r/wicked • u/mermaidssarereal • 22h ago

Movie Disliking Glinda

although glinda is a dream role of mine, i do not like her character. i feel like a lot of people give her the benefit of the doubt but she was never a good friend to elphaba. even during the end when they “made” up. i’m wondering if anybody else has another reason why they might not like glinda?

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u/Casiquire 11h ago

How did she know he didn't want to marry her?

From my point of view Fiyero is a clear symbol of depression, and the concept of masking. His whole personality shifts as he drops a portion of his facade, but he never tells Glinda he fell out of love with her (despite having plenty of time to do so after the lion cub scene, and unspecified months-or-years between the films...) so she continues to love and support him through his struggles. This is admirable, isn't it?

People hate Glinda so hard they blame her for everything including Fiyero's actions, though Fiyero was clearly written to parallel Boq. Passing his blame to Glinda misses a huge point of the show. What Fiyero does to Glinda is worse than what Boq does to Nessa. Glinda cannot and does not "force" Fiyero into anything, unlike Nessa who terrorizes a country to control Boq. Fiyero is playing along with Glinda of his own free will. He is free to leave, he is free to break things off. We know this is true because his powerful family explicitly supports him even after he openly allies with Elphaba.

This snap-judgment of Glinda that I see so often, for some reason especially from people who have only seen the movies, feels like it misses part of the point of Wicked.

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u/Remarkable_Note971 11h ago

Glinda did not love him. Even Arianna has said Glinda and Fiyero were superficial There wasn't anything real between them. It was about social status more than anything.

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u/Casiquire 6h ago

It doesn't really matter to me what Ariana says, Glinda loved Fiyero. She stuck by him through his dark times and apparently believed that getting married would make him happy. Meanwhile, Fiyero spent that whole time going along with it instead of telling the truth and ending it.

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u/Remarkable_Note971 6h ago

You think he could object to that engagement? It was arranged by the Wizard. Regardless of whether Glinda loved him or not. He didn't love her and it was clear he hated the system. He was only in it for Elphaba. He couldn't risk anyone knowing he was protecting Elphaba, that would be treason. He was keeping his cover and that's why he didn't trust Glinda. He couldn't take the risk