Who is Elphaba’s real father in Villains?

This article contains discussion of sexual assault.

If you don’t know the full plot of the original Broadway musical “Wicked,” don’t continue down the proverbial yellow brick road! Major spoilers ahead!

In “Wicked: Part One” — the first half of Jon M. Chu’s epic adaptation of the musical “Wicked,” which premiered on Broadway in 2003 — we meet Elphaba Thropp, a green-skinned little girl who comes to an unexpected end. Even studying magic and sorcery at the prestigious Shiz University. So why is her skin green and why is she… only The character we see in the story with this particular appearance? Is it about her father’s real identity? Thank you for your question! It definitely is!

When we first meet Elphaba’s parents, Melina and Governor Frexpar Throop – played by Courtney May Briggs and Andy Nyman, respectively – in the blockbuster, they seem happy enough and expecting their first child… only to react with utter horror when they meet her. It comes out of the womb completely green. As a result, Governor Throop is not particularly kind to his eldest daughter, preferring the company of his youngest child Nessarose (newcomer Marissa Budd), who was born with chronic weakness in the legs after the Governor pressured his wife to drink potions made from milk flowers. To prevent another child from getting it, as Elphaba says in one of her songs, “Zinjar.” (Melina also dies tragically after Nessarose’s premature and difficult birth.)

The story of Elphaba turning green in Stephen Schwartz’s musical and Gregory Maguire’s book — “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” which serves as the source material for the musical — varies, but here’s the gist, and here’s how we can expect to see this story end. “Bad Guys: For Good,” the second half of Cho’s film.

Let’s get this out of the way: Yes, The Wizard of Oz, played in Jeff Goldblum’s “Wicked: Part One.”, He is Elphaba’s father. Basically, the gist is that he and Mileena have an affair that leads to Elphaba, and her green skin is very likely due to a green potion that the wizard himself fed to Mileena. This also explains why Elphaba’s “father”, Governor Throop, who keeps and raises the child, resents and even hates the girl who is supposedly his eldest daughter; Although the character never confirms it, it is possible that Governor Throop knows that Elphaba is a representation of his wife’s infidelity.

Being environmentally friendly is not easy – as Kermit the Frog tries to tell us Years – And the added conflict of Elphaba’s real father certainly makes things more complicated for her. As a child (played by Carys Musongole), Elphaba was bullied for being different and usually cast spells by accident when she was made fun of because of her skin color. By the time she reaches Shiz, Elphaba is emotionally closed off and intense as she does her best to protect Nessarose (who keeps telling Elphaba that she is fine on her own). Elphaba ends up becoming close friends with her roommate Galinda Upland (Ariana Grande-Butera) despite their differences and settles into Shiz well before the wizard summons her to the Emerald City, the capital of Oz. That’s when things go wrong for the future Wicked Witch of the West.

I should point out here that the story of Elphaba’s conception, in Gregory Maguire’s book, is quite different, and much more disturbing. Overall, Maguire’s book is a lot Darker than the musical, but the story of Mileena’s encounter with the wizard is particularly brutal, so here’s the story.

When we first meet Elphaba in Maguire’s novel, she is a green-skinned child also He has sharp teeth, a tendency towards violence and cruelty, and a fear of water. (The fear is due to the sensitivity that will obviously occur It will take effect at a later date.) Things unfold similarly to the musical: Elphaba goes to Shiz, meets Glinda, impresses the school’s dean of sorcery, Madam Morrible (played by Michelle Yeoh in the film adaptation), and then realizes the wizard is a big old scam. However, the revelation that the wizard is an imposter and Elphaba’s real father is much worse.

And at the very end of the book, The heroine of the movie “The Wizard of Oz” Dorothy Gale She accidentally kills Elphaba by throwing a bucket of water at the witch to put out a fire on her skirt (unaware of the life-threatening allergy). She then brought one of Elphaba’s possessions to the wizard, who realized it was the green potion he once used. Drugs and sexual assault on Melina. The fact that Elphaba is the product of a vicious attack lends a special darkness to her character, but it certainly makes sense for the music to cut through that particular aspect.

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Yes, Jeff Goldblum He is In the opening issue of “The Wicked: Part One”, a group number titled “No One Mourns for the Wicked” is largely led by Glinda the Good Witch, as she carefully explains Why Elphaba, the “dead” Wicked Witch of the West, was very “evil”. After the citizens of Oz celebrate Elphaba’s apparent death (I say “ostensibly” here because in the “evil” musical, Elphaba fakes her death using a trapdoor and flees Oz with her lover Fierro Tigelaar), Glinda explains that the Throop family has “secrets.” At this point we see flashbacks of Milena and the magician continuing their relationship.

Not just the voice emanating from Milena’s very mysterious lover clearly Goldblum’s very distinctive voice, the song’s track listing includes Goldblum as one of the vocalists alongside Ariana Grande Butera, Courtney Mae Briggs, Andy Nyman, Sharon D. Clarke, and Jenna Boyd. (The latter two actors voice Dulcebear, the Throop family’s nanny, and the lupine doctor who helps deliver Elphaba.) If that’s not a spoiler, I don’t know what is, especially since it’s so easy to associate a smooth-talking man feeding a green potion to his beloved Melina with a skin tone Green Elphaba.

In case you didn’t put the pieces together thanks to Jeff Goldblum’s all-too-obvious cameo in Nobody Mourns for the Wicked, Goldblum’s wizard truly He drives this point home during his only solo song on “Wicked: Part One,” titled “A Sentimental Man.” Near the end of the movie – Before the wizard’s evil intentions become clear and Elphaba flies away from the Emerald City under great pressure – Goldblum gives an irreverent rendition of the Wizard’s Song from the musical as he parades his miniature version of Oz to a captive Elphaba and Glinda. So let’s look at those words for a moment, shall we?

After Elphaba uses the wish the Wizard promised her to free the imprisoned and subjugated talking animals of Oz, the Wizard tells her he agrees before getting straight to the point: “I am a sentimental man / Always longing to be a father / And that is why I do my best / To treat every citizen of Oz As a son or Girl(Goldblum confirms this.) truly Click on the word “daughter” as well.)

Immediately afterwards, the Wizard specifically names Elphaba and says he would like to “raise her high” because “everyone deserves a chance to fly” – a line that returns in Elphaba’s closing exposition of the first act, “Defying Gravity. Let’s Not Forget.” The Wizard concludes his song by crooning, “And helping you up allows me to feel it/Paternal.” Elphaba’s father.

Well, what can we expect from the wizard – and his depraved sidekick Madame Moribel – in Wicked: For Good when it releases in November 2025? Well, as “Wicked: Part One” closes, the Wizard and Madam Morrible launch what can only be described as a smear campaign against Elphaba, telling all of Oz that she’s completely evil and must be arrested in order to save the world. As the public knows, this is a lie. Mrs. Morrible and the wizard simply want to use Elphaba’s powerful magic to bend the world of Oz to their will. The wizard can’t even He reads The magical book known as Grimmerie (can’t do magic at all), and Madam Morrible, despite being able to control the weather, is still not quite as powerful as Elphaba (despite the Green Witch’s lack of formal training).

At the end of Gregory Maguire’s book “The Wicked,” the Wizard abandons his trick and leaves Oz permanently, likely returning to Omaha, Nebraska (the Wizard’s primary home according to L. Frank Baum’s original books). As for the musical, Glinda, believing Elphaba to be dead and seeking justice for her fallen friend, shows up in the Emerald City, confronts the wizard with the green elixir he once fed to Mileena, and arrests both the trickster wizard and Lady Morrible for murder. Their many crimes – all while Elphaba is safe and sound with her one true love, Fiyero. Presumably, since Jon M. Chu’s first “Wicked” film followed the musical quite faithfully, we can expect to see Jeff Goldblum’s wizard locked up for good after all is said and done.

“Wicked: Part One” is available for rent or purchase on demand now. “Wicked: For Good” is scheduled to be released on November 21, 2025.