40 Facts About Nome King

1.

Nome King is a fictional character created by American author L Frank Baum.

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2.

Nome King appears in many of the continuing sequel Oz novels written by Baum.

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3.

Nome King decides to destroy Phunnyland and instructs his mechanics to build what is essentially a robot.

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4.

Apparently as revenge, the Nome King enjoys keeping surface-dwellers as slaves—not for their labor but simply to have them.

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5.

Nome King has his subjects dig a tunnel under the Deadly Desert while his general recruits a host of evil spirits like the Whimsies, the Growleywogs, and the Phanfasms to conquer Oz.

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6.

Nome King gets into the country without Ozma's knowledge, creating havoc.

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7.

Nome King is placed on a Runaway Land which runs out to the Nonestic Ocean and strands him on an island.

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8.

Nome King gets hit with the Silence Stone and is rendered mute.

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9.

Nome King's gnomes watch over the rocks in the Forest of Burzee and make sleigh bells for each of Santa Claus's ten reindeer that he gives in exchange for toys for his children.

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10.

Nome King is driven by a lust for power for the sake of power.

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11.

Nome King was aware that if one uses the same methods as one's enemies, one risks becoming like them.

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12.

Nome King claimed that he knew of many other stories and hoped to tell them as well.

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13.

Nome King has long been stewing over his defeat and the loss of his magic belt.

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14.

Nome King feels nothing but a constant anger, which has destroyed his own capacity to feel happiness and makes his subjects miserable as well.

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15.

Nome King sees his situation as monotonous and preventing him from gaining any pleasure in life.

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16.

Nome King has become an irresponsible tyrant, and is driven only by malice.

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17.

Nome King starts the book by storming and raving "all by himself".

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18.

Nome King turns his anger towards his own subjects, when they disagree with him.

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19.

Nome King continued writing it from 1912 until his death in 1919.

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20.

Nome King is outsmarted and humiliated by Billina the hen, and literally left with egg on his face.

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21.

Nome King was first played by Paul de Dupont in The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays .

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22.

Nome King was portrayed on film by Nicol Williamson in 1985's Return to Oz which was based loosely on the books Ozma of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz.

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23.

Nome King is eventually destroyed by ingesting the hidden Billina's chicken egg, laid in a panic by the hen, since eggs are poisonous to Nomes.

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24.

Nome King uses Nomes that parody the Fantastic Four and the Hulk that get pelted by Easter Eggs, again to no apparent harm, as in the book.

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25.

In Bill Willingham's Vertigo comic book series Fables, the Nome King has sided with the Adversary and is the ruler of Oz.

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26.

Nome King is later deposed in an uprising led by former Fabletown resident Bufkin, one of the winged monkeys native to Oz.

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27.

In Emerald City Confidential, the Nome King is a bartender and is mostly reformed .

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28.

Nome King appears in Dorothy and the Witches of Oz played by professional wrestler Al Snow.

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29.

Nome King is among the villains that accompanies the Wicked Witch of the West in her attack on Earth.

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30.

Nome King is the current ruler of that land, as well as many of the surrounding kingdoms and Imperial districts.

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31.

Nome King attended the Imperial conference called after the destruction of the magic grove and was positively delighted by the plans outlined by the Snow Queen for the effective genocide of the mundane population.

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32.

Nome King did feel that the plan could be improved with his assistance, feeling that he had many minions that could be of great use.

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33.

Nome King was killed during Bufkin's revolution when the Nome King's own hanging rope magically came to life and snapped its master's head off.

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34.

Nome King appears in the season one finale of Emerald City portrayed by Julian Bleach.

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35.

Nome King appears as a flayed man trapped by Mistress East in the Prison of the Abject, possibly even the first to be imprisoned there.

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36.

Nome King manages to find his skin and puts it back on, before growing bat-like wings and flying to the Emerald City.

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37.

Nome King appears in Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz voiced by Jason Alexander.

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38.

Nome King has taken over the Emerald City, captured Glinda and Tuffy, took Glinda's wand, and now he wants to destroy Dorothy and seize her ruby slippers.

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39.

The Nome King is defeated when he falls under the Jitterbug's dancing spell and loses the Ruby Slippers when Tom and Jerry try to keep him from falling into the Pit of Nome Return.

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40.

Nome King appears in Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz portrayed by JP Karliak.

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