It is strongly implied that this tiktok servant kills Doctor Dillamond, on Madame Morrible's orders. The character Madame Morrible has a tiktok servant, called Grommetik, whose description matches Baum's Tik-Tok however, this character's speech key is never wound.
In the novel, tiktok is used as an adjective for any mechanical or robotic being. In the comic book Oz Squad, Tik-Tok's "Internal Clockwork Morality Spring" winds down and causes him to act violent and sexual, though he closely resembles Neill's depiction.Ī somewhat sinister version of Tik-Tok is a minor character in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The cruel king also whipped his mechanical servant, but his whippings caused no pain and merely kept Tik-Tok's round copper body polished.Īppearances in the works of Baum He was purchased by the king of Ev, Evoldo, who gave him the name Tik-Tok because of the sound he made when wound. He was the only model of his kind made before the two disappeared. Tik-Tok was invented by Smith & Tinker at their workshop in Evna. He describes himself as a " slave" to Dorothy and defers to her. He therefore can no more love or be loved than a sewing machine, but as a servant he is utterly truthful and loyal.
Being a machine, he is quite strong, allowing him to single-handedly overpower a whole horde of Wheelers without much difficulty, as demonstrated in a scene of the 1985 film Return to Oz.Īs Baum repeatedly mentions, Tik-Tok is not alive and feels no emotions.
His knees and elbows are described as resembling those in a knight's suit of armor. For one memorable moment in The Road to Oz, he continues to speak but utters gibberish. When his works run down, he becomes frozen or mute. Tik-Tok is unable to wind any of them up himself. He has separate windings for thought, action, and speech. Tik-Tok (sometimes spelled Tiktok) is a round-bodied mechanical man made of copper, that runs on clockwork springs which periodically need to be wound, like a wind-up toy or a mechanical clock. Ellis' Huge Hunter, or The Steam Man of the Prairies, in 1868) to appear in modern literature, though the term "Robot" was not used until the 1920s, in the play R.U.R. He has been termed "the prototype robot," and is widely considered to be one of the first robots (preceded by Edward S. Tik-Tok is a fictional "mechanical man" from the Oz books by American author L.
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