Awesome / Return to Oz

• Tik Tok beating up the Wheelers, who were til this point the scariest things in the movie.
• Dorothy telling off Mombi and kicking her as she's dragged up the tower stairs. "I believe you will NOT!"
• Dorothy and Co. flying on the Gump away from the witch Mombi's castle.
• In a rare moment for the villains, the Nome King manages to defuse all the Nightmare Fuel around Mombi by forcing her to grovel in terror before him: first, he commands her to kneel; then, when she gets to her knees, the King orders her to lower herself further; finally, with Mombi almost lying on the floor, the King bellows "LOWER!" and chuckles darkly as Mombi flinches and accidentally bangs her head on the floor.
  • Later there's another one featuring those two. When Dorothy figures out the Nome King's trickery with his test, and he begins reverting to a barely-human pile of stone, the Nome King looks at Mombi and snarls, "You let her escape". Mombi gets a magnificent Oh, Crap! look on her face, and then in a moment that may cross over with Nightmare Fuel the Nome King roars, "YOU HAD HER AND YOU! LET! HER! ESCAPE!"
• Dorothy's third guess. She's wasted her first two, and if she gets another wrong, she'll become an ornament forever. Throwing logic to the wind, she shuts her eyes and walks around blindly, planning to guess with whichever object she runs into. Before she does, she notices a shiny emerald lying nearby. Taking the emerald...
  Dorothy: Oz.
  (Cue Scarecrow)
  Scarecrow: Dorothy! (Voice echoes)
• When Dorothy returns the Scarecrow to normal and the Nome King returns from nearly human to life-like live action make-up humanoid. Villainous Breakdown ahoy.
• As the Nome King bursts into his ornament rooms after Dorothy solves his test and starts saving her friends, he causes an earthquake. As this happens, the Scarecrow notices an emerald-green vase (which is actually a transformed person) on a high pedestal in danger of falling, and, without a second thought, does a running dive to catch it before it shatters.
  Scarecrow: Dorothy! It's green!
• Billina, who was hiding in Jack's head as the Nome King was attempting to devour them, accidentally lays an egg in the Nome King's throat in order to kill him. Regardless of if the Nome King had frightened her into laying the egg or if the urge to lay finally happened on its own, it was fortunate timing.
  • The sheer fact that the Nome King, who had been the embodiment of Nightmare Fuel up until this point, is left a whimpering wreck paralysed with fear the instant he hears a chicken in his presence.

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