Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman, known as the Tin Man or—mistakenly—the "Tin Woodsman, " is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L Frank Baum.
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15 Facts About Tin Woodman
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Baum's Tin Woodman first appeared in his classic 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappeared in many other subsequent Oz books in the series.
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Tin Woodman follows her to the Emerald City to get a heart from The Wizard.
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The Tin Woodman's axe proves useful in this journey, both for chopping wood to create a bridge or raft as needed, and for chopping the heads off animals that threaten the party.
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Baum emphasized that the Tin Woodman remains alive, in contrast to the windup mechanical man Tik-Tok Dorothy meets in a later book.
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One passage in The Road to Oz, by Baum himself, wherein the Woodman attends Ozma's birthday party accompanied by a Winkie band playing a song called "There's No Plate Like Tin, " strongly implies that this is the case.
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Tin Woodman affects the plot of a book most notably in The Patchwork Girl of Oz, in which he forbids the young hero from collecting the wing of a butterfly needed for a magical potion because his heart requires him to protect insects from cruelty.
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The biggest exception is in Rachel Cosgrove's The Hidden Valley of Oz, in which the Tin Woodman leads the forces in the defeat of Terp the Terrible and cuts down the Magic Muffin Tree that gives Terp his great size.
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Tin Woodman is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation and Maguire's 2005 sequel Son of a Witch.
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Some time later, when Robin Hood arrives in Oz in the episode "Heart of Gold", the Tin Woodman Man is seen on the side of the Yellow Brick Road, torn apart.
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The notion of a "Tin Woodman Man" has deep roots in European and American history, according to Green, and often appeared in cartoons of the 1880s and 1890s.
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Tin Woodman Man—the human turned into a machine—was a common feature in political cartoons and in advertisements in the 1890s.
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In political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Tin Woodman is supposedly described as a worker, dehumanized by industrialization.
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Oil needed by the Tin Woodman had a political dimension at the time because Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company stood accused of being a monopoly .
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