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6 days ago - It is left to the reader of the novel to decide if the Scarecrow is indeed Fiyero or not (Coincidentally, in the musical based on the novel, the Scarecrow is indeed Fiyero who was transformed into the Scarecrow by Elphaba to save his life).
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r/wicked on Reddit: Something I want to know about the Scarecrow and Elphaba during Wicked and The Wizard of Oz
December 1, 2024 -
So in Wicked, we know that Elphaba puts a spell on Fyiero so he wouldn't get hurt, making Fyiero turn into the Scarecrow.
While in The Wizard of Oz, Elphaba is literally seen by trying to harm Scarecrow.
And at the end of Wicked, Scarecrow/Fyiero finds Elphaba and they leave Oz together.
This lead me to to 2 things:
Elphaba knows that Scarecrow is Fyiero, and trys to harm him just to see if her spell actually worked. And Scarecrow is scared of Elphaba/ doesn't who Elphaba is, due to not having any brains. So when Scarecrow has his brains back, he remembers Elphaba, and they run away together.
Elphaba knows that Scarecrow is Fyiero this time, but Scarecrow knows who's Elphaba all this time, and tricks everyone into believing that they don't know each other (but they do, and run away together)
So that's my thoughts on Scarecrow and Elphaba during TWoO. But I think number 1 makes more sense.
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Alternatively: What we know of as “The Wizard of Oz” (movie) is basically a propaganda piece based on the story(s) told by the Wizard/Morrible (and not “corrected” by Glinda, at Elphaba’s request). So while the overall story is “accurate”, we can’t necessarily trust the specific details.
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Elphaba doesn't know that Fiyero is alive until the flying monkeys bring her his note in act 2.
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Wait, Who is the Scarecrow in 'Wicked: For Good'
November 24, 2025 - Wicked: For Good has been leaving fans obsessulated as they find out what happened to Elphaba and Glinda in the second act of the film adaption of the iconic musical. And this time they're not alone as some more of the iconic characters of the Wizard of Oz finally make an appearance, including Dorothy and her crew as they make their way to meet the Wizard himself. This also means we finally get to meet the Scarecrow, who surprisingly plays a bigger part in the musical than some fans might have initially expected.
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November 21, 2025 - The character who becomes the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz is also present in Wicked: Part One – it’s Elphaba's love interest, Fiyero Tigelaar (Jonathan Bailey). In Wicked: Part Two, Fiyero cottons on to the fact that Elphaba has been ...
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December 4, 2024 - WARNING: WICKED MUSICAL SPOILERS BELOW. Picture: Universal Pictures · In the Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow is simply introduced as a scarecrow who laments the fact that he doesn't have his own brain.
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6 days ago - Fiyero Tigelaar is a Winkie prince and Elphaba's love interest in the Broadway musical, Wicked. He is also the man who would become the Scarecrow. Fiyero arrives at Shiz in the middle of the year, he had been kicked out of his previous schools.
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January 19, 2025 - The Scarecrow, though, manages to stay awake for some reason, somehow immune to the spell cast by the Wicked Witch of the West — or, as he knows her, Elphaba. In the stage musical, Elphaba manages to temporarily blind the entire class aside from Fiyero — so they both rescue the cub in that version as well, but Jon M. Chu's choice to change the scene and involve poppies could be a very clear clue as far as Fiyero is concerned.
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11 hours ago - Meanwhile, Fiyero (now a Scarecrow as the result of Elphaba's spell) arrives at Kiamo Ko, where Elphaba emerges from a trap door, having faked her death. Elphaba and Fiyero depart Oz together, as Glinda informs everyone that the Wicked Witch ...
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August 13, 2024 - ’In the musical, the Scarecrow is revealed to be the remnants of Fiyero after he was captured by the Wizard’s officials but made impervious to injury by Elphaba’s incomplete spell.’
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September 24, 2025 - The greenified witch eventually conducts a spell to protect him from guards serving the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) that seek his capture so that they can still be together. However, Elphaba botches the spell and Fiyero is turned into a scarecrow.
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November 3, 2024 - Elphaba technically accomplishes all this, with the side effect of Fiyero becoming the Scarecrow. It's established that magic is unreliable in Wicked, and Elphaba has had similar trouble with spells before. For instance, before stealing the Grimmerie from the Wizard and performing "Defying Gravity," she tries to levitate his monkey servant and mistakenly gives him physical wings.
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November 29, 2024 - Elphaba’s transformation of Fiyero into the Scarecrow in Wicked is one of the musical’s most poignant moments, giving viewers a look at her complex relationship with magic and the unintended consequences of her actions.
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January 8, 2025 - In visual media, you often have foreshadowing worked into either dialogue (or song lyrics, in the case of a musical) or into the various visuals present in the movie or TV show. Fiyero has both types of foreshadowing surrounding him once he appears in Wicked Part 1. Here are some examples of foreshadowing about Fiyero that are in the movie’s dialogue and lyrics: Elphaba telling Fiyero to “get stuffed.” While that can be a genuine insult, it also refers to the Scarecrow being stuffed with straw.
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June 26, 2025 - Fiyero Tigelaar is the Scarecrow in Wicked the Musical and the Wicked movie. In both the original Broadway musical version of Wicked and its movie adaptations, Wicked Part 1 and Part 2, the Scarecrow's true identity is Fiyero Tigelaar.
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December 1, 2024 - One of the most meaningful moments of Wicked is when Fiyero turns into the Scarecrow. It is when the complexity of Elphaba's magic and her feelings are shown. In the second half of the musical, Elphaba casts a spell to protect Fiyero from the Wizard's guards who have captured and tortured him.
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November 23, 2025 - Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey), who is in a love triangle with Elphaba and Glinda, becomes the Scarecrow, while Boq (Ethan Slater), a Munchkin, transforms into the Tin Man. All the transformations were done practically.
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June 4, 2025 - Listen to Heart Musicals on Global Player, the official Heart app · That's right, if you've already seen Wicked Part One then you've already met the Tin Man, the Lion and the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz, and in the highly anticipated Wicked: For Good, you will get to find out how they became the three companions of Dorothy.
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r/wicked on Reddit: (Book) Why did Elphie think Fiyero was The Scarecrow?
January 20, 2025 -
So Fiyero in the musical does in fact end up being The Scarecrow. But what led to Elphie thinking he was The Scarecrow in the book? Maybe I'm missing something, but the line of reasoning seemed to come out of nowhere. I've yet to read the sequels.
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The sheer ridiculousness of it shows where Elphaba is at by that point in the novel. Really sad.
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It's a combination of things, really. It's not so much one thing as it is the culmination of everything she's suffered in the years since his death. As mentioned below, Elphaba experimented with the Wizard's elixir to dream about the other world like Nanny said her mother did. After experiencing nightmares from it, though, she slowly stopped sleeping entirely to avoid them. She's always been a conspiracy theorist, but in the years following Dr. Dillamond's and Ama Clutch's deaths, she slowly went off the deep end and began developing paranoia. After seeing the scarecrow talismans after she came to visit Munchkinland again, she began to develop a suspicion around scarecrows in general. Elphie's later years were later spent trying and failing to atone for her affair with Fiyero (first with the Maunts, and later on with Sarima in Kiamo Ko) as her involvement with him is what led to his death. Despite becoming friends with his widow and making Kiamo Ko her home, because Sarima essentially forbade her from confessing what she had done, Elphie spent those years being tormented by guilt and a lack of closure. This, of course, never got resolved for her because Sarima, her sisters, and two of her children ended up dead and his only daughter was taken as a hostage by the Wizard and enslaved. After being haunted by her guilt for well over a decade at this point, she sprung at the chance to make up a sleep-deprivation fantasy about him being alive and well - because she wouldn't need to gain forgiveness if she didn't cause his death in the first place. Liir mentioned right before Dorothy's arrival that his heart's desire was to have a father, which Elphie believes was Fiyero because at this point she is more or less convinced that she was his biological mother. For all her abrasiveness in her later years, Elphie does love Liir, knows how much he longs for a paternal figure, and envisioned Fiyero as the Scarecrow in part because she badly wanted to give him the father he never had. At this point in her life, Elphaba's just... lonely, man. She's lost almost everyone she's ever loved, through either death or perceived betrayal. Dr. Dillamond's Nessa's dead, Sarima's dead, her father's never going to love her like he loved Nessa and the shoes that represented his love have been taken by some random child, Glinda gave said child the shoes even though she knew Elphaba was hurt by them decades ago, and Boq was afraid of her after Madame Morrible. She still had Nanny and Liir, yes, but they didn't understand her like those others did. They see her at her worst, her most crotchety, while knowing nothing of what she's been through. And yes, while she does have her familiars, they can't talk with her, no matter how much she tried to teach them. At the height of her mania, she simply wanted to not be alone anymore. In short, sad reasons. Many, many sad reasons.