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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Polychrome tends to be one of the more popular characters from the later books.

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* ValuesDissonance: Not in the usual "no longer PC" sense, but you can tell this book was written before TooSmartForStrangers was a trope, from the way Dorothy casually accompanies a strange homeless man.
** That said, the Scoodlers may be sufficiently non-human enough to avoid this, but their similarities to a CannibalTribe might be considered an offensive caricature to some.

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Not in the usual "no longer PC" sense, but you can tell this book was written before TooSmartForStrangers was a trope, from the way Dorothy casually accompanies a strange homeless man.
** That said, the The Scoodlers may be sufficiently non-human enough to avoid this, but their similarities to a CannibalTribe might be considered an offensive caricature to some.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: You'll probably find just as many people who like Button Bright as people who think he's quite irritating. Most agree though that he does get a bit more bearable in later books, and it's worth remembering how young he's supposed to be in this book.

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* BaseBreakingCharacter: You'll probably find just as many people who like Button Bright Button-Bright as people who think he's quite irritating. Most agree though that he does get a bit more bearable in later books, and it's worth remembering how young he's supposed to be in this book. We see a much more mature and articulate Button-Bright in his next appearance, ''Sky Island'', incidentally one of Baum's non-Oz fantasies.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: You'll probably find just as many people who like Button Bright as people who think he's quite irritating. Most agree though that he does get a bit more bearable in later books, and it's worth remembering how young he's supposed to be in this book.
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* ValuesDissonance: Not in the usual "no longer PC" sense, but you can tell this book was written before TooSmartForStrangers was a trope, from the way Dorothy casually accompanies a strange homeless man.

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* ValuesDissonance: Not in the usual "no longer PC" sense, but you can tell this book was written before TooSmartForStrangers was a trope, from the way Dorothy casually accompanies a strange homeless man.man.
** That said, the Scoodlers may be sufficiently non-human enough to avoid this, but their similarities to a CannibalTribe might be considered an offensive caricature to some.
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* ValuesDissonance: Not in the usual sense, but you can tell this book was written before TooSmartForStrangers was a trope, from the way Dorothy casually accompanies a strange homeless man.

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* ValuesDissonance: Not in the usual "no longer PC" sense, but you can tell this book was written before TooSmartForStrangers was a trope, from the way Dorothy casually accompanies a strange homeless man.
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* HoYay: The accompanying illustration of Dorothy greeting Ozma with "rapturous" kisses is the trope illustrator on the Literature page.

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* HoYay: The accompanying illustration of Dorothy greeting Ozma with "rapturous" kisses is the trope illustrator on the Literature page.page.
* ValuesDissonance: Not in the usual sense, but you can tell this book was written before TooSmartForStrangers was a trope, from the way Dorothy casually accompanies a strange homeless man.
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* HoYay: The accompanying illustration of Dorothy greeting Ozma with "rapturous" kisses is the TropeIllustrator on the Literature page.

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* HoYay: The accompanying illustration of Dorothy greeting Ozma with "rapturous" kisses is the TropeIllustrator trope illustrator on the Literature page.
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* HoYay: The accompanying illustration of Dorothy greeting Ozma with "rapturous" kisses is the TropeIllustrator on the Literature page.

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