Characters from Dorothy Must Die. For their original book incarnations, click here.
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Main characters
Amy Gumm
- Deadpan Snarker: Even when she knows it will piss off people, she can't help but make sarcastic remarks.I knew it was the wrong thing to say, but I couldn't help myself. It’s my greatest weakness: I never can.
- Drunk On Power: Apparently is corrupted by power, but unlike Dorothy she can resist it.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Becomes a literal monster during rage.
- Trapped in Another World: The entire premise is that she's trapped in the Land of Oz.
Nox:
Antagonists
The Wizard
- Big Bad Wannabe: The Wizard tries to be one of these... however he learns the hard way that Evil Is Not a Toy.
- No Name Given: Known simply as "The Wizard".
The Tin Woodsman
- Love Makes You Evil: He fell in love with Dorothy and would do anything for her. Anything.
The Lion
- Emotion Eater: Eats fear.
The Scarecrow
Glinda
- Grand Theft Me: Apparently does this to Glamora... or reverses it when Glamora does it to her.
- The Chessmasster: Was working with the Nome King all along. She was the one who gave Dorothy the slippers that corrupted her.
Dorothy Gale
- Big Bad: She is the antagonist in the title of the series.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: One of the first things that Amy notices about her is how large her boobs and how much cleavage she's showing.
- Morality Pet: Has a munchkin servant who she actually treats well and shows sympathy for.
- Ms. Fanservice: Amy's description of her makes a point to illustrate how attractive she is.Dorothy's boobs were out to here, her legs up to there. Her face was smooth and unblemished and perfect: her mouth shellacked in plasticky crimson, her eyes impeccably lined in silver and gold. Her eyelashes were so long and full that they probably created a breeze when she blinked. It was hard to tell how old she was. She looked like she could have been my age or years older. She looked immortal.
- No One Could Survive That!: Except she does thanks to the Nome King.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Is apparently this, as she claims that all she did with bumping Ozma off the throne was for the good of Oz.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Is literally Drunk with Power. Oz magic tends to corrupt outsiders from the other place.
The Nome King
- Affably Evil: At least during "End of Oz".
- Beneath the Earth: Where he lives.
- Call-Back: It's explained that he tunneled under the Deadly Desert — which was an event in the Oz books.
- The Chessmaster: Is the one behind many of the events.
- Outside-Context Problem: Comes from the land of Ev, not Oz.
The Order of the Wicked
Glamora, Glinda's identical twin sister:
- Evil Counterpart: She introduces herself to Amy as the "Wicked" witch to Glinda's "Good" witch.
- Grand Theft Me: Apparently attempts this to Glinda — or it's reversed on her. It's ambiguous who's really in control.
Mombi
Grandma Gert
- Chekhov's Gunman: In a way — she is introduced in the original Wizard of Oz book as a minor character, the Good Witch of the North, and vanishes from the book. (She was also Adapted Out of the movie)
Jelia Jamb
- Continuity Nod: Is indeed the same Jelia Jamb from the second Oz book.
Kansas
Amy's Mother
- Parental Abuse: Neglected Amy a lot and didn't care. However, after Amy vanished to Oz, she begun to act as a better mother.
Madison Pendleton
- Absurdly Youthful Mother: Teen mother, so justified.
- Audience Surrogate: Somewhat by the later books where she acts as a straight person to the weirdness of Oz and Ev.
- Fallen Princess: After she had her baby, her friends pretty much threw her off their social ladder to the bottom. Ouch.
- Heel–Face Turn: In Yellow Brick War, Madison reveals that she was the one who set up the shrine for Amy in the school, she came to greet her first when she returned, apologised for her behaviour, and asked her forgiveness.
- Trapped in Another World: At the end of Yellow Brick War.
