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You get the goss with a verdict, a score out of 10, and the sources to check us.

Do we like The Mad Hatter?

A character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

Our score: 6 out of 10. Not a hero, but a harmless and oddly lovable one. He's rude and baffling, yet he never means real harm, and we'd happily go to his tea party.

The Hatter appears in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel. Alice has fallen down a rabbit hole into a world of nonsense, and she meets him at a tea party at the March Hare's house. The Cheshire Cat has already warned her that everyone there is mad.

At the party, the Hatter and the March Hare keep moving around the table to clean cups, because time has stopped for them. They ask Alice a riddle that has no answer, comment on her appearance, and talk in puns and contradictions. He's rude, but he comes across as more confused and cheerfully silly than cruel.

We score him a 6. He causes little harm and adds a lot of fun and strangeness, but he doesn't really help Alice or achieve anything. He's good company, not someone to follow into a fight.

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