Using the image of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, the film's title evokes a dissonance between the promise of a global socialist revolution (the grin) with its actual nonexistence.
With its large elongated smile and its ability to appear and disappear at will, the Catbus is reminiscent of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.
Apparently even younger than Gilotina, she resembles the titular character in Alice in Wonderland, and controls a savage, disembodied mouth called Chessure (see Cheshire Cat).
The yellow cartoon cat is characterized by its large Cheshire Cat grin.
Her shadow monster named Chessure is based on the Cheshire Cat.
Photographer Ashley Allen photographed her front and center with the other characters of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Alice, Mad Hatter, March Hare, and Cheshire Cat.
This independence of radius is referred to as the Cheshire Cat principle, after the fading to a smile of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat.
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The term "Cheshire moon" is a reference to the smile of the Cheshire Cat of Lewis Carroll's story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
During the Shadowland storyline, Chemistro was seen as member of Flashmob (a group of former opponents of Luke Cage consisting of Cheshire Cat, Commanche, Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton, Mr. Fish II, and Spear) when they confront the new Power Man on the rooftop.
Cheshire Cat, Jabberwock, Dormouse
The New York Times has compared the story to the obvious Heart of Darkness, but has said the following as well: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a better bet (on the plot). Most of the people Liberty meets (and not just in the South) are what the Cheshire Cat would call 'mad,' from a shaggy hermit to the Georgia farmer who secedes from the Confederacy by reclaiming his little plot of land in the name of the Union."