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The White Rabbit's perennial unpunctuality is a nod to [[Oxford time]], the tradition at Oxford (and especially [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], where Carroll taught) of having events begin five minutes past the scheduled hour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.ricksteves.com/blog/oxford-always-five-minutes-late/|title = Oxford — Always Five Minutes Late| date=23 July 2015 }}</ref>
==Adaptations and in popular culture==
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===Disney film===
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In the television series ''[[Alice's Wonderland Bakery]]'', his great grandson Fergie is one of the main characters. In the episode "Potato Potahto" is shown a photo of Alice and the White Rabbit where they made the potato dish together in Wonderland.
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McTwisp appears in the video game adaptation of Tim Burton's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' as a playable character. He attacks using his watch and can manipulate time.
===Other films===
* In ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'', the character of Dennis Nedry writes a computer program to disable security systems of the park and hide his steps. [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s character finds a file called "Whte_rbt.obj" that he claims did it all.▼
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* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', there are several metaphysical "waking up" metaphors that reference the Wonderland stories. Early in the film, [[Neo (The Matrix)|Neo]] is told to follow the "White Rabbit" and seconds later, his doorbell rings, and when he opens the door he finds a woman with a tattoo of a white rabbit on her shoulder. Later in the film, [[Morpheus (The Matrix)|Morpheus]] offers him the "[[Red pill and blue pill|red pill]]" to "[[wikt:Special: Search/down the rabbit hole|find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes]]". Right before he meets [[The Oracle (The Matrix)|the Oracle]] one can see ''[[Night of the Lepus]]'' playing on a nearby television, symbolising Neo's decision to "follow the white rabbit" and to disturb the order of the Matrix.▼
* In ''[[Pacific Rim (film)|Pacific Rim]]'', there are several metaphysical "waking up" metaphors that reference the Wonderland stories. In the film, Mako Mori is instructed during "mind-meld" training to "do not latch onto memories; let them wash over you" and to above all ''never'' follow the "White Rabbit". Later in the film, she does this and nearly kills military staff members.▼
* In ''[[Aladdin and the King of Thieves]]'', Genie briefly transforms into the White Rabbit and even quotes his famous line of "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date!" (in context, it was due to Genie being late regarding actually announcing the arrival of the bride and groom for Jasmine and Aladdin's wedding upon realizing the guests have already seated).▼
* In ''[[Knowing (film)|Know1ng]]'', the character of John Koestler [[ Nicolas Cage]]'s character decodes a prophesy of an Extinction Level Event / End Times. His young son, Caleb, and the young granddaughter of the prophet, Abby, are taken at the conclusion by Angelic "Alien" beings aboard an Arc to save them (and others deemed fit) from Earth's destruction. Abby is holding her pet White Rabbit as they ascend into the Arc.
* In ''[[Little Nicky (film)|Little Nicky]]'' (2000), the character of Little Nicky [[ Adam Sandler]]'s character as son of thr Devil fights his siblings who have brought hell on Earth, and having an Angelic mother, fires rainbow beams from his fingers that produce white rabbits, during the act of fighting evil demons using "the power of good".
===Television===
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* In ''[[Lost (2004 TV series)|Lost]]'', the White Rabbit has alluded to several times in the series. First, it is the name of an episode, and [[John Locke (Lost)|Locke]] claims that [[Jack Shephard|Jack]] is chasing the White Rabbit in the form of his father. The White Rabbit is also the symbol for the Looking Glass Station and it is also carrying a clock with it.
* In ''[[Leverage (American TV series)|Leverage]]'' Season 5, the White Rabbit is mentioned in episode 12 as being the main title and con of the episode.
▲* In ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'', the character of Dennis Nedry writes a computer program to disable security systems of the park and hide his steps. [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s character finds a file called "Whte_rbt.obj" that he claims did it all.
▲* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', there are several metaphysical "waking up" metaphors that reference the Wonderland stories. Early in the film, [[Neo (The Matrix)|Neo]] is told to follow the "White Rabbit" and seconds later, his doorbell rings, and when he opens the door he finds a woman with a tattoo of a white rabbit on her shoulder. Later in the film, [[Morpheus (The Matrix)|Morpheus]] offers him the "[[Red pill and blue pill|red pill]]" to "[[wikt:Special: Search/down the rabbit hole|find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes]]". Right before he meets [[The Oracle (The Matrix)|the Oracle]] one can see ''[[Night of the Lepus]]'' playing on a nearby television, symbolising Neo's decision to "follow the white rabbit" and to disturb the order of the Matrix.
▲* In ''[[Pacific Rim (film)|Pacific Rim]]'', there are several metaphysical "waking up" metaphors that reference the Wonderland stories. In the film, Mako Mori is instructed during "mind-meld" training to "do not latch onto memories; let them wash over you" and to above all ''never'' follow the "White Rabbit". Later in the film, she does this and nearly kills military staff members.
▲* In ''[[Aladdin and the King of Thieves]]'', Genie briefly transforms into the White Rabbit and even quotes his famous line of "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date!" (in context, it was due to Genie being late regarding actually announcing the arrival of the bride and groom for Jasmine and Aladdin's wedding upon realizing the guests have already seated).
▲* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' short ''[[Plusaversary]]'', Disney's White Rabbit made a brief appearance in Moe's Tavern.
===Literature===
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* In Black Souls 2, the White Rabbit Node acts as the players closest companion during their search for Alice. She is later revealed to be one of the ones keeping him trapped in Wonderland. Her love for the play leads to her refusing to allow them to leave, instead wanting them to stay within her grasp forever.
* He was referenced in ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' by [[Homer Simpson]] where he dreams he was in a world made of candy of all kind, (in which it is [[Tutorial (video games)|the tutorial level]] of the game). A white rabbit made of [[white chocolate]] calls him out to not consume their world. In which Homer tells him he reminds him of the character from the story, (although he thinks it is titled “[[Snow White]] in stupid town”) the rabbit then lures him to the top of a giant cake to “have a bite of him” (just a way to make homer follow him to finish the tutorial level) after beating up as many chocolate rabbit enemies he finally catches up to him. Only to be killed by Homer. In which he’s woken up to realize he was dreaming and gets upset about it.
* The White Rabbit takes on the role of narrator, guiding players through the detective quest in [https://www.g5.com/games/sherlock-hidden-match-3-cases Sherlock: Hidden Match-3 Cases], developed by [[G5 Entertainment]] in
===Other Influences===
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