Canonical
Tik-Tok's body, head, and limbs are copper.
Baum Character Registry · Constructed / artificial person
Tik-Tok
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-0185
- Registry ID
- char-0185
- Canonical display name
- Tik-Tok
- Naming status
- Proper named / textual designation
- Character type
- Constructed / artificial person
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- Ozma of Oz · Ch. 4
Oz Knowledge Base
First-class Knowledge entity
This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.
- Claims
- 5
- Relationships
- 1
- Historical Atlas events
- 0
Canonical
Tik-Tok was manufactured by Smith & Tinker.
Canonical
Tik-Tok's thought, speech, and action operate by wind-up mechanisms.
Canonical
Tik-Tok explicitly distinguishes himself from a living being.
Canonical
Tik-Tok says a machine as perfect as he is could only be made in a fairyland.
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
baseline
Burnished copper machine-man
Baum explicitly presents Tik-Tok as a machine-man of burnished copper.
Baum evidence
First matched textual evidence
. Said he: "From this time forth I am your o-be-di-ent ser-vant. What-ev-er you com-mand, that I will do will-ing-ly--if you keep me wound up." "What is your name?" she asked. "Tik-tok," he replied. "My for-mer mas-ter gave me that name be-cause my clock-work al-ways ticks when it is wound up." "I can hear it now," said the yellow hen. "So can I," said Dorothy. And then she added, with some anxiety: "You don't strike,