Talk:Works influenced by Alice in Wonderland

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[edit] POVness?

Isn't this inherently a biased list? Skinnyweed 21:34, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Probably, but even if the list if a bit subjective, you cannot deny that some works have been undoubtly influenced by Alice. Itomi Bhaa 08:11, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
This article is absurd. Many of these things are very obviously not inspired by Alice. This list would be more accurately called "Works containing references to Alice in Wonderland". Furthermore, nothing is sourced! Examples of dubious entries:
  • MirrorMask (2005) has obvious features borrowed from both of Carroll's books.
  • The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine third season mirror universe episode "Through the Looking Glass" took its name from the book.
  • In Rockstar's Manhunt, the director says to cash "You're my big ugly Alice! So go on, follow the white rabbit."

And, above all:

  • The Super Mushroom powerup used to change size in the Super Mario Bros. games was inspired by Alice in Wonderland
I tend to agree. Lewis Carroll invented neither mirrors nor queens, consequently, not every story with a mirror and/or a queen has any connection to Alice. There are substantial works who openly acknowledge their connection to the Alice stories or from which a connection or allusion is obvious. However, the inevitable disagreement over what belongs to this category inclines me to believe it simply isn't worth the effort to try to police the content of this article. This article may be silly, but it isn't hurting anyone and its fairly easy to pick through the legitimate entries from the cruft even if I have no experience with the works in question. I would object to phrases like "obvious features". Maybe they aren't obvious to everyone. Just for fun, tell us what they are. Sadangel 08:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

This article is in dire need of a complete overhaul. If anyone would like to assist me in this task, please mention so within the next week. Perhaps we should make a new list, of works with references to Alice? Jellocube27 00:46, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opium Addict?

The wikipedia article on Lewis Carrol would dissagree with this one.

[edit] User 82.52.*

Keep an eye out for this anonymous contributor, who has edited various Alice in Wonderland-related articles several times to remove all references to The Looking-Glass Wars. Wish I knew why. - EurekaLott 22:26, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Adventure Quest, an online roleplaying game, contains a room where the player must drink a potion rested on a table to become smaller in order to walk through a mousehole.

[edit] Wonderland (TV series)

Kind of a brief series, but it had the name and I think Grace Slick's song was like the theme or something.--T. Anthony 04:31, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] readme File

Wasn't the name of the readme (or read.me) file that is included on software distribution disks taken from the "drink me" and "eat me" labels in Alice in Wonderland?