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| “ | Poison? Don't you know that eggs are, are poison? Poison ... Poison... Poison... | „ |
| ~ Nome's final words as he disintegrates |
The Nome King is the main antagonist of the 1985 Disney dark fantasy film Return to Oz, which serves as an unofficial sequel to the iconic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
He is the ruler of the Nomes in the Land of Oz, who manages to take over the magical land sometime after the Wicked Witch of the West's death by using the Ruby Slippers to overthrow Emerald City's population for "stealing" his jewels, imprisoning the Scarecrow and all Ozians in his lair as ornaments and assigning the traitorous Princess Mombi to rule over what remains of the city until Dorothy returns to Oz to save her friends.
He was portrayed by the late Nicol Williamson, who also played Dr. J.B. Worley in the same film.
Biography[]
The Nome King found Dorothy Gale's Ruby Slippers after they fall on his mountain; and with them, conquered the Emerald City, turning its inhabitants into stone, with the exception of the Scarecrow, whom he captured. At some point, the Nome King made a deal with Princess Mombi that he would make her the Queen of Oz if she would trap Ozma in a mirror. Mombi succeeds in this, and the Nome King grants her said request, in addition to granting her the Emerald City as well as thirty heads of young, beautiful women she could switch depending on her mood.
When Dorothy, Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Gump arrived at his mountain, the Nome King transformed the Scarecrow into an ornament. He told Dorothy that the emeralds of the City were originally his until the Scarecrow stole them from him, but she knew he was lying because the emeralds were there before the Scarecrow became king. The Nome King had them all play a guessing game with each of his ornaments to see which one the Scarecrow was; in which if they guessed right, the Scarecrow would be restored, but if they guessed wrong three times, they would be turned into ornaments themselves.
Whenever one was turned into an ornament, the Nome King became more human in appearance. All of them were turned into ornaments except Dorothy, who was able to get the Scarecrow back and realized that people from Oz turned into green ornaments. Furious at this, the Nome King blamed Princess Mombi, who previously had Dorothy locked in her tower and was unable to prevent her escape, so he imprisoned her in a cage and then turned into a giant form, attempting to swallow the Gump, but only succeeded in eating the sofa part of him, as they were able to save his head.
He then tried to eat Jack, but as he was holding him above his mouth, Billina, who was inside Jack's head since their arrival on the mountain, clucked and panicked. The King was horrified. During which, Billina laid an egg (her very first egg), which fell down the Nome King's throat. As eggs are poisonous to Nomes, this killed him, along with the other Nomes, leaving only a pile of rocks and the Ruby Slippers. His mountain was destroyed afterwards.
In his most human appearances, the Nome King has a ruby ring on his finger and smokes a pipe. Along with some of his lines, this makes him similar to Dr. J.B. Worley (also portrayed by Nicol Williamson), whose final fate is mirrored with that of the Nome King.
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Trivia[]
- Both he and the Wicked Witch of the West were killed off by healthy food and drinks: Water and Eggs.
External Links[]
- Nome King on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Nome King on the Disney Wiki
- Nome King (Return to Oz) on the Oz Wiki
