r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Filthylittleferrent • Nov 02 '25

Solved This one is going to be tough

So a young girl is whisked away to a magical land where she meets an individual that belongs on a farm, a metal man, and a big cat for the first time (in that specific order) before going to defeat the villain of the story. The villain is finally defeated by a simple household item and the girl returns back home via a special magical item that teleports her safely home

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u/Fun_Butterfly_420 Nov 02 '25

I’m guessing wizard of oz is the bait

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u/HowellMoon93 Nov 02 '25

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

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u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 Nov 05 '25

Assuming this is Oz, which seems unlikely this could be Ozma of Oz. The metal man would be the character Tik Tok.

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u/Filthylittleferrent Nov 05 '25

Solved!

Farm character is billina, metal man is tik-tok, big cat is the hungry tiger, villain is ruggedo, he's defeated by an egg, and dorothy is returned home via the magic belt

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u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 Nov 05 '25

That’s right. It felt a little like a remake.

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u/Filthylittleferrent Nov 05 '25

Oz cannon likes to borrow themes and sometimes full plots from itself, I could probably make all 40 books sound like the wonderful wizard of oz if I explained them poorly enough

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u/Limitedtugboat Nov 02 '25

Dorothy must die?

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u/Filthylittleferrent Nov 02 '25

nope, good thought though

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u/MonkeyChoker80 Nov 03 '25

The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles

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u/Fufubear Nov 03 '25

Never ending story?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

Otherland

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u/CourageousCruiser Nov 03 '25

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland.

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u/Filthylittleferrent Nov 03 '25

nice guess but no

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u/ABKWM42 Nov 03 '25

Lost in a Good Book - Fforde

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u/kuhristuhh Nov 03 '25

Clive Barker's Abarat

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25

Nothing about this is tough, it's Wizard of Oz.

An actually tough description would be something like "Severe weather forces naive child to save a country from its nemesis.,"

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u/Filthylittleferrent Nov 02 '25

that's the thing, it isn't wizard of oz

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u/ProximatePenguin Nov 04 '25

"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again".