Return to Oz: Difference between revisions

 

 

'''Dorothy''': ''Because I can't sleep, and I talk about a place that I've been to, but nobody believes that it exists.'' }}

 

 

[[Darker and Edgier|Boy,]] [[Horror|were]] [[Grimmification|they]] [[Nightmare Fuel|wrong]].

However, Oz has changed: The Emerald City is in ruins, now ruled by the [[Swiss Army Appendage|head-switching]] witch Princess Mombi. Dorothy's friend Scarecrow, the rightful ruler of the City, has been kidnapped, the citizens have been turned into stone, and the streets are patrolled by [[Bring My Brown Pants|shit-your-pants-scary]] [[Grotesque Gallery|Wheelers]]. Now Dorothy, along with Billina and their new friends [[Robot Buddy|Tik-Tok]], [[The Fool|Jack]] [[Luke Nounverber|Pumpkinhead]], and [[Giant Flyer|the Gump]], must go to [[Supervillain Lair|the Nome King's Mountain]] to confront [[Big Bad|the Nome King]] and his [[Claymation|minions]], rescue the Scarecrow, and restore Oz.

 

 

Not to be confused with the 1964 [[Rankin/Bass Productions]] animated TV movie of the same name, nor with [[Filmation]]'s rather dreary 1974 [[Animated Films]], ''Journey Back to Oz''.

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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]

* [[Affably Evil]]: The Nome King is quite courteous, even giving Dorothy and co. [[Alien Lunch|limestone pie and melted silver to eat]].

* [[And Starring]]: [[Fairuza Balk]] (!) as Dorothy

* [[And You Were There]]

* [[Batman Gambit]]: The Nome King challenges Dorothy and her friends to find the Scarecrow. {{spoiler|if they fail, they become ornaments, and the Nome King becomes human.}}

** While attempting the challenge {{spoiler|Tik Tok pretends to "wind down" in order to get Dorothy in the room with him; his plan is to make a random guess, that way Dorothy can see what he turns into, hoping it would give her a clue as to what the others were transformed into}}.

* [[Battle Butler]]: Tik-Tok.

* [[Bedlam House]]: At first, it looks like the mental hospital where Dorothy goes will subvert this, as it looks nice, clean, and respectable, and the Dr. Worley seems awfully friendly and helpful. {{spoiler|And then you hear the wailing, which is later revealed to be patients who have been "damaged" and locked in the cellar.}}

* [[Beneath the Earth]]

* [[Clock Punk]]: Tik-Tok.

* [[Composite Character]]: Specifically, Princess Mombi combines Old Mombi from the second Oz book with the multiple head wearing Princess Langwidere of Ev in book three.

** Jack asks Dorothy how Tik-Tok can talk when his brain stopped functioning, to which she answers "It happens to people all the time, Jack." In the 1939 film, the Scarecrow points out that "some people without brains do an awful lot of talking".

** The magic shoes are originally called Silver Shoes in the novels. In ''Return To Oz'', they remained Ruby Slippers.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Billina and the Gump.

* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Tik-Tok.}}

* [[Down the Rabbit Hole]]

* [[The Dragon]]: Princess Mombi.

** Also, Nurse Wilson in the real world.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: When the Nome King goes [[The Juggernaut|Juggernaut]] on us, his voice gets considerably deeper.

* [[Exploring the Evil Lair]]

* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: What Mombi did to this beautiful princesses; [[And I Must Scream|they are still alive and conscious and are kept by her]]. Mombi's final fate is also arguably this. As Ozma stated:

** Consider, too, that [[Meaningful Background Event|her jailers are the two women whose heads she'd worn in previous scenes]]. [[Laser-Guided Karma|Karma's a bitch, innit]]?

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Big Guy]]: Gump

** [[Tagalong Kid]]: Jack Pumpkinhead.

* [[The Fool]]: Jack Pumpkinhead.

* [[Giant Flyer]]: The Gump.

* [[Mythology Gag]]

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: "Beware of the Wheelers."

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The Ruby Slippers fell off Dorothy's feet when she went home . . . into the hands of the Nome King, making it possible for him to take over the Emerald City.

'''The Nome King:''' No, no, no... ''My'' ruby slippers. They just fell out of the sky one day -- you were so anxious to get home! They're very powerful: they made it possible for me to conquer the Emerald City... thank you. }}

** Again, this is an inversion. She didn't know any of this until she came back and met the Nome King.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|The Nome King, upon realizing that Dorothy has just beaten him at his own game.}}

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: {{spoiler|The Nome King says that eggs are NOT part of a nutritious breakfast!}}

** {{spoiler|Or that she was a figment (either of imagination or magic) only Dorothy could see in the real world. The head nurse only said "So!" when she found her/them after all.}}

*** {{spoiler|She untied Dorothy from the stretcher (that eerily resembles the Wheelers), so even if only Dorothy could see her she can at least physically act in the real world.}}

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