#oscar diggs

[yellowbrickramble]

My design for Oscar Diggs was partially influenced by how he appeared in the 1980 animated TV special, Thanksgiving in Oz. It's not bad for what it is, but the talking pie that does accents did not age well.

This version of Pastoria is spiritually closer to the version of Pastoria in the 1902 stage play than the one in the books, but I don't think we'll hear about him again till chapter 20.

Hmm, I wonder who that waitress he eloped with is!

#pastoria #oscar diggs #tippetarius #the wizard of oz #general jinjur #oz #hot air balloon

[thenomekingdom]

Oz + The Onion Headlines Pt. 4

#bookverse #laughs #mine #cowardly lion #dorothy gale #jinjur #kaliko #nick chopper #mrs yoop #oscar diggs #ozma #princess of the mangaboos #roquat/ruggedo #scarecrow #woot the wanderer #dorzma

[poppies-from-oz]

I love the way John R Neill draws The Wizard bc it’s pretty clear he doesn’t buy his whole “redemption” at all and pretty much always draws him in shifty evil bastard mode.

#the wizard of oz #dorothy gale #princess ozma #oscar diggs #dorothy and the wizard in oz #the scarecrow of oz #the lost princess of oz #glinda of oz #zeb #the magic of oz

[witchesoz]

Godween/Oscar Diggs, ruler of the Red Country

From “The Black Brick Road of Oz”, by Xamag

#oz art #the black brick road of oz #oscar diggs #the wizard of oz #godween #volkov's magic land

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

Oscar: not a single one of those dumb kids have gotten hurt yet.🙄😒

Dillamond: dumb kids? WAIT.

Charmed circle: 0_o

Dillamond: THOSE ARE *MY* DUMB KIDS!

#wicked #wizard of oz #Oscar diggs #dr dillamond #dr dillamom #dr dadamond #incorrect quotes #the charmed circle

[hitchell-mope]

Stranger things wizard of Oz au

Jane. Dorothy

Mike. Scarecrow

Dustin. Tinman

Will. Lion

Joyce. Glinda

Murray. The wizard

Karen. Wicked witch

Steve. Flying monkeys.

#stranger things #wizard of oz #jane hopper #dorothy gale #mike wheeler #the scarecrow #mileven #dorothy x scarecrow #dustin henderson #tin man #will byers #the cowardly lion #joyce byers #glinda the good witch #murray bauman #oscar diggs #karen wheeler #the wicked witch of the west #steve harrington #flying monkeys

[kikiofthevast]

This man is not the one she saw on her first visit.

Maybe it’s the fact that he’s barely taller than her now, maybe it’s the fact that standing next to him doesn’t feel so oppressive, maybe it’s the fact that he’s currently poking at the very pink road like he’s never seen the color in his life.

Dorothy can’t help but feel a bit of pity for the Wizard.

Or “Oscar”.

Whatever, she doesn’t really care. She’d just like to get back to her little visit home, thank-you-very-much.

Coming back to Oz was not a planned detour.

“Dorothy!” ‘Oscar’ shouts, and she turns to look at him, then her eyes widen. “Look!”

Oh, she’s looking.

The bubblegum pink road they’d been standing on has slowly started to turn emerald green under the press of ‘Oscar’s hands.

Oh.

‘Oscar’ is practically beaming at her. “Well! Looks like some of that power’s left after all!”

Dorothy does not share his excitement. Instead, she has a suspicion that all this just got a lot more complicated.

#kiki writes #oscar diggs #the wizard of oz #dorothy gale #the terrible oz au

[princess-ibri]

Do you have other ideas for your Disney Wizard of Oz?

Not much at the moment sorry. I'd like to do some more research on Disney related OZ ventures and see what more I can learn to further develop it. Definitely gotta look into the "Rainbow Road to Oz" Walt wanted to do in the 50s.

I'd definitely like to explore more of my idea of Ozma being the child of Oscar and Glinda in the hypothetical Disney Oz as well as possible redemption for Theodora. But it'll be a bit before I can get to it i've got a few more projects in the works.

#DisneyVerse #the wizard of oz #oz #ozma #oscar diggs #oz the great and powerful #the witch of the west #glinda #disney #the rainbow road to oz #asks

[hitthebrickspod]

CHARACTER FILES: OSCAR (OZ) DIGGS First Appearance: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Portrayed By: Christopher Dole

The Wizard in his younger years. Oscar was a circus magician with a penchant for trouble who ran away from home in a hot air balloon.

After many misadventures, Oscar found his way to the land of Oz in the midst of a great war and when the locals saw his balloon had his initials on it, they hailed him a great Wizard and savior. Over the years, OZ became a good man and tried to lead the people into an age of peace and prosperity. He is one of many high-ranking officials who have vanished recently and his wisdom is sorely needed.

You can hear his story in the new intermission special.

#The Wizard of Oz #Oscar Diggs #Hit the Bricks #Character Files

[definitelynotourdino]

Had to watch Oz the great and powerful for film class and all I got was this lousy drawing

#oz the great and powerful #Oscar Diggs #har har har

[sock-ness-monster]

Noone psychoanalyze me either agree or ignore

#almost made this to be just gael #but then i decided to make it as relatable as possible #you are not immune meme #gael garcia bernal #oscar isaac #john bernthal #Charlie cox #donald glover #ben barnes #dev patel #pedro pascal #daveed diggs

[thenomekingdom]

Oz + The Onion Headlines Pt. 3

#bookverse #laughs #mine #captain fyter #chopfyt #glinda #h.m. wogglebug t.e. #jack pumpkinhead #kaliko #nick chopper #oscar diggs #ozma #roquat/ruggedo #scarecrow #scraps #the gump #toto #woozy

[poppies-from-oz]

#the wizard of oz #dorothy gale #the scarecrow #the tin man #princess ozma #jack pumpkinhead #tik-tok #eureka #the woggle-bug #oscar diggs

[roninreverie]

Hey RWBY fandom! 📣

I'm doing a thing in part 2 of my STRQ fic and I want to know... Has anybody done this with Ozma's incarnations before and do we want to debate these/ play "match the names with the faces"?

EDIT: upon memory of how the Great War worked, I guess the timeline looks more like this... but I am stretching things having Emmanuel and Phadrig come between the King and Ozpin.

#professor ozpin #oscar pine #ozma #wizard of oz #rwby theory #rwby thoughts #IDK.... it makes sense to me #but I havent heard from the fandom in a while so IDK #rwby #rooster teeth #Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs

[that-ari-blogger]

The Wizard Is Wrong (Wonderful)

Across the story of Wicked, the audience has been introduced to characters with varying relationships to the concept of truth. From Elphaba’s unwavering honesty, to Glinda’s dissonant worldview, to the Wizard, who is an idiot and a liar.

I don’t think either of the observations about the Wizard are particularly groundbreaking. What I think is interesting, is how these two cancel each other out. As in, when the wizard tries to lie, he ends up saying things that are true. But this isn’t as obvious for most of the musical because the Wizard spends the entirety of it lying through his teeth.

But what happens when the Wizard tries to be honest? Well, then you get Wonderful.

Let me explain.

SPOILERS AHEAD: (Wicked)

The context around this song is that Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs (The Wizard) is trying to convince Elphaba to join him. He has tried deceit and bargaining, but Elphaba is clever, and has called his bluff. So now he is trying a different tactic, honesty. Unfortunately for him, that's not something he's good at.

“Then suddenly I'm here Respected, worshipped, even Just because the folks in Oz Needed someone to believe in Does it surprise you I got hooked, and all too soon? What can I say? I got carried away And not just by balloon”

In other words, Oz was like this when I got here, I can’t possibly be to blame, right? And if we were to use his version of events, things are simple.

But as it happens, the audience has already been told that this is false. It isn’t an accident that Doctor Dillamond taught history, and that provides some more information. Diggs came to Oz after a drought, and people were looking for people to blame.

The Wizard then stepped into this world, and because he fell from the sky, he was handed everything on a platter. Essentially, Diggs is living a power fantasy.

But on an even more basic level, the people looked to the Wizard for help, and he used that need for personal gain and to oppress a specific group. Even from what he said, he is fully culpable for the current state of Oz, because he actively made the problem worse.

“So you lied to them” “Elphaba, where I'm from We believe all sorts of things that aren't true We call it ‘history’”

This is… complicated. It’s a half-truth misremembered and twisted to fit Diggs’ beliefs. The real idea that this is inspired by is historical bias. By which I mean, if you are being pedantic, it is impossible to be 100% accurate about historical events. You can get really close, but because of biases and contexts that weren’t written down and fragmentary evidence, being entirely accurate is impossible.

There is a difference between “not having all the information”, and “believing a lie”.

Voiceplay is an Accapella Band who gave their take on the musical as a whole that I highly recommend, and Geoff Castelucci's bass during Wonderful is really good.

The Wizard exists under the effects of a pretty strong Bandwagon Fallacy. Everyone else is doing it, so that makes it ok. But he’s wrong about everyone else, and he’s wrong about whether other people’s actions justify his. In that way, he is an equal opposite to Elphaba, who seeks to do the right thing despite nobody else wanting to make that choice, while Diggs uses those around him as an excuse.

"A man's called a traitor or liberator A rich man's a thief or philanthropist Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist"

This is, again, a misremembered half-truth. Because yes, historical bias does exist. There are historical figures who were less than perfect. But that doesn't mean reality changes to match modern biases.

Also, this doesn't actually answer the question he was asked. Diggs was told to justify his decision to become a cult of personality, and his answer was: "history is made of lies". Again, there is a difference between historians simplifying thigs and a person making up a persona for themself. But again, the Wizard suffers from a Bandwagon Fallacy, and so he thinks that this makes him right.

That there is the key, the Wizard is convinced that he is in the right here. But he isn't. The world doesn't work the way he thinks it does. So when he finally leads into his offering, it is already dubious.

"At long, long last receive your due long overdue Elphaba, the most celebrated are the rehabilitated There'll be such a whoop-de-doo A celebration throughout Oz That's all to do with you"

The Wizard is offering Elphaba what he thinks she wants, because it's what he wants; praise. The Wizard covets attention and is convinced that everyone else is the same, so Elphaba must want that same praise, right?

Not anymore. In The Wizard And I, this is explicitly one of the things Elphaba dreamed of, but now she has learned too much. Diggs is ok with Oz's flaws because they benefit him, Elphaba can't be.

I'm sure The Wizard believes that second bit, but I don't agree. Based just on Oz itself, in what parallel timeline will the people just accept Elphaba after the metric ton of trite that has been talked up about her. The Wizard thinks that prejudice will just go away if you conform, but that isn't how it works at all, and Elphaba knows it.

"If that's love, it comes at much too higher cost."

Different song, but it's a perfect putdown to the entirety of the Wizard's antics. He may believe what he is saying, but he is wrong. The acceptance he offers is fake and means that Elphaba must sacrifice everything she wants to achieve it. That isn't worth it.

Final Thoughts

For all of his posturing, the Wizard is a remarkably simple character. He wants power, and he lies to get it. But if you combine that with his utterly scuffed worldview, you get some really interesting side effects.

He is also narcissistic, which doesn't exactly help his position. The world has bent over backwards to service his needs, and he has never truly known hardship. He is the stereotypical Iseki protagonist that gives the rest of the genre a bad name, the true Mary Sue.

The problem is, he's also bloody charismatic and fun to watch, which means people listen to him. I've heard people in real life agreeing with his line about labels, and it drives me up the wall.

Next week, I will be looking at the reprise of I'm not that girl, and Glinda's self reflection, as well as As Long As You're Mine. So, stick around if that interests you.

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#rants #literary analysis #literature analysis #character analysis #what's so special about...? #wicked wizard of oz #wicked #wicked the musical #Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs #wicked is a queer story

[hitchell-mope]

Truly one of the greatest movies of all time.

#the wizard of oz #dorothy gale #toto the dog #aunt em #uncle henry #the ​scarecrow #tin man #the cowardly lion #oscar diggs #glinda the good witch #professor marvel #almira gulch #the wicked witch of the west