Who is the best Wicked Witch of the West

[Netherrealmer]

The OZ Franchise is one of the most popular public domain stories. So the Wicked Witch who is the Villain for poor farmgirl Dorothy who just wanna go home to Kansas, had multiple versions. Idina Menzel is not here because she is Stage Play only wicked witch. This is only for the movie versions. Even if you never watched these movies, You can judge them from the clips of their performance.




Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton)


This actress is the most popular Wicked Witch as People still watches the 1939 movie until now. In the OZ Books the Wicked Witch is not Green but she became the standard. Her version is so Iconic that most Wicked Witch after her has been Green.

Evil-Line (Mabel King)

She is from the 1970s movie Wiz, Which is the African American version of Oz where Dorothy is Diana Ross and Michael Jackson is the Scarecrow. Evil-Lyn is full evil as she enslaves everyone on Oz that the moment she died even her minions celebrates. She enslaves people because she is allergic to water and she can only drink Human sweat.

West- Miss Piggy-

Yes Miss Piggy became a Wicked Witch in Muppets Oz, Weird as it may sound she is the most Accurate Wicked Witch to the books because she is not Green and she only have one eye. Yes in the Book she only have 1 eye. This Wicked Witch was a former popstar. The only Wicked Witch banned in middle eastern countries because she is a pig and dresses sexy.


Theodora -(Mila Kunis)=

In the Disney Prequel of the Great in Powerful they made their own version of the Wicked Witch.This version of the wicked witch was originally kind and good but when she find out the Wizard who she fell in love with, Cheated on her with her Sister Glinda, She ate the Poisonous apple and become evil and green skin.She is Pyrokinetic and has ability to Emit flames. Yes this Wicked Witch becomes evil because she is in love with the Wizard but he cheated on her.

Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo)


In this Oz Prequel.. Wicked , This version is another origin story of the Wicked Witch. In this version she was not really evil and she was bestfriends with Glinda. She will rebel against the Wizard after finding out something. She use to idolize the Wizard and wants to meet the Wizard to cure her of having green skin but she will change mind and wants to ask the Wizard to stop something else instead. She will rebel when she finds out the secret of the Wizard

[cmoneyspinner]

The best Wicked Witch? It will always be the one I grew up with when Judy Garland played Dorothy.

In real life, this woman was not a beauty. But she was friends with the man who was investing in the "Wizard of Oz". He approached her about the production and asked if she would play a part. She said "Of course! Who am I going to be?" He replied: "The Wicked Witch. Who else?"

LOL. She already had the perfect face and the voice. All they had to do was paint her face and hands green.

[eldavis]

It's funny how villains now have origin stories where they are not really evil but just misunderstood.

[Netherrealmer]

1939
Little girls: I want to be like Dorothy!

2024:
Little Girls: I want to become the Wicked Witch



This is what she looks like in the Books:

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They made her green in the 1st movie to brag about the Technicolor technology, since The Wizard of Oz was one of the 1st colored movies ever.

[cmoneyspinner]

They made her green in the 1st movie to brag about the Technicolor technology, since The Wizard of Oz was one of the 1st colored movies ever.

That's true but my parents could not afford to buy a TV. Somebody gave us one and it was a black and white. Believe it or not, it was almost 20 years before I ever saw the Wizard of Oz in color.

[Netherrealmer]

How do you feel about that Opinion that OZ needs a remake because we now live in an Era where The Wicked Witch have more fans than Dorothy?

There are 14 canon Oz books and only 4 are adapted because the books are deemed to scary

[cmoneyspinner]

How do you feel about that Opinion that OZ needs a remake because we now live in an Era where The Wicked Witch have more fans than Dorothy?

There are 14 canon Oz books and only 4 are adapted because the books are deemed to scary

People tickle era? Uuuhh ... Hello! Johnny Cash already proved that good guys wear black.
Also, isn't it true that the original fairy tales were kind of gruesome? But over the years they were rewritten for a child audience. Everything comes full circle.

[Netherrealmer]

I wont consider Wizard of Oz fairytale since Its not an ancient European Old wives' tale. Its an American literature that created the Japanese Genre "Isekai" (it means transported to another world)

Most Oz Adaptations are just adaption of the 1st book and fanmade stories based on the 1st book. Dorothy had faced enemies scarier than The Wicked Witch. in the other 14 books

There is the head switching princess, She kills beautiful women and attaches their heads to her neck. she have magical ability to switch heads and she collects heads.


Wicked makes the Wicked Witch look like the Good person and Glinda the villain.

[cmoneyspinner]

You always find cool stuff to share.
Yeah, I know the Wizard of Oz is not a fairy tale but I lumped it in with my analogy anyway.

[Netherrealmer]

I saw a lot of antiwokes complaining about the casting of Cynthia as Elphaba because she is black. The Wicked Witch is green, So her enticity will not matter as the actress will be painted.

These antiwokes will mouth foam if "The Wonderful Land of Oz" gets adapted into a movie. Its 1st Oz book without Dorothy. Its about an orphan boy named Tip who is given a Mission to find the missing Princess of Oz. What is the Twist.... When he was a baby He was kidnapped by the Witch, cursed to become a boy so his parents wont be able to find him. The Twist is Tip is the missing Princess. Glinda removes the curse and Tip becomes Princess Ozma. Princess Ozma accepted her new gender with open arms.

Tip was previously played by Shirley Temple on a tv movie. Though there are some tv movies where tip is played by a Boy and they just put him in Drag when he becomes Ozma.

[cmoneyspinner]

Wokes? Antiwokes? these people with these labels are driving me nuts!

I don't waste my time. If I agree, I agree, If I disagree, I disagree.
It's just one human talking to another.

Besides... why follow the crowd when you think for yourself?

[Netherrealmer]

They want the movie to flop because they want Hollywood to have nothing but straight white males again

[cmoneyspinner]

They want the movie to flop because they want Hollywood to have nothing but straight white males again

Yes. Manipulating the masses and playing mind games. One of mankind's favorite hobbies.

[Netherrealmer]

Wicked is currently 350 Million in box office. It is going to make billions by the end of the year.

[cmoneyspinner]

Wicked is currently 350 Million in box office. It is going to make billions by the end of the year.

I feel confident it will be successful. I've only seen previews and I'm impressed.

[Netherrealmer]

Its now 611 Million. Speaking OZ, Russia decided to adapt this American story and make a book accurate Oz movie with some changes. Dorothy is now Russian and its set in modern day,She is not Orphan so she have mom and dad instead of Aunt and Uncle because Russia have a law that most protagonist now must have a nuclear family, So Wicked Witch of the east is killed by a Truck instead of a House because Russian Dorothy hides her dad's Truck during Tornado.

They made Scarecrow cute.

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The wicked witch is book Accurate, she only have 1 eye and she rides umbrella instead of broom. She is not green.

Toto can talk.

There is an important character in the book the Judy Garland version deleted and its a Mouse Queen, The Mouse queen makes it in the Russian version because there is CGI now.