History YMMV / TheMarvelousLandOfOz

* FandomSpecificPlot: Giving Tip gender dysphoria before the transformation into Ozma. See ''Webcomic/YellowBrickRamble'', for example.

* AssPull: It's implied Tip couldn't simply just rule Oz as king as the people would've only accepted Princess Ozma, the rightful heir. This despite everyone being fine with a talking scarecrow as the king, Emerald City being gullible enough to think a con-artist was a wizard, and no one knowing who Ozma even is.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Enough fans disliked the reveal that the Wizard had been complicit in Ozma's kidnapping that Baum retconed it away when the Wizard came back for ''Literature/DorothyAndTheWizardInOz''.
** Also the absence of Dorothy was a big complaint to the book witch is why she returns in the next novel.

* LGBTFanbase: Tip [[spoiler:or more to the point, Ozma]] is popular with trans people due to the idea of [[spoiler:the gender one was raised as being a lie and one's true self actually being another gender]] having extremely obvious {{applicability}}.

* LGBTFanbase: Tip/[[spoiler:Ozma]] is popular with trans people due to [[spoiler:the {{applicability}} of their character]].
** [[DidntThinkThisThrough Then again]], the perpetually-wise Glinda lays out the book's ultimate position by explaining: "[[spoiler:But you were born a girl ... so you must resume your proper form.]]" The notion that reality is dictated by [[spoiler:a person's birth gender]] and must be honored when all is said and done even if the person currently feels otherwise ... probably doesn't mesh very well with modern-day UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} ideology.

** [[DidntThinkThisThrough Then again]], the perpetually-wise Glinda explains the book's ultimate position by explaining: "[[spoiler:But you were born a girl ... so you must resume your proper form.]]" The notion that reality is dictated by [[spoiler:a person's birth gender]] and must be honored when all is said and done even if the person currently feels otherwise ... probably doesn't mesh very well with modern-day UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} ideology.

* TheyChangeItNowItSucks: Enough fans disliked the reveal that the Wizard had been complicit in Ozma's kidnapping that Baum retconed it away when the Wizard came back for ''Literature/DorothyAndTheWizardInOz''.

* RainbowLens: [[spoiler:Tip]] is a popular example of this trope, which analyzers and future adaptations have toyed around with. He was born [[spoiler:a girl]] but was [[spoiler:magically transformed into a boy as a baby and raised as male]]. Later on, he learns the truth and is turned back [[spoiler:into his true form, Ozma]] (which, depending on his VagueAge, occured in pre-adolescence or adolescence). All the genderbending makes it popular to reinterpret [[spoiler:Ozma]] through a {{transgender}} lens.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: As noted elsewhere, there are several ways you could interpret Tip[[spoiler:/Ozma]], particularly if you're going to look at it through a more modern [[spoiler:transgender]] perspective. Modern Oz writers often speculate on how [[spoiler:Ozma transitioned into her role as a female ruler]], and try to expand on it or make it significantly less seamless of a transition than the one Baum presents. Read for example, [[spoiler:''Fanfic/OzmaSeesHerself'' by Edward Einhorn]]

* RainbowLens: [[spoiler:Tip]] is a popular example of this trope, which analyzers and future adaptations have toyed around with. He was born [[spoiler:a girl]] but was [[spoiler:magically transformed into a boy and raised as male]]. Later on, he learns the truth and is turned back [[spoiler:into his true form, Ozma]] (which, depending on his VagueAge, occured in pre-adolescence or adolescence). All the genderbending makes it popular to reinterpret [[spoiler:Ozma]] through a {{transgender}} lens.
* ValuesResonance: [[spoiler:Tip]] initially complains about having to be turned back into a girl after living as a boy. His friends comfort him by telling him that being a girl isn't bad. They can still be friends, they're just as nice as boys, and they're just as good students as boys. After transforming, [[spoiler:Ozma]] doesn't complain.

* RainbowLens: [[spoiler:Tip]] is a popular example of this trope, which analyzers and future adaptations have toyed around with. He was born [[spoiler:a girl]] but was [[spoiler:magically transformed into a boy and raised as male]]. Later on, he learns the truth and is turned back [[spoiler:into his true form, Ozma]] (which, depending on his VagueAge, occured in pre-adolescence or adolescence). All the genderbending makes it popular to reinterpret [[spoiler:Ozma]] through a {{transgender}} lens.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jack Pumpkinhead was enough of one that Baum retconned his apparent death at the end of this book so that Jack simply replaces his heads when they rot.

* NightmareFuel: Mombi, who's played relatively seriously compared to everyone else. In particular, the scene where she tells Tip that she intends to turn him into a marble statue is unsettling, from the buildup to how cold her statements are.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: As noted elsewhere, there are several ways you could interpret Tip[[spoiler:/Ozma, particularly if you're going to look at it through a more modern transgender perspective. Modern Oz writers often speculate on how Ozma transitioned into her role as a female ruler, and try to expand on it or make it significantly less seamless of a transition than the one Baum presents. Read for example, ''Fanfic/OzmaSeesHerself'' by Edward Einhorn]]

* NightmareFuel: Mombi, who's played relatively seriously compared to everyone else. In particular, the scene where she tells Tip that she intends to turn him into a marble statue is unsettling, from the buildup to how cold her statements are.
* ValuesDissonance: This really depends on how one reads Tip's character before he is [[spoiler: turned back into Ozma. If you read him as identifying strongly with his male body and upbringing, then at the end when Glinda et al. turn him back into Ozma,]] you have what in modern times would be termed a [[spoiler: FTM transgender individual, being forced to de-transition against his will.]] Of course, since others have read Tip[[spoiler:/Ozma as a MTF transgender individual finally being allowed to transition,]] the issue is anything but clear-cut. Another potentially unfortunate implication here comes when poor Tip is treated as [[spoiler: a different person than Ozma, despite being mentally the same individual. Tip cannot ascend the throne as himself, and his male persona is treated as merely part of the magically-induced disguise, to be casually discarded in favor of being Ozma.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: As noted elsewhere, there are several ways you could interpret Tip[[spoiler:/Ozma, particularly if you're going to look at it through a more modern transgender perspective. Modern Oz writers often speculate on how Ozma transitioned into her role as a female ruler, and try to expand on it or make it significantly less seamless of a transition than the one Baum presents. Read for example, [[https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/Ozma_Sees_Herself ''Ozma Sees Herself'']] by Edward Einhorn]]

* UnfortunateImplications and ValuesDissonance: This really depends on how one reads Tip's character before he is [[spoiler: turned back into Ozma. If you read him as identifying strongly with his male body and upbringing, then at the end when Glinda et al. turn him back into Ozma,]] you have what in modern times would be termed a [[spoiler: FTM transgender individual, being forced to de-transition against his will.]] Of course, since others have read Tip[[spoiler:/Ozma as a MTF transgender individual finally being allowed to transition,]] the issue is anything but clear-cut.
** The other unfortunate implication here comes when poor Tip is treated as [[spoiler: a different person than Ozma, despite being mentally the same individual. Tip cannot ascend the throne as himself, and his male persona is treated as merely part of the magically-induced disguise, to be casually discarded in favor of being Ozma.]]