Hatter

OTHER NAMES The Mad Hatter, The Hatter PERSONALITY Mad, brave, loyal, kind-hearted, extremely temperamental, eccentric, energetic, intense, elated, disturbed, extravagant, dramatic, comical, bitter (Occasionally), tragic APPEARANCE Slender, pale skin, curly red hair, green eyes, color-changing eyeliner, manic smile OCCUPATION Hat maker HOME Whitzel (formerly), Underland RELATIVES Zanik Hightopp (father) Mother Other parents ALLIES Alice Kingsleigh, Thackery Earwicket, Mally, the White Queen, Bayard the Bloodhound, Chessur, The Red Queen, Time (rival) ENEMIES The Red Queen (former sworn enemy), the Knave of Hearts, Jabberwocky, Time (formerly) LIKES Tea DISLIKES The Red Queen's tyranny POWERS AND ABILITIES Hat/clothes making, sword fighting WEAPONS Sword, level genius intelligence

Tarrant's origins involve him with the Hightopp Clan, a family of hatters, which was supposedly destroyed by the Jabberwock, sent by the Red Queen during a visit by the White Queen to their village on the "Horevendush Day". The Hightopps did not indeed perish though, as it turns out they were actually captured and imprisoned by the Red Queen out of revenge. Though the White Queen was safely spirited away, the Vorpal Sword (as well as her crown) was lost in the confusion. Tarrant was thought to be the only member of his clan left- everybody and everything else was supposedly killed or burned to the ground. Tarrant only escaped the destruction because he led the White Queen's panicked horse away from the initial attack. He returns after to find the village burnt to the ground, a shocked look on his face he bends down to pick up his trademark hat. When we next see his face it is clear from the half smile that his sanity has shattered. A scene of Tarrant's past can be seen-the Jabberwock blowing fire down on the clan, when he and Alice are travelling and they pass through the remains of his home, causing him to briefly flash back to the destruction.

The destruction of his clan broke something in Tarrant's mind - causing him to become detached from reality and also develop a slight split personality. When he becomes upset his eyes change from green to a golden yellow and he begins speaking in a noticeable Scottish brogue. Tarrant can become violent in this state unless someone snaps him out of it. Mallymkun the Dormouse snaps him out of it the first time by shouting, "Hatter!!" when he is about to attack the Chesire cat who he blames for the attack on his clan. Alice later snaps him out of one of his episodes when he is imprisoned at the Red Queen's castle making hats. Tarrant himself is vaguely aware of his personality problem telling Alice that he has to get out of the Red Queen's castle saying its getting harder for him to think clearly there. Tarrant Hightopp first met Alice Kingsleigh when she was a young child at the age of nine. They became friends quickly, even enjoying tea together. Alice forgot these memories while she was away from Underland, but at the age of nineteen, Alice fell down the rabbit hole once again. She had no recollection of Tarrant when she rediscovered his tea table of friends and joined them in their rebellion against the Red Queen.

Tarrant quickly tries to help Alice, especially when the Red Queen's minions came to him looking for her. He gave Alice a potion that shrinks her, then hid her in a teapot and pretended that he'd never seen her, even after being choked by the Red Queen's Knave of Hearts, Stayne.

After Stayne leaves, Tarrant took Alice on a journey to Marmoreal and explained the Red Queen's reign of terror over Underland on the way. Soon, the Red Queen's minions picked up Alice's scent and start chasing them. With no other options, and the enemy approaching, Tarrant put Alice atop his hat and threw it across a river to the opposite side (saving her from the Red Knights), but then draws attention to himself and got captured in the process. He is taken away as Alice watches on.

Stayne tried to torture him for information on Alice's location but his insanity protected him from the torture methods. When Alice arrived in Crims, Tarrant was brought into the throne room, and decided to distract the Red Queen from executing him by hatting her. During his time as her prisoner, he makes many hats for her to try on. However, when the Queen tried them on, she hated all of them.

After Alice was discovered and escaped, Tarrant was ordered to be executed. However, at the execution, he and the Cheshire Cat worked together to help him escape. The cat disguised himself as Tarrant using his shapeshifting abilities and his hat, thus leaving Tarrant free. After the ruse is discovered, Tarrant angered the Red Queen by turning her people against her, then retreated to Marmoreal. There, the White Queen decided that they must have a champion to destroy the Jabberwock. When Alice, the prophesied slayer of the beast, doesn't step up, Tarrant is the first to say that he will do it. Alice, however, is the only one that can defeat the Jabberwock, and no one else can take the position. Alice shockingly arrives and is ready for battle against the foul beast. They marched towards battle together. The Red Queen quickly sent forth her champion, so Alice stood forward, and the battle between the two began. However, Tarrant quickly interfered with Alice's battle with the Jabberwock by pricking its tail with his sword when it threw Alice down rather forcefully. There is noticeable fury in his eyes. This starts a war between the Red Queen and the White Queen's armies.

Stayne drew his sword, and he and Tarrant quickly engaged in a sword fight. Not long after, Tarrant disarmed Stayne and knocked him to the ground, raising his sword above his head, and ready to impale Stayne. At this point it is recognizable that he is in a state of madness because his eyes are yellow.

Tarrant nearly kills the Knave, but is stopped when he notices Alice slaying the Jabberwocky. He then threw the sword aside, disgusted. After the battle, and victory, Tarrant celebrated with his famous dance, the Futterwhacken. Alice chose to leave Underland later, to the sadness of Tarrant. He bid her farewell, and she left Underland. Two years after, Tarrant fell in a deep depression after he found the little hat that he give to his father as a child. He believes that this means that his father and the rest of the family are alive and asks Alice to help him to find them but she says that it's impossible that they're alive. Convicted that the true Alice would believe him, Tarrant asks her to go away.

While she time travels to save Tarrant's family, she discovers that the latter had a rough relationship with his father. He also was accidentally the cause of the Red Queen not becoming queen and her desire of revenge on the Hightopp family.

After she discovered that they're shrunken and kidnapped by the Red Queen, Alice wakes up Tarrant and they go to save his family.

The Red Queen discovers them, steals the Chronosphere and time travels, taking the White Queen with her, to fix her own past and thus her entire life. However, she meets her younger self and this destroys the universe which can only be fixed by putting the Chronosphere back now.

Alice succeeds in the plan thus restoring the universe and thus the Wonderland, bringing back to life everyone including Tarrant and his family, that finally gets freed and brought back to their real dimensions by the White Queen after the Red Queen's change of heart.

Tarrant reconciles with his father and later he's forced to say goodbye to Alice once again as she's forced to go back to home due to her family.

Tarrant may be mad, but he is in no way stupid. He is smart and thoughtful, and incredibly empathetic and kind. Such as when Alice first fell into wonderland. She was confused and scared, and he comforted her. Kept her safe as she dealt with the new surroundings. He’d do the same to anyone in a similar boat.

“Underland” is the same world Alice once knew as "Wonderland", but it is revealed that she misheard the name as "Wonderland" when she was a child, but "Underland" is the proper name. Underland is in decline after years of being under the rule of the evil Red Queen. For inspiration, Burton was drawn to a World war II-era photograph of a British family having tea outside their estate under the bleak skyline of war-torn London. "The thing about Underland, [is that] like any fairy-tale land, there’s good and the bad.”

It is a nonsensical realm populated by humans, talking animals and plants, and other magical beings. Laws of physics don't always make sense in Underland.

Underland is a far more nonsensical world than the one Alice remembered, and it has a solid geography, divided between many regions, including Marmoreal (southeast), Crims (center north), Witzend (west), Iplam (center west), Queast (east), Snud (south), and the Outlands (far west). The Crimson Sea is situated directly north of Underland.

This entrance is located on the Ascot family property, in a rabbit hole in the ground by a tree nearby the mansion. If someone falls in the hole, it will lead them to the Round Hall in Underland. The hole is stuffed with furniture of many sizes, from small table lamps, a bed, and even a piano; some furniture is positioned on the walls of the hole, while others are just floating in midair.

In Alice Through the Looking Glass, the rabbit hole and the tree it sits at the base of are seen in a deleted scene, where Alice and Helen Kingsleigh pass nearby it in their carriage on the way to the Ascot estate. Alice points it out in excitement, and Helen tells her not to bring up Underland again. In the years since Alice's last visit, the tree has become overgrown with leaves and vines, and seems to have been retconned into a different location on the Ascot property than the first film. Similar to the rabbit hole entrance, the looking glass is also located in the Ascot family property, but inside the mansion itself, in Lord Ascot's old office. If someone passes through the wall-hung mirror over the fireplace, it will lead them to a mirrored office in Underland high in the sky above the White Queen's castle. In the commentary for a deleted scene, director James Bobin suggests that, as with the presence of the rabbit hole, the Ascot's property has some bit of magic to it, explaining how it has multiple entrances to Underland at all.

Another looking-glass in Underland (specifically within a home in Witzend Town) took Alice back to the one within Lord Ascot's office. How exactly this one became a portal is unknown, making it unclear if such is commonplace or is specifically dependent on or even caused by Alice in some way. Time was unable to follow her through; in a deleted scene, he attempts to chase after her but bounces off the mirror, though it is unclear if this is because he is inherently incapable of passing through the mirror, the mirror portal closed immediately after Alice passed through, or his wide shoulder pads merely bounced off the mirror's frame.

Locations

Marmoreal Region

The White Queen's Castle

This castle is where Queen Mirana lives, along with her court and army. Its architecture seems to be inspired by the pieces and the board of a chess game, and it seems to be entirely built of marble, with a predominant white color. The castle is surrounded by tall waterfalls, and large gardens.

Tarrant Hightopp's House

Located near the White Queen's castle, the house of Tarrant Hightopp rests atop a cliff surrounded by waterfalls and green mountains. The entire house is modeled to resemble a top hat.

Crims Region Salazen Grum

Salazen Grum is the castle and former home of Queen Iracebeth, who lived there with her court, servants, and army. The castle seems to be entirely built from stone, with red as a predominant color. It had gardens with many red roses and hedges cut into the shape of the Red Queen herself. After the Red Queen's reign ended, she was banished to the Outlands, and the castle fell to ruin.

House of the March Hare

Located in the Tulgey Wood, the House of the March Hare is a windmill in ruins. This place was once surrounded by lush trees and beautiful flowers, but is now a gloomy wasteland. This is where Tarrant Hightopp, Thackery Earwicket, Mallymkun, and Chessur enjoy each others company by drinking tea and eating cakes. Alice Kingsleigh visited this place when she first came to Underland when she was a child, and again when she was a young adult. Gummer Slough/The Chess Board

On the Frabjous Day, this large chess board served as the battle ground for the final clash between the armies of the White and Red Queens'. It was also here where Alice Kingsleigh slayed the Jabberwocky.

Witzend Region

Witzend Town

This town was ruled by Iracebeth and Mirana's parents, King Oleron and Queen Elsemere. The region was populated mostly by humans, though some talking animals lived here as well. It was the original home of the Mad hatter himself, Tarrant Hightopp, his family, and their hat shop. The entire town and surrounding forest was burned to the ground by the Jabberwocky during the Horunvendush Day (the day the Red Queen took control of Underland), and is currently abandoned. Witzend Castle

This castle was located in the Witzend Town and the home of King Oleron and Queen Elsemere and the childhood home of the princesses Iracebeth and Mirana.

Outlands

An untamed land to the very far west of Underland. After being banished from Underland, an organic castle was made for the Red Queen here, staffed by Vegetable People like Nobody as servants and guards.

Time's Castle

Located in a void of infinitude, a pocket dimension within Underland, this is where Time lives. A gigantic, grim, dark, and uninviting castle which has a predominant black color. When seen from the sky, the building itself seems to act like a clock, with three gigantic hands (seconds, minutes and hours) protruding from it and pointing to giant roman numerals. There is an abyss separating the castle and the outside lands.

Time: takes place during the 19th century, specifically starting in Victorian London around 1858 and fast-forwarding to 1871 for the main plot