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The Marvelous Land of Oz

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The Marvelous Land of Oz	comment	The Marvelous Land of Oz is a stage play put on film in 1981. It is based on L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of OzThe protagonist is a native of Oz, an orphan called Tippetarius (or "Tip" for short). After escaping his abusive caretaker, the old witch Mombi, Tip sets out to seek his fortune along with his two companions: Jack Pumpkinhead and the Saw-Horse, both of which he created and brought to life with Mombi's "Powder of Life".Tip must contend with General Jinjur, the commander of the all-female Army of Revolt, who means to attack Emerald City and take over Oz because she desires to have a woman in charge. Tip seeks out Princess Ozma, the daughter of the last kin, who disappeared as a baby. Tip eventually discovers that he himself is the princess he's been looking for. His sex had been changed to protect her identity. Tip transforms back into Ozma anda is acclaimed the ruler of Oz.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_171b1206	comment	Men Can't Keep House: Once order is restored and the women return to the kitchen, they cook such a delicious meal that all is forgiven.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_216ff5ed	comment	Moses in the Bulrushes: Ozma
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_229f6872	type	A Day in Her Apron
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_229f6872	comment	A Day in Her Apron: After Jinjur successfully took the throne, men were forced to do all the chores women were doing. They were unable to handle the stress of housework, and the women couldn’t stand their cooking.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_256301a9	type	That Thing Is Not My Child!
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_256301a9	comment	That Thing Is Not My Child!: Subverted; Tip openly recognizes himself as the "creator" of Jack Pumpkinhead, and does his best to look out for him when appropriate. He does feel uncomfortable with Jack's insistence in calling him "father".
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: Tip is really Princess Ozma, who was transformed into a boy when she was hidden away as an infant to make her harder to find.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_34a9299c	type	It Was with You All Along
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_34a9299c	comment	It Was with You All Along: Tip's quest to find the lost Princess Ozma requires, in the end, that they force out of the wicked witch Mombi the information that Tip is Ozma, transformed into a boy.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_3d15a154	type	Muggle in Mage Custody
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_3d15a154	comment	Muggle in Mage Custody: A negative example. The main character Tip is raised by the wicked witch Mombi who constantly abuses him.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_3e2d68db	type	Menacing Mask
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_3e2d68db	comment	Menacing Mask: Jack Pumpkinhead, the man which Tip builds out of wood and with a pumpkin head to scare Mombi. A face with a huge smile is carved into the head. Later, when Jack is brought to life, he is a melancholic character, and his fixed smile makes him all the more creepy to others. (This example might not strictly be a mask, but is about a fixed expression.)
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_3e992c7b	type	Adopt-a-Servant
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_3e992c7b	comment	Adopt-a-Servant: Mombi is Tip's guardian and has raised him since infancy, but she treats him like a slave.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_439bff8d	type	The Alleged Steed
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_439bff8d	comment	The Alleged Steed: The Saw-horse, who has no joints in his legs and, at first at least, has no ears and can't follow directions, starts out as this. Later, he is revealed to be completely tireless and the fastest ride in Oz.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_45bc787c	type	Mundane Wish
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_45bc787c	comment	Mundane Wish: With the wishing pills, they could have wished to be teleported straight to Glinda, they would have wished for Jinjur's instant defeat, but instead they just wish for the Gump to be repaired so they can continue their journey.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_541d9340	type	Foul Flower
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_541d9340	comment	Foul Flower: The characters find themselves in a field of sunflowers, with spinning heads and a hypnotic gaze, with faces which look strangely like those of the Army of Revolt.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_5c9fb18	type	Pumpkin Person
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_5c9fb18	comment	Pumpkin Person: The book has a rare non-evil version with Jack Pumpkinhead, who is basically a wooden scarecrow with a carved pumpkin head brought to life by a magic powder.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_5fb5dad8	type	Royal Blood
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_5fb5dad8	comment	Royal Blood: Princess Ozma
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Inverted; it's been suggested that, following the great success of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz's stage adaptation, Baum wrote this sequel with one eye on what would look good on stage. The element that's most often singled out is the Army of Revolt, composed of good-looking women whose uniforms are described in detail. Another element that may have been affected by the stage prospects is Tip turning out to really be female, since in a stage production a young boy would be played by a woman anyway. The emphasis on the Tin Man and the Scarecrow at the expense of the Lion and Dorothy reflects which characters had been most successful on stage. (In the event, the stage adaptation that followed a year later was a flop, at least partly because many of the people and elements that had made the first show such a success were unavailable because the show was still running.)
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_6b4b3eba	type	Lady Land
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_6b4b3eba	comment	Lady Land: Jinjur tries to turn Oz into a Lady Land, forcing men to do all the cooking and housework while women live lives of leisure. Her all-female army is defeated by Glinda the Good’s all-female army, Princess Ozma takes the throne, and from then on the genders are basically equal in Oz.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_6eaa52fb	type	Extreme Omni-Goat
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_6eaa52fb	comment	Extreme Omnigoat: Referenced, with General Jinjur threatening to have the Tin Man fed to a goat.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: General Jinjur. Note this in contrast to the matriarchal army of the South, composed entirely of women, who came to overthrow her rule of the Emerald City. An army relying on your enemies not hitting girls had some serious drawbacks in retrospect. It is interesting to note that Baum's wife was herself the daughter of a prominent early feminist, Matilda Gage. Jinjur is an obvious poke at the sort of pie in the sky "suffragette" who thought feminism meant "women in charge" while preserving the Double Standard where it suited them.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Jinjur's plan to lead feminist revolts in all the kingdoms ran into the slight snag that one of them was already completely matriarchal, heavily militarized, and good friends with the others. Oops.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: For Ozma, at the end of the book.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: Most everything that happens in the story either comes out of nowhere or has virtually no impact on anything that happens afterwards. Perhaps the best example is when the main characters accidentally fly out of Oz, land in a jackdaw nest, use some magical wish-granting pills to fly back to Oz, but forget to take the pills with them. What does this episode add to the story? The world may never know.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: The aftermath of Jinjur's conquest. She conquered the Emerald City, chiefly because there was no opposition... but she has no idea how to rule Oz.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: Tip escapes the clutches of the sorceress Mombi before she can turn him into a statue.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: Both Jinjur's Army of Revolt and the army Glinda makes. Played with in that the former just thought they were; the Emerald City's army wouldn't hit a girl and was less than a match for Dorothy by herself anyway. Even so, the all-female armies in this book are the most effective armies in Baum's Oz books — all the rest are either evil and menacing but are foiled before they do much harm, e.g. the Nome King's army; or are too small to be threatening (these will include exactly one private soldier, but may have a large number of officers who do not fight), e.g. the Army of Oz. Jinjur's and Glinda's armies are the only ones that accomplish the missions they set out to accomplish.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_eb01d70	type	Princess Protagonist
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_eb01d70	comment	Princess Protagonist: The Farm Boy Tip turns out to be the lost princess Ozma.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_f18ac036	comment	Velvet Revolution: General Jinjur's Army of Revolt overtake the Emerald City and force the Scarecrow to abdicate the throne using nothing but sewing needles and relying on the fact that Oz's (single person) army Wouldn't Hit a Girl. A few people get poked with needles but that is the extent of the violence. Later in the story, the armies of Glinda the Good surround the city in a standoff, but Jinjur surrenders without violence, allowing the rightful Princess Ozma to take the throne.
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