White Rabbit

The White Rabbit, also known as Percy, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. He débuts in the first episode of the first season. He is voiced by starring cast member John Lithgow.

The White Rabbit is based on the character with the same name from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

History
As a child, Alice follows the White Rabbit down a hole into Wonderland and has many adventures. Years later, Alice returns to Wonderland, desperate for proof it is real, kidnaps the White Rabbit to bring home and show her father, who believes she is delusional. After being chased by Queen's guards into a maze, she shrinks herself and hides in a bottle containing a genie, Cyrus. As the two converse, Alice pulls out the captured White Rabbit from her bag. The White Rabbit struggles to free himself from her grasp, but is promptly stuffed back in.
 * -|Before the Curse=

After Alice exits the bottle with Cyrus, the White Rabbit continues to fight for a way out from the enclosure. Untying the bag, Alice apologizes to him for the ordeal. The White Rabbit blames himself for leading her down the hole to Wonderland many years ago, though Alice disagrees. He promptly leaves on his own into the maze. Much later, the White Rabbit secretly witnesses Alice and Cyrus burying the genie bottle near a dandy-lion hedge tree, but does not make himself known to them. After they are gone, he murmurs that they are crazy kids. For a brief moment, the White Rabbit looks at his pocket watch and then sets off to return home to his wife.

One quiet evening, the White Rabbit opens his home to Cyrus and lets him in so Alice can be treated for a sustained wound. Mrs. Rabbit easily makes an elixir to heal her. While Alice is resting up, the White Rabbit expresses concerns about her since she will always be in danger despite having chosen to be with Cyrus. The White Rabbit persuades Cyrus to think about Alice's safety, even if it means he must part from her to ensure it. The Red Queen forces the White Rabbit to follow her commands after she kidnaps and withholds Mrs. Rabbit and their two children. Fearing the worst, he obediently complies with her request to seek out the Knave of Hearts and bring Alice back to Wonderland. In actuality, it is a ploy concocted by the Red Queen and Jafar, who both want to manipulate Alice into finding the location of a genie bottle. He goes to Storybrooke to send Knave for Alice after sharing news that Cyrus is alive. He meets up back with them in the hallway of the asylum just as Alice's doctor sees the White Rabbit. They escape in the city to a dead end as the police close in until the White Rabbit digs a portal to Wonderland. Alice and Knave follow suit and land in a marshmallow pond. As they struggle, the White Rabbit tells another lie, stating he did not see Cyrus, but rather the Dormouse told him the genie is alive and in the Mad Hatter's old house. As the twosome get stuck in the pond, he runs off to get help, but is picked up by the Red Queen to her castle. He affirms that everything went smoothly and Alice is back, but she still wants him to continue working for her or else. The White Rabbit leaves to regroup with Alice and Knave at Tulgey Woods and head into the Mad Hatter's house. When Alice sees that Cyrus is nowhere to be found, she steps outside while the Knave scorns the White Rabbit about making her lose Cyrus again. As luck would have it, Alice finds Cyrus' pendant outside, which gives her a renewed sense of hope that he is alive. The three begin traveling together as a team.
 * -|After Broken Curse=

The next morning, the White Rabbit feigns being asleep while Alice and Knave head off to Mimsy Meadows to get Cyrus' bottle. He knows Alice is lying and reports back to the Red Queen with the false information. Since he knows the true location of the bottle, the White Rabbit leads the Red Queen there. After digging up the bottle, he hands it over to her.

After the Red Queen's encounter with Jafar, who forces her to tell him where the bottle is, she discloses the fake location, Mimsy Meadows, as the burial site. When the White Rabbit arrives, she questions him further on how he obtained knowledge on the bottle's true burial site. In his recollections, the White Rabbit remembers stumbling on and secretly watching Alice and Cyrus bury the bottle. To the Red Queen, he asks for his freedom after doing everything she has requested. Instead, she gives a strong rebuke and reminds him who is in charge. Frightened, he shuffles out of the castle.

Kidnapped by Tweedledee, the White Rabbit is brought to Jafar for interrogation. At first, he is frightened that Jafar wants to eat him. Instead, Jafar exhibits a willingness to help clear his debts to the Red Queen in exchange for any and all details about Alice, especially about anyone she's ever loved, as it is her weakness to care about people. Nervously, the White Rabbit lists off countless facts about Alice, except they are all things Jafar already has knowledge of. He snaps at him to stop stalling and wants to know exactly who else in Wonderland matters the most to Alice that she might wish for their survival, but the White Rabbit begins backing out of the conversation. Impatiently, Jafar uses his staff to slice off the White Rabbit's right foot. Then, he sets a timer for one minute, which is the amount of time the White Rabbit has to spit out an answer and regain his foot back. Eventually, he tells Jafar of a person Alice loves who is not a resident of Wonderland--her father. After reattaching the White Rabbit's foot, Jafar then asks him for a portal trip to visit Alice's father. The White Rabbit stutters out excuses as Jafar moves to using force again, so he seizes the opportunity to bolt out the door. In the hallway, he encounters a runaway Cyrus, who pleads for him not to tell Jafar. After allowing Cyrus to flee, he walks back and decides to open the portal for Jafar.

They land in a park of Victorian England. After requesting directions to Bethlem Asylum from a man, Jafar steals his clothes and belongings. In a bag, he forces the White Rabbit in. After meeting Alice's doctor, Dr. Lydgate, Jafar opens the bag to allow him another look at the White Rabbit; a sight which terrifies the man.

After Jafar tempts Alice's father, Edwin, with information of his daughter's whereabouts, he unclasps the bag for the White Rabbit to come out. The White Rabbit huffs indignantly when a stunned Edwin asks if he's really a white rabbit. He opens a portal for Edwin and Jafar to go back to Wonderland. Shortly after they arrive, he is coldly dismissed by Jafar, who no longer requires his services.

The White Rabbit returns to his home, which is now in a ruined state. He refuses to answer when Alice knocks on the door, so she kicks the entrance in. Finally, he comes out and meekly allows Alice to punish him for betraying her to the Red Queen. Instead, Alice has known about it for some time now, and wants to know the reason behind his actions. When he tells them the truth, they both sympathize with his plight and decide to rescue his wife and children. Knave has an idea of where the Red Queen might have taken them, and they arrive at an abandoned wagon, which he and Anastasia once lived in. The White Rabbit happily reconciles with Mrs. Rabbit and his two children, who are found safe and sound inside the wagon. His wife and children decide to head to her mother's house for shelter while the White Rabbit goes with Alice and Knave to the Outlands. Alice goes into an invisible hideout, and as Knave joins her, the White Rabbit stands guard outside, though he is warned against trying anything sneaky. A moment later, Cyrus approaches the hideout and Alice runs out to him. Surprisingly, the Red Queen tagged along as well. The Red Queen proceeds to urge that they must leave Wonderland before a dangerous storm cloud Jafar summoned reaches them all. Alice refuses to go without an explanation for the Red Queen's actions thus far, including her reasons for taking away Cyrus and desiring the bottle. In an emotional outburst, the Red Queen admits to Knave that she wants him back, and by breaking the laws of magic, they can go back to the past and resume their relationship, but he wants nothing more to do with her. Even to this, Alice doesn't believe the Red Queen, but Cyrus does, so she asks the White Rabbit to dig a hole to someplace safe for them. As the storm cloud closes in, the Red Queen uses the bottle as a shield against a lightning bolt, which then bounces off and fatally wounds Knave. He nears death, as Alice, too, begins to die as her first wish comes into full effect. Cyrus gives Knave the third wish, which he uses to "end Alice's suffering". Alice is revived while Cyrus' servitude as a genie ends, but Knave takes his place in the bottle as a price for the wish.

Trivia

 * The White Rabbit was originally to be voiced by Paul Reubens.
 * The name "Percy" is of English origin derived from an English surname which itself is derived from the name of the Norman town of Perci.
 * In the original twenty minute preview, the White Rabbit tells Alice he knows Cyrus is alive by showing her the genie's pendant and stating that if it survived the Boiling Sea, he must have too. This is changed in the actual premiere, in which he states that the Dormouse said Cyrus is alive.