Queen of Hearts

In the Disney animated feature Alice in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is the main antagonist who appears as Alice puts it in a moment of temper, a "fat, pompous, bad tempered old tyrant".

She is portrayed as a haughty sadist, who enjoys decapitating anyone who merely annoys her.

Her presence is all the more striking because of how tiny her husband the King is (he barely comes up to her knee).

Similar to the book, Alice meets three cards painting the roses red, since they planted white roses by mistake.

When the Queen arrives, she orders those three cards beheaded, then turns her attention to Alice.

Refusing to answer her questions with presumption that only she can ask them, she quickly ropes her into a game of croquet.

The game ends with the Queen tripping herself over, due to the Cheshire Cat's mischievous antics.

The Queen angrily blames Alice for it, but before she can give the order, the King suggests holding a trial for Alice.

The Queen, grudgingly, but reasonably, agrees.

The Queen calls the March Hare, the Dormouse, and the Mad Hatter to witness, who hold an unbirthday party for her and cheer her up considerably.

During the party, the Cheshire Cat reappears and upsets the Dormouse.

The Dormouse runs all over, and in an attempt to crush the mouse, the King of Hearts accidentally hits the Queen on the head with the gavel, which is hastily passed into the March Hare's hands, then the Hatter's, and finally Alice's.

The Queen, of course, blames Alice for it, and is going to have her beheaded.

But Alice eats mushrooms she had procured earlier, which make her grow bigger.

Although Rule No. 42 says that anyone more than a mile high must leave the court immediately, Alice feels free to call the queen a "fat, pompous, bad tempered old tyrant".

Unfortunately, she subsequently shrinks down to her normal size, but flees and is able to escape.

Of interest is the fact that Disney's Queen of Hearts seems to be an amalgamation of the Queen from the book, the Duchess, and the Red Queen of Through The Looking-Glass.

When pleased, she can be quite pleasant, but is still bossy and often impatient, and can almost at once change to enraged.

As she is considered to be one of the members of the Disney Villains group of characters, the Queen of Hearts exacted her revenge upon Alice in the game Disney's Villains' Revenge where she stole the ending page of the story and changed the ending, so Alice lost her head.

Jiminy Cricket, the player, and Alice's headless body retrieve the head and escape the labyrinth of the Queen. They meet one last time in the final battle and she surrenders.

The Queen of Hearts is the final boss on the Japanese version of Mickey Mousecapade, a 1987 video game where Alice is her hostage.

She is also a greetable character at the Walt Disney World Resort.

In Mickey's House of Villains, the Queen of Hearts appears as one of the villain guests of the House of Mouse, voiced by Tress MacNeille.

The Queen appears in the Square-Enix/Disney video game Kingdom Hearts, in her homeworld.

As in the film, she holds Alice on trial, only this time for attempting to steal her heart.

The main heroes in the game, Sora, Donald and Goofy, intervene, telling the Queen that Alice is innocent.

The Queen challenges them to provide proof of their theory, and with help from the Cheshire Cat, the three are able to do so.

The Queen, however, enraged at being proven wrong, orders them executed and Alice imprisoned in a cage on the roof.

The three are able to fight off the Queen's guards and destroy the cage controls, but Alice is kidnapped, before they can save her.

The Queen orders a search for Alice, and temporarily pardons Sora, Donald and Goofy, requesting that they look for Alice as well.

She returns in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, only this time as a figment of Sora's memories.

Again, she holds Alice on trial, this time for attempting to steal her memories.

In both games, Sora, Donald and Goofy prove Alice's innocence by defeating the Trickmaster Heartless, the real culprit.

The Queen congratulates Sora for solving the mystery, and once again demonstrates her bi-polar personality by pardoning Alice.

She is absent in Kingdom Hearts II, but appears in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days along with her homeworld.

A digital version of her later appears in Kingdom Hearts coded.

Links
Wikipedia> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Hearts_%28Alice_character%29#Disney
Disney Wiki> disney.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_of_Hearts
Disney Character Central> www.charactercentral.net/C168_DisneyCharacters_Villains_QueenofHearts.aspx

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