# The Marvelous Land of Oz — Character guide

> Key figures in The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

- [Tip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/tip.md): Tip is a practical, unimpressed boy raised in the North Country on chores he dodges whenever Mombi isn't watching, and he has never known his parents. He hates his guardian's magic but has quietly learned to imitate it, 
- [Scarecrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/scarecrow.md): As reigning monarch of the Emerald City, the Scarecrow presides over a court in which his standing army runs at the first sign of trouble and his crown gives him a headache. When a regiment of girls deposes him, he takes
- [Tin Woodman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/tin_woodman.md): Nick Chopper rules the Winkies from a palace hung with portraits of his own past adventures, and his first instinct on seeing the Scarecrow is to embrace him so hard the paint transfers. He is generous, sentimental, and 
- [Jack Pumpkinhead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/jack_pumpkinhead.md): Jack is Tip's homemade creation, a wooden body topped with a carved pumpkin that smiles no matter what he feels, and he arrives in the Emerald City speaking only Gillikin. His constant fear is spoiling—his life is measur
- [Mombi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/mombi.md): Mombi is a witch by ambition if not by license, feared by her neighbors and hated openly by the boy she was given to rear. She works magic she isn't supposed to know, keeps her secrets close, and meets Glinda's interroga
- [Sawhorse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/sawhorse.md): The Sawhorse is a humble construction of wood and wishing-powder, but he becomes the party's most reliable mount, carrying riders where no living horse could. He has no vanity and no fear, only an awkward amble and inexh
- [Glinda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/glinda.md): Glinda rules the South from a throne of wrought gold, and nothing in Oz escapes her notice — she knows the Scarecrow's petition before he speaks it. Rather than simply granting aid, she turns the request back on him: by 
- [Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/woggle_bug.md): Once an ordinary bug crawling under stones, the Woggle-Bug was enlarged by a schoolhouse magnifying glass and emerged convinced he is owed curiosity and admiration. He announces his degree with a condescending smile, del
- [Gump](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/gump.md): Assembled in haste from whatever the palace offered, the Gump is a patchwork Thing with a monarch's antlers and a broom for a tail, forced to fly though his legs are useless. He carries the fugitives through the air whil
- [General Jinjur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/jinjur.md): Jinjur marches on the gates demanding surrender, and when the Guardian laughs her off, her girls pull their needles and jab him into handing over the keys. The city falls without a drop of blood, its royal army fleeing r
- [Princess Ozma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/ozma.md): Ozma is the missing piece in every argument about who should rule — the daughter Pastoria left behind, whose existence Glinda forces the Scarecrow to confront. Her fate is tangled with Mombi's transformations and the Wiz
- [Jellia Jamb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/jellia_jamb.md): A maid in the Emerald City palace who assists the Scarecrow.
- [Wizard of Oz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/wizard_of_oz.md): The former ruler of Oz, mentioned but not appearing in person.
- [Guardian of the Gate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_marvelous_land_of_oz_se/characters/guardian_of_the_gate.md): The keeper of the Emerald City's gates.

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