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* [[Body Horror]]: Illanora has her vagina ''sewed shut.'' Dear god.
* [[Breather Episode]]: The third book staunchly refuses to move the plot at all, and presumably pretty much covers all the loose plot holes that aren't important to the ending of the next book.
* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: Played straight. Tibbet has sex with a male Tiger at the Philosopher's Club and is described as having 'never been the same.' {{spoiler|He dies later of an unspecified illness.}}
** The Cowardly Lion is married to {{spoiler|Illanora}} but their marriage is a chaste one (for [[Body Horror|obvious reasons]].)
* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]: Munchinlanders try to invoke this with Dorothy. Glinda sent her to Wizard to prevent a whole mess it would create. Some Oz citizens believe this will happen with their previous ruler - Ozma and Elphaba shows her hatered to this trope a few times.
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* [[Double Standard Rape Female On Male]]: Again, mostly certainly subverted.
* [[Deconstruction Fic]]. Of The Wizard of Oz.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma]]: Gender-flipped with {{spoiler|Liir, who was raped by Candle while comatose.}}
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: In the book Oz seems to be a pretty sexually liberated world, and it's usually safe to assume a character is bisexual until proven otherwise.
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: Elphaba, sort of. Teaching monkeys to speak was probably good for them, but sewing on wings [[For Science!]]? That's rather morally gray.
* [[Fanfic]]: ''Wicked'' appears to be more of a fan fiction of ''The Wizard of Oz'' books and movies as a whole. It says something that the book (and musical) retain quality and fame in spite of this.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Both against Elphaba and the sapient Animals.
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** Elphaba can somehow [[Possession Implies Mastery|read it without trying]], but others find it trickier.
** She does have to look hard to understand, as the words seem to move about the pages. Still does not make sense why {{spoiler|being half-earthling}} would have anything to do with your ability to read a foreign language though.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Elphaba and the Wizard.}} {{spoiler|Liir to Elphaba, but much less of a surprise, since it's a main theme of the second book.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Elphaba's name is a tribute to '''L'''. '''F'''rank '''B'''aum.
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Dorothy has no idea about the problem with water. Elphaba accidentally gets her dress caught on fire, and the last words she hears are Dorothy saying "I'll save you!"
* [[My Life Flashed Before My Eyes]]: As Elphaba dies after being splashed by Dorothy, she sees visions of all the major people from her life.
* [[Patchwork Fic]]: For copyright reasons, ''Wicked'' is supposed to be based on the original Oz books, but both the book and musical draw heavily from the MGM ''Wizard of Oz'' film.
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* [[Too Much Information]]: Dorothy explains to Elphaba that she's been trying to remove Nessarose's slippers for days. Fair enough. But did she ''really'' have to mention how sweaty her socks had gotten from wearing the slippers for so long?
** At one point in time, Fiyero thinks that one of his tattoos has rubbed off on Elphaba ...down there. Which means he has tattoos there as well. Fiyero is attractive, yes, but still: TMI...
* [[Twice
* [[Unable to Cry]]: One of the reasons why she grew up to be such a distant, cold, and antisocial was because of water burning her skin, causing her to be unable to cry without her tears painfully burning her face like acid.
* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: {{spoiler|The Wizard.}}
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: That scene in the philosophy club seems like it's some kind of metaphor... a metaphor for what we'll probably never find out.
* [[Well
* [[Wham Line]]: At the end of ''Son of a Witch'': {{spoiler|"He took her to the doorway and held her up in the warm rain. She cleaned up green."}}
** Notably (and frustratingly), this is ''the very last line in the book.''
** This may or may not count. It had already been confirmed to the readers that Liir was Elphaba's son. By showing us his infant daughter was green, it confirms it to himself
* [[What Is Evil?]]: A major theme in the book. After Elphaba {{spoiler|bashes Madame Morrible's head in}} she attends a dinner party where all the guests sit around discussing the nature of evil, all of them having different opinions on exactly ''what'' evil is.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Who Is This Guy Again?]]: It's pretty easy for a lot of people to forget about Elphaba's brother Shell. He wasn't mentioned much in the first book, and was cut completely from the musical, causing his sudden appearance in the second book quite a "oh yeahhhhh...." moment for some.
* [[Word of Gay]]: Maguire has stated that "something" was going on between Elphaba and Glinda, but he [[Shrug of God|doesn't specify what]].
* [[Yaoi Guys]]: Crope and Tibbet in the first book. In the second book {{spoiler|Liir and Trism.}}
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