Alice: Madness Returns

American McGee's
 Alice: Madness Returns is a psychological horror hack and slash
action-adventure platform video game developed by independent studio
Spicy Horse and released by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows,
PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the sequel to American McGee's Alice
(2000). American McGee, a video game designer who is most famous
for working on the Doom series, was involved in the development.
Alice: Madness Returns follows Alice Liddell, a girl suffering from
trauma caused by the death of her family in a fire. Alice was discharged
from a psychiatric clinic and now lives in an orphanage for mentally
traumatized orphans under the care of Dr. Angus Bumby. To get rid of
the trauma and learn the truth about her past, she once again falls into
Wonderland, where a new evil force has corrupted it.
The game was released worldwide beginning in North America on June
14, 2011,followed by Europe on June 16, 2011, the United Kingdom on
June 17, 2011,and Japan on July 21, 2011. The game is also backwards
compatible with the Xbox One,and Xbox Series X/S.
Gameplay
Alice: Madness Returns is played from a third-person perspective. The
player controls Alice for the entirety of the game for running, jumping,
dodging, attacking, and shrinking.

In combat, Alice gains a small number of weapons that can be utilized in

several ways. Her primary weapon is the Vorpal Blade, a decorated kitchen
knife. The remainder of her arsenal is somewhat akin to the benign and
mundane items that take on a deadly quality in Alice's tainted Wonderland in
the first game. The Pepper Grinder becomes a crank operated Gatling gun,
used to attack at a distance and pepper pig snouts. The Hobby Horse is used
as a sledgehammer to inflict heavy damage and break barriers and defenses.
The Teapot Cannon fires tea sieves that explode to cause heavy damage and,
like the Hobby Horse, break barriers. By collecting teeth that are dropped by
foes or found scattered about the levels, the player can upgrade these items
to more powerful versions. Two other weapons cannot be upgraded,
primarily because they are more defensive than directly offensive: the
Umbrella acts as a shield that can be used to deflect and reflect most
incoming projectiles; The Clockwork Bomb is a time-delayed/remote-
controlled rabbit alarm clock that does a minimal amount of damage to
enemies, but its usefulness is better illustrated as a decoy, as well as a
weight to keep switches temporarily depressed.
Synopsis
 Setting

Within events of the first game, Alice Liddell,

believing herself responsible for a fire that consumed
her home and her family, escapes into a twisted
version of Wonderland. While held at Rutledge
Asylum for treatment, Alice was able to conquer her
doubts, and eventually was released from the
ward. Madness Returns takes place in 1875, a year
after Alice's release. Alice, now 19 years old, resides
at an orphanage in Victorian London, under the care
of Dr. Angus Bumby, a psychiatrist who uses hypnosis
to help his child patients forget their memories.
Though she believes that she is fine, Alice still suffers
from hallucinations of Wonderland
Alice's family
members
Elizabeth Liddell(lizzie)
Lizzie was likely born in 1845, and because of her father's privileged job as
a university dean, she lived a comfortable life with her family in Oxford,
and was well-educated, having been taught French and music with Alice by
their Nanny.

At the age of eighteen, Lizzie became the object of desire for Angus Bumby,
who was one of her father's undergraduates at the time. Although Lizzie did
not appreciate his advances, and disliked him entirely, Bumby became
obsessed with her, believing she was just playing hard to get and pretending
she was disinterested, and he would stalk her. One time, Bumby even
entered the ladies' restroom at the London Waterloo station to follow her.
Disgusted by him, Lizzie told Alice about the things Bumby did to her, and
told their father not to invite him around to their house again.

My heart is open, Alice.

Never closed, never locked.
“​ It needs no key.​
— Lizzie Liddell to
”​
Alice Liddell​
 • One night, infuriated by what he saw as Lizzie "teasing" him, Bumby broke into the
Liddell's house and raped her in her bedroom. He then may have murdered her
directly after this, but the exact details on when and how Bumby murdered her are
unclear. Regardless, Bumby locked her bedroom door from the outside. He kept

Rape and murder

Lizzie's door key with him as a memento of her and would later use it as a tool to
hypnotize his patients.

• Alice saw Bumby in the hallway outside her room, but her mind imagined Bumby
as a centaur, and she believed that the noises from Lizzie's room only meant that
Lizzie was talking in her sleep that night, as her mind either would not, or could
not, accept the dark truth. Bumby then used an oil lamp from upstairs to set the
house on fire, in an attempt to cover up his crime.Only Alice escaped the blaze
alive.

• Alice: Madness Returns

• Lizzie's room was further away from Alice's.

• Twelve years after the fire, Alice began to realize that Lizzie's room was further
away from the fire than her own, and that she disliked locked doors, thus she would
not have locked her bedroom door herself. Alice also believed that Lizzie would
have been smart enough to jump out of her window to escape the fire, suggesting
she was either dead or incapacitated before the fire reached upstairs. According to
Wilton J. Radcliffe, after identifying the bodies at the Oxford Morgue, Lizzie's was
the only one not burnt by the flames.

• After working out that Bumby was behind the death of her family, she also realized
that he raped Lizzie before killing her, and had been using Lizzie's key to hypnotize
his patients, she confronted him before taking back Lizzie's key and pushing him in
front of an oncoming train, killing him to avenge her family.
 Arthur Liddell
Arthur lived in Oxford with his family, and was a dean at the city's university. While not at the university, he would focus on
his passion for photography, and he used the downstairs library to keep his equipment and pictures, despite his wife's
concerns about how easily the flammable things could be set alight, and Lizzie's dislike of the chemical smell.

As well as spending time on his hobby, Arthur would often invite his undergraduates to tea at the family household. His act of
kindness led to one of his students, Angus Bumby, to become attracted and obsessed about Lizzie.

Bumby would try to make sexual advances towards Lizzie behind her family's back, despite her strong disgust towards him.

Death

Infuriated by Lizzie's "teasing", Bumby broke into the Liddell house and raped her. Afterwards, he started a fire to cover up
his crime. As both Arthur and Mrs. Liddell were heavy sleepers, they did not hear the "noises" coming from their eldest
daughter's bedroom. With the flammable equipment acting as fuel, the fire spread quickly.

In the chaos, Arthur and his wife told Alice to escape while they tried to get Lizzie out of her room. However, because Bumby
had killed Lizzie after raping her, and locked her bedroom door from the outside, their efforts were pointless. They died by
incineration as a result.

His body was so badly burned that it was unrecognizable and he, along with his wife and eldest daughter, were "stored in an
ice locker" while his youngest daughter was being treated in Littlemore Infirmary "in the likelihood that the whole family will
be expeditiously interred at the same time". The death of her family soon led to Alice's descent into insanity,and to the
corruption of Wonderland.[4]
 • “I'm pleased you love my sea creatures, Alice.
Photographs are a kind of imitation. A great painter
captures a true likeness. The camera helps an amateur
come close."

• — Arthur Liddell to his younger daughter

• ”
Little is known about Arthur, but it seems he was a proud man and father, and was like a hero or ideal role model to Alice.
He loved his family very much, even to a point of sacrificing himself in an attempt to save his daughters. He was very
wise and had a philosophical way of thinking. He had knowledge of various subjects, and had an artistic side, shown
mainly through his love of photography. He had a strong dislike towards hunting trophies, viewing them as perverse
creations that disgraces the once living animal and demeans their dignity, commenting he wanted no "taxidermic
abominations" like bearskin rugs and deer antlers in his house.
 Mrs. Liddell
Mrs. Liddell lived in Oxford with her family, where Arthur worked as a dean at Oxford University. She
was a strict but very caring mother who she spent most of her time taking care of her daughters and
seeing to their lessons. At some point, due to Alice's constant daydreams of Wonderland, Mrs. Liddell
had conversations with Nan Sharpe about it.

Death

One night, Angus Bumby broke into the Liddell's home and raped Lizzie. Apparently, both Arthur and
Mrs. Liddell were heavy sleepers, and had not even heard the "noises" coming from their daughter's
bedroom.

Afterwards, Bumby killed Lizzie, locked her bedroom door and set the house on fire to cover up his
crime. Arthur and Mrs. Liddell had awoken, and tried to save their daughters, telling Alice to get out of
the house and calling out to Lizzie from outside her bedroom door. Despite their pleading, Mrs. Liddell
and her husband burned to death with no chance of escape.

Arthur and his wife were so badly burnt that their lawyer, Wilton J. Radcliffe, said they were almost
unrecognizable at the Oxford Morgue. Her body was later "stored in an ice locker" while Alice was
being treated in Littlemore Infirmary "in the likelihood that the whole family will be expeditiously
interred at the same time".
 If you leap from
that table again,
Alice, I'll
expire! You're
two times
too reckless,
my girl.
— Mrs. Liddell to
Alice
Plot
During an errand, Alice is struck by a hallucination and believes herself to be
in Wonderland again. Though initially idyllic, the peaceful land quickly
becomes corrupted by an entity called the Infernal Train that rampages
through it, leaving behind the Ruin, a force that attempts to stop Alice. Alice
meets with the Cheshire Cat who affirms that it is some outside force, not
Alice, that has caused this corruption, and urges her to seek out former friends
and foes to discover the source of the Train. Throughout the rest of the game,
Alice briefly returns to reality between episodes occurring within Wonderland.
In the real world, Alice learns from the family lawyer, Wilton J. Radcliffe, that
her older sister, Elizabeth (nicknamed "Lizzie"), was first to die in the fire,
despite being the farthest from its source, and had been locked in her room.

Within the corrupted Wonderland, Alice attempts to learn more

from Wonderland's various citizens, including the Duchess, the Mad Hatter,
the March Hare and the Dormouse, the Mock Turtle,
the Walrus and the Carpenter, the Caterpillar, and the White King. She
is ultimately told that the Queen of Hearts still lives despite her defeat at
Alice's hands before, though in a diminished capacity. At the Queen's castle,
Alice discovers the Queen's true form, which resembles her younger self. The
Queen reveals that an entity called the Dollmaker has taken over the Infernal
Train and is corrupting Wonderland.
Chapters
Chapter 1: Hatter's
Domain
in this opening chapter, Alice travels
back to Wonderland and meets the
Cheshire Cat, the Duchess, the
Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the
Dormouse. She gains the ability to toggle
between normal and shrunken size,
which is needed to pass through small
openings. Alice also obtains the Vorpal
Blade, Pepper Grinder, Clockwork Bomb
, Umbrella, and Steamdress. Notable areas
encountered are the Houndsditch
Home for Wayward Youth, the
Vale of Tears and the Crockery.
Chapter 2: Deluded Depths

After a brief return to the real world at the

beginning of the chapter, it's back to
Wonderland. This time Alice obtains the
Hobby Horse and Siren dress and meets the
Carpenter, the Octopus, the Walrus, and the
Music Fish. This chapter also includes a
section resembling a 2D shooter in which Alice
takes control of the HMS Gryphon. Notable
areas encountered are Barrelbottom,
Dreary Lane Theatre, and Oyster Gardens.
Chapter 3: Oriental Grove

Chapter 3 also begins back in the real world, where

Nan Sharpe promises to take Alice to see Radcliffe to
ask about the fire. When reaching his home, Alice
returns to Wonderland once again, where she will
obtain the Teapot Cannon and Silk Maiden dress and
meet the Caterpillar and the Origami Ant Elder
. Notable areas encountered are the Vale of Doom
and the Oriental Grove.
 : Qu een s la n d
Chapter 4

• The fourth chapter begins

with Alice being released from Gaol
. During this
chapter, Alice obtains the
Royal Suit dress and meets the
Executioner and the
Queen of Hearts. Notable
areas encountered are the
Cardbridge and Queensland.
Chapter 5: The Dollhouse

Chapter 5's real world prologue begins with Alice

hallucinating being at Rutledge Asylum, complete
with a shaved head and a straitjacket dress. After
coming out of the hallucination, she wanders
around a park for a bit, before eventually returning
to Wonderland. During this chapter, Alice obtains
the Misstitched dress and meets the Insane Children
and the Dollmaker. Notable areas encountered are
the Rutledge Asylum, the Dollhouse, and the
Looking Glass Railway.
 The conclusion of the game begins with Alice going from room
to room on the Infernal Train, encountering characters
previously seen throughout the game, as well as meeting Dr.
Bumby. This final chapter consists of the game's only real boss
fight, in which Alice battles Dr. Bumby in the form of the
Dollmaker. As she defeats the Dollmaker, simultaneously in
the real world, Alice pushes the real Dr. Bumby in front of an
oncoming train, killing him. By doing so, she has avenged her
family, her own sanity, the underage victims of Bumby's
memory erasure, and made sure that he will never hurt anyone

Chapter 6: The Infernal again.

Train
• Returning to London, Alice starts to recall her memories of the
night of the fire and realizes that Dr. Bumby was there. He was
responsible for the death of her sister and her whole family. She
comes to the conclusion that Dr. Bumby is attempting to erase the
memories of the fire from her mind and, as he has done with other
children, trying to leave her (and the orphans) as "blank toys" to be
taken by abusive masters and child molesters for a price. Furious,
Alice confronts both Dr. Bumby in the real world at the
Moorgate station and Dr. Bumby's Wonderland counterpart, the
Dollmaker, in her fantasy on the Infernal Train. Dr. Bumby admits
to his crimes, and even attests to setting Alice's home on fire after
Lizzie refused his advances, removing any witnesses to having
raped her that night. He points out that by wiping out her
Wonderland, he will make her forget the events of that night, while
he continues as a member of high society and secretly sells young
children for prostitution. Alice defeats the Dollmaker in
Wonderland, giving her the strength in the real world and in her
mind to push Dr. Bumby into the path of an oncoming train, killing
him.
• As Alice leaves the station, she finds herself in a hybrid vision of
London mixed with Wonderland, Londerland. Alice wanders into
the unknown terrain as the Cheshire Cat monologues that Alice has
found the truth that was "worth the pain fighting for", and
Wonderland, though damaged, is safe for the time being.
Reception
 Aggregating review websites GamesRadar+ included it in
GameRankings and Metacritic gave the their list of the 100 most
Microsoft Windows version 74% based
overlooked games of
on 15 reviews and 75/100 based on
29 reviews, the Xbox 360 version 73% its generation. Editor Jason
based on 49 reviews and 70/100 Fanelli felt that it was a worthy
based on 67 reviews, and the sequel yet also felt that players
PlayStation 3 version 71% based on 35 would have to overlook problems
reviews and 70/100 based on 52 to enjoy its qualities.
reviews.
 Relation to Alice figure
Alice is based on the Alice character from Charles Dodgson's (pen name Lewis Carroll) popular novels,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, after the
course of which these games take place, as well as the real-life Alice Liddell.​

She is intended to be linked to the book character, and has experienced the same history as Alice in the
novels, except in the sense her parents were killed in a fire. She is an "alternate reality" Alice, combining
qualities from both the book character and real-life historical figure.For example, she has the personality
and history of the book character, while her hair color and surname are shared by the real-life Alice.​

In the introduction of the first game, Alice is seen sleeping with the first book in her arm, technically
breaking the fourth wall, leading to the belief that Alice was a young girl coincidentally named after the
character in the book, and imagined herself in the role of the character. Another discrepancy is that the
book was first published in 1865, whereas the fire in the game occurred two years earlier in 1863. Both of
these discrepancies could be attributed to artistic license, however, it is unknown if Alice Pleasance Liddell
owned a copy of the book prior to its publication, as it was only published after a friend urged Dodgson to
publish the book some time after its original creation.​

It is implied Charles Dodgson knew the Liddell family, and his portrait is seen in the first game, making it
possible that Alice and Dodgson shared their visions of Wonderland together. Similarly, in Madness Returns
, a memory of Lizzie states "Dodgson" was a clumsy sailor. This is most likely Charles Dodgson, as he was
a friend to the Liddell family, but it has not been confirmed.​
 Early life
• Alice Liddell was the fourth of the ten children of Henry Liddell, ecclesiastical dean of
Christ Church, Oxford, one of the editors of A Greek-English Lexicon, and his wife Lorina
Hanna Liddell (née Reeve). She had two older brothers, Harry (born 1847) and Arthur (1850–
53), an older sister Lorina (born 1849), and six younger siblings, including her sister Edith
(born 1854) to whom she was very close and her brother Frederick (born 1865), who became a
lawyer and senior civil servant.
Later life
• Alice Liddell married Reginald Hargreaves, also a cricketer, on 15 September 1880, at the age of
28 in Westminster Abbey. They had three sons: Alan Knyveton Hargreaves and Leopold Reginald
"Rex" Hargreaves (both were killed in action in World War I); and Caryl Liddell Hargreaves,
who survived to have a daughter of his own.
Death
• After her death in 1934, her body was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, with her ashes
being buried in the graveyard of the church of St Michael and All Angels in
Lyndhurst, Hampshire. A memorial plaque, naming her "Mrs. Reginald Hargreaves" can be seen
in the picture in the monograph. Alice's mirror can be found on display at the New Forest
Heritage Centre, Lyndhurst, a free museum sharing the history of the New Forest.

• More information about Alice Liddell

here:-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell
 Lewis Carroll
(Charles Dodgson)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by
his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most
notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel
Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic,
and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are
classified in the genre of literary nonsense.

Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long

relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar
and teacher. Alice Liddell, the daughter of Christ Church's dean Henry Liddell, is
widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll
always denied this.

An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle (which he then called
"Doublets"), which he published in his weekly column for Vanity Fair magazine
between 1879 and 1881. In 1982 a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at
Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. There are societies in many parts of the world
dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works.
Alice: Asylum

NOTE: This section is based on

information which has been
garnered over the years and does
not necessarily represent a final
version, and parts of this plot
summary have likely changed
visions. The most recent vision
has been compiled in the August
2021 design outline.
Additionally, this entire plot
and characters section is
essentially a spoiler.
 Plot and domains
Adding to the psychological themes of the series, Alice is envisioned
as going through a modified Kübler-Ross stages of grief model:
shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing, and, finally,
acceptance. In order to fulfill the spot of an eighth (since the Chaos
symbol has 8 sides), one will be envisioned as "slumber". Therefore,
Wonderland will be extremely affected by this, with each of its
domains being influenced by one of the stages. This is only through
a symbolic perspective, as characters in Wonderland do not call the
Queen's domain "the anger domain", for example. Additionally,
Alice can revisit domains, breaking stereotypes that people in grief
only experience each stage one time, and the events in past domains
are referenced upon later; for example, the circus/denial domain is
talked about frequently long after Alice has left it.
domains
Slumber
This area is the part of Alice's mind
which lets her revisit her
subconscious dormant memories. It
is in this domain where Alice sees the
flashbacks of her life, and is able to
talk to the Caterpillar here. Due to
the nature of this area being a
component of Alice, Alice is forced
into this area as she recollects her
memories. It also seems to have a
Doors area where Alice can fast
travel to the other domains of
Wonderland.
Liddell house – Shock
This area will be like a nightmare of Alice's family dying in the Fire.
At the start, players will control 13-year-old Alice in a dark moonlit
snowy area which will act as the tutorial, with a giant creepy Moon
with a face watching over here. She proceeds to enter her house
where she sees her burning family serve her a disgusting birthday
cake which her family proceeds to eat. They cryptically tell Alice
that something is her fault. An earthquake occurs and the
Caterpillar appears who tries to encourage Alice to learn and find
truth in her suffering. Alice looks in a looking glass and sees a
shadow creature mimicking her action. The shadow is happy to
finally find Alice, and when Alice reaching into the looking glass, it
breaks and Alice suffers hundreds of cuts. When a large piece is
about to pierce her heart, Alice grabs it and it transforms into a
crystal Vorpal Blade. Alice finds herself back in her burning house
where her family has disappeared. Alice hears a lullaby in the
distance and faints.
 Circus/Amusement
park – Denial
This part of Wonderland will be beautiful, wonderful, and "safe".During the game,
Alice's objective would be to escape the amusement park. At the beginning of this
stage, Alice finds herself in a circus hosted by her animal friends such as Mock
Turtle. The White Rabbit encourages Alice to explore the park. Creepily enough,
the Moon Alice saw before is still in the sky. Major concepts include Alice being a
prisoner of the circus, while characters Alice meets here insist she should relax
and enjoy the show. Alice encounters Pris Witless as a fortune teller; Alice looks
in her crystal ball and has another meeting with the Caterpillar and vision of her
home. Alice mentions she knows her family is dead, but wonders why the second
floor doors were locked, why the front door was open, and why she has memories
of a centaur in her house. After some cryptic scenes, Alice finds herself back with
the Caterpillar who reveals the shadow creature was a part of her. Alice then
comes back to the circus, where she is in a giant demented tent run by
Tweedledum and Tweedledee who reveal they were following the orders of the
Queen of Hearts. After fighting the twins in a boss battle, Alice reaches the top of
the tent where she finds a hot air balloon. Alice enters it and cuts the ropes.
 The Moon
After the circus, Alice is envisioned to have a boss battle of
sorts where she is in the balloon and must dodge the Moon's
attacks. Its lullaby makes Alice sleepy. It turns out that the Moon is
actually a flying facility fortress and is one of the Hatter's
inventions. Alice discovers the Moon is a device (possibly created​ vv
by Hatter) to make Alice forget her troubles. Alice destroys the
Moon's lullaby machine by destroying its organic mechanical
heart. Mock Turtle appears in this stage, begging Alice to stop her
mission and to return to the circus. Alice refuses and obtains a
chart to the Queen's Domain, and she pilots the Moon there. Mock
Turtle tries to prevent her, and Alice ends up killing him. As the
Moon crashes, Alice grows larger and she finds herself on grass,
with Mock Turtle's body floating in a nearby pond. Alice looks
closer and sees a miniature circus on his shell; Alice connects the
dots that she was shrunken until now and forced into the circus by
her caring friend, Mock Torture, in order to keep her happy.
Alice holds the Moon in her hand and puts it inside her rabbit doll
as a keepsake.​
 Alice, in the forest, sees the Queen's Castle in the distance. She navigates a
hedgemaze and fights Card Guards. She comes upon a scene where she finds a
group of Card Guards interrogate the shadow creature; the shadow releases a
mass of black tentacles called Chaos; Chaos transforms NPCs and makes
them attack Alice. Alice keeps traversing and encounters the Knave, then
makes her way to a courthouse full of chess pieces who are forced to serve the
Queen (this ties into the plot in American McGee's Alice where the chess
pieces are under the Queen's control and is the beginning of their story). In the
courthouse, Alice is blamed and found guilty, and Alice discovers the pieces
are infected by Chaos. Alice obtains her Rage form here and defeats the Judge,
a boss. The shadow appears and applauds Alice, saying she is learning, and
makes Alice fall into a trap door. Here, Alice has another vision with the
Caterpillar who talks to her about anger, and Alice sees flashbacks of her
being violent in the asylum towards doctors and nurses. She says Dr. Wilson
and Bumby talking about her, and Alice realizes Bumby is the centaur. After
processing more of her emotions, Alice returns to the domain where the Knave
motivates her to keep moving forward.

Queen's Castle – Anger

Alice goes through a croquet area and a dungeon, and sees a
being known as the Child of Fire who becomes infected by
Chaos. Alice finally meets the Queen and the two argue; Alice
blames the Queen for trapping her, while the Queen blames
Alice for the Chaos infesting her domain, revealing Alice is
responsible for it. The Queen and her Guards try to take away
Rabbit, who is infested by Chaos, causing Alice to Rage, and
she and the Knave defeat the Queen. They are relieved rabbit
is fine. Alice spins in joy with the rabbit, but Alice's spinning
causes a transition (this may be because spinning in dreams
causes many dreamers to teleport).
Hatter's
Domain - Bargaining
As Alice makes her way to meet Hatter, she encounters the Cheshire
Cat. Alice finds him familiar, which offends Cat who has come to
realize that Alice forgot much of her first adventure in Wonderland.
Rabbit finds Cat terrifying and hides behind Cat who fades away. At
this point, Cheshire Cat becomes a summonable ally at any time to
offer in game clues, background information and lore, as he did
in American McGee's Alice. Eventually, Alice meets Hatter and tells
him she wants to go home back to reality, and of Shadow Alice and the
Chaos. Hatter sadly reveals Alice is trapped in her mind for now, and
explains Chaos from a scientific view and gives Alice a weapon which
can help fight back against Chaos more easily. He says if Alice
collects pieces of his device, they may be able to eliminate Chaos
entirely and easily, and return home, but they are under a time limit
where Wonderland will be consumed by Chaos if she does not find
them in time. Alice returns to the Hall of Doors
Vale of Tears – Depression
Alice finds herself in a location called the Abyssal Station which is
connected to the Looking Glass Railway, and the Infernal Train makes a
cameo here. The Station is managed by the March Hare and Dormouse.
Alice goes through tunnels under the station, finding herself in
termite colony buried under the memory tree of Alice's mind. Alice has
more visions of Radcliffe, Bumby and the Asylum, where Shadow Alice
talks to her. Alice also faces the Dollmaker. It is revealed Shadow
Alice was responsible for killing Bumby. After fighting the mecha run
by the Hare and Dormouse, Alice retrieves a part of the device: the
eyes. Alice then finds herself in front of the orphanage, with
Radcliffe accusing Alice of killing Bumby. Alice realizes Shadow Alice
will probably want to kill Radcliffe. Alice returns to the Hatter
briefly to give him the eyes and enters Wonderland Woods which is
unusually flooded. Alice questions the Mock Torture who implores her
to find the Duchess. In her cottage, Duchess mourns her lost pig
children and explains to Alice the value of sadness. Alice finds a
crying statue of herself and mourns her family. She finds herself in
London where she opens a desk drawer in Radcliffe's office, letting
loose Chaos and swallowing. Alice then finds herself back in the
domain where she brings tears to Duchess who concocts a cure to the
sadness. Alice then visits a possessed Bill McGill and obtains a brain
she needs and gives it to the Hatter.
• As its name implies, victims of grief go through a stage
of depression and melancholy, and often, "emptiness" and a
"void". This is probably because the Mad Hatter in the
previous domain told Alice that she is unable to return
home out of Wonderland.
• Concept art shows it may feature an aquatic section
underwater. Alice's mission is to likely find some sort of
happiness or joy while wandering through this part of the
depression domain, which may be represented by toys and
balloons as a means of coping with the loss. Art shows the
"joy" stuck in a tree which Alice can't access because
it's too far up, showing the difficulty that comes with
finding joy when one is depressed.
• Alice explores a flying storm of London where she meets
the Carpenter. In this London, she finds a notebook in
Bumby's office containing his memories, and makes the way
to Radcliffe's office where she discovers Radcliffe was
aiding Bumby in his child trafficking. Alice finally
understands why Shadow Alice wants to kill Radcliffe and
Shadow Alice appears and has a conversation with Alice.
Alice returns to the Hatter where in order to complete his
invention, Alice must sacrifice her rabbit doll containing
a mechanical heart, but Alice decides against this.
Land of Fire and
Brimstone - Testing
Alice's rabbit doll is eaten by the Jabberwock. Alice
defeats him and frees her damaged rabbit. They try to
find the Caterpillar but are intervened by the Queen.
After a fight, it turns out this Queen is false and is
actuality the memory of Alice's mother trying to help her
by keeping the Hatter's head safe. Her mother's memory
warns her of Shadow Alice, explaining that Alice
fragmented her psyche as a coping mechanism, resulting in
Shadow Alice's creation who has been corrupted by Alice's
negative emotions. Alice sees a vision of Shadow Alice
controlling adult Alice's body and holding Radcliffe at
knifepoint. Alice makes peace with the memories of her
mother and father, although they are eaten by Shadow
Alice.This stage is described as "seeking realistic
solutions". The reality eventually starts to bite and the
person realizes that they cannot stay in that deep, dark
hole of depression forever. They thus start looking for
realistic things that they can do.
 Intermission
• Alice wakes up in the Hatter's Domain. He explains that she is actually truly in
Wonderland this time, and from the beginning, Alice was actually a in a slow globe
as one of his inventions, as a "Wonderland in a Wonderland". Shadow Alice appears
and unleashes Chaos on Hatter, destroying him, and consumes Alice after a boss
fight. This results in the player control Shadow Alice in "Umbraland", and Alice's
Vorpal Blade is transformed into a scythe. As Shadow Alice, the player revisits all
the locations throughout the game, corrupting and transforming it with Chaos. The
player is also forced to kill its inhabitants who flee. Shadow Alice then proceeds to
kill her rabbit doll, resulting in a full minute of darkness and silence, but with
glimpses and some distant voices to reassure the player their game has not glitched.
Afterwards, the true Alice's voice is heard, remarking how she is still alive, and is
surrounded by butterflies. Alice speaks to her Shadow about despite her suffering,
she still had a remarkable time in Wonderland. A new lush Wonderland is created,
where the rabbit doll joins the two Alices. It is shown that in reality, adult Alice did
not like Shadow Alice overcome her and kill Radcliffe. With this new acceptance,
Shadow Alice and Alice fuse and become one.
 Ending
in London, Alice has spared Radcliffe. He
flees, but Alice follows him, calling him
out for all the terrible things he has
been part of. A little girl, Angela,
questions Radcliffe on what is happening
but he angrily demands her to shut her
mouth. Alice enters Radcliffe's
Wonderland (or "Otherland") to destroy
his mind, while Radcliffe is incapitated
in reality. Alice invites some police
officers into the room. Radcliffe, in
fury, aggressively attacks Alice but is
captured by the police. Alice proceeds to
meet Angela, who is revealed to be Angela
Radcliffe, his daughter, and asks Angela
where she would like to go now, due to
her father being arrested. Angela replies
that she would like to go whereever Alice
is going and the two leave
 After credits
Alice has opened an orphanage called
the Liddell’s Home For Wayward
Children. She is living in a beautiful
home and proceeds to walk over to her
nearby orphanage where she is greeted
by the children. It is implied Alice has
adopted Angela herself due to the name
"Angela Liddell" being mentioned in the
script. On the way to a tea party, Angela
drops her rabbit doll. After a close-up of
the rabbit doll lying motionless, it
proceeds to get up and follow the
children
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