History Series / EmeraldCity

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entirety of the first season takes place over the course of 10 days at the most. [[note]]In ''"Mistress - New - Mistress"'' both Elizabeth and Anna concur in their estimation that the Beast Forever will manifest in 8 days, when the two moons align. This event takes place at the end of ''"No Place Like Home"''[[/note]]

* 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. [[spoiler:Dorothy either destroys or damage it heavily in the season 1 finale with the stone giant's sword in order to stop Glinda and her witches]].

* LastOfTheirKind: Glinda worries considerably that she and West might become the last Cardinal Witches ever. The Wizard seems convinced that Mother South's death means no more witches will be born in Oz again. [[spoiler:Glinda's lying. Not only is she hiding Mother South, who is still alive, but she's secretly training a new generation of witches to fight the Wizard]].
* LoveTriangle: One develops between [[spoiler:Dorothy, Lucas/Rowan, and Glinda]].

* BigBad: The so-called "Beast Forever" is frequently referred to as periodically attacking Oz with what appears to be natural (or magical) disasters. The last attack involved a tsunami wiping out most of Ev and killing hundreds of witches. The Wizard assumes that, this time, the witches are the Beast Forever. [[spoiler:He's wrong. The true Beast Forever has been in the Prison of the Abject until Dorothy unknowingly releases him. He puts his skin back on, grows wings, and flies to the Emerald City. WordOfGod is that he's Roquat, the Nome King]].

* CostumePorn: Expected from a Tarsem Signh production. Special mention to East's dresses and Lady Ev's masks.

** {{Zigzagged}} with Glinda, who is the Good Witch of the South in the books, is referred to as the Witch of the North, suggesting that like in [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the 1939 film]] she's a composite of both characters. However, it turns out that there was also a Witch of the South in the show's backstory, implied to be the deceased mother of the other three witches.
** Jack has the same name and a similar role (that of Tip's friend) to the book character Jack Pumpkinhead, but in [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E4ScienceAndMagic "Science and Magic"]] [[spoiler:he has most of his body and heart replaced with metal, becoming the show's version of the Tin Man]].
** Eamonn is a mix of the Cowardly Lion and Omby Amby, the lone soldier in the Emerald City.

%% * CostumePorn: Expected from a Tarsem Signh production. Special mention to East's dresses and Lady Ev's masks.

* DifferentForGirls: [[spoiler:Tip has to struggle with being in a girl's body after reverting to his natural sex, when Mombi's potion wears off, and still identifies as a boy.]] At a tavern, he doesn't understand why people keep staring at him, before the waitress tells her to cover up his breasts, unless he's advertising himself.

* DifferentForGirls: [[spoiler:Tip has to struggle with being in a girl's body after reverting to his natural sex, when Mombi's potion wears off.]] At a tavern, he doesn't understand why people keep staring at him, before the waitress tells her to cover up his breasts, unless he's advertising himself.

* DifferentForGirls: [[spoiler:Tip has to struggle with being in a girl's body after reverting to his natural sex, when Mombi's "medicine" wears off.]] At a tavern, he doesn't understand why people keep staring at him, before the waitress tells her to cover up his breasts, unless he's advertising himself.

* DifferentForGirls: [[spoiler:Tip has to struggle with being in a girl's body after reverting to his/her natural sex, when Mombi's "medicine" wears off.]] At a tavern, she doesn't understand why people keep staring at her, before the waitress tells her to cover up her boobs, unless she's advertising herself..

* NormalFishInATinyPond: [[spoiler:The Wizard was a shy lab tech named Frank Morgan in our world, who hasn't achieved anything in his life. After his clumsy attempts to impress his superiors results in the death of Dorothy's father and Frank, Karen, and Jane ending up in Oz, he sees a golden opportunity for himself to impress the locals with his science and refuses to go back to Earth. However, fast-forward a few decades, and the city of Ev appears to have tech that's even more advanced to what the Wizard has]].

* 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.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Wizard (specifically, his tools and other accomplishments). While he definitely uses [[ClockPunk technology]], his giant stone statues seem a little bit... more advanced than the rest of his devices. He also is able to keep control of Oz and keep the Witches under control despite being (or appearing to be) a perfectly normal man.

* LastOfTheirKind: Glinda worries considerably that she and West might become the last Cardinal Witches ever. The Wizard seems convinced that Mother South's death means no more witches will be born in Oz again.

* FantasyGunControl: {{Averted}} when the Wizard introduces flintlock muskets and pistols to Oz.

* NighInvulnerability: Killing a witch in Oz is a singularly difficult proposition as they have a tendency to not stay dead unless killed by another witch.

** [[spoiler:Dorothy's birth mother, Karen Chapman, has been to Oz]].
*** Except... [[spoiler:she's not actually Dorothy's birth mother. Jane is.]]
** [[spoiler:Mombi had been using magic to disguise Tip as a boy since infancy]].

*** There's a rainbow ornament in the Gales kitchen window, referencing Creator/JudyGarland's famous solo "Somewhere over the Rainbow".
*** The Munja'kin who accompanies Dorothy to the borders of the Tribal Free Lands tells her that the wizard is "great and powerful."

* NighInvulnerability: Killing a witch in Oz is a singularly difficult proposition as they have a tendency to not stay dead unless killed by another witch. [[spoiler:It remains to be seen if East's seemingly permanent death was the result of it being a BoomHeadshot or the result of it being ''self-inflicted''.]]
** [[spoiler: The season finale answers this question when the young witches shot by the Wizard's Guard promptly come back to life.]]

** Tip punishes Eamonn's murder of his parents by his erasing wife and daughter's memory of him.

* YearInsideHourOutside: Dorothy spends approximately 10 days roaming through Oz but [[spoiler: when she's sent back to Kansas, she discovers that only ten minutes has passed.]]

* AdultFear: The horrifying scene in "No Place Like Home" when [[spoiler: the Wizard shoots Sylvie right in front of Dorothy and orders his soldiers to massacre the witches, the eldest of whom are only in their mid-teens. Granted, they all come back to life shortly afterwards, but it's still hard to watch]].

* MythologyGag: Several to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'':
** [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E1TheBeastForever "The Beast Forever"]]:
*** There's a rainbow ornament in the Gales kitchen window, referencing Creator/JudyGarland's famous solo "Somewhere over the Rainbow".
*** The Munja'kin who accompanies Dorothy to the borders of the Tribal Free Lands tells her that the wizard is "great and powerful."
** In [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E5EverybodyLies "Everybody Lies"]], West says Glinda's first line when Dorothy is brought to her.
-->'''West''': So, are you a good witch or a bad witch?
** In "The Villain That's Become" West teasingly tells Tip that she was once known as the Wicked Witch of the West.

** In [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E8LionsInWinter "Lions In Winter"]], West slits her wrist after thinking Tip died from drinking her sister's spell. After Tip revives, he heals her and West recovers.