# The Road to Oz — Character guide

> Key figures in The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum.

- [Dorothy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/dorothy.md): Dorothy has become a personage in Oz — Princess Ozma's friend, known to every fox and donkey king she meets — yet she still measures the world by Aunt Em's farm and Uncle Henry's ten-acre lot. When the shaggy man asks di
- [Button-Bright](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/button_bright.md): Button-Bright attaches himself to the shaggy man at once — partly because of the Love Magnet, partly because he has nowhere else to be. He asks the fox-captain what a prisoner is, then what a captive is, and keeps asking
- [Princess Ozma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/ozma.md): Ozma sits on a malachite throne in the Emerald City, radiating a charm that historians of Oz have given up trying to describe. She is the one who tangled the roads so Dorothy would wander toward her, and she has already 
- [Toto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/toto.md): Toto is Dorothy's constant companion, tucked into pockets and carried under arms, and the first to bristle at fox-soldiers before the Love Magnet calms them. When Dorothy is lost, she asks him to find the farm; he dashes
- [Polychrome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/polychrome.md): Polychrome drops into the journey almost by accident, a fairy girl whose element is the sky and whose food is dewdrops and mist-cakes. She dances to the Tin Woodman's tin orchestra until her rainbow robes swirl around he
- [Tin Woodman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/tin_woodman.md): Nick Chopper rules the Winkies from a tin castle where dishes, instruments, and even the waltz are made of tin, and where no one wants more than he can use. He loves the shaggy man on sight — not yet knowing about the Lo
- [Johnny Dooit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/johnny_dooit.md): Johnny Dooit arrives when the travelers are stranded at the edge of the Deadly Desert, a cheerful craftsman summoned by the Shaggy Man's peculiar acquaintance. He refuses to waste an hour letting paint dry and refuses to
- [Santa Claus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/santa_claus.md): The jolly gift-giver who attends Ozma's birthday celebration.
- [Billina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/billina.md): Sent by Princess Ozma alongside Tik-Tok to welcome Dorothy's party in the Winkie Country, Billina serves as escort, translator of mechanical malfunctions, and unflappable voice of sense. She has just hatched ten chicks a
- [Scoodlers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/scoodlers.md): Hostile creatures with detachable heads who attack the travelers.
- [Jack Pumpkinhead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/jack_pumpkinhead.md): Jack lives inside a hollowed giant pumpkin in the Winkie Country, raising a field of future heads so he will never again be caught wearing a rotting one. He is Ozma's creation and calls her his parent, which gives him a 
- [Tik-Tok](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/tik_tok.md): Ozma dispatches Tik-Tok with Billina to welcome Dorothy's party, but his thoughts run down mid-sentence and his speech collapses into nonsense until someone winds the key beneath his arm. He is trustworthy, dependable, a
- [King Dox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/king_dox.md): King Dox presides over a town of elegantly costumed foxes who find Dorothy's plain gown and Button-Bright's sailor suit hopelessly common. He is gracious to the point of smothering, insisting on dinner and theater before
- [Shaggy Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/shaggy_man.md): The Shaggy Man travels with Dorothy toward the Emerald City, cheerfully penniless and indifferent to dress, insisting he would rather stay shaggy than become a stranger to himself. He is earnest about proving himself hon
- [Scarecrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/scarecrow.md): Riding a gold-shod Sawhorse through cheering streets, the Scarecrow returns to the palace as the most popular man in all Oz, greeting Dorothy with squashy white-gloved hands. He fusses cheerfully over his fresh coat of p
- [King Kik-a-bray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/king_kik_a_bray.md): The donkey king of Dunkiton who becomes a friend to the travelers.
- [Wizard of Oz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_road_to_oz_se/characters/wizard_of_oz.md): Though no longer ruling, the Wizard remains close to Ozma's throne, standing behind Dorothy during the grand birthday reception alongside the shaggy man. His past as a balloonist and former ruler gives him a peculiar aut

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