Canonical
A great Lion bounds into the road, knocks down the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, and is confronted by Dorothy.
Baum Character Registry · Animal / creature
Cowardly Lion
A canonical individual in the Baum-only Character Census. Appearance evidence is chronological and text-grounded.
Proper named / textual designationNarrative / historical individual
Registry
Character record
- Knowledge ID
- CHAR-0036
- Registry ID
- char-0036
- Canonical display name
- Cowardly Lion
- Naming status
- Proper named / textual designation
- Character type
- Animal / creature
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · Ch. 6
Oz Knowledge Base
First-class Knowledge entity
This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.
- Claims
- 2
- Relationships
- 1
- Historical Atlas events
- 0
Canonical
The Lion joins Dorothy's party to ask Oz for courage.
Appearance Profile
Text-grounded appearance
Appearance is tracked only where Baum supplies textual evidence; absence of description is not filled from illustration traditions.
Appearance Timeline
Appearance states
No enriched appearance state yet. The registry deliberately records “not yet extracted” rather than inferring hair, eyes, clothing, size, or materials.
Baum evidence
First matched textual evidence
6. The Cowardly Lion All this time Dorothy and her companions had been walking through the thick woods. The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and dead leaves from the trees, and the walking was not at all