History Characters / TheWonderfulWizardOfOz

!The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
[[WMG: Dorothy Gale]]
Formerly a Kansas farmgirl and now a princess of Oz. She destroyed two wicked witches on her first trip to Oz, and has had many adventures since. She eventually moved to Oz for good, and lives there still. Over time, her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, dog Toto, and cat Eureka all came to live in Oz as well.

* Main/AccidentalHero
* BalefulPolymorph: The Magic Belt gives her this power, although she seems to forget she has it for several books.
* Main/TheBumblebee
* Main/TheChick
* Main/ClingyMacGuffin: The magic slippers are stuck to Dorothy's feet, and even she can't take them off. This trope only applies to the movie version and in ''{{Wicked}}'', however.
* Main/EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Dorothy became a princess in a later book.
* Main/TheFool
* Main/FunetikAksent: Dorothy's CountryMouse colloquialisms get more pronounced in later books.
* Main/IChooseToStay: After several adventures in Oz, she eventually doesn't go back to Kansas, and brings her Aunt and Uncle with her.
* Main/ItWasWithYouAllAlong
* Main/TheHero
* Main/KidHero
* Main/PluckyGirl
* ProtectiveCharm: In the first book, the Good Witch of the North's kiss.
* Main/TheQuest
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia
** Crown
* Main/RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Princess Ozma.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand : Em and Henry notice Dorothy's behavior changed after her time in Oz, and became more of a dreamer than usual. It was one of the factors in IChooseToStay
* Main/TagalongKid: Inverted; she's the leader, and the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion are the tagalongs.
* Main/TrappedInAnotherWorld: In the first book.

In the movie, there's also Main/DawsonCasting. Dorothy's supposed to be 11 years old, JudyGarland was 16 in 1939. [[Main/NotAllowedToGrowUp Despite the studio's efforts to make her look younger]], many people who've only seen the movie think Dorothy's ''supposed'' to be a [[YoungerThanTheyLook teenager]].

[[WMG: Scarecrow]]
Former ruler of Oz, he is still well beloved by the citizens and a trusted advisor to Princess Ozma. He helped Dorothy on her first adventure, hoping to receive a brain. He got it, and his wisdom has been most helpful in thinking through many problems. After the Wizard stepped down, he left Scarecrow in his place to rule as King of Oz. However, he was overthrown by General Jinjur and her Army of Revolt. He helped topple Jinjur's rule with the help of Tip and Glinda's army. King Scarecrow graciously stepped down when Princess Ozma was discovered. Now he serves as Ozma's most trusted adviser.

* Main/FamilyUnfriendlyViolence
* TheGoodChancellor : Is this to Ozma.
* Main/HeterosexualLifePartners: with The Tin Woodsman
* Main/IconicCharacters
* Main/ItWasWithYouAllAlong
* Main/TheLancer
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/ObfuscatingStupidity: In the first book even he thinks he's stupid but, as the Wizard points out, he came up with the best ideas
* Main/RagdollPhysics
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia
** Crown
** Scepter
* Main/ScaryScarecrows: Existed before the trope did but still subverted. When Baum was child, he had a nightmare about a scarecrow that would chase him and then flop around. He remembered the scarecrow when he wrote the Wizard of Oz and it became a lovable character.
* ShipTease: With Scraps, the Patchwork Girl.
* Main/TheSmartGuy

[[WMG: The Tin Woodsman, AKA Nicollo "Nick" Chopper]]
He was an ordinary Munchkin woodchopper who, having angered the Wicked Witch of the East, accidentally chopped parts of himself off when the witch enchanted his ax. Fortunately he had a friend who was a skilled tinsmith, who was able to replace each part with tin, until there was nothing left of Nick Chopper but tin. He joined Dorothy looking for a new heart. He is one of the kindest men in Oz, and after the Wicked Witch of the West was killed, her Winkie slaves chose him to be their new Emperor. He is a steadfast servant of Princess Ozma.

* Main/ArtificialLimbs
* Main/CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted; he just ''thought'' he couldn't feel without biological parts.
* Main/DemotedToExtra: Despite being one of the iconic Oz characters and a major character in Baum's books, he's delegated to very minor roles (and often doesn't appear at all) once Ruth Plumly Thompson takes over the series.
* Main/FamilyUnfriendlyViolence
* Main/FridgeLogic: If the Tin Man is really made out of tin, then he can't possibly rust, as tin doesn't rust. In fact, it resists corrosion so well that it is often plated on to other metals to prevent ''them'' from corroding.
* Main/TheHeart: In spite of his insistence that he doesn't have one.
* Main/HeterosexualLifePartners: with Scarecrow.
* Main/HollywoodCyborg: A curious blend of man, magic and replacement parts.
* Main/IconicCharacters: He's first in a long line of cybernetic beings that question their humanity.
* Main/ItWasWithYouAllAlong
* Main/NightmareFuel: How the Tin Man got his parts, or rather, how he lost them. Also, when he meets up with his ''disembodied head.'' His ''former'' and ''sentient'' disembodied head; as he has a tin replacement now.
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/OlderSidekick
* Main/StevenUlyssesPerhero: Look at his name again.
* Main/TinMan: TropeNamer
* Main/WeaponOfChoice: Axe
* Main/WeCanRebuildHim: In his case, it was a slow and (maybe) painful process.

[[WMG: The Cowardly Lion]]
He came with Dorothy to the Emerald City looking for courage, and the Wizard helped him acquire it. He is loyal and brave, and often acts as a bodyguard for Ozma on state occasions, or to Dorothy when she's out on adventures. But he's the first to admit that he's still scared sometimes.

* Main/BattleButler
* Main/TheBigGuy
* Main/CowardlyLion: The TropeNamer
* Main/CowardlySidekick
* Main/DeadpanSnarker: At least in the books. For someone so cowardly he sure can be sarcastic when the mood hits him.
* Main/FamilyUnfriendlyViolence
* Main/GentleGiant
* Main/IconicCharacters
* Main/ItWasWithYouAllAlong
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/OlderSidekick
* Main/StatusQuoIsGod: A weird version of this happens with him in later Oz books. While the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodsman both keep the gifts given to them by the Wizard (and indeed seldom pass up an opportunity to brag about them) the Lion returns to being a self-admitted coward in his subsequent appearances. This goes unexplained for several books, until ''The Cowardly Lion of Oz,'' where the Lion simply mentions that the courage the wizard gave him has "worn off."
** Which makes perfect sense when you think about it. The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodsman both received tangible, lasting placebos and were still in the possession of their "magnificent brains" and "kind heart" in later books -- but the Lion simply drank an unidentified liquid, and didn't have the same kind of physical reminder. No wonder he alone slipped back into his previous behavior.
* Main/TalkingAnimal: The Oz books are filled with them, but the Cowardly Lion was the first (unless you count Toto, who doesn't begin talking until much later anyway).

[[WMG: Toto]]
Dorothy's faithful dog who travels with her in the many adventures in the Land of Oz. Toto is a small, black dog with long silky hair.

* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/TheQuietOne
* Main/TalkingAnimal: He really can, since all animals in Oz can talk. He just chooses not to. This isn't revealed until ''Tik-Tok of Oz'', when Dorothy finally realizes that he has the ability to talk and gets him to admit it. (He'd occasionally speak after that, but mostly he didn't.)
* Main/TeamPet

[[WMG: The Wizard, AKA O.Z. Diggs]]
-->"''I am Oz, the Great and Terrible. Who are you, and why do you seek me?''"

An Omaha, Nebraska sideshowman, ventriloquist, and [[Main/MasterOfIllusion magician]], who came to the [[Main/MagicalLand Land of Oz]] by accident in a hot air balloon. He tells Dorothy and her friends they must first kill the Wicked Witch of the West before he will grant the favors they seek from him. After accomplishing this mission, Dorothy discovered him to be a [[{{Main/TheManBehindTheCurtain}} humbug]] (not a real wizard). After being exposed by Dorothy he finds a way to help the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion get what they desire most, brains, a heart, and courage. He then leaves the Land of Oz the same way he first arrived, by a hot air balloon. After returning to America, the Wizard found his way back to Oz once again, where he was invited to stay and become a real wizard. He has learned much real magic from Glinda the Good, and is now one of Ozma's closest advisers.

* Main/FamilyUnfriendlyViolence
* Main/GodGuise
* Main/KarmaHoudini: He does, or is described as having done, some very questionable things in the earlier books, but he never gets any sort of comeuppance for them.
* Main/IconicCharacters
* Main/TheMagnificent
* Main/TheManBehindTheCurtain: TropeNamer
* Main/MasterOfIllusion
* Main/MultipleChoicePast
* Main/OlderSidekick: In ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz''.
* Main/OverlyLongName:The Wizard's real name is "Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs".
* Main/PowerPerversionPotential: By the end of ''The Magic of Oz'' he has the secret of unlimited transformation of himself and others with the magic word "Pyrzqxgl."
* Main/PunnyName: Since the Wizard's full name a bit too much, it was shorten to "O.Z. P.I.N.H.E.A.D. Diggs". That apparently reflected his intelligence poorly so he went by O.Z. Diggs.
* Main/ShapeShifting: Subverted, he made it look like he could shapeshift.
* Main/TheSmartGuy: Given the fact he's powerless in a land with powerful magic users, he had to be smart.
* Main/SnakeOilSalesman: He managed to bluff two Wicked Witches not to mention most of Oz into thinking he was all powerful.
* Main/TechnoWizard: He's pretty handy with machines.
* Main/TricksterArchetype

[[WMG: Glinda, the Good Witch of South]]
Ruler of the Quadlings, she is also a powerful sorceress, and one of the most respected citizens of Oz because of her power and knowledge. She is able to keep track of all that goes on through her Great Book of Records, where every event is written down as soon as it happens.

* Main/BeautyEqualsGoodness
* Main/BigBrotherIsYourFriend: Glinda and Ozma form a benevolent dictatorship. Given the lack of needing ''resources'' in Oz, this just means that they keep a monopoly on stronger magics, and keep people from hurting each other. Glinda is the stick. That this is a good thing is played completely straight.
* Main/CompositeCharacter: In the 1939 movie, Glinda is a hybrid of the two Good Witches.
* Main/CoolOldLady: Despite appearing as a young woman, it's hinted that she's far older.
* Main/TheFairFolk: She is reavealed to be a fairy, not a witch, in the books, and some of the movies identitfy her as one.
* Main/GiantPoofySleeves: In the 1939 movie.
* Main/GoodWitchVersusBadWitch
* Main/TheHighQueen: Although she just rules the southern quadrant of Oz, she answers to Princess Ozma. She is Merlin to Princess Ozma's King Arthur.
* Main/TheMagocracy: Glinda rules the Quadling Country.
* Main/MysteriousPast
* Main/PowerPerversionPotential: A magical book that records everything done in Oz.
* Main/OlderAndWiser: It is said the she fought the Wicked Witch of the South years ago.
* Main/OldMaster: The Oz characters often consult her when there's a crisis that stumps them.
* Main/RedShirtArmy: Glinda's army
* Main/TheWatcher

[[WMG: The Wicked Witch of the West]]
The wicked witch who rules the Winkies from her Yellow Castle. When the Wizard of Oz sends Dorothy and her friends to defeat the witch, she uses the Winged Monkeys to capture them. The witch then tries to get the Silver Shoes away from Dorothy, who throws a bucket of water on the witch, not knowing it will make the witch melt away forever. With the Wicked Witch of the West gone, Dorothy, her friends, and the Winkies are set free.

* Main/BadBoss: She must had been this if her mooks celebrated her death.
* Main/CompleteMonster: Where do you think the trope "[[AndYourLittleDogToo And Your Little Dog Too]]" comes from.
* DarkIsEvil
* Main/DracoInLeatherPants and / or FetishFuel: Being played by Maragaret Hamilton really helped this.
* [[{{Main/Fanon}} Fanon Name]]: Other authors have given the names "Elphaba", "Evillene" and "Bastinda" for her in their versions of Oz.
* Main/GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* Main/IconicCharacters
* LargeHam: In the movie. Hamilton was having fun.
* LaughingMad: Several of the instances where she laughs reeks of this, especially when, just like the [[FinalFantasyVI Trope Namer]], she laughs most often at others suffering and death, and often cracks jokes at them.
* Main/MeaningfulName: No, really that's her name.
** In 'Wicked,' her name is revealed to be Elphaba. The name was made by taking L. Frank Baum's initials and using their sounds (L.F.B- El-fah-bah.)
* SorcerousOverlord: Rules like an EvilOverlord. Is a WickedWitch. Got a better trope to put this under?
* Main/SquishyWizard
* Main/EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Baum never gave her a name.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: One reason why she's a memorable villain in the movie.
* Main/WeakSauceWeakness: A bucket of water? Really!?
* Main/WickedWitch: The most famous example of this trope.
* Main/ZeroPercentApprovalRating

[[WMG: Locasta/Tattypoo, the Good Witch Of the North]]
One of the two Good Witches of Oz and ruler of the Gillikin Country, though she's also a good friend to the Munchkins. Appearing as a small old lady with white hair, she only makes a few significant appearances in the books. The MGM movie famously combined her character with that of Glinda, making Glinda the only good witch in Oz.

* BalefulPolymorph: Subject to this in Ruth Plumly Thompson's ''The Giant Horse of Oz,'' which some fans take as DisContinuity.
* CompositeCharacter: Her role, and some of her traits (such as being from the North) are given to Glinda in the MGM movie.
* EasyAmnesia: Once again, she turns out to suffer from this in ''The Giant Horse of Oz.''
* IHaveManyNames: She didn't get a name in her first appearance in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,'' though when Baum adapted the story to a stage play, she had a much bigger role and got the name Locasta. In ''The Giant Horse of Oz,'' she was named Tattypoo and was later revealed to in reality be the amnesiac Queen Orin. Later authors have varied between using "Tattypoo" and "Locasta".


[[WMG: Winged Monkeys]]
A band of flying monkeys. Their services can be commanded by the wearer of the Golden Cap.

* Main/EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys
* HeelFaceTurn: Completely unwillingly on their part; they ''have'' to follow whoever possesses the Golden Cap and have no more choice in serving Dorothy than they did the Witch.
* {{Main/Mooks}}
* NightmareFuel: When the Wicked Witch commands her airborne simian lackeys to destroy the Tin Woodsman and the Scarecrow and Dorothy and make the Cowardly Lion into her prisoner.
* RuleOfThree: After you obtain the Golden Cap, the Monkeys will perform no more than three of your commands.
* Main/TalkingAnimal

[[WMG: Jellia Jamb]]
A constant, if minor, presence in the Palace of the Emerald City, Jellia Jamb is the head of the Palace maids and has served under all the rulers of Oz as they've appeared in the books: first under the Wizard, then the Scarecrow, briefly under Jinjur, and finally under Ozma. She is specifically named as Ozma's favorite servant.

* ADayInTheLimelight: She is the main protagonist of Ruth Plumly Thompson's last book, ''Ozoplaning With the Wizard of Oz.''
* MauveShirt: She goes from a nameless extra in the first book to a fully-named recurring supporting character in later books, with occasional ADayInTheLimelight moments.
* NoNameGiven: In her first appearance in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,'' she is referred to simply as "the girl" or "the green girl." It's not until her second appearance in ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'' that she gets her name, but subsequent books confirm that it's the same character.
* ServileSnarker: Of the good-natured kind. Her mischievous sense of humor is highlighted in a particularly memorable way in the famous [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "translator" scene]] in in ''The Marvelous Land of Oz,'' where she has great fun acting as an "interpreter" between the Scarecrow and Jack Pumpkinhead, when the two fail to realize they're speaking the same language.

[[WMG: Omby Amby]]
Also known as the Soldier with the Green Whiskers, he is the only actual soldier in Oz's royal Army (in fact, in later books, he ''is'' the entire Royal Army) -- at least until Ozma promotes him to Captain-General and makes him her personal bodyguard. He has a wife named Tollydiggle, who is the Emerald City's official jailer.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Few Oz characters vary so much in description as Omby Amby; his personality, name, and even who he is married to is wildly inconsistent with the books. In Baum's books, he is competent and efficient, but rather too soft-hearted to be an effective fighter (he never loads his gun for fear it might accidentally go off and hurt someone), while Thompson portrays him as a pompous coward with bad aim. Also, while his official name is "Omby Amby," some books name him "Wantowin Battles." In one of Baum's books, he is mentioned to have a wife with a fierce temper, but in Jack Snow's books, his wife is revealed to be Tollydiggle the jailer, who most assuredly does ''not'' have a fierce temper.
** Then again, that could just mean that no one's managed to [[BewareTheNiceOnes piss off]] Tollydiggle [[FridgeLogic yet]].
* GentleGiant: He's consistantly described as "very tall" (though one book states that his long beard makes him look taller than he is), and has a very gentle nature.
* IHaveManyNames: Most often he's referred to as "The Soldier with the Green Whiskers," though Baum eventually gave him the name Omby Amby. Ruth Plumly Thompson named him "Wantowin Battles," and this name shows up in a few books after hers as well.
* MauveShirt: Like Jellia Jamb, he's a nameless extra in the first book, but returns to become a recurring supporting character in later books.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His beard and whiskers are green.

[[WMG: Aunt Em and Uncle Henry]]
Dorothy's aunt and uncle, who raised her after her parents died. They are poor Kansas farmers marked by a life filled with hardships and little money, but they love their niece very much, and it's Dorothy's concern for them that drives her to return to Kansas time and time again whenever she ends up in Oz. Eventually, after the farm goes bankrupt, Ozma invites them along with Dorothy to take up permanent residence in Oz.

* CassandraTruth: They're on the receiving end of one when Dorothy tells them about Oz. Interestingly enough, Aunt Em seems more inclined to believe Dorothy, while Uncle Henry thinks she's been dreaming it all. Most of the adaptations, including the MGM movie, have them both disbelieving Dorothy's stories -- this is played up the most in ''Return to Oz'' where the entire plot is started because they worry their niece has gone insane.
* DeadpanSnarker. Surprisingly, Uncle Henry has a few moments like this.
* FishOutOfWater: They have bigger problems adjusting to life in Oz than Dorothy does, and it takes a long time for them to adjust to the grandeur of the Emerald City.
* FunetikAksent: Same as Dorothy, which makes sense.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Aunt Em is mentioned in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' to have been very pretty in her youth, but a hard life had left her thin, gaunt and gray.
* MauveShirt: They are generally very minor characters in the books, but they remain important simply by being Dorothy's only family.
* TheStoic: Uncle Henry is pragmatic and serious, seldom showing much emotion -- though there are notable exceptions to this rule.


!The Marvelous Land of Oz
[[WMG: Princess Ozma Tippetarius of Oz]]
The daughter of the former King of Oz, Pastoria, and the rightful ruler of Oz, she was discovered and restored to her throne, where she has ruled ever since. Her subjects love and trust her, and she is good and kind to them in return.

* Main/AChildShallLeadThem
* Main/AgeIsRelative: Ozma's age was never made very clear, she's a little older than Dorothy to looking 15 or 16 years in O'Neill's drawings. Despite this her birthday is August 21.
* BigBrotherIsYourFriend: Glinda and Ozma form a benevolent dictatorship. Given the lack of needing ''resources'' in Oz, this is pretty much just means that they keep a monopoly on stronger magics, and keep people from hurting each other. Ozma is the carrot. That this is a good thing is played completely straight.
* Main/DistressedDamsel: Subverted big time in ''Land of Oz''.
* Main/EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses
* Main/FlowerInHerHair
* Main/GenderBender
* Main/TheHero
* Main/TheHighQueen: Despite being the supreme ruler of Oz, she never uses the title Queen.
* Main/IconicCharacters: Princess Ozma appears to be the model for [[StarWars Princess Leia]] and [[StarWars Queen Amidala]].
* Main/KidHero
* Main/TheMagocracy: The return of the monarchy results in a Magocracy. The use of magic becomes banned for everyone except Princess Ozma, Glinda, and the Wizard. Rebel magic users have to go underground.
* Main/MultipleChoicePast: Thanks to [[{{Main/Retcon}} retcons]] and ContinuityDrift, the reader has a choice on the origin of Princess Ozma.
* Main/NightmareFuel: How the Princess was found in ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'' might qualify.
* Main/PowerPerversionPotential: Princess Ozma has a magic painting that can see anywhere in Oz. Talk about the ultimate spy cam.
* Main/PrincessClassic
* Main/RagsToRoyalty: Complete with a [[Main/EvilMatriarch evil stepmom]] and a ''twist''!
* Main/RaisedAsTheOppositeGender
* Main/RequisiteRoyalRegalia
** Tiara with two poppy flowers and the letters "OZ" at the front of it.
** Scepter with the letters "OZ" at the business end.
** PimpedOutDress: depends on the author and/or artist.
* [[Main/ReturnOfTheKing Return Of The Princess]]
** Main/FisherKing: The return of the monarchy of Oz turns everyone immortal.
* Main/RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Dorothy. To a lesser extent, with Trot and Betsy.
* Main/RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* Main/SamusIsAGirl
* Main/SecretLegacy: In this case, it's double on the ''[[ItWasWithYouAllAlong secret]]'' part.
* Main/UpgradeArtifact: Princess Ozma has a magic painting that see can every part of Oz. That brings to mind, ''Princess Ozma is watching you''. She also has the Nome King's magic belt

[[WMG: Jack Pumpkinhead]]
Jack was made by Tip from wood he cut from the forest and shaped into the arms, legs, and body, and a head he carved from a pumpkin much like a jack-o'lantern would appear. From Mombi's chest he took some old clothes for Jack; purple trousers, a red shirt, a pink vest with white polka dots, and stockings, to which he added a pair of his shoes. Jack was brought to life by Mombi when she sprinkled the Powder of Life on him. Once alive, Jack proved to a very agreeable but rather simple-minded person. After Ozma was restored, Jack settled down in a house carved from a giant pumpkin just outside the Emerald City to grow vegetables (he needs to replace his head every so often, you see), but still gets mixed up in new adventures from time to time.

* Main/TheFool
* Main/IconicCharacters
* Main/LukeNounverber
* Main/NonHumanSidekick

[[WMG: Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, T.E.]]
A Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug who has been Thoroughly Educated, both thanks to Professor Nowitall. He is rather flat, with a glistening dark brown back and a striped light brown and white front. His nose ends in a curling antenna and his ears look like minature curling pig tails. Thanks to the kindness of a tailor whose life he saved, the Wogglebug wears a swallow-tail coat that is dark blue with a yellow silk lining and a flower in the button hole, a white vest, fawn colored knickers, and a top hat. The Woggle-Bug has a fondness for making puns, and can be a bit overbearing in trying to impress others with his Thoroughly Educated status. After he helped restore Ozma, she founded Oz's first university and appointed him dean.

* Main/BreakoutCharacter: He was considered this for a while after ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'' came out, having large roles in side projects such as the comic strip ''Queer Visitors from the Land of Oz'' and quite a bit of merchandise devioted solely to him -- there were Woggle-Bug postcards, Woggle-Bug buttons, a Woggle-Bug song, a Woggle-Bug board game and a book starring him called, imaginatively enough, ''The Woggle-Bug Book,'' which was closely tied to (and meant to promote) the stage musical ''The Woggle-Bug,'' which was loosely based on ''The Marvelous Land of Oz.'' The musical, however, bombed, and that was pretty much the end of the Woggle-Bug's superstardom. He'd have drastically reduced roles in the following books.
** Also, interestingly enough, in those subsequent appearances he became even more pompous and conceited than before, to the point where none of the other characters liked him much. Fans are still debating whether this was CharacterizationMarchesOn or Character Derailment.
* Main/HurricaneOfPuns
* Main/InsufferableGenius
* Main/IntellectualAnimal
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/OlderSidekick
* Main/TheProfessor
* Main/RefugeeFromTVLand (The Wogglebug is one of the first examples of a character projected upon a screen who then escapes from the screen.)
* Main/ShlubbAndKlumpEnglish
* Main/TalkingAnimal

[[WMG: The Gump]]
-->"''The last thing I remember distinctly is walking through the forest and hearing a loud noise. Something probably killed me then, and it certainly ought to have been the end of me. Yet here I am, alive again, with four monstrous wings and a body which I venture to say would make any respectable animal or fowl weep with shame to own. What does it all mean? Am I a Gump, or am I a juggernaut?''"

Originally the Gump was a mounted head over the mantle in the great hallway of the Royal Palace in the Emerald City. It has antlers like an elk, but it's up-turned nose and billy goat chin whiskers give it an air of absurdity. The Tin Woodman uses the Gump as a head along with two large sofas for a body, four palm leaves for wings, an a broom for a tail to fashion a means to escape the Army of Revolt. Tip then applies the last of the Powder of Life to bring bring this strange creation to life. Thus the Gump becomes an unlikely aerial transport for Tip and his friends in their escape from Jinjur and the Army of Revolt. After tranquility and order is finally restored to the Emerald City, the parts of this strange flying machine are returned to their original function, with the Gump returning to its place over the mantle, where he sometimes strikes up conversations with shocked visitors.

* Main/BackFromTheDead: The only part of the Gump that was dead was the head.
* Main/DeadpanSnarker
* Main/GiantFlyer: possibly the weirdest flying creature ever.
* Main/IHateYouVampireDad: Well, not exactly. He doesn't hate anyone, but he's not particularly keen on being alive again.
* Main/MixAndMatchCritters
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/TalkingAnimal: the only animal part is the head.

[[WMG: Mombi]]
-->'''Tip''': "''She is a terrible old woman!"''

An old woman who secretly engages in the practice of magic. Although she has developed many powers, she is not simply a witch, but more of a sorceress. Her best magic involves the creation of very [[Main/MasterOfIllusion realistic illusions]]. She uses these powers in an attempt by rebels to retain control of the Emerald City and to foil Glinda the Good's move to restore the rightful heir to the throne of Oz.

* Main/BrotherChuck: Mombi was never heard from again after she was defeated.
** Until Ruth Plumly Thompson brought her back in ''The Lost King of Oz''. Still stripped of the power to do magic, she has reinvented herself as a LethalChef.
* Main/TheDragon: To General Jinjur
* Main/MasterOfIllusion
* Main/WickedStepmother
* Main/VoluntaryShapeshifting
* Main/WickedWitch: In later books she's described as the former Wicked Witch of the North.

[[WMG: General Jinjur]]
Commander of the [[{{Main/Mooks}} Army of Revolt]]. After successfully capturing the Emerald City, she summoned [[Main/WickedWitch Mombi]] to help defend it against counterattack by former King Scarecrow and Emperor Tin Woodman. Ultimately she had to deal with Glinda the Good in her drive to restore the throne to its [[Main/ReturnOfTheKing rightful heir]]. Jinjur was defeated and resigned herself to settling down with a nice Munchkin farmer, but she makes it clear that ''she'' wears the pants in the family.

* Main/AuthorAppeal
* Main/BigBad
* Main/EekAMouse
* Main/ExoticWeaponSupremacy: General Jinjur's knitting-needles.
* Main/FemmeFatale: She's not above using her looks to get her way.
* Main/GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* Main/HotAmazon: Jinjur has been described as pretty young woman.
* Main/LadyOfWar: She's the only would be conqueror who captured the Emerald City.
* Main/RebelliousSpirit
* Main/StrawFeminist: She is Baum's AffectionateParody of the American suffrage movement (which he supported).
* Main/WellIntentionedExtremist
* Main/ZeroPercentApprovalRating

[[WMG: Army of Revolt]]
-->'''General Jinjur''': ''"What man would oppose a girl, or dare to harm her? And there is not an ugly face in my entire Army."''

An [[Main/AmazonBrigade army of girls]] from all over the Land of Oz that Jinjur assembled to conquer the [[Main/TheCity Emerald City]], depose King Scarecrow, and run the government to suit themselves. They looted the city upon its capture, picking out the emeralds and other jewels which decorated the streets and buildings. Their uniforms include a green sash around the waist and a skirt in four colors; blue, yellow, red, and purple representing the four countries of Oz. Each of the four companies of girls wear their skirts so that the color of their country are to the front. Their weapons are [[Main/ExoticWeaponSupremacy two long, glittering knitting-needles]] stuck through the knot of their hair at the back of their head.

* Main/AmazonBrigade
* Main/AuthorAppeal
* Main/BeautyEqualsGoodness
* Main/ExoticWeaponSupremacy: knitting-needles.
* {{Main/Mooks}}
* {{Main/Wouldnt Hit A Girl}}: They're counting on it.

!Ozma of Oz
[[WMG: Billina]]
A spunky, talkative chicken, Billina was originally named Bill because, she tells Dorothy, "no one could tell whether I was going to be a hen or a rooster." Dorothy insists on changing the hen's name to a feminine form. Billina endures several scares with the Kansas farm girl before they defeat the Nome King as only a hen can. At the end of the novel, Billina settles in the Emerald City.

* Main/ArbitrarySkepticism: She's a talking chicken who doesn't believe that Dorothy had a friend who was a talking lion, and still found the Tin Woodman unbelievable even after she had met the robot Tiktok.
* Main/DeadpanSnarker
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/TalkingAnimal
* Main/TeamPet

[[WMG: Tiktok]]
-->''"Extra-Responsive, Thought-Creating, Perfect-Talking Mechanical Man ...Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live."''

[[Main/RobotNames Tiktok]] is an incredible [[Main/RobotBuddy copper mechanical man]]. He has a [[{{ClockworkPunk}} wind-up clock mechanism]] for thinking, speaking, walking, and other movements. He was made by Smith & Tinker at their Works in Evna. He was purchased by King Evoldo and named [[Main/RobotNames Tiktok]] because of the sound he makes when wound up. Dorothy finds him in the rock chamber where he had been placed by Evoldo. He proves to be quite invaluable to her in the challenges she faces in this adventure which carries them deep into the Nome King's underground domains. Tiktok becomes an honored member of Ozma's retinue in the Emerald City, joining in many other adventures in the Land of Oz

* AndIMustScream: Tik-tok has mechanisms for thought, speech, and action. At one point "action" and "speech" ran down and Tik-Tok had nothing to do but stand still and think and think until slowly, gradually, his thoughts ran down to nothing.
* Main/BattleButler
* CannotTellALie: "Tik-Tok has spoken truly, for his machinery will not allow him to lie, nor will it allow his thoughts to think falsely. Therefore, these people are not our enemies"
* ClockworkCreature
* {{Main/Cute Kids And Robots}}
* Main/IconicCharacters
* LiteralMinded: "How shall we go to the Nome King's cavern, Tik-Tok?" "We might crawl, or jump, or roll o-ver and o-ver un-til we get there; but the best way is to walk."
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/RobotBuddy: Tik-Tok was around before the term "robot" was coined.
* Main/RoboSpeak: The oldest version of this trope.
* Main/RobotNames
* TheSpock
* Main/ThreeLawsCompliant: Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics was partly inspired by the interaction between Tiktok and Dorothy in ''Ozma of Oz''.
* TinMan: Although it's mentioned that Tik-Tok isn't alive and has no capacity for emotion, he's capable of becoming bored, has a great deal of self-assurance and pride (to the point of vanity), and even a bit of snarkiness. So there's ''something'' going on in there.

[[WMG: The Hungry Tiger]]
The Hungry Tiger is a good friend of the Cowardly Lion who left the forest and joined the Lion because he realized that he did not fit in. As his name implies, the Tiger is always hungry and lusts longingly to devour the many tender creatures that he encounters, but he has a powerful conscience and is so driven by his sense of right and wrong that he cannot bring himself to eat any of them -- and so he stays hungry all the time. With the Lion, he is one of Ozma's bodyguards.

* Main/BigEater
* Main/BigGuy
* Main/CarnivoreConfusion
* Main/GentleGiant
* Main/EarlybirdCameo: Possibly -- it's a popular fan theory that the unnamed tiger that appears in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' is the same as the Hungry Tiger, though this was never officially confirmed.
* Main/LawfulGood
* Main/MilesGloriosus: ...sorta. The Tiger makes a great fuss about how savage and dangerous he is, but he's really a big softy.
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/TalkingAnimal
* Main/TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fat babies. Though he never actually ''eats'' any.

[[WMG: The Nome King]]
-->''"Now, the Nome King had never tried to be good, so he was very bad indeed."''

Although the Wicked Witch of the West is the most famous of Oz's villains (thanks to the popular 1939 film), the Nome King is the closest the book series has to a primary BigBad. He appears again and again to cause trouble for the Land of Oz. He's described as looking like an demented Santa Claus. Originally his name was Roquat the Red, but in ''The Emerald City of Oz'' he was reformed after a dunking in the Water of Oblivion; he soon returned to his evil ways, but forgot his name, and started calling himself Ruggedo.

* Main/AffablyEvil
* Main/AmnesiacDissonance: Attempted many times. It never stuck.
* Main/ArchEnemy
* BalefulPolymorph: Frequently transforms the heroes against their will, usually into ornaments for his palace.
* Main/BeardOfEvil
* Main/BeneathTheEarth
* BigBad
* Main/CardCarryingVillain
* Main/ChronicVillainy
* Main/GondorCallsForAid: Inverted in ''Emerald City of Oz''.
* Main/IHaveManyNames
* Main/ImprobableHairstyle
* Main/JokerImmunity
* Main/TheMagnificent: Alternates between "of the Rocks" and "the Red".
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* {{Main/Spell My Name With An S}}: Whether he's "The Nome King" or "The Gnome King" generally depends on the author.
* Main/WeakSauceWeakness: Eggs. (Possibly symbolic of the matriarchy present in Oz.)

[[WMG: Kaliko]]
The Nome King's Chief Steward.
* AntiVillain: In ''Rinkitink in Oz'', where he's at his most villainous, he still comes off as a lot nicer than Ruggedo/Roquat. (He isn't a villain at all in ''Tik-Tok of Oz'', where he becomes the new King, but apparently later books required a villainous Nome King anyway. Some of the later authors may have forgotten that there were, in fact, differences between his personality and Ruggedo's.)
* BeleagueredAssistant / HypercompetentSidekick: Fluctuates between the two- most of the time he's the latter, but definitely the former by ''Tik-Tok of Oz.''
* GadgeteerGenius: While he never invents anything, one short story had him reassembling a smashed Tik-Tok- implied to be just about impossible due to how complicated the machinery was- ''for fun''. (This trait of his is never mentioned elsewhere.)
* TheGoodChancellor: Runs the Nome King's kingdom very well, and is stated to be better liked than the monarch.
* ImprobableHairstyle: Even more so than his boss, if you go by the illustrations. Part of it goes down to his shoulders, while the rest goes up in a great big tuft.
* NoNameGiven: Not actually named in this book, but the Kaliko who appears later acts enough like the original Chief Steward that they're ''probably'' the same character.
* OfferedTheCrown: In ''Tik-Tok of Oz'', when Ruggedo is deposed by Quox. He accepts.
* PetTheDog: In ''Tik-Tok'', he rescues Betsy from being thrown into the Slimy Cave. (While being in the Slimy Cave would probably have not been too bad on its own, Ruggedo was in the process of throwing a huge tantrum, [[BalefulPolymorph turning people into musical instruments]] and calling for torturers. Since Betsy was a TagalongKid, Kaliko presumably thought that she was safer waiting out the situation in his house.) This functions to set him up as a good replacement King later in the book, since his role before that point consisted of following his boss's orders and advising him against foolishness.
* ServileSnarker
* UltimateJobSecurity: Gets away with calling his extremely short-tempered monarch an idiot, more than once, because the Nome King can't find a competent replacement. For comparision, the Nome King executes his generals at the drop of a hat- he threatens Kaliko periodically, but never actually does anything to him.

!Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
[[WMG: Eureka]]
She is Dorothy's white kitten, and accompanies Dorothy in a great adventure in the Land of Oz. In later adventures, after Dorothy has returned permanently to the Land of Oz, Eureka becomes the Pink Kitten. The cause of this color change is one of the mysteries of Oz.

* Main/CatsAreMean: L. Frank Baum even apologizes for her lack of good behavior in the foreword to ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz,'' adding that "perhaps she wasn't brought up properly."
* Main/DeadpanSnarker
* Main/FearlessFool: Since she has nine lives, she's not afraid of anything, even when she ''should'' be.
* Main/MeaningfulName: Dorothy certainly intended it to be one. Since she found the kitten by chance, she named it "Eureka" because Uncle Henry had taught her that this means "I have found it."
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/TalkingAnimal
* Main/TeamPet

!Road to Oz
[[WMG: Shaggy Man]]
-->"''Don't you love me?''"

A kindly old wanderer, dressed all in rags. His basic philosophy of life centers on love and an aversion to money and material possessions. His one possession of value is the Love Magnet. He first meets Dorothy on her Uncle Henry's farm in Kansas. They become lost and have a series of adventures, culminating at a grand birthday party for Ozma in the Emerald City of Oz. In later stories we learn that the Shaggy Man becomes a full time resident of Oz, where Ozma appoints him Governor of the Royal Storehouses.

* [[{{Main/Hobos}} Hobo]]
* Main/LoveableRogue
* Main/MediumAwareness
* Main/PowerPerversionPotential: The Love Magnet
* Main/SomethingPerson
* Main/UpgradeArtifact: The Love Magnet
* Main/WalkingTheEarth

[[WMG: Button-Bright]]
-->"''Don't know''"

A little boy who accompanies Dorothy and the Shaggy Man on their adventures in the Land of Oz. They find him lost on the road while they are hunting for Butterfield. He has blue eyes, pretty curls, a chubby round face, and always wears a sailor suit. Button-Bright appears to be 2 or 3 years younger than Dorothy. To almost every question his answer is "Don`t know," or similar words. In later appearances he is older and more verbose, but has gained a knack for getting lost. In the adventure recounted in ''Sky Island,'' we learn he comes from Philadelphia and his real name is Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith.

* Main/CatchPhrase: See above. Only applies to his first appearance, though.
* Main/CheerfulChild: In later stories he becomes a weird mix of this and TheStoic; he'll calmly go along with whatever is happening to him at the time, never losing his good humor.
* Main/CrossOver: He is one of two established Oz characters who appears in the non-oz book ''Sky Island.''
* Main/IronicNickname
* Main/HammerSpace
* Main/InvoluntaryShapeshifting
* Main/OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Mostly because his real name is so long.
* Main/OverlyLongName: "Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith" isn't even his ''full'' name, it's just the parts of it that he can actually remember.
* Main/UpgradeArtifact: His Magic Umbrella.
* Main/VerbalTic

[[WMG: Polychrome the Rainbow's daughter]]
The sweetest and merriest, but most reckless of the Rainbow's daughters. She wears soft flowing robes that look like cobwebs and are tinted violet, rose, topaz, olive, azure, and white, and her hair is like spun gold. She slides off her father's Rainbow and falls to the ground, becomes lost, and joins Dorothy and her friends in their search for the Emerald City. In a later adventure she becomes trapped on earth for the second time when the Rainbow returns to the sky without her. She joins Betsy Bobbin and her friends in their quest to rescue the Shaggy Man's brother. Polychrome's uncle is the Rain King.

* AesopAmnesia: You'd think she'd have learned her lesson about staying on the Rainbow after the first time she got stranded, but no. Then again, every time she ''has'' gotten stranded on Earth she's ended up on all sorts of adventures and made many great friends, so maybe she really doesn't mind.
** Weirdly enough, in ''Tik-tok of Oz'' she does seem to suffer from some kind of amnesia, since she has completely forgotten the Shaggy Man, whom she met in ''The Road to Oz.'' This is never explained by the narrative, but may simply be an unintentional carry-over from the stage play the book was based on.
* Main/CrossOver: Along with Button-Bright, she is one of two established Oz characters who appear in the non-Oz book ''Sky Island.''
* Main/CuteWitch
* Main/FairyCompanion
* Main/FishOutOfWater: In her first appearance she is completely out of her element and doesn't cope too well with being stuck on the ground. In later appearances she's more experienced and better able to cope.
* Main/GuestStarPartyMember: On several occasions.
* Main/ImprobableHairstyle
* InSeriesNickname: Dorothy and Betsy call her "Polly."
* Main/MeaningfulName: Her name is Greek for "multi colored" as opposed to Monochrome
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/TookALevelInBadass: With each chronological appearance in Baum's books she becomes more useful and competent. In her first appearance in ''The Road to Oz'' she's a helpless FishOutofWater, but in her second appearance in ''Sky Island,'' when we for the first time see her in her true element, [[HiddenDepths it becomes clear just how smart and competent she really is.]] In later Oz books she becomes a lot more confident and powerful even on the ground, even performing several magics.

!The Patchwork Girl of Oz
[[WMG: Ojo the (Un)Lucky]]
-->''"I'm Ojo the Unlucky," replied the boy. "I might have known I would fail in anything I tried to do."''

A poor Munchkin boy who lives with his uncle Unc Nunkie in the Northern part of Oz, and is first thought to be a common Munchkin, but in later books is revealed to be the lost prince of Seebania. He's the primary protagonist of ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'' and the later ''Ojo in Oz.''

* Main/CatchPhrase: Whenever something goes wrong, Ojo will state that the reason for the misfortune is that ''"I'm Ojo the Unlucky."''
* Main/MoodSwinger: A mild case, but still.
* Main/SelfFulfillingProphecy: The Tin Woodsman believes Ojo's "The Unlucky" nickname to be this and changes it to "Ojo the Lucky," which he is known as in all subsequent books.
* Main/TheWoobie


[[WMG: Bungle The Glass Cat]]
-->"You made me pretty--very pretty, indeed--and I love to watch my pink brains roll around when they're working, and to see my precious red heart beat."

Bungle's body is made entirely of clear glass, with a blood-red ruby stone in her chest for a heart, two emeralds for eyes, and several bright pink marbles in her head for brains. She was made and brought to life by Dr. Pipt and his Powder of Life, for the specific purpose of catching mice for his wife. But the Glass Cat turned out to be exceptionally vain, and unwilling to do any work.

* Main/CatchPhrase
* Main/NightmareFuel: Princess Ozma had Bungle's brains changed to make her more agreeable. (May count as DisContinuity as Bungle has her old brains and attitude back in later books.)
* Main/NonHumanSidekick

[[WMG: Patchwork Girl aka "Scraps"]]
-->"''Horrid?" she replied. "Why, I'm thoroughly delightful. I'm an Original, if you please, and therefore incomparable. Of all the comic, absurd, rare and amusing creatures the world contains, I must be the supreme freak... But I'm glad--I'm awfully glad!--that I'm just what I am, and nothing else.''"

A living doll given "too many marbles", she's eccentric (read: insane) even by Ozian standards, yet is quite friendly. She has an enduring crush on the Scarecrow.

* Main/{{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* Main/{{Deadpan Snarker}}
* Main/GenkiGirl
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/RhymesOnADime: She makes up little songs and poems on the spot; some of the later books has her talking ''entirely'' in verse.
* ShipTease: With the Scarecrow.

[[WMG: The Woozy]]
--> ''The creature was all squares and flat surfaces and edges. Its head was an exact square, like one of the building-blocks a child plays with; therefore it had no ears, but heard sounds through two openings in the upper corners. Its nose, being in the center of a square surface, was flat, while the mouth was formed by the opening of the lower edge of the block. The body of the Woozy was much larger than its head, but was likewise block-shaped—being twice as long as it was wide and high. The tail was square and stubby and perfectly straight, and the four legs were made in the same way, each being four-sided. The animal was covered with a thick, smooth skin and had no hair at all except at the extreme end of its tail, where there grew exactly three stiff, stubby hairs. The beast was dark blue in color and his face was not fierce nor ferocious in expression, but rather good-humored and droll.''

A strange, yet friendly creature made up of only squares and flat surfaces, and who therefore prides himself on [[IncrediblyLamePun "being square."]] He's good-natured and helpful, but insists that he can be very ferocious when angry, fire flashes from his eyes, and he has the most terrifying growl of any animal. [[spoiler: The part about the fire turns out to be true, the part about the roar turns out to be very, very false.]]

* Main/BerserkButton: Parodied. The word "Krizzle-Kroo" sends him into a rage, because he has ''no idea what it means.''
* Main/BigEater: And how.
* Main/NonHumanSidekick
* Main/TrademarkFavoriteFood: Honey bees. He got into quite a bit of trouble with the Munchkin beekeepers because of this.


!Tik-Tok of Oz
[[WMG: Betsy Bobbin]]
--> "How could anyone be safe when she's going about sixty miles a minute?"

A little girl who was shipwrecked along with her donkey, Hank, Betsy is another American country girl left to wander. She's more or less another Dorothy, and Princess Dorothy takes a great interest in her welfare.

* Main/CountryMouse
* Main/TheEveryman
* Main/{{Expy}}: Originally, she was this for Dorothy. ''Tik-Tok of Oz'' began as a stage musical, and to avoid arguments over stage rights, Betsy Bobbin and Hank were created specifically to take the place of Dorothy and Toto.
* Main/GenericGuy: As Dorothy's SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, Betsy never developed an identity of her own, and is an extremely minor character in the rest of Baum's books. Ruth Plumly Thompson used her as a main character in a couple of books, but she never really grew out of her GenericGuy status.
* Main/PluckyGirl
* Main/TagalongKid: The main difference between Dorothy and Betsy is that Betsy plays this trope straight.


[[WMG: Hank]]

Betsy's trusty companion; for most of the book he's just a normal mule, but he of course becomes a TalkingAnimal once in Oz.

* {{Expy}}: For Toto, originally.
* DemotedToExtra: Almost immediately. He quickly becomes less important once Betsy gets some companions she can actually talk to, and in subsequent books he barely appears at all -- other than the occasional, very brief, passing mention.
* TalkingAnimal: Once he's in Oz, anyway.
* NonHumanSidekick

[[WMG: Queen Ann Soforth]]
--> "I won't!" cried Ann; "I won't sweep the floor. It is beneath my dignity."

Queen of Oogaboo, a tiny kingdom within the greater Oz, Ann is bored of her quiet life, where all she really does is watch over her kingdom and fight with her sister, Salye. While Anne is 'old enough to make jelly,' it's explained that she's only Queen since her father wandered off, and her mother followed him, leaving Ann to 'rule.' As a result, she's convinced that the world outside of Oogaboo is infinitely more interesting and worth ruling over. She orders the men of Oogaboo to form an army, with only one, Jo Files, agreeing to be the lone Private. While she doesn't want to shed any blood (she might faint at the sight, after all), she determines to conquer the rest of Oz, knowing that Ozma doesn't even keep a Private Soldier anymore. What she ''doesn't'' know is that Glinda's been paying attention to her book of records, and magically diverted the mountain pass that leads from Oogaboo into the rest of Oz, instead dropping Ann and her army out in the desert...

* AmbitionIsEvil: Or, in Ann's case, at least very foolish.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Subverted. She and her army are both pretty useless.

[[WMG: Jo Files]]
--> "I have read in my books that it is always the private soldiers who do the fighting, for no officer is ever brave enough to face the foe. Also, it stands to reason that your officers must have some one to command and to issue their orders to; therefore I'll be the one. I long to slash and slay the enemy and become a hero."

The sole private of Queen Ann's army, Jo Files is intelligent, well-read and brave -- which is why he declines to be an officer like the others. For all his talk about battle and conquest, though, he's a polite and friendly person who always apologizes if he thinks he's hurt someone, and when commanded to conquer pretty young ladies, he immediately resigns from the army because that would be "impolite." He grows very close to Princess Ozga over the course of the story.

* GeniusDitz: He has tons of book-smarts and is probably the most intelligent man in Oogaboo, though perhaps not so much in the common sense department.
* HonorBeforeReason: He has his moments where he follows this, though in the long run Reason tends to win out.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Princess Ozga.

[[WMG:The Rose Princess, Ozga]]

Princess of the Rose Kingdom. When the Shaggy Man, Betsy, and Hank find themselves in a large Greenhouse that is also a sovereign Rose Kingdom, they demand the right to appeal to the local monarch. Only one rose from the royal bush is anywhere near blooming, and when they pick her, the Rose Princess is immediately banished, because no one wants a female monarch. Even if she ''is'' Princess Ozma's cousin.

The Rose Princess tags along on the rest journey, as when she left the Rose Kingdom, she also changed from a fairy to a 'mortal maid.' She becomes firm friends with both Polychrome and Jo Files, Queen Ann's Private.

* {{Expy}}: In the stage play, her role was played by Ozma. Since this wouldn't fit with the continuity of the books, Ozga was created to take her place.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses
* BalefulPolymorph: Turned into a fiddle by Ruggedo.
* InterspeciesRomance: There's at least a hint of this in her relationship with Jo Files.

[[WMG: Quox]]
--> "I'm in disgrace just now, you know, and the only way to redeem my good name is to obey the orders of the Jinjin. If he makes me a beast of burden, it is only a part of my punishment, and I must bear it like a dragon."

A young dragon in the service of the fairies, as punishment for being disrespectful towards his elders. He takes it in good humor, though, serving as a beast of burden for the party for parts of the book and even comes to their rescue at a crucial moment.

* BreathWeapon: As a dragon, of course he can breathe fire.
* GentleGiant
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Especially when they've been made into "carryalls" and have rows of seats attatched to their backs and electric lights to their tails.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: At three thousand and fifty-six years old, Quox is still considered a very young dragon.


!The Scarecrow of Oz

[[WMG: Mayre "Trot" Griffiths]]
Mayre Griffiths, known to her friends as "Trot," was (together with her constant companion Cap'n Bill) originally the main character of the two non-Oz books ''The Sea Fairies'' and ''Sky Island,'' which L. Frank Baum wrote as an attempts to get away from the Oz (even though ''Sky Island'' [[CrossOver also featured Button-Bright and Polychrome in large roles]]), but was eventually brought over to the Oz series proper in ''The Scarecrow of Oz.'' Trot is a little girl who is said to have been marked by fairies with invisible mystic signs when she was born, which may account for her tendency to constantly get into magical adventures.

* Main/CheerfulChild
* Main/ElephantsChild: Trot is very curious and thoughtful and tends to ask a lot of questions, perhaps because she has the well-traveled Cap'n Bill as a ready MrExposition, who gives her the opportunity to play TheWatson on more than one occasion.
* Main/EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Trot is, in the Scarecrow's words "twice a princess" -- like Dorothy, she is made a princess of Oz, and later on is appointed an honorary princess of the Ozure Isles. Due to circumstances, she also had a very brief tenant as Queen of Sky Island, and never officially resigned (though she did leave sensible and competent people to rule in her stead when she left the place).
* Main/IntergenerationalFriendship: With Cap'n Bill, who acts as a father-figure to her.
* Main/OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She got the nickname "Trot" when she was a toddler learning to walk, because she took so many busy little steps. She grew to prefer her nickname to her real one, so her real name, Mayre, is only mentioned in passing a couple of times. Otherwise both narrative and characters refer to her as "Trot" or sometimes "Tiny Trot."
* Main/ParentalAbandonment: A strange version, possibly even an inversion, as both Trot's parents are alive and well, but simply fade out and are never mentioned again after she moves to Oz.
* Main/PluckyGirl: Very much in the vein of Dorothy, though unlike Betsy Bobbin, Trot was never an {{Expy}} and is different enough to avoid becoming a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute.
* Main/WeirdnessMagnet: Even before she gets to Oz, she has several weird and magical adventures quite by accident. This is hinted to be because she was marked by fairies at birth.


[[WMG: "Cap'n" Bill Weedles]]
A kindly old sailor who had to retire from the sea after he lost his leg in an accident. He is much like a substitute father for Trot while her real father (Cap'n Bill's old first mate) is away at sea, and usually ends up going on adventures with her to keep her safe.

* Main/BadassGrandpa
* Main/CoolOldGuy
* Main/DemotedToExtra: In Ruth Plumly Thompson's books, Trot remains a major character, but Cap'n Bill almost vanishes. He makes a return in books by later authors, but he never really becomes the major character he once was.
* Main/{{Expy}}: Of Naboth Perkins from Baum's earlier ''Sam Steele'' books. [[WeirdAlEffect Of course, Cap'n Bill, thanks to his role in a much more popular book series, is much more widely known than Naboth Perkins.]]
* Main/FunetikAksent: He certainly talks like an old sailor -- minus the swearing, that is.
* Main/HandicappedBadass: His wooden leg might have forced him to retire from the sea, but it doesn't stop him from going on all kinds of magical adventures.
** It does, however, give him some genuine trouble; with a wooden leg he can't run fast and has problems with uneven ground. The BadAss part is that he refuses to let this stop him.
* Main/IntergenerationalFriendship: With Trot, of course.
* Main/MrExposition: He's lived a long life and experienced much, and is always happy to answer Trot's many questions. Occasionally subverted, though, in that he often doesn't know any more than she does about the fairy-lands they end up visiting.
* Main/ParentalSubstitute: To Trot, even though both her parents are alive.

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* GadgeteerGenius: While he never invents anything, one short story had him reassembling a smashed Tik-Tok- implied to be just about impossible due to how complicated the machinery was- ''for fun''.

* BeleagueredAssistant / HypercompetentSidekick: Fluctuates between the two- most of the time he's the latter, but definitely the former by ''Tik-Tok of Oz''

* AntiVillain: In ''Rinkitink in Oz'', where he's at his most villainous, he still comes off as a lot nicer than Ruggedo/Roquat.
* BeleagueredAssistant / HypercompetentSidekick: Fluctuates between the two- most of the time he's the latter, but definitely the former by ''Tik-Tok of Oz''.

* CanonNickname: Dorothy and Betsy call her "Polly."

** Weirdly enough, in ''Tik-tok of Oz'' she does seem to suffer from some kind of amnesia, since she has completely forgotten the Shaggy Man, whom she met in ''The Road to Oz.'' This is never explained by the narrative, but may simply be an unintentional carry-over from the stage play the book was based on.

In the movie, there's also Main/CoveredUp due to Main/DawsonCasting. Dorothy's supposed to be 11 years old, JudyGarland was 16 in 1939. [[Main/NotAllowedToGrowUp Despite the studio's efforts to make her look younger]], many people who've only seen the movie think Dorothy's ''supposed'' to be a teenager.

** Also, interestingly enough, in those subsequent appearances he became even more pompous and conceited than before, to the point where none of the other characters liked him much. Fans are still debating whether this was CharacterizationMarchesOn or CharacterDerailment.