The Good Witch Dorothy She's one of the most beloved figures in pop culture: farm girl of farm girls, freelance wicked witch slayer and best darn dog owner in the whole wide world. Dorothy Gale may...

Something Bad is Happening in Oz/KansasFour of the five biggest characters in The Wizard of Oz present us with a thorny dilemma: they're actually two characters instead of one. We have the folks fr...

The StrawmanLike the Witch, the Scarecrow has a doppelganger in the real world: Hunk, the farmhand who scolds Dorothy about not having any brains. HUNK: Now lookit, Dorothy, you ain't using your he...

Old RustyThe Tin Man actually has less to do than the Scarecrow and the Lion. He's the "middle child" of the company. Dorothy finds him after the Scarecrow, but before the Lion, and like most middl...

Scaredy CatOf all of Dorothy's companions, the Lion raises the most questions about whether or not he gains his desired trait at the end. It depends on how you look at it, and once again, his less-...

Mr. Smoke and MirrorsThe "Wizard" (we have to use quotes, because he really is a big fraud) actually bears the closest resemblance to his real-world counterpart, Professor Marvel. He's "an old Kans...

Thank Goodness for GlindaFunny thing about Glinda: she's the only character in Oz who doesn't have an eerie lookalike back in Kansas. Not that she could traipse around the prairie in that ballroom...

Home Grown FamilyEm and Henry are kinda bound at the hip, and though Auntie Em gets all the press (because Dorothy tends to go on about getting home to her a lot), Uncle Henry plays the same role....