The Magical Monarch of Mo - Characters

Characters

• The Monarch: The Monarch of Mo is the ruler of Mo, and rarely unhappy. He tries his best to make everyone as happy as possible.
• The Queen: She rarely appears, but when she does, she acts more like a typical wife/mother than a typical Queen.
• Prince Zingle: The oldest prince, who tries to kill the King in order to gain the crown, but fails and later repents. His name is a play on single, because he was left single on an island. Later on, he accidentally reaches the Land of the Civilized Monkeys, where he is put in a zoo, but manages to escape.
• Prince Thinkabit: The smartest of the princes, who is sometimes called upon to figure out solutions to problems.
• Prince Jollikin: He is the most playful of the princes, as evidenced by his name, which is based on the word "Jolly". He fights the Gigaboo and loses, but when he tries to fight the Gigaboo a second time, he wins and saves Mo from destruction.
• Prince Fiddlecumdoo: The youngest prince, who is somewhat spoiled. He plays the fiddle very well, and visits the giant Hartilaf, whose wife accidentally crushes him flat.
• (Prince) Timtom: Timtom falls in love with the Princess Pattycake, and undergoes several dangers in order to cure her of her bad temper. He succeeds and then they get married, and he becomes a Prince.
• Princess Pattycake: She is the most beautiful of the King's daughters, but has a bad temper and tries to hurt anyone who talks to her. Timtom manages to cure her, and she then agrees to marry him.
• Princess Truella: Her big toe is stolen by the Wizard, and she undergoes many hardships in order to get it back.
• The Wood-chopper: He builds a head out of wood for the King when the Purple Dragon steals the King's head, and after some misadventures with the Purple Dragon, restores his and the King's head to their proper bodies.
• The Purple Dragon: A monster that annoys the people of Mo by eating their food and causing general mischief. He is eventually defeated.
• The Dog: The only dog in Mo. At first he is "something of a wag", but later on becomes a respected person in Mo, and even saves Mo from the Cast-iron Man, although accidentally.
• The Wise Donkey: A donkey who ate all the books in Mo, so he absorbed all the knowledge in them and is the smartest person in Mo. The King sometimes consults the Wise Donkey when he wants help, and the Wise Donkey usually helps him (sometimes the Wise Donkey acts in its own interest, not the King's). The Wise Donkey reports in The Patchwork Girl of Oz that he became stranded in Oz when he came to visit on the very day that Glinda cut it off from the rest of the world.
• Nuphsed: The King's chamberlain, who gets no lines whatsoever.
• Scowleyow: A tyrannical king who builds the Cast-iron Man in an attempt to destroy Mo for no particular reason except that he is jealous of how happy they are.
• The Cast-iron Man: A robotic creature built by Scowleyow to destroy the Mo people. It trips on the dog, and thanks to Prince Thinkabit, the Mo people manage to get rid of the Cast-iron man by turning it around and setting it to destroy Scowleyow's kingdom instead.
• The Sorceress Maëtta: A good sorceress who helps Timtom and Truella when they ask for her help.
• Rabbit: The rabbit lives outside of Maëtt's palace and digs a tunnel leading inside the palace for Timtom, in exchange for a new tail. When Timtom cannot give the rabbit a new tail, it lets Timtom pass anyway.
• Spider: The spider builds a web that forms a bridge over the river of needles, so that Timtom can cross it, in exchange for a new eye.
• Bird: A bird flies Timtom over a gulf in exchange for a song.
• Sly Fox: The Sly Fox steals the presents that Timtom receives from Maëtta, but finds no use for them.
• Gigaboo: A four-mouthed, seven-eyed monster that starts destroying things in Mo. Prince Jollikin kills it.
• The Wizard: The Wizard steals Truella's toe to use in a potion. Truella defeats him and gets her toe back.
• Duchess Bredenbutta: A distant relative of the King (42nd cousin) who accidentally goes to Turvyland, where everything is the opposite of how it should be.
• Upsydoun: A resident of Turvyland, who invites the Duchess to dinner and helps her return home.
• Hartilaf: A giant who lives in the valley next to Mo. He likes to play jokes and have fun.
• Hartilaf's Wife: A giantess who married Hartilaf. She is more responsible than he is, although she accidentally runs Prince Fiddlecumdoo through a clothes-wringer.
• Monkeys: The monkeys live in the Land of Civilized Monkeys, and therefore are civilized (they wear fancy clothes and have a well-structured society and so on). They do not know about humans, so when they meet Prince Zingle, they think he is an animal and put him in the zoo.
• The Wise Men: The King's three wise men are rather stupid and ridiculous, so they are not very helpful. The King eventually puts the three of them together to form one wise man.
• The Wise Man: The wise man, made up from parts of the three wise men, is wise and able to help the King, unlike the wise men.
• The Yellow Hen: The wise men falsely accuse of stealing the King's plum-pudding, when she was not even in Mo at the time of the crime. She raises a baby hawk along with her babies, not knowing that it is a hawk until it tries to kill her.
• The Fox: The wise men falsely accuse him of stealing the King's plum-pudding, when he and his family was throatless at the time.
• Dr. Prariedog: Dr. Prariedog tells the Fox how to cure a sore throat.
• The Bullfrog: The wise men falsely accuse him of stealing the King's plum-pudding, when he was fishing at the time, for his tadpoles were stuck in the fish.