Baum Character Registry · Person / intelligent being
Mr. Joker
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-0129
- Registry ID
- char-0129
- Canonical display name
- Mr. Joker
- Naming status
- Proper named / textual designation
- Character type
- Person / intelligent being
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · Ch. 20
Oz Knowledge Base
First-class Knowledge entity
This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.
- Claims
- 0
- Relationships
- 0
- Historical Atlas events
- 0
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
could you not be mended?" asked the girl. "Oh, yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know," replied the Princess. "I suppose not," said Dorothy. "Now there is Mr. Joker, one of our clowns," continued the china lady, "who is always trying to stand upon his head. He has broken himself so often that he is mended in a hundred places, and doesn't look at all pretty. Here he comes now, so you can see for yourse