Character from Carrolls Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

This article is about a character mainly associated with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. For other uses, see Cheshire Cat (disambiguation).

Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire Cat as illustrator John Tenniel depicted it in the publication
Created by	Lewis Carroll
Species	Tabby British Shorthair Cat[citation needed]
Gender	Male (the Queen of Hearts cries "off with his head" when the cat upsets the king)
Quote	"Most everyone's mad here." "You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself."

The Cheshire Cat ( or ) is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin. While now most often used in Alice-related contexts, the association of a "Cheshire cat" with grinning predates the book. It has transcended the context of literature and become enmeshed in popular culture, appearing in various forms of media, from political cartoons to television, as well as in cross-disciplinary studies, from business to science. One distinguishing feature of the Alice-style Cheshire Cat involves a periodic gradual disappearance of its body, leaving only one last visible trace: its iconic grin.

Origins[edit]

The first known appearance of the expression in literature is in the 18th&#;century, in Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Second, Corrected and Enlarged Edition (), which contains the following entry:

Cheshire cat. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.

The phrase appears again in print in John Wolcot's pseudonymous Peter Pindar's Pair of Lyric Epistles ():

"Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin."

The phrase also appears in print in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes ():

"That woman grins like a Cheshire cat."

There are numerous theories about the origin of the phrase "grinning like a Cheshire Cat" in English history. A possible origin of the phrase is one favoured by the people of Cheshire, a county in England which boasts numerous dairy farms; hence the cats grin because of the abundance of milk and cream.^[1]

In , Samuel Maunder offered this explanation:

This phrase owes its origin to the unhappy attempts of a sign painter of that country to represent a lion rampant, which was the crest of an influential family, on the sign-boards of many of the inns. The resemblance of these lions to cats caused them to be generally called by the more ignoble name. A similar case is to be found in the village of Charlton, between Pewsey and Devizes, Wiltshire. A public-house by the roadside is commonly known by the name of The Cat at Charlton. The sign of the house was originally a lion or tiger, or some such animal, the crest of the family of Sir&#;Edward Poore.^[2]

According to Brewer's Dictionary (), "The phrase has never been satisfactorily accounted for, but it has been said that cheese was formerly sold in Cheshire moulded like a cat that looked as though it was grinning".^[a] The cheese was cut from the tail end, so that the last part eaten was the head of the smiling cat.^[3]

A survey published in showed how highly fanciful were many purported explanations seen on the internet.^{[4][verification needed]}

Lewis Carroll's character[edit]

The Cheshire Cat is now largely identified with the character of the same name in Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice first encounters the Cheshire Cat at the Duchess's house in her kitchen, and later on the branches of a tree, where it appears and disappears at will, and engages Alice in amusing but sometimes perplexing conversation. The cat sometimes raises philosophical points that annoy or baffle Alice; but appears to cheer her when it appears suddenly at the Queen of Hearts' croquet field; and when sentenced to death, baffles everyone by having made its head appear without its body, sparking a debate between the executioner and the King and Queen of Hearts about whether a disembodied head can indeed be beheaded. At one point, the cat disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin, prompting Alice to remark that "she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat".^[5]

Oxford professor E.B. Pusey[edit]

The scholar David Day has proposed Lewis Carroll's cat was Edward Bouverie Pusey, Oxford professor of Hebrew and Carroll's mentor.^[6]

A hanging chain forms a catenary.

The name Pusey was suggested by Alice's deferential address of the cat as "Cheshire Puss". Pusey was an authority on the fathers of the Christian Church, and in Carroll's time Pusey was known as the Patristic Catenary (or chain), after the chain of authority of Church patriarchs.

As a mathematician, Carroll would have been well familiar with the other meaning of catenary: the curve of a horizontally-suspended chain, which suggests the shape of the cat's grin.^[7]

Riddle: What kind of a cat can grin?
Answer: A Catenary.

—&#;David Day, Queen's Quarterly ()

Source of imagery[edit]

The cat carving in St&#;Nicolas's Church, Cranleigh, Surrey

There is a suggestion that Carroll found inspiration for the name and expression of the Cheshire Cat in the 16th&#;century sandstone carving of a grinning cat, on the west face of St&#;Wilfrid's Church tower in Grappenhall, a village &#;mi (&#;km) from his birthplace in Daresbury, Cheshire.^[8]

Carroll wrote in his memoirs that he "saw a Cheshire cat with a gigantic smile at Brimstage carved into the wall". This refers to a roughly-cut corbel in Brimstage Hall, Wirral (previously in Cheshire) which resembles a smiling cat. This is another possible inspiration for the character.^[9][10]

Lewis Carroll's father, Reverend Charles Dodgson, was Rector of Croft and Archdeacon of Richmond in North Yorkshire, England, from to ; Carroll lived here from to ^[11] Some historians believe Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland was inspired by a carving in Croft church.^[3]:&#;62&#;

Another possible inspiration was the British Shorthair: Carroll saw a representative British Shorthair illustrated on a label of Cheshire cheese.^[12] The Cat Fanciers' Association profile reads: “When gracelessness is observed, the British Shorthair is duly embarrassed, quickly recovering with a 'Cheshire cat smile'”.^[13]

In , members of the Lewis Carroll Society attributed it to a gargoyle found on a pillar in St Nicolas's Church, Cranleigh, where Carroll used to travel frequently when he lived in Guildford (though this is doubtful, as he moved to Guildford some three years after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had been published) and a carving in a church in the village of Croft-on-Tees, in the north east of England, where his father had been rector.^[14]

Carroll is believed to have visited St Christopher's church in Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, which has a stone sculpture resembling the pictorial cat in the book.^[15]

Adaptations[edit]

The Cheshire Cat character has been re-depicted by other creators and used as the inspiration for new characters, primarily in screen media (film, television, video games) and print media (literature, comics, art). Other non-media contexts that embrace the Cheshire Cat include music, business, and science.

Several LSDblotters, one of which features the Cheshire Cat's face as depicted in Disney's film

Prior to when Walt Disney released an animated adaptation of the story (see below), there were few post-Alice allusions to the character. Martin Gardner, author of The Annotated Alice,^[3] wondered if T. S. Eliot had the Cheshire Cat in mind when writing Morning at the Window, but notes no other significant allusions in the pre-war period.^[3]:&#;62&#;

Images of and references to the Cheshire Cat cropped up with increasing frequency in the s and s, along with more frequent references to Carroll's works in general. (See generally the lyrics to White Rabbit by the rock group Jefferson Airplane).^[16][17] The Cheshire Cat appeared on LSD blotters, as well as in song lyrics and popular fiction.^[18][19]

In Disney's animated film, Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat is depicted as an intelligent and mischievous character that sometimes helps Alice and sometimes gets her into trouble. He frequently sings the first verse of the Jabberwocky poem. The animated character was voiced by Sterling Holloway (Alice in Wonderland) and Jim Cummings (–present).

In the television adaptation of Carroll's books, the Cheshire Cat is voiced by Telly Savalas. He sings a morose song called "There's No Way Home", which simply drives Alice to try and find a way home even more.

In the television adaptation of Carroll's books, the Cheshire Cat is voiced by Whoopi Goldberg. She acts as an ally and friend to Alice.

The Cheshire Cat appears in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton. British actor Stephen Fry voices the character.^[20] In the film, Cheshire (as he is often called; or sometimes "Ches") binds the wound Alice suffered earlier by the Bandersnatch and guides her to Tarrant Hightopp, the Mad Hatter and Thackery Earwicket, the March Hare. He is blamed by the Hatter for desertion when the White Queen is deposed by the Red; but later impersonates the Hatter when the latter is sentenced to decapitation. Throughout his appearances, "Ches" is able to make himself intangible or weightless, as well as invisible (and thus to survive decapitation), and is usually depicted in mid-air, at shoulder-height to human-sized characters.^[21] In the video game adaptation of the movie, "Ches" is a playable character who can not only turn himself invisible, but other objects around him as well.

In October , it was reported that an undetermined Cheshire Cat project is being developed by Disney for its streaming service, Disney+.^[22]

Cross-screen comparison[edit]

Each major film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's tale represents the Cheshire Cat character and his traits uniquely.

Screen media adaptation & Distribution medium	Image	Cheshire Cat's behavior	Cheshire Cat's appearance
Alice in Wonderland ()[23] Animated film by Walt Disney Studios)[23]		Mischievous, and takes pleasure in misdirecting Alice. He is able to dislocate his head from his body (does so in jest), but is also capable of invisibility, and frequently enters and exits the scene with all parts faded away except for his grin or eyes.	Thick build and a primarily pink coat with purple stripes. Wide smile and close-set, piercing yellow eyes. Character always depicted in good lighting with strong visibility, unlike other adaptations which obscure or shadow him
Adventures in Wonderland (–)[24] broadcast TV show[24]	A sarcastic and playful rendition of the character. In this adaptation, the Cheshire Cat has the ability to appear and disappear in any location. He is quick to play practical jokes on the other characters in the show.	Closer resemblance to a tiger or lioness than a house cat. Coat has a lilac base with stripes painted in a violet accent color. Form possesses human-like mouth and facial structure
Alice in Wonderland ()[25] made-for-TV movie[25]	A grinning cat who teaches Alice "the rules" of Wonderland. Her favorite pastime is appearing and disappearing.	A fluffy grey cat with a human face and feline features
Alice in Wonderland ()[26] live-action film directed by Tim Burton.[26] Cheshire Cat played by Stephen Fry.		Disappearing and reappearing at will, and able even to change his size, levitate himself, assume the appearances of other characters, and become intangible at will. The cat plays a few jokes and toys with the other characters, but is helpful on a few occasions. He speaks in a slow and fluid manner.	More slender build, with a round head and grey coat with blue stripes. Bright aqua eyes (with slit-shaped pupils) and prominent teeth. Often more backlit than other adaptations, with only a faint, luminescent glow (self-generated) bringing his features into view

In addition to the Cheshire Cat's appearances in films central to its Lewis Carroll origins, the Cheshire Cat has been featured in other cinematic works. The late filmmaker Chris Marker gave his monumental documentary on the New Left movement of –, Le fond de l'air est rouge (), the English title Grin without a Cat. Like the original, it signifies that revolution was in the air, but failed to take root. In the film, it is also stated: a spearhead without a spear, a grin without a cat. A later Marker film, Chats perchés () (The Case of the Grinning Cat in English), examined the context of M. Chat street art in France.

The Cheshire Cat has been seen by television audiences in a broadcast spin-off. The Cheshire Cat appears in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (a spin-off of Once Upon a Time) voiced by Keith David.^[27] While looking for the Mad Hatter's house from the trees, Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat in giant form where the Red Queen had promised him that Alice would be good food for him. They end up engaging each other in combat until the Knave of Hearts arrives and throws a piece of one mushroom side into his mouth, which shrinks the Cat back to normal size, and he leaves.

Video games[edit]

The Cheshire Cat appears as an avatar character in the video games American McGee's Alice (); and the sequel Alice: Madness Returns (), the Cheshire Cat is portrayed as an enigmatic and snarky, yet wise guide for Alice in the corrupted Wonderland. In keeping with the twisted tone of the game, the Cheshire Cat is mangy and emaciated in appearance. His voice was provided by Roger L. Jackson, who also voiced the Mad Hatter and The Jabberwock in the game.^{[citation needed]}

The Cheshire Cat appears in Sunsoft's mobile gameAlice's Warped Wonderland (歪みの国のアリス, Yugami no kuni no Arisu, Alice in Distortion World), serving as the guide to Ariko (the "Alice" of the game) and helps her chase after The White Rabbit. In the game, Cheshire Cat is portrayed with a humanoid body and wears a long gray cloak with a red-string bell around his neck, leaving only his nose, razor-sharp teeth, and wide grin visible. In Wonderland, Cheshire Cat is the "Guide", an important role that makes him feared by the other residents, and is compelled by Ariko's inner will to help her unlock her suppressed, traumatic memories and overcome her suicidal depression. Later in the game, Cheshire Cat gets beheaded by the Queen Of Hearts, but is still alive and his body is able to move on its own. Due to the White Rabbit's deranged state, Cheshire Cat fulfills his role of absorbing Ariko's negative emotions, though the task puts a large strain on him.^{[citation needed]}

The Cheshire Cat appears in Heart no Kuni no Alice, a dating sim game and its related media, as a young man named "Boris Airay", with cat-like attributes such as a tail and cat ears, and is one of the many love interests for Alice in Wonderland.^{[citation needed]}

Other media[edit]

In the third volume of Shazam!, the Cheshire Cat is shown to live in the Magiclands location called the Wozenderlands. When the Scarecrow and the Munchkins were taking Billy Batson, Mary Bromfield, and C.C. Batson to Dorothy Gale, the Cheshire Cat appeared near the Blue Brick Road. He went on the attack only to be fought off by Shazam and Lady Shazam.^[28]

In science[edit]

Cheshire Cat is used as a metaphor to describe several scientific phenomena:

• The Cheshire Cat effect, as described by Sally Duensing and Bob Miller, is a binocular rivalry which causes stationary objects seen in one eye to disappear from view when an object in motion crosses in front of the other eye.^[29]

  Each eye sees two different views of the world, sends those images to the visual cortex where they are combined, and creates a three-dimensional image. The Cheshire Cat effect occurs when one eye is fixated on a stationary object, while the other notices something moving. Since one eye is seeing a moving object, the brain will focus on it, causing parts of the stationary object to fade away from vision entirely.^[30]

• In another scientific context, catalytic RNAs have been deemed Cheshire cats. This metaphor is used to describe the fading of the ribonucleotide construct, which leaves behind a smile of only the mineral components of the RNA catalyst.^[31]

• Similarly, the Cheshire Cat has been used out of its traditional context to help define another scientific phenomenon, the "Cheshire Cat" escape strategy. When Coccolithophore&#;– a species of successful ocean algae&#;– is able to resist the haploid phase of its life cycle it escapes meiosis and its dominant diploid genes are passed on in a virus-free environment, freeing the host from the danger of infection during reproduction.^[32] The algae escape death (beheading) by means of disappearance (vanishing his head):

  [T]aken from Lewis Carroll, we liken this theory to the strategy used by the Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland of making its body invisible to make the sentence "off with his head" pronounced by the Queen of Hearts impossible to execute C.C. dynamics, which rely to some extent on separation of the sexual processes of meiosis and fusion in time and / or space, release the host from short-term pathogen pressure, thus widening the scope for the host to evolve in other directions.^[32]

• Other gestures to the Cheshire Cat's tropes of disappearance and mystique have been seen in scientific literature coming from the field of Physics. "The Cheshire Cat" is a phenomenon in quantum mechanics in which a particle and its property behave as if they are separated,^[33] or when a particle separates from one of its physical properties.^[34] To test this idea, researchers used an interferometer where neutron beams passed through silicon crystal. The crystal physically separated the neutrons and allowed them to go to two paths. Researchers reported "the system behaves as if the neutrons go through one beam path, while their magnetic moment travels along the other."^[34]

• The Cheshire cat's grin has inspired scientists in their naming of visual phenomena. A merger of galaxy groups in the constellation Ursa Major is nicknamed "Cheshire Cat galaxy group" by Astronomers due to its suggestive appearance.^[35]

• In linguistics, cheshirization, when a sound disappears but leaves a trace, just like the cat disappears but leaves his grin.

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The Cheshire Cat
Illustration by John Tenniel
❖ General Information ❖
Species	Cat
Gender	Male
Eye color	Yellow ()
❖ Relationships ❖
Friend(s)	Alice
❖ Behind The Scenes ❖
First appearance	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Portrayed by	Sterling Holloway () Whoopi Goldberg () Stephen Fry (() and ())

The Cheshire Cat&#;is a fictional character from the novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Stephen Fry voices the Cheshire Cat in the movie and the movie.

Alice first encounters it at the Duchess's house in her kitchen, and then later outside on the branches of a tree, where it appears and disappears at will, engaging Alice in amusing but sometimes vexing conversation. The cat raises philosophical points that annoy or baffle Alice. It does, however, appear to cheer her up when it turns up suddenly at the Queen of Hearts' croquet field, and when sentenced to death baffles everyone by having made its head appear without its body, sparking a massive argument between the executioner and the King and Queen of Hearts about whether something that does not have a body can indeed be beheaded.

At one point, the cat disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin, prompting Alice to remark that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat.

History

Cheese moulds

According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, "The phrase has never been satisfactorily accounted for, but it has been said that cheese was formerly sold in Cheshire moulded like a cat that looked as though it was grinning".

Chiesa carving

"Grinning like a Cheshire cat" was an old proverbial expression long before it was used by Lewis www.enthralaviation.com theory for the origin of this saying involves the Cheshire cheese molds, another says that Cheshire was a county palatine. Yet another from the village of Cheshire itself, where - it is said - that some of the painted inn signs "look more like grinning cats than growling lions" (Quoted from Notes and Queries, of which Carroll was a regular subscriber)

Further reading: Notes and Queries no. 55, 16 November , and no. , 24 April Here, the origins of the saying are discussed and debated in great detail.

There are many reports that Carroll found inspiration for the name and expression of the Cheshire Cat in the 16th-century sandstone carving of a grinning cat, on the west face of St Wilfrid's Church tower in Grappenhall, a village adjacent to his birthplace in Daresbury, Warrington.

Film Adaptations

Disney's Alice in Wonderland ()

He appears as a mysterious, mischievous pink and purple cat with a devious, mischievous personality. Alice encounters him in the woods and asks for directions back home so he directs her to the Mad Hatter and March Hare. After the confusing and useless visit Alice gets lost and encounters him again and the Cheshire Cat directs her to The Queen of Hearts for help, but before she goes he warns her of The Queen's evil ways. During the visit, the Cheshire Cat constantly humiliates the queen and she thinks it's Alice every time. While in court the Cheshire Cat repeats the insult Alice gives the Queen and it leads to the climactic chase. He was voiced by Sterling Holloway (who also previously played the role of the Frog in another film version of Alice in Wonderland) in the film and Jim Cummings in the House of Mou'se TV series.

During the making of Alice in Wonderland, a song called I'm Odd which was suppose to be sung by the Cheshire Cat was scrapped then later rediscover years later and put on the Alice in Wonderland special edition DVD. An earlier treatment would have given him a more malevolent personality and appearance, with fish-eyes and sharp teeth. This version would have followed Alice throughout Wonderland.

Alice in Wonderland ()

(S)he appears as a gray cat who speaks to Alice in Wonderland, as well as a visitor at the garden party at which Alice is finally confident enough not only to sing in front of her audience but also to change from her rehearsed song "Cherry Ripe" to "Lobster Quadrille." The voice (and face) of the cat are both played by Whoopi Goldberg.

Disney's Alice in Wonderland ()

He appears as a gray, light blue striped, turquoise-eyed tabby cat residing in a misty and mysterious looking forest called Tulgey Wood. He only walks on the ground once, and that's when he looks back to Alice when he takes her to tea with the Hare and Hatter. His main transportation is floating in theis tail at his own face and then evaporates. After the battle and the Jabberwocky is slain, the Red Queen's knights turn against her, and she is captured, her crown suddenly lifts off her head, floats away, and goes to the White Queen's head, and the Cheshire Cat, who had been holding it and was invisible, appeared, and put the crown on her head, and then disappears. He is last seen grinning at Alice before she drinks the Jabberwocky blood. Here, his disappearing abilities are described as "evaporation". His name is given as Chessur (Chess for short), and he is voiced by Stephen Fry.

Video Games

• In the Laserdisc game Dragon's Lair II, The Cheshire Cat appears only as a head, reciting the Jabberwocky poem while trying to devour the hero "Dirk the Daring".
• He also appears in Kingdom Hearts series aiding the character with clues.
• In theotome game "Heart no Kuni no Alice, he appears as Boris Airay, a human form of the Cheshire Cat and one of the characters who falls in love with Alice.
• The Cheshire Cat appears in American McGee's Alice as Alice's guide, and his appearance is mangy and emaciated, with dark markings similar to tribal tattoos, in keeping with the dark tone of the game. He is voiced by Roger L. Jackson. He comes back in the sequel. He is not trusted by Alice, but he is still her Ally.

  

• The Cheshire Cat makes a brief appearance in Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts /2 Days. He is voiced by Jim Cummings. He appears as an aide in all three games, though he is not a direct ally.
• In Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland game, he has a special ability, Invisibility. He can disappear anytime he wants and he can also make things disappear, such as walls and pillars.
• Cheshire Cat also appears as a cranky, impatient customer in the computer game Alice's Tea Cup Madness.

Other Appearances

• In Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars, the Cat is an assassin working for Redd.
• Cheshire cat appears in the anime Ouran High School Host Club as the twins Hikaru and Kaoru.
• In the anime Pandora Hearts, there is a Chain based on the Cheshire Cat, and it even shares the same name. Here the Cheshire Cat appears as a humanoid cat, however at one point it takes the form of a large shadow with a grin characteristic of the Cat of the novel. He is the Will of the Abyss and Alice's loyal chain protecting her lost memories, which she lost on purpose so she doesn't have to suffer from them. &#;At one point in the manga, he is seen as a black cat that Alice is very fond of until he was killed by another character.
• Cookie Monster was the Cheshire Cookie Cat in "Abby in Wonderland" from Sesame Street on PBS Kids.
• In the TV miniseries Alice, &#;the Cat appears in a dream as a fusion with Alice's pet cat,&#;Dinah.&#;
• Hikaru and Kaoru play the Cheshire Cat in an episode of Ouran High School Host Club.
• Sammy Davis, Jr. provided the voice of a "hip" animated Cheshire Cat in the Hanna Barbara TV special "Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" Dressed in a beret, scarf and chin beard, Davis' Cheshire Cat also sings the title song.
• Richard Arlen played the Cheshire Cat in the Paramount film version of "Alice in Wonderland."
• As part of a limited edition set of decor and animals, Farmville (a Facebook application) has released the caterpillar, seen in the Alice in Wonderland () movie, along with the Cheshire cat, Chessur.
• In the anime Card Captor Sakura, the Cheshire Cat was portrayed by Eriol Hiragizawa (who was in fact the responsible for taking Sakura into the book). His playful persona, which contrast's with Eriol's, confuses Sakura at first, but he claims that this was his real one.
• In CLAMP's Miyuki-chan in Wonderland, the cat was portrayed by a catgirl that tried to seduce Miyuki, but she eventually escaped.
• In the manga "Heart no Kuni no Alice", or "Alice in Heartland", the character Boris is a human representation of the Cheshire cat.
• In the sequel of "Little Big Planet", a downloadable costume based on the Cheshire Cat is available to buy.

Memorable quotes

film

"That depends on where you want to get to!"

"Then, it really really doesn't matter, which way, you go!"

"Oh, by the way, if you really like to know, he went, that way."

"Can you stand on your head?"

"Oh, you can't help that.&#;Most everyone's mad here."

film

"What do you call yourself?"

"The Alice?"

"I never get involved in politics. You'd best be on your way."

"All this talk of blood and slaying has put me off my tea."

"What happened that day was not my fault."

"I do love that hat."

"Goodbye, sweet hat."

"You do have very poor evaporating skills. I should be the one."

Gallery

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References

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Cheshire Cat

The Cheshire Cat is a major character in the Disney animated feature film, Alice in Wonderland. He is a mysterious, pink-and-purple-striped cat with a permanent grin. Mischievous and unpredictable in nature, the Cheshire Cat acts as a guide for Alice during her adventures in Wonderland, but also takes pleasure in causing her trouble.

Background

The Cheshire Cat has a practically permanent smile on his face and he can disappear at will. He is a very odd being who is able to reshape his body to either amuse or frighten his visitors. He's very mysterious, and in his own way, very dark. Like all members of Wonderland, he is mad, but unlike the others, he admits it with pride. All of Wonderland's inhabitants appear to hold fear over him, even the Queen of Hearts, most likely due to the fact that he is the maddest and craziest of them all, or it could be due to his unique abilities.

Personality

The Cheshire Cat's true nature in the film is highly questionable, but above all, he appears to be a completely neutral character. In many instances, he's the only being in Wonderland to show kindness and sympathy towards Alice, giving her advice on which path to take during her journey, practically acting as her guide to the point where she's overly joyous to see him once he returns. On the other hand, the cat has a cruel sense of humor, as seen during Alice's meeting with the Queen of Hearts; during which, he constantly caused mishaps to purposely have the Queen's dangerous temper target, Alice. This behavior carries out up into the climax, though it can be slimly argued that he caused the Queen's temper to violently erupt for the last time to assist Alice in getting home, as the climactic chase throughout Wonderland eventually leads to her awakening and finding it was all just a dream.

Appearances

Alice in Wonderland

After a gamut of nonsensical events in pursuit of the White Rabbit, Alice enters the Tulgey Wood. There, the Cheshire Cat arrives offering her help with directions. She tries to receive practical answers, but he continues to goof off by asking random questions, and continually showcasing his abilities. After a while, he advises her to seek answers from the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. She, not wanting to associate with mad people, denies the advice, but he claims that everyone in Wonderland is mad, including himself. He then slowly fades away into thin air, laughing and singing in the process.

Later on, Alice finds the trail of the White Rabbit once again and begins to pursue him once more. She is lost again, but this time, all hope seems lost. She breaks down in tears, just when the Cheshire Cat arrives. Delighted to see him, she claims that she's no longer looking for rabbits, and wants to find her way home. However, he explains that in Wonderland, she has no way and that all ways there are the Queen's ways. Confused, she informs him that she knows nothing about the queen, so he reveals a secret passageway to her card-inhabited kingdom.

During a croquet game with the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat arrives and continuously gets Alice into trouble with the Queen. At one point, the Cheshire Cat causes the Queen to flip over, revealing her bloomers. Out of utter embarrassment, she puts Alice on trial. With the witnesses being the Mad Hatter, March Hare, and the Dormouse, the trial gets nowhere. Soon enough, the Queen sentences Alice to death by beheading, until she finds more mushrooms in her pocket, which causes her to grow to a gigantic size. She then takes advantage of the opportunity and insults the Queen, but she shrinks down to her normal size once again. The Cheshire Cat appears once more, repeating Alice's insults which causes the Queen to lose her temper, and this leads to the climactic chase.

House of Mouse

The Cheshire Cat has numerous non-speaking appearances in House of Mouse.

In "The Stolen Cartoons", when Donald Duck proved to be a terrible host, the Cheshire Cat vanished from the club.

In "Big Bad Wolf Daddy", he was blown away leaving only his grin behind during the wolf's performance.

In "Ask Von Drake", he was seen atop the Queen of Hearts' crown during "The Ludwig Von Drake Song".

In "Unplugged Club", when Pete took out the club's battery, only his eyes and grin showed in the darkness.

In "Super Goof", he could be seen atop the March Hare's chair with the Mad Hatter pouring tea on the Hare.

In various episodes such as "Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation", he could be seen clapping in a crowd with other characters when a cartoon has ended.

He also appears in Mickey's House of Villains, and Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse.

Alice's Wonderland Bakery

The Cheshire Cat appears as a recurring character in the series. While most of the show's primary characters are descendants of their original movie counterparts, the Cheshire Cat is the "timeless" original cat. His voice in the series is more similar to comedian Martin Short.

Other appearances

The Cheshire Cat can be briefly spotted during the final scene of the film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. His tail and also half of his face and body can be briefly seen during the final shot.

In the animated short, Electric Holiday, the Cheshire Cat was one of the many Disney character guests to attend Minnie Mouse's fashion show.

Genie impersonated the Cheshire Cat in the Aladdin episode "Moonlight Madness".

Live-action appearances

Adventures in Wonderland

The Cheshire Cat was a supporting character in the series. He loves to play all manner of practical jokes on everyone, but even he occasionally performs some act of kindness.

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

The Cheshire Cat is a recurring character in the TV show Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, voiced by Keith David.

Originally a friend of Alice, the Cheshire Cat appears many years later when she returns to Wonderland, now wild, ferocious, and apparently loyal to the Red Queen, in addition to being one of monstrous size.

The Cheshire Cat encounters his "old friend" in Tulgey Wood and attempts to eat her due to a lack of food within the woods. However, he is distracted by the Knave of Hearts and accidentally swallows a mushroom, causing him to shrink to the size of a house cat, prompting him to flee.

Video games

Disney's Villains' Revenge

In the Alice in Wonderland stage, the Cheshire Cat's grin was among the obstacles that appear in the maze as the player seeks out Alice's missing head and back. Despite this, the Cheshire Cat's image was among the heroes on the door to the storybook, confirming that he is one of them.

Kingdom Hearts series

The Cheshire Cat appears in several games of the Kingdom Hearts series, although most of them are minor as they take place in Wonderland. However, in Kingdom Hearts, his intentions appear to be ambiguous as he appears as either an ally or an enemy; he helps Sora during his visit to Wonderland, but also summons a Trickmaster Heartless against the group, although it appears he simply wants to test Sora towards these obstacles. The manga adaptation reveals that the Cheshire Cat was offered a place amongst Maleficent's council of villains, but he rejected it.

Other appearances of the Cheshire Cat also occurred in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts /2 Days.

In the HD re-release of Kingdom Hearts Re:coded, Cheshire Cat played his first speaking role, assisting Sora in recovering Alice's memories, which went missing due to the digital world of Wonderland becoming corrupt at the hands of a bug infection.

Kinect Disneyland Adventures

The Cheshire Cat briefly appears during the Alice in Wonderland mini-game during the player's free-fall down the rabbit hole. He has a statue in Fantasyland. He is also mentioned by the Mad Hatter^[1]

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion

In the game, the Cheshire Cat is one of the many Disney characters kidnapped and taken to the Wasteland world of illusion, where an evil witch named Mizrabel plans to steal the essence of famous Disney characters to gain access to their world and dominating it. After Alice (who was also kidnapped) is rescued, she gives Mickey Mouse (the hero of the story) the quest to find the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat before they too are drained of their energy.

Disney Heroes: Battle Mode

The Cheshire cat appears in the game as one of the playable and unlockable characters, he can attack with his claws just by disappearing, make a smile in front of the enemies to do damage and also throw his head to damage and stun the enemies and even the ones that are invisible.

Disney Parks

Disneyland Resort

The Cheshire Cat appears in audio-animatronic form in the Alice in Wonderland dark ride, in the Tulgey Wood scene. He also appeared in the ride's finale as a giant head just before the Mad Tea Party scene but was removed from it during the ride's refurbishment.

The Cheshire Cat also appears during World of Color's finale. In the show, his animated face is seen in the water projectors, while the rest of his body is made completely of water.

Walt Disney World

The Cheshire Cat appears in the bubble montage in Fantasmic! at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

In Celebrate the Magic at the Magic Kingdom, the Cheshire Cat's form briefly took over Cinderella Castle at one point.

Tokyo Disney Resort

In Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights, the Cheshire Cat appears with Alice on his back. During the parade, he demonstrates his powers by continuously disappearing leaving only his mouth, eyes, and nose in sight.

The Cheshire Cat also appeared during Alice's segment in the Once Upon a Time castle show in Tokyo Disneyland. He currently makes daily appearances during the Dreaming Up! parade.

Disneyland Paris

A statue of Cheshire Cat can be spotted in Alice's Curious Labyrinth. His grin is also featured in the attraction's garden.

In , as part of the Disney Dreamers Everywhere! events, the Cheshire Cat returned as a meet-and-greet character, appearing at Disneyland Paris.

Hong Kong Disneyland

In the park, the Cheshire Cat appears briefly during Alice's segment of Disney in the Stars.

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Trivia

• The Cheshire Cat was used as inspiration for the character Chaos in the Aladdin TV series as well as the Talking Zebra in Phineas and Ferb.
• The Cheshire Cat is the third Disney character originally voiced by Sterling Holloway and taken over by Jim Cummings. The first two are Winnie the Pooh and Kaa.
• When Alice first hears the Cheshire Cat, he is singing the first and last stanza of the poem "Jabberwocky".
• Originally, the Cheshire Cat was supposed to sing a song called "I'm Odd" but was later replaced with "Twas Brillig". For the Alice in Wonderland: Special Edition DVD it was remastered and sung by Jim Cummings as the Cheshire Cat.
• In Epic Mickey, the Cheshire Cat was going to appear in the game at the level "Wonderland". But he and the level were scrapped in the final because Warren Spector didn't want to cause confusion with the Tim Burton retelling, which was going to come out at about the same time.
• In Cinderella, Lucifer appears to share some similar physical properties with the Cheshire Cat: they both are rather fat in appearance, they both have a rather large grin at most points, and both have rather sharp claws. This may be because the two films were produced concurrently ( and ).
• The original Cheshire Cat was based on an actual cat breed, the British Shorthair. It may have provided some inspiration for Disney's Cheshire Cat.
• In the book, the Cheshire Cat is brown and tan colored.
• In Disney/Pixar's Inside Out, Bing Bong's tail looks similar to that of the Cheshire Cat.
• He makes a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, despite not appearing to the public four years after the film takes place.
• The only time the Cheshire Cat was shown not smiling was when he was gasping from his mad laughter.

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One day he showed up, out of the blue
With a smile as wide as his eyes
A Cheshire cat that tells naught but lies
As he spies
From afar, the front seat of his car,
Drumming the wheel he steals a glance.
He longs to advance-
As he sees Alice emerge he resists the urge to reveal himself
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In a week he’ll speak
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He’ll say words that amaze, turn a witty phrase, and in a few days
She’ll be his.
His special friend, his only darling, his charming Alice,
Queen of his heart, a work of art.
Beautiful as he shapes her to fit his design.
And when they part anxious hands circle her shrinking waistline
As she stares into the looking glass, waiting for the time to pass.

Until he’s back in her arms, his wit and his charms,
Soaking up tears she threatens to choke on,
Offering her various things to smoke from,
Confusing her brain with theories beyond her,
Buying her gifts to make her feel fonder,
Waiting at the school gates when she least expects him,
While she lies to her parents and tries to protect him,
Knowing they’d disapprove and hating them for it,
She’s sure that it’s love and there’s no way she’ll forfeit.

The game is at its best.

A month later and he’s careless.
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And take her out to events to meet other gents
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Feeling another’s eyes on his face, her mother’s eyes chase
Him down the path and out of their lives
Then he’ll be gone.
Another life ruined and his job is done
But he’s had his fun, she’s lost and he’s won.

Soon after, Alice will lie on her bed and she’ll cry
And she’ll think it’s her fault because she didn’t listen
To the warnings and the rants, she walks around in a trance,
Feeling guilty because given the chance
She’d go back to him. Because no one else knows quite how it feels
To fall head over heels like Alice.
So she’ll cling to him for as long as it takes
Her aching heart to cease to break.
And her means of escape is the pill in her hand,
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Character from Carrolls Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

This article is about a character mainly associated with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. For other uses, The cheshire cat Cheshire Cat (disambiguation).

Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire Cat as illustrator John Tenniel depicted it in the publication
Created by	Lewis Carroll
Species	Tabby British Shorthair Cat[citation needed]
Gender	Male (the Queen of Hearts cries "off with his head" when the cat upsets the king)
Quote	"Most everyone's mad here." "You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself."

The Cheshire Cat ( or ) is a fictional cat The cheshire cat by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin. While now most often The cheshire cat in Alice-related contexts, the association of a "Cheshire cat" with grinning predates the book, The cheshire cat. It has transcended the context of literature and become enmeshed in popular culture, The cheshire cat, appearing in various forms of media, from political cartoons to television, as well as in cross-disciplinary studies, The cheshire cat, from business to science. One distinguishing feature of the Alice-style Cheshire Cat involves a periodic gradual disappearance of its body, leaving only one last visible trace: its iconic grin.

Origins[edit]

The first known appearance of the expression in literature is in the 18th&#;century, in Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Second, Corrected and Enlarged Edition (), which contains the following entry:

Cheshire cat. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.

The phrase appears again in print in John Wolcot's pseudonymous Peter Pindar's Pair of Lyric Epistles ():

"Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin."

The phrase also appears in print in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes ():

"That woman grins like a Cheshire cat."

There are numerous theories about the origin of the phrase "grinning like a Cheshire Cat" in English history. A possible origin of the phrase is one favoured by the people of Cheshire, The cheshire cat, a county in England which boasts numerous dairy farms; hence the cats grin because of the abundance of milk and cream.^[1]

InSamuel Maunder offered this explanation:

This phrase owes its origin to the unhappy attempts of a sign painter The cheshire cat that country to represent a lion rampant, which was the crest of an influential family, on the sign-boards of many of the inns. The resemblance of these lions to cats caused them to be generally called by the more ignoble name. A similar case is to be found in the village of Charlton, between Pewsey and Devizes, Wiltshire. A public-house by the roadside is commonly known by the name of The Cat at Charlton. The sign of the house was originally a lion or tiger, The cheshire cat, or some such animal, the crest of the family of Sir&#;Edward Poore.^[2]

According to Brewer's Dictionary (), "The phrase has never been satisfactorily accounted for, but it has been said that cheese was formerly sold in Cheshire moulded like a cat that looked as though it was grinning".^[a] The cheese was cut from the tail end, so that the last part eaten was the head of the smiling cat.^[3]

A survey published in showed how highly fanciful were many purported explanations seen on the internet.^{[4][verification needed]}

Lewis Carroll's character[edit]

The Cheshire Cat is now largely identified with Cinderella Win Time Slots Machine character of the same name in Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice first encounters the Cheshire Cat at the Duchess's house in her kitchen, and later on the branches of a tree, where it appears and disappears at will, The cheshire cat, and engages Alice in amusing but sometimes perplexing conversation. The cat sometimes raises philosophical points that annoy or baffle Alice; but appears The cheshire cat cheer her when it appears suddenly at the Queen of Hearts' croquet field; and when sentenced to death, baffles everyone by having made its head appear without its body, sparking a debate between the executioner and the King and Queen of Hearts about whether a disembodied head can indeed be beheaded. At one point, the cat disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin, prompting Alice to remark that "she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat".^[5]

Oxford professor E.B. Pusey[edit]

The scholar David Day has proposed Lewis Carroll's cat was Edward Bouverie Pusey, Oxford professor of Hebrew and Carroll's mentor.^[6]

A hanging chain forms a catenary.

The name Pusey was suggested by Alice's deferential address of the cat as "Cheshire Puss". Pusey was an authority on the fathers of the Christian Church, and in Carroll's time Pusey was The cheshire cat as the Patristic Catenary (or chain), after the chain of authority of Church patriarchs.

As a mathematician, Carroll would have been well familiar with the other meaning of catenary: the curve of a horizontally-suspended chain, which suggests the shape of the cat's grin.^[7]

Riddle: What kind of a cat can grin?
Answer: A Catenary.

—&#;David Day, Queen's Quarterly ()

Source of imagery[edit]

The cat carving in St&#;Nicolas's Church, Cranleigh, The cheshire cat, Surrey

There is a suggestion that Carroll found inspiration for the name and expression of the Cheshire Cat in the 16th&#;century sandstone carving of a grinning cat, on the west face of St&#;Wilfrid's Church tower in Grappenhall, a village &#;mi (&#;km) from his The Heist Trivia Games Slots Machine The cheshire cat Daresbury, Cheshire.^[8]

Carroll wrote in his memoirs that he "saw a Cheshire cat with a geant casino gap smile at Brimstage carved into the wall". This refers to a roughly-cut corbel in Brimstage Hall, Wirral (previously in Cheshire) which resembles a smiling cat. This is another possible inspiration for the character.^[9][10]

Lewis Carroll's father, Reverend Charles Dodgson, was Rector of Croft and Archdeacon of Richmond in North Yorkshire, England, from to ; Carroll lived here from to ^[11] Some historians believe Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland was inspired by a carving in Croft church.^[3]:&#;62&#;

Another possible inspiration was the British Shorthair: Carroll saw a representative British Shorthair illustrated on a label of Cheshire cheese.^[12] The Cat Fanciers' Association profile reads: “When gracelessness is observed, the British Shorthair is duly embarrassed, quickly recovering with a 'Cheshire cat smile'”.^[13]

Inmembers of the Lewis Carroll Society attributed it to a gargoyle found on a pillar in St Nicolas's Church, Cranleigh, The cheshire cat, where Carroll used to travel frequently when he lived in Guildford (though this is doubtful, as he moved to Guildford some three years after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had been published) and a carving in a church in the village of Croft-on-Tees, in The cheshire cat north The cheshire cat of England, where his father had The cheshire cat rector.^[14]

Carroll is believed to have visited St Christopher's church in Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, which has a stone sculpture resembling the pictorial cat in the book.^[15]

Adaptations[edit]

The Cheshire Cat character has been re-depicted by other creators and used as the inspiration for new characters, primarily in screen media (film, television, video games) and print media (literature, comics, art). Other non-media contexts that embrace the Cheshire Cat include music, business, and science.

Several LSDblotters, one of which features the Cheshire Cat's face as depicted in Disney's film

Prior to when Walt Disney released an animated adaptation of the story (see below), there were few post-Alice allusions to the character. Martin Gardner, author of The Annotated The cheshire cat wondered if T. S. Eliot had the Cheshire Cat in mind when writing Morning at the Window, but notes no other significant allusions in the pre-war period.^[3]:&#;62&#;

Images of and The cheshire cat to the Cheshire Cat cropped up with increasing frequency in the s and s, along with more frequent references to Carroll's works in general. (See generally the lyrics to White Rabbit by the rock group Jefferson Airplane).^[16][17] The Cheshire Cat appeared on LSD blotters, The cheshire cat, as well as in song lyrics and popular fiction.^[18][19]

In Disney's animated film, Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat is depicted as an intelligent and mischievous character that sometimes helps Alice and sometimes gets her into trouble, The cheshire cat. He frequently sings the first verse of the Jabberwocky poem. The animated character was voiced by Sterling Holloway (Alice in Wonderland) and Jim Cummings (–present).

In the television adaptation of Carroll's books, the Cheshire Cat is voiced by Telly Savalas. He sings a morose song called "There's No Way Home", which simply drives Alice to try and find a way home even more.

In the television adaptation of Carroll's books, the Cheshire Cat is voiced by Whoopi Goldberg. She acts as an ally and friend to Alice.

The Cheshire Cat appears in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton. British actor Stephen Fry voices the character.^[20] In the film, Cheshire (as he is often called; or sometimes The cheshire cat binds the wound Alice suffered earlier by the Bandersnatch and guides her to Tarrant Hightopp, The cheshire cat, the Mad Hatter and Thackery Earwicket, the March Hare. He is blamed by the Hatter for desertion when the White Queen is deposed by the Red; but later impersonates the Hatter when the latter is sentenced to decapitation. Throughout his appearances, "Ches" is able to make himself intangible or weightless, as well as invisible (and thus to survive decapitation), and is usually depicted in mid-air, at shoulder-height to human-sized characters.^[21] In the video game adaptation of the movie, "Ches" is a playable character who can not only turn himself invisible, The cheshire cat, but other objects around him as well.

In Octoberit was reported that an The cheshire cat Cheshire Cat project is being developed by Disney for its streaming service, Disney+.^[22]

Cross-screen comparison[edit]

Each major film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's tale represents the Cheshire Cat character and his traits uniquely.

Screen media adaptation & Distribution medium	Image	Cheshire Cat's behavior	Cheshire Cat's appearance
Alice in Wonderland ()[23] Animated film by Walt Disney Studios)[23]		Mischievous, and takes pleasure in misdirecting Alice. He is able to dislocate his head The cheshire cat his body (does so in jest), but is also capable of invisibility, and frequently enters and exits the The cheshire cat with all parts faded away except for his grin The cheshire cat eyes.	Thick build and a primarily pink coat with purple stripes. Wide smile and The cheshire cat, piercing yellow eyes. Character always depicted in good lighting with strong visibility, unlike other adaptations which obscure or shadow him
Adventures in Wonderland (–)[24] broadcast TV show[24]	A sarcastic and playful rendition of the character. In this adaptation, the Cheshire Cat has the ability to appear and disappear in The cheshire cat location. He is quick to play practical jokes on the other characters in the show.	Closer resemblance to a tiger or lioness than a house cat. Coat has a lilac base with stripes painted in a violet accent color. Form possesses human-like mouth and facial structure
Alice in Wonderland ()[25] made-for-TV movie[25]	A grinning cat who teaches Alice "the rules" of Wonderland. Her favorite pastime is appearing and disappearing.	A fluffy grey cat with a human face and feline features
Alice in Wonderland ()[26] live-action film directed by Tim Burton.[26] Cheshire Cat played by Stephen Fry.	Cash Flow Slots Machine and reappearing at will, and able even to change his size, levitate himself, assume the appearances of other characters, and become intangible at will. The cat plays a few jokes and toys with the other characters, The cheshire cat, but is helpful on a few occasions. He speaks in a slow and fluid manner.	More slender build, with a round head and grey coat with blue stripes. Bright aqua eyes (with slit-shaped pupils) and prominent teeth. Often more backlit than other adaptations, with only a faint, luminescent glow (self-generated) bringing his features into view

In addition to the Cheshire Cat's appearances The cheshire cat films central to its Lewis Carroll origins, the Cheshire Cat has been featured in other cinematic works. The late filmmaker Chris Marker gave his monumental documentary on the New Left movement of –, Le fond de l'air est rouge (), The cheshire cat, the English title Grin without a Cat. Like the original, how to get diamonds in casino heist signifies that revolution was in the air, but failed to take root, The cheshire cat. In the film, it is also stated: a spearhead without a spear, a grin without a cat. A later Marker film, Chats perchés () (The Case of the Grinning Cat in English), examined the context of M. Chat street art in France.

The Cheshire Cat has been seen by television audiences in a broadcast spin-off. The Cheshire Cat appears in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (a spin-off of Once Upon a Time) voiced by Keith David.^[27] While looking for the Mad Hatter's house from the trees, Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat in giant form where the Red Queen had promised him that Alice would be good food for him. They end up engaging each other in combat until the Knave of Hearts arrives and throws a piece of one mushroom side into his mouth, which shrinks the Cat back to normal size, and he leaves.

Video games[edit]

The Cheshire Cat appears as an avatar character in the video games American McGee's Alice (); and the sequel Alice: Madness Returns (), the Cheshire Cat is portrayed as an enigmatic and snarky, yet wise guide for Alice in the corrupted Wonderland. In keeping with the twisted tone of the game, The cheshire cat, the Cheshire Cat is mangy and emaciated in appearance, The cheshire cat. His voice was provided by Roger L. Jackson, who also voiced the Mad Hatter and The Jabberwock in the game.^{[citation needed]}

The Cheshire Cat appears in Sunsoft's mobile gameAlice's Warped Wonderland (歪みの国のアリス, Yugami no kuni no Arisu, Alice in Distortion World), serving as the guide to Ariko (the "Alice" of the game) and helps her chase after The White Rabbit. In the game, Cheshire Cat is portrayed with a humanoid body and wears a long gray cloak with a red-string bell around his neck, The cheshire cat, leaving only his nose, razor-sharp teeth, and wide grin visible. In Wonderland, Cheshire Cat is the "Guide", an important role that makes him feared by the other residents, The cheshire cat, and is compelled by Ariko's inner will to help her unlock her suppressed, traumatic memories and overcome her suicidal depression. Later in the game, Cheshire Cat gets beheaded by the Queen Of Hearts, but is still alive and his body is able to move on its own. Due to the White Rabbit's deranged state, The cheshire cat, Cheshire Cat fulfills his role of absorbing Ariko's negative emotions, though the task puts a large strain on him.^{[citation needed]}

The Cheshire Cat appears in Heart no Kuni no Alice, a dating sim game and its related media, as a young man named "Boris The cheshire cat, with cat-like attributes such as a tail and cat ears, and is one of the many love interests for Alice in Wonderland.^{[citation needed]}

Other media[edit]

In the third volume of Shazam!, The cheshire cat, the Cheshire Cat is shown to live in the Magiclands location called the Wozenderlands. When the Scarecrow and the Munchkins were taking Billy Batson, Mary Bromfield, and C.C. Batson to Dorothy Gale, the Cheshire Cat appeared near the Blue Brick Road. He went on the attack only to be fought off by Shazam and Lady Shazam.^[28]

In science[edit]

Cheshire Cat is used as a metaphor to describe several scientific phenomena:

• The Cheshire Cat effect, as described by Sally Duensing and Bob Miller, is a binocular rivalry which causes stationary objects seen in one eye to disappear from view when an object in motion crosses in front of the other eye.^[29]

  Each eye sees two dania beach casino views of the world, The cheshire cat, sends those images to the visual cortex The cheshire cat they are combined, and creates a three-dimensional image. The Cheshire Cat effect occurs when one eye is fixated on a stationary object, while the other notices something moving. Since one eye is seeing a moving object, the brain will focus on it, causing parts of the stationary object to fade away from vision entirely.^[30]

• In another scientific context, catalytic RNAs have been deemed Cheshire cats. This metaphor is used to describe the fading of the ribonucleotide construct, which leaves behind a smile of only the mineral components of the RNA catalyst.^[31]

• Similarly, the Cheshire Cat has been used out of its traditional context to help define another scientific phenomenon, the "Cheshire Cat" escape strategy. When Coccolithophore&#;– a species of successful ocean algae&#;– is The cheshire cat to resist the haploid phase of its life cycle it escapes meiosis and its dominant diploid genes are passed on in a virus-free environment, freeing the host from the danger of infection during reproduction.^[32] The algae escape death (beheading) by means of disappearance (vanishing his head):

  [T]aken from Lewis Carroll, The cheshire cat, we liken this theory to the strategy used by the Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland of making its body invisible to make the sentence "off with his head" pronounced by the Queen of Hearts impossible to execute C.C. dynamics, which rely to some extent on separation of the sexual processes of meiosis and fusion in time and / or space, release the host from short-term pathogen pressure, thus widening the scope for the host to evolve in other directions.^[32]

• Other gestures to the Cheshire Cat's tropes of disappearance and mystique have been seen in scientific literature coming from the field of Physics. "The Cheshire Cat" is a phenomenon in quantum mechanics in which a particle and its property behave as if they are separated,^[33] or when a particle separates from one of its physical properties.^[34] To test this idea, researchers used an interferometer where neutron beams passed through silicon crystal. The crystal physically separated the neutrons and allowed them to go to two paths. Researchers reported "the system behaves as if the neutrons go through one beam path, while their magnetic moment travels along the other."^[34]

• The Cheshire cat's grin has inspired scientists in their naming of visual The cheshire cat. A merger of galaxy groups in The cheshire cat constellation Ursa Major is nicknamed "Cheshire Cat galaxy group" by Astronomers due to its suggestive appearance.^[35]

• In linguistics, cheshirization, when a sound disappears but leaves a trace, just like the cat disappears but leaves his grin.

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