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[[File:TinMan_large.jpg|frame|Without heart, you're nothing.]]
{{quote|"Oh come on, tin man, have a heart!"|'''Glitch'''}}
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More recently, the director also did ''[[Neverland]]''.
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Sisters Azkadelia and...D{{spoiler|orothy}} G{{spoiler|ale}}?
* [[And I Must Scream]]: The iron suit.
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* [[Blue Eyes]]: DG has some big blue eyes. Also, Cain.
* [[Brain In a Jar]]: More appropriately, half a brain.
* [[British Accent]]: The queen, and only the queen. No one else in her family or the entire kingdom has her little accent... except {{Spoiler|her ancestor, the original Dorothy Gale}}, of all people.
* [[Broken Hero]]: Poor Glitch.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Azkadelia and DG.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The toy horse, the princess song.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Glitch
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: amusing subversion when Jeb captures Zero and prepares to interrogate him. Jeb gets behind Zero and takes hold of his fingers. The next thing we hear is some ominous metallic clinking. Zero can't see what's happening and starts to panic. Just when Zero is on the verge of crying like a little girl, Jeb reveals that he's been clinking together a pair of spoons.
* [[Cowardly Lion]]: Raw.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Glitch knows kung fu. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that ''half'' his brain is missing.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:
{{quote|Zero: We can pry those numbers out of her.
Azkadelia: Zero, she's my sister.
* [[Evil Feels Good]]: Take a close look at [[The Modest Orgasm|Azkadelia's physical reaction]] right after taking a life with her magic. After killing {{spoiler|the Mystic Man}}, she even takes the hand of a guard to steady herself.
* [[Famous Ancestor]]: In a [[Homage]] type of way -- DG is named for her ancestor, Dorothy Gale.
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]
* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: There are a couple of instances where you can see the original Azkadellia coming through, before being suppressed by the Wicked Witch personality
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]] / [[The Chick]]: DG
** (Also) [[The Hero]] or possibly [[The Lancer]]: Cain
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** [[Team Pet]]: Toto, when in dog form.
*** Alternatively, may be classified as a [[Three Plus Two]] set-up, with most of the focus on DG, Cain, and Glitch.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Part of the largely [[Tim Burton]] led wave of "reimagining" classic stories as [[Darker and Edgier]] "serious" movies that bear only a passing resemblance to their source material.
* [[Forced to Watch]]: Eight years in a magically-charged coffin, with his family's torture on repeat playback for company. [[Heroic Willpower]] is the only explanation Cain is anything resembling sane.
* Foreshadowing: In the build up to the arrival of the tornado, the Gales' scarecrow loses his head, a heart-shaped house sign rattles about, and a cat runs off in terror.
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* [[Mind Probe]]: The Witch's favorite method of info gathering
* [[Mistaken for Spies]]: DG gets in trouble this way when she first shows up in the O.Z.
* [[Mobile Kiosk]]: Demilo's ungodly tacky whorehouse-on-wheels
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|It's Toto}}, reluctantly.
* [[Muggle Foster Parents]]: Albeit robot ones.
* [[Must Make Amends]]: DG is already motivated to take down her evil sister, but then sees a vision in a cave {{spoiler|revealing that, as a small child, accidentally freed the witch possessing Azkedellia}}.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The series is loaded with them. Many references to the 1939 movie, several to ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'', and too many to count for classic books. [[Justified Trope]] with the books, as it uses a few continuity elements from Baum's Oz in the [[Backstory]].
* [[Nice Hat]]: Cain wears one.
* [[Obi-Wan Moment]]: The Mystic Man, before he is {{spoiler|captured, and killed later}}
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* [[Tailor-Made Prison]]: Azkadelia keeps her mother imprisoned on a tiny sandbar island on a river bed... inside a snowglobe.
* [[Techno Babble]]: Glitch, if he can remember.
* [["There and Back" Story]]: Much like the film it's an adaptation of as well as the original book, ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''.
* [[Tin Man]]: Cain again, of course.
* [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]]
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* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: The Queen and Ahamo's scheme. The Queen essentially fakes DG's death, then "banishes" her beloved, Earthling husband so that the Witch won't think to look for him in Oz. Then, run like hell under the cover of night, block DG's memories with a limited-duration spell that would wear off at early adulthood, and send the little Princess off with the [[Muggle Foster Parents]], who have codewords and clues programmed into them, so that she could find a few scattered allies (Father Vu, The Mystic Man, and Ahamo) and messages (the Ice Palace, Finaqua), then find her and/or Ahamo. Where her plot seemed to hit a snag was that she likely planned on being able to hold out against The Witch until DG came back.
* [[Word Salad Title]]: You would assume that a miniseries named Tin Man would have ''the'' Tin Man as the main character, or would at least center on a plot involving him. Likely functions under the [[Rule of Cool]], as with enough series out there.
** The actual reason was that Long-Mitchell & Van Sickle's original idea was a cop show about the Emerald City police force. It mutated into a more "standard" adaptation, but they couldn't come up with a better title than the one they had before deadline.
* [[World of Woobie]]
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: And so you will ''get the life sucked out of you''.
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