Toto is a fictional dog in L. Frank Baum's Oz series of children's books, and works derived from them.

In subsequent books, other animals gained the ability to speak upon reaching Oz or similar lands, but he remained speechless.

Toto plays a central role in several critical points: he runs away at the beginning and end of the book and Dorothy changes plans to catch him; he pulls away the curtain to reveal the Wizard is a fake.

[citation needed] Scholar Keri Weil analyzes the role: Toto is the driving force behind Frank Baum’s narrative because it is Dorothy’s love for the dog that leads her to run away and escape the dreary moral landscape of Kansas and its arbiter, Miss Gulch.

“It was Toto who made Dorothy laugh and saved her from growing as grey as her surroundings,” wrote Baum in the original version of the story.

[citation needed] In the musical adaption Wicked, he is only mentioned briefly when Glinda mistakenly calls him "Dodo".

[citation needed] In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, Toto was played by a female brindle Cairn Terrier named Terry.

Due to the popularity of the movie, and because that role was the one she was most remembered for, her owner and trainer changed her official name to Toto.

In the sidequest "Not in Kansas Anymore", players meet Dorothy Gale, who asks them to check up on her friends Mr. Toto and the Tin Man, who she was having over dinner.