Oz/Tropes

* Adaptation Distillation: The film draws superficial elements from the MGM film, but otherwise seeks to tale its own take on the story.
* Adaptational Early Appearance:
** The Flying Monkeys show up much earlier in the film, being sent by the Wicked Witch to keep Gñinda occupied and prevent her from protecting Dorothy.
** The Tin Man (or Woman in this case) is the first character Dorothy meets on her way to Iz, whereas in other versions the Tin Man is the second.
* An Aesop: Home is where your heart is.
* Disney Villain Death: The Wicked Witch in thus version falls into a river, where she melts.
* Fridge Brilliance: Dorothy's arc is about her realizing her true home lies in her heart. This ties her arc with that of her friends, for they all discover what they wanted was with them all along.
* Gender Flip: Dorothy's friends are all girls in this version.
* Heartwarming Moments: Dorothy meeting the Tin Woman. Dorothy is a young child lost abd scared in an unknown land, so finding a motherly figure that can help her truly tugs at your heartstrings.
* Mythology Gag:
** A Kermit the Frog doll can be seen at Dorothy's room.
** The Tin Woman was turned into Tin by a spell much like the Tin Man in the 986 anime.
** The idea of Dorithy being unable to remove her shoes comes from Phineas and Ferb's take on the story.
** As in the original novel, the Wizard takes a different form for each of the characters. This time, he appears as something connected to their inner struggles.
* Nightmare Fuel: Most versions don't feally show how the Wicked Witch of the East looked like after the house fell on her. This one does. And, while it isn't too graphic, her corpse dies look a bit disturbing.
* Roger Rabbit Effect: All characters from Oz are animated and all characters from Kansas are live-action.
* Salvaged Story:
** The film has Dorothy grabbing the silver shoes herself, resulting in them getting stuck on her feet. This alivianates complains from most adaptations of Glinda essentially roping Dorothy into her war with the Wicked Witch. She also comes off as a bit more sympathetic, choosing to stay at Munchkinland to protect it after the Flying Monkeys attack the town, and nit realizing the silver heels can take Dorithy home, thus explaining why she didn't suggested it.
** The Wicked Witch of the West also openly stares she was planning to kill he csister herself before Dorothy's house fell on her and that she only wants tge silver slippers for their power, thus aliveniating complaints of the Wicked Witch being Unintentionañly Sympathetic in adaptations that follow the MGM film.
* Shout-Out: When Dorothy hides from.the Wicked Witch, she says "Kid, come out to play".
* Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Any house that falls with enough strength to kill someone won't end up in a pretty state, as Dorothy's house can attest.
* Tearjerker:
** Dorothy's reaction to seeing the remains of her destroyed home after arriving to Oz.
** Just seeing poor Dorothy walking alone througth the Land of Oz, with no one other than Toto to help her.
* The Woobie: Dorothy. First she has yo deal with moving from her only home, a pain many had to deal with. Then that home is destroyed by a tornado while she ends up lost in anotjer world. If that wasn't enough, her act of heroism results in a dangerous woman seeking to kill here. And this version emphasizes on one thing othwrs don't: She is just a child.