Cowardly Lion is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L Frank Baum.
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21 Facts About Cowardly Lion
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Cowardly Lion is depicted as an African lion, but like all animals in Oz, he can speak.
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Cowardly Lion argues that the courage from the Wizard is only temporary, although he continues to do brave deeds.
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Cowardly Lion makes his first appearance in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Cowardly Lion is the last of the companions Dorothy befriends on her way to the Emerald City where he ambushes her, Toto, Scarecrow, and Tin Woodman.
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Cowardly Lion calls the Lion a coward and the Lion admits that he is.
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The Cowardly Lion joins her so that he can ask The Wizard for courage, ashamed that he is not brave enough to play his cultural role of the King of the Beasts.
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Cowardly Lion accompanies Dorothy on her journey to see Glinda, and allows his friends to stand on his back in order to escape the Dainty China Country, where he damages the only church mentioned in an Oz book until Handy Mandy in Oz.
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Cowardly Lion is Princess Ozma's chief guardian on state occasions, and he and the Hungry Tiger pull Ozma's chariot.
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In subsequent Oz books by Baum, the Cowardly Lion was shown to have continued being courageous and loyal, although still considering himself a coward and regularly frightened, even by Aunt Em.
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Cowardly Lion was turned to stone by the giant Crunch, but rescued by American circus clown Notta Bit More and orphan Bobbie Downs, whom the clown prefers to call by the more optimistic-sounding Bob Up.
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Cowardly Lion assisted against the Stratovanians in Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, Terp the Terrible in The Hidden Valley of Oz, and accompanied Dorothy and Prince Gules of Halidom in Merry Go Round in Oz.
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Cowardly Lion was given the Tin Man's "heart", but he gave that to "someone who needed it", a man in the same hospital who was having open heart surgery.
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Cowardly Lion had it restored by a taxidermist and "recreated the headpiece with a lifelike sculpture of Lahr".
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Cowardly Lion's mane was re-created from human hair imported from Italy at a cost of $22,000, and more than twenty-one artisans worked for two years completing the conservation.
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Comisar's Cowardly Lion costume has been featured in the national media, including on The Oprah Winfrey Show, when it was then valued at $1.
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Cowardly Lion appeared in the animated film Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return, voiced by Jim Belushi.
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Cowardly Lion makes a brief cameo in Oz: The Great and Powerful, as a CGI character.
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Cowardly Lion briefly tries to attack Oz and his monkey companion Finley, but Oz uses his magic to create a velvet fog that intimidates the lion, causing him to immediately retreat.
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The canonical books give no indication the Cowardly Lion did not originate in Oz, essentially as a normal, if unique, lion.
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