History Characters / TheWickedYears

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Glinda]] greets... something... with a "well, you took your time!" when she's freed from prison in the final book. This... mysterious something... is implied to be Elphaba, back from the dead.

* AbledInTheAdaptation: She has both eyes intact, unlike in the original ''Oz'' books.

* AgeLift: In the ''Oz'' books, the Wicked Witch is so old that all her blood has dried. In ''The Wicked Years'', Elphaba died in her 30s.

* BeautifulAllAlong: it was stated that she had a long pointed chin, a rather mannish jaw, and Fiyero commented that she seemed to have a strange scar near her genitals. And that was before she went utterly insane and stopped sleeping all together, she probably looked like hell by then. Despite this, there are still indications that she's still rather good-looking, in an unconventional way--her nose, while strong, is described as lovely, and both Galinda and Fiyero tell her she's pretty at separate points. Galinda even goes on about Elphaba's beautiful hair, and says that there's an "exotic" type of beauty about her after a mini-makeover. Elpahaba is described as looking like her mom, but with green skin, at least once in the books.

* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: Glinda is a human instead of a fairy.

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* TheSavageIndian: Nearly every Non-Vinkun Ozian's opinion of the inhabitants of the Vinkus. Fiyero is mentioned as being one of the books' NativeAmericans, the problem is that Fiyero, like most of the other POC end up dead and while they are alive they are viewed as savages and barbarians – and prejudice against them is regarded mildly as “snobbery.” The flip side is that, in a book full of rather unpleasant characters, the POC tend to be some of the very few that are genuinely decent people.

* BadBedroomBadLife: Liir lives with Elphaba in Vinkus, where it's eventually noted that the boy doesn't ''have a bed''; when asked about this, Elphaba just shrugs. This is just one example of the neglect goes through.

* RichesToRags: She's from a well-off family and married Frexspar thinking he's be a rich preacher, but instead they live in poverty.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A witch's "son" who is raised as a servant and secretly has royal blood. And is the hero of the sequel. [[ExpyCoexistence If he didn't meet him]], you'd think he was the story's version of Tip.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: It's left vague if he's Nessa's father or not. According to the third book, [[spoiler:he isn't.]].

* RichesToRags: She's from a well-off family and married Frexspar thinking he's be a rich preacher, but instead they live in impoverish.