History Literature / DorothyAndTheWizardInOz

* AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** The Mangaboos are highly xenophobic and willing to execute outsiders for petty reasons. In Chapter 6, Dorothy states she hates them, the Wizard then mentions they're cold-blooded, and Zeb says [[TheHeartless they have no hearts]], and thus, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood cannot feel love]]. And when they ask the Princess how they can leave, the Mangaboos turn violent. Even the Valley of Voe view them as dreadful creatures.

** The Mangaboos are highly xenophobic and willing to execute outsiders for petty reasons. In Chapter 6, Dorothy states she hates them, the Wizard then mentions they're cold-blooded, and Zeb says [[TheHeartless they have no hearts]], and thus, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood cannot feel love]]. And when they ask the Princess how they can leave, the Mangaboos turn violent. Even the Valley of Voe view them as monsters.

** The Mangaboos are highly xenophobic and willing to execute outsiders for petty reasons. In Chapter 6, Dorothy states she hates them, the Wizard then mentions they're cold-blooded, and Zeb says [[TheHeartless they have no hearts]], and thus, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood cannot feel love]]. And when they ask the Princess how they can leave, [[MoralEventHorizon the Mangaboos turn violent]]. Even the Valley of Voe view them as monsters.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Mangaboos. They're highly xenophobic and willing to execute outsiders for petty reasons. In Chapter 6, Dorothy states she hates them, the Wizard then mentions they're cold-blooded, and Zeb says [[TheHeartless they have no hearts]], and thus, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood cannot feel love]]. And when they ask the Princess how they can leave, [[MoralEventHorizon the Mangaboos turn violent]]. Even the Valley of Voe view them as monsters.
** Not so much with the invisible bears and the wooden gargoyles, who merely act on instinct and don't speak at all. For the latter, Dorothy and her friends are GenreSavvy enough to escape as soon as possible, and set fire to the exit to keep the gargoyles from pursuing them. They also leave the hungry dragonittes to be, expecting this trope.

* OverlyLongName:The Wizard's full name is revealed to be Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs.
** And as he glumly points out, it's also a case of EmbarrassingInitials.

* TouchedByVorlons: The inhabitants of the Valley of Voe who eat the dama-fruit - they become invisible. However, it doesn't grant invulnerability - there are really nasty predators in the Valley of Voe that also eat the fruit, and are also invisible...

The plot of the book begins with Dorothy visiting her cousin Zeb in San Francisco when [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake an earthquake]] hits and she, her kitten Eureka, and Zeb's horse and buggy fall into a crack in the Earth and slowly descend into a city populated by the vegetable-like Mangaboo people. They are soon joined by the Wizard himself, who coincidentally falls into the same crack via his hot air balloon, and the group must escape the wrath of the Mangaboos, and later, the various other perils and hostile creatures that live under the Earth's surface, while coping with the bizarre way the laws of physics apply the further to the center of the Earth one gets.Very little of the book takes place in Oz until the later chapters.

!!Tropes

* GardenOfEvil: The Land of the Mangaboos. While the scenery is beautiful, the entire plant race is rotten to the core, and [[KillItWithFire all of it is destroyed in the end]].

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: While escaping from the Underworld, the party run into baby Dragons called Dragonittes, who are over 60 years old and waiting for their mother to return. Since the Dragonittes eat humans, they leave them be, having dealt with the evil Mangaboos, the invisible bears, and the territorial wooden gargoyles earlier.

* ChasedByAngryNatives: The group end up having to flee for their lives when the Mangaboos decide to execute them all for being outsiders. Before making their way through the caverns towards the much more friendly Valley of Voe, Zeb sets a fire, which is implied to have killed all the Mangaboos.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The first third of the book has Dorothy end up stranded in a HollowWorld where the [[PlantPeople plant residents]] are AlwaysChaoticEvil, and ends with her and her friends being chased out, with one friend being forced to commit genocide by burning them all alive. The second location, while much ''much'' friendlier, is overrun with invisible man-eating bears. And, finally, to reach the surface, they have to get through a land filled with wooden gargoles who prey on outsiders.

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The Mangaboos are AlwaysChaoticEvil, so the Wizard and Zeb killing most of them after they threaten Dorothy's life are completely justified in context. It is implied later on that they were all killed in the fire Zeb started during the escape.

* KillItWithFire: The Wizard does this to the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Mangaboos]] using kerosene from a lantern, with Zeb later setting another fire while escaping to kill them all. The Wizard later uses fire to escape the wooden gargoyles as well.

The plot of the book begins with Dorothy visiting her cousin Zeb in San Francisco when [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake an earthquake]] hits and she, her kitten Eureka, and Zeb's horse and buggy fall into a crack in the Earth and slowly descend into a city populated by the vegetable-like Mangaboo people. They are soon joined by the Wizard himself, who coincidentally falls into the same crack via his hot air balloon, and the group must escape the wrath of the Mangaboos, and later, the various other perils and hostile creatures that live under the Earth's surface, while coping with the bizarre way the laws of physics apply the further to the center of the Earth one gets. Unusually for the series, very little of the book takes place in Oz until the later chapters.

* EasilyForgiven: The people of Oz, and Princess Ozma in particular, bare no grudge against the Wizard, despite his being thoroughly debunked as a "humbug" at best, and a tyrant at worst; this having been common enough knowledge by the time of the second book that Tip, the uneducated orphan protagonist, is even aware of it when explaining the events of the first book to Jack Pumpkinhead. Part of this is due to Baum's {{Retcon}} of Ozma's backstory absolving the Wizard of guilt in kidnapping Ozma as a baby.

* DarkerAndEdiger: The first third of the book has Dorothy end up stranded in a HollowWorld where the [[PlantPeople plant residents]] are AlwaysChaoticEvil, and ends with her and her friends being chased out, with one friend being forced to commit genocide by burning them all alive. The second location, while much ''much'' friendlier, is overrun with invisible man-eating bears. And, finally, to reach the surface, they have to get through a land filled with wooden gargoles who prey on outsiders.

%%* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Mangaboos

* ChasedByAngryNatives: The group end up having to flee for their lives when the Mangaboos decide to execute them all for Eureka wanting to eat ''the wizard's'' piglet.

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Dorothy and her friends are immediately blamed for rocks falling from the sky and damaging buildings in the Mangaboo city, which were a byproduct of the earthquake.

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The Mangaboos are AlwaysChaoticEvil, so the Wizard and Jim killing most of them after they threaten Dorothy's life are completely justified in context. It is implied later on that Ozma had them all exterminated.

* KillItWithFire: The Wizard does this to the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Mangaboos]] using kerosene from a lantern, and later uses fire to escape the wooden gargoyles as well.

The plot of the book begins with Dorothy visiting her cousin Zeb in San Francisco when an earthquake hits and she, her kitten Eureka, and Zeb's horse and buggy fall into a crack in the Earth and slowly descend into a city populated by the vegetable-like Mangaboo people. They are soon joined by the Wizard himself, who coincidentally falls into the same crack via his hot air balloon, and the group must escape the wrath of the Mangaboos, and later, the various other perils and hostile creatures that live under the Earth's surface, while coping with the bizarre way the laws of physics apply the further to the center of the Earth one gets. Unusually for the series, very little of the book takes place in Oz until the later chapters.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The Wizard just so happened to also be in San Francisco and fall into the same crack that Dorothy and Zeb fall into. For some reason. Even though he was in a hot air balloon at the time. One gets the feeling Baum was completely giving in to the demands of his fans at this point, whether it made sense or followed continuity or not (he all but confirms as much in his introduction).

* KillItWithFire: The Wizard does this to the mangaboos using kerosene from a lantern, and later uses fire to escape the wooden gargoyles as well.

* PlantPeople: The Mangaboo, a race of intelligent humanoid plants that grow on bushes, and are very hostile toward outsiders.
* RandomEventsPlot: Dorothy and company escape a dangerous WackyWaysideTribe, has a few random encounters that have no bearing on the plot, and then has a good time in Oz at the end.

* WalkOnWater: Dorothy and her friends are able to do this in the Valley of Voe by rubbing a certain plant on their feet, which aids them in escaping the invisible bears.

''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz'' is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by Creator/LFrankBaum and illustrated by John R. Neill. It was published on June 18, 1908 and reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' (1900). Baum, having resigned himself to writing a series of Oz books, set up elements of this book in the prior ''Literature/OzmaOfOz'' (1907). He was not entirely pleased with this, as the introduction to Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz opens with the protest that he knows many tales of many lands, and hoped that children would permit him to tell them those tales.

Mostly unrelated to ''WesternAnimation/DorothyAndTheWizardOfOz'', the 2017 animated series, other than their both being about Oz.

The plot of the book begins with Dorothy visiting her cousin Zeb in San Francisco when an earthquake hits and she, her kitten Eureka, and Zeb's horse and buggy fall into a crack in the Earth and slowly descend into a city populated by the vegetable-like Mangaboo people. They are soon joined by the Wizard himself, who coincidentally falls into the same crack via his hot air balloon, and the group must escape the wrath of the mangaboos, and later, the various other perils and hostile creatures that live under the Earth's surface, while coping with the bizarre way the laws of physics apply the further to the center of the Earth one gets. Unusually for the series, very little of the book takes place in Oz until the later chapters.

* CatsHavenineLives: Mentioned when Eureka is put on trial for eating Ozma's pet piglet; the penalty if found guilty was death, even if she had to be killed nine times.

* SoreLoser: jim does not take losing a race to the wooden Sawhorse well, bucking him and injuring him in a fit of rage upon losing.

Mostly unrelated to WesternAnimation/DorothyAndTheWizardOfOz, the 2017 animated series, other than their both being about Oz.

Mostly unrelated to [[WesternAnimation/DorothyAndTheWizardOfOz the 2017 animated series]], other than their both being about Oz.