History Headscratchers / OzTheGreatAndPowerful

** Good question. Back then, people had less experience with magic shows.
** But not ''that'' much less experience with magic shows. It does stretch WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a little there, but it's RuleOfDrama and {{Foreshadowing}} of fixing the porcelain girl's legs.
** If traveling "medicine shows" could rip off people's money back then by promising miracle cures from bottles of sugar water, it's not unreasonable to expect them to ask for similarly-impossible miracles from a guy who's showing off his "magic".
** Maybe at the time it was known among some people that magic shows were just fakery and illusions. But not everyone knew for sure and there was still some question about it (think Professional Wrestling before everyone found out about {{Kayfabe}}). Some of them wanted to expose him if he was a cheat. But then again it's the little girl who asks - and she's young enough to believe in magic.
** They knew that Oz could not cure the little girl, but the girl evidently believed it. None of them wanted to be the bad guy and tell her that magic doesn't exist. So they made Oz the bad guy instead, turning the blame on him. It's similar to how adults today can become pathologically insistent that Santa does exist, while giving death glares to anyone who would dare break the illusion for their innocent kids.
** Besides, it's Oz we're talking about. A world with witches in every corner.

** She is not made of flesh. It is the same reason the Scarecrow and the Tin Man were not affected, and this is flat out stated in Baum's book. Also, they do not die, just sleep.
** You have to have lungs to inhale poppy vapors.
*** Lungs that transfer oxygen to the blood, that is. I'll wager hers were just used for talking.
*** Her legs were hollow, so she probably doesn't have blood ''or'' internal organs.

** There's also the possibility of the degree of damage is a factor when it comes to non-biological creatures like the China People. I mean, when it came to the Scarecrow in the original film, whenever he was torn apart, he was really panicked because he was in pieces. It kinda gets you wondering what would have happened if all his stuffing was completely removed, if whatever it was that made him alive would cease to exist. To me, this suggests that any non-biological creature brought to life is somewhat immortal to a certain degree. If you look at the China People, they were broken into little bits, severely to the point where you couldn't tell pieces from one China Person from another. Then we see China Girl, who is mostly intact except for her legs. Yet, when her legs were reattached, they worked like they were normal. Now, this troper here believes that when it comes to the other China People, there's a good chance that they were smashed up well beyond the point of salvage while China Girl was mostly intact, which is why she was able to be able to be normal once again. So, even if someone decided to attempt to put the China People back together, whatever life force they had is long since gone.
** Chances are they all ''could'' be put back together, but it would take an especially large pooling of efforts to do so since the people were far from the only things in town that were made from china, so whoever was willing to aid in the attempt would have their work cut out for them. And the only one who would feasibly be able to tell between the different china people would be China Girl herself, and it would be incredibly traumatizing to have her spend lengthy amounts of time at the scene focusing on accomplishing what would likely end up being a fruitless effort.
** Well by the time Dorothy visits the town in the book, there is a process for mending china people who get broken. So we can assume that Oz organises missions for the people of the town to be restored - possibly by the Tinkers, who are really good craftsmen.

** In the moment she bites the fruit Theodora realizes that her sister has trick her, I think that the only reason she didn't notice before was because she was to upset because of her broken heart and with a cold head she would have notice the trick before.

** Each time Oz was trying to sweep a girl off her feet, he gave her that music box (he evidently had more than one). Evidently he gave one to the strongman's sweetheart.

** She was royal advisor because it was her job. Also, King Pastoria dying wouldn't make her Queen, it'd make Glinda queen. Hence why she blamed Glinda. Also, Evanora couldn't be Queen. It was foretold and apparently common knowledge another wizard would arrive to rule Oz. Evanora, in either sense, had no right to the thrown. The only way she'd really have gotten away with it all was if she killed both Glinda and the king and prevented his prophecy from ever being heard by anyone else and even then it is still VERY suspicious the reigning monarch and the one next in line both die at the same time.

** They knew that Oz could not cure the little girl, but the girl evidently believed it. None of them wanted to be the bad guy and tell her that magic doesn't exist. So they made Oz the bad guy instead, turning the blame on him.

** The magic had already started working by that time.

** It doesn't really make sense, but given how magic works in Oz it's entirely possible that the witches saw an army on the march and figured that the fog or some other magic was repressing the magical poppies. As is mentioned several times both here and on TheWizardofOZ page Oz seems to do whatever the heck it feels like and it's probably not a good idea to get comfortable with the idea that it's going to behave the same way today as it did yesterday. If you see something unusual investigate.

* Didn't Dorothy meet Oz before the tornado hit her? Wouldn't that mean Oz would have to have left the Emerald City and returned to Kansas in between the end of this film and the start of TheWizardOfOz?

* After Theodora eats the apple, she realizes for a split second that Evanora was the wicked witch, and not Glinda, while still supposedly retaining her goodness. SO why didn't she just spit out or vomit up the apple? Would that have worked? Did it never occur to her that the woman she just discovered was behind everything might've just fed her a poisoned piece of fruit?

** Why does she even care about being seen that way? She's a wicked witch, and by the end of the movie she has no problem whatsoever with torturing Glinda with lightning in front of a huge crowd. She's already effectively running the show, so who would dispute it if she just declared herself queen? Only Glinda and her followers, who are all resisting her ''anyway''. And if the damn prophecy is so frightful to her, why didn't she just kill Oz the moment he showed up?

** She was royal advisor because it was her job. Also, King Pastoria dying wouldn't make her Queen, it'd make Glinda queen. Hence why she blamed Glinda. Also, Evanora couldn't be Queen. It was foretold and apparently common knowledge another wizard would arrive to rule Oz. Evanora, in either sense, had no right to the thrown. The only way she'd really have gotten away with it all was if she killed both Glinda and the king and prevented his prophecy from ever being heard by anyone else and even then it is still VERY suspicious the reigning monarch and the one next in line both die at the same time.

* Why does Evanora bother with the pretence of being a Royal Advisor, or of having to give Oz the crown at any point? Why didn't she just declare herself Queen the instant the king was dead, and why didn't she just imprison or execute Oz the moment he showed up in the Emerald City?

** There's also the possibility of the degree of damage is a factor when it comes to non-biological creatures like the China People. I mean, when it came to the Scarecrow in the original film, whenever he was torn apart, he was really panicked because he was in pieces. It kinda gets you wondering what would have happened if all his stuffing was completely removed, if whatever it was that made him alive would cease to exist. To me, this suggests that any non-biological creature brought to life is somewhat immortal to a certain degree. If you look at the China People, they were broken into little bits, severely to the point where you couldn't tell where one from another. Then we see China Girl, who is mostly intact except for her legs. Yet, when her legs were reattached, they worked like they were normal. Now, this troper here believes that when it comes to the other China People, there's a good chance that they were smashed up well beyond the point of salvage while China Girl was mostly intact, which is why she was able to be able to be normal once again. So, even if someone decided to attempt to put the China People back together, whatever life force they had is long since gone.