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* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'', a 2014 animated film based on the novel

* ''Literature/DorothyOfOz'' the novel by Roger S. Baum

* ''Film/DorothyOfOz'', a forthcoming animated film based on the novel of the same name by Roger S. Baum

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[[caption-width:300:Follow the Yellow Brick Road]]



Dorothy Of Oz is a manhwa by Son Hee-Joon (creator of ''{{PhD Phantasy Degree}}'') originally published by Haksanpub and translated into English by UDON.

The story is about an ordinary 16 year old girl named Mara Shin who follows her dog Toto into a science-fantasy realm called "Oz". During her journey to return to her world, she meets up with Abee (Codename: Scarecrow), Namu (Codename: Tin Woodsman), and Tail (Codename: Cowardly Lion), and follows a mysterious Yellow Brick Road (Only she can see it) that may hold the key to the path home.

If you can't tell already, it is a Korean take on the classic tale of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.

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!!''Dorothy Of Oz'' has examples of:
* AmbitionIsEvil: Pillanin. He plans on taking over Oz by experimenting on his own soldiers and innocent townsfolk. Unfortunately for him, Mara and Shine put a cap on that idea.
* AmnesiacDissonance: What Namu fears will happen to him if he ever recovers the data he lost when Mara zapped him. Was his job to find her, or...to eliminate her?
* AnatomyArsenal: Namu and Tick Tock both have blades concealed in their arms. Tick Tock also has a screw concealed inside of her foot. Word of God has stated that her whole body is a weapon, and it’s implied that both of them have much more than just what’s been shown so far.
* AxCrazy: Notable examples include Number 3, Number 50 (to a certain degree, and [[HeGotBetter he gets better]]), the Witch of the West, and Tick Tock.
** In Tick Tock's defense, she's an android that's been programmed to be as ruthless as possible while on a mission. Doesn't stop her from being downright scary at some points, though.
* BaldOfEvil: Pillanin is ''going'' bald...and (according to Tail, at least), this is one of the reasons he turned himself into a vampire.
* BerserkButton: Go near Mara with bad intentions. Abee will have your head on a platter.
** Consequently, calling Mara "Dorothy" too many times will probably not bode very well for your health either.
** "CAT EARS?! I'M A FIERCE ANIMAL, TOO! I'M A LION! Guess you've never seen a monster this hot!"
* BewareTheNiceOnes: None of Mara's group can be called mean-spirited or bad, but piss them off and you'll wish you hadn't.
* BigBadassWolf: Wolf, obviously. And the two wolf chimeras once the Hungry Tiger forces them to go nuts.
* BigBadWannabe: Pillanin. He actually ''is'' pretty tough, but was within a hair of being taken down once Shine decided to show up. And then [[ItGotWorse it just got even worse]] for him from there. He's also rather [[EvilIsHammy hammy]], which is probably another reason no one really takes him seriously, even when he's in his vampire mode.
* BigBreastsBigDeal: Selluriah seems not to care that she is, um, rather ''talented'', though pretty much [[HelloNurse every male character besides Indigo that gets to see her in her Witch form just LOVES it]].
* BigEater: Tail
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Arguably, Tail grabbing and kissing the rat in the fifth volume. This could just be him trying to get over his phobia of rodents, though...
* [[BigBrotherMentor Big Sister Mentor]]: Selluriah is this to Mara.
* BlackEyes: At first, it looks like Abee has these. Turns out they're just [[BlueEyes VERY dark blue]].
* BlindingBangs: Indigo
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Not so much with Abee, but played straight with Number Three.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Selluriah had this right before [[spoiler: dying of the poisoned assassin’s blade]].
* BodyguardCrush: Hinted that Indigo feels this way for Selluriah.
* BoisterousBruiser: Tail
* BoobsOfSteel: Selluriah
* BreakTheCutie: This seems to be Shine's plot for Mara.
* ButtMonkey: Tail seems to be this at times.
* [[CatGirl Catboy]]: Tail looks like one, actually a ''lion'' boy.
** Though as noted below, it's extremely easy to mistake him for a {{Catgirl}}.
* CatFight: Mara and Tick Tock's battle had some definite elements of this. Particularly a little bit before it occurred, when Mara takes off her jacket, moaning about how "it's so hot..."
* ChaoticEvil: Shine at first ''appears'' to be LawfulNeutral...and then he orders the genocide of everyone in Brick Village for the sole purpose of driving Mara crazy enough to destroy Oz, thus showing himself to be this instead.
* ChildSoldiers: Indigo's pretty young to be both a sergeant ''and'' Selluriah's bodyguard, and it's implied that he's been with her for a very long time. Long enough to not be visibly affected when she transforms, anyway.
* CloningBlues: Abee is just one of many clones created by the Witch of the West of her as-of-yet nameless assistant.
* CombatStilettos: The Witch's boots, though in the first volume it seemed to depend on the panel. In some panels, they had a very small heel, but from the second volume onward, they were always very high-heeled.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Tick Tock, upon being asked why she couldn't metaphorically do the simple math of realizing that politeness is the key to cooperation, asks just what is up with the math analogy. Also counts as DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm.
* ContractOnTheHitman: Number 50's own subordinate tries to kill him for becoming a liability. This does not go well for the subordinate, but Number 3 manages to pull it off just fine later on.
* CowardlyLion: Tail isn't afraid of too much...just rats.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Abee has a horrible case of amnesia, is naive to the nth degree, and is quite cheerful, and usually mixes up his words. He's also the most powerful telekinetic in the land and learns new techniques after seeing them in practice ''one time'', which doesn't even mention his willingness to get rid of anyone he sees as a threat to Mara's safety. Tail is a BigEater with NoIndoorVoice and a horrible sense of direction, and is capable of punching a huge, muscle-bound werewolf so hard that he flies back over twenty feet.
** Let Mara get drunk while in Witch form. All of a sudden she's incredibly powerful and seems to have no qualms with using her magic for super explode-y revenge.
** The Hungry Tiger at first appears to be a normal, somewhat lame human (having hidden his ears under his hair and his tail in his pants), who is just looking for information about someone. And then he reveals himself as the best soldier in the North, and has apparently never before been defeated in a fight. And his roar can cause other chimeras to go berserk and attack.
* CultureClash: Among other things, Mara is absolutely shocked to find that Oz has no ocean, guns, airplanes, or phones. Oz, in turn, does not approve of her knowledge of these things, particularly guns, which [[spoiler: turn out to have recently been invented by the Witch of the South and are a matter of utmost secrecy]].
* CurbStompBattle: The Wizard against the four Witches (sadly offscreen and referenced only once), and Attack Mode Namu against Tick Tock.
** Number 3’s unit vs. the Rock Base soldiers as well. Poor guys didn't even get a chance to defend themselves before they were utterly overwhelmed.
* CustomUniformOfSexy: Face it, Tick Tock's got a rockin' body and the uniform only showcases it all the more.
* CuteWitch
* DangerousDeserter: Dr. Nedbar, who stole the Witch of the South’s latest secret weapon and ran off with it. Rather than let Tick Tock catch up with him, he points the gun at Mara and basically demands that Abee help him or he won't hesitate to shoot. Also inverted in that Dr. Nedbar turns out to be an OK guy who helps Mara's group, just one who apparently doesn't do very well in a crisis.
* DetachedSleeves: The Witch's outfit underneath the jacket.
* DidYouGetANewHaircut: Inverted; no one quite believes that normal!Mara and witch!Mara are the same person due to the various physical changes she undergoes when she transforms.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Averted with Abee, who loves his shoes. Mara gave him her old pair shortly after meeting him, and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensued]] when they actually fit ''perfectly''.
* DressCodedForYourConvenience: The Eastern soldiers dress more like typical soldiers. Westerners seem to favor ninja-esque outfits, or in the case of the higher-ranking numbers, lightweight armor. The androids from the South sport some kind of jacket and metal forehead protector. And the chimeras from the North all seem to favor lightweight, fairly revealing clothing. Nonetheless, Mara does not care who fights who as long as they leave her the hell out of it.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Tail, obviously.
* ElectronicEyes: Namu and Tick Tock, complete with a headlight-like feature!
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Played for laughs in a humorous omake at the back of the first volume. Abee demands that Mara choose which one of her three companions she likes, and she responds with, "Well...I really like...the nice lady from Oz!" and grabs onto Selluriah, who is understandably weirded out. Cue Abee having a BSOD and Indigo performing a BigNo.
* ExiledToTheCouch: Inverted with Selluriah, who sleeps on the couch by choice and has done so for so long that she has long since forgotten she has an actual bed.
* ExpendableClone: Apparently to the point of killing a team commander when a rescue is also entirely possible.
* FaceFault: Tail and Mara both come close to this at some points, but the farthest either one goes is Mara falling to her knees and shaking her fist after trying to converse with Abee for the first time.
* FacelessGoons: Inverted with the clones, who all have the same face. At one point, Major Gayle even comments that he's getting really friggin' sick of having to see that same face over and over again.
** Played straight with Pillanin’s mooks in the first volume. Most of them are shown with their faces in shadow.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Pillanin reveals his true form as a blood-sucking vampire chimera, only for Tail to immediately point out that his hair has miraculously grown back. And then ask if that was the actual reason Pillanin experimented on himself in the first place.
* FantasticRacism: The East is generally a better place to live than the other three regions, but nonetheless, God have mercy upon you if you happen to be a Westerner or Southerner who accidentally wandered into their territory.
* FantasticScience: In Oz, magic IS science.
* FieryRedhead: Tail, being a male example...that nonetheless [[ViewerGenderConfusion still looks like a girl]].
* FingerlessGloves: Tail, of the fourth variety. Thyrsos itself is a magical one.
* FireIceLightning: Mara and Selluriah both seem to like these three elements best when performing magic.
* FlashbackCut: Tail gets one of these while being told just why Namu and Abee refuse to allow him to choose where they will go next.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: The Witches of the West and South, and now the North as well (though she just has a monocle). Also ScaryShinyGlasses.
* FoeYay: Sepia and Selluriah, though this is done intentionally. She asks if he enjoyed her transformation sequence, and he responds with a very enthusiastic, "Yeah!" before remembering he's supposed to be trying to kill her and denying it...all the while surrounded by his still DistractedByTheSexy underlings.
* FumblingTheGauntlet: It turns out that wandering around without a traveling pass in Oz is most definitely not OK. And knowing about guns is a death sentence by way of Tick Tock.
* FunnyForeigner: Mara is this to Selluriah and Indigo.
* GeniusBruiser: Namu
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Indigo.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Tail is a lion chimera. Also included are the Hungry Tiger (obviously a tiger chimera), the aptly named Wolf, and two more seemingly unnamed wolf chimeras in the fifth volume.
** Namu is at first believed to be an android, but is actually a cyborg- half man, half robot.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Mara just might be the best example of this trope. She's a better person than most of the prominent figures in Oz, but due to a horrible misunderstanding has a huge price on her head and is feared throughout the land and hated by virtually everyone in the East.
* HeroicSociopath: Abee, but this is more just him trying to get rid of someone he perceives as a threat to both Mara and to himself. Given what he'd just been through only a few days prior, it's kind of understandable. He stops once Mara yells at him about it while drunk, though.
* HiddenDepths: At first seeming like a typical robot who unquestioningly follows orders, Namu turns right around and starts a battle with Tick Tock because she mentioned killing his mission target and cutting off people's arms.
** Tail at first seems like a frightened young {{Catgirl}}, but then shows himself as a young man capable of mass destruction when he gets ''really'' worked up.
* HideousHangoverCure: While trying to find a way to sober Mara up, Abee pins her arms to the wall with a pair of ''axes''. As he was trying to keep her from frying him alive, though, he can be forgiven. She got revenge by almost vomiting on him a moment later.
* HoYay: Namu and Tail, according to some fans.
* HollywoodCyborg: Namu is one of these.
* {{Homage}} to the Oz books.
* HotScientist: The Witches of the Four Points.
* HotWitch: See above.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Mara has a lot of trouble using her powers while in Witch mode, and no matter what she does, just can't seem to get it totally right. Without Thyrsos, she's not strong enough, and with it, she's TOO strong. Unless she's drunk, in which case she becomes almost scarily competent.
* HowWeGotHere: The first book starts off three months after Mara arrives in Oz, and she already has all three of her companions. The latter half of that book, and all of the second, third, fourth and all the way to the end of the fifth, go back and show just how the group got to that point, and how Mara met each of the three.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Turns out the reason Tick Tock managed to beat Namu twice was because he wasn't in Attack Mode. Once he activates said Attack Mode, however...well. It doesn't turn out very well for Tick Tock.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Namu, after realizing just how dangerous his Attack Mode really is. Luckily, Dr. Nedbar doesn't really heed his request and instead gives him a Self-Destruct Mode as a just-in-case thing. It's controlled by Mara's cell phone, much to her dismay.
* IMissMom: "I'm crying because I miss my mom. Is that such a bad thing?"
* IWillProtectHer: Non-romantic example: Namu, upon joining Mara and Abee. The fact that his life is literally in Mara's hands probably helps.
* IdentityAmnesia: Abee, and to a much less extent, Namu. Abee's was so bad that he couldn’t even remember how to speak at first. Namu got lucky and just lost a lot of data, though he still retains much useful information in his databanks.
** It should also be noted that neither Abee nor Namu have shown interest in regaining their lost memories. Abee genuinely seems not to care, and Namu is afraid of what [[AmnesiacDissonance regaining that lost data might mean]].
* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: Despite being told many times that Grumpy will survive being hit with Mara's lightning power, Dopey is fairly determined to gain ownership the older dwarf's helmet.
* InVinoVeritas: Mara gets drunk at one point, and gets a fair bit more confident about her situation. Not to mention her previously terrible magic skills just go through the roof all of a sudden.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Tick Tock. She gets about 75% of her clothing ripped off by the Dwarfs, and yet doesn't seem to notice her state of undress until much later. And even then, it had to be pointed out to her.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Mara. What she initially thought was water turns out to have been beer. Granted, though, she figured out what it actually was rather quickly. It was only the fact that it pissed the Seven Star Dwarfs off that made her keep drinking it.
* JerkassWoobie: Number 50. His reason for being so outrageous and hateful is that he's never been treated with any amount respect in his life, even being denied the privilege of having a true name. On top of that, the one person who he fears above all else turns out to have been looking for a reason to kill him for ''years''. And just when he thinks he's going to be alright and able to live out his life peacefully, Number Three, his aforementioned worst fear, pops up and brutally murders him.
* KickTheDog: Oh Lord, ''Shine''.
* LastSecondWordSwap: "Change back so I can check out your...I mean, ''confirm what I just saw''."
* LightningBruiser: Namu and Tail both qualify. As do Shine and most of the other chimeras.
* MagicMisfire: Instead of hitting Pillanin with her fireball, Mara instead just manages to set Tail on fire. And then while trying to make it rain to put the fire out, she ''electrocutes'' him. Poor guy.
** She also electrocuted Namu while trying to make a bridge. Clearly electricity is not her specialty.
* MagicPrerequisite: Normal people can't learn magic. Of course, this raises questions when Mara, a foreigner, manages it, namely that of "just who the hell IS this kid?!".
* MagicalGirl: Mara
* MagiciansAreWizards: The Witches all consider Oz to be just like them at first, aka, just a scientist who depended on some kind of trinket (in his case, Thyrsos) for his power. Turns out he has actual magical power, and even without Thyrsos was able to curbstomp all four of them at the same time. Ouch.
* MeaningfulName: The names Mara gives to her traveling companions. "Abee" is short for "Huhsuabee", which means "scarecrow" in Korean. "Namu" means "tree" or "wood". And Tail...well, he has a tail.
** And Wolf is a wolf chimera.
* MediumAwareness: A one-off joke at the beginning of Volume 2 pokes fun at how blood and ink look the same in a black-and-white comic.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Poor [[spoiler: Selluriah]].
* MindOverMatter: The clones prefer to attack with telekinesis, though they are also all accomplished soldiers in general.
* MiniDressOfPower: The Witch's clothes. And ''how''.
* MistakenForBadass: Mara Shin, ordinary high-schooler with a four million dollar price on her head for a murder she actually didn't commit.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Much to Mara's annoyance, most people know her as "Dorothy".
* MysteriousPast: Abee, who has literally no memory of his life up until just a few hours before meeting Mara.
* NoExportForYou: The licensed translations stopped at volume 5.
** The raw of the fifth book recently became available for download, however. [[http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1WWJDDSG Link]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The final fight between Namu and Tick Tock, in which Namu activates his Combat Mode and punches Tick Tock so hard that she is literally ripped in half.
** As well as the final fight between Tail and the Hungry Tiger. Tail nearly murders the guy and would have kept going if Mara hadn't stopped him.
* {{Nosebleed}}: The Devil Tribe’s reaction to Selluriah’s transformation. The facial expressions on the cyclops and one of the {{Mooks}}, for instance, are nothing short of hilarious.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: The only time anyone seems to be, um, impressed with Mara in her Witch form is when they've actually seen her transform. And even then, it only lasts a very short time.
* ObliviousToLove: Somehow Abee manages to not realize that Mara likes him, despite her practically swooning over him while drunk.
* OnlySaneMan: Compared to her three faithful companions, Mara is actually pretty normal.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent
* PantyShot: So many.
* {{Pettanko}}: Mara
* PettingZooPeople: The chimeras. Wolf, too, though he's more in the realm of Hollywood Werewolf than Petting Zoo Person.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Mara ages 10 years when she transforms with the Witch boots.
* PowerDyesYourHair: When in Witch mode, Mara’s hair turns white and grows to her shoulders. However, her Witch mode is ''also'' supposed to her in ten years, so one could argue that at age 26, perhaps she just decided to let it grow out a bit.
* PsychicPowers: Abee and all the clones have telekinesis.
* PsychoactivePowers: Upsetting Mara in her Witch form ''[[StuffBlowingUp is a bad idea]]''.
* PurpleEyes: Tail
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[WizardsLiveLonger Selluriah]] may look like a young woman, but her true age is apparently classified, and calling her old will get you curbstomped. It's implied that the other three Witches are like this too.
* RedShirtArmy: The Rock Base in the East is easily taken over by Number 3 and [[SuspiciouslySmallArmy his very small band of soldiers]], despite outnumbering them by quite a lot.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Tick Tock. The Witch of the South makes these.
* RunningGag: Mara tries her darnedest to avoid being seen while transforming, but inevitably, someone will walk in just as the magic strips her clothes off. It gets worse in the fifth book where she trips, goes flying into the middle of the action where everyone can see her, and lands right on top of Abee.
* SawItInAMovieOnce: How Mara tries to explain her knowledge of guns. It doesn't work.
* ScienceVsMagic: Averted; the Witches' "magic" is actually just a supernatural level of science. The Wizard is the only true confirmed magician.
* SexyBack: Selluriah during her TransformationSequence. Mara gets a minor one right before she hands the Dwarfs' asses to them on a platter.
* ShipperOnDeck: Namu saves Tick Tock after she is pushed off a cliff, and Mara declares them to be a cute couple. This is the only mention of it, however.
* SociopathicSoldier: Number 50 at first appears to be this, but he's really just incredibly jaded by life.
* SpeechImpediment: Sort of. Abee tends to get words mixed up, often with hilarious results, but this is a result of his severe amnesia.
* TeamPet: Toto
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Indigo and Selluriah's deaths, and Mara's reaction to it]].
* TechnologicalPacifist: Selluriah is implied to be this. She's also the only one out of the four Witches who hasn't explicitly experimented on humans. Instead, she seems to like making super-suits.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Even though Mara has already had one adventure in Oz, Oz is apparently not finished with her yet and kept showing her the Yellow Brick Road until she finally was forced to follow it.
* TheSoCalledCoward: Tail. He's actually the opposite of cowardly, if anything.
* TheStoic: Namu.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Dick and O'Neal become this. Could also be said for most of the clones, as well.
* TinMan: Both Namu's codename and his personality type. He ''does'' have emotions, but is also very, very much TheStoic and almost never shows them.
* TransformationSequence: Mara gets one when she uses the witch boots. But everyone can see her naked when she changes. Much to her embarrassment.
* TransformationTrinket: Selluriah's boots.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Due to being zapped ''twice'' with several hundred volts of electricity, Namu lost a good chunk of data, including knowledge of just what he was supposed to do with Mara when he found her. How Abee lost his memory is uncertain, but judging by the dried blood on his forehead when Mara finds him, it may be due to head trauma. Note that getting hit in that same place does nothing to restore or further impair his memory, however. Tail also appears to be suffering from some sort of amnesia as well, but just how much or how it happened are also unknown.
* UnusualEars: All the chimeras have the ears (and tail) of the animal they've been fused with. Wolf is the only one who doesn't, but he appears to be more of a werewolf than a chimera.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: For the record, Tail is a boy.
* [[WeCanRebuildHim We Can Rebuild Her]]: Dr. Nedbar’s rebuilds Tick Tock after she’s smashed to pieces, rewires her memory, and sends her back to the Witch of the South with false information. Too bad the Witch and her assistant figure out that something's not quite right here.
* WheresTheKaboom: The first time Mara tries to fight Tick Tock with magic, it...doesn't quite work.
** Same as when she first tried to use magic in general. Unless she's drunk or very angry, she seems to need Thyrsos to help her focus the energy properly.
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Tick Tock
* WitchSpecies: Four of them, North, East (Selluriah), South, and West. It should be noted that they all use a supernatural level of science rather than magic. The Wizard is the only one who knows actual magic.
* WolfMan: Wolf in his chimera form, obviously.
* [[ClearMyName Wrongfully Accused]]: Mara is accused of [[spoiler: killing Selluriah, the Witch of the East, and stealing her boots. The Witch of the West had an assassin kill Selluriah, and Mara just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.]]
* YouAreNumberSix: All the clones (except Abee) have numbers instead of names. Number 50 makes a point of telling Mara that they don't have the "luxury" of real names.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Selluriah and Major Gayle. Mara's hair is teal.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Mara's skirt and stockings when in witch mode do this.
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