a ruler of Wonderland, at odds with the Queen of Hearts (Barbara Hershey), who takes an interest in Anastasia, the lover of Will Scarlet. Anastasia betrays Will to marry the Red King, thus becoming the Red Queen. The manga Pandora Hearts has Glen Baskerville, originally Oswald, being inspired by the Red King with his sister Lacie being based on the Red Queen. The character appears as a boss in American McGee's Alice, as the ruler of the Red Kingdom. He is first seen leading an assault on the White Kingdom, which leads to the capture and execution of the White Queen. To reach the passage to the realm of The Queen of Hearts, Alice must defeat the Red King, and transport one of the White Pawns to his chess board, allowing it to become a new White Queen. In the video game What Remains of Edith Finch, a book titled The Red King's Dream shows up in Lewis room. Lewis is a character lost in his imagination. The player has to play the Lewis in his imaginary world and the Lewis in the reality world simultaneously. The common ground shared by Lewis and the Red King is: if the one character/self exists in the other's dream/imagination, does the one character/self still exist when the other wakes up? In Alan Moore's Miracleman book "The Red King Syndrome" takes its name from this story. In this story arc, three supermen genetically created in a laboratory by Dr. Emil Gargunza are kept in a state of "hibernation" by the scientist himself, because he fears his powers. As he monitors his dreams, he discovers that the device that controls the images of his unconscious has ceased to have an effect and that their minds are now capable of creating unconscious scenarios that little by little reveal to them that what they are experiencing is precisely a dream. Upon realizing this, Dr Gargunza explains what happens to his laboratory co-leader using the Red King in "Alice through the looking glass" as a metaphor. "... AND HERE WE ARE," says Gargunza "WITH THESE HORRIBLY POWERFUL CREATURES THAT WE HAVE MANAGED TO KEEP SUPPLIED WITH DREAMS FOR SEVEN YEARS. AN INTERESTING PARALLEL DON'T YOU THINK? See also References Lewis Carroll characters Fictional kings Literary characters introduced in 1871