Wonderland

Wonderland is a location featured on Once Upon a Time. It appears in the seventeenth episode of the first season. It is the first location to appear on the show besides Fairytale Land and "our" world.

Season One
Wonderland first appears in "Hat Trick". It can be visited from Fairytale Land via the Portal of Doors in Jefferson's hat. The Evil Queen convinces Jefferson (the Mad Hatter) to take her there to retrieve something from the Queen of Hearts. After successfully retrieving a box from a vault belonging to the Queen of Hearts, the Evil Queen takes a piece of the Caterpillar's mushroom and places it in the box, causing her father to appear. Per the rules of his hat (which dictate that only the same number of people can exit the Portal of Doors as entered), Jefferson is unable to leave Wonderland. He is brought before the Queen of hearts and tasked with making another magical hat. This is strongly implied to be the cause of the Mad Hatter's "madness;" his inability to create another hat to get home to his daughter.

Inhabitants

 * Queen of Hearts
 * Knave of Hearts
 * Caterpillar
 * Evil Queen's father (former)
 * Mad Hatter (trapped)

Trivia

 * At least some of the food in Wonderland has the power to change the size of whomever consumes it; this is a reference to the food in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where some of the food has the same property.


 * Rumplestiltskin describes Wonderland as useless and irritating. ("We Are Both")