Bandersnatch

"A pair usually mates for life and when one dies, the other follows in death. As a child, Alice ventures into Wonderland and is left terrified by an encounter with a Bandersnatch. At an older age, she returns and Cyrus teaches her an advantage over Bandersnatches as they have very poor eyesight."

Bandersnatches are a boar like species featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. They are native to Wonderland, and first appear in the third episode of the Series.

Despite being armed with deadly tusks and sharp teeth, isn't very intelligent and has poor vision, making them easily fooled. As a child, Alice ventures into Wonderland and is left terrified by an encounter with a Bandersnatch. At an older age, she returns and Cyrus teaches her an advantage over Bandersnatches as they have very poor eyesight. ("Forget Me Not")

A Bandersnatch is released by the Red Queen and Jafar to attack Alice so she is forced to make her first wish. Alice tricks the beast with the forget me knot with an illusion of herself and Knave, to which the Bandersnatch leaps right into. At this, Alice pulls the forget me knot's rope to loop and hold the Bandersnatch in place. Later, Knave bursts in to kill the creature with a knife. ("Forget Me Not")

History
|-|Before the Curse= As a child, Alice ventures into Wonderland and is left terrified by an encounter with a Bandersnatch. At an older age, she returns and Cyrus teaches her an advantage over Bandersnatches as they have very poor eyesight. ("Forget Me Not") |-|After the Curse= Jafar and the Red Queen decide to look for the perfect beast to send after Alice in order to make her use a wish. They do this in front of Cyrus in hopes of getting a reaction off of him to indicate the perfect beast. At the mention of the Bandersnatch, Cyrus gives a fain worried look, when in reality he knows they're easy to defeat. The Red Queen and Jafar then go down to the dungeons and give the Bandersnatch Alice's scent, knowing it won't stop until it has her. The Bandersnatch tracks Alice and Will down to the Grendel's house, just as they're about to escape from being his prisoner. The beast breaks inside and knocks the Grendel out. Alice and Will come up with a plan and hide behind the Forget-Me-Knot to create an image of them hiding behind it. The Bandersnatch falls for it and sticks its head into the rope. Alice begins to choke the Bandersnatch but has trouble from stopping it attacking the Grendel. However, it is soon defeated when Will stabs it and it evaporates into the air. Sensing the beast has been defeated, Jafar angrily realizes that he was fooled by Cyrus. ("Forget Me Not")

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