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Before heading back to Oz, let's revisit the untold story! Join us as we explore the key plot points to remember before watching "Wicked: For Good." From Elphaba and Glinda's complex friendship to the Wizard's manipulative ways, we're revealing how things in Oz aren't always what they seem. Did the wicked witch really melt, or is there more to the story?
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00:00Good news! She's dead!
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at things to remember before seeing Part 2 of Wicked.
00:13We'll be going into spoilers for the first film,
00:16although we'll avoid specific plot points from Act 2 of the stage musical, which Wicked for Good adapts.
00:22I have been changed for good.
00:27Number 10. Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead.
00:31While most of the first film is chronicled through flashbacks,
00:34the opening picks up toward The Wizard of Oz's ending.
00:37He's dead! The Witch of the West is dead!
00:42The wickedest witch there ever was! The enemy of all of us here in Oz is dead!
00:51Some familiar figures have claimed the Wicked Witch's broom,
00:55seemingly leaving nothing behind other than the melted villain's hat.
00:59Oz rejoices upon learning that the land's most hated enemy has been defeated.
01:03Yes!
01:06The Wicked Witch of the West is dead!
01:09Isn't it nice to know?
01:17As we see throughout the film, though, things aren't always as they appear.
01:21For starters, Glinda the Good Witch was friends with the so-called Wicked Witch of the West.
01:25I know. Let's tell each other something we've never told anyone before.
01:29Okay, fine. I'll go first.
01:31Their bond formed at Shiz University.
01:34Back when the Wicked Witch was known as Elphaba Throp, there's another side to every story.
01:39Only half of Elphaba's has been told.
01:42Citizens of Oz, there is an enemy who must be found and captured.
01:50For many in the land of Oz, the whole story may never be heard.
01:53Number 9. Animal Cruelty
01:55Growing up, Elphaba received more affection from her nanny, Dulce Bear, than from her father.
02:01It's all right, little one. He shouldn't have blamed you.
02:05Dulce Bear!
02:07Upon arriving at Shiz, Elphaba forms a connection with Dr. Dillamond.
02:18Although animals helped build the university, their contributions have been paved over.
02:22And it isn't encouraged to discuss this in our classes, but...
02:27There have been some great changes throughout Oz with the rejection of animal culture.
02:32Dillamond is among the few remaining animal educators at Shiz.
02:36Many Ozians believe that animals don't have the right to teach or speak.
02:40Who is responsible for this?
02:47Very well. Class dismissed.
02:50This prompts some animals to flee from Oz, while Dillamond sticks around long enough to be taken away.
02:56Elphaba believes she can create a better world for animals with the wizard's help.
03:00This is your chance. To make good.
03:04Of course, you're gonna have to prove yourself first.
03:08Prove myself?
03:09Prove yourself worthy.
03:10When he has Elphaba cast a spell on his monkey guards, though, it becomes clear that the wizard isn't the solution.
03:16He's behind the animal oppression, giving Oz an enemy to rally against.
03:21That's why you need all of this, and you need spies, and animals, and cages, and an enemy.
03:27You...
03:28You have no real power!
03:30Exactly.
03:31Number 8. The Wizard of Lies
03:33Elphaba finds the wonderful wizard isn't all that wonderful.
03:48He isn't magical either.
03:50Unable to read from the grimmery spellbook like Elphaba, the wizard was but an ordinary human from our world when he arrived in Oz.
03:58While he lacks magic, the wizard brought with him a scientific background and lofty ambitions to reshape Oz.
04:05This paved the way for him to become the most celebrated figure in the Emerald City,
04:09as well as the most mysterious, hiding behind a curtain and a mechanical head.
04:13I didn't know it was you.
04:15You made it.
04:17Uh, sorry about all that, I didn't mean to startle you.
04:23To keep the public on his side, the wizard decides to give them something, or someone, to fight against.
04:29Herein lies the wizard's true power, manipulation.
04:33When I first got here, there was discord, there was discontent.
04:38And back where I come from, everybody knows that the best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy.
04:48Of course, he isn't the only master of deceit in Oz.
04:51Number 7. Madame Morrible is the true villain.
04:54That was me.
04:57To prepare you to expect the unexpected here at Shiz.
05:04While the wizard seeks to control Elphaba, Madame Morrible is also influencing him.
05:09The wizard is more than happy to conspire with Morrible, although her former student isn't as willing.
05:15He's in pain.
05:16Quick, how do I reverse it?
05:18Reverse?
05:19How do I reverse it?
05:20A spell from the grammar can never be reversed.
05:22Elphaba looked up to Morrible as a mentor at Shiz.
05:25Morrible, meanwhile, saw Elphaba as somebody she could use as a puppet.
05:29Once Elphaba cuts her strings, Morrible deems her an enemy of Oz, providing the wicked moniker.
05:46Unable to control Elphaba, Morrible sets her eyes on Glinda, who might not show much promise in the magic department.
05:53Yet, Glinda's ability to win people over makes her just as powerful.
05:57Where a part of the wizard genuinely wants to make people happy, Morrible is all about authority, being this story's true wicked figure.
06:04Citizens of Oz, there is an enemy who must be found and captured.
06:12Number 6. Save the Cat
06:14Yes, Miss Glinda.
06:17It is Glinda, Glinda, Glinda, Glinda, and I don't see why you can't just teach us history.
06:24One minute, animals are teaching the students of Shiz.
06:27The next, the students are experimenting on animals.
06:29This remarkable innovation is for the good of all Oz, as well as for the animal's own good, you see.
06:35If it's so good, why is he trembling?
06:37Elphaba can't stand idly by when Dr. Dilliman's replacement, Professor Nicky Dick, brings in a caged lion cub.
06:44Before he can take away the cub's ability to speak, Elphaba casts a spell that puts everyone else in the room to sleep.
06:50That is, other than Prince Fierro.
06:53Hey, hey, hey!
06:55Hey, come here.
06:59What is happening?
07:00I don't know, I got mad and...
07:05Fierro, what are you doing?
07:08Well, you coming?
07:10While it isn't explained why Fierro remained awake, it's the first sign that Elphaba sees him as more than a brainless pretty boy.
07:17Fierro also sees a different side of Elphaba, deciding to rescue the lion with her.
07:22Although they get the cub to safety, this lion isn't entering the most accepting world, which may leave him cowering in fear.
07:29I better get to safety.
07:32The cub.
07:34I better get here.
07:35Of course not.
07:36The cub to safety.
07:37Number 5.
07:38Love Triangles
07:39Is this how you go through life?
07:40Just running amok and trampling anyone in your path?
07:44No.
07:46No.
07:47Sometimes I'm asleep.
07:48Although he secretly carries a torch for Elphaba, Fierro is in a relationship with Glinda, who believes they're destined for marriage.
07:55That's not the only complicated love triangle that blossoms at shiz.
07:58Glinda.
07:59Glinda.
08:00Glinda.
08:01Here.
08:05Keep it.
08:07I've got many.
08:08The munchkin Bok Woodsman longs for Glinda to return his affection.
08:11Instead, she turns his attention to Nessa Rose, Elphaba's sister.
08:15You'll never guess what just happened to me.
08:17What?
08:18That perfectly adorable munchkin boy just asked me out.
08:22He said he was too shy to ask me at first.
08:25Nessa Rose quickly takes a liking to Bok, although it's evident that he's only with her because Glinda is out of reach.
08:31So just to recap, Nessa likes Bok, who likes Glinda, who likes Fierro, who likes Elphaba, who likes Fierro, who's with Glinda, who introduced Bok to Nessa.
08:40Why is it you're always causing some sort of commotion?
08:43I don't cause commotions.
08:44I am one.
08:45Yeah.
08:46Well, that's for sure.
08:47So you think I should just keep my mouth shut?
08:49Is that what you're saying?
08:50We guess that technically makes this a love hexagon.
08:53Maybe a love heptagon, since Fanny also has the hots for Fierro.
08:57Enroll here often?
08:58Could I ask you?
09:01Anything.
09:02Anything you want.
09:03Number four, Elphaba's powers.
09:06Unlimited.
09:10My future is unlimited.
09:14Elphaba might be the most powerful person in Oz.
09:17She doesn't entirely have a grasp on those powers, however.
09:20During The Wizard and I Number, Elphaba has a vision that one day there will be a celebration in Oz about her.
09:26I stand there with the wizards, feeling the things I've never felt, and though I'd never show it, I'd be so happy I could melt.
09:41Her prophecy is correct, although this celebration isn't what she thinks.
09:45Elphaba also foretells that animals will be held captive, another premonition that comes true.
09:51Could that really happen?
09:53It is happening.
09:55You'll find if you make it discouraging enough, you can keep anyone silent.
10:01Being tutored by Madame Morable, Elphaba learns how to control some of the powers she once strove to hide.
10:07After cutting ties with Morable, Elphaba can only rely on her own instincts and the grimmery.
10:13While Elphaba doesn't understand everything she reads from the spellbook, she learns just enough to master flight.
10:19Number three, Elphaba's parentage.
10:33It's uncanny, succeed.
10:38Like a froggy, ferny cabbage, the baby is unnaturally.
10:43Green.
10:47Governor Throp resented Elphaba from the moment she was born with green skin.
10:51When Mrs. Throp became pregnant again, the governor of Munchkinland forced her to drink milk flowers so Nessa wouldn't come out the same way.
10:59This inadvertently caused Nessa to be born prematurely, resulting in the governess's death.
11:04Although it wasn't her fault, the governor blamed Elphaba, intensifying the animosity toward his daughter.
11:10Make sure she has everything she needs.
11:13Father, she's on her own.
11:15Stop chappering!
11:17Just do what I say!
11:18Of course, the governor was never truly Elphaba's father.
11:21We mean that in more ways than one.
11:23Elphaba's mother had an affair with a mystery man who offered her a green elixir.
11:27Have another drink of green elixir.
11:37Elphaba doesn't know the story behind her conception, but she held onto the bottle that her biological father gave to her mother.
11:43Give it back!
11:45Oh!
11:46It was my mother's, that's all.
11:49Well, that's not fair.
11:53Number 2. Going Separate Ways
11:55Nessa and I were talking about you just now and...
11:58Oh, well we were just talking about you.
12:00How you should join us tonight.
12:02I don't follow.
12:04I don't follow.
12:05Despite starting as rivals, Elphaba and Glinda are the best of friends by the time they arrive in the Emerald City.
12:11Upon peeking behind the curtain, they're given a life altering choice.
12:15Don't be afraid.
12:17I'm not afraid.
12:23It's the wizard who should be afraid of me.
12:25Elphaba decides to flee to the west with the Grimmery, rebelling against the wizard in an effort to save the animals of Oz.
12:31Although Elphaba invites Glinda to join her, she can't follow.
12:35I hope you're happy.
12:38Now that you're choosing this.
12:41You too.
12:43I hope it brings you bliss.
12:46The two part as friends, wishing each other the best.
12:49Deep down though, the two know that they are headed in opposite directions.
13:01Both seek to do good, but goodness isn't as easily defined as either thought.
13:05The same can't be said about wickedness, something Elphaba and Glinda will have to confront eventually.
13:11Will they do it separately or together?
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13:41Number 1. Dorothy dropping in.
13:44Part 1 only gave us a glimpse of Dorothy making her way down the yellow brick road with the witch's broomstick.
13:49Part 2 catches up with the story we know, telling the Wizard of Oz from a different perspective.
14:02While Dorothy isn't the protagonist, she is an essential figure along with the Scarecrow and Tin Man, who we've also yet to get a good look at.
14:10Or have we?
14:11The real question is how big a role Dorothy will play in Wicked For Good.
14:27In the stage version, the most we see is Dorothy's shadow.
14:40If Wicked For Good expands upon the source material, maybe those rumors of a certain child actress being in the film are true.
14:47Either way, Dorothy isn't in Kansas anymore.
14:58Are you looking forward to Wicked For Good?
15:00Let us know in the comments.
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