History Literature / TheTinWoodmanOfOz

* BalefulPolymorph: Mrs. Yoop has the power to do this to anyone; at some point before the story she captured Polychrome and turned her into a canary. She later turns the Tin Woodman into an owl, the Scarecrow into a stuffed bear, and Woot into a green monkey. Because Woot is a mortal human and not an animated non-human like Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, Ozma has a much tougher time changing him back; only by changing Mrs. Yoop's form into Woot's and then having him swap forms with Mrs. Yoop is Ozma able to turn Mrs. Yoops Yookoohoo magic against her.

'''The Tin Woodman of Oz''' is the twelfth book in Creator/LFrankBaum's ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books, released in 1918. It's subtitle is ''A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter''. In this book, Baum at long last ties up some loose ends in the Tin Woodman's backstory going back to ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''. Baum dedicated the book to his grandson, Frank Alden Baum.

** While normal for Oz characters to follow this trope since they are TheAgeless, even illustrations of Woot are inconsistent; he looks like either a young child or an older teen, perhaps anywhere from 10 to 15, depending on the illustration.

* {{Retcon}}: A slight one in the Tin Woodman's backsory. In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', Nimmie (then unnamed) was said to be the servant of an old woman who hired the Wicked Witch of the East to get rid of her fiancé. In the more detailed backstory given here, the old woman is retconned out, and Nimmie Amee turns out to have been the Witch's own servant.

* VagueAge: While normal for Oz characters to follow this trope since they are TheAgeless, even illustrations of Woot are inconsistent; he looks like either a young child or an older teen, perhaps anywhere from 10 to 15, depending on the illustration.

* WalkingTheEarth: Woot has chosen to spend his life wandering Oz because of SmallTownBoredom and because he views the people of his hometown as stupid, and genuinely wants to see more of the world.

* FleshGolem: Chopfyt, a separate being created from the spare body parts of both Nick Chopper and Captain Fyter.

* BalefulPolymorph: Mrs. Yoop has the power to do this to anyone; at some point before the story she captured Polychrome and turned her into a canary. She later turns the Tin Woodman into an owl, the Scarecrow into a stuffed bear, and Woot into a green monkey. Because Woot is a mortal human and not an animated non-human like Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, Ozma has a much tougher time changing him back; only by having him swap forms with Mrs. Yoop herself.

* FrankensteinsMonster: Chopfyt, a separate being created from the spare body parts of both Nick Chopper and Captain Fyter.

* WalkingTheEarth: Woot has chosen to spend his life wandering Oz because he views the people of his hometown as stupid.

* WeCanRebuildHim: What the tinsmith specializes in.

* BalefulPolymorph: Mrs. Yoop has the power to do this to anyone; at some point before the story she captured Polychrome and turned her into a canary. She later turns the Tin Woodman into an owl, the Scarecrow into a stuffed bear, and Woot into a green monkey. Because Woot is a mortal human. Ozma has a much tougher time changing him back; only by having him swap forms with Mrs. Yoop herself.

* ((Retcon}}: A slight one in the Tin Woodman's backsory. In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', Nimmie (then unnamed) was said to be the servant of an old woman who hired the Wicked Witch of the East to get rid of her fiancé. In the more detailed backstory given here, the old woman is retconned out, and Nimmie Amee turns out to have been the Witch's own servant.

* BrokenBird: Implied, at least as much as is possible in a generally-upbeat setting like Oz. After having her heart broken in an extraordinarily cruel and drawn-out way not once but twice, she left home to become TheHermit. [[spoiler: Even after finding love, getting married and settling down, she (along with her husband) no longer wants anything to do with the rest of the world.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Fyter the Tin Soldier is introduced, it's clear that he also wishes to marry the Tin Man's sweetheart, Nimmie Amie. Instead of fighting about it, both tin men agree to let her choose between them, and when it turns out she's HappilyMarried, they respectfully agree to leave her in peace.

* WackyWaysideTribe: Loonville is the main wacky wayside tribe in this book, which unusually for an ''Oz'' book is a bit low on this trope.

* UnwillingRoboticisation: Possibly the earliest example of a full-body-replacement cyborg in modern literature is the Tin Woodman. He was once a perfectly ordinary human being until a witch cursed his axe, which repeatedly attacked him to chop off his body parts. He gradually replaces his missing body piece by piece with tin prosthetics — until essentially all that was left was a mind in a tin shell.

* TheseusShipParadox: Both the Tin Woodman and the Tin Soldier Captain Fyter, who suffered an identical fate to the Tin Woodman, gradually had bits of themmselves chopped off and replaced until they were entirely tin, with the old "meat" parts still being sentient. The Tin Woodman even has a brief conversation ''with his own head''. But the tinsmith glued together pieces from both bodies to create a new man, named "Chopfyt," who lived happily ever after. Another interesting consequence to the spell that makes it impossible to die in Oz.