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The Wizard turns out to be a "humbug" and can only provide a [[placebo]] heart made of [[silk]] and filled with [[sawdust]]. However, this is enough to please the Tin Woodman, who, with or without a heart, was all along the most tender and emotional of Dorothy's companions (just as the Scarecrow was the wisest and the Cowardly Lion the bravest). When he accidentally crushes an insect, he is grief-stricken and, ironically, claims that he must be careful about such things, while those with hearts do not need such care. This tenderness remains with him throughout the series, as in ''[[The Patchwork Girl of Oz]]'', where he refuses to let a butterfly be maimed for the casting of a spell.<ref>L. Frank Baum, Michael Patrick Hearn, ''The Annotated Wizard of Oz'', p 152, {{ISBN|0-517-50086-8}}</ref>
When Dorothy returns home to her farm in [[Kansas]], the Tin Woodman returns to the Winkie Country to rule as emperor. Later, he
Baum emphasized that the Tin Woodman remains alive, in contrast to the windup mechanical man [[Tik-Tok (Oz)|Tik-Tok]] Dorothy meets in a later book. Nick Chopper was not turned into a machine, but rather had his flesh body replaced by a metal one. Far from missing his original existence, the Tin Woodman is proud (perhaps too proud) of his untiring tin body.
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