Maddox Hatter is a supporting character in the film Descendants: The Rise of Red. He is the son of the Mad Hatter and the father of Max Hatter. He is the close friend and tutor of Red. Maddox is also the creator of the Pocket Watch which was used by Red and Chloe in order to time travel back to the past after a coup is incited in Auradon lead by the Queen of Hearts.
Maddox teaches a science class at Wonderland High, where Red is one of his students. He notices Red seems distracted and questions if she's okay. Maddox introduces a new student, Chester, to the class and asks Red to be Chester's lab partner. He ends the class after Red and Chester finish their work. Later, Maddox announces that there will be no homework that day, raising Red's suspicions. In another class session, Maddox teaches quantum physics. He asks Chester about his location during the quantum physics lesson, telling him that while his answer was perfect, it could have been more detailed. Maddox moves to the chalkboard to continue his lesson. He suggests that while a person can be invited to an "un-party," they wouldn't be able to attend without full information, such as knowing the time. When Red gives a perfect answer to a question, Maddox praises her for it.
Red runs avoiding the Crimson Army until she is taken by the machinery of Maddox to his room, where he tells her that if she continues like this he won't always be able to save her. Red tells him what she can do while being imprisoned in Wonderland, and feeling like a lost cause, to which Maddox tells her that it is not like that, and that he worries about her future. After telling him that it's not easy having a controlling mother, Maddox tells her that the Queen wasn't always like this, and shows her his time machine: a Pocket Watch. But he warns her that changing the time structure can be dangerous, and sees that Red would have to use it when she was more mature, since he cares about her. After which, Red hugs him, thanking him, and upon hearing that the guards are still looking for the fugitive who was vandalizing the streets, Maddox sends her through a tube to her room, while he continues drinking tea.[1]
In the morning, he alerts the Queen of Hearts of the arrival of a letter as a Royal Delivery. After reading that it is an invitation for Red to become a student at Auradon Prep, Maddox tells Red that she may have a future after all, traveling to Auradon and leaving Wonderland, but Red assumes that her mother will say no. However, the Queen accepts, much to Red and Maddox's surprise.[2]
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Relationships[]
Red[]
Maddox acts as both Red's friend and tutor, he cares for her and often jokes around with her.[3] After saving her from the Crimson Army, Maddox wishes for the Princess to have a good future and insists that as her friend and tutor, he insists she has one, going as far as to allow her to have the one she wants by using the Pocket Watch.
Queen of Hearts[]
Though Maddox innocently makes minor remarks of the Queen when speaking to Red,[4] he still respects the former.
Trivia[]
He is the only known descendant (son or daughter) of a Disney character who also has his own offspring.
The Disney Jr. animated series Alice's Wonderland Bakery (outside the continuity of Descendants) also includes two distant descendants of the Mad Hatter: Hattie Hatter and his father. Who, interestingly, like Maddox, are also represented as characters of Asian ethnicity.
As shown in The Rise of Red, he gets away with interrupting court though bows in respect upon his arrival.
In a picture from the Junior Novel of The Rise of Red, it is shown he had blond hair.
