# Cowardly Lion — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz character guide

> Cowardly Lion in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** VI The Cowardly Lion, the Lion, the Cowardly Lion, The Lion, the big Lion, XIII The Rescue The Cowardly Lion, himself, myself

**First appearance:** 0007-vi-the-cowardly-lion

## Who they are

A lion who lacks courage and joins Dorothy to seek it from Oz.

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