White Rabbit

"You're late! What a surprise!"

- The White Rabbit to Alice and Will Scarlet

Percy, better known as the White Rabbit, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. He débuts in the first episode. 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.

Trivia

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Character Notes

 * Unlike Jefferson, who requires his magical hat to cross worlds, the White Rabbit appears to possess a natural skill for creating rabbit hole portals.
 * The White Rabbit is featured in the title card for "Home" and "And They Lived...".
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Production Notes

 * The White Rabbit was originally to be voiced by Paul Reubens.
 * The on-set replacement for the White Rabbit was a blue pole.
 * 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.
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Props Notes

 * The Mad Hatter buys his daughter Grace a stuffed white rabbit for her tea party.
 * When young Alice returns to Victorian England, she walks past a small dining table with several plush toys sitting in chairs around it. The party guests at the table include a white rabbit. Many years later, Alice's daughter has the same toy.

Set Dressing

 * Among the many fairy tale illustrations pinned to the wall in Henry's room is "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - A Mad Tea-Party" (1907) by the famous book illustrator Arthur Rackham. It is an illustration of a scene from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with Alice at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party with the March Hare, the Dormouse and the Mad Hatter.
 * There is also another illustration, by the American illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith, from Nora Archibald Smith's book Boys and Girls of Bookland (1923). It features Alice in a scene from the book, surrounded by the characters of Wonderland, including the White Rabbit.
 * There is a white ceramic rabbit in Mary Margaret's loft.
 * The tool set next to Jefferson's (also known as the Mad Hatter) fire place in Storybrooke is topped with a rabbit.