, Beaumont still occasionally reprises the role, her most notable reprise being in Alice's Wonderland Bakery. Kat Cressida has also voiced Alice for a brief period of time in a few projects for Disney.
Personality[]
Alice is depicted as a daydreamer first and foremost. Prior to arriving in Wonderland, she sat on the bank of a river listening to her sister reading lessons, which she didn't like, as the book her sister was reading had no pictures, and claimed, "In my world, the books would be nothing but pictures!" Alice, however, does enjoy reading, just not the books her sister prefers. This gives some idea of Alice's large imagination, and at first, Wonderland seemed like the perfect place for Alice, as it allowed her to indulge in her imaginings as well as her intense curiosity. Having been raised as a proper lady, Alice is generally very relaxed and carries a peaceful demeanor to the point where she tends to respond to Wonderland's nonsense with grace and courtesy. Alice is also very intelligent, being knowledgeable about scientific nomenclatures and court proceedings. Alice's pedantic eagerness to show off her knowledge, coupled with her push for respect, sensibility, and fairness, proved to be adverse to the chaotic environment in Wonderland, as her resistance to Wonderland's nonsense landed her in many precarious situations that ultimately get Alice chased from Wonderland. Still, she is polite, honest, and articulate, if not given a reason to be otherwise as aforementioned. She is also very adventurous, idealistic, and curious, as shown by her initial fascination with Wonderland. However, she soon discovers how unbearable a world of nonsense is, which tones down her curiosity and sense of adventure in favor of returning home.
Physical appearance[]
Alice is a young girl living in what is assumed to be Victorian England. Her figure is slender and appears fairly petite. She has big blue eyes, pink or red lips, fair skin, and blonde, thick, medium-length hair held back by a black ribbon tied in a bow.
Alice's signature outfit is a cerulean and light blue short-sleeved knee-length skirted dress with a matching collar, and a white pinafore apron on top, with a bow tied in the back of her apron. Underneath her dress, she wears a white petticoat, a pair of white tights, and a frilly white knee-length and matching pantalettes. She also sports black Mary Jane shoes with brown/gray soles. Her dress is wide enough to make a parachute, so she can float down to Wonderland.
Appearances[]
Alice in Wonderland[]
Alice falling down the rabbit hole.
In 1865 England, Alice is sitting in a tree with her pet kitten, Dinah, listening distractedly to a history lesson being given from her older sister, who repeatedly reminds Alice to stop daydreaming and pay attention. Alice tries to excuse her lack of attention due to the book her sister was reading having no pictures in it and saying how in her world, the books would be nothing but pictures, but her sister brushes off her reasoning as silly nonsense. Alice slips away with Dinah while her sister is focused on reading, going off about "a world of her own". Near a brook, she spots a White Rabbit with a waistcoat and an oversized pocket watch fretting endlessly over how late he is running. Filled with curiosity over what a rabbit could be late for, Alice hurries after him, begging the rabbit to wait. She follows the rabbit into a small rabbit hole, where the ground gives way while she's focused on talking to Dinah, and she tumbles end over end down an endless black hole, only able to wave goodbye to Dinah as she falls out of sight of her kitten. Her dress catches her fall like a parachute, slowing her descent, and after floating past assorted household objects such as chairs and pictures aloft in the hole, taking in the wonder of it all and asking several questions about what will happen to her should she ever reach the bottom of the hole or it goes on endlessly, even trying to pass the time with reading a book she grabs before being distracted, she lands safely at the bottom. She continues her pursuit of the rabbit to a round, cavernous room with doors on all sides. At one door, in particular, is a cheerful doorknob placed on a door too small for her. At the advisement of the doorknob, Alice drinks from a bottle on the table (which magically appears). Alice drinks the drink (after considering that it may be poison) and says it taste like a cherry tart, custard, pineapple, and roast turkey. As she says this, she shrinks to 'just the right size'. She goes up to the doorknob and is about to turn the knob when he informs her that he's locked. Alice is saddened by this, but the doorknob says (assumes) Alice has the key, which Alice doesn't. The key then magically appears on the table. Alice tries to climb the table, but can't due to her small size. The doorknob suggests Alice to try the box (which magically appears). Alice opens the box and finds it full of cookies. She takes a bite of one and grows to giant size, nearly filling up the room in her giant state. Upset by this, Alice begins to cry giant drops of water that turn the room into a pool of her own tears, despite her best attempts to try and stop crying, only to cry harder and harder. The doorknob sees the bottle and tells Alice, who drinks from the bottle, shrinks, and falls into the empty bottle, which is washed through the keyhole and enters Wonderland.
A giant Alice inside the White Rabbit's home.
Once on the shore, she meets Dodo, who is having a caucus race with some friends. The White Rabbit appears and dashes into the nearby forest. Alice follows but is delayed by the appearance of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. The two comical chums entertain her with the story of The Walrus and the Carpenter until Alice realizes she is wasting time. Taking leave of the two, Alice finally stumbles upon the White Rabbit's home and meets him face to face, but he mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann. He orders her to retrieve his gloves from the house. While upstairs, Alice eats a cookie from a jar on the table but grows to giant size once again with her arms and legs shooting out the windows and doors of the house trying to pull herself out. Seeing what has happened, the White Rabbit enlists the help of Dodo, who resolves to set fire to the house and "smoke the monster out." Spotting a garden, Alice eats one of the rabbit's carrots and shrinks very small. Alice is then able to exit the house and resume her pursuit of the White Rabbit, who has realized how late he is and taken off.
After losing the rabbit a second time, she has a marginally pleasant interaction with a bed of living, talking flowers, who enchant her with "All in the Golden Afternoon". However, when they realize Alice is no sort of flower they have ever seen, they decide she is a "weed" and rudely oust her from the garden. Afterward, she encounters a snobby, hookah-smoking caterpillar who shows her a mushroom that can enlarge or shrink her before turning into a butterfly and flitting off.
Alice breaks off two pieces of the mushroom and finds that a small nibble from one of the pieces returns her to normal size. She places the two pieces in her apron pockets and resumes her journey through the forest. Alice then meets the mischievous, perpetually-grinning Cheshire Cat, perched in a tree. After a vexing conversation, the cat suggests she visit the Mad Hatter and March Hare (who is mad too).
Alice with the Mad Hatter and March Hare during the Mad Tea Party.
The Cheshire Cat vanishes into thin air. Though she does not want to come across mad people, Alice pays a visit to the Mad Hatter, March Hare, and the Dormouse. The trio is at an enormous table laden with teapots and kettles, sipping tea and celebrating one of their 364 unbirthdays. Alice and the trio become friends until they seem to be even madder than they appear. After several failed attempts at a civilized conversation, an exasperated Alice becomes fed up with their madness and storms away.
Before she does, however, the White Rabbit appears and rushes through the party, only to be stopped by the Mad Hatter, who was intrigued upon hearing of the rabbit's tardiness. He claims his watch is to blame and believes it's two days slow, leading to the Mad Hatter and the March Hare volunteering to "fix" it. Their efforts merely make things worse, to the point where the watch goes mad and is destroyed by the Hare. Sadly, the White Rabbit gathers the ruined pieces, heartbroken as it was an unbirthday present, and the trigger word causing the rabbit to be thrown out during the Mad Hatter and March Hare's reprise of their Unbirthday song, leaving Alice chasing after the rabbit once more.
Alice lost in the Tulgey Woods, having given up hope.
Declaring she has had enough nonsense (namely because by now, she has realized that a world full of it isn't as good as she thought), Alice decides to find her way home, no longer interested in the rabbit. As she continues on her way, she realizes she has come to an unfamiliar part of the forest. Here she encounters a plethora of peculiar animals, who divert her attention even further into the unknown. Some of these creatures point Alice's attention to a pathway, ostensibly leading out of the woods. She follows the path in excitement but doesn't get too far before it is swept away by another peculiar creature, leaving her stranded in the middle of the woods. A resigned Alice reaches her breaking point and starts to believe she may never see her home again. She sobs in distress, lamenting her flighty disregard for the practical advice she's known all along. As she cries, the Cheshire Cat appears in a nearby tree to comfort her, to her utter delight. Alice wails that she is done with following white rabbits and wants to find her way home. He explains to her that she has no way, because all ways in Wonderland are the Queen of Heart's ways. She asks the cat where to find her, and he directs her to a secret passageway to a twisting hedge maze surrounding a castle.
Alice enters the hedge maze and comes across a palace garden with white rose trees. There, she finds a trio of cheery Club playing cards armed with paintbrushes painting the roses red. The cards explain to her how they planted the white roses by mistake, and they are trying to correct themselves since the penalty is losing their heads. Alice willingly lends a hand, but they are all halted upon the arrival of their boss, a mean, horrible, loudmouthed villainess named the Queen of Hearts, along with the diminutive king, and an entourage of spear-toting card soldiers. In a panic, the three grounds workers try to shift the blame to one another, but the belligerent Queen sends them off to be executed.
Meeting the dreaded Queen of Hearts.
Alice tries to plead for them, but the Queen strong-arms Alice into a game of croquet. Although she has played before, Alice is surprised to see the mallets and balls are flamingos and hedgehogs, respectively. The entire game operates under the Queen's constant threat of beheading. The card soldiers, serving as the brackets, are careful to place themselves in front of the rolling ball, and the flamingos and hedgehogs dare not upset her. Alice is not so lucky with her own flamingo, who tickles, embarrasses, and wrestles with the girl. The Cheshire Cat appears in and out of gameplay, but only to Alice. The Queen is quickly angered by Alice's repeated claims that the cat is there when she has not seen it herself. When the cat plays a trick on the Queen, she eagerly orders Alice's execution, but the king manages to earn her a trial.
Alice's trial is a convoluted, nonsensical proceeding full of irrelevant hearings from the March Hare and Mad Hatter and imaginary evidence against Alice. When the Cheshire Cat orchestrates another trick against the Queen, Alice receives the blame again. Alice gobbles down the mushroom pieces in her apron and shoots toward the ceiling to tower over the courtroom. She carelessly brushes away the attacking card soldiers while the King recites Rule #42, stating that people more than a mile high cannot be present. Alice refuses to leave on the basis that she wasn't nearly a mile high—she was still under the roof of the courtroom. After then mocking the Queen by curtsying to her in her giant size, she then calls the Queen a "fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant" just as she realizes the other mushroom piece has returned her to normal size. Once the Cheshire Cat appears to repeat what Alice said to infuriate the Queen and seal Alice's doom, the Queen screams out, "Off with her head!!" and the card soldiers swarm her.
Alice asleep under a tree, revealing everything was but a dream.
In the confusion, Alice escapes the castle and the hedge maze and flees through the previously visited segments of Wonderland as the realm begins to crumble. When she arrives at the doorknob, she looks through the keyhole and sees herself asleep under a tree, and realizes that her adventure in Wonderland was nothing but a dream. She then begs herself to wake up as the angry inhabitants of Wonderland advance on her. Alice awakens to the sound of her sister asking her to recite her history lesson. The dazed Alice only spouts out some nonsensical poetry, much to her sister's exhaustion and confusion. Alice then picks up Dinah, and they all return home for tea time.
From her dream, it is assumed that Alice has learned a valuable lesson of understanding the importance of logic and has therefore matured.
House of Mouse[]
Alice with Daisy in House of Mouse.
Alice makes numerous appearances in the animated series. Alice is usually seen drinking tea with The Mad Hatter.
In the opening for the show, Alice can be seen with a few other Wonderland characters at Daisy Duck's reservation desk.
In "Big Bad Wolf Daddy", Alice is seen singing along with several other Disney characters to the aptly-named song, but when Big Bad Wolf Daddy does another of his trumpet solos, he blows so hard that Alice's dress takes on its parachute form again as she's literally blown away by him, flying out the front doors of the House of Mouse with the Cheshire Cat, Meeko, Jiminy Cricket, and Pocahontas, right past a surprised and startled Max Goof.
In "Gone Goofy", Goofy accidentally served Winnie the Pooh a "Pooh-phu platter" that was meant for Alice (due to the fact that it made Pooh grow when he ate some).
In "Ask Von Drake", Alice was seen with the Hatter during the headcount of all the Disney character guests.
In "Dining Goofy", Alice was in her gigantic state, making it difficult to order her food on a regular-sized computer (which she, of course, is curious about, as she lived during a time when computers, as we know them at least, didn't exist). A Penguin Waiter then served Alice one of her "Drink Me" bottles, returning her back to her normal size.
In "Mickey vs. Shelby", Alice was seen in the lobby with Daisy (as seen in the pic on the right), asking her if the White Rabbit had come by there. Daisy replied, "Nope, sorry" and Alice continued her search, curious as to where he could have gone. The White Rabbit then hopped up onto the desk after Alice left and told Daisy, "Thanks, she's been following me."
Alice also appears in Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse.
Alice's Wonderland Bakery[]
- “If you've found yourself in Wonderland, then you'll find yourself in Wonderland...”
- ―Alice's message
Photo of Alice and the White Rabbit in Alice's Wonderland Bakery.
Though Alice does not physically appear in the show, her picture appears in her bakery that her great-granddaughter inherits. In the episode "Potato Potahto", prior to the debut of the show, it's revealed that she and the White Rabbit made a potato dish together. In "Alice's First Day in Wonderland", her voice can be heard in a flashback when her great-granddaughter reads a message left for her on Cookie's first page.
Once Upon a Studio[]
Alice returns alongside the rest of the Wonderland inhabitants at the Disney Animation Studio for a group photo with all the characters from the previous films to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the studio and The Walt Disney Company's founding in 1923 by Walter Elias Disney and his brother Roy Oliver Disney.
In a deleted scene, Alice can be seen with Camilo Madrigal, Skippy, and Abby Mallard encouraging Hiro Hamada to get the highest score in the game Fix-It Felix Jr. while Zazu watches them impatiently because at that moment all the Disney characters have to gather to take the group photo to celebrate the studio's 100th anniversary.[1] In the final product, Alice first appears outside during Goofy's failed first attempt at the group photo and during "When You Wish Upon a Star", she joins on singing the last line of song with all the Disney characters as the photo is successfully taken for Disney's 100th anniversary. In the original storyboarded version, she watches Cinderella, Anna, and Elsa starting up the final verse of the song, alongside Aladdin and Taran.
Other appearances[]
In 1956, Alice appeared in a commercial promoting Jell-O alongside the Gryphon and Mock Turtle. In during which, Alice offers to teach the Mock Turtle how to make jello for an upcoming party.
In an early concept for the Pomp and Circumstance segment of Fantasia 2000, Alice made a prominent appearance at the beginning where she uses a heart scepter similar to the Queen of Hearts' to direct the Card Soldiers to their positions and form the pathway for the Disney Princesses and Princes whom she leads.
In Stitch!, a picture of Alice was seen on an amusement ride that Stitch briefly visited while trying to find Yuna.
In Ralph Breaks the Internet, screenshots depicting Alice can be seen in the background during Vanellope's visit to Oh My Disney.
In the series finale of At Home With Olaf, a short clip of Alice in Wonderland featuring Alice appears during a montage of heartwarming moments from Disney films playing in Olaf's song "I Am with You".
In a second segment of The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse, when Alice appears in a cameo when she playing a game of croquet, the pollen covered her after Goofy sneezes it. Later after Mickey and Minnie Mouse saves the town when the pollen clears off and the flowers and rosebush rain back down where she resumes her croquet game.
Alice appears in a flashback in the anime series Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Animation. Yuuken Enma has dreams about her and her adventures in Wonderland.
Live-action appearances[]
The Mouse Factory[]
Alice made recurring appearances in the live-action wrap-around skits alongside the other costumed characters and celebrity guests.
Printed media[]
Wonderland (comic)[]
Though set after Alice leaves Wonderland, the comic shows the impact Alice's adventures left in the kingdom. Besides the trouble the White Rabbit and his maid Mary Ann have found themselves in, Alice has gained a cult following amongst the Wonderland denizens who dislike the rule of the Queen of Hearts.
Video games[]
Mickey Mousecapade[]
In this Nintendo game, Mickey and Minnie Mouse set off to rescue Alice from Maleficent (or the Queen of Hearts in the Japanese version).
Disney's Villains' Revenge[]
In the game, the Disney villains have managed to change the endings of their respective stories. The Queen of Hearts changes Alice in Wonderland by decapitating Alice; though she's still alive and merely headless, with her head placed at the center of the hedge maze. The player and Jiminy Cricket then work together to search through the maze in order to find Alice's head and return it to her body, then follow the White Rabbit to the end of the maze to the exit door.
Kingdom Hearts series[]
Alice appears in the Kingdom Hearts video game series as one of the Princesses of Heart, seven legendary maidens whose hearts of light can open the gate to Kingdom Hearts when gathered, and the only one other than Kairi to not be of royal lineage. In Kingdom Hearts, Alice was one of the three remaining princesses who was not yet captured by Maleficent and the other villains. The other two being Kairi and Jasmine. However, when she enters Wonderland (implied to be another realm and not her true homeworld), she is put on trial by the Queen of Hearts, mimicking the climax of her original film, the main difference being the Queen charging her with assault and attempted theft of her heart before ordering the Heart and Spade card soldiers to behead her. When Sora intervenes and tries to assure the Queen that Alice is innocent, the Queen refuses to believe it without proof, true to the nonsensical nature of Wonderland, having Alice locked in a cage next to her judge's stand. While Sora tries to prove her innocence, Alice is subsequently captured by the Heartless, who take her to their home base, Hollow Bastion, which occurs during when Sora has to face the Queen and her Card Soldiers after he proves Alice is innocent and the Heartless were guilty, but the Queen, not wanting to admit she made a mistake, has Alice's cage raised out of Sora's reach, forcing him to take out the Crank Tower that held it up, but by the time he brought the cage back down, Alice had already been abducted by the Heartless in the confusion. After Sora defeats the Trickmaster Heartless boss and locks the Keyhole, located ironically in the mouth of The Doorknob, the Cheshire Cat reveals that Alice is already gone, taken by the Heartless, much to Sora's disappointment. She is later brought before Maleficent and her council of Disney Villains, just after Sora saved Deep Jungle and helped Tarzan defeat Clayton and the Stealth Sneak Heartless boss (should the player do Deep Jungle before Wonderland, Snow White will be the Princess of Heart brought before Maleficent instead). After her heart is restored once Sora destroys Ansem's Dark Keyblade to release Kairi's heart and complete the Keyhole, Alice awakens and assists the other Princesses to protect Hollow Bastion from the leaking darkness.
After Sora defeats Ansem and Kingdom Hearts is sealed, Alice returns to her world, and is presumably vindicated by the Queen of Hearts for any wrongdoing after what happened with the Heartless, if the nonsensical behavior of Wonderland ensured she received a full pardon from the Queen.
Alice also appears in Chain of Memories as an illusion from Sora's memories. Like the previous game, she is put on trial, but the difference this time is that she is able to prove to the Queen her innocence.
A data version of Alice also makes an appearance in Kingdom Hearts coded, revolving around her memory loss.
Alice also appears in Kingdom Hearts Union χ, where she gets saved by the Player from the Queen of Hearts. She then tells him she wants to visit the world her own way, knowing the Player will be there to save her.
Kinect: Disneyland Adventures[]
Alice is a major character in the game, appearing as a meet-and-greet character outside her attraction in Fantasyland. She also takes part in the attraction's mini-game. In the game, girl players will wear her dress whereas boy players will wear the Mad Hatter's outfit. She is first seen at the Queen of Hearts' croquet game and later at the Mad Tea Party, where she assists the player in the dance mini-game. Her dress is purchasable at the shops, but only after certain criteria are met to unlock it and the player's avatar is a girl when first created.
Disney Universe[]
The original game design for the Alice costume was originally going to be included in the game but then was deleted and replaced by the Tim Burton version of the character. Despite being deleted in the final version of the game, the costume still makes a cameo in the game as a painting which is the same one used in the trailer, which can be found as one of the paintings in the "Over the Castle Wall" area in the "Alice in Wonderland" world (though using elements from the Tim Burton version rather than the classic version).
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode[]
Alice in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode
Alice is a playable character in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode as a Back-Line Support role hero on the Blue Team. Despite being a Support Hero, her skills mainly include damaging and disruptive abilities. Her primary mechanic is the unique "Enormous" status effect, which transforms her utility skills into powerful offensive attacks. Unlike in the film, when Alice turns "Enormous", her crying sound clip gets much lower pitched, giving her a deep, masculine voice.
Alice has friendship campaigns with Miguel Rivera and Quorra. She also has friendship campaigns with the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, and Peter Pan.
Disney Sorcerer's Arena[]
Alice is an unlockable Mythical Hero and Legendary Support character added during the Peculiar Party event. Alice is a leader who can level the playing field by changing everyone's Speed at the start of the battle, interrupting long stretches of enemy turns, calling teammates for assists, cleanse teammates of Harmful and Helpful effects, and revive herself and her teammates after defeat. Alice also constantly swaps between growing and shrinking throughout the battle, with Grow allowing her to deal more damage, heal teammates, grant her and her teammates Menacing, and inflict Harmful effects on opponents, while Shrink allows her to grant Stealth and Evasion to herself and teammates, give teammates extra shielding, and get extra assists from her teammates. As Alice is a Legendary character, she can only be unlocked during her seasonal Peculiar Party event, and requires the player to unlock and level up the March Hare, the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, and the Cheshire Cat in order to unlock her.
Disney Dreamlight Valley[]
Alice joined the Valley on April 23rd, 2025 with the next free content update and Star Path with a door to the realm of Wonderland appearing in the Dream Castle.
When the player and Merlin first unlock the door, a white rabbit trailing symbols of the four suits in a deck of playing cards (Spade, Diamond, Club, and Heart) comes out of the door after it shrinks and scampers off. Following it around the Plaza leads to a small rabbit hole near the entrance to the Forest of Valor, where it vanishes, leaving a pocket watch behind. Checking out the rabbit hole afterwards causes the player to undergo a similar journey down the rabbit hole into Wonderland as Alice did in the original film.
Once in the realm proper, the player soon finds Alice in a portion recognizable to be the confusing Tugley Woods. Alice asks for the player's help with making her way to the garden of the Queen of Hearts. However, when they pass through the fog heading in one direction, Alice vanishes. Finding her footprints and then meeting the Cheshire Cat, he leaves a riddle to find his smile around the realm. Once the player does so three times, he then has them find chests hidden around the forest in disguise as other objects. The Cheshire Cat then has the player create two recipes based on the Queen of Hearts' two moods: her calm, sweet personality, and her fiery, spicy, furious personality. Those are then mixed with the pocket watch to create the messed up mad pocket watch that the Mad Hatter and March Hare created, which the player then has to eat. From there, the Cheshire Cat then directs them to follow the Mome Raths to find the exit to find Alice. Upon finding the portal, the player ends up in the Queen of Hearts' garden, where they'll need to evade her Heart Card Soldiers on sentry duty as they make their way through the garden. Each soldier has a spot where they'll look back and forth, looking for intruders. There are alternate routes to get around them, but the player has to do so once they are not looking. Once they make it safely through the hedge maze, they find Alice, having smelled a bottle of the Queen of Hearts' perfume that shrunk her to the size of a doll as she stands on the table. The player offers to find a way to return her to her human size and heads back to the forest to ask the Cheshire Cat for aid. He suggests his "Contrary Perfume", but to do so, the player has to do a few more nonsensical tasks around the forest for him, including helping the talking flowers, taking a quiz with a bird with a pencil for its head, finding a blue mushroom, and fish up a jar of heart-shaped candies. Using the items acquired, the player crafts the perfume, and heads back to Alice. Thanks to the perfume, Alice is back to her normal size. She then reveals she had come to free some animals from their cages, but couldn't find the keys for them. The player uses the Contrary Perfume to shrink themselves to check out the tea table and then grow back to normal size. After showing the photo to Alice, the player then collects several items around the croquet field to help navigate the table better. Once they recover the keys to the cages, Alice frees the animals, but they leave a mess behind. Not wanting the Queen of Hearts to know they were there, Alice has the player help tidy up to avoid leaving any evidence of their presence. Once that is done, the player and Alice return to the woods and after Alice and the Cheshire Cat have one last conversation about how to leave, the player uses the nearby fungi to make the door appear, then use the rest of the Contrary Perfume in their Royal Watering Can to make the door its normal size in the Dream Castle again. This provides two entrances/exits to the Wonderland realm: The door in the Dream Castle proper, and the rabbit hole originally used to enter.
Once back in the Dream Castle, the player heads out, places Alice's house (which is actually the White Rabbit's house from the film since we never see Alice's real house back in England) in the Valley, has Scrooge use his McDuck Construction Company build it for 5,000 Star Coins, and Alice soon arrives from the Dream Well to join the Valley. As she gets settled into coming back, she does ask the player to head back to the realm and check on the Cheshire Cat for her. However, when the player does so, the Cheshire Cat appears willing to join Alice, but then vanishes, leaving only a path of paw prints behind that seem to end somewhere heading down from the realm door out of the Dream Castle.
Ahead of her update to the game, a wearable version of Alice's trademark dress became available in the Premium Shop for 1,750 Moonstones on April 9th, 2025. On May 7th, 2025, the Premium Shop released a bundle pack that included Alice's kitten Dinah.
Disney Parks[]
Alice poses for a photograph at Hong Kong Disneyland.
Alice appears as a common character at Disney Parks worldwide. Most of the time, she sounds as she did in the movie (a voice "that would be English enough to satisfy British audiences and preserve the feeling of an English literary classic, but not so English that it would put off American audiences"). She is also one of the certain characters that can go on rides and attractions with park guests (the Tremaines, Aladdin, Jasmine, the White Rabbit, and even the Mad Hatter are just some others that can have fun in the park along with guests); one of the rides she can enjoy with Guests is the Mad Tea Party teacup ride, where she can also be heard giving safety instructions. During colder weather, such as during the wintertime, she'll wear a long-sleeved version of her trademark dress to stay warm while interacting with Guests.
Disneyland Resort[]
Alice's presence at Disneyland includes the popular musical chairs game daily at 2:30 p.m., participating in the daily Disneyland Marching Band concerts in the main entrance as the park opens and in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle dancing with The Mad Hatter and selected children to "The Unbirthday Song". She has also been seen in the finale of Fantasmic! on the Mark Twain and also appears in Disney's Electrical Parade.
She also appears in Alice in Wonderland as an animatronic, and It's a Small World as a doll.
Occasionally, she and the Mad Hatter will jump aboard a Storybook Land Canal Boat and provide their own brand of spieling.
Walt Disney World[]
In Florida, Alice can be seen at the United Kingdom Pavilion of Epcot's World Showcase.
She also appears along with the White Rabbit and Mad Hatter in the Festival of Fantasy Parade at the Magic Kingdom, dancing after the Sleeping Beauty float. She also appears for holiday events around the Magic Kingdom, such as Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and taking part in the Mickey's Boo-to-You Halloween Parade, along with doing meet-and-greets near the Mad Tea Party ride, with or without the Mad Hatter joining her alongside the Queen of Hearts.
She's also seen as one of the first characters in the Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade, wearing her long-sleeved winter variant of her dress and a scarf as she and the Mad Hatter join Peter Pan, Wendy, Pinocchio, Geppetto, Mary Poppins, Bert, Donald, Daisy, and the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood, with leading the parade behind the Cast Members holding the parade's introduction banner and in front of the Christmas Tree float that Mickey and Minnie are riding on.
Tokyo Disney Resort[]
In Japan, Alice makes daily appearances in Tokyo Disneyland's Happiness is Here Parade at daytime, as well as the nightly and Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights. In the park's castle show Once Upon a Time, Alice appears in the first segment, centered around her adventures.
Alice's likeness can also be seen in The Queen of Hearts' Banquet Hall, while she makes meet-and-greet appearances near the Tea Cups attraction.
Disneyland Paris[]
In France, Alice is the namesake of Alice's Curious Labyrinth, which is a maze exhibit inspired by scenes from the film. She can also be spotted near the park's own Tea Cups for meeting opportunities, she makes a brief appearance in Disney Dreams!.
Hong Kong Disneyland[]
Alice appears in Fantasyland for meet-and-greets in the park. She also appears during the bubble montage of Disney in the Stars castle show, as well as her own segment inspired by the film.
Differences from the source material[]
Disney's Alice in Wonderland is quite accurate to Lewis Carroll's books. However, there are some noteworthy differences.
- In the original books, Alice mentions having a younger brother, but he is not seen or mentioned in the film.
- In the original books, Alice is 7 years old. In the Disney version, her age is never mentioned, but she appears to be at least 10. Her voice actress, Kathryn Beaumont, was 12 when she was given the role.
- In the Disney version, Alice encounters Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Wonderland. In the books, however, those two are not inhabitants of Wonderland but of Looking-Glass World, the setting of the original book's sequel.
- In the Disney version, Alice is put on trial after she is framed for humiliating the Queen of Hearts. In the book, she is never accused of any crime, though she does defend the Knave of Hearts after he is put on trial for supposedly stealing the Queen's tarts.
- In the Disney version, Alice frequently shifts in size after consuming certain substances of Wonderland. In the original book, however, this only happens immediately after her arrival in Wonderland and just before she wakes up at the end.
- Much like the book, the Disney version reveals that Alice's experience in Wonderland was just a dream. However, the way Alice wakes up is different. In the book, Alice is being swarmed by the card soldiers and wakes up to her sister brushing foliage from her face. In the Disney version, Alice flees the Queen's card army through previously visited locations of Wonderland as the realm starts to fade away, leaving nothing but her and her pursuers. Alice then wakes up as the Queen of Hearts advances on her.
Disney Princess[]
Alice on the cover of a magazine Disney Princess.
Just like Megara, Alice served as a "princess" test at the beginning of the creation of the franchise. She appeared in a variety of products, even more so than Meg, which suggests that she was one step closer to becoming an official Disney princess. Some examples of products that Alice has appeared on include:
- Disney Princess Magazines: She appeared on various magazine covers with other official princesses.
- Playmates Disney Princess: Little version from Alice, 15".[2]
- Disney Princess Sing Along Songs: Enchanted Tea Party and Disney Princess Sing Along Songs: Perfectly Princess.
- She appears in the music video It's Not Just Make Believe.
- Disney Princess: Storybook Little Dolls: Doll accompanying book that accompanies a story about Alice, Belle, and Cinderella.[3]
- She is one of the princesses of heart in the game Kingdom Hearts.
- Disney Princess Celebration Collection: A porcelain doll Alice is present in this collection.[4]
However, the fact of being a child must have influenced a possible withdrawal from Disney to put her in the Disney Princess franchise, ironically considering the fact that her film is overall much more successful than some of the Disney Princesses films.
Despite this, she has had a following of being an 'Anti-Princess', many fans of Alice (as well as other "Non-Princesses") like the fact that she doesn't have a love interest, royal title, etc, yet still an iconic and heavily exploited character in Disney's Marketing. Because of this, Disney tends to market Alice in Wonderland products to young adults and older, such as make-up, handbags, and many hot topic merchandise (arguably more than any other standalone Disney movie) as well as other consumer products that became a trademark in the film's huge commercial success.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- She is the first mainstream Disney Alice (as there was the Alice Comedies before that and in black and white).
- Her name means "noble" and "kind", a sign of her heroic nature and purity of heart.
- Her facial features and personality are similar to Wendy from Peter Pan. It makes sense because her film movements and voice were taken from actress Kathryn Beaumont, who voiced Wendy as well.
- Coincidentally, adult Wendy in Return to Never Land wears an outfit that resembles strongly Alice's own (a blue dress with a white apron).
- When Kathryn Beaumont was recording her laughter for the scene where Alice is tickled by the pink flamingo, Walt Disney was dissatisfied and felt her laughter was unconvincing. As such, he went into the recording booth and tickled Beaumont, causing her to let out the hysterical laughter heard in the movie.
- Alice is not to be confused with the live-action Alice from the Alice Comedies.
- Alice received her name after the daughter of Lewis Carroll's friend, "Alice Liddell".
- When Alice outgrows in the White Rabbit's house, she puts both arms in the windows and her legs at the doors. It is very different in most depictions of the book that Alice has put one arm in the window and her foot at the chimney or her foot almost at the chimney. In subsequent depictions of the novel, she either put her arm in the window and her leg in the chimney, or put her arm in the window, or put her foot in the window and vice versa.
- Alice makes a minor cameo appearance at the beginning of Epic Mickey, on a book on Mickey's bed while he is sleeping. This mirrors the classic short "Thru the Mirror".
- According to the Disneystrology book, her birthday would be on May 4, just like the real-life Alice Liddell she is based on.
- In story art stills by David Hall, there is a scene called "Off With Her Head" or Labeled 'VII. It is a scene showing Alice being led to the guillotine. This is perhaps the most macabre of all the story art seen so far.
- At one point in the film Donald in Mathmagic Land, Donald dresses up as Alice and meets one of the pencil-birds of the movie.
- Alice's original voice actress, Kathryn Beaumont, reprised as the voice of Alice in the original Kingdom Hearts at the age of 63.
- Alongside Aurora, Alice is one of the few Disney characters to have an actress born from the 30s that's still alive as of today.
- In Kingdom Hearts, she and Kairi are the only princesses of heart who are not actually Disney Princesses.
- Alice is ticklish, as when a flamingo repetitively plays with her belly during the croquet tournament, she is shown to be laughing.
- Alice is the first female human protagonist of the Disney Animated Canon to only wear one outfit throughout the course of her film.
- Alice is one out of the five unofficial Disney Princesses to get a Classic doll at the Disney store in 2020, alongside Wendy Darling, Tinker Bell, Esmeralda, and Megara.
See also[]
- Alice (Alice Comedies)
- Alice (Adventures in Wonderland)
- Alice Kingsleigh
- Alice (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
- Alice (Once Upon a Time)
References[]
- ↑ "Once Upon a Studio Photo Deleted". Instagram. Retrieved on July 18th.
- ↑ Playmates Disney Princess 15" Little Alice Doll
- ↑ Disney Princess: Little Alice Doll with Storybook
- ↑ Alice in Wonderland 14" Porcelain doll
External links[]
- Alice in Wonderland (Location of David Hall's still)
Alice on Kingdom Hearts Wiki- Alice on Heroes Wiki
- Alice on Disney Heroes: Battle Mode Wiki
- Alice on Disney Princess Wiki
- Alice on Disney Speedstorm Wiki
- Alice on Disney Mirrorverse Wiki
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