The Queen in Popular Culture
- In a 1973 episode of The Brady Bunch, housekeeper Alice Nelson portrays the Queen when the Bradys and Sam the Butcher help Cindy stage a re-enactment of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
- In Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), Alvy mentions that when he saw Disney's Snow White, he was attracted to the Evil Queen. He then daydreams an animated scene where even the Queen (voiced by Diane Keaton) scolds him.
- One of the main antagonists in the 1990s Sailor Moon manga and anime, Queen Nehellenia is based on many evil sorceresses from fairy tales, with a particular emphasis on the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Snow Queen. Like the Snow Queen and the Evil Queen she has a large magic mirror and like the latter she is extremely vain and arrogant.
- In the season five of Charmed, the Queen appears as a Wicked Witch who uses fairy tales for evil. She asks the Magic Mirror, "who is the most powerful witch of all?"
- Ellen Reid's 2001 debut album Cinderellen features the song "In Defense of the Wicked Queen", which tells the story from the Queen's perspective.
- In Terry Gilliam's 2005 fantasy film The Brothers Grimm, Monica Bellucci plays a villainous character similar to the Queen. Known as the Toringian Queen (also known as the Mirror Queen) she is extremely vain, obsessed with preserving her youth and beauty and being the fairest in the land - which backfires on her when she acquired a spell for eternal life that did not grant her eternal youth - and has a gigantic mirror in her chamber that shows her as she was in life.
- In the 2007 film Sydney White there is Rachel Witchburn (Sara Paxton).
- In the Family Guy 2009 episode "Road to the Multiverse", Stewie and Brian Griffin go to a Disney Universe where the characters are as Disney characters, and Herbert appears as the disguised Queen, saying "You want a nice shiny red apple to go with that pie?" (after the characters have just sung a song about pie). They all yell "No!" and throw pies in his face.
- In the Berenstain Bears 1989 book Trick or Treat, Queenie dresses as the Wicked Queen for Halloween.
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