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The Looking-Glass Wars
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Looking-Glass Wars is a trilogy of novels by Frank Beddor retelling the story of Alice in Wonderland, based on the premise that Alice Liddel, the real-life inspiration for the literary Alice, was in fact Alyss Heart, the true Queen of Wonderland, who had been exiled to our world after her Aunt Redd staged a coup.With the memories of her homeland and true identity locked safely away in her mind, to the point that she no longer believes Wonderland ever existed, Alyss finds herself in the middle of a plot to retake Wonderland, aided by her royal bodyguard Hatter Madigan and her tutor Bibwit Harte.The novels in the trilogy are: The Looking-Glass Wars (2004) Seeing Redd (2007) Arch-Enemy (2009)Not to be confused with The Looking-Glass War, a spy novel by John le Carré.There's also a companion scrapbook, Princess Alyss of Wonderland, and a set of 6 graphic novels, Hatter M, which detail Hatter's travels looking for Alyss. Starting 2016, Beddor teamed with Adrienne Kress to write Hatter Madigan, a prequel series about Hatter's days at the Millinery Academy.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Redd, who officially styles herself as "Her Imperial Viciousness" during her rule over Wonderland and actively promotes Black Imagination. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Considerably so. Alyss' mother is killed in the first few chapters. | |
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The Quisling | |
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The Quisling: The Diamond, Spade and Club noble families are eternally ready to swear their loyalty to whoever currently has the greatest power and influence, be it the Heart clan, Queen Redd or or King Arch. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: When Redd says "off with their heads," she means it. | |
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Dead Man Writing | |
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Dead Man Writing: Hatter Madigan comes across a message which his former lover, Weaver, left him in case she died before they could meet again. It reveals that they had a daughter — Homburg Molly, Alyss's new bodyguard. | |
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Mythology Gag: Wonderland streets are named after words from "Jabberwocky", and there is a restaurant called 'The Lobster Quadrille.' | |
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Awesome Backpack | |
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Awesome Backpack: Hatter's, which is described as being able to open like a Swiss Army knife, revealing assorted blades and corkscrews. | |
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Weaponized Headgear: Hatter's tophat turns into s-shaped blades while Molly's homburg turns into a razor-edged shield. In fact, it's probably safe to say that this trope applies to all hats belonging to the Millinery. | |
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Rated M for Manly | |
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Rated M for Manly: Boarderland is shown to have little adages about manliness inscribed on many of its natural features on the orders of King Arch. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Redd actually makes a point to do this during her reign. | |
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Significant Anagram | |
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Significant Anagram: Bibwit Harte is an anagram for 'White Rabbit,' reflecting Carroll's love of anagrams. | |
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Improbable Weapon User: Madigan, like all Hatters, is a very good fighter. And his uniform contains more knives than a cutlery convention. Including his hat. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: General Doppelganger can split himself into Generals Doppel and Ganger, Redd was once called Rose and has an affinity for that flower. | |
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Prehensile Hair: Jack of Diamonds gets a pseudo-living wig as a gift from Redd for doing her bidding. Said wig can also turn into a monster and beat the crap out of people should Redd command it. | |
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Man-Eating Plant: Redd's signature weapon are giant roses with maws lined with razor-sharp fangs to behead her victims. | |
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Twice-Told Tale | |
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Twice-Told Tale: In-universe, no less. Carrol's story was his spin on the real events Alice told him. She is outraged when she realizes how much he changes around. | |
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Not Quite the Right Thing | |
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Not Quite the Right Thing: Reverend Charles Dodgson acted as The Confidant to a desperately lonely young girl, and became one of her dearest friends after being taken by her stories and promising to publish them in a book. Said book, ‘’Alice’s Adventures Underground,’’ became successful beyond his wildest dreams, and ensured that the entire world would remember Alice Liddell’s fantastical tale. But what he didn’t understand was that ‘’Alyss’’ hadn’t been telling him the stories she had invented, but the history of her life and her nation, and she had been counting on him to prove her honesty before everyone who had doubted her. She didn’t take kindly to her tale of exile and bloody coups being twisted into the most famous tale of childish nonsense in the world. | |
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Sugar Bowl | |
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Sugar Bowl: For all its attempts at Darker and Edgier, the series really turned Wonderland into one of these. Its capital city is known as "Wondertropolis," there are foods with names like "Tarty Tarts," and even worms are known as "gwormmies." Of course, then Redd takes over and the place becomes a Crapsack World until Alyss returns to dethrone her. | |
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Mordor | |
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Mordor: Mount Isolation, Redd's prison and eventual stronghold. | |
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Weapon of Mass Destruction | |
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Weapon of Mass Destruction: Seeing Redd features WILMA (Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation). It destroys people's imaginations. And that's the modified WILMA, which is actually less dangerous than the original. The original was made to completely destroy the kingdom. | |
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Cuckoo Nest | |
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Cuckoo Nest: In the first book, Redd creates an illusion in which Alyss wakes up with her adoptive parents and her fiancé at her bedside, telling her that she's had a bad fever. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: A email sent recently says about this Wonderland: "No Tim. No Johnny. No nonsense." | |
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Out of Continues | |
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Out of Continues: The Cat (an assassin who can transform from cute little tabby into a vicious anthropomorphic killer) was made with nine lives — by the end of the first book he's been killed eight times, both by the heroes and as punishment for failing his mistress. | |
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Everything's Deader with Zombies | |
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Everything's Deader with Zombies: A villain named Sacrenoir can make skeletons of the dead rise to consume flesh, though it naturally goes right through them. | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: Frank Beddor spends at least a few sentences, if not a paragraph, just describing the way Hatter Madigan's coat moves. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: Hatter Madigan not only has a graphic novel spinoff, but a prequel series about him. | |
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You Can't Go Home Again | |
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You Can't Go Home Again: In "Arch Enemy," Redd tries to return to her old mountain stronghold... only to discover it's been turned into a tourist attraction whose proceeds go toward promoting the principles of White Imagination. And while she did use a piece of cloth to disguise herself, the man in the ticket booth fails to realize who she is even after she balks at having to pay "to get into [her] own home," and amusingly thinks she's pretending to be herself ("You do play the part, don't you?"). | |
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Sugar Apocalypse | |
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Sugar Apocalypse: Redd's takeover of Wonderland turns it from a classic Sugar Bowl into a dystopian hellscape. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
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Start of Darkness: Redd's past is glimpsed at, especially in Seeing Redd. | |
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Old Master | |
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Old Master: Bibwit Harte. | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Wonderland is real, and the little girl who was the book's insperation was its rightful queen. | |
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Gratuitous Princess | |
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Gratuitous Princess: Alice the real-life little girl who inspired "Alice In Wonderland" was in fact Alyss, princess of the real Wonderland. | |
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Matriarchy | |
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Matriarchy: Wonderland identifies as a "Queendom", gender being the last thing that comes to mind when Alyss or Redd's legitimacy to the throne is questioned. | |
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Imagination Destroyer | |
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Imagination Destroyer: WILMA (Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation) is a weapon that destroys people's imaginations. Aunt Redd is trying to contain and stop it from coming to Earth. | |
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