History Characters / LandOfOz

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Whether he's "The Nome King" or "The Gnome King" generally depends on the author.

%%* PluckyGirl

%%* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Crown

%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic

%%* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

%%* TheLancer

* NonHumanSidekick: A living scarecrow who serves as Dorothy's second traveling companion, and remains a close friend afterward. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that he was once a human man, but can't recall it.

%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric

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

%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine

%%* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

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%%* MasterOfIllusion

%%* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

%% Got a better trope to put this under?

%%* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Ozma exploits this with her Fountain of Oblivion.

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

%%* PrincessClassic

%%* TheFool
%%* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

%%* InsufferableGenius
%%* IntellectualAnimal
%%* NonHumanSidekick
%%* OlderSidekick
%%* TheProfessor

%%* TalkingAnimal

%%* DeadpanSnarker

%%* NonHumanSidekick

%%* MasterOfIllusion

%%* SmugSnake

%%* AuthorAppeal

%%* TheCaligula

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

%%* RebelliousSpirit

%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

%%* AmazonBrigade
%%* AuthorAppeal
%%* BeautyEqualsGoodness

%%* {{Mooks}}

%%* [[FountainOfExpies Iconic Character]]

%%* NonHumanSidekick

%%* RobotNames

%%* NonHumanSidekick: To the Cowardly Lion. %%The Cowardly Lion is NOT human, last I checked.

%%* ArchEnemy

%%* BeardOfEvil

%%* HairTriggerTemper

%%* TalkingAnimal

%%* {{Hobo|s}}
%%* LoveableRogue

%%* SomethingPerson
%%* UpgradeArtifact: The Love Magnet.
%%* WalkingTheEarth

%%* {{Hammerspace}}

%%* FairyCompanion

%%* ImprobableHairstyle

%%* NonHumanSidekick

%%* NonHumanSidekick

%%* TeamPet

A MixAndMatch critter with an ostrich-like body and neck, the head of a parrot, four paddle-shaped wings, four legs, and an organic propeller as a tail. To make it even weirder, he's entirely naked, save for topknot of crestfeathers. He's big enough to fly multiple people on his back, and proves invaluable to Capt'n Bill and Trot throughout the novel.

%%* ClockworkCreature

* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz''), he's far more dashing and ready for action than he was in the first book. He cuts the Mangaboo sorcerer Gwig in half with his sword and fights off the Gargoyles with a pair of revolvers.

* VillainHasAPoint: In "Ozma of Oz," he argues that he bought the royal family of Ev from the king fair and square in exchange for long life, and is under no obligation to release them just because the king killed himself
(since the king ''chose'' to die). Dorothy agrees with his logic.

* 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. It robably 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.

** In the alternate-continuity Russian series ''Literature/TalesOfTheMagicLand'', she is pretty much summed up by one of the villains as impossible to fight because she can instantly teleport away from any danger.

%% * BigBrotherIsYourFriend: Glinda and Ozma form a benevolent dictatorship. Given the lack of needing ''resources'' in Oz, this is pretty much just means that they keep a monopoly on stronger magics, and keep people from hurting each other. Ozma is the carrot, Glinda is the stick. That this is a good thing is played completely straight.

* 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.

* 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.)

* 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 just an ordinary horse in a fairy country.
* TheEeyore: He has traces of this, when he's not being a SmallNameBigEgo.

* {{Catchphrase}}: See above. Only applies to his first appearance, though.

* NonindicativeName: Comes off as pretty dim, although as Scarecrow notes, some buttons are covered in cloth. In ''Sky Island'' he's older and smarter, but reverts to something more closely resembling his original characterization when he becomes a permanent resident of Oz. (Presumably because ''Sky Island'' tanked.)

* TheEveryman: As a stand-in for Dorothy (see below) and even more as a stand-in for the children in the audience, she never really develops much of a personality.

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

* 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 soldiers, using their SuperMode (see below).

* RedshirtArmy: Glinda's army.

* ICannotSelfTerminate: He asks to be disassembled, on the grounds that he was not well-made.

** In his first appearance in the books, he plays this trope pretty well for a few chapters. He doesn't just resemble Santa Claus but actually quotes Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas and laughs along with it. He also makes a reasonable point that the King of Ev is the real one to blame for selling his family into slavery and the Nome King upheld his part of the bargain. He even lets the Cowardly Lion try to attack him and doesn't bat an eye or punish him when it fails. It's not until Ozma fails his test and gets turned into an ornament that the others consider him a villain.

** In his first appearance in the books, he plays this trope completely straight. He doesn't just resemble Santa Claus but actually quotes Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas and laughs along with it. He also makes a reasonable point that the King of Ev is the real one to blame for selling his family into slavery and the Nome King upheld his part of the bargain. He even lets the Cowardly Lion try to attack him and doesn't bat an eye or punish him when it fails.

* VillainHasAPoint: In "Ozma of Oz," he argues that he bought the royal family of Ev from the king fair and square in exchange for long life, and is under no obligation to release them just because the king killed himself. Dorothy concedes the point.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: To the Scarecrow. Despite his claims to the contrary, the Scarecrow was extremely smart and helpful throughout the first book. Jack, on the other hand, actually ''is'' naive and childlike, and spends a lot of time in his first appearance worrying about what will happen to his head when it spoils.

!!The Tin Woodman, AKA Nicollo "Nick" Chopperhe'd

%%* {{The Hero}}ine

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Transforms herself into a flower and later a griffin.

* OutOfFocus: Majorly compared to Dorothy and Trot. She never does anything significant after her first appearance.

* ScaryScarecrows: An example of an UnbuiltTrope. When Baum was a 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.

* SmarterThanYouLook: In the first book even he thinks he's stupid but, as the Wizard points out, he came up with the best ideas.

!!The Tin Woodman, AKA Nicollo "Nick" Chopper

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

Formerly a Kansas farmgirl and now a princess of Oz. She destroyed two wicked witches on her first trip to Oz, and has had many adventures since. She eventually moved to Oz for good, and lives there still. Over time, her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, dog Toto, and cat Eureka all came to live in Oz as well.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic

* IChooseToStay: ''Despite'' being famous across literature for HomeSweetHome at the end of the first book, that largely has to do with her being a good niece/adopted daughter. After several adventures in Oz, she eventually ''doesn't'' go back to Kansas and decides to live in Oz. This time she brings her aunt and uncle with her.

* PlatonicLifePartners: With Princess Ozma. ([[LesYay At the very least.]])

* 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.)

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In the first book.
* TwentiesBobHaircut: She has her hair like this in John R. Neill's illustrations.

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

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic

* GhostAmnesia: He certainly never remembered being the Emperor, but being transformed into a crocus by a wicked sorcerer and poessessing a scarecrow was understandably unpleasant.
* TheGoodChancellor: Is this to Ozma. His formal title is "Regent," and possibly third in the line of succession behind Ozma and Dorothy.

* NonHumanSidekick: A living scarecrow who serves as Dorothy's second traveling companion, and remains a close friend afterward. {{Subverted}} in that he was once a human man, but can't recall it.
* 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.

--> "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."

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

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric

* CowardlyLion: The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]. Though the movie version doesn't quite fit the mark, being more a LovableCoward, the book version is the quintessential example.

* DeadpanSnarker: At least in the books. For someone so cowardly he sure can be sarcastic when the mood hits him.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine

--> ''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''.

%%* TeamPet

* PunnyName: Since the Wizard's full name a bit too much, it was shorten to "O.Z. P.I.N.H.E.A.D. Diggs". That apparently reflected his intelligence poorly so he went by O.Z. Diggs.

-->'''The Wizard''': Oh, I am a ventriloquist. I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish.

* TookALevelInBadass: A curious example, because in the first book she's ''already'' stated to be the most powerful witch in Oz... but in subsequent books her power just becomes more and more impressive.

-->'''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!

* TheCameo: In 5th Baum book "The Road to Oz" she shows up for Ozma's birthday party but is only mentioned among a bunch of other characters.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Ozma exploits this with her Fountain of Oblivion

* 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 mischievous or gently poke fun at a situation just for the hell of it.
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted big time in ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'', but played straight in a couple of the later books.

* IAmWho: She quickly gets over it [[spoiler: after the transformation, though]].

* PlatonicLifePartners: With Dorothy Gale. ([[LesYay At the very least.]])

** [[CoolCrown Tiara]] with two poppy flowers and the letters "OZ" at the front of it.
** Scepter with the letters "OZ" at the business end.

--->--'''Tip'''

* WickedWitch: In later books she's described as the former Wicked Witch of the North.

--->-- '''General Jinjur'''

A spunky, talkative chicken, Billina was originally named Bill because, she tells Dorothy, "no one could tell whether I was going to be a hen or a rooster." Dorothy insists on changing the hen's name to a feminine form. Billina endures several scares with the Kansas farm girl before they defeat the Nome King as only a hen can. At the end of the novel, Billina settles in the Emerald City.

* LazilyGenderFlippedName: Billina the hen was thought to be a male chicken and was named Bill. Dorothy adds the ''-ina'' when she finds out it's female. She comments that adding ''-ina'' at the end makes it a girl's name.

* YourTomcatIsPregnant: 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 renames her "Billina."

[[RobotNames Tik-Tok]] [[note]]Not to be confused with Music/{{Kesha}}'s song, but he's a fine dancer anyway[[/note]] is an incredible [[RobotBuddy copper mechanical man]]. He has a [[ClockPunk wind-up clock mechanism]] for thinking, speaking, walking, and other movements. He was made by Smith & Tinker at their Works in Evna. He was purchased by King Evoldo and named [[RobotNames Tik-Tok]] because of the sound he makes when wound up. Dorothy finds him in the rock chamber where he had been placed by Evoldo. He proves to be quite invaluable to her in the challenges she faces in this adventure which carries them deep into the Nome King's underground domains. Tik-Tok becomes an honored member of Ozma's retinue in the Emerald City, joining in many other adventures in the Land of Oz.

* NonHumanSidekick: To the Cowardly Lion.

-->''"Now, the Nome King had never tried to be good, so he was very bad indeed."''

* MeaningfulName: Dorothy certainly intended it to be one. Since she found the kitten by chance, she named it "Eureka" because Uncle Henry had taught her that this means "I have found it."

-->"''Don't know''."

-->''"I'm always getting scolded for my mad pranks, as they are called. My sisters are so sweet and lovely and proper that they never dance off our Rainbow, and so they never have any adventures."''
--->-- '''Polychrome'''

-->''"I'm Ojo the Unlucky. I might have known I would fail in anything I tried to do."''
--->-- '''Ojo'''

-->''"You made me pretty--very pretty, indeed--and I love to watch my pink brains roll around when they're working, and to see my precious red heart beat."''
--->-- '''Bungle'''

-->''"Horrid? Why, I'm thoroughly delightful. I'm an Original, if you please, and therefore incomparable. Of all the comic, absurd, rare and amusing creatures the world contains, I must be the supreme freak... But I'm glad--I'm awfully glad!--that I'm just what I am, and nothing else."''
--->-- '''Scraps'''

--> ''"My eyes can flash fire, and I have a ferocious growl -- that is ''sometimes."''

--> "How could anyone be safe when she's going about sixty miles a minute?"

--> "I won't!" cried Ann; "I won't sweep the floor. It is beneath my dignity."

* 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.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She would qualify if she had any success with the whole conquering the world thing; she certainly has the temper and the willingness to be cruel... but in Oogaboo she barely seems to be able to get anyone to obey her (she has to bribe all the men in the kingdom with fancy officer titles in order to even join her army) and outside Oogaboo nobody takes her very seriously.

--> "I have read in my books that it is always the private soldiers who do the fighting, for no officer is ever brave enough to face the foe. Also, it stands to reason that your officers must have some one to command and to issue their orders to; therefore I'll be the one. I long to slash and slay the enemy and become a hero."

--> "I'm in disgrace just now, you know, and the only way to redeem my good name is to obey the orders of the Jinjin. If he makes me a beast of burden, it is only a part of my punishment, and I must bear it like a dragon."

-->''"...although I am a frog I am the Greatest and Wisest Frog in all the world. I may add that I possess much more wisdom than any Winkie--man or woman--in this land. Wherever I go, people fall on their knees before me and render homage to the Great Frogman! No one else knows so much as I; no one else is so grand--so magnificent!"''
--->-- '''The Frogman'''

--> ''...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''.

--> ''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''.

%%* ServileSnarker

* ForcedTransformation: The Magic Belt gives her the power to transform other beings against their will, although she seems to forget she has it for several books.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: In John R. Neill's illustrations. Subverted in the first book as, she still has the heart of gold in the first book despite being drawn as a brunette.

* InconsistentColoring: Her hair color isn't noted in Baum's books. Illustrators present her as either a blonde or a brunette.

* AnAxeToGrind: He doesn't just chop ''wood'' with that thing -- in the first book alone, it's used to behead every last member of an army of wolves (sent by the Wicked Witch of the West) in the first book.

* TheQuietOne: He could have talked in Oz any time he wanted, he just choose not to.

* GrumpyBear: When he was first brought to life, he was rather innocent-minded, but as the book went on, he gradually became quite gruff. As if his personality was still deciding what it wanted to be throughout the first half.

* YourTomcatIsPregnant: 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 renames her "Billina"