Description
The Queen of Hearts rules Wonderland
with the cowering King of Hearts, and all of her minions are playing cards.
After falling down the rabbit hole, Alice enters the garden, where three
playing card gardeners are frantically painting white roses red. When Alice
questions this activity, they explain that they have planted the wrong color of
rosebush, and must paint the white roses to hide their mistake from the Queen.
The gardeners advise Alice to prostrate herself on the ground to avoid being
confronted by the Queen of Hearts, but she ignores this advice and looks the
Queen in the eye. When the Queen arrives and asks Alice who is lying on the
ground (the backs of all playing cards look alike), Alice tells her that she
does not know. The Queen becomes frustrated and commands that Alice's head be
severed, but the King reminds her that Alice is only a child, and Alice's head
is spared.
One of the Queen's hobbies - besides ordering executions - is Wonderland
croquet, where the balls are live hedgehogs and the mallets are flamingos.
Alice observes that the game is complicated by the fact that the flamingo
mallets keep looking back up at the players, and the hedgehogs scuttle away
without waiting to be hit. The Queen's soldiers act as the arches (or hoops) on
the croquet grounds, but have to leave off being arches every time the Queen
orders an execution to drag away the victim. By the end of the game in the
story, the only players that remain are the Queen herself, the King, and Alice.
Despite the frequency of death sentences, few people are actually
beheaded. The King of Hearts quietly pardons many of his
subjects when the Queen is not looking (although this did not seem to be the
case with The Duchess), and her soldiers humor her but do not carry out her
orders. The Gryphon tells Alice that "It's all her fancy:
they never executes nobody, you know." Nevertheless, all creatures in
Wonderland fear the Queen. In the final chapters, the Queen sentences Alice
again (for defending the Knave of Hearts) and she offers an interesting
approach towards justice: sentence before verdict.
Other Appearances
DISNEY/cartoon
The Queen of Hearts appears as a pompous, fat, tyrant with a smaller
crown.
The Queen of Hearts was an intra-world "villain" that appeared
in a major role in Wonderland. Despite insisting on Alice
being decapitated for trying to steal the Queen's heart, the Queen was
apparently in no way associated with Maleficent. Also, as she was not entirely
evil, the Queen isn't completely a villain, even though she and her Soldiers are bosses.
She accused Alice for attempted theft of her heart in a trial. When
Alice was ordered to been executed, Sora,
Donald and Goofy
intervened to convince The Queen that Alice was innocent. The Queen didn't
believe them, but agreed to free Alice if they could find evidence for her
innocence. With the help of the Cheshire Cat, they found evidence
but the Queen refused to believe it and ordered the Keyblade master's
execution. After a fight with The Queen's soldiers, Alice was kidnapped by the Heartless. The Queen made a ceasefire
with Sora, Donald and Goofy so she would be able to find Alice.
The Queen appeared in Castle Oblivion as a figment of
Sora's memory. In the memory recreation of Wonderland, the Queen accused Alice of
stealing her memory and sentenced her to death. Even after Sora and co. found
the real culprit, she still refused to
believe that Alice was innocent. Fortunately, Alice's quick thinking pacified
the Queen and no one had to lose their head.
The Queen of Hearts appears in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days as well,
confronting Roxas and Luxord in a trial.
The Queen appears in this game during the third episode and it seems that
her memories were stolen again. She sends her Card Soldiers against Sora
because she thinks that he stole them.
American McGee's Alice
In the video game American McGee's Alice, the Queen of Hearts
is the final boss and the reason for Wonderland's decay. When Alice fights her,
she discovers that the Queen is her dark side – an embodiment of her insanity;
the Queen must be destroyed for Alice to become sane once more. The Queen's
appearance is different in American McGee's Alice than in the book: she appears
first as a faceless entity having tentacles for arms, legs, and hair. It is
later revealed that this is a mere puppet and that the true Queen of Hearts is
a horrible monster in the image of a real anatomical heart. She is called both
the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen interchangeably throughout the game. Its
is implied that her domain, called Queensland in the game, is an extension of
the Queen herself, as her tentacles are found throughout the castle.
In the game's sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, the Queen of Hearts plays
a lesser, but still prominent role. She no longer plays the game's main
antagonist. Instead, she is one of the characters that must be met on Alice's
journey to find the truth about her past, specifically the fire that killed her
family. Her appearance in this game is different from the previous one. She
still retains a body similar to her first form in the last game, but has the
head of a young Alice in place of her former head. Like in the previous game,
she is found in Queensland. She is spoken to again near the climax of the game.
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
In Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland film, the Queen
of Hearts is also mistakenly known as the Red Queen. The Queen of Hearts is the queen of
cards while the White Queen is the queen of the chess pieces.
Mini Series
The Queen of Hearts was re-imagined in the 2009 Syfy mini series Alice. She was portrayed by Kathy Bates.
The Queen ruled Wonderland by kidnapping humans (aka "Oysters"), and
bringing them to her casino, where she harvested their joy, elation and other
emotions. She used the gathered emotions to control Wonderland and the humans
she kidnapped. She, too, enjoys having her subjects executed by beheadding.
Although, they are not actually ever executed, as noted by the King of Hearts.
The King states that she gives so many execution orders she can't keep track
and forgets who she puts to death. At the end, the Queen's own forces, led by
her son Jack Hart (Chase)[2]
and Alice, rebel against her, ending her rule.
Appearances in other media
- In the novel series"The Looking Glass Wars", she and
the Red Queen were re-imagined as Redd, the main antagonist and the
aunt of Alyss. She is Genevieve's sister who was murdered by
the Cat and a user of Black Imagination.
- In the otome game"Heart no
Kuni no Alice, she appears as Vivaldi,
the monarch of the Castle of Hearts and one of the characters who take an
interest in Alice.
- In Cardcaptor Sakura, the queen is comically portryed by Keroberos
(Kero-chan) and is seen playing chess with Humpty Dumpty (Tomoyo Daidoji). Since Sakura
referd to him as Kero-chan, he enrages and chases her until she manages to
escape from the book.
- In CLAMP's Miyuki-chan in Wonderland, she is portrayed as blond,
wavy-haired dominatrix, whose servants (all female) are infatuated by her.
- In an OVA for the anime/manga series Kuroshitsuji entitled
"Ciel in Wonderland", the queen is portrayed by one of the
series' existing characters, Madame Red, and wears a corset-topped dress with
puff sleeves, and a fluffy red skirt that opens in the front--revealing
shorts and thigh-high boots. She presides over the court and places
"Alice" on trial for losing "her" memories.
- The Queen of Hearts appears in Pandora Hearts through the chain Demios,
Illegally contracted by Vincent Nightray, The Queen of Hearts is her
commonly alias, which she recieved for her decapitation abilities.
- The Queen of Hearts makes a brief appearance in episode
17 of the 2011 American tv series Once Upon
a Time . She rules over Wonderland, which is portrayed as one of many
parallel worlds. She wears a veil to cover her face and speaks through an
apparatus directly to her aide who then reveals what she said. It is known
that she is an enemy of Regina, The Evil Queen. In season two it is revealed
that the Queen of Hearts is the Evil Queen's mother.
“Off with their heads!”
The Red
Queen
Description
Other Appearances
- The
Red Queen appeared in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland film as an
amalgam of the Queen of Hearts, the Duchess and
herself. Her name was Iracebeth. She became signifigantly paranoid, going
so far as to execute her husband through fear that he would leave her for
her sister. When she has a decision to make, she twiddles her fingers
about as she decides. She was portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter.
- In
the novel series The Looking Glass Wars, she and the
queen of hearts are re-imagined as Redd, the main antagonist and
the aunt of Alyss.
- In
the video game, American McGee's Alice, the Red Queen
is the main antagonist and the final boss. She resembles in this game the
darkest part of Alice. She took advantage of Alice's insanity and ruled
Wonderland. By turning it into a twisted version of itself. She's mostly
made out of limbs and tentacles. In Madness Returns she is left destroyed
after Alice tok Wonderland out of her rule. She has a very important part
in this game. And resmbles as Alice's older sister , Elizabeth Liddell.
- The
Red Queen was portrayed by Edna
May Oliver in the 1933 Paramount film version of Alice in
Wonderland.
- In the 1951 movie when the flowers are singing - there is a red rose that resembles the Red Queen and it is the same with the white flower that resembles the White Queen.
Source: http://aliceinwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/The_Red_Queen
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