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Nick Chopper , the Tin Woodman , is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum . He first appeared in his 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappeared in many other subsequent Oz books in the series . In late 19th-century America, men made out of various tin pieces were used in advertising and political cartoons. Baum, who was editing a magazine on decorating shop windows when he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , was inspired to invent the Tin Woodman by a figure he had built out of metal parts for a shop display.

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91-702: In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , Dorothy Gale befriends the Tin Woodman after she finds him rusted in the forest, as he was caught in rain, and uses his oil can to release him. He follows her to the Emerald City to get a heart from The Wizard . They are joined on their adventure by the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion . The Wizard sends Dorothy and her friends to the Winkie Country to kill

182-483: A gay man ; and more broadly, any LGBTQ person. As such, someone was a friend of Dorothy was a euphemism used for discussing sexual orientation without others knowing its meaning. James Deutsch, program curator with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage , examined the origin of the phrase, noting scholars who argued that Garland became a "lodestone" for "gay culture" , claimed by

273-561: A Wish Way carries Dorothy to a film set in Hollywood, California . She begins to age very rapidly to her late 20s, making up for at least some of the years that have already passed. The Wish Way carries her back to Oz and restores her to her younger self, but she learns then that it would be unwise for her ever to return to the outside world. Baum never states Dorothy's age, but he does write in The Lost Princess of Oz that she

364-623: A Witch . In the book, Nessarose – the Wicked Witch of the East – is seen enchanting the axe to swing around and chop off Nick Chopper's limbs. She does this for a peasant woman who wishes to stop her servant, probably Nimmie Amee, from marrying Nick Chopper. This seems to be close to the Tin Man's origin in the original books, but from the Witch's perspective. In the musical adaptation of Wicked

455-434: A bigger role in the second film . The actress playing her has yet to be announced. A little known version of the original story made for British TV in 1995 starred Denise Van Outen as Dorothy. Among other variations of the story, it featured her as a wealthy, spoiled socialite and the characters using sexual innuendo and cursing. It combined elements from the original books, the 1939 film version and 1985's Return to Oz. At

546-507: A character with whom child readers could identify; this influenced his choice of a protagonist for his own books. Dorothy's character was probably named after Baum's own niece, Dorothy Louise Gage, who died in infancy. Baum's wife was very attached to her and was deeply grieved by her death, so there is speculation that Baum inserted her name into his stories as a memorial. Elements of Dorothy Gale's character are possibly derived from Matilda Joslyn Gage , Dorothy Gage's grandmother. Dorothy Gage

637-647: A clear maturation of Ozma's character, now said to appear significantly older than Dorothy (in Ozma of Oz they appeared the same age) and a fairy working her own innate magic. Baum's Oz books had entered a trend of declining sales after 1910. The Tin Woodman of Oz reversed this trend; its first-year sales of 18,600 were enough to make it a "bestselling success." Significantly, the sales of earlier Oz titles also rebounded from previous declines, many selling 3000 copies that year, and two, The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and

728-470: A cottage, but Zelena eventually finds them, after putting a tracking spell on Dorothy's old bicycle. Dorothy does her best to protect the Scarecrow, but Zelena ends up ripping out his brain. Fearlessly standing up to the witch, Dorothy dares Zelena to do her worst, while boasting that she'll never be afraid of her again. Zelena expresses brief interest in her brave attitude, wondering what made her change. In

819-552: A cow named Imogene. Dorothy's last name is never mentioned in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or The Marvelous Land of Oz , the first two Oz books. It is disclosed in the third book, Ozma of Oz (1907). The last name of Gale was originally mentioned in Baum's script for the 1902 Broadway stage version of The Wizard of Oz , in which it was originally a setup for a punning joke. (Dorothy: "I am Dorothy, and I am one of

910-534: A head-trauma-induced delirium, instead of a real place. Dorothy's characterization in the 1939 film is more of a damsel in distress, somewhat unlike the adventurous, forthright and bold Dorothy of the books, and as one of the first movies to be filmed in Technicolor , the director had the color of the famous magic slippers changed from silver to red because the Ruby slippers were more visually appealing on film. She

1001-462: A man constructed partly out of his own dismembered and discarded limbs. For the Tin Woodman, this encounter with his former fiancée is almost as jarring as his experiences being transformed into a tin owl, meeting another tin man named Captain Fyter, and conversing with his ill-tempered original head. Baum's successors in writing the series tended to use the Tin Woodman as a minor character, still ruling

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1092-607: A police German Shepherd she names 'Toto' and the amnesic Lucas. The TV series concludes with her returning to Earth after the wizard's forces are decimated by the Beast Forever, but she is subsequently contacted by Lucas and Toto - both of whom she left behind in Oz - appearing to her in Kansas to ask for help. Although not a direct adaptation to the literature itself, the 2013 Super Sentai series, Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger features

1183-656: A rugged, manly boy who does not take well to Oz and cannot think of anything much more interesting than defeating the Munchkins' wrestling champion, which he proves unable to do. Thompson's Oz books show a certain intolerance in Dorothy. In The Cowardly Lion of Oz , circus clown Notta Bit More arrives in the Emerald City "disguised" as a traditional witch, and Dorothy immediately starts dumping buckets of water on him without provocation (although she reacted this way on

1274-492: A tariff on tin. Such images support the argument that the figure of a "tin man" was in use as political allegory in the 1890s. The man on the right is politician James G. Blaine . The oil needed by the Tin Woodman had a political dimension at the time because Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company stood accused of being a monopoly (and in fact was later found guilty by the Supreme Court). In the 1902 stage adaptation , which

1365-536: A tin one, and Chopfyt departed for the east. The companions leave Ku-Klip and continue east themselves to find Nimmie Amee at the foot of Mount Munch. At its summit is a cottage where a rabbit tells them Nimmie Amee now lives happily. The Tin Woodman and Tin Soldier find that Nimmie Amee is now married to Chopfyt. She refuses to leave her domestic life, even to become Empress of the Winkies. The four travelers return to

1456-673: A vortex where they are captured by the game's central antagonist, Lord Vortech. Lord Vortech imprisons Dorothy and uses the Ruby Slippers as one of the foundation elements needed to create his "perfect world". Susan Morse (singing voice) In the 1950s, the phrase " friend of Dorothy " became used as a slang term for homosexuals. This term is attributed both to American author and fellow gay icon Dorothy Parker , and to Judy Garland 's prominent role as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz . This gay slang term, also known as "FOD," means

1547-561: Is Dorothy's blood relative. (It is also possible that "Aunt" and "Uncle" are affectionate terms of a foster family and that Dorothy is not related to either of them, although Zeb in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz claims to be Dorothy's second cousin, related through Aunt Em. Little mention is made of what happened to Dorothy's birth parents, other than a passing reference to her mother being dead.) Along with her small black dog, Toto , Dorothy

1638-549: Is a major character in the comic page Baum wrote with Walt McDougall in 1904-05, Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz . In Ozma of Oz , he commands Princess Ozma 's army, and is briefly turned into a tin whistle. In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz , he serves as defense counsel in the trial of Eureka . He affects the plot of a book most notably in The Patchwork Girl of Oz , in which he forbids

1729-535: Is a year younger than Betsy Bobbin and a year older than Trot , whose age was specified as 10 in Ruth Plumly Thompson's The Giant Horse of Oz , putting her at age 11 by the time she comes to live in Oz. Dorothy has a forthright and take-charge character, exhibiting no fear when she slaps the Cowardly Lion , and organizing the Winkies ' rescue mission of her friends who have been dismembered by

1820-593: Is an Oz celebrity, having at least a cameo role in thirteen of the fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum; while she did not appear at all in The Marvelous Land of Oz , she is mentioned several times in that story. In the subsequent nineteen Oz books by Ruth Plumly Thompson , Dorothy gets at least a cameo in all except Captain Salt in Oz and The Silver Princess in Oz (in which neither Oz nor any of its inhabitants appear, though they are mentioned). Most of

1911-715: Is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington , Illinois . Lee Sandlin writes that L. Frank Baum read a disaster report of a tornado in Irving, Kansas , in May 1879 which included the name of a victim, Dorothy Gale, who was "found buried face down in a mud puddle." In Baum's 1902 stage musical adaptation , Dorothy was played by Anna Laughlin . In 1908 L. Frank Baum adapted his early Oz novels as The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays , with Romola Remus as Dorothy. This

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2002-545: Is doing her best to deny his advice. Suddenly, a lion comes of nowhere to attack Stanum, and Zelena uses her magic to make the lion go away (at this point the lion has become as Zelena would put it, cowardly). When they finally arrived to the location of the Crimson Heart, the two learned that the only way to make it work is through the absorption of another person's magic. Unfortunately Zelena's actions and selfish greed for magic causes her to betray Stanum, whom she suspect

2093-490: Is enough to please the Tin Woodman, who, with or without a heart, was all along the most tender and emotional of Dorothy's companions (just as the Scarecrow was the wisest and the Cowardly Lion the bravest). When he accidentally crushes an insect, he is grief-stricken and, ironically, claims that he must be careful about such things, while those with hearts do not need such care. This tenderness remains with him throughout

2184-477: Is from a fictional version of Kansas and not from Earth (dubbed the Land Without Magic in the show). She is portrayed as an adult by Teri Reeves and as a child by Matreya Scarrwener . Dorothy, caught in her Kansas farmhouse during a raging cyclone, is swept away to Oz. Taken in by the protectors of Oz, the sisterhood of witches, she comes to view them as family. One night, she is confronted by Zelena

2275-409: Is full of topical references that do not appear either in the novel or in any of the film adaptations (unless they are satirical), the Tin Woodman wonders what he would do if he ran out of oil. "You wouldn't be as badly off as John D. Rockefeller", the Scarecrow responds, "He'd lose six thousand dollars a minute if that happened." Dorothy Gale Dorothy Gale is a fictional character created by

2366-440: Is merely Dorothy's dream since she awakens in bed at the end, Dorothy is convinced that her journey was all in fact real. In Disney's 1985 fantasy adventure film Return to Oz , Dorothy was played by child actress Fairuza Balk . In the video for Blues Traveler 's 1994 hit song " Run-Around ", Dorothy tries to get into a club where the band is performing. She is portrayed by actress Diana Marquis. In Disney's 2013 film Oz

2457-403: Is one of the non-playable characters that appears in the 2015 toys-to-life video game LEGO Dimensions . While on her way to the Emerald City with Toto and her three companions, they encounter Batman , Gandalf , and Wyldstyle . Batman thinks that the Scarecrow is the supervillain of the same name from his world, though the interrogation is short lived, as Dorothy and her gang are sucked into

2548-461: Is provided with both and does not need to select. The Tin Woodman states unequivocally that he has neither heart nor brain, but cares nothing for the loss of his brain. Near the end of the novel, Glinda the Good Witch praises his brain as not quite that of the Scarecrow's. The Wizard turns out to be a "humbug" and can only provide a placebo heart made of silk and filled with sawdust . This

2639-464: Is reunited with Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, their three farm workers (Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion's alter egos), and Professor Marvel (The Wizard's alter ego) when she awakens from being unconscious at the end of this film, back at home, safe and proclaiming the film's theme and moral: "There's no place like home" (also fulfilling the numerous foreshadows earlier in the story). While it is implied that Oz

2730-570: Is swept away by a tornado to the Land of Oz and, much like Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , they enter an alternative world filled with talking creatures. In many of the Oz books, Dorothy is the heroine of the story. She is often seen with her best friend and the ruler of Oz, Princess Ozma . Her trademark blue and white gingham dress is admired by the Munchkins because blue

2821-492: Is taken into Oz, she learns that she is actually the princess of the kingdom of Oz, sent to another world and raised by androids that protect her after her sister was possessed by the spirit of an ancient witch that she unleashed by accident. In the 2012 TV miniseries Dorothy and the Witches of Oz , Dorothy (played by Paulie Rojas ) is shown as an adult writer and starts regaining repressed memories of her actual adventures in

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2912-565: Is taken to see the Wizard and given a pair of silver slippers to travel to any world. Dorothy thanks the Wizard of Oz ( Christopher Gorham ) and proceeds to click the slippers' heels three times to send herself home. Only after the girl's departure, Glinda discovers too late that Zelena masqueraded as the Wizard in order to usher Dorothy out of Oz. Upon returning to Kansas, Dorothy tells her family about her experiences in Oz. However, her family does not believe her, and attempts to get her admitted into an asylum. Her aunt, Emily Brown (Gina Stockdale)

3003-601: Is that Dorothy only visited Oz once and told her story to a journalist named Frank Baum. This journalist would later create a series of books from Dorothy's only adventure in Oz. Farmer's Oz is on the brink of both a civil war and an invasion by the United States Army . An influence on the creation of Dorothy appears to be the Alice books of Lewis Carroll . Although Baum reportedly found these plots incoherent, he identified their source of popularity as Alice herself,

3094-459: Is the only person who believes her, and refuses to let her be admitted. However, Aunt Em dies, gifting Dorothy a puppy named Toto before she does. Years pass, and Dorothy returns to Oz. Learning from the Munchkins that Zelena is still alive and no longer fearing the witch, Dorothy storms the palace in time to stop Zelena from stealing the Scarecrow's ( Paul Scheer ) brain for a time spell. Dorothy taunts Zelena about having one thing she'll never obtain,

3185-459: Is their favorite color and white is worn only by good witches and sorceresses, which indicates to them that Dorothy is a good witch. Dorothy has several other pets, including her white/pink/purple kitten Eureka , and Billina , a feisty talking hen. Popular in crossword puzzles is Dorothy's cow, Imogene, from the 1902 stage version . While unnamed, this cow is implied in the 1910 film . Eric Shanower 's novel, The Giant Garden of Oz , features

3276-446: Is unclear. Philip José Farmer 's 1982 science-fiction novel A Barnstormer in Oz tells the story of aviator Henry "Hank" Stover — who is not surprised one beautiful spring day in 1923 when he flies his Curtiss Jenny biplane through a strange green cloud and finds himself in Oz. Hank knows that he is in Oz because his mother, Dorothy Gale-Stover, had been there back in 1890 and later told him of her experiences. Farmer's premise

3367-418: Is unknown. Baum subsequently loosely adapted The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into a 1914 motion picture directed by J. Farrell MacDonald titled His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz with Violet MacMillan as Dorothy. Dorothy does not appear in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914), although some film books claim that Mildred Harris , who had yet to sign her contract with The Oz Film Manufacturing Company , played

3458-600: The Deboth Army 's members being themed after the characters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The then-Joyful Knight Canderrilla is designed with the motif of Dorothy Gale In the 2017 animated series Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz , Dorothy is voiced by Kari Wahlgren who is portrayed as much younger and race swapped. set after the events of the 1939 film, Dorothy is appointed the princess of Oz by Queen Ozma, where she and her friends go on adventures and save

3549-637: The Emerald City 's palace but only after her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry have settled in a farmhouse on its outskirts. Dorothy's best friend Princess Ozma , ruler of Oz, officially makes her a princess of Oz later in the novels. In the Oz books , Dorothy is raised by her aunt and uncle in the bleak landscape of a Kansas farm. Whether Aunt Em or Uncle Henry is Dorothy's blood relative remains unclear. Uncle Henry makes reference to Dorothy's mother in The Emerald City of Oz , possibly an indication that Henry

3640-660: The Munchkin Country and find her. The Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and Woot journey into the Gillikin Country and encounter the inflatable Loons of Loonville, whom they escape by popping several of them. They descend into Yoop Valley, where the giantess Mrs. Yoop dwells, who transforms the travelers into animals for her amusement, just as she has already done to Polychrome , the Rainbow's Daughter. The group escape, still in their animal forms. They arrive at

3731-537: The Scarecrow , Tin Woodsman and Cowardly Lion , albeit as costumes they don in order to conceal themselves in Oz. In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz , Dorothy was played by Judy Garland , who received an Academy Juvenile Award for her performance. Since she was sixteen years old at the time of filming, Garland's maturing figure was bound into a figure-hiding corset. Since fantasy films generally were unsuccessful at that time, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer portrayed Oz as

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3822-545: The Wicked Witch of the West , was forced to turn him into tin. Not understanding her reasons, he pursues Elphaba with a single-minded vengeance for his current form. The Tin Man's humble origin in the novel conflicts with his having been the aristocratic Boq. In Oz Squad , Nick was shown in a sexual relationship with "Rebecca Eastwitch" in order to get closer to Nimmie Amee and attempt to elope with her. A darker twist to

3913-466: The Wicked Witch of the West . The Tin Woodman's axe proves useful in this journey, both for chopping wood to create a bridge or raft as needed, and for chopping the heads off animals that threaten the party. When the Winged Monkeys are sent by the Witch of the West against the group, they throw the Tin Woodman from a great height, damaging him badly. Winkie Tinsmiths repair him after the death of

4004-405: The winged monkeys . She is not afraid of angering the Wicked Witch of the West , as shown when the Witch stole one of Dorothy's slippers, and in retaliation, Dorothy hurled a bucket of water over her, not knowing water was fatal to the witch. She brazenly rebuffs Princess Langwidere 's threat to take her head for her collection — "Well, I b'lieve you won't." (Following Anna Laughlin's portrayal of

4095-418: The 1880s and 1890s. Baum and Denslow, like most writers and illustrators, used the materials at hand that they knew best. They built a story around them, added Dorothy, and added a series of lessons to the effect that everyone possesses the resources they need (such as brains, a heart and courage) if only they had self-confidence. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was a children’s book, of course, but as Baum warned in

4186-561: The 1890s. They state that Baum and Denslow did not simply invent the Lion, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Yellow Brick Road, Silver Slippers, cyclone, monkeys, Emerald City, little people, Uncle Henry, passenger balloons, witches and the wizard. These were all common themes in the editorial cartoons of the previous decade. The notion of a "Tin Man" has deep roots in European and American history, according to Green (2006), and often appeared in cartoons of

4277-503: The 1998 novel The Tin Man , by Dale Brown , the eponymous protagonist is a power-armored vigilante whom the media and police have dubbed "The Tin Man" for his physical resemblance to the Wizard of Oz character. The Tin Woodman is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire 's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation and Maguire's 2005 sequel Son of

4368-600: The American author L. Frank Baum as the protagonist in many of his Oz novels. She first appears in Baum's classic 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappears in most of its sequels. She is also the main character in various adaptations, notably the 1939 film adaptation of the novel, The Wizard of Oz . In later novels, the Land of Oz steadily becomes more familiar to her than her homeland of Kansas. Dorothy eventually goes to live in an apartment in

4459-604: The Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter is the twelfth book in the Oz series written by L. Frank Baum and was originally published on May 13, 1918. The Tin Woodman is reunited with his Munchkin sweetheart Nimmie Amee from the days when he was flesh and blood. This was a back-story from Baum's 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . It

4550-578: The Emerald City and relate their adventures. The Tin Woodman of Oz provides backstory for Oz itself; it was not always a fairyland, and became one by being enchanted by the Fairy Queen Lurline, who left a fairy behind to rule it. In Glinda of Oz Ozma says that she herself was that fairy, though in The Marvelous Land of Oz we are told of her restoration to a throne long held by her ancestors. In any event, this novel marks

4641-617: The Great and Powerful , Dorothy's maternal origins are hinted at when Annie ( Michelle Williams ) informs her friend Oscar Diggs that her fiancé's surname is Gale. Dorothy appears in the animated film Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (which is based on Dorothy of Oz ), voiced by Lea Michele . Dorothy made a cameo appearance in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part , voiced by Maya Rudolph . She, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion find themselves having been transported from

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4732-517: The Kansas Gales." Scarecrow: "That accounts for your breezy manner.") In the sixth Oz book by Baum, The Emerald City of Oz (1910), when Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are unable to pay the mortgage on the new farmhouse built at the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , Dorothy brings them to live in Oz; the plot features a tour of Oz as a marvelous, utopian land in which they have escaped the troubles of Kansas. She becomes princess of Oz. Dorothy

4823-485: The Land of Oz from danger like the tyrannical Nome King and Wilhelmina, the niece of the Wicked Witch of the West who wants to steal the Ruby Slippers to revive her evil aunt. Dorothy Gale appears as an NPC in the 2008 MMORPG Wizard101 . Unlike other adaptations of the character, Dorothy travelled from her family farm in Kansas to Wizard City to become a Balance wizard at Ravenwood School of Magical Arts. In

4914-679: The Land of Oz to Harmony Town in the Systar System. Dorothy appears in the South Korean animated film Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs , voiced by Katie DiCicco. Dorothy will make appearances in Universal Pictures ' two-part film adaptation of Wicked , based on the 2003 musical of the same name , alongside Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion. All five will make a brief cameo in the first film and will have

5005-461: The Land of Oz when the Wicked Witch of the West plans to conquer the Land of Oz and all of Earth. Dorothy appears in the ninth season of Supernatural , portrayed by Tiio Horn . This version is Dorothy Baum . Dorothy is a hunter whose father was L. Frank Baum, a member of the Men of Letters. Desperate when it appeared that The Wicked Witch could not be killed, Dorothy used a spell to bind herself and

5096-505: The North for chopping down a tree in her domain, and his body slowly begins to transform into tin. To prevent himself from completely becoming tin, Stanum seeks out help from Zelena (now the Wicked Witch of the West) at the Emerald City of Oz. Zelena agrees to help him seek out the Crimson Heart, which can save him. During their quest, Stanum tells Zelena that she does not have to be lonely but she

5187-578: The Scarecrow, whom they are tossing around, but this is more an example of her gumption than any sort of prejudice, as she is otherwise kind and polite to the Tottenhots, and accepts that their ways are different from those who dwell in the Emerald City. The authorized sequels of Sherwood Smith , The Emerald Wand of Oz and Trouble Under Oz , center on the child characters Dori and Em, who live with their Aunt Susan. All three are indirect descendants of Dorothy, though their specific relationship to her

5278-409: The Tin Man is revealed to be Boq , a Munchkin whom Nessarose , the Wicked Witch of the East , fell in love with when they were at school together. When she discovered his heart belonged to Glinda , she botched a spell that was meant to make him fall in love with her by taking his heart, but instead shrunk his heart to nothing by taking it away without 'giving' it to Nessa. To save his life, Elphaba ,

5369-416: The Tin Woodman remains alive, in contrast to the windup mechanical man Tik-Tok that Dorothy meets in a later book. Nick Chopper was not turned into a machine, but rather had his flesh body replaced by a metal one. Far from missing his original existence, the Tin Woodman is proud (perhaps too proud) of his untiring tin body. A recurring problem for the Tin Woodman in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and afterward

5460-448: The Wicked Witch, keeping them both trapped in stasis at the Men of Letters bunker for decades. They were finally freed by Sam and Dean Winchester . After Charlie Bradbury killed the Wicked Witch, she and Dorothy went to Oz in order to continue fighting against the Witch's forces. Dorothy appears in the third and fifth seasons of the TV series Once Upon a Time . In this show, Dorothy

5551-709: The Winkie Country but not governing the stories' outcome. Two exceptions to this pattern are Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz , by Ruth Plumly Thompson , and Lucky Bucky in Oz , by John R. Neill . The biggest exception is in Rachel Cosgrove 's The Hidden Valley of Oz , in which the Tin Woodman leads the forces in the defeat of Terp the Terrible and cuts down the Magic Muffin Tree that gives Terp his great size. The fact that Nick includes

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5642-517: The Witch of the West ( Rebecca Mader ), while getting water from a well. Zelena intends to get rid of Dorothy as she believes the girl is destined to usurp her seat in the sisterhood. In defense, Dorothy throws a bucket of water at Zelena; causing the witch to melt. Glinda the Witch of the South ( Sunny Mabrey ), then appears to offer her to take Zelena's place as the Witch of the West, but Dorothy declines; wishing only to return home. With Glinda's help, she

5733-450: The Witch. His desire for a heart notably contrasts with the Scarecrow's desire for brains, reflecting a common debate between the relative importance of the mind and the emotions. This occasions philosophical debate between the two friends as to why their own choices are superior; neither convinces the other, and Dorothy, listening, is unable to decide which one is right. Symbolically, because they remain with Dorothy throughout her quest, she

5824-410: The Woodman had left her. The Wicked Witch of the East had made Fyter's sword do what the Woodman's axe had done—cut off his limbs, which Ku-Klip replaced with tin limbs. He does not have a heart either, but this does not bother him. However, he can rust, which he did one day during a rainstorm. Both tin men now seek the heart of Nimmie Amee, agreeing to let her choose between them. The five come to

5915-454: The assumption that the "witch" Notta was an evil witch like her old enemy, the Wicked Witch of the West). In The Wishing Horse of Oz , she makes unsavory comments about the dark coloration Gloma and her subjects take on as a disguise, making them somewhat resemble black people . This behavior is not characteristic of Dorothy in Baum's Oz books. In The Patchwork Girl of Oz , she pushes and slaps through crowds of black Tottenhots to rescue

6006-629: The beloved woodman is made by author James A. Owen in The Shadow Dragons , the fourth installment of his series The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica , when his identity is revealed to be Roger Bacon . The Tin Woodman appears in the 2011 TV series Once Upon a Time episode " Where Bluebirds Fly " portrayed by Austin Obiajunwa (as a teenager) and by Alex Désert (as an adult). In this version he goes by

6097-435: The character in the popular 1903 Broadway version of The Wizard of Oz, Baum scripts Dorothy to speak in childlike contractions with Ozma of Oz , which she continues to do throughout the series). This aspect of her character was somewhat lessened by her companionship of Ozma, in whom Baum placed the greater level of wisdom and dignity. Yet even this is complicated by her associations with her cousin , Zeb of Hugson's Ranch ,

6188-508: The community, and argued that the phrase shows "several of the most important functions of folklore that serve members of the LGBT community." However, Dee Michel, a scholar of Oz , said there are certain beliefs that continue about the connection between the film and LGBTQ people that "persist in spite of a lack of clear historical evidence." Additionally, a Dorothy dollar is described as any business generated by "providing goods and services to

6279-590: The dwelling of the tinsmith Ku-Klip where the Tin Woodman talks to himself—that is, to the head of the man (Nick Chopper) he once was. The Tin Woodman and the Tin Soldier also find a barrel of assorted body parts that once belonged to each of them, but some, like Captain Fyter's head, are conspicuously missing. Ku-Klip reveals that he used Fyter's head and many body parts from each of them (which never decayed) to create an assistant whom he named Chopfyt. Chopfyt complained about missing an arm until Ku-Klip made him

6370-432: The end, Zelena leaves Dorothy unharmed to let the people of Oz see that, for once, their great hero has failed them. In Emerald City , Dorothy is an adult when she is taken to Oz, working as a nurse. She is still living with Em and Henry, but here they are identified as her adopted parents, her biological mother having left her with them as a baby and only recently getting back in touch with Dorothy. Months after receiving

6461-410: The farm of Jinjur , who renews her acquaintance with them and sends to the Emerald City for help. Dorothy and Ozma arrive and Ozma restores the travelers to their rightful forms. The group resumes their quest and come upon the spot where the Tin Woodman had rusted and find another tin man there. After they oil his joints, he identifies himself as Captain Fyter, a soldier who courted Nimmie Amee after

6552-413: The film's end, she wakes up from having fallen asleep and dismisses her trip to Oz as a crazy dream. The 2007 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Tin Man reworked her into DG, a descendant of Dorothy's, and is played by Zooey Deschanel . In this iteration, the trademark dress is actually a diner waitress uniform; the rest of the time she wears a leather jacket and jeans and rides a motorcycle . When she

6643-523: The help of farmers (represented by the Scarecrow); in reality he has a strong sense of cooperation and love, which needs only an infusion of self-confidence to be awakened. In the 1890s many argued that to secure a political revolution a coalition of Farmers and Workers was needed. The 1890 editorial cartoon to the right shows President Benjamin Harrison wearing improvised tin armor because he wanted

6734-450: The homosexual community." In L. Frank Baum 's Land of Oz from 1900 to 1920, Dorothy and Ozma were described as being in an intimate friendship . In the series Once Upon a Time , Dorothy, who appears in seasons 3, 5, and 6 of the series, has a relationship with Ruby (Little Red Riding Hood), with the latter awakening her with a kiss in her final episode. The Tin Woodman of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of

6825-443: The letter, Dorothy makes her first official visit to her biological mother when the tornado occurs that takes her to Oz. Faced with an Oz that is increasingly opposed to magic on the Wizard's orders and accused of the death of the Witch of the East - which was initially an accident and later self-defence when the Witch survived her injuries - Dorothy learns more about her true ties to this world as she searches for answers, accompanied by

6916-427: The love of the people, as Zelena prepares a fireball to destroy her. Toto, hopping out of the bag, trots up to the palace curtains, while Dorothy ducks to avoid Zelena's fireball, which hits an approaching guard. Toto then tugs a string, causing the curtains to fall on Zelena, who fumbles to get free. While she is occupied, Dorothy escapes the palace with the Scarecrow and her dog. Later, she and her companions hide out in

7007-455: The name Stanum (derived from the Latin word " stannum ", which means "tin"). Since youth, Stanum has been a woodcutter and one day when he first met Zelena, the daughter of another woodsman, he finds out that Zelena has magic and befriends her, regardless of whatever the children say about Zelena, who they see as a freak. Many years later, Stanum, now a man, is punished by the Wicked Witch of

7098-445: The natural deaths of his parents in the story of how he came to be made of tin has been a major element of debate. In The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918), he proclaims that no one in Oz ever died as far back as Lurline's enchantment of the country, which occurred long before the arrival of any outsiders such as the Wizard. (Although the living creatures of Oz do not die of age or disease, they may die of accidents or be killed by others.) In

7189-498: The other books focus on different child protagonists, some Ozites, some from other Nonestican realms, and some from the United States , and as such, her appearances in the main series become more and more limited. In Jack Snow 's The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946), Ozma places Dorothy on the throne of Oz while she is away visiting Queen Lurline 's fairy band. The magic of Oz keeps Dorothy young. In The Lost King of Oz (1925),

7280-573: The preface, it was a "modernized" fairy tale as well. The Tin Man—the human turned into a machine—was a common feature in political cartoons and in advertisements in the 1890s. Indeed, he had been part of European folk art for 300 years. In political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , the Tin Woodman is supposedly described as a worker, dehumanized by industrialization. The Tin Woodman little by little lost his natural body and had it replaced by metal; so he has lost his heart and cannot move without

7371-470: The previous year's The Lost Princess of Oz (1917), selling 4000 copies. Baum earned $ 6,742.52 from his Oz books that year. (In 1918 the average annual salary of a clerical worker was $ 940.) Even Baum's non-Oz-related early works were affected by the upsurge: John Dough and the Cherub (1906) sold 1,562 copies in 1918. The reason for this reversal of fortune is harder to specify. The psychological shock of

7462-408: The role. The character, is, in fact, eliminated from the film version, although she has a fairly large role in the novel. Dorothy Dwan portrayed Dorothy in the 1925 film Wizard of Oz . In this film, Aunt Em ( Mary Carr ) informs her on her eighteenth birthday that she was left on their doorstep and is really a princess of Oz destined to marry Prince Kynd ( Bryant Washburn ), who has currently lost

7553-453: The series, as in The Patchwork Girl of Oz , where he refuses to let a butterfly be maimed for the casting of a spell. When Dorothy returns home to her farm in Kansas , the Tin Woodman returns to the Winkie Country to rule as emperor. Later, he has his subjects construct a palace made entirely of tin — from the architecture all the way down to the flowers in the garden. Baum emphasized that

7644-467: The sidequests "Yellow Brick Road" and "Not in Kansas Anymore", players meet Dorothy in her home, who tells them to go and check on her friends that she was having over for dinner, Mr. Toto and the Tin Man. Mr. Toto tells the player that they are running late due to Tin Man not being able to find his oil can, and asks the player to tell Dorothy that they are just running late as usual. Dorothy Gale

7735-407: The throne to Prime Minister Kruel ( Josef Swickard ), in a storyline similar to that of His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz , only with Dorothy as the love interest . In the end, the story proves to be the dream of a little girl who has fallen asleep listening to the story of Kynd and Kruel, said to be the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The film also introduced the idea of the farmhands also being

7826-514: The young hero from collecting the wing of a butterfly needed for a magical potion because his heart requires him to protect insects from cruelty. Baum also wrote a short book titled The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman , part of the Little Wizard Stories of Oz series for younger readers. In The Tin Woodman of Oz , Nick Chopper finally sets out to find his lost love, Nimmie Amee , but discovers that she has already married Chopfyt,

7917-588: Was aligned with Dorothy by keeping the Crimson Heart for herself, leaving Stanum to transform into the Tin Man permanently. Some time later, when Robin Hood arrives in Oz in the episode " Heart of Gold ", the Tin Man is seen on the side of the Yellow Brick Road, torn apart. Economics and history professors have published scholarly studies that indicate the images and characters used by Baum and Denslow closely resembled political images that were well known in

8008-492: Was followed by The Magic of Oz (1919). The book was dedicated to the author's grandson Frank Alden Baum. The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are regaling each other with tales at the Woodman's palace in the Winkie Country when a Gillikin boy named Woot wanders in. After he is fed and rested, Woot asks the Woodman how he came to be made of tin. He relates how the Wicked Witch of the East enchanted his axe and caused him to chop his body parts off limb by limb, because he

8099-407: Was followed by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , a motion picture short that Otis Turner , one of the directors of Fairylogue , made without Baum as part of a contract fulfillment. In this 1910 film, Dorothy was played by Bebe Daniels . It was followed by two sequels (the same year), Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz and The Land of Oz , both of which included Dorothy, but whether Daniels participated

8190-407: Was his tendency to rust when exposed to rain, tears, or other moisture. For this reason, in The Marvelous Land of Oz , the character has himself nickel -plated before helping his friend the Scarecrow fight to regain his throne in the Emerald City . Even so, the Tin Woodman continues to worry about rusting throughout the Oz series. The Tin Woodman appeared in most of the Oz books that followed. He

8281-413: Was in love with her ward, Nimmie Amee . Each chopped limb was replaced by the tinsmith Ku-Klip with a counterpart made of tin. Without a heart, the Tin Woodman felt he could no longer love Nimmie Amee and he left her. Woot suggests that his new heart may have made him kind, but it did not make him loving, or he would have returned to Nimmie Amee. This shames the Tin Woodman and inspires him to journey to

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