Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5679696-20130311021240/@comment-1894786-20150331223048

GothicNarcissus wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Lady Junky wrote: Even if he is not based on the King of Hearts, he is clearly an allusion to him. And on some character pages, we add the fact some characters are an allusion to another one. I kinda agree with Eskaver on this one :) True. Ursula (Witch) is an allusion to Ariel and Regina is an allusion to Ursula (Disney), and both of these roles are in their intros. But then again, Emma has been stated quite a few times to be based off of the Ugly Duckling, but that's never been added, so who knows? This is a bit confusing. Not exactly: both Ursula and Regina functionally play the role of Ariel and… err… well, Ursula, respectively, in the two retellings of The Little Mermaid. Prince Henry doesn't have the functional role of the King of Hearts because he's barely included in Cora's Wonderland misdeeds other than being kidnapped. If anything, he functionally plays the prince from The Miller's Daughter: that's the role we've seen him fit the most, in relation to Cora.

Oh. It's just that the reason I'm so confused is that the Story page for Alice in Wonderland lists the King Of Hearts on its page of adapted characters, leading to Henry's page. (And even though this is less important, the Disney Wikia lists Henry on the King's page. But they also put Red Queen Ana in Anastasia Tremaine's page without confirmation on-screen...)