![]() ![]() ![]() It is often assumed that he was installed as Throne Minister by Palace apparatchiks sympathetic to Shell Thropp, the youngest of the three Thropp siblings. Later on, after the Wizard leaves, the Scarecrow is made the Throne Minister, after the brief 6 month instalment of Glinda the Good. ![]() Before he and Liir part ways, he tells Liir that he is not planning to remain in the Emerald City, explaining: "One day you're a celebrity, the next day you're hauled off to jail." The Scarecrow also tells Liir that he knew Dorothy was not from this world, did not belong in Oz, and had to leave. He brings Elphaba's broom to Liir, which Palace officials were going to throw out. He warns him that Dirt Boulevard, the slum he is living in, is about to be 'cleaned up' by the authorities, and helps him escape from the purge. ![]() In Son of a Witch, it is the Scarecrow who talks to Elphaba's teenage son Liir after Dorothy Gale leaves Oz and is sent back home to Kansas. It is left to the reader of the book to choose if the Scarecrow was possessed by his spirit or not. Despite this, Elphaba believes it could have been the spirit of Fiyero within the straw itself. Elphaba does this to make certain if he was Fiyero or not, but the monkeys only find nothing but straw. In Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba suspects that the Scarecrow was her lover Fiyero coming back to her in a disguise, so she has her flying monkeys tear the straw out of the Scarecrow's clothing. ![]()
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