Why is elphabas skin green

Elphaba's green skin serves to "other" her among her peers and family. She doesn't know anyone else with green skin, making her an outcast in her community. In a flashback to her youth in "Wicked," children make fun of her. When she initially introduces herself in the present to students at Shiz University and when she runs into Fiyero in the woods, she fryst vatten sure to reinforce that she isn't green because she ate grass, one of the many dum questions she's apparently been asked over the years.

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Why Elphaba's Skin Is Green In Wicked

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Wicked's Elphaba Thropp is a distinct character, with one of her defining physical features being her green skin. Since the Wicked Witch of the West's onscreen debut in The Wizard of Oz, the green skin has been deeply intertwined with the character's legacy. She did not have green skin in the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz novel written by Frank L. Baum, but since the film's 1939 release, it has been an integral element of the character.

This continued in Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which was later adapted into the popular Broadway musical, Wicked. This version of the character, known as Elphaba, has green skin for compelling narrative and in-universe reasons that go beyond it being a memorable part of the 1939 film. These reasons continue to be rele

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The Green Elixir is an object in Wicked. The elixer first appears in "No One Mourns the Wicked" in the musical and is only mentioned in the novel.

In The Novel[]

When the Wizard arrived in Oz he gives the drink to Melena Thropp which drugs her and enables him to sleep with her. She then becomes pregnant, and the child is born green-skinned, likely because of the elixir.

In the Musical[]

The elixir is first introduced when the Wizard has Elphaba'smother drink it in No One Mourns The Wicked. Some people believe that the green elixir is what makes Elphaba's skin green. After her mother dies giving birth to Nessarose, Elphaba keeps the bottle as a reminder.

The real relevance of the green elixir comes out during act two. When Elphaba is "melted", she leaves the bottle behind for Glinda. Glinda then recalls the Wizard having an identical bottle from when he offered her a drink from it after Fiyero had left with Elphaba. Having been Elphaba’s roommate at Shiz, she recalls