In the movie Freddy vs Jason, Freddy at one point turns into a caterpillar and pulls out a hookah and smokes it.In the otome game ' Heart no Kuni no Alice,' he appears as Nightmare Gottschalk, a dream/incubus who appears in Alice's dreams and one of the many characters who fall in love with Alice.The Caterpillar makes an appearance in Kingdom Hearts V CAST, where he takes the role of the Cheshire Cat in providing hints for Sora to advance through Wonderland.He also appears in the video game ' American McGee's Alice.'.In the TV miniseries ' Alice,' he appears as an aging spectacled man as the caterpillar, who is the head of the resistance.He also appears in the anime by Nippon Animation, ' Fushigi no Kuni no Alice'.In the novel series ' The Looking Glass Wars,' he is re-imagined as Blue Caterpillar, the head of six oracle-like caterpillars who live in the Mushroom Valley and act as guardians of the sacred Heart Crystal.

His name is Absolem, and he is voiced by Alan Rickman. The Caterpillar is also in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland movie.Richard Haydn voices the Caterpillar in the 1951 animated film.You know a Caterpillar has got quantities of legs: you can see some more of them, further down.' The original illustration by John Tenniel at right, is something of a visual paradox the caterpillar's human face appears to be formed from the head and legs of a more realistic caterpillar.įrom the Nursery 'Alice' - 'And do you see its long nose and chin? At least, they look exactly like a nose and chin, don’t they? But they really are two of its legs. The Caterpillar then tells Alice how to grow and shrink by eating the mushroom upon which he is sitting. He asks Alice to repeat the poem You Are Old, Father William, which comes out rather strange like many of the nursery rhymes Alice attempts in Wonderland. It is exactly three inches tall which, according to him, 'is a very good height indeed' (though Alice believes it to be a wretched height).Īlice does not like the Caterpillar when they first meet, because he does not immediately talk to her and when he does, it is usually in short sentences or difficult questions. Appearing in Chapters Four and Five, the Caterpillar (also known as Russel) is a hookah-smoking insect who meets Alice after she has been shrunk to a tiny size.

Alice in Wonderland by Abraham Ettleson