

Alice soon finds herself at the Red Queen's side and the Mad Hatter's trail, which eventually the Red Queen is persuaded by Tarrant to become her hatter. The Queen, not recognizing Alice, accepts her story and welcomes her to her court. Later, the Red Queen sees an oversized Alice in her garden, and to avoid suspicion, Alice tells the Queen her name is "Um from Umbridge" while that people make fun of her height.

Upon being informed by the Knave of Hearts that Alice has returned to Underland, the Red Queen assigns Bayard Hamar the Bloodhound, to pursue Alice for his imprisoned mate and children and his own freedom. The Queen informs a Fish-Footman to choke the frog's children so she can eat them on a meal with caviar. After finding out it was one of her Frog-Footmen, he is later to be executed. On Griblig Day, the Red Queen angrily shrieks that someone had stolen three of her tarts. However, she does show affection for the Knave of Hearts. Even her most loyal advisers feared her so greatly that they would deform themselves with fake noses and ears just so she would not punish them for being more attractive than she was. Those that opposed her rule were hunted down and executed. She was often referred to as Bloody Big Head, possibly because all her power, which she stole, literally went to her head. The Red Queen was so paranoid, she even had her husband executed, believing he would leave her for the White Queen. Her right-hand man is the Knave of Hearts while she has an army of Armoured Cards, anthropomorphic animals as servants and is shown to have a very bad temper. In doing this, Alice presents an end game, awakening from the dream world of the looking glass, by both realizing her hallucination and symbolically "taking" the Red Queen in order to checkmate the Red King.Įver since Alice Kingsleigh first left Underland, the Horovendoush occurred and the Red Queen had overthrown her sister, the White Queen, before taking control of Underland. When that celebration goes awry, Alice turns upon the Red Queen, whom she "considers as the cause of all the mischief", and shakes her until the queen morphs into Alice's pet kitten. As a queen in the game of chess, the Red Queen is able to move swiftly and effortlessly. However, after her redemption and her change of heart in the second film, she becomes intelligent, altruistic, and simplistic.Īs the plot of " Through the Looking-Glass" plays out within a living game of chess, the Red Queen could be viewed as an antagonist as she is the queen for the side opposing Alice.ĭespite this, their initial encounter is a cordial one, with the Red Queen explaining the rules of chess concerning promotion - specifically that Alice is able to become a queen by starting out as a pawn and reaching the eighth square at the opposite end of the board. The Red Queen is an impatient, oppressive, narcissistic, jealous, envious, and petulant-tempered empress who treats her subjects unfairly and simply orders anyone to execution by decapitation when she always shouts her favorite words " Off with their (his or her) heads!". Julia Hoffman in Dark Shadows, and Madame Thénardier in Les Miserables. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Dr. Serena Kogan in Terminator: Salvation, Mrs. She was portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter, who also played Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter franchise, Dr. She is Mirana the White Queen's stubborn and murderous older sister with anger issues, the former master of the Knave of Hearts and the Jubjub Bird, the servant of the Jabberwocky, one of the tyrannical rulers of Underland (alongside the Jabberwocky) and the former arch-nemesis of both Alice Kingsleigh and Tarrant Hightopp the Mad Hatter. She is based upon the character of the same name and Queen of Hearts from the classic novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels. Iracebeth of Crims (also known as The Bloody Big Head), or more commonly known as The Red Queen, is the main antagonist of the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland and its 2016 sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass.
