The White Queen is a fictional character who appears in Lewis Carroll 's 1871 fantasy novel Through the Looking-Glass .
41-527: (Redirected from The White Queen ) White Queen may refer to: Literature and entertainment [ edit ] White Queen ( Through the Looking-Glass ) , a character in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) White Queen (novel) , a 1991 novel by Gwyneth Jones , the first of her Aleutian Trilogy. The White Queen (novel) ,
82-663: A "champion" will arrive and slay the Jabberwocky , Iracebeth's fearsome pet. That champion arrives in Alice ( Mia Wasikowska ), now a young woman, who initially thinks she is having a recurring dream. By the film's climax , Alice accepts her destiny and slays the Jabberwocky, restoring rulership of Wonderland to the White Queen. Mirana banishes her sister and bids Alice goodbye. After Alice remarks that Mirana cannot imagine
123-594: A 2009 novel by Philippa Gregory based on the life of Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437–1492), Queen consort of England The White Queen (TV series) , a 2013 British serial drama based on the Gregory novel and its sequels Lacus Clyne or White Queen, a character in the Gundam science fiction media franchise White Queen, a character in the Nick Velvet novel series by Edward D. Hoch " White Queen (As It Began) ",
164-522: A boat, and then reappear in the Sheep's shop, where Alice purchases an egg, which becomes Humpty Dumpty as she moves to the next square. In Chapter 9, the White Queen appears with the Red Queen, posing a series of typical Wonderland/Looking-Glass questions ("Divide a loaf by a knife: what's the answer to that ?"), and then celebrating Alice's promotion from pawn to queen. When that celebration goes awry,
205-563: A chess piece she can move in any direction. In both American McGee's Alice and Tim Burton 's film adaptation of the books, the two characters are combined. Jefferson Airplane 's song " White Rabbit " contains the lyric "and the Red Queen's off her head", despite the fact that "Off with her head!" as a repeated line is associated with the Queen of Hearts, not the Red Queen. The 2010 live-action film Alice in Wonderland , fashioned as
246-458: A grandfather's clock where her head expands turning her into a crazy and hating person. At the day of the coronation, the Red Queen believed that Tarrant was laughing about her large head, and shouts at him. When her father says that her sister will become the queen of Underland, she swears a horrible revenge on Tarrant. During the climax, both Queens are taken back in time where the Queens witnessing
287-412: A more complex character under the surface. Additionally, she is portrayed as a beautiful young woman with white blonde hair, a flawless complexion and air of elegance, grace and perfection. In the movie, Iracebeth has banished her sister from "Underland" out of jealousy; Mirana, having taken a vow never to harm another living thing, is helpless to fight back and must wait years for the "Frabjous Day," when
328-583: A sequel to the novel, features Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen. Bonham Carter's head was digitally increased three times its original size on screen. Bonham Carter's character is a combination of the Red Queen, the Duchess and the Queen of Hearts . From the original Red Queen, this character gets only a relationship to the White Queen. Here the Red Queen is the elder sister of the White Queen , and
369-427: A song by Queen from Queen II Red Queen and White Queen , a holographic computer from Resident Evil: Extinction In comics [ edit ] Emma Frost or the White Queen, a Marvel Comics character Adrienne Frost or the White Queen, a Marvel Comics character Sat-Yr-9 or the White Queen, a Marvel Comics character Amanda Waller or the White Queen, a DC Comics character Valentina Vostok or
410-660: A turn. Mister Mind states that they will get their chance once the Magiclands are united. As the Monster Society of Evil continues their fight with the Shazam Family, Scapegoat noted to Red Queen that Black Adam was supposed to be part of the group as Red Queen states that Black Adam refused to follow Mister Mind while having plans to get revenge on Alice and Dorothy Gale . When Scapegoat mentions his plans to get revenge on Mayor Krunket, Superboy-Prime crashes
451-462: Is jealous of her sister, whom her subjects genuinely love. From the original John Tenniel illustrations of the Duchess, she gets a massive head in proportion to her body and a retinue of frog footmen . The White Queen theorizes that the movie's Red Queen has a tumor pressing against her brain, explaining both her large head and her deranged behaviour. Most of her characteristics are taken from
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#1732793754606492-411: Is one of the first characters to be seen in the story. She first appears in the drawing room just beyond the titular looking-glass as an animate chesspiece unable to see or hear Alice , the main character. The Queen is looking for her daughter Lily; Alice helps her by lifting the White Queen and King onto the table, leading them to believe they were thrown up by an invisible volcano . When Alice meets
533-487: Is played by Anna Chancellor in the 2020 movie Come Away . This version of the Red Queen is depicted as the imaginary counterpart to Eleanor Morrow, Alice's maternal aunt and the older sister of Alice's mother Rose ( Angelina Jolie ), whose imaginary counterpart is the Queen of Hearts. In the Resident Evil series of video games and films the Red Queen is a self-aware computer system created to monitor and protect
574-481: Is the queen for the side opposing Alice. Despite 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. As a queen in the game of chess, the Red Queen is able to move swiftly and effortlessly. Later, in Chapter 9,
615-534: Is to say a word to her or show her any kindness. The Knave of Hearts is also banished and tries to kill the Red Queen when they are shackled together only to be thwarted by the Mad Hatter. As the Red Queen and the Knave of Hearts are carried off to their exile, the Red Queen repeatedly shouts "He tried to kill me" while the Knave of Hearts begged for the White Queen to have him killed. In the video game adaptation of
656-603: The Mad Hatter , the Red Queen is an émigré to Wonderland from the Enchanted Forest, having originally been a young woman named Anastasia, with whom Will Scarlet (the Knave of Hearts ) was in love. The Red Queen featured as one of the show's main antagonists, alongside Jafar . Two characters from the manga / anime Pandora Hearts are based on the Red Queen, Alice and Lacie , though Lacie has more in common with
697-630: The Red Queen and joins the chess game, she takes the place of a white pawn, Lily being too young to play. She does not meet the White Queen as a human-sized character until the Fifth Square. The White Queen lives backwards in time, due to the fact that she lives through the eponymous looking glass. Her behaviour is odd to Alice. She offers Alice " jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day." She screams in pain until, rather than because, she pricks her thumb on her brooch, and tells Alice of
738-492: The Red Queen ; they are portrayed as sisters. The White Queen's soldiers appear in white armor inspired by chess pieces while The Red Queen's appear in armour made to resemble cards. Mirana's delicate exterior is reinforced by her habit of holding her hands gracefully at shoulder height in almost every scene in which she appears. But her black fingernail polish and the dark circles under her eyes, as well as her nonchalance about certain potion ingredients ("buttered fingers"), hint at
779-402: The 10th degree, the concentrated essence of all governesses ! The 1951 Walt Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland perpetuates the long-standing confusion between the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. In the film, the Queen of Hearts delivers several of the Red Queen's lines, notably "all the ways about here belong to me" which in the case of the Red Queen has a double meaning since as
820-471: The King's messenger who has been imprisoned for a crime he will later be tried for and perhaps (but not definitely) commit in the end. The White Queen, aside from telling Alice things that she finds difficult to believe (one being that she is just over 101 years old) says that in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" and counsels Alice to practice the same skill. The meeting ends with
861-420: The Queen of Hearts including: The irritable, snobbish mother of Alice's potential husband, cast as a corresponding villain in the "real world" also resembles the Queen of Hearts when she fumes about her gardeners planting white instead of red roses. After the Jabberwocky is slain by Alice, the Red Queen's army stops fighting and following her orders. The White Queen banishes the Red Queen to Outland where nobody
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#1732793754606902-399: The Queen seeming to turn into a bespectacled sheep who sits at a counter in a shop as Alice passes into the next square on the board. The Sheep is somewhat different from the Queen in terms of personality and gets "more like a porcupine every time [Alice] looks at her" because she knits with several knitting needles all at once. Two of these needles turn into oars when Alice appears in
943-472: The Red Queen appears with the White Queen , posing a series of typical Wonderland/Looking-Glass questions ("Divide a loaf by a knife: what's the answer to that ?"), and then celebrating Alice's promotion from pawn to queen. When that celebration goes awry, Alice turns against 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 . In doing this, Alice presents an end game, awakening from
984-525: The Red Queen than Alice, who also has connections with The Queen of Hearts . In the American McGee's Alice video game/media franchise by American McGee , The Red Queen is initially conflated with the Queen of Hearts in the first game, American McGee's Alice . The names are used interchangeably, and the chess level further implies the two are one in the same. However, in the second game, Alice: Madness Returns , they are separated once more and
1025-694: The Red Queen's gigantic and monstrous true form. In the third volume of Shazam! , the Red Queen came from the Wozenderlands and is a member of the Monster Society of Evil . She was among its members imprisoned in the Dungeon of Eternity within the Monsterlands until Mister Mind instructed Doctor Sivana on how to free them. As Shazam fights a Mister Mind-controlled C.C. Batson, Red Queen and Scapegoat ask Mister Mind when they will get
1066-577: The White Queen seems to flee the scene by disappearing into a tureen of soup . Martin Gardner 's The Annotated Alice points out that the White King is at the time in check from the Red Queen. Alice proceeds to "capture" the Red Queen and checkmate the Red King , ending the game. The White Queen is not seen again, except as one of Alice's white cats , who Alice speculates may have influenced
1107-415: The White Queen, a DC Comics character Other [ edit ] White Queen tomato , a tomato variety Queen (chess) Claude Njiké-Bergeret , development aid volunteer Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title White Queen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
1148-420: The color red, while their personalities are very different. Carroll, in his lifetime, made the distinction between the two Queens by saying: I pictured to myself the Queen of Hearts as a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion – a blind and aimless Fury . The Red Queen I pictured as a Fury, but of another type; her passion must be cold and calm – she must be formal and strict, yet not unkindly; pedantic to
1189-519: 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 . The red queen is often said to be based on Mary Prickett, the Alice Liddell family's governess. The Red Queen is commonly mistaken for the Queen of Hearts from the story's predecessor, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . The two share the characteristics of being strict queens associated with
1230-623: The dream. The White Queen has been portrayed in various TV and film productions by actresses including Louise Fazenda , Nanette Fabray , Brenda Bruce , Maureen Stapleton , Carol Channing , Penelope Wilton , and Anne Hathaway . In Sandra the Fairytale Detective , her name is Victoria because she is the Queen of Victory. Anne Hathaway portrays the White Queen (renamed "Mirana of Marmoreal") in Tim Burton 's 2010 adaptation alongside Helena Bonham Carter as Iracebeth,
1271-457: The fight where he uses his fists to impale Scapegoat as he states to Red Queen that he's going to play around first before he gets serious. When Shazam defeats Mister Mind, the resulting magical energy knocked out the Red Queen and the rest of the Monster Society of Evil. The Monster Society of Evil was mentioned to have been remanded to Rock Falls Penitentiary where the Shazam Family built a special section to contain magical threats. The Red Queen
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1312-437: The film, she plays a minor role, first appearing as a mere illustration. She is not seen in person until near the end of the game, first playing croquet and beheading the hedgehogs she uses as balls whenever they miss their target at her castle, and then again both before and after the battle with the Jabberwocky. In the sequel of the 2010 film , the Red Queen returns as the main antagonist and Bonham Carter reprises her role. In
1353-491: The film, the Red Queen currently lives in a castle made with vegetation and other things in Outland where she is still exiled and is served by vegetable people whose parts she occasionally eats. In addition, the Knave of Hearts' skeleton is shown in her castle. The Red Queen is the love interest of Time and the two ally: If he will give to her the powerful Chronosphere and kill Alice she will give to him his love and they will rule
1394-493: The first film borrows elements from both of Lewis Carroll 's novels, the sequel introduces characters not featured in those novels. The story is entirely different to Carroll's novel and centers on the origin of Mad Hatter and the feud between Mirana and Iracebeth. At the end of the film, the sisters make amends. Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass) The Red Queen is a fictional character and
1435-525: The horror that goes on inside the Red Queen's castle, Mirana - whilst holding a knife - coldly replies, "Oh yes, I can." Mirana apparently is not above cruel punishment such as having her sister exiled to the Outlands for the rest of her days where nobody is to show her kindness or say a word to her. Mirana also had the Knave of Hearts unwillingly kept in Iracebeth's company for the rest of his life. While
1476-537: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_Queen&oldid=1175055494 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages White Queen (Through the Looking-Glass) Along with her husband the White King , she
1517-470: The main antagonist in Lewis Carroll 's fantasy 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass . She is often confused with the Queen of Hearts from the previous book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), although the two are very different. With a motif of Through the Looking-Glass being a representation of the game of chess , the Red Queen could be viewed as an antagonist in the story as she
1558-435: The platform Patreon , entitled " Alice: Asylum ." It is revealed in the art book designed for the proposal that the prequel portion of the game features Alice interacting with the two characters as separate entities, with a later cataclysm resulting in their merging into one monstrous creature resembling the form that Alice confronts in the first game (before this form is revealed to be a puppet/avatar extending from tentacles of
1599-420: The player meets the Queen of Hearts in her original form; the Red Queen is seen at the very beginning of the game as a flashback from Alice's memories of when The Red Queen reigned sovereign in Wonderland. Subsequent to the development of Alice: Otherlands , a proposed spin-off pitch to EA Games (who holds the franchise's copyrights) was initiated by American McGee that included crowdfunding and fan-support using
1640-473: The tart event causes a paradox. Once Wonderland was saved from destruction, the White Queen apologizes for lying about the tarts and the two sisters reconcile. The Red Queen appears in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (a spin-off to Once Upon a Time ) portrayed by Emma Rigby . She is a character distinct from the Queen of Hearts ( Barbara Hershey ), who was her tutor in magic. Like the Queen of Hearts and
1681-505: The universe. When Alice steals the Chronosphere to save Tarrant, the Red Queen orders Time to find her and kill her. The Red Queen's true past is discovered when Alice travels in time: as a child, she was calm and sweet, however her parents favoured her sister over her; one day the Red Queen was accused of eating tarts when it was her sister who ate them. During the tart fiasco, the Red Queen ran away and would fall and crash her head into