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* In the otome game"[[Alice in the Country of the Heart~Wonderful Wonder World~|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 the otome game"[[Alice in the Country of the Heart~Wonderful Wonder World~|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. |
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Revision as of 17:54, 9 April 2010
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| Gender | Female |
| Age | Unknown |
| Hair Color | Black |
| Eye Color | Black |
| Address | Your Majesty |
| Occupation(s) | The Queen of Wonderland |
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| Family | The Knave of Hearts (nephew]] |
| Relationships | The King of Hearts (dead husband) |
| Enemies | Alice |
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| Portrayer | Verna Felton (1951)
Kathy Bates (2009) |
The Queen of Hearts is a character from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by the writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll. She is a foul-tempered 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
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
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.
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.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
The Queen of Hearts appears in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days as well, confronting Roxas and Luxord in a trial.
Kingdom Hearts coded
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.
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 Red 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 "Oyseters"), and bringing them to her casino, where she harvested their joy, ellation and other emotions, and using the gathered emotion to control Wonderland. She, too enjoyes having executions. At the end, the Queens own forces turned against her, led by Alice and her son Jack Heart, 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.