Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20140207061928/@comment-1916997-20140207174905

I do believe Victor will be the Wizard of Oz and also that Oz will be its own realm. Here's my reasoning: Victor is a scientist from the Land Without Color, but his scientific feats seem magical. Wizard of Oz is a scientist from a colorless world (according to 1939's Wizard of Oz and Oz: The Great and Powerful, he's also from "our world" in the books), that the inhabitints of Oz think is magical. So you can see the overlap. As for how this works: Victor leaves his home in a hot air balloon, after the death of his father, fearing he will be accused of the murder. His balloon gets pulled in by a tornado that comes out of nowhere (as we know this is a way to get to Oz), and he crashlands in Oz, where he does science, which to the Ozians looks like magic, and they make him the Wizard of Oz. Trouble ensues with WWW, ect., but before that can be resolved Regina's curse pulls Victor away from Oz, much like it pulled Jefferson from Wonderland, and he becomes Dr. Whale. I'm assuming the curse could reach into other realms, but only to grab specific people that Regina personally knew. It's the best explaination for why Jefferson and Victor we're pulled from their non-EF locations, but not everybody else from those places was.