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Note: Characters are listed by order of the Oz book in which they first appear, but each character listing includes their later appearances as well. So, for instance, if you've only read ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Literature)|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', be aware that all the character listings will contain spoilers for later books.
 
== The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ==
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* [[Accidental Hero|Accidental Heroine]]
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: The Magic Belt gives her this power, although she seems to forget she has it for several books.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]]: Dorothy became a princess in a later book.
* [[The Fool]]
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Dorothy's [[Country Mouse]] colloquialisms get more pronounced in later books.
* [[The Hero|The Heroine]]
* [[I Choose to Stay]]: After several adventures in Oz, she eventually doesn't go back to Kansas, and brings her Aunt and Uncle with her.
* [[It Was Withwith You All Along]]
* [[Kid Appeal Character]]
* [[Kid Hero|Kid Heroine]]
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** Crown
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: With Princess Ozma.
* [[Stranger in Aa Familiar Land]]: 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 [[I Choose to Stay]].
* [[Tagalong Kid]]: Inverted; she's the leader, and the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion are the tagalongs.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: In the first book.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: with The Tin Woodsman
* [[Iconic Characters]]
* [[It Was Withwith You All Along]]
* [[The Lancer]]
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]
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* [[An Axe to Grind]]: He doesn't just chop ''wood'' with that thing.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]
* [[Bruiser Withwith a Soft Center]]: He's probably the party's best fighter, and didn't so much as flinch when he killed off a wildcat (to save a mouse), pack of wolves (to protect his companions), or flock of humongous jackdaws (again, protecting his friends). But he cried himself rusted over accidentally crushing a bug, and his determination to get a heart was so he could return to his girlfriend and be a proper husband. {{spoiler|Didn't work out for him on that front, though}}
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Subverted; he just ''thought'' he couldn't feel without biological parts.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: 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.
* [[Determinator]]: As much of his character as being a sweetheart. He was so determined to earn enough money to support his fiancee that he didn't stop working, even after losing his limbs to the cursed axe. If there's a situation where the axe has to come out, he does not stop unless all the threats are missing their heads or he is literally too damaged to move.
* [[Everything but Thethe Girl]]: He becomes a hero of Oz, ruler of Winkie Country, and close friends with the Princesses, but it turns out his girlfriend left him while he was rusted.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]
* [[The Heart]]: In spite of his insistence that he doesn't have one.
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* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: A curious blend of man, magic and replacement parts.
* [[Iconic Characters]]: He's first in a long line of cybernetic beings that question their humanity.
* [[It Was Withwith You All Along]]
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]
* [[Older Sidekick]]
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With the Hungry Tiger, at least in Baum's books, starting with ''Ozma of Oz.''
* [[Iconic Characters]]
* [[It Was Withwith You All Along]]
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]
* [[Older Sidekick]]
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A band of flying monkeys. Their services can be commanded by the wearer of the Golden Cap.
 
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: Though the people who end up terrorized by their antics probably disagree.
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: 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.
* [[Rule of Three]]: After you obtain the Golden Cap, the Monkeys will perform no more than three of your commands.
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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.
 
* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: She is the main protagonist of Ruth Plumly Thompson's last book, ''Ozoplaning With the Wizard of Oz.''
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: She goes from a nameless extra in the first book to a fully-named recurring supporting character in later books, with occasional [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]] moments.
* [[No Name Given]]: 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.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Of the good-natured kind. Her mischievous sense of humor is highlighted in a particularly memorable way in the famous [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|"translator" scene]] in ''The Marvelous Land of Oz,'' [[Completely Unnecessary Translator|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.]]
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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.
 
* [[Depending Onon the Writer]]: 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 [[Beware the Nice Ones|piss off]] Tollydiggle [[Fridge Logic|yet]].
* [[Gentle Giant]]: He's consistently 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.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most notably as Tip; as Ozma this trait is a lot more understated and almost seems to be absent -- though there are times when she'll be subtly mischevious or gently crack fun of a situation just for the hell of it.
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Subverted big time in ''Land of Oz''.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]]
* [[Flower in Her Hair]]
* [[Gender Bender]]
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* [[Princess Classic]]
* [[Rags to Royalty]]: Complete with a [[Evil Matriarch|evil stepmom]] and a ''twist''!
* [[Raised Asas the Opposite Gender]]
* [[Requisite Royal Regalia]]
** Tiara with two poppy flowers and the letters "OZ" at the front of it.
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* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]
* [[Secret Legacy]]: In this case, it's double on the ''[[It Was Withwith You All Along|secret]]'' part.
* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: 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, after Dorothy gave it to her.
 
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* [[Breakout Character]]: 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 devoted 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.
* [[Big Creepy -Crawlies]]
* [[Delusions of Eloquence]]
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]
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* [[Author Appeal]]
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Eek! Aa Mouse!]]
* [[Exotic Weapon Supremacy]]: General Jinjur's knitting-needles.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: She's not above using her looks to get her way.
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{{quote| ''"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 Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|the popular 1939 film]]), the Nome King is the closest the book series has to a primary [[Big Bad]]. 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.
 
* [[Affably Evil]]
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* [[The Magnificent]]: Alternates between "of the Rocks" and "the Red".
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Whether he's "The Nome King" or "The Gnome King" generally depends on the author.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Eggs. (Possibly symbolic of the matriarchy present in Oz.)
 
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* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: He doesn't really like being called "Zebediah" and prefers going by his nickname, "Zeb."
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Has traces of this, especially in his own eyes, and spends some time early in the book pointing out how ''wrong'' the strange adventures he's encountered are, or how ''unnatural'' it is that animals can talk. [[Character Development|He becomes more accepting of such things as the book goes on,]] but in the end he's still glad to leave Oz, telling the others that he really doesn't belong in a fairy country.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: He only appears in one book, ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz'', after which he returns back home to his uncle's ranch and is barely even mentioned again.
 
=== Jim ===
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* [[Break the Haughty]]: Being a previously-undefeated race-horse, he's pretty arrogant and conceited, and this only gets worse when he learns he's the only actual horse in Oz. Losing a race to the Sawhorse, however, pretty much punctures his illusions about being unbeatable, and he is further cowed when he loses his temper and kicks the Sawhorse, and the Cowardly Lion and Hungry Tiger make it very clear to him that they ''don't'' like it when their friends are kicked around. In the end, Jim becomes one of the only animals in the Oz books who begs to leave the place because he can't stand being an just an ordinary horse in a fairy country.
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Invoked after he loses the race with the Sawhorse and realizes that in a fairy world a normal horse like him [[Can't Catch Up]], so he wants to go back to California, where he ''is'' special.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Along with Zeb, he returns to California and is never seen in the series again.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Like all animals, he gains the ability to talk when entering a fairy land.
 
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* [[Ironic Nickname]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: Mostly because his real name is so long.
* [[Overly Long Name]]: "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.
* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: His Magic Umbrella.
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* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]
* [[Rhymes Onon a Dime]]: She makes up little songs and poems on the spot; some of the later books has her talking ''entirely'' in verse.
* [[The Runaway]]: Often. She refuses to return to Dr. Pipt in her first appearance, and later stars in an entire book ''about'' her running away (and the places and people she runs into along the way).
* [[Ship Tease]]: With the Scarecrow.
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* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Fire-beams, actually, but close enough.
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]
* [[Sealed Good in Aa Can]]: Was trapped in an enclosure with a fence too tall for him to jump over, and didn't think to break out himself until Ojo and pals came along.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Honey bees. He got into quite a bit of trouble with the Munchkin beekeepers because of this.
 
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* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Turned into a fiddle by Ruggedo.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]]
* [[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.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: There's at least a hint of this in her relationship with Jo Files.
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* [[Cheerful Child]]
* [[Constantly Curious]]: 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 [[Mr. Exposition]], who gives her the opportunity to play [[The Watson]] on more than one occasion.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]]: 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).
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With Cap'n Bill, who acts as a father-figure to her.
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: 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."
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: 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.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Very much in the vein of Dorothy, though unlike Betsy Bobbin, Trot was never an [[Expy]] and is different enough to avoid becoming a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]].
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* [[No Name Given]]: Only averted when he mentions his name in passing, talking about Orkland. Otherwise, he's simply 'the Ork'.
* [[Super Mode]]: He and the other Orks can call up ''small tornadoes'' with their proptails, which they do to blow out the fire threatening the Scarecrow, and flatten Krewl and his soldiers. Individually, he manages to fly himself, Cap'n Bill and Trot out of a '''vertical''' shaft, with only his proptail for lift.
* [[Ten -Minute Retirement]]: Before the Scarecrow, Cap'n Bill and Trot go into Jinxland, Flipper leaves the party to return to his homeland and look up his family. However, he returns with most of his clan in tow - just in time to save the Scarecrow.
* [[Walking the Earth]]: Or flying it, in Flipper's case. His wanderlust gets him labeled a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] back in Orkland.
 
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