History Podcast / TheChroniclesOfOz

* BloodierAndGorier: And without visuals at that. While much of the specifics are left up to the imagination, many supporting characters are killed off in rather brutal ways, from beheading, to getting executed, to being stabbed. Injuries characters recieve tend to be treated far more seriously as well, with even inanimate characters like the Scarecrow or the Tin Woodman who normally have DeathIsCheap apply to them still suffer extensive pain and the fear of losing limbs.

* CharacterNarrator: Dorothy in the first season, Tip (and occasionally Ozma) in the second, Ozma in the third, and SantaClaus in the ''The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus'' special.

** Later in the same season, during an argument with Ozma, she says [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda "Well, excuuuse me, Princess!"]]

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe, Dorothy ends up with the reputation not only as a witch-slayer, but as someone who solves problems by dropping houses on people... though this is partially her own fault. She gets so sick of everyone insisting she "assassinated" the Wicked Witch of the East that she starts sarcastically suggesting "drop a house on him/her/it" as a potential solution to every single problem. Of course a number of Ozzians take her literally.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Jellia Jamb's name in this version is pronounced "Jell-''IE''-ah." The Scarecrow consistently mispronounces it as ''"Jelly''-ah," which is the pronounciation pretty much all other adaptations go with.

* RealityEnsues:
** The unexpected death of the Wicked Witch of the East, after she's had Munchkinland in her power for decades, results not in celebrations and singing, but in confusion, panic and riots among the Munchkins, which soon leads to a violent power struggle and revolution.
** The Winkies' reaction to the death of the Wicked Witch of the West is less violent -- partly because the Winkies are more peaceful than the Munchkins, but mostly because the Witch had the entire country under a mind-control spell for ''years''. When their free will returns, a number of them barely remember how to do anything for themselves anymore, and so the general reaction is apathy and grief as the entire Winkie Contry suffer from collective PTSD.
** Take an intelligent, but inexperienced Scarecrow who just wants to be friends with everyone, and make him the King of a country in the middle of a civil war? He's not going to be able to handle it very well.
** Dorothy made it home to her aunt and uncle in Kansas... but the farm was still destroyed in the tornado, and was struggling from before anyway, so the family don't have the money to rebuild. Lack of money, frustrations and uncertainty, combined with the fact that Dorothy can't really tell Em and Henry of her adventures in Oz for fear they'll think she's gone crazy, means that the happy ending pretty quickly gave way to a lot of family arguments and tensions.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Preena, after she's betrayed the Emerald City and helped the Munchkin army enter,]] is rather unceremoniously killed by Jinjur, both as an example of this trope and in order to show an uncooperative Jellia Jamb that Jinjur means business.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Given to Dorothy by, of all characters, [[spoiler:The Wicked Witch of the West]] in the third season. She accuses her of seeing things too much in black and white and turning other people into villains in her head without bothering to learn their full story and motives.

* NotSoDifferent: The Scarecrow points out that Dorothy and Ozma really do have a lot in common. Neither girl agrees.

** Season Three had the Nome King. He held the Royal Family of Ev as his slaves when the season began, prompting Princess Langwidere to make a distress call to Ozma to help and save them.

* ThemeTuneCameo: The Scarecrow hums the Chronicles of Oz theme tune while stuck on an oar in the river.