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Glinda is the real villian in the Wizard of Oz!

Re: Glinda is the real villian in the Wizard of Oz!

  • raynesraynes member
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    Psh, anyone that's seen Wicked knows that already..... :P

    (sadly, I can't read Cracked at work, so I have no idea what the article says)

    Edited for homophone error.
    Edited again for using the wrong term above.  Fail.
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    We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
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  • My niece and i are watching the Wizard of Oz today!

  • That's awesome!
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  • Haha love it!

    "Wicked" helped us all start to understand...Cracked puts it out there in plain terms. :)
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  • 5 Reasons The Greatest Movie Villain Ever is a 'Good' Witch

    By: David Dietle November 28, 2010 1,169,175 views

    When you think of The Wizard of Oz's cast of villains, you most likely think of the flying monkeys and the Wicked Witch of the West, and maybe the pissy apple trees and the green dudes guarding the WWotW's castle.


    Also known as 'Winkies.' True story.

    If you've seen or read 'Wicked,' you might have a more sympathetic view of the Wicked Witch of the West. But 'Wicked' doesn't go far enough, since it ignores the fact that the movie features one of the most brilliantly conniving movie villains ever.


    It's her, right there.

    Glinda, not the Wicked Witch of the West, is the cause for everything that goes wrong for Dorothy and her new friends in the land of Oz, and she starts instigating the film's central conflict the second Dorothy shows up.

    #5.
    The Murder

    You remember the story, right? A tornado whisks Dorothy and her house from sepia Kansas to technicolor Oz, where it promptly lands on a witch and kills her. So, as soon as Dorothy walks out of her house, she walks out guilty of manslaughter. Or witchslaughter.

    And that's when Glinda the Good Witch floats down and merrily interrogates Dorothy to find out if she is a good witch or a bad witch. Dorothy did manage to drop a house on someone without so much as a scratch, so any reasonable person would suspect witchcraft was afoot. Dorothy, in possession of the sensitivity of a three year old child, responds that she can't be a witch because witches are 'old and ugly.' Glinda, in possession of the logic of an Alzheimer's patient points out that only evil witches are ugly.


    "And remember only bad people are disabled, Dorothy"

    You caught that, right? Beautiful = good? OK next, Glinda calls out the munchkins to celebrate the death of the Wicked Witch of the East. And not with just a little round of applause and quick moment of silence either, but a full on song and dance routine, parade and mayoral declaration of a holiday. Even the coroner gets in on the party.


    "It's like Saddam's execution all over again."

    The festivities end when the corpse's sister, the Wicked Witch of the West, shows up, understandably pissed that her sister was killed by a falling building. Here's where Glinda goes from sinister to psycho.

    #4.
    The Set-Up

    Right off the bat, the Western Witch wants to know who killed her sister. Fair enough. Glinda smiles blandly while the witch accuses Dorothy, no doubt enjoying the double whammy of a grieving witch's rage and Dorothy's terror.

    While the Wicked Witch is busy threatening Dorothy, Glinda interjects, not to defend a shell-shocked farm girl, but to remind WWotW of the ruby slippers on her sister's feet. Now this is important: as far as we can tell, the Wicked Witch of the West is the Wicked Witch of the East's one and only family member, meaning that the slippers rightfully belong to her as the next of kin. So, why didn't Glinda just let the lady have her shoes? Let her grab her one inheritance and go off to mourn in peace? Sure, the Wicked Witch lives, but the real world still has Carrot Top. Sometimes life isn't fair.

    #3.
    The Taunt

    Instead, Glinda reveals that she's only reminded the Wicked Witch about the slippers so she can involve Dorothy in a game of monkey in the middle -- teleporting the bereaved Witch's rightful heirloom off her dead sister's feet and onto Dorothy's.

    Imagine the audacity it takes to steal anything off a dead person, especially while the body is still warm. And Glinda doesn't just steal her shoes, she somehow magics the WWotE's feet so that they curl into those curly party horns you blew at birthday parties when you were a kid. Nevermind that those feet were the only means the munchkins had of dragging a witch corpse out from under the house so they wouldn't have to smell her decomposing body for forever. Glinda just doesn't give a fuuck.

    So, Glinda steals the shoes, THEN, she straight sells Dorothy out by telling the Witch that the shoes are now superglued to the girl. Dorothy just stands there like a chump while Glinda whispers that the slippers must be super magic or the Wicked Witch wouldn't want them.

    What?! This is like Gandalf stealing the One Ring from Sauron's brother, giving it to Frodo, and then saying "You should hold on to that shiit. He totally wouldn't want it if it wasn't powerful."

    And to top off everything else she's done, Glinda then mocks the Wicked Witch, laughing at the fact that she apparently has no power in Munchkinland, before telling her to get lost. By this point, the Witch is good and pissed, and Glinda has ensured that she's completely focused all of her well deserved rage on Dorothy. As the scene ends, the rivalry between the Wicked Witch and Dorothy has been set, even though they should both be pissed at Glinda's perky ass.

    It's like Tony Soprano's mother decided to use her powers of passive-aggressive manipulation to take over the Care Bears cloud city: Nobody is even half evil enough to understand what she's doing to them. Which is why Dorothy has no ideas that she's about to be turned into a low rent hit man ...


  • AdeleDazeemAdeleDazeem member
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    edited May 2011
    I always wondered why Dorothy got the shoes.  There was no real reason to it.  Unless, of course, Glinda was trying to piss off the Wicked Witch.

    PS - I was probably around 13 before I realized that Professor Marvel was the Wizard of Oz... and everyone else in the Emerald City.
  • I LOVE  "The Wizard of Oz" and "Wicked"
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    AHAHAHAHA
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  • I've read this Cracked article before. Hilarious.
  • raynesraynes member
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    Oh Anna, thank you, that was awesome.
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    We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
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  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_glinda-real-villian-wizard-of?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:b89164a2-c5ea-477e-aa72-7b68cd2d121bPost:3cf489a8-e018-4556-bb0c-6fec17ed22d4">Re: Glinda is the real villian in the Wizard of Oz!</a>:
    [QUOTE]Oh Anna, thank you, that was awesome.
    Posted by raynes[/QUOTE]

    No problemo
  • That's absolutely hilarious.
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    If I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, I'd put shoes on the cat. image

  • I'm freaking dying (tears down my face) at "Glinda just doesn't give a fuuck."  I wish I could give this article to the kids when we watch WoO in class.
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