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5Characters in the musical ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''. For ''Literature/TheWickedYears'' books, see [[Characters/TheWickedYears here]].
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10!! Elphaba Thropp/The Wicked Witch of the West
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16* AbledInTheAdaptation: She has both eyes intact, unlike in the original ''Oz'' books. Unlike in the book, she isn't allergic to water. It's just a rumor people spread about her. [[spoiler:This allows her to be SparedByTheAdaptation when she fakes her own death.]]
17* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the musical, she's much more beautiful than the ugly, hook-nosed witch that we're used to. She's also less angular and bony than her book version.
18* AdaptationalContextChange: She's the one [[spoiler:that turns Boq into the Tin Man, but only to save his life after Nessarose's spell goes horribly wrong. In the original "The Wizard of Oz", the Wicked Witch of the East was the reason the Tin Man became who he was, after enchanting his Axe to prevent him from marrying the munchkin servant girl he loves, after her disapproving mistress came to the Witch to stop the marriage.]]
19* AdaptationalHeroism: The book portrays the Wicked Witch as a more sympathetic character than L. Frank Baum's original, and then the musical in turn portrays her as even more sympathetic than the original ''Wicked''. In the book, she still becomes a heinous, tragically insane VillainProtagonist. The musical drops this characterization and puts her in a much more heroic light, making her a benevolent protagonist that's [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood more misunderstood than she is evil]].
20* AdaptationDyeJob: She's based off of her MGM design, not her ''Land of Oz'' design. As a result, she's green skinned and has a black color motif.
21* ByronicHeroine: Elphaba is antisocial, emotionally sensitive, intelligent, against social norms, usually rude to people but affable with who is close to her.
22* BeautifulAllAlong: Glinda only calls Elphaba pretty after "Popular", after she's Galinda-fied her with a flower and better hairstyling. Fiyero in the book refers to her as being "beautiful in her own way", meaning she's not conventionally attractive, and in the musical he finds her beautiful because he's "looking at things differently", meaning that he knows how to see past her green skin. The makeup designer flat-out states that "Elphaba is not ugly--she's supposed to be beautiful. People just hate her because she's green." Notably, her ensemble changes entirely for the latter part of the play, as she drops the bulky boots, glasses and drab school outfit and switches to an extravagantly crafted black gown instead.
23* BetterWithNonHumanCompany: She is very snarky, has a hard time expressing her feelings and seems to get along much better with Animals and animals.
24* BettyAndVeronica: Fiyero's Veronica.
25* BigSisterInstinct: She loves her little sister dearly. One of her early [[BerserkButton berserk buttons]] was being separated from Nessa. Later, after a suggestion from a shunned Glinda that her sister is Elphaba's biggest weakness, The Wizard and Madame Morrible plan to use Nessarose in a trap to lure Elphaba out of hiding. Elphaba also used one of the spells in the book to make her sister walk, which works.
26* CallingTheOldManOut: [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "Defying Gravity"]] in the musical. Her role after the same moment in the book as well. [[spoiler:Although, she never actually learns that the Wizard is her biological father.]]
27* ChildOfTwoWorlds: [[spoiler:Her father is not an Oz native like her mother is. The fact she was born of parents from "two different worlds" was said to be the reason she was so magically gifted. Also, the tonic the Wizard had in his possession and implied to be his own creation was apparently responsible for her coloring.]]
28* ChocolateBaby: Her green skin is due to her being born of infidelity; the coloration was brought on by an elixir Melena drank prior to conception. Frexspar never suspects anything and simply believes his daughter's skin is due to his failure as the Governor.
29* CradleToGraveCharacter: The first ''Wicked'' book begins just before Elphaba's birth and ends just after her ForegoneConclusion AccidentalMurder by Dorothy. [[spoiler: Subverted in the musical, where she doesn't really die.]]
30* DarkIsNotEvil: She may wear dark-colored clothes almost exclusively, have black hair, and seem Gothic, but she cares about her sister, Animals, and her anthropomorphic teacher and desperately wants to do good. This eventually leads to her VillainousBreakdown.
31* DeadpanSnarker: She gets most of the best lines in the play.
32* DefrostingIceQueen: Though it wasn't intended as the good deed that it was seen as ([[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and it ends up backfiring]] ''[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished spectacularly]]'' when it turns out [[spoiler:that Nessa's a total {{Yandere}}]]), Galinda setting up Boq and Nessarose turned out to be the key to unlocking Elphaba's softer side, and the relationship between the two roommates changes almost instantly, at least in the musical version.
33* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:She only fakes being melted, actually falling down a trap door, and escapes Oz with help from Fiyero, although the two can never return.]]
34* EmotionallyTongueTied: In the Lion cub scene, Elphaba is so bewildered by the situation she starts blabbering frustratedly to Fiyero.
35* EvilLaugh: Depending on the actress portraying her, she's had that distinctive cackle from as far back as her schooldays. Nearly all versions have her develop it by the time she's become infamous.
36* FlowersOfFemininity: Galinda puts one in her hair to show she can be pretty. Elphaba is so shocked by seeing herself as something other than repulsive, she runs off.
37* FriendlessBackground: She grew up shunned and isolated. Glinda becomes her first friend.
38* HairTriggerTemper: She tries to keep it under control, but it really does not take much to get Elphaba sniping and shouting at those around her, and we see her temper [[PowerIncontinence ''literally'' explode]] several times over the course of the story. No doubt she became this way through having to constantly deal with people's stares and jeers.
39* HatedByAll: Was outcasted at Shiz University because of her green skin and utterly loathed by all the people in Oz due to lies spread about her by The Wizard and Madame Morrible. Exceptions to this trope are Glinda and Fiyero after the "Dancing Through Life" sequence, Doctor Dillamond, and Chistery.
40* HeroicBSOD: The musical [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished gives her a truly]] '''[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished epic]]''' [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished breakdown.]]
41* HeroWithBadPublicity: Without a doubt--it's basically the premise of the show.
42* TheHero: Well the Anti-hero, anyway. She is more conventially good (albeit flawed) in the musical.
43* IAmAMonster: After all that she's been through and all that she has lost, not to mention the fact that the Wizard has turned the entire Land of Oz against her, she finally gives in and names herself "The Wicked Witch of the West".
44* InSeriesNickname: Glinda calls Elphaba "Elphie".
45* KnightInSourArmor: In the musical. She keeps fighting for what she believes is right even though she doesn't think it makes much difference.
46* LonersAreFreaks: The attitude towards her in college. With more than a little not-so-FantasticRacism on the side.
47* MagicMisfire: Elphaba causes these far more often than she'd like. Most notably, [[spoiler:her messing up an invulnerability spell in her panic and desperation to save Fiyero from being beaten to death, which ultimately turns him into a scarecrow.]]
48* MotorMouth: If riled up, Elphaba can get into passionate rants where no one can get a word in edgewise. Fiyero points this out to her once.
49* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: In the musical, this is definitely the case.
50* PimpedOutDress: Her dress in the second half of the musical is meant to look like rags, but is pretty fancy, as the patchwork look required lots of beaded detail. An early version also had some ruffles and netting.
51* PowerIncontinence: Elphaba is powerful for sure, but she... doesn't have the best command over her magic abilities. She can make things happen that many can only dream of doing, but aside from enchanting her broom to fly, we never see her cast a spell that exactly has the outcome she desires. This may have something to do with how her magic often reacts to her emotional outbursts. Even the broom wasn't intentional. She and Glinda expected her to grow wings like the monkeys.
52* RealityWarper: Implied, discussed and exhibited on one occasion. She seems to be able to make things happen unconsciously, without even thinking them.
53* RebelliousSpirit: In the musical, she becomes this once she meets the Wizard and realizes the depth of his corruption, declaring "I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game." and "I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so / Some things I cannot change, but till I try I'll never know!" She then begins her "campaign of terror."
54* SanitySlippage: In the musical, she becomes unhinged and decidedly irrational in her actions but eventually recovers when a visit from Glinda, and [[spoiler:news that Fiyero managed to survive as the Scarecrow,]] helps bring her back down to earth.
55* {{Seers}}: Seems to have this power in the musical; When she's envisioning in her head what her life would be like working with the Wizard, she predicts the fact that there will be a celebration all to do with her (though she doesn't predict that said celebration will be her ''funeral''). She also senses her sister is in trouble upon seeing Dorothy's flying house.
56* TheSnarkKnight: She's sarcastic and introverted from the start, but at first, she has a distinctly idealistic streak ("The Wizard and I") -- after "Defying Gravity", she evolves into a genuine, cynical Snark Knight.
57* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:She dies in the novel, but survives in the musical. See DisneyDeath.]]
58* StraightMan: When Glinda is being goofy in the play, Elphaba is the straight man.
59* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's outwardly snarky and standoffish, but she shows her warmer, compassionate side towards Animals, her sister, and people show grows fond of like Glinda and Fiyero.
60* ThenLetMeBeEvil: In "No Good Deed", she decides to stop trying to be good and instead be the Wicked Witch that everyone believes her to be.
61* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy half. Elphaba is strong-headed, pragmatic, and has no interest whatsoever in gushing over things like makeup and clothes. She's also not afraid to get her hands dirty for her cause.
62* TragicVillain: The entire musical shows how an ostracized girl slowly became evil because of how society treated her. What's even worse is the fact that she never really did anything to deserve this treatment other than have an odd skin color, reject someone's ideologies based on her moral principles, and unintentionally cause damage to those she tries to help. When she turns [[spoiler:Fiyero]] into a scarecrow, she finally snaps and fully embraces her evil nature. Subverted eventually as she is never a villain in the end.
63* TraumaCongaLine: Not even counting what went down in the ''first act'', Elphaba has to deal with her beloved little sister not wanting to have anything to do with her anymore, saving the life of [[spoiler:Boq by turning him into a tin-man]] who forever resents her for it thereafter, her favorite teacher [[spoiler:losing his ability to speak human language]], her [[spoiler:sister]] getting ''murdered'', getting into a nasty spat with Glinda that puts them at odds with each other, and finally, watching [[spoiler:Fiyero]] be dragged off to be killed because of her, all the while being collectively despised and hunted for by the populace. Can anyone really blame her for going off the deep end by the time Dorothy came around?
64* {{Tsundere}}: Has traits of one in the musical. She's very vitriolic to almost everyone upon first meeting, but she gets awkward and sweet around people who she hopes to impress or who show her kindness. She even gets this textbook tsundere line:
65-->'''Elphaba''': Where is [Fiyero] anyway? [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial N-not that I expected him to say goodbye to me...]]
66* TheUnfavorite: Her father heavily prefers Nessarose.
67* UsedToBeASweetKid: Yes, the Wicked Witch of the West was once a friendly, sensitive young girl. She's less villainous in the musical, though.
68* WitchClassic: Her getup and powers fit the bill.
69* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Temporarily. No matter how hard she tries to do good in the world, it ends up blowing up in her face spectacularly, especially when her magical powers get involved. Eventually she hits her breaking point when [[spoiler: Fiyero seems to die.]] She gets better when she finds out [[spoiler:he's alive.]]
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75!! Lady Galinda Upland/Glinda the Good
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81* AdaptationDyeJob: She's redheaded in ''Oz'' canon but is a blonde in ''Wicked'' canon.
82* AdaptationalExpansion: While her role in the novel is very hefty, here she is the Co-Lead alongside Elphaba.
83* AdaptationalJerkass: She's still a hero in ''Wicked'', but is portrayed as a lot more flawed than her counterpart from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', having quite the ego on her and initially being an AlphaBitch towards Elphaba (before mellowing out), and temporarily plays an antagonistic role in Act II with [[spoiler: aiding Morrible in capturing Elphaba and accidentally causing the death of Nessarose, although she does have a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment afterwards.]]
84* AlphaBitch: At first. She's more of a LovableAlphaBitch afterwards, eventually dropping the Bitch part altogether.
85* AmbiguouslyBi: She's infatuated with Fiyero but her relationship with Elphaba is heavy on HomoeroticSubtext. [[WordOfSaintPaul Several of the OBC]] think she loved Elphaba, or could have if [[ForWantOfANail things happened differently]].
86* BettyAndVeronica: Fiyero's Betty.
87* BewareTheNiceOnes: It takes until the end of the play, but Galinda eventually [[spoiler:decides she's had enough of the Wizard and Morrible. She is directly responsible for ridding Oz of both of them in short order. She effectively banishes the Wizard from Oz, who easily complies after being broken from the news that he played a part in the death of his daughter, and has Morrible arrested and thrown into prison, who isn't as willing to along with Glinda's demands.]]
88* BigGood: By the end of the musical, and the departure of the Wizard, she has become the loving and kind protector of Oz, "Glinda the Good", as she promised Elphaba she would.
89* BookDumb: At least, compared to Elphaba. More so in the musical than in the books.
90* BrainlessBeauty: She's not ''dumb'', pretty good at manipulation indeed. But she only uses it to easily get her way in order to move through life without much thought or work. She comes to realize that her ambitions of being a Witch will require more intelligence and integrity than that.
91* BrutalHonesty: In both versions, she's prone to speaking her mind even when she knows that she could potentially hurt someone's feelings in doing so. "Popular" from the musical, for example, is ''loaded'' with examples.
92-->'''Glinda''': And even in your case... though it's the ''toughest'' case I've yet to face...\
93And with an assist from me, to be who you'll be, instead of dreary who you were (well, ''are'')...
94* CharacterExaggeration: While not truly (or ''fully'') a DumbBlonde, the musical milks this quality of her more than the books do. She's also more energetic.
95* CheeryPink: Glinda wears a frilly pink dress during the apogee of her [[GenkiGirl genkiness]], the song “Popular”.
96* ClingyJealousGirl: Fiyero suddenly running off with Elphaba causes Glinda to feel a dark enough jealousy that she gives Morrible information to lure out Elphaba that culminates in the death of [[spoiler:Elphaba's sister.]] This naturally leads to a MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction from her.
97* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At the start of "Popular", when Glinda declares that Elphaba will be "her new project", the girls have this exchange.
98-->'''Elphaba''': [[HintDropping You really don't need to do that]].
99--> '''Glinda''': I know, that's what makes me so nice.
100* CoolCrown: In the play, she gets a couple tiaras with her outfits.
101* DelusionsOfEloquence: A little bit in the play, though not nearly as severely as Madame Morrible.
102* TheDitz: In her days at Shiz in Act I, she asks the history teacher Doctor Dillamond why he keeps talking about the past. She's much wiser in Act II.
103* DumbBlonde: PlayedWith. She's not ''stupid'' so much as spoiled and sheltered. Especially in the musical, she outright seems to take ''pride'' on the fact that she can get anything she wants without a lot of work. She gets better.
104%%* FaceHeelTurn: She undergoes one, although she eventually turns back.
105* GenkiGirl: In the musical, especially during the "Popular" and "One Short Day" scenes.
106* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Her "Good Witch" persona invokes this trope, although her real personality is more of a subversion of it.
107* HeelRealization: In the musical, at the Ozdust Ballroom. She has an even bigger one later, after [[spoiler:inadvertently contributing to Nessarose's death.]]
108* IncomingHam: Her first appearance in the flashback is her gliding onto the stage (thanks to sitting on a luggage cart), while singing several high notes.
109* AnIcePerson: Freezing water is one of the first spells she learns from the Grimmerie.
110* IneptMage: This gets shown in the musical when during the "Popular" number, she tries to do GorgeousGarmentGeneration for Elphaba, and nothing happens. She just tosses the wand away.
111* InnocentlyInsensitive: Glinda lacks tact and humility about her status in life (exemplified in her "Popular" number), but she never means to flaunt it maliciously in other people's faces, it's just how she is.
112* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She starts off seeing Fiyero as the perfect prince who would marry her and give her her 'happy ever after'. She realizes that true love is loving someone with their flaws and being willing to let them go when he falls for Elphaba.
113* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Beautifully {{parodied| trope}} when Glinda and Elphaba start slapping each other just before the {{Catfight}}. After the second slap, Glinda, wearing her bubble dress and tiara, starts flipping her wand around like a kung fu staff, in a display that falls under WhatTheFuAreYouDoing.
114* LargeHam: The role practically calls out for this, especially compared to the more dour and sarcastic Elphaba. The song "Popular" is often the benchmark for any actress playing G(a)linda, as it involves a lot of hopping around, dancing, yodelling, and often bits of improvised comedy unique to that actress. Most later actresses took Kristin Chenoweth's performance and ''built'' on it, creating a series of zanier Glindas.
115* LightIsNotGood: Played with. She may be pretty and popular, but she is vain and too dumb to realize what the Wizard had done. She redeems herself in the end.
116* LockedOutOfTheLoop: In the musical. She isn't told that [[spoiler:Elphaba and Fiyero are alive]]. Although Kristin Chenoweth's final performance as Glinda has her mention to Elphaba that she needs to "shower" (in her top ten book of ways to improve Elphaba)... this, in turn, implies that she ''knows'' Elphaba hasn't been destroyed and is acting to remove Morrible and the Witch from power as a sort of poetic justice for Elphaba, who is currently in hiding.
117* LovedByAll: Was beloved by all the students in her days at Shiz University and became even more popular as she grew older, being christened Glinda the Good by The Wizard and loved by all of Oz. The only exceptions to this are Elphaba at certain points of the musical and Madame Morrible from the get-go.
118* MysticalHighCollar: Her "bubble dress", which is after she finally learns magic, has a high collar.
119* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this realization, [[spoiler:after remembering that Madame Morrible's specialty in magic is weather, and that Nessarose was crushed by Dorothy's house after falling out of a twister, all of this happening shortly after a scorned Glinda suggested using Nessa as bait to lure Elphaba out of hiding.]]
120* NamedByTheAdaptation: She's given the surname "Upland". This was canonized in the second book.
121* TheParagon: Glinda is accutely aware that Oz sees her as an arbiter of peace and goodness
122* PimpedOutDress: She gets the most CostumePorn in the musical, with loads of very fancy dresses:
123** Her "bubble dress" (at the beginning and end) and her engagement party dress have lots of beading and sequins, and a skirt with the layers cut to give a flower petal effect.
124** A Denmark production has different, but no less fancy, costumes. Her bubble dress has a bodice covered with beading to look like pearls, white HighClassGloves, and [[FluffyFashionFeathers a white feather skirt]].
125** Even in the book, she's described as wearing all sorts of extravagant dresses after becoming Lady Chuffrey.
126* PinkMeansFeminine: Wears a short pink dress during the party at the Ozdust Ballroom and during the song “Popular”.
127* PluckyComicRelief: In the play, the majority of the comic relief comes from her, and she's certainly plucky.
128* ThePollyanna: She plays this trope straight at first, but then it becomes a facade later on.
129* PromotedToLoveInterest: Had no romance with Fiyero in the book.
130* PuppetKing: Glinda's "Good Witch" title doesn't actually give her any power, as Madame Morrible explains to her during "March Of The Witch Hunters".
131* ShipperWithAnAgenda: To be free to pursue Fiyero, Glinda needs to get rid of her stalker Boq. She does this by lamenting how Nessarose will be alone at the party, and Boq, eager to impress Glinda, offers to be Nessa's date.
132* StepfordSmiler: The musical makes her a Stepford Smiler at the behest of the state for the sake of keeping the populace blissfully unaware.
133* ThatWomanIsDead: Borderline parody when she changes her name from Galinda to Glinda in the play. Played much more sympathetically in the book.
134* TookALevelInKindness: The show chronicles her journey from a spoiled and shallow school girl, to the beloved and kind protector of Oz, "Glinda, The Good".
135-->'''Glinda''': Fellow Ozians... Friends. We have been through a frightening time. And there will be others times and other things that frighten us. But if you let me, I would like to try to help. I would like to try to be "Glinda the Good".
136* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl half. Glinda is the epitome of stereotypical girly girl, being obsessed with pink, boys, clothes, makeup and parties.
137* TrueBlueFemininity: Glinda is heavily associated with [[WaterIsBlue bubbles]] and wears a sparkling blue gown at the beginning and end of the musical.
138* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: All Glinda wanted was to trick Boq into leaving her alone. She never imagined Nessarose was so starved for affection that she would go so far as to become a tyrant to the Munchkins just to keep Boq at her side. Even when Glinda does try to amend her mistake, Nessa's already fallen into StalkerWithACrush territory.
139* ValleyGirl: Some actresses give her moments like this, particularly during "Popular".
140* VanityIsFeminine: Galinda is vain for a majority of the time, but mainly [[RuleOfFunny in ways it's funniest]].
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146!! Fiyero Tiggular/[[spoiler:The Scarecrow]]
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152->''"Life is fraught-less when you're thoughtless. Those who don't try never look foolish.'"''
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154* TheAntiNihilist: Fiyero's justifications for his hedonistic lifestyle ("Nothing matters but knowing nothing matters!") fly very close to the concept of existential nihilism, wherein nothing matters because life is meaningless. Although he initially comes off as a negative influence who preaches that making an effort is futile because "dust is what we come to", he is later shown to value positive traits like compassion, altruism and love. He shares Elphaba's sense of justice enough to follow her [[spoiler:into a difficult future in exile]], thus giving up everything that made his life comfortable.
155* BigDamnHeroes: He saves Elphaba from the Wizard and they run off together. He does this a second time (coming in swinging on a vine no less!) but with mixed results; Elphaba escapes, but he gets captured.
156* BigJerkOnCampus: He starts out as this in the beginning of Act One, as he appears to be completely frivolous, shallow, and conceited, convincing the students to party rather than study, and dates the equally frivolous, shallow and conceited Galinda. However, it’s ultimately subverted as he shows to have a HiddenHeartOfGold underneath his pomp and pride, and is even willing to give up his popularity and reputation to be with Elphaba, who he truly loves.
157* BrainlessBeauty[=/=]TheDitz: Self-stated. He perpetuates this image so much that people actually become worried when he starts "thinking".
158* TheCasanova: Apparently this was the general perception of him. To quote Galinda, "his reputation is scandalacious"
159* CompositeCharacter: In the musical he's a mix of Book!Fiyero (with his name, position of Prince, and role as Elphaba's love interest), while his personality is more along the lines of Avaric (and possibly Crope and Tibbett) taken up to eleven. [[spoiler:Also he actually ''is'' the Scarecrow in the musical, whereas in the book, Elphaba entertains the possibility that he never died and was hiding in that Scarecrow suit only to learn that the Scarecrow is nothing more than a Scarecrow.]]
160* ComicalNapDrool: Aaron Tveit plays Fiyero in the musical as someone who drools in his sleep, it's fitting with his affable social butterfly, intelligent, loveable and at times naive personality.
161* CoolShades: In his first appearance in the musical.
162* CrashIntoHello: Sort of, in the musical. He was asleep at the time, but his first meeting with Elphaba is instigated by his carriage nearly running her over.
163* CrucifiedHeroShot: In the musical, him getting hoisted onto a pole with his arms stretched out and being carried into a cornfield to be tortured is the last we see of him. [[spoiler:Or so we think.]]
164* DeadpanSnarker: He's no match for her, but Fiyero does have his share of witty remarks that will occasionally catch even Elphaba off guard.
165* {{Delinquent}}: He brags about how he's been kicked out of several different schools at the beginning of "Dancing through Life".
166* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:In the musical, he fakes his death and helps Elphaba to escape while at the same time FakingTheDead.]]
167* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:He's the musical's version of the Scarecrow through this, through Elphaba's slightly botched invulnerability spell she tries to cast to save him from being beaten to death (she doesn't find out it actually worked until much later).]]
168* EmotionallyTongueTied: He starts tripping over his sentences when he finds himself taking notice of Elphaba.
169* ExpelledFromEveryOtherSchool: Fiyero has been expelled from multiple different universities for being lazy and irresponsible. During his song "Dancing Through Life", he casually says he's been kicked out of a lot of schools.
170* {{Foreshadowing}}: His ultimate fate is alluded to many times up until TheReveal. He references being "brainless" in both of his songs, and a perceptive eye will notice in "Dancing Through Life" that [[spoiler:his choreography is based on the movement of a scarecrow on a pole.]]
171* FormFittingWardrobe: The tight, white pants that Fiyero wears in his introduction are considered infamous by his actors and the show-goers alike.
172* FriendToAllLivingThings: Fiyero is shown to be friendly and kind to pretty much everyone he meets [[spoiler: and the reveal that he's the Scarecrow shows that he's great with children as well.]]
173* TheHedonist: Initially, his life motto is to live life however the hell he pleases. He eventually outgrows it.
174* HiddenDepths: So hidden that Fiyero ''himself'' was convinced of his shallowness. Elphaba calls him out on it.
175* HiddenHeartOfGold: Turns out he's not so self-absorbed after all.
176* IronicEcho: When they get together, Fiyero has to convince Elphaba that he thinks she's beautiful. [[spoiler:At the end of the musical when Fiyero has been turned into a scarecrow, it's Elphaba who has to convince ''him'' that she still thinks he's beautiful.]]
177* IWillFindYou: His motivation for joining the witch-hunting Gale Force is to find Elphaba before anyone else does.
178* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fiyero tries to remain aloof and entirely self-centered and succeeds for a little while, but ultimately when the chips are down he fails. Fiyero is also the first person we see in the musical who doesn’t scream/flinch/run away/etc when he first sees Elphaba. He is utterly unfazed. Already we start seeing that her being green doesn’t matter in the slightest to him. Even his joke about her being green is one of the tamest in the show. He doesn’t call her an artichoke like Glinda does or any other sort of rude name meant to demean her for being green. He just says “Maybe the driver saw green and thought it meant go”. Even if he doesn’t see anything WRONG with her being green, being green is still unusual. We INTERPRET that moment as a joke because that’s the expectation, but all we all know his INTENT is simply “Avaric was surprised, give the guy a break”. After that point he doesn’t mention her being green again.
179* LadykillerInLove: Despite showing any real signs of being a 'ladykiller', in the musical, he still gets the entire female population of Shiz University pining after him within hours of arriving on campus and instantly hooks up with G(a)linda. Then he falls in love with Elphaba so hard that his life thereafter is spent trying to find her after she disappears from the public eye.
180* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:For Elphaba, as it is his death that triggers her descent into wickedness. Later subverted when, at the end, he turns up alive as the Scarecrow.]]
181* LoveAtFirstSight: How he ends up in a relationship with Glinda in the first place, because they mutually deemed themselves to be "perfect together" upon first meeting. Of course, it doesn't end up lasting...
182* LoveInterest: To Elphaba (and also Glinda in the musical).
183* PromotedToLoveInterest: Glinda never fancied Fiyero in the books. In fact, there's a scene there she specifically says how she ''doesn't'' fancy him!
184* SafetyInIndifference: His reason for having such a lackadaisical approach to life. Just look at the lyrics to "Dancing Through Life":
185--> '''Fiyero''': Life is painless, for the brainless
186* NonActionGuy: Compared to Elphaba and Glinda, he comes off as this.
187* PragmaticAdaptation: When the musical was in its concept stages they considered keeping the blue tribal paint, but then decided it would be too much of a hassle to deal with.
188* RaceLift: Fiyero's ethnicity is never actually mentioned, he is simply referred to being dark or ochre in color, and having skin “the color of shit.” In the musical, he has no determined physical features and his appearance relies on the person who's acting him. There have been Fiyeros of all colors and races on stage.
189* RebelPrince: He takes advantage of his royal privileges without showing any particular enthusiasm for his role as the heir to a throne that constitutes 20% of Oz's population. As he falls deeper in love with Elphaba, he ends up abandoning that role completely.
190* SatelliteLoveInterest: Subverted. A lot of Fiyero's character does revolve around his relationships with Elphaba and Glinda, but unlike most examples he plays an important role in the plot, and goes through his own CharacterDevelopment arc.
191* SillyWalk: [[spoiler:After becoming the Scarecrow in the musical, actors playing Fiyero tend to imitate Creator/RayBolger and his distinct style of walking in the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the 1939 film]].]]
192* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:He and Elphaba die in the book.]]
193* StepfordSmiler: In the beginning of Act II, he, like Glinda, puts on a facade that he's enjoying his life and being against the Wicked Witch of the West, when the truth couldn't be further in the opposite direction. Even in Act I when they're in school, it's heavily implied Fiyero's devil-may-care attitude is a coverup for the fact he's unhappy.
194* UnexpectedVirgin: His peers expect him to be more sexually experienced considering his attitude. Like the song itself being a reference to Fiyero and Elphaba consummating their relationship, the deleted lyrics in ALAYM subliminally make it very clear that in the musical verse, Fiyero was still a virgin when he ran away and became a fugitive with Elphaba.
195--> '''Replaced solo in As Long As You're Mine (First 4 lines lack audio recording)''':
196--> What am I doing?
197--> What’s this I feel?
198--> The boy who was certain
199--> Love isn’t real
200--> Tell me it’s hopeless,
201--> Tell me it’s wrong.
202--> There’s still no denying,
203--> Desire so strong
204--> Shrouded in secret
205--> Meeting the night
206--> We know our chances
207--> Don’t live in the light
208--> Recklessly racing
209--> Too fast and too far
210--> We know as long as we are
211
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214
215[[folder:Nessarose]]
216!!Nessarose Thropp/The Wicked Witch of the East
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222* AbledInTheAdaptation: Played with. Due to the pragmatic issues of depicting an armless woman on stage using able-bodied actresses, her disability was edited for the musical. Nessa is paralyzed and wheelchair bound, instead of lacking arms like in the book.
223* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Starts school the same year as Elphaba instead of the year after.
224* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged. Nessa isn't as bad as the Wicked Witch of the East in L. Frank Baum's original. She possesses sympathetic and admirable qualities, but these are ultimately overshadowed by her increasingly uncompromising and self-righteous nature.
225* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The Unnamed God and Lurline were both AdaptedOut, stripping Nessarose of her religious element. The musical instead emphasises her clinginess.
226* BitchInSheepsClothing: While it is easy to sympathize with her on some level, underneath her sweet, naive, innocent facade, lies a selfish, possessive, jealous and vindictive streak.
227* ClingyJealousGirl[=/=]{{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:She is willing to strip the Munchkins of their rights and keep any of them from leaving the country just to keep Boq with her and then curse away his heart when he expresses the desire to leave.]]
228-->'''Nessarose:''' You're going to lose your heart to ''me,'' I tell you! If I have to... I have to... '''[[spoiler:magic spell you!]]'''
229* DirtyCoward: When Boq begins freaking out over being turned to the Tin Man, Nessa immediately throws the blame on Elphaba and foregoes all responsibility, just for the chance of Boq staying with her.
230* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Well, house. Though it was kind of necessary, since it's a ForegoneConclusion from the original story. The musical spared several characters from the book, but Nessa's death was too vital to remove.
231* HotWitch: She's described as being tragically beautiful, and unknown to everyone [[UnskilledButStrong quite powerful, if not adept]] at magic like her sister.
232-->'''Elphaba''': Well, it seems the beautiful get more beautiful, while the green just get greener.
233* IAmAMonster: She mournfully declares herself the "Wicked Witch of The East" after her attempts at magic goes horribly, horribly wrong.
234* IneptMage: A truly tragic example in the musical, when she gets her hands on the [[GreatBigBookOfEverything Grimmerie.]]
235* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: As the Governor of Munchkinland.
236%%* LoveMakesYouCrazy
237* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She expresses horror when she realizes that [[spoiler:her attempt on casting a spell on Boq ends up ''shrinking'' his heart rather than making him be hers.]]
238* NeverMyFault: She quickly places the blame on Elphaba, first for showing her the Grimmerie in the first place, and for what [[spoiler:becomes of Boq after losing his heart.]] Her final lines in the musical reflect this...
239-->'''Nessarose''': It wasn't me... It was her. I tried to stop her! Boq, please, I still... It was Elphaba, Boq! ''IT WAS ELPHABA!!!''
240* NotGoodWithRejection: [[spoiler:Boq turning into the Tin Man? Well, he proclaimed his love for Glinda and was happy thinking that Nessa didn't need him anymore. Nessa attempted to cast a spell on him to make him love her, but it went ''horribly'' wrong.]]
241* RaceLift: In the 2006-08 national tour, as she was played by Deedee Magno (yes, [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse THAT Deedee Magno]]). She even lampshades this in the second act.
242* SiblingYinYang: She's talkative and sociable, quite unlike her quiet, allusive older sister. In the books, they also have vastly contrasting religious beliefs (with Elphaba being an atheist and Nessa being devoted to the Unnamed God).
243* SuperWheelChair: In the musical she eventually ends up with a fancy wheelchair that resembles a throne.
244* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Thanks to the [[spoiler:magic slippers (that Dorothy later obtains)]].
245* UnskilledButStrong: She too appears to have been born with magic within her like Elphaba, and she does appear to be quite powerful, as she is able to use the Grimmerie, [[spoiler:however her inability to pronounce the words correctly causes Boq's heart to shrink out of existence.]]
246* WheelchairWoobie: Invoked in "Dancing Through Life", where Glinda describes her as "tragically beautiful" in her wheelchair, and Nessa herself thinks that Boq only asked her to dance because he felt sorry for her.
247* YouDontLookLikeYou: In the books, Nessarose was born without arms. She wears long dresses and shawls to hide her disability. The musical changes her so she was instead born paralyzed from the waist down, meaning she's wheelchair bound. She also wears sweaters and dresses in a "school girl" manner.
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251
252[[folder:Boq]]
253!!Boq/[[spoiler:The Tin Man]]
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259* AccidentalMisnaming: Glinda keeps calling him "Bick".
260* AdaptationDistillation: He has a whole portion of the book devoted to him, yet is at-best a side character in the musical -- he doesn't even get a whole song to himself, just small bits of other people's songs.
261* AdaptationalVillainy: Okay, that's harsh, but his OnlyFriend status with Elphaba from the book is removed, and he views her as wicked like the rest of Oz. And later leads the mob to kill her, [[spoiler:after being turned into the Tin Man. For that matter, the kind, sentimental Tin Man from the original ''Oz'' books and movie is never psychotic and bloodthirsty like this one becomes.]]
262* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Musical only. He loves Galinda, who won't give him the time of day. Nessarose is absolutely '''smitten''' with him, but he doesn't feel much more than sympathy for her, which decreases rapidly as time goes on.
263* CharacterExaggeration: His crush on Galinda he has for a summer or two in college becomes the defining character trait of his whole life in the musical.
264* CompositeCharacter: In the musical, he is transformed into [[spoiler:the Tin Man]] after Elphaba casts a spell on him. In both the novel and the original [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz L. Frank Baum story]], the two are separate characters, [[spoiler:as The Tin Woodman was previously named Nick Chopper]].
265* DoggedNiceGuy: He's smittened with Glinda from the very beginning and tries to be as chivalrous and considerate as he can be whenever the two interact, but does not end up with a relationship with her in the end.
266* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:He's the musical's version of the Tin Man through this, after Nessa magically curses away his heart in a fit of jealousy and Elphaba in panic tries to save him.]]
267-->'''Nessa''': What about his [[spoiler:heart]]?\
268'''Elphaba''': ''(somewhat sadly)'' It's okay, [[spoiler:he won't need one now...]]
269* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:Elphaba turns him into the Tin Man, to counteract Nessarose's spell that shrunk his heart out of existence. He is horrified by this.]]
270* HeroAntagonist: He essentially becomes one after [[spoiler:turning into the Tin Man]] in the musical. During "March of the Witch Hunters", he becomes utterly hostile towards Elphaba, calling her out for casting a spell on him and [[spoiler:turning him into tin (even though she only did it to save his life)]].
271* JerkassHasAPoint: Sure he's doing it out of revenge first, [[spoiler:but a part of him must be leading the Mob in hopes of rescuing Dorothy, of whom Elphaba was clearly ready to kill.]]
272* PromotedToLoveInterest: Nessa was never in love with him in the book.
273* StalkerWithACrush: Glinda's clearly not interested, and he still wants to break up her engagement ''years'' after they leave school.
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277
278[[folder:The Wizard]]
279!!The Wizard
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285* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Than his incredibly dark and cruel book characterization, harkening back to Baum's original take as a "good man, but a bad wizard."
286* AffablyEvil: In the musical at least. He is pretty fun and friendly and even 'sentimental' if you're not on his bad side.
287* AntiVillain: Type ll. His goal in the musical is to be loved in the way he couldn't in the Human World.
288* BadBoss: To Chistery and the Flying Monkeys. He orchestrates a plan that mutilates them, sends them to spy on their own kind (Talking Animals) and cages them. Given that Chistery can't speak he took away their voices as well.
289* BrokenPedestal: Elphaba idolizes him in the musical until she learns the truth.
290* {{Demythification}}: The only "magic" he knows is how human nature works and how to lean on it to get what he wants.
291* TheFaceless: [[spoiler:In his appearances as the object of Elphaba's mother's affair.]]
292* FreudianExcuse: He couldn't have his own family due to travelin a lot. Also he was mediocre and unsuccessful in the Human World being a 'corn-fed hick'! So he is trying to get the empty love of the Ozians and power as a substitute. He doesn't realize this won't bring him happiness until the ending.
293* HeelRealization: In the musical. After [[spoiler: Elphaba's apparent death, he leaves Oz of his own accord, grieving for his lost daughter.]]
294* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Although Elphaba never finds out. The Wizard goes into something of a quiet VillainousBreakdown upon realizing that he's actually Elphaba's biological father, and thus sentenced his own daughter to death. Afterwards Glinda tells him to leave Oz and he goes willingly.]]
295* ObliviouslyEvil: Depending on the actor portraying him in the musical, he can either be a despicable tyrant, or a misguided leader who genuinely believes that his actions are making things better in Oz.
296* TheManBehindTheMan: He and Madame Morrible are behind 'Glinda the Good'.
297* SimpletonVoice: He speaks with a southern-sounding accent that's likely to make people think him a bit dumb and calls himself a "corn fed hick." Of course, [[ObfuscatingStupidity there's more to it than that...]]
298* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: In the musical, he claims to be doing bad things for the greater good and to be subjugating Animals to pacify Oz. But it becomes clear throughout the play that what he wants is to stay in power by manipulating the citizens.
299* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He is [[spoiler:Elphaba's]] father.
300* TruerToTheText: His depiction is much closer to the Wizard in Baum's text and the MGM film, than Maguire's nastier version.
301* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The so called "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is no more than an amoral con man that rules over the land like a dictator.
302* WouldHarmAChild: Some of his officials showcase a familiar lion cub inside a cage as part of their propaganda. Given that he probably send them...
303* WrongGenreSavvy: In a way, as his trying to apply real-world logic to Oz is part of the reason everything ends up going wrong.
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307
308[[folder:Madame Morrible]]
309!!Madame Morrible
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315* AlliterativeName: If you count Madame as her first name.
316* ChekhovsSkill: Her WeatherManipulation magic is mentioned early on and becomes significant later.
317* DelusionsOfEloquence: Prone to speaking this way.
318* TheDragon: The Wizard's right hand woman, and she proves to be much worse than him.
319* EvilMentor: Elphaba was the sole student in her seminar during Act I. The two became enemies in Act II after Morrible smeared her reputation for protesting the Wizard's crusade against the Animals of Oz, giving Elphaba the longlasting title of the Wicked Witch of the West.
320* FantasticRacism: Towards Animals.
321* FauxAffablyEvil: She treats those she respects with kindness, but it's all a facade.
322* HateSink: In a musical dedicated to exploring the delicate balance of good and evil and asks the question of whether people are born wicked or simply have wickedness thrust upon them, Madame Morrible stands out as the only character with no redeeming or tragic qualities at all. She's bigoted, greedy, duplicitous, cold and perfectly willing to [[spoiler:commit murder]] in order to get what she wants, all while lacking a FreudianExcuse like [[LoveHungry the Wizard]] or [[LonelyAtTheTop Nessarose's]] and any positive qualities to balance out her negative ones, like those of [[LovableAlphaBitch Glinda]] or [[KnightinSourArmor Elphaba]]. Out of all the characters in the musical, she's the only one who's truly and unambiguously evil.
323* LargeHam: In a WorldOfHam, she stands out the most. There's a reason she's been played by the likes of Creator/CarolKane, Creator/MiriamMargolyes, and Creator/RueMcClanahan.
324-->'''Morrible: ''' This ''distortion'', this ''repulsion'', this... '''WICKED WIIIIIITCH!'''
325* TheManBehindTheMan: Her and the Wizard are behind 'Glinda the Good' in the musical.
326* MeaningfulName: Her name rhymes with "horrible" for a reason.
327* RaceLift: Is played by a black actress occasionally, such as Sheryl Lee Ralph.
328* SadistTeacher: To Galinda, and anyone else she deems as unworthy.
329* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the book, she's killed by Elphaba. In the musical, she survives, but Glinda orders for her to be thrown in prison.
330* SummonEverymanHero: Accidental example. [[spoiler:Creates a tornado to kill Nessarose to bring Elphaba out of hiding and accidentally brings Dorothy to Oz. Later forms an angry mob to set off to Kiamo Ko Castle to kill Elphaba]].
331* VillainTakesAnInterest: Toward Elphaba in both versions.
332* WeatherManipulation: Her specialty in the musical (not in the book). Becomes a plot point when she [[spoiler:murders Nessarose by summoning the infamous cyclone that brings Dorothy to Oz]].
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335
336[[folder:Doctor Dillamond]]
337!!Doctor Dillamond
338* AlliterativeName: If you consider Doctor to be his first name.
339* CoolTeacher: Well, Elphaba thinks so anyway...
340* FunnyAnimal: Is now now upright and wears clothes.
341* MentorOccupationalHazard: He is the favorite teacher of both Elphaba and Boq. He is [[spoiler:changed into a normal animal]].
342* SatelliteCharacter: Despite mattering heavily to the plots of both book and musical (indeed; most of either story would have never happened without him), he actually doesn't appear a whole lot. Characters spend more time talking about him in absentia in the book, and he's only in one song in the play, and three scenes altogether.
343* SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: In the book he is a CivilizedAnimal while in the play, he's more a FunnyAnimal.
344* SparedByTheAdaptation: He [[spoiler:isn't killed]] in the musical; instead, he loses his profession at Shiz University and eventually [[spoiler:loses his ability to speak]].
345* TalkingAnimal: [[spoiler:Which is the reason he ends up being the target of prejudice and the Wizard, as the Wizard doesn't like that animals in Oz can act like humans and wants to make them like normal animals in the "real" world.]]
346* VerbalTic: A truly disturbing instance in the musical, [[spoiler:as he loses the ability to speak human language and starts reverting to animal noises]].
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350
351[[folder:Dorothy]]
352!!Dorothy Gale
353* AccidentalMurder: She's inadvertently used to kill Nessarose and [[spoiler:based off her silhouette's body language, she didn't intend to melt Elphaba]].
354* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Given her close friendship with the Scarecrow/Fiyero, she might have been part of the plot to help him and Elphaba disappear from Oz.]]
355* AllLovingHero: Her sincere kindness charms pretty much everyone she meets including Glinda, the Scarecrow/[[spoiler:Fiyero]], the Tin Man/[[spoiler:Boq]] and the Lion, the former two form a lynch mob in hopes of saving her. Everyone, that is, except Elphaba.
356* DamselInDistress: Dorothy is captured by Elphaba and confined in her castle tower. Elphaba expressly states that she will not be released until she surrenders Nessa’s shoes.
357* DemotedToExtra: Dorothy is the main protagonist of most adaptations of the story of Oz, but she doesn't even show up until Act II, and even then we never properly see her. This also applies to Dorothy in comparison to her role in Maguire's novel that the musical based on, as Dorothy at least gets to speak in the book instead of only being heard crying like in the stage play.
358* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Dorothy's name is never said in the musical. She's called a "wretched farm girl" and "squealy little brat" by Elphaba and "a female child" and "the little girl" by Glinda.
359* TheFaceless: In the musical, we only ever see her silhouette. Averted in the 2010-11 Helsinki production, and subsequent non replicate productions there after, where she appears in several key scenes, her appearance based on Judy Garland's famous look in the MGM film.
360* GirlishPigtails: Dorothy’s iconic pigtails are visible in her silhouette during the melting sequence.
361* HeroAntagonist: In the novel, Elphaba's dress caught fire prior to the fateful bucket of water and Dorothy had just been trying to help put it out. In the musical, she is an antagonist due to lack of knowledge rather than malice.
362* HeroOfAnotherStory: Dorothy is given as little stagetime and reference as possible because she's the main protagonist of the Oz books and arguably the most memorable character in the MGM film. As such, how she managed to gain her allies and her journey to the Emerald City is left out.
363* NaiveEverygirl: Dorothy doesn't really understand the complicated politics of Oz.
364* UnwittingPawn: Unbeknownst to her, Dorothy's house was brought to Oz in a twister to kill the Wicked Witch of the East, in an attemp to capture her sister. Later, she's used by the Witch hunters as the murderer in the apparent melting of the Wicked Witch of the West.
365* TheVoice: We never actually see Dorothy in the musical, but we do hear her whimpering offstage after being captured by Elphaba.
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368
369
370[[folder:Melena]]
371!!Melena Thropp
372* AdaptationalConsent: In the books, Elphaba was a ChildByRape. The musical makes it seem like she was the result of an intentional affair.
373* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: In the musical, Elphaba seems to remember her fondly. Her post-childbirth action is spent reaching out toward the infant Elphaba, not caring how Elphaba came out.
374* DemotedToExtra: She only appears in one part in the first song completely unnamed.
375* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Her death is the same either way, but ''who'' she gives birth to is not: In the book, she dies giving birth to her third child and only son Shell, while in the musical Shell is AdaptedOut and Melena dies gives birth to her second daughter Nessarose.
376* DeathByChildbirth: She dies giving birth to Nessa.
377* MissingMom: She died in childbirth.
378* UnnamedParent: She isn't referred to by her book name.
379[[/folder]]
380
381[[folder:Frexspar]]
382!!Frexspar Thropp
383* AbusiveParents: In the play, he makes it clear that he hates Elphaba and basically only keeps her around to take care of her sister. He was so disgusted by her green skin that he refused to even look at her the day she was born.
384* AdaptationalJobChange: Given the musical does away with the religious aspects of the novel, he goes from a Minister of the Unnamed God, to the Governor of Munchkinland.
385* AdaptationalVillainy: He still favored Nessarose in the book but he still had some fondness towards Elphaba. His work as a minister, however, ruined their relationship when he tries using her "condition" and singing ability to promote himself.
386* DemotedToExtra: He's an unnamed bit character in the musical.
387* DeathByAdaptation: In the book he lives to see Nessa's death and is only reported dead by the sequel. In the play, he dies between acts 1 and 2 (after Elphaba becomes the wicked witch) out of shame for her ruining their families reputation.
388* {{Jerkass}}: Treats his daughter Elphaba like dirt because he believes her to be culpable for his wife's death and Nessa's disability.
389* NeverMyFault: He blames Elphaba for him forcing his pregnant wife to eat white lilies, which resulted in her mothers death and sisters disability, since if she hadnt been born green then he wouldnt have done such a thing.
390* ParentalFavoritism: When dropping his two daughters off at Shiz, he gives Nessarose a beautiful pair of silver slippers. He gives Elphaba a cold demand to take care of Nessa and only allowed Elphaba to go to Shiz so she could take care of her sister.
391* UnnamedParent: He isn't referred to by his book name.
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