The Cowardly Lion is the lion cub Elphaba and Fiyero brought into the woods during Part 1. This is spun into blaming Elphaba for the lion's cowardice - in the song "March of the Witch Hunters" the Tin Man has the lines: And the lion also / Has a grievance to repay / If she'd let him fight his own battles / When he was young / He wouldn't be a coward today! Answer from hikingdyke on reddit.com
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Who is the Cowardly Lion in Wicked? Here's how the musical reveals his true identity - Capital
December 4, 2024 - After fleeing into the forest, Elphaba shows kindness towards the small creature but what happens after she lets him go? Neither the film, musical nor the original Wizard of Oz filled in the blanks on how the Cowardly Lion grew up. Viewers met the lion cub in Wicked Part One.
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Radio Times
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Who are the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion in Wicked: For Good? Full spoilers and roles explained | Radio Times
November 21, 2025 - Elphaba manages to save his life but this transforms him into the Tin Man in the process. Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz and the lion cub in Wicked.
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The Direct
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Wicked Movie: Who Becomes the Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz, Revealed
November 23, 2024 - Unlike the Scarecrow and Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion does not make any further appearances in the musical, at least not outside his tail being tugged by an irate Tin Man. However, considering how likely more expansive Wicked Part 2 will be, there ...
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6 days ago - Sir Brrr, Lord Low Plenipotentiary of Traum, better known as the Cowardly Lion, is a major character in The Wicked Years, being the main protagonist of book three: A Lion Among Men.
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Who Is the Lion in Wicked? Everything You Need to Know
June 18, 2025 - In the first Wicked movie and Act One of the musical, Boq is one of Elphaba’s Shiz classmates who is in love with Galinda but is in a relationship with Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose. Later on in the musical, Nessa becomes desperate for Boq to truly love her and accidentally mispronounces a love spell that shrinks his heart. To save his life, Elphaba turns him into a tin man.
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Quora
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In the musical Wicked, Fiyero becomes the scarecrow, and Boq becomes the tin man. Who becomes the lion? - Quora
Answer (1 of 2): Elphaba frees a lion cub from Shiz during the first act. Boq tells the chorus he becomes the cowardly because he never learned to fight for himself, since Elphaba fought the lion’s fights for him. Once again, Elphaba’s good intentions and deeds are lost on the citizenry.
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Who are Tin Man, Scarecrow and Lion in Wicked? Original identities revealed - Heart
June 4, 2025 - The Tin Man, before being made into tin by Elphaba, is Boq Woodsman. Picture: Alamy · In Wicked (the musical), the Tin Man is Boq Woodsman, Elphaba and Glinda's fellow student at Shiz University.
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The Cowardly Lion's Origin In Wicked Before Wizard Of Oz Explained
November 2, 2024 - Following being freed from captivity by Elphaba, not much is known about the lion's experiences in the intervening time in the movie/musical version of Wicked. However, he grows up to be the famously timid character everyone knows. At some point, the lion meets Dorothy, as well as Boq (Ethan Slater), Elphaba's former classmate who becomes the Tin Man.
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NBC
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How the Cowardly Lion Connects to Wicked: For Good
Actor Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) voices the CG Cowardly Lion character in Wicked: For Good. The highly-anticipated sequel to 2024's Wicked, aptly titled Wicked: For Good, is now in theaters and closes out the story of Glinda, the Good Witch ...
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How One Wicked Character Becomes The Cowardly Lion In The Wizard Of Oz - SlashFilm
January 29, 2025 - To try and keep Boq by her side, Nessarose oppresses the Munchkins, and when Boq tries to leave, the future Wicked Witch of the East casts a spell that goes horribly wrong and almost destroys his heart; Elphaba saves his life by turning him into a man made of tin who doesn't need a heart. The brainless Scarecrow, meanwhile, is Fiyero, and he's also transformed by a spell that Elphaba casts to try and save him from harm. In fact, the Cowardly Lion only shows up in the Act 2 number "March of the Witch Hunters" in the Broadway musical ...
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Answers
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Who becomes the lion in Wicked? - Answers
The scared little lion from the beginning of the play becomes the lion without courage because in the play Elphaba scares him with her powers and then he has no courage and he is a coward.
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Who Is The Cowardly Lion in 'Wicked: For Good?' Meet the Academy Award Nominee Behind That Voice
November 22, 2025 - It’s an important scene in the film, one that establishes a meaningful connection between Elphaba and Fiyero that will become more important down the road. In “Wicked: For Good” (and the second act of “Wicked”), it is revealed that ...
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Wicked Movie: Who Becomes the Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz, Revealed - IMDb
Wicked Movie: Who Becomes the Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz, Revealed · Audiences unfamiliar with the original book and musical may have missed that the Lion, Tin Man & Scarecrow appeared unnamed in Jon M. Chu's Wicked.
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Who Does Elphaba Make The Lion in Wicked | TikTok
August 18, 2025 - Elphaba Thropp (/ / ⓘ) is the protagonist of Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the novel's musical theatre adaptation, and the musical's two-part film adaptation, Wicked (2024) and Wicked: ...
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Wicked (musical) - Wikipedia
12 hours ago - The tour provides a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into putting on the show every day. Participants get a first-hand account of what it is like to be a part of the massive production that Wicked is. To create Elphaba's green skin, 40 pots of the commercially available MAC Chromacake landscape green make-up are used per year. It is water-based for easy removal. To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the musical's premiere on Broadway, NBC aired a concert special, A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway, on October 29, 2018.
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September 29, 2025 - The Wicked Wiz Of Oz: The Rusical 💚🎶🩷 - Lexi Love #lexilove #wicked #dragrace #rupaulsdragrace #season17 #rusical #dorothy The Wicked Wiz Of Oz: Lexi Love's Rusical Performance.