History Characters / LandOfOz

The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Book_of_Oz Royal Book of Oz]]'', the first written by Thompson, explores his backstory. It turns out that he was once Emperor Chang Wang Woe of the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Silver Islands]]. Due to a wicked magician and a spell gone not quite right, his spirit ended up possessing (and animating) a Munchkin scarecrow. Like before, he decides that being a ruler is not for him, appoints a competent sucessor to the Silver Islands throne, and leaves to go back to Oz,

* GhostAmnesia: He certainly never remembered being the Emperor, but being transformed into a crocus by a wicked sorcerer and processing a scarecrow was understandably unpleasant.

* AsianAndNerdy: Possibly the UrExample. The Silver Islands are a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Imperial China (albeit with what you'd expect from a 1920s American writing it).

* NonHumanSidekick: A living scarecrow who serves as Dorothy's second traveling companion, and remains a close friend afterward.

* ReluctantRuler: He never actually wanted to be the King of Oz -- plus the crown hurts his head. So he's more than happy to hand to throne over to Ozma, when Glinda insists upon it.

* BalefulPolymorph: The Magic Belt gives her this power, although she seems to forget she has it for several books.
* BerserkButton:

* {{The Hero}}ine

* ItWasWithYouAllAlong

* MirrorCharacter: Oz and Dorothy are both from the civilized world and transported to the Land of Oz where they were mistaken for great magicians. However, while the plot of the book revolves around Dorothy trying to return to the civilized world, Oz stayed in the Land of Oz and let the people of the land think he was there most powerful wizard.

* PluckyGirl

* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Crown

* SeenItAll: Dorothy starts out the first book as just a normal (if more down-to-earth and resourceful then than average) little girl who just wants to get back home to Kansas, and she could, at times, actually be alarmed and even a bit frightened at the strange and often dangerous situations she and her friends found their way into. By the third book though, it turns out that her first adventures in Oz toughened her up, and as a result, she's hardly the least bit surprised or shocked at what she goes through in ''Ozma of Oz.'' By book 4, she's pretty much an experienced vet; calm and confident. And in Book 6, she moves to Oz for good, as by that point, she feels more at home there than she does in our world. (Probably helps that she kept getting shanghaied into Oz against her will by various disasters and several dozen unexplained magical roadways, so she also probably figured that, if she's going to keep getting dragged back into Oz anyway, she might as well just stay there.)

* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

* TheLancer

* NonHumanSidekick
* RaceLift: Played with. Baum's canon had him as merely a construct of Munchkin farmers. ''Thompson'' on the other hand, revealed that he was the reincarnation of Chang Wang Woe, the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Emperor of the Silver Island]]. The Scarecrow himself didn't know this beforehand.
* RagdollPhysics: The guy's made of old farm clothes stuffed with hay. At one point he attempts to jump into a river to save the Tin Man only to find he can't break the surface since he's so light. This usually gets played up with adaptations as actors need to be able to simulate his rag doll movements.

--> ""I don't mind much the loss of my throne, for it's a tiresome job to rule over the Emerald City. And this crown is so heavy that it makes my head ache."
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Crown and scepter; he hates wearing the crown though,
* ScaryScarecrows: An example of an UnbuiltTrope. When Baum was child, he had a nightmare about a scarecrow that would chase him and then flop around. He remembered the scarecrow when he wrote the Wizard of Oz and it became a lovable and positive character. However, most scarecrows in fiction are portrayed as frightening or unnerving.

* StrawmanPolitical: Only in the most literal sense--he's actually wise and fair in his ruling.

* AnAxeToGrind: He doesn't just chop ''wood'' with that thing.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Can ''you'' claim to have killed 40 wolves? I think ''not.'' And the badassery doesn't end there. However, the Tinman's still a truly kind soul at heart, and will only raise his ax when he knows innocents to be in danger.

* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]: He's first in a long line of cybernetic beings that question their humanity.

* MightyLumberjack: Oh, Great Oz, ''yes.'' He is truly the nicest, kindest being in all of Oz. But threaten an innocent or his companions, and Nick is not going to stop until the threat is ''dead'' or he is too damaged to keep fighting.

* OlderSidekick

* WeaponOfChoice: Axe

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the Hungry Tiger, at least in Baum's books, starting with ''Ozma of Oz.''
* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

* NonHumanSidekick

* StatusQuoIsGod: A weird version of this happens with him in later Oz books. While the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman both keep the gifts given to them by the Wizard (and indeed seldom pass up an opportunity to brag about them) the Lion returns to being a self-admitted coward in his subsequent appearances. This goes unexplained for several books, until ''The Cowardly Lion of Oz,'' where the Lion simply mentions that the courage the wizard gave him has "worn off." Which makes perfect sense when you think about it. The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman both received tangible, lasting placebos and were still in the possession of their "magnificent brains" and "kind heart" in later books -- but the Lion simply drank an unidentified liquid, and didn't have the same kind of physical reminder. No wonder he alone slipped back into his previous behavior.

--> ''It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.''

* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

* NonHumanSidekick

* TeamPet

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Heck, yes. Using nothing more than BS, parlor tricks, and stage technology, he convinces all ''four'' Witches that he's too powerful to challenge.

* GodGuise: Flim-flammery seemed his only defense in a world of ''real'' magic. Only by seeming ''far'' too powerful to attack could he survive.

%%* TheMagnificent

* MirrorCharacter: Oz and Dorothy are both from the civilized world and transported to the Land of Oz where they were mistaken for great magicians. However, while the plot of the book revolves around Dorothy trying to return to the civilized world, Oz stayed in the Land of Oz and let the people of the land think he was there most powerful wizard.

** Then, when he returns to Oz in ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz,'' he's played as more heroic; here he has no idea who Ozma is when Dorothy first brings her up, and the story is presented so that the King had already been deposed by the four Wicked Witches and imprisoned by Mombi, and Ozma had not yet been born by the time the Wizard came to Oz. Since his initials "O.Z." were printed on his balloon, the people thought that he was their returning King, who had become a powerful wizard while he was gone. Playing along with this, he re-united the four countries of Oz, had the Emerald City built, and set himself up as a wise ruler to oppose the Wicked Witches (who of course didn't know he wasn't a real wizard). In this version of the story, Ozma was born in captivity with Mombi and transformed into a boy (who her mother was, we don't know) and the Wizard never even knew she existed. And once more he was the one who left the Scarecrow to rule.

* OverlyLongName:The Wizard's real name is "Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs".

* BigGood: Of many of the books, though several sequels and re-makes have her rather prone to TheWorfEffect, where a new villain takes her out with little trouble.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Glinda is angelically good, without a trace of self-interest - the closest she comes to a human flaw is a slight tendency to be a TricksterMentor.

* BreakoutVillain: Despite only appearing in the first book and essentially being the series' StarterVillain, she's the most widely recogized villain in the series, to the point that she's the BigBad of most adaptations (and most sequels to ''The Wizard of Oz'' tend to have her come back from the dead seeking revenge on Dorothy). This is largely thanks to the success of the 1939 film.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen

-->'''Wicked Witch of the West''': Well, in a few minutes I shall be all melted, and you will have the castle to yourself. I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would ever be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds. Look out--here I go!
* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]
* KillItWithWater: A bucket of water? Really!?

* SquishyWizard

!!Locasta/Tattypoo, the Good Witch Of the North
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* BalefulPolymorph: Subject to this in Ruth Plumly Thompson's ''The Giant Horse of Oz,'' which some fans take as FanonDiscontinuity.

* EasyAmnesia: Once again, she turns out to suffer from this in ''The Giant Horse of Oz.''
* FlashStep:
** Her main power, as demonstrated in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,'' is the ability to appear and disappear at will, effectively being able to teleport wherever she wants to go.

* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch
* IHaveManyNames: She didn't get a name in her first appearance in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,'' though when Baum adapted the story to a stage play, she had a much bigger role and got the name Locasta. In ''The Giant Horse of Oz,'' she was named Tattypoo and was later revealed to in reality be the amnesiac Queen Orin. Later authors have varied between using "Tattypoo" and "Locasta" -- or they discard both names and think up another name for her.

* NiceHat: She has a magical white cap that upon command will transform into a slate, upon which will be written (in chalk) what your best course of action will be in your current situation.

* ThePrankster: They were very mischievous creatures, until one of their pranks--in which they threw a well-off man named Quelala into a river on his wedding day--went too far. Quelala didn't mind too much, but his fiancée, a sorceress princess, was angry, and cursed them to do the bidding of whoever held the Golden Cap.
* PunchClockVillain: They do some pretty unsavory things when under the control of the Wicked Witch, but the Winged Monkeys aren't actually evil; they're just forced to follow the commands of whoever holds the Golden Cap, whether they like them or not.

* ADayInTheLimelight: She is the main protagonist of Ruth Plumly Thompson's last book, ''Ozoplaning With the Wizard of Oz.''

* NoNameGiven: In her first appearance in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,'' she is referred to simply as "the girl" or "the green girl." It's not until her second appearance in ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'' that she gets her name, but subsequent books confirm that it's the same character.
* ServileSnarker: Of the good-natured kind. Her mischievous sense of humor is highlighted in a particularly memorable way in the famous [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "translator" scene]] in ''The Marvelous Land of Oz,'' [[CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator where she has great fun acting as an "interpreter" between the Scarecrow and Jack Pumpkinhead, when the two fail to realize they're speaking the same language.]]

* CassandraTruth: They're on the receiving end of one when Dorothy tells them about Oz. Interestingly enough, Aunt Em seems more inclined to believe Dorothy, while Uncle Henry thinks she's been [[AllJustADream dreaming it all]] -- ArbitrarySkepticism in that Dorothy reappeared to him in Australia, in ''Ozma of Oz'' after having been lost overboard in a storm on the way there, and has disappeared at least two other times in deadly circumstances only to reappear.

* AgeIsRelative: Ozma's actual age is kept deliberately ambiguous; in Baum's narration she is merely described as looking "very young" (in ''The Tin Woodman of Oz,'' she is said to look around fourteen or fifteen, which is the age she appears as in O'Neill's drawings, but even this isn't really kept consistent from book to book; she is sometimes also described as appearing the same age as Dorothy, and sometimes as noticeably older). Despite this she celebrates her birthday on August 21; L. Frank Baum {{Lampshades}} this in the books, stating that since Ozma is a fairy she is effectively immortal and her exact age doesn't matter much -- but that's no reason to pass up a perfectly good opportunity for a party.

* DeadpanSnarker: Most notably as [[spoiler: Tip]]; as Ozma this trait is a lot more understated and almost seems to be absent -- though there are times when she'll be subtly mischevious or gently poke fun at a situation just for the hell of it.

* {{The Hero}}ine

* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]: Princess Ozma appears to be the model for [[Film/ANewHope Princess Leia]] and [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Queen Amidala]].
* {{Kid Hero}}ine

* PrincessClassic

* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia

** PimpedOutDress: depends on the author and/or artist..
* [[RightfulKingReturns Rightful Princess Returns]]
** FisherKing: The return of the monarchy of Oz turns everyone immortal.

* SignatureHeadgear: Her tall gold crown, Oz tiara, and the two large red poppies over her ears
* UpgradeArtifact: Princess Ozma has a magic picture that see can every part of Oz, which brings to mind ''Princess Ozma is watching you''. She also has the Nome King's magic belt for a time, after Dorothy gives it to her in ''Ozma of Oz,'' although she seems to have returned it to Dorothy in the later books.

* TheFool
* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

* PumpkinPerson

* AutomatonHorse: Justified and often {{Lampshaded}} in-verse, as he is specifically mentioned to be not only faster than a normal horse but also [[PerpetualMotionMonster completely tireless, utterly fearless, very compliant, and of course needing no extra care or even food.]] He even has no problem crossing large bodies of water, since he's made of wood and floats quite well. Might count as a MechanicalHorse, but only if you use the term loosely. Definitely a HorseOfADifferentColor, though.

A Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug who has been Thoroughly Educated, both thanks to Professor Nowitall. He is rather flat, with a glistening dark brown back and a striped light brown and white front. His nose ends in a curling antenna and his ears look like minature curling pig tails. Thanks to the kindness of a tailor whose life he saved, the Wogglebug wears a swallow-tail coat that is dark blue with a yellow silk lining and a flower in the button hole, a white vest, fawn colored knickers, and a top hat. The Woggle-Bug has a fondness for making puns, and can be a bit overbearing in trying to impress others with his Thoroughly Educated status. After he helped restore Ozma, she founded Oz's first university and appointed him dean.

* BreakoutCharacter: He was considered this for a while after ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'' came out, having large roles in side projects such as the comic strip ''Queer Visitors from the Land of Oz'' and quite a bit of merchandise devoted solely to him -- there were Woggle-Bug postcards, Woggle-Bug buttons, a Woggle-Bug song, a Woggle-Bug board game and a book starring him called, imaginatively enough, ''The Woggle-Bug Book,'' which was closely tied to (and meant to promote) the stage musical ''The Woggle-Bug,'' which was loosely based on ''The Marvelous Land of Oz.'' The musical, however, bombed, and that was pretty much the end of the Woggle-Bug's superstardom. He'd have drastically reduced roles in the following books. Also, interestingly enough, in those subsequent appearances he became even more pompous and conceited than before, to the point where none of the other characters liked him much, perhaps as a reflection on how he had grown less popular with the audience.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: He started out as a normal sized woggle-bug--whatever size that might be--before being Highly Magnified.

* InsufferableGenius
* IntellectualAnimal
* NonHumanSidekick
* OlderSidekick
* TheProfessor

* TalkingAnimal

* DeadpanSnarker

* NonHumanSidekick

* BrotherChuck: Mombi was never heard from again after she was defeated. At least until Ruth Plumly Thompson brought her back in ''The Lost King of Oz''. Still stripped of the power to do magic, she has reinvented herself as a LethalChef.
* TheDragon: To General Jinjur.

* MasterOfIllusion

* SmugSnake

* AuthorAppeal

* TheCaligula

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen

* RebelliousSpirit

* WellIntentionedExtremist

* AmazonBrigade
* AuthorAppeal
* BeautyEqualsGoodness

* {{Mooks}}
* WouldntHitAGirl: They're counting on it.

* AndIMustScream: Tik-tok has mechanisms for thought, speech, and action. At one point "action" and "speech" ran down and Tik-Tok had nothing to do but stand still and think and think until slowly, gradually, his thoughts ran down to nothing.

* ClockworkCreature
* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

* NonHumanSidekick

* RobotBuddy: Quite possibly the UrExample; Tik-Tok was around before the term "robot" was coined - 'Ozma of Oz' was published in 1907, 'Rossum's Universal Robots' in 1920.
* RobotNames

* ArchEnemy
* BadBoss: Which is why he's not a popular ruler even among the Nomes; he's dangerous when in a bad mood and often threatens death, violence or BalefulPolymorph on his subjects. Often he even follows through on the threats.
* BalefulPolymorph: Frequently transforms the heroes against their will, usually into ornaments for his palace.
* BeardOfEvil
* BeneathTheEarth: He is the ruler of a vast underground kingdom--and possibly of ''everything'' beneath the earth, as he claims ownership of all precious metals and stones found there.

* GondorCallsForAid: Inverted in ''Emerald City of Oz''. He sends his General to persuade the Whimsies to help him to attack Oz. The General goes beyond his orders to recruit the Growleywogs and Phanfasms as well. (The Nome King is not pleased.)
* HairTriggerTemper

* ItsPersonal: In later books, after he loses his kingdom and right to rule, he's partly driven by the desire to become king again, and partly by the desire for revenge--he blames the Oz inhabitants in general (and Ozma and Dorothy in particular) for his misfortune and wants them to suffer.

* NonHumanSidekick: Sometimes plays this role as means of manipulating some other villain into doing what he wants--when he's not able to make them ''his'' {{Sidekick}}s, that is.

* AscendedExtra: Goes from an unnamed character in this book--who exists mainly so that Billina can overhear an argument between him and the Nome King--to a reoccurring supporting character, to the new Nome King in ''Tik-Tok of Oz''.
* BeleagueredAssistant / HypercompetentSidekick: Fluctuates between the two--most of the time he's the latter, but definitely the former by ''Tik-Tok of Oz.''
* GadgeteerGenius: While he never invents anything, one short story had him reassembling a smashed Tik-Tok--implied to be just about impossible due to how complicated the machinery was--''for fun''. (This trait of his is never mentioned elsewhere.)

* PetTheDog: In ''Tik-Tok'', he rescues Betsy from being thrown into the Slimy Cave. (While being in the Slimy Cave would probably have not been too bad on its own, Ruggedo was in the process of throwing a huge tantrum, [[BalefulPolymorph turning people into musical instruments]] and calling for torturers. Since Betsy was a TagalongKid, Kaliko presumably thought that she was safer waiting out the situation in his house.) This functions to set him up as a good replacement King later in the book, since his role before that point consisted of following his boss's orders and advising him against foolishness.

* ServileSnarker
* UltimateJobSecurity: Gets away with calling his extremely short-tempered monarch an idiot, more than once, because the Nome King can't find a competent replacement. For comparison, the Nome King "throws away" his generals at the drop of a hat--but he while threatens Kaliko periodically, he keeps him as his steward for as long as he remains the king.

She is Dorothy's kitten, and accompanies Dorothy in a great adventure in the Land of Oz. Originally her fur was white, but in later adventures, after Dorothy has returned permanently to the Land of Oz, Eureka inexplicably becomes the Pink Kitten -- except in ''Glinda of Oz,'' where she just as inexplicably has become the ''Purple'' Kitten. The cause of this color change is one of the mysteries of Oz.[[note]]Notably, in her original appearance in ''Dorothy and the Wizard In Oz'', in the chapter aptly titled ''The Pink Kitten,'' Eureka briefly ''does'' look take on the appearance of a pink kitten, as the travelers are seeing her under the rays of the six colored suns in the middle of the earth, but this is all because of the light. Other characters appear blue, yellow, green, etc.[[/note]]

* CatsAreMean: L. Frank Baum even apologizes for her lack of good behavior in the foreword to ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz,'' adding that "perhaps she wasn't brought up properly." When she is accused of eating one of the now-sentient, talking piglets near the end of the novel, she refuses to defend herself and treats the trial for her life like a clown show. [[spoiler:It turns out that she had intended to, but an accident robbed her of the chance. As a result, her execution is stayed (she knew she could clear her name at any point, but let the show go on because she was amused by it)]], but she is shunned by the other residents of Oz and begs to be taken home. As noted above, that doesn't last.

* DeadpanSnarker: Hoo boy, is she ever - in a land full of [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarkers]], she gives them all a major run for their money.

* TalkingAnimal
* TeamPet

* BreakTheHaughty: Being a previously-undefeated race-horse, he's pretty arrogant and conceited, and this only gets worse when he learns he's the only actual horse in Oz. Losing a race to the Sawhorse, however, pretty much punctures his illusions about being unbeatable, and he is further cowed when he loses his temper and kicks the Sawhorse, and the Cowardly Lion and Hungry Tiger make it very clear to him that they ''don't'' like it when their friends are kicked around. In the end, Jim becomes one of the only animals in the Oz books who begs to leave the place because he can't stand being an just an ordinary horse in a fairy country.

* BalefulPolymorph: He is temporarily transformed into a onkey (though just his head, which may be a ShoutOut to ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'')
* {{Hobo|s}}
* LoveableRogue

* SomethingPerson
* UpgradeArtifact: The Love Magnet.
* WalkingTheEarth

-->"''Don't know.''"
A little boy from Philadelphia who accompanies Dorothy and the Shaggy Man on their adventures in the Land of Oz. They find him lost on the road while they are hunting for Butterfield. He has blue eyes, pretty curls, a chubby round face, and always wears a sailor suit. Button-Bright appears to be 2 or 3 years younger than Dorothy. To almost every question his answer is "Don`t know," or similar words. In later appearances he is older and more verbose, but has gained a knack for getting lost. In the adventure recounted in ''Sky Island,'' we learn he comes from Philadelphia and his real name is Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith.

* BalefulPolymorph: He is temporarily transformed into a Fox (though just his head).

* CrossOver: He is one of two established Oz characters who appear in the non-Oz book ''Sky Island.''
* {{Hammerspace}}

* AesopAmnesia: You'd think she'd have learned her lesson about staying on the Rainbow after the first time she got stranded, but no. Then again, every time she ''has'' gotten stranded on Earth she's ended up on all sorts of adventures and made many great friends, so maybe she really doesn't mind. Weirdly enough, in ''Tik-tok of Oz'' she does seem to suffer from some kind of real amnesia, since she has completely forgotten the Shaggy Man, whom she met in ''The Road to Oz.'' This is never explained by the narrative, but may simply be an unintentional carry-over from the stage play the book was based on.

* BalefulPolymorph: In ''The Tin Woodman of Oz,'' she is turned into a canary bird by Mrs. Yoop.
* CrossOver: Along with Button-Bright, she is one of two established Oz characters who appear in the non-Oz book ''Sky Island.''
* CuteWitch: Develops into one over the course of her appearances. In her first appearance, in ''Road to Oz,'' she very explicitly says she doesn't know any magic. In her fourth appearance (third if we only count Oz books) in ''The Tin Woodman of Oz,'' she's flinging magic spells left and right.
* FairyCompanion

* ImprobableHairstyle

* TookALevelInBadass: With each chronological appearance in Baum's books she becomes more useful and competent. In her first appearance in ''The Road to Oz'' she's a helpless FishOutOfWater, but in her second appearance in ''Sky Island,'' when we for the first time see her in her true element, [[HiddenDepths it becomes clear just how smart and competent she really is.]] In later Oz books she becomes a lot more confident and powerful even on the ground.
** Interestingly enough, in her first appearance, in ''The Road to Oz.'' she tells Dorothy that she doesn't know any kind of magic, because "we who live on the rainbow among the fleecy clouds have no use for magic." However, in ''Tin Woodman of Oz,'' she has become a rather accomplished magic-user and, despite spending much of the book [[BalefulPolymorph stuck in the form of a canary]], performs several helpful magics. Possibly, she began learning magic in anticipation that she might get stuck on the ground again.
*** Even in ''The Road To Oz,'' she slaps a monster (on The Shaggy Man's instructions) to get him to overreact. Thus making her one of the few female character in Baum's Oz stories to commit an act of violence.

A poor Munchkin boy who lives with his uncle Unc Nunkie in the Northern part of Oz, and is first thought to be a common Munchkin, but in later books is revealed to be the lost prince of Seebania. He's the primary protagonist of ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'' and the later ''Ojo in Oz.''

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: One of the reasons he's called "Ojo the Unlucky" is that he was born on Friday the 13th. He doesn't explain it correctly, though. When he tries to explain it, he treats "Friday" and "the thirteenth" as separate reasons -- or the Tin Woodman misunderstands it as separate reasons.

* NonHumanSidekick

* BerserkButton: Parodied. The word "Krizzle-Kroo" sends him into a rage, because he has ''no idea what it means.''

* NonHumanSidekick

* NonHumanSidekick

* AmbitionIsEvil: Or, in Ann's case, at least very foolish. Crosses into TooStupidToLive territory when she actually muses trying to conquer the Great Jinjin. The Shaggy Man gives that idea exactly the respect it deserves - none.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Ann wastes no time in providing one. The very first scene in the book -- arguably the very first ''line'' in the book, as quoted above, sums her character up perfectly: She loudly and angrily refuses to sweep the floor because it's "beneath her dignity," even though, as her younger sister Salye points out, there's nobody else around to do it for them.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: She tries to set herself up as the VillainProtagonist of ''Tik-Tok of Oz,'' but it's quickly established that's she's not even remotely a threat to anyone and she's more foolish than evil.

* BalefulPolymorph: Turned into a fiddle by Ruggedo.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Especially when they've been made into "carryalls" and have rows of seats attatched to their backs and electric lights to their tails. He also has a distinctly more friendly attitude then most dragons in the books.

The ruler of a strange land at the other end of the Hollow Tube that cuts all the way through the Earth, where everybody is a King or a Queen save him, the Private Citizen. He's also an extremely powerful fairy whose reputation is known throughout Oz, and who Ruggedo tries to cross - despite [[TooStupidToLive being repeatedly warned]] - by literally dumping the protagonists on him through the Tube. For the Nome King, it was a ''really'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Bad idea.]]

* BigGood: Decides this once to come down on this side of the scale. Otherwise, he's the most powerful of the fairies- see below.

* BizarroUniverse: Everyone is a King or Queen at the opposite end of the Hollow Tube - except the Great Jinjin, the one Private Citizen and thus the ruler of them all.
* TheFairFolk: Basically the most powerful of the fairies - even Polychrome sobers up and looks uneasy in his presence.

Mayre Griffiths, known to her friends as "Trot," was (together with her constant companion Cap'n Bill) originally the main character of the two non-Oz books ''The Sea Fairies'' and ''Sky Island,'' which L. Frank Baum wrote as an attempt to get away from the Oz series (even though ''Sky Island'' [[CrossOver also featured Button-Bright and Polychrome in large roles]]). Trot was eventually brought over to the Oz series proper in ''The Scarecrow of Oz.'' Trot is a little Californian girl who is said to have been marked by fairies with invisible mystic signs when she was born, which may account for her tendency to constantly get into magical adventures.

* AChildShallLeadThem: Before coming to Oz, she becomes the ruler of both halves of Sky Island--one by a legal technicality and one by conquest.

* PlatonicLifePartners: Has this vibe with Button-Bright, especially in ''Sky Island'' and ''The Scarecrow of Oz.'' After a moment's initial suspicion, they very quickly become best friends -- but there's never any hint that anything more is going on between them.

!!Flipper the Ork[[note]]Not at all related to the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Orcs of Mordor]], nor the Orks of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' - indeed, he'd probably be mortally insulted by being compared to either![[/note]]
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* CurbStompBattle: When Flipper and all his friends show up from Orkland, the first thing they do is absolutely ''flatten'' Krewl, his nasty majordomo and his soliders, using their SuperMode (see below).
* DeadpanSnarker: Loyal as he is to his friends, he has a sarcastic streak wider then his wings.

* NobleSavage: Definitely fits into this role, since the Orks disdain technology - they don't even know how to use fire! - and consider themselves higher moral beings then the earth-bound humans. Flipper takes pains to point out that the Orks achieved mastery over their land by being in harmony with it and not driving everything else to extinction.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Before the Scarecrow, Cap'n Bill and Trot go into Jinxland, Flipper leaves the party to return to his homeland and look up his family. However, he returns with most of his clan in tow - just in time to save the Scarecrow.

A baker from the Country of the Yips in the land of the Winkies, famous for her cookies. She owns a diamond-studded gold dishpan with magical powers, which the women of her family have possessed for generations, and to which (she believes) they owe their legendary cooking ability. The theft of this dishpan [[spoiler:is what kicks off the plot of ''The Lost Princess of Oz,'' and]] drives Cayke to set out across Oz in search of it.

Ruler of Bear Center, a kingdom of stuffed bears, who joins Cayke and the Frogman on their search.
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* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: He uses this to incapacitate Ozma. In the end, he falls victim to it himself, courtesy of Dorothy and the Magic Belt.]]
* BigBad: Of this particular book. He arguably comes closer to succeeding in his goals than any other villain since the Nome King in ''Ozma of Oz.''

--> ''...Ku-Klip had a gray beard that was almost as long as his apron, and his head was bald on top and his ears stuck out from his head like two fans. Over his eyes, which were bright and twinkling, he wore big spectacles. It was easy to see that the tinsmith was a kind hearted man, as well as a merry and agreeable one.''
An old tinsmith who lives in Munchkin country. He effectively created both the Tin Woodman and the Tin Soldier, by replacing their various parts with tin. He later also creates Chopfyt out of their left-over human parts.

->''The good-natured Giantess was more terrible than they had imagined. She could smile and wear pretty clothes and at the same time be even more cruel than her wicked husband had been.''
A magic-wielding giantess who specializes in transformations. She lives by herself (except for the occasional transformed captive) in a giant-sized castle in the Gillikin country. Her missing husband is the fierce giant Yoop who appeared briefly in ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz;'' she makes it quite clear that she's happier with him gone.

* BalefulPolymorph: What she does to trespassers, subsequently keeping them prisoner in her house to entertain her.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Very much averted. She's described (and drawn) as attractive, well-dressed and well-spoken, but is utterly selfish and evil.

* FauxAffablyEvil: She's calm, well-mannered and hospitable... at least as long as everything is going her way. She also likes to irreversibly [[BalefulPolymorph transform guests into helpless playthings]] and imprison them for all eternity, purely [[ItAmusedMe for her own amusement]].

* RetCon: In ''The Wizard of Oz,'' she was said to be the servant of an old woman who hired the Wicked Witch to get rid of her fiancé. In the more detailed backstory given here, the old woman is retconned out, and Nimmie Amee turns out to have been the Witch's own servant.

* BalefulPolymorph: Turns Coo-ee-oh into the Diamond Swan.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Su-dic is his title (or a shortened form of it), not his name.
* EvilVersusEvil: There isn't much to choose from between him and Coo-ee-oh; both are tyrants drag their people into a war that no one but them is interested in.

* ATasteOfTheLash: How she is said to punish her subjects.
* BalefulPolymorph: Turned the Three Adepts into fishes and the Su-dic's wife into a Golden Pig; eventually, the Su-dic turns Coo-ee-oh into a Diamond Swan. Although she turns out to be perfectly happy about this.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Coo-ee-oh can hear any conversation on her island.
* EvilVersusEvil: Her conflict with the Su-dic.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She's a tyrant who has her subjects whipped if they displease her, and that's quite easy to do, given that she has the entire island under magical surveillance.
* {{Magitek}}: Of her three most powerful spells, one raises and lowers the island by means of an expanding steel column, one extends a bridge between the island and the shore, and the last controls a fleet of submarines.
* MeaningfulName: The three syllables of her name are the spoken parts of three of her important spells.

* NervesOfSteel: Doesn't so much as flinch when all of Reera's creepy monsters rush at him; nor does he bat an eye when she threatens to [[BalefulPolymorph transform]] him. This impresses Reera greatly, and is a major factor in his ability to manipulate her.

--> ''The cottage is the home of a powerful Yookoohoo, named Reera the Red, who assumes all sorts of forms, sometimes changing her form several times in a day, according to her fancy... This strange creature cannot be bribed with treasure, or coaxed through friendship, or won by pity. She has never assisted anyone, or done wrong to anyone, that we know of.''
A Yookoohoo--a magical being with great powers of transformation--Red Reera is characterized by her fondness for things other people dislike (such as lizards, huge spiders, and wolves) and her disdain for human company.

* {{Bowdlerise}} / WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the first draft, she initially appeared as a wired-together [[DemBones skeleton]] with flaming eyes. This was changed to an ape in a lace apron to avoid scaring any kids.

* BalefulPolymorph: Coo-ee-oh turned them into gold, silver, and bronze fish.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Their signature colors remain similar when they're human and when they're turned into fish- gold/blond, silver/white, and bronze/brown.

* ThemeNaming: There's only one letter's difference between their names--"Au_ah".

* CatsAreMean: L. Frank Baum even apologizes for her lack of good behavior in the foreword to ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz,'' adding that "perhaps she wasn't brought up properly." This gets taken UpToEleven at the end when she is accused of eating one of the now-sentient, talking piglets near the end of the novel. She refuses to defend herself and treats the trial for her life like a clown show. [[spoiler:It turns out that she had intended to, but an accident robbed her of the chance. As a result, her execution is stayed (she knew she could clear her name at any point, but let the show go on because she was amused by it)]], but she is shunned by the other residents of Oz and begs to be taken home. As noted above, that doesn't last.

Mayre Griffiths, known to her friends as "Trot," was (together with her constant companion Cap'n Bill) originally the main character of the two non-Oz books ''The Sea Fairies'' and ''Sky Island,'' which L. Frank Baum wrote as an attempts to get away from the Oz (even though ''Sky Island'' [[CrossOver also featured Button-Bright and Polychrome in large roles]]), but was eventually brought over to the Oz series proper in ''The Scarecrow of Oz.'' Trot is a little Californian girl who is said to have been marked by fairies with invisible mystic signs when she was born, which may account for her tendency to constantly get into magical adventures.

* RhymesOnADime: She makes up little songs and poems on the spot; some of the later books has her talking ''entirely'' in verse.

* GenkiGirl: If you're wondering what character could have inspired [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie,]] ou're looking at a contender. Highly intelligent, easily bored, slightly insane in a good-natured way.
* NonHumanSidekick

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His beard and whiskers are green.

* {{Bishounen}}: Suggested by the illustrations and supported by the narrative, which describes him as young and good-looking.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Princess Ozma.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Dorothy.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Though the people who end up terrorized by their antics probably disagree.

* {{Expy}}: Of Naboth Perkins from Baum's earlier ''Sam Steele'' books. [[WeirdAlEffect Of course, Cap'n Bill, thanks to his role in a much more popular book series, is much more widely known than Naboth Perkins]].

* KillItWithWater: A bucket of water? Really!?

* UnfortunateNames: As mentioned above, his initials spell out "Oz Pinhead", [[MeaningfulName naturally reflecting]] that he's almost a complete fraud.

* RoyalsWhoActualDoSomething: Whatever her other faults, she does personally construct her city's defenses and leads her forces (such as they are) into battle.

* Dorothy's pet chicken was originally named "Bill" by her original owner because he thought she was male until she laid an egg. Then Dorothy renamed her, "Billina".note Once they enter the regions about Oz, Billina becomes a talking hen, and is one of the characters in the story. Dorothy even mentions that putting "-ina" at the end makes it a girl's name.

* AccidentalHero: Killed two Wicked Witches without intending to. The first was totally out of her control, more accurately being killed by the tornado, the second she threw a bucket of water at in anger, not realizing witches were [[WeaksauceWeakness melted by water]].

* WeaksauceWeakness: A bucket of water? Really!?

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating

* FieryRedhead / EvilRedhead: Depending on the adaption, she may be an actual ginger.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating

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