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This one brings back Dorothy Gale, who did not appear in the second Oz book, ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz''. In this story, Dorothy and her Uncle Henry have taken a ship to Australia to visit some relations. Dorothy wanders on deck when she shouldn't and winds up being blown overboard in a storm--luckily for her, along with a chicken coop that was tied to the deck. Dorothy is adrift at sea in her chicken coop, along with a chicken, who starts to talk. Dorothy and Billina the chicken eventually drift to land, where they find themselves not in Oz, but in the similarly strange and wonderful Land of Ev. After being hounded by the Wheelers, a people with wheels instead of hands and feet, Dorothy discovers the clockwork robot Tik-Tok, who helps clear away the Wheelers. Dorothy goes to the castle of Princess Langwidere for assistance, a narcissist who collects heads and switches them with her own at will. After Dorothy refuses to trade her head for one of the princess's, she imprisons Dorothy. And as the title indicates, eventually Dorothy has a rendezvous with Princess Ozma, the heroine of ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'', who travels to Ev on a mission to free their royal family from the clutches of the Nome King. Ozma frees Dorothy and she accompanies them to the Nome King's dominions. The Nome King has transformed the royal family of Ev into inanimate objects, and challenges the Oz citizens to guess which of his objects are the royal family; at the risk of being transformed themselves if they guess incorrectly.
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This one brings back Dorothy Gale, who did not appear in the second Oz book, ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz''. In this story, Dorothy and her Uncle Henry have taken a ship to Australia to visit some relations. Dorothy wanders on deck when she shouldn't and winds up being blown overboard in a storm--luckily for her, along with a chicken coop that was tied to the deck. Dorothy is adrift at sea in her chicken coop, along with a chicken, who starts to talk. Dorothy and Billina the chicken eventually drift to land, where they find themselves not in Oz, but in the similarly strange and wonderful Land of Ev. After being hounded by the Wheelers, a people with wheels instead of hands and feet, Dorothy discovers the clockwork robot Tik-Tok, who helps clear away the Wheelers. Dorothy goes to seeks assistance at the castle of Princess Langwidere for assistance, Langwidere, a narcissist who collects heads and switches them with her own at will. After Dorothy refuses to trade her head for one of the princess's, she imprisons Dorothy. And as the title indicates, eventually before long Dorothy has a rendezvous with Princess Ozma, the heroine of ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'', who travels to Ev on a mission to free their royal family from the clutches of the Nome King. Ozma frees Dorothy and she accompanies them to the Nome King's dominions. The Nome King has transformed the royal family of Ev into inanimate objects, and challenges the Oz citizens to guess which of his objects are the royal family; at the risk of being transformed themselves if they guess incorrectly.
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* ClockworkCreature: Tiktok the Machine Man. You have to wind him up every few days or he'll run down.
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* ClockworkCreature: Tiktok the Machine Man. You have to wind him up every few days or he'll run down. One of the first examples of such in literature.
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** King Evoldo comes to regret selling his family, and commits SuicideBySea.
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** In the backstory, King Evoldo comes to regret selling his family, and commits SuicideBySea.
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* PrincessesRule: Princess Langwidere of Ev is a justified example, as she's merely acting as ruler until the return of the Royal Family.
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* PrincessesRule: Princess Langwidere of Ev is a justified example, as she's merely (just barely) acting as ruler until the return of the Royal Family.
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* RoyalBrat: Princess Langwidere is a grown-up version; she's far more interested in wearing beautiful heads and admiring her own reflection than actually taking care of the kingdom she's been given. She lets Dorothy go and rescue the Royal Family because that pesky "ruling the people" is getting in the way of her daily vanity boost.
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* RoyalBrat: Princess Langwidere is a grown-up version; she's far more interested in wearing beautiful heads and admiring her own reflection than actually taking care of the kingdom she's been given.inherited. She lets Dorothy go and rescue the Royal Family because that pesky "ruling the people" is getting in the way of her daily vanity boost.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: All Nomes are vulnerable to eggs.
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* UnexplainedAccent: Starting in this book Dorothy is given a childish accent; for example, pronouncing automobile as “auto’bile”. This is a carry-over from the popular stage play of the first book, but can be jarring to modern readers who have no way of knowing about the play.
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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: [[Main/PlayedForLaughs Played for laughs]], Toward the end, Dorothy and Ozma meet Jinjur, who is married to a man and she claimed to have physically abused him because he didn't milk the cow she wanted him to milk.
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* HumanHeadOnTheWall: Despite her display cabinet of thirty interchangeable heads, Langwidere isn't considered an actual villain; though it's never explained where the heads came from, but each one affects her personality, implying that they came from living women. For example, Head no 17, considered the most beautiful head, has 'a terrible temper hidden somewhere underneath the black hair'.
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* AsYouKnow: The conversation Billina overhears while hiding under the Nome King's throne is full of this trope, as it spells out the trick to the object-transformation spell (namely, that people turn into objects that match the dominant color of their kingdom) in explicit terms...and is held by two people who already know everything that is being said.
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* MorphicResonance: While the object that people turn into during the ornament game is completely random, the color reflects their country of origin: the Royal Family of Ev become purple, and Ozians are green.
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* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: The narration notes that the Nome King's ornament chambers are absolutely jam-packed with countless knickknacks and whatnots of various shapes and sizes. Since the heroes are trying to find transformed people (which, initially, consist of only eleven choices--the Queen of Ev and her ten children) among them, the sheer number of things to sort through makes it nearly impossible. Even after Billina learns the trick to the magic--choosing ornaments of certain colors--it's said that it still takes her a long while to find everything by virtue of just how big the chambers are.
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* RightfulKingReturns: At the end of the book, the Queen of Ev and her children return to their kingdom and begin ruling again.
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* RoyalBrat: Princess Langwidere is a grown-up version; she's far more interested in wearing beautiful heads and admiring her own reflection than actually taking care of the kingdom she's been given. She lets Dorothy go and rescue the Royal Family because that pesky "ruling the people" is getting in the way of her daily vanity boost.
