Characters / Lion of Oz

The Characters from Lion of Oz. For their original book counterparts, click here.

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Lion

• Adaptational Dye-Job: Sean Coons drew Lion with a gold mane. In the film, his mane is blood red.
• Cowardly Lion: The Trope Namer! But before he met Dorothy.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments.
  Tree: Of course you can talk, you're in Oz!
  Lion: Oh, that explains it. Never heard of it.
• Hero of Another Story: He was a supporting character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Here, he is the main protagonist and this is his story.
• Heroic Sacrifice / Taking the Bullet: He shields Wimsik from the Witch's magical attack and is knocked out.
• Magic Feather: His badge of courage given to him by Oscar. Lion fulheartedly believes that the badge is what makes him brave.
• Suddenly Speaking: Landing in Oz has that effect on him. For bonus points, it suddenly hits him that he can talk now while he's talking to a tree.
  Lion: You talk?? But you're a tree... woah! I talk! [clears his throat] Fourscore and seven years ago... woah, this is great!
• Talking Animal: He gains the ability to speak upon stumbling onto the land of Oz.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Lion hates water, but constantly seems to have to rescue people from ponds and rivers, namely the fairy Starburst, Silly and Caroline.

Wimsik

• Big Good: She is the embodiment of everything Good in Oz, even more so than Glinda or Ozma.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: She's voiced by Jane Horrocks, after all
• Beauty Equals Goodness: She is a kind and beautiful young girl.
• Captain Ersatz / Expy: Her outfit when she becomes the Flower of Oz bears a few similarities to Ozma's, right down to the flower headband. Also like Ozma, Wimsik is another young child who discovers her true identity.
• Fisher King: Wimsik is like a walking, talking fertilizer.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Wimsik wears a purple outfit and is ever gentle, carrying herself with a regal grace in all circumstance.
• Green Thumb: Wimsik is an enthusiastic gardener with a love of all plant life, which is shown to demonstrate that she's a good person. Later turns out it's an actual superpower.
• Gorgeous Garment Generation: Once she's revealed as the Flower of Oz and sits on the Throne, Wimsik's outfit magically shifts to a floor length white gown and a crown of roses.
• Healing Hands: In a way. When Lion almost drowns saving Caroline, Wimsik jumps in to help and Lion miraculously gets his strength back when she touches him.
• The High Queen: What she seems to be in her capacity as Flower of Oz.
• Jumped at the Call: Wimsik is immediately eager to join Lion on his quest to find the Flower of Oz.
  Wimsik: Will it be scary?
  Lion: Could be.
  Wimsik: And dangerous?
  Lion: Might be.
  Wimsik: A wild adventure?
  Lion: *nods*
  Wimzik: I'll do it!
• Lost Orphaned Royalty: Of the magical kind. She doesn't even seem to have any foster parents.
• Meaningful Name: Wimsik is Whimsical, as in she's a playful, humble sort.
• Minor Living Alone: She doesn't seem to have any parents, and lives in a castle with only her talking dolls for company.
• Nice Girl: Sweet, kind, optimistic and inspiring.
• The Not-Love Interest: To Lion. A lot of their interactions, not to mention their shared musical number come off as rather... ambiguously romantic despite the fact that they're a lion and a human girl.
• Plucky Girl: Wimsik doesn't take any of the Witch's crap.
• Rousing Speech: Wimsik is rather prone to this: she convinces the Mini Munchkins that they can break their own curse so long as they believe they can; later, she does the same with Seamstress, getting her to power through the Witch's spell by calmly talking her through it.
• Team Mom: She's the levelheaded peacemaker in the group.
• Token Human: She is the only human in a group comprised of a talking lion, two living dolls and an odd imp-like coil creature. Subverted when it turns out she isn't quite as human as originally thought.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Wimsik genuinely doesn't seem to notice that people and plants get magically better at her touch. Everytime Lion points it out to her, Wimsik dismisses it with an airy smile.
• Vague Age: Physically, Wimsik looks like a teenager. However, her bedroom at Castle Grey looks like it belongs to a much younger child. To top it all off, it turns out that she's the Flower of Oz, which makes her age harder to pinpoint.

Silly Oz-Bul

• Cartoon Creature: So, what is Silly, exactly? He looks like someone took a teddy bear to pieces, stuck them on a pair of metal coils à la Zebedee and brought the whole thing to life!
• Catchphrase: Silly has two of those: "Just call me Silly" and some variation of "Silly me!"
• The Ditz: He is this trope to a T.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Moreso than any of the other characters. He's funny in a juvenile sort of way.
• Meaningful Name: He's silly alright.
• No Indoor Voice: Silly is loud. Very loud.

Caroline

• Adaptational Dye-Job: Caroline is depicted with blonde hair on the front cover of the book, while her film counterpart is dark pink. Ironically, her voice actress, Kathy Griffin, is blonde. Also, she wears blue on the cover instead of the film's pink.
• Anger Born of Worry: Towards Silly, when he almost plummets down the ravine.
  Caroline: You silly, silly thing! Don't you ever do that to me again!
• Deadpan Snarker: She is very snarky.
• Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: They're both diminutive, but she towers over the Captain.
• Implied Love Interest: With the Captain, the only one Caroline has a special nickname for. She's devastated when he vanishes following the Witch's first attack, and mentions several times over the course of the journey how much she misses him. You can imagine her delight at seeing him again at the end of the movie.
• Living Toys: Caroline is a tiny, talking wooden doll who can move around on her own. She reminds the audience that she's a doll through the fact that she lives in a dollhouse, can run out of battery, and that "they"(presumably the toymakers who built her) didn't provide her with enough accessories.
• Pink Means Feminine: Caroline's color palette consists of different shades of pink, from the pale pink of her dress to the raspberry pink of her hair, and she is markedly concerned with things like clothes and dollhouses.
• Plucky Comic Relief: In the animated adaptation, Caroline is full of witty comebacks and snarky one-liners.

Captain Fitzgerald

• Adaptational Dye-Job: Has white hair in Sean Coon's illustrations, black hair in the animation.
• Affectionate Nickname: Caroline calls him "Fitzy".
• British Stuffiness: Just listen to him talk.
• The Comically Serious: The Captain witnesses Lion and Silly knocking on the front doors of Castle Grey and immediately accuses them of "storming the castle".
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The Captain is a bit hard to take seriously most of the time, what with the fact that he's no bigger than a squirrel and tends to take things a smidge too seriously. However he's an honourable and kind sort, as after he's taken by the Witch, his first instinct is to try and locate Oscar Diggs. His escape from the dungeon also has him display remarkable cunning and resourcefulness.
• Distressed Dude: He's abducted by the Witch during the journey.
• Hero of Another Story: The Captain spends most of his screen time imprisoned in the Witch's Castle. Not only does he end up finding out from the rather dimwitted jailer that the Witch isn't, in fact, holding Oscar hostage, he breaks himself out of his cell and manages to get back to his friends by having the Witch unwittingly take him there herself; the moment he's free, he immediately informs Lion of the Witch's deceit.
• Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: With Caroline.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: He's a toy owned by a child, so it's a given that he doesn't have any real experience with combat, but it certainly doesn't stop him from trying. He gets his chance to be a hero when he gets abducted by the Witch.
• Implied Love Interest: Again, with Caroline. Pompous and hammy as he may be, the Captain seems to have a particular soft spot for Caroline, since he makes the effort to compliment her and surprisingly doesn't seem to mind her calling him "Fitzy". He's so happy to see her again at the climax that he awkwardly apologizes for giving her a prolonged hug; Caroline, far from being offended, is delighted at the spontaneous display of affection, and goes in for another one.
• Large Ham: He's voiced by Tim Curry, what do you expect?
• Living Toys: Like Caroline, the Captain is a walking, talking wooden doll.
• Malaproper: Is prone to this. "Deny and conquer", indeed.

Wicked Witch of the East

• Big Bad: She is the antagonist of the story.
• Berserk Button: Don't mistake her for, or compare her to, her sister. In fact, don't even mention her sister.
• Card-Carrying Villain: She has a Villain Song about her "wicked ways".
• Doomed by Canon: She swears revenge after she is defeated, but we already know she ends up getting crushed by a falling house.
• Evil Plan: The Witch wants to find the Flower of Oz, the very embodiment of all that is good, and destroy it to exact her reign of terror by extinguishing the Ozians' last flicker of hope.
• Hostage for MacGuffin: The deal she offers Lion seems to be this at first: The Flower of Oz in exchange for Oscar. The problem is that the Witch doesn't actually have Oscar and was baiting Lion the whole time.
• Insistent Terminology: "The East, the East you fool!!"
• Sibling Rivalry: With her unseen sister.
• Wicked Witch: Obviously.
• Would Hurt a Child: Once she finds out who Wimsik truly is, she immediately decides to kill her while she's still a powerless human.
• Villain of Another Story: Of this one, specifically. This is after all a prequel.

Gloom

• Dark Is Evil: He looks like a stormcloud with a face.
• The Dragon: To the Wicked Witch of the East.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Scott McNeil gives Gloom a very deep, intimidating voice.
• For the Evulz: Gloom tried to murder a tiny fairy for seemingly no reason other than because he could.

Oscar Diggs

• Cool Old Guy: Oscar is most likely well into his sixties, and is a jolly, energetic and adventurous man whose best friend is a lion.
• Distressed Dude: Subverted; Lion is led to believe that the Witch is holding Oscar captive. She isn't.
• Hero of Another Story: Anyone familiar with the source material already knows what Oscar gets up to offscreen. In the book, he becomes the Wizard.

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