The movie takes great liberty to play with the characterizations. The Cheshire cat is quirkier and friendlier than normal and disappears into thin air as if made up of mist. The Red Queen is an abnormal Napoleon-esque tyrant who keeps company only with those that fear her wrath. The Knave of Hearts (Crispin Glover) is a power-hungry opportunist that will swing whatever way the crown falls. Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum are pudgy little boys who are agreeable only on wardrobe choices. The Caterpillar is smarmy and arrogant and puffs on his hookah like it were a third lung. And the Doormouse is feministic and fearless, and at one point leaps onto the back of a Bandersnatch and plucks out its right eye with a sewing pin.