Tin Woodman

The Tin Woodman
The Tin Woodman
Oz character
	The Tin Woodman as illustrated by William Wallace Denslow (1900)
First appearance	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Created by	L. Frank Baum
Portrayed by	Pierre Couderc (His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz); Oliver Hardy (The Wizard of Oz); Jack Haley (The Wizard of Oz); Nipsey Russell (The Wiz); Deep Roy (Return to Oz); Ne-Yo (The Wiz Live!); Gerran Howell (Emerald City); Alex Désert (Once Upon a Time)
Voiced by	Larry D. Mann (Return to Oz); Kelsey Grammer (Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return); J. P. Karliak (Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz)
In-universe information
Alias	Nick Chopper, The Tin Man, Rusty Tin Man
Nickname	The Tin Woodman
Species	Tin humanoid; Formerly human (in the novels, not in the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz)
Gender	Male
Title	Emperor
Occupation	Ruler of the Winkies
Relatives	Chopfyt (made with some of his human parts)
Nationality	Munchkinland

Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman, is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. He first appeared in his 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappeared in many other subsequent Oz books in the series. In late 19th-century America, men made out of various tin pieces were used in advertising and political cartoons. Baum, who was editing a magazine on decorating shop windows when he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was inspired to invent the Tin Woodman by a figure he had built out of metal parts for a shop display.