Wicked (novel): Difference between revisions

** 3 Books later in ''Out of Oz'' Glinda and Rain use the Grimmerie to freeze a group of dragons that are being used to attack Munchkinland.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Fiyero was married this way before entering Shiz. Not that this mattered too much.

* [[Bi the Way]]: Liir, Elphaba's father, and Turtleheart are the most obvious, but you can say that pretty much everyone is open for interpretation.

* [[Body Horror]]: Illanora has her vagina ''sewed shut.'' Dear god.

* [[Crapsack World]]: This book basically takes every political interpretation of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and makes them canon, with a spin and adds [[It Got Worse|one hundred pounds of misery on everyone that means anything]].

* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]}}

* [[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.}}

* [[The Scrappy]]: In-universe, nobody besides Dorothy can stand Toto. Not even the narrator.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|The book ending. Every single sympathetic character is dead or no longer sympathetic, and the Wizard leaves for reasons mostly unrelated to their struggle. Elphaba fails at every single major initiative she attempts during her lifetime.}}

{{quote| '''Yackle''': [[I Was Quite a Looker|I was quite a looker in my time]].<br />

'''Brrr''': [[Deadpan Snarker|Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?]]<br />

* [[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-Intentioned Extremist]]: Elphaba

** 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