YMMV / The Tin Woodman of Oz

• Fridge Horror: The Tin Woodman finds his old flesh-and-blood head that was chopped off, locked in a cupboard for years. Since the brain is in the head, one might ask, was this the fate of the real Nick Chopper? Was the Tin Woodman, once his head was chopped off and replaced with the tin head, a different man with Nick Chopper's memories?
• Ho Yay: The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, insofar as both are both are actually men. We are told that they are satisfied to sit near each other for hours on end without saying anything.
  • The Tin Woodman feeling no attraction for Nimmie but wanting to find her and propose to her anyway out of kindness almost seems like an allegory for gay men forced into heterosexual relationships, either because of social expectations or kindness to their wife at the expense of their happiness.
• Nightmare Fuel: The Tin Woodman's origin, and what happened to his leftover body parts. It's telling that American Horror Story: Coven basically reuses the exact same concept of a new person being magically created through the infused body parts of more than one person. In all, this book is probably the most twisted and nightmare-inducing installment in the series since Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.
• The Woobie: Nick Chopper himself could qualify. All he wanted was to earn enough money to be a proper husband to his fiancee. The girl's parents didn't like him, so they went to the Witch and got his axe cursed. He chops off limbs, but is lucky enough to have a tinner just pass by at the right moment to rebuild him with metal. Back he goes to work, because he really wanted to marry her. Eventually, his whole body was rebuilt. Why does he want a heart? So he can go back to his girlfriend! He's okay with the placebo the Wizard gives him, but when he finds his girlfriend again? Well, while he was working his tail off (and losing body parts in the process), she was cheating on him with a soldier who got the same curse. The tinner was likely working for the Witch (seeing as she did him some favors like gluing on a severed finger), and has built Frankenstein-style creations of metal and flesh. And Nick's ex-girlfriend married one that was built from both her suitors' curse-amputated parts!
  • Not so much the "girlfriend was cheating on him" part. In fact, Nimmie Aime is a bit of a Woobie herself. Let's see, she lives with an unidentified old woman who allows her to experience nothing but caring for her and doing her chores. She meets and falls in love with sweet and compassionate Nick Chopper, who not only loves her but is going to take her away from this horrible life. She can do nothing as he's slowly dismembered, becoming less and less human, until finally he's entirely made of tin and has no love for her. Then he disappears (first by being rusted in the woods, but once he's freed by Dorothy, he still stays away for years- because the wizard gave him a "caring heart" not a "loving heart," so he didn't see the point in even tracking her down). She moves on, finds another nice Munchkin and falls in love again, only for the exact same thing to happen to him! After that, is it really any surprise that she ends up in a relationship with the Frankensteined amalgamation of her two former lovers' human body parts? He has the personality of the second, but enough similarity to remind her of the happiness she had with the first, he loves her, he stays loyal and treats her well. And even now that she's found love with a stable man, she still needs to live surrounded by an invisible barrier just to feel secure that no one's going to take this one away from her too. And then, after who knows how long of neglect, both her former lovers reappear to tell her, no, we don't still love you, yes, we could have come for you before now but simply couldn't be bothered, and we expect you to commit yourself to a loveless marriage to one of us. Sure, they back off the instant she asks them too, but you have to feel sorry for that poor woman. Chopfyt is the only good thing we ever hear of happening to her that she gets to keep.