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June 4, 2025 - The backstory of how Fiyero became the Scarecrow differs from book to musical, so here's it put simply; in the musical, as Elphaba sings No Good Deed, she casts a spell to save his life, which in turn causes his to transform into the Scarecrow. Believed to be the same in the Wicked Movie (Part Two), Fiyero returns as the Scarecrow when he helps Elphaba escape after she fakes her own death.

October 20, 2025 - It is implied that the Cowardly Lion’s experience of being locked up in a cage contributed to his fearful nature. ... In the Wicked: For Good trailer, the Cowardly Lion can be seen as a fully grown lion terrified in the forest.

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 ...

2 weeks 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.

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. Bettmann / Getty Images/ Universal Pictures.

June 4, 2025 - The backstory of how Fiyero became the Scarecrow differs from book to musical, so here's it put simply; in the musical, as Elphaba sings No Good Deed, she casts a spell to save his life, which in turn causes his to transform into the Scarecrow. Believed to be the same in the Wicked Movie (Part Two), Fiyero returns as the Scarecrow when he helps Elphaba escape after she fakes her own death.

November 2, 2024 - Throughout the encounter, Elphaba is only gentle and sympathetic towards the cub, showing deep compassion. Elphaba and Fiyero go out into the woods somewhere near Shiz and set the lion cub free.

December 4, 2024 - Elphaba’s character is shown to have a strong streak of social justice and she despairs at what’s happening to the animals in Oz as they start getting treated like secondary citizens and are slowly losing their ability to speak. 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.

2 weeks ago - If you watched Wicked: For Good, you already know the Cowardly Lion is an op. He really blamed Elphaba for him being cowardly while ignoring the fact that she and Fiyero literally freed him and saved him from a far worse fate. @Wicked: For Good #WickedForGood #WickedMovie #Fiyero #WizardOfOz #CynthiaErivo

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October 20, 2024 - A subplot of Wicked is Elphaba’s ... a humanoid goat. Dillamond is eventually taken away from his job and is replaced by a cruel teacher who brings a caged lion cub to class....

November 23, 2024 - Something that has already been foreshadowed in Wicked through his lack of respect for academia and dropping out of so many schools before attending Shiz Univeristy. Unfortunately, after Elphaba was branded the enemy of Oz, Fiyero would later help intervene in her capture, resulting in him being tortured in a cornfield. In a desperate attempt to save him, she used a spell from the Grimmerie, mistakenly turning him into a scarecrow.

During Wicked, the audience finds out background information and get answers to some of the questions they may have wondered whilst watching or reading The Wizard of Oz. This includes finding out how the scarecrow loses his brain, how the tin man ...

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.

1 week ago - The Cowardly Lion appears in Wicked: For Good (2025), motion-captured by Omari Bernard and voiced by Colman Domingo. Now an adult, he appears when Elphaba attempts to convince the other animals to stand up to the Wizard rather than run away.