Alice Is Dead

Alice Is Dead is a Grimmification of Alice in Wonderland, presented as a trilogy of Flash Games published on Newgrounds. So much about the plot. If you trust your nerves, go check it out:

• Episode 1
• Episode 2
• Episode 3 (the theme song can be downloaded here)

See also Myosotis by the same author.

Tropes used in Alice Is Dead include:

• All There in the Manual: The author originally posted several detailed explanations of the games' Backstory (that's where the more obscure details on this page come from), but has since taken it down.
• Apocalyptic Log: The walls of the starting location are covered in it. But you can't see it.
• Arc Words: "Kill The Rabbit".
• Badass: The White Rabbit.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: The White Rabbit.
• Bad with the Bone: You use Alice's leg bone to pick a lock.
• Bathroom Stall Graffiti: The club's bathroom stalls are full of these. Some of the walls have phone numbers on them, which you can call.
• Catgirl: Technically, the Cheshire Cat is one. Unfortunately, rather than being a sexy woman with cute ears, she/it is mostly just creepy, and far more so once you discover her horrifying, horrifying origins.
• The Chanteuse: An unnamed background character. She sings a song that is a mixture of Wonderland surrealism and an attempt to seduce the listener.
• Clingy MacGuffin: The bell. You can't get rid of it, and it possibly triggered the metal detector at the club, thus alerting Queen about the Rabbit's presence.
• Creepy Crossdresser: The Queen.
• Daddy's Girl: Burr's daughter, who has become Cheshire Cat after merging with one of her father's experiment cats. She sends you a text message about how she misses you and her father, and one of the reasons she helps the rabbit is that she wants to get revenge against the Queen, both for allowing her father to conduct the experiments and killing him after the Oystercloud was completed.
• Disgusting Public Toilet: The toilets in the club.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Dr. Raymond Burr. In Episode 2, his name is mentioned in one of the puzzles, and he has written one of the logs on the computer terminal. In Episode 3, you find his corpse in the Secret Laboratory.
• Ear Worm: "Here Comes The Boogeyman" by Henry Hall in the first game. Doesn't help that it's on a loop...
• Easter Egg: Sort of. March Hare's phone number, which can be easily missed.
• Faking the Dead: Alice, who we thought was dead in Episode 1, returns at the very end of Episode 3 to kill the queen.
• Guinea Pig Family: By accident. Raymond Burr was conducting an Oystercloud experiment that involved teleporting cats to other places, and his daughter interfered with the experiment, causing her to merge with one of the cats, thus giving birth to Cheshire Cat.
• Grimmification: And how.
• The Hero Dies: The Rabbit, who gets shot in the forehead by the Queen in the end.
• Improvised Weapon: The Hatter "went insane, and stabbed [the waitress] and three other customers to death with one of those little plastic sandwich swords."
• Killed Mid-Sentence: One of whoever were talking on the phone at the beginning of episode 3.
• Mad Scientist: Dr. Raymond Burr.
• Mind Screw: Yes.
• Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate: Dr. Burr.
• Obfuscating Insanity: The "Mad" Hatter is only faking it. See also Omnicidal Maniac below.
• Omnicidal Maniac: The police believes the Hatter to be this. Actually, he is a Diabolical Mastermind behind the whole killer business in Wonderland.
• One Last Job: Just before Rabbit lost his memories.
• One-Liner: The protagonist is quite good at it, such as quipping "Alice forgot to put on makeup" and "She doesn't smile as much anymore" at the sight of Alice's decomposing corpse.
• Ontological Mystery: You wake up in a hole in the ground, next to Alice's decomposed corpse, with no idea who you are and how you got there.
• Private Eye Monologue: The protagonist engages in a lot of these.
• Professional Killer: The protagonist a.k.a. the White Rabbit and Alice herself.
• Red Herring: Yes, that spider is completely useless. And the bell, too.
• Restart At Level One: Kinda. At the beginning of each game, the protagonist is stripped of all his possessions from the first game (except the bell).
• Room Full of Crazy: The opening location contains crazed writings on the walls, a mixture of Alice's someone's Apocalyptic Log and, inexplicably, the code to the Rabbit's suitcase. However, you can only see these writings with a special lens. Rabbit's diary reveals that it's made in a special ink invented by the Hatter.
• Running Gag: The bell.
• She Is the King: The Queen is a "he".
• The Stinger: It pays to wait until after the credits.
• The Stoner: Rulio, a.k.a. the Peaches guy, in episode 3.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: If you act rudely towards Hatter in the prison, the message he leaves for you is "You put me in a bad mood".
• Time for Plan B: After the key to the prison cell remains lodged in Lewis' guts, the protagonist asks himself what's the plan B.
• Titles Always Lie: Check out the cutscene that plays after the credits of AiD3. Not only is Alice alive and well, the entire story was a Batman Gambit she designed in order to find and eliminate The Queen.
• Tomato in the Mirror: The ending of episode 1 reveals that YOU are the White Rabbit.
• Voice with an Internet Connection: Ann to the Rabbit.
• You All Meet in a Cell: The second game opening. Except it's just you and the Hatter.