History Series / EmeraldCity

* AdaptationalGenderIdentity: In ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'', [[spoiler:Tip]] is revealed to have been [[GenderBender turned into a boy]] as a baby and RaisedAsTheOppositeGender. Though she initially doesn't want to turn back into a girl, she shows no discomfort after turning back into [[spoiler:Princess Ozma]] and identifies as female. In ''Emerald City'', [[spoiler:Tip]] doesn't identify as female when he's changed back into his original form, and only reluctantly stays in a female form to assume the role of [[spoiler:Princess Ozma]] in order to reclaim the country. Later on [[spoiler:magic lets him shift back and forth between forms at will]].

* AdaptationalGenderIdentity: In ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'', [[spoiler:Tip]] is revealed to have been [[GenderBender turned into a boy]] as a baby and RaisedAsTheOppositeGender. Though she initially doesn't want to turn back into a girl, she shows no discomfort after turning back into [[spoiler:Princess Ozma]]. In ''Emerald City'', [[spoiler:Tip]] doesn't identify as female when he's changed back into his original form, and only reluctantly stays in a female form to assume the role of [[spoiler:Princess Ozma]]. Later on [[spoiler:magic lets him shift back and forth between forms at will.]]

* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Temple of the Cardinal Witches. The visible part looks like a fairly modest chapel, but beneath it there is a truly massive chamber, hundreds of times larger, where the spells of all the deceased witches are kept in jars. In [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E10NoPlaceLikeHome "No Place Like Home"]],[[spoiler:Dorothy either destroys or damage it heavily with the stone giant's sword in order to stop Glinda and her witches]].

** Doroty is a beautiful adult woman here. She also has sex with Lucas (a very handsome man), while he's [[ShirtlessScene shown shirtless]] and her [[LingerieScene wearing her bra]] while getting dressed afterward.

** The Witches in general are no longer old hags, but attractive and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld young-looking]] women. The Witch of the West specifically runs a brothel, she's introduced having sex with a man and shows attraction to women as well, mentioning she was once involved with Anna's mother..

** Tip, once turned back to female, is shown as quite good-looking. Unfamiliar with as a result of being turned male a child and brought up that way, Tip inadvertently shows deep cleavage that get him stares at first before getting advised to cover up by a nearby woman.

* AdaptationalGenderIdentity: In ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'', [[spoiler:Tip]] is revealed to have been [[GenderBender turned into a boy]] as a baby and RaisedAsTheOppositeGender. Though she initially doesn't want to turn back into a girl, she shows no discomfort after turning back into [[spoiler:Princess Ozma]]. In ''Series/EmeraldCity'', [[spoiler:Tip]] doesn't identify as female when he's changed back into his original form, and only reluctantly stays in a female form to assume the role of [[spoiler:Princess Ozma]]. Later on [[spoiler:magic lets him shift back and forth between forms at will.]]

* ConLang: For this show, linguist David J. Peterson created the Munja'kin language spoken by the people of the same name, and Inha, the tongue the witches use to cast their spells. The latter also has four separate dialects, which was an idea given by Creator/AnaUlaru herself.

** The Witches in general are no longer old hags, but young women. The Witch of the West specifically runs a brothel.

** There is also Glinda. She mandates celibacy for her acolytes, and demeans West for [[MissKitty running a brothel]], even going so far as to [[spoiler:lock up one of her own acolytes for breaking her vow of chastity in "They Came First."]] The very next episode shows [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E7TheyCameFirst "They Came First"]], [[spoiler: Glinda having sex with Roan, who the audience knew as Lucas before this point.]]

* WhamLine: At the end of Everyone Lies, [[spoiler:The Wizard sees Dorothy and says: "Dorothy, you've come home!"]]

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Several characters are subject to this.

* {{Transgender}}: Tip, due to being [[GenderBender kept a boy by magic so long]], doesn't identify as female when he's changed back into his original form. He reluctantly stays in female form to assume the role of [[spoiler:Princess Ozma]] though. [[spoiler:Thankfully, East's magic lets him shift back and forth between forms at will.]]

* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:In the finale, Ozma doesn't execute Eamonn, who betrayed and killed Ozma's parents... but instead exiles him and casts a spell on his wife and children so that they don't know who he is]].

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Characters from the books who don't appear until ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'' (the second book in the series) such as Tip, Jack, and Mombi, instead show up early in Dorothy's journey, which parallels the action of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Wizard's name has gone from Oscar Diggs in books to Frank Morgan (an homage to the actor who played the Wizard in the 1939 film).

* {{Tuckerization}}: The Wizard reveals that his birth name is Frank Morgan, the same as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Morgan the actor who played the Wizard]] in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Wizard's name has gone from Oscar Diggs in books to Frank Morgan here.