History WMG / TheWizardOfOz

[[WMG: It's all a [[Main/TheWorldEndsWithYou Reaper's Game]]]]

[[WMG: The Coroner of Munchkinlland has other jobs.]]

** [[{{Wicked}} This theory sounds familiar. I wonder, where have I heard it before?]]

[[WMG:Glinda is a [[Main/VillainWithGoodPublicity Villain With Good Publicity]] who used Dorothy to seize control over the Land of Oz as her EvilPlan.

Assuming everyone is immortal in Oz [[AndIMustScream no matter how dead they seem]], like in the books, he's pretty much never called in. When he ''is'' called in, he either says "yep, they're dead" and that they [[ThePrincessBride were only mostly dead]] in the event of a revival, says "nope, they're not dead" in the case that the body kicks back, and "not are they only merely dead, they're really most sincerely dead" in the rare event that something he knows can't be revived from happens (like a witch getting watered) or he is better off with them DeaderThanDead and doesn't want to risk them being healed ([[FateWorseThanDeath like when a maniacal despot who made his life miserable has a house fall on her, and is incapable of kicking back because of full-body paralysis]]).

[[WMG:Glinda is a [[Main/VillainWithGoodPublicity Villain With Good Publicity]] who used Dorothy to seize control over the Land of Oz in a massive [[Main/XanatosGambit Xanatos Gambit]]]]

The Wizard figures that Dorothy is a tool of Glinda and sends her to fight and kill a far superior opponent, hoping the Witch of the West will do her in. This fails when Dorothy's companions break into the Witch's home and murder her by accident. Glinda then causes the Wizard's balloon to go out of control and blow away, getting him out of the picture. Since we never hear from the Witch of the South, we can only assume that Glinda got rid of her some other way. This leaves Glinda as the only remaining powerful entity in all of Oz. She installs the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion as puppet rulers and sends Dorothy home. Glinda now has control over all of Oz, including the Emerald City's lucrative opium (poppy) trade. Just As Planned.

* The Xanatos Gambit certainly isn't perfect. According to {{Return to Oz}}, the Ruby Slippers ended up in the hands of the Nome King, who used their power to take over Oz. Presumably, Glinda was executed when the Emerald City fell. Even after Oz is restored, her secrets are concealed by the new ruler, Ozma, for her own purposes.

He felt the society built around him was limiting his potential, so he used Dorothy as an excuse to downplay his existence so he could escape to travel through space and time.

!!!The is [=WMG=] of the movie; see WMG/LandOfOz entry for theories about the original books by Frank Baum.

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* [[WMG:It was not just a dream]]

* [[WMG:It was not just a dream]

It was the still-dripping water intake pipes that went [[IncrediblyLamePun plumb]] through her body, making a slowly-dissolving wound. The socks didn't curl up because the lack of slippers made her feet dissolve; her feet were already dissolving from the inside, and the slippers just kept them shaped like feet until the removal of the slippers and the subsequent collapse of the feet. The coroner looked in the slight gap and saw the witch's body slowly dissolving under the house, which is certainly a sign of being really, most sincerely dread in witches.

Why would MGM have had another ending on tape but only used it once? '''If it wasn't theirs.''' My idea is that it was made by a TV network for that one viewing. The real ending would have still been shown.

[[WMG: Munchkinland is so idyllic even under (or perhaps [[VetinariParadox because of]] the witch's rule) that anyone can have whatever job they want.]]