Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Living... a very isolated life in a castle in the Haunted Forest with her only companions: an army of flying monkeys.
Interests... wearing black (which goes best with her green complexion), flying around on a broomstick, watching others through her crystal ball, and making dramatic appearances and exits in a puff of smoke.
Challenge... getting over the loss of her sister, the Wicked Witch of the East. Of all things, she was "accidentally" killed when an entire house flew on top of her. The Wicked Witch is going to make her sister's murderer, a young girl named Dorothy who was in that house, pay for what she did. And she'll get her little dog too. To make matters even worse, Dorothy has absconded with her sister's magical ruby red slippers. They are the key to amassing power in the land of Oz, and The Wicked Witch will stop at nothing to get them.
Personality... scheming and power-hungry, with a flair for the dramatic. Though her powers are strong, the Wicked Witch often gets what she wants through manipulation, not magic. She uses scare tactics and intimidation to maintain her dominance. Her spine-tingling cackle strikes fear in the heart of many an Ozian.
Get to Know her in...
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Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
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Follow the yellow brick road with Dorothy and her friends as they travel to the Emerald City!
Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully mysterious Wizard of Oz. Together with her companions the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion whom she meets on the way, Dorothy embarks on a strange and enchanting adventure. -
Toymaker tells a bizarre story about how the Land of Oz was ruled by Prince Kynd, but he was overthrown by Prime Minister Kruel. Dorothy learns from Aunt Em that fat, cruel Uncle Henry is not her uncle, and gives her a note due on her eighteenth birthday, which reveals she is actually Princess Dorothea of Oz, and is supposed to marry Prince Kynd. She, Uncle Henry , and two farmhands are swept to Oz by a tornado. Snowball, a black farmhand soon joins them after a lightning bolt chases him into the sky. They land in Oz, where the farmhands try to avoid capture. Semon becomes a scarecrow, Hardy briefly disguises himself as a Tin Woodman, and Snowball is given a Lion suit by the Wizard, which he uses to scare the Pumperdink guards. Written by Scott Hutchins
