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Queen of Hearts
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General Information
Gender Female
Hair color Black
Eye color Black (All films and books before 2010)

Red (2010 +)

Occupation The Queen of Wonderland
Relationships
Family King of Hearts (husband)
Knave of Hearts (nephew)
Jack Hearts (son, 2009 miniseries)[1]
Enemies Alice
Behind The Scenes
Portrayed by Pamela Brown (1949)
Verna Felton (1951)
Flora Robson (1972)
Jayne Meadows (1985)
Miranda Richardson (1999)
Kathy Bates (2009)

The Queen of Hearts is a character from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by the author and mathematician Lewis Carroll. She is a foul monarch who is quick to decree death sentences at the slightest offense. Carroll himself pictured her as "a blind fury." The Queen has only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small—she orders an immediate execution, shouting: "Off with his head!"

Description[]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland[]

The cowering Angel and all of her minions are playing cards. After falling down the rabbit hole, Alice enters the garden, where three playing card gardeners (2, 5, and 7 of Spades) 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. The queen of hearts is like the Raven in the book "Fatty Legs."

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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, the jabberwocky will kill all whom way come.

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. She is subtly mentioned at the very end when the whole pack of cads, including her fly on top of Alice.

Alice in Wonderland (1949)[]

In Dallas Bower's Alice in Wonderland film, the Queen of Hearts appears as a stop-motion puppet created by Lou Bunin, voiced by Pamela Brown who also portrays Queen Victoria in the real world framing device. The puppet is quite clearly a grotesque caricature of Queen Victoria, so much so that the film was banned in Great Britain until 1985 because of how unflattering the depiction of her was.

Alice in Wonderland (1951)[]

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The Queen of Hearts appears as the main antagonist of the film, who is a pompous tyrant with a smaller crown. She is really very snide and mean. She wants everything her way and has quite a short temper. There are things shown in the 2010 film that hint to the fact that she is an amalgam of the Red Queen, and the Queen of Hearts herself.

Alice in Wonderland (2010)[]

In Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland movie, the character of the Queen of Hearts is primarily identified as the Red Queen and is also an amalgam of the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. The Red Queen is the queen of cards while the White Queen is the queen of the chess pieces.

Alice (2009 Miniseries)[]

The Queen of Hearts was re-imagined in the 2009 Syfy mini series. 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 beheading. 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.

The Looking Glass Wars[]

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.

Video Games[]

  • In Kingdom Hearts, 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.
  • In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories,

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.

  • In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, The Queen of Hearts confronts Roxas and Luxord in a trial.
  • In Kingdom Hearts coded, The Queen appears 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Anime[]

  • 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. She isllegally contracted by Vincent Nightray. She is called the Queen of Hearts for her decapitation abilities she was once Miranda Barma.

Other Appearances[]

  • 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 seasons two and three, it is revealed that the Queen of Hearts is the Evil Queen and the Wicked Witch's mother.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Characters

Alice The Mad Hatter The White Rabbit The Queen of Hearts The King of Hearts The Caterpillar The March Hare The Knave of Hearts The Cheshire Cat The Dormouse The Lory The Eaglet The Duck The Dodo Bill the Lizard Mary Ann Dinah Alice's Sister The Duchess The Cook The Executioner Father William Frog Footman Fish Footman The Pig Baby The Gryphon The Mock Turtle Tortoise The Playing Cards The Puppy

Through The Looking-Glass Characters

Alice The Mad Hatter The Red Queen The Red King The Red Knight The White Queen The White King The White Knight The March Hare The Sheep Humpty Dumpty Tweedledum and Tweedledee The Lion and the Unicorn The Bandersnatch Jubjub Bird The Jabberwocky Kitty The Flowers The Aged Man Lily The Monstrous Crow The White Horse The Bread-and-Butterfly The Rocking-Horse-Fly Snap-Dragonfly The Gnat

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