Wicked: For Good (also known as Wicked: Part Two) is the direct sequel to Wicked released on November 21st, 2025 adapting Act Two of the Musical.

Plot

Five years after defying the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the political landscape of Oz is fully established. Elphaba is now widely known and feared as the Wicked Witch of the West due to her firm defiance of the Wizard's regime as well as trying to free any animals the Wizard have imprisoned and continues battling for Animal rights from a forest hideout ("Every Day More Wicked") while Glinda has been purposefully positioned by Madame Morrible as the Wizard's spokesperson dubbing her as “Glinda the Good”, and is engaged to Fiyero, who has become Captain of the Guards. As Oz celebrates the grand opening of the Yellow Brick Road, Fiyero reveals he is attempting to locate Elphaba, Glinda insists that Elphaba wants to stay in isolation ("Thank Goodness/I Couldn't Be Happier").

Hiding in the western forest, Elphaba encounters some Animals, including her former caretaker Dulcibear, leaving Oz and encourages them to fight against the Wizard ("No Place Like Home"). The Cowardly Lion dissuades them, exposing her as the reason for the Wizard's flying monkey spies. Elphaba visits her sister Nessarose, who has inherited their father's governorship of Munchkinland.

To prevent Boq, her servant and unrequited lover, from abandoning her, Nessa prohibits the Munchkins from leaving Munchkinland without her approval. When Elphaba arrives, Nessa complains about her not using her magic to help make her feel better, prompting Elphaba to enchant Nessa' shoes, granting her the ability to fly. However, Boq is convinced Nessarose no longer needs him, attempts to depart, seeking Glinda's affection. Enraged, Nessarose tries to bind him with a love spell, but the spell backfires, shrinking his heart. Elphaba's attempt to save him results in his transformation into a tin man ("The Wicked Witch of the East"). Boq calls Nessa a wicked witch and leaves her.

Elphaba goes back to the Emerald City to liberate the Wizard's flying monkey slaves, only to be found out by the Wizard. However, he, alongside Glinda, once more attempts to convince her to join forces with him. She accepts under the condition that the flying monkeys be freed ("Wonderful"). Chistery, one of the monkeys, reveals a caged Dr. Dillamond, who has lost his ability to speak, among many other Animals imprisoned within the Wizard's lair. Elphaba reaffirms her resolve to fight the Wizard and frees the Animals, interrupting Fiyero and Glinda's wedding. Elphaba is helped by Fiyero in escaping and he joins her, much to Glinda's devastation. Afterward, Glinda convinces the Wizard and Morrible to lure Elphaba out by spreading a rumor that her sister is in danger, but when she leaves, Morrible instead proposes "a change in the weather" ("I'm Not That Girl (Reprise)").

In the forest, Elphaba and Fiyero confess their love for each other ("As Long as You're Mine") Meanwhile, Morrible, realizing a simple rumor would not fool Elphaba, creates a tornado that takes a house from Kansas and fatally crushes Nessa. Elphaba senses that Nessarose is in danger and leaves, with Fiyero directing her to use an abandoned castle his family owns, Kiamo Ko castle, for shelter.

Glinda gives Nessa's shoes to the house's occupant, Dorothy, and directs her to the Wizard, promising he can help her return home. Elphaba furiously confronts Glinda, leading to a brawl between them before the Gale Force arrives. Fiyero intervenes and holds back the guards by threatening to kill Glinda, who finally accepts that he loves Elphaba. The guards drag him to a field and savagely beat him while Elphaba escapes with the monkeys.

At Kiamo Ko castle, Elphaba desperately casts a spell from the Grimmerie to save Fiyero as she decides to be what Oz thinks she is ("No Good Deed"). Meanwhile, back at the Emerald City, Dorothy and her companions the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Lion meet the Wizard, who instructs them to kill Elphaba and bring him her broomstick. Boq rallies the citizens of the Emerald City to form an angry mob against Elphaba ("March of the Witch Hunters"). Glinda soon finds out that Morrible caused the tornado that brought Dorothy to Oz, but when she confronts her, Morrible tells Glinda that she is just as responsible since she's been on the Wizard's side to be a beloved figure, making Glinda remorseful ("The Girl in the Bubble"). Realizing she must do the right thing, Glinda rushes to Kiamo Ko to warn Elphaba about the mob.

Elphaba soon catches and imprisons Dorothy to retrieve the shoes, but an intervention from Glinda has her snap out of her grief-induced wicked meltdown. When she gets warned of the upcoming mob, Elphaba decides to surrender, holding Glinda to a vow to not tell anyone of what truly happened. The two share a tearful goodbye ("For Good"). Elphaba forces Glinda to hide in a closet, and she watches from the shadows as Dorothy throws a bucket of water on Elphaba, seemingly melting her. A talking Chistery leads Glinda to the bottle of the green elixir that Elphaba showed her back when they were attending Shiz.

Glinda soon returns to the Emerald City and confronts the Wizard with the elixir, causing him to find out that he is Elphaba's birth father. Distraught at putting Elphaba through so much turmoil, he is forced by Glinda to leave Oz via hot-air balloon. She becomes the new leader of Oz and allows the monkeys to take Morrible for her crimes. She finishes telling the story to the Munchkins and establishes the rights of animals, as Elphaba would have wanted. Meanwhile, Fiyero, who ended up getting turned into a scarecrow due to Elphaba's spell, arrives at the scene where Elphaba melted, knocking on the floor and opening a trap door in the floor. Elphaba emerges, having faked her death to ensure that no one in Oz ever sees her again. The two leave Oz together ("Finale").

Cast

• Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba
• Ariana Grande as Glinda
  • Scarlett Spears as young Glinda
• Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero
• Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard
• Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible
• Ethan Slater as Boq
• Marissa Bode as Nessarose
• Colman Domingo as the voice of the Cowardly Lion
• Bethany Weaver as Dorothy Gale

Musical Numbers

• "Every Day More Wicked" - Elphaba, Glinda, Madame Morrible, and Citizens of Oz
• "Thank Goodness/I Couldn't Be Happier" – Glinda, Madame Morrible, and Citizens of Oz
• "No Place Like Home" - Elphaba
• "The Wicked Witch of the East" – Elphaba, Nessarose, and Boq
• "Wonderful" – The Wizard, Elphaba, and Glinda
• "I'm Not That Girl (Reprise)" – Glinda
• "As Long as You're Mine" – Elphaba and Fiyero
• "No Good Deed" – Elphaba
• "March of the Witch Hunters" – Boq and Ozians
• "Girl in the Bubble" – Glinda
• "For Good" – Elphaba and Glinda
• "Finale" – Glinda, Elphaba, and Ozians

Changes from stage musical

Splitting the film adaptation into two parts allowed the filmmakers to expand upon the relationships between the characters, particularly Elphaba and Glinda, so that movie audiences may understand them better. The sexual content of the musical and the novel were also toned down, so that both films could reach wider audiences and attain PG ratings from the Motion Picture Association. Marissa Bode, who portrays Nessarose and uses a wheelchair in real life, revealed that her character's storyline was revised to prevent implications of ableism, most notably by having Nessarose gain the ability to fly instead of walking upright after her shoes are enchanted by Elphaba.

Additionally, these changes and additions were made:

• Dorothy Gale and Toto are depicted on-screen, including her departure from Munchkinland, her initial meeting with the Wizard, her final battle with Elphaba, and her attempt to leave Oz with the Wizard in his hot air balloon. Her face is never clearly seen, and she doesn't meet Elphaba in Munchkinland or along the yellow brick road.
• The first scene of the film depicts Animals being forced to build the Yellow Brick Road under harsh conditions. Elphaba arrives to break their chains.
• Prior to "The Wicked Witch of the East", Boq attempts to leave Munchkinland but is stopped at the train station after a decree is put into effect by Nessarose stripping the Munchkins of their right to travel.
• There are extra verses at the start of "Wonderful", and Glinda joins in the song.
• There is a scene showing Elphaba freeing the Animals from their cages under the Wizard's stronghold at the start of the wedding between Glinda and Fiyero; the Animals stampede through the wedding as they escape. The film keeps Animal rights in focus to the end.
• "March of the Witch Hunters" is broken into two sections, with "The Girl in the Bubble" in between. In this song, Glinda sings about her hard choice to abandon her obsession with popularity and become truly good.
• After "For Good", Glinda admits the Animals back into Ozian society in a continuation of her speech at the beginning of the first film. She says she will try and change things for the better. The Animals get their jobs and voices back.
• The Grimmerie opens for Glinda at the end of "A Wicked Good Finale", before the film's final shot of her and Elphaba recreating the iconic pose from the original Broadway poster.

Trivia

• During promotion for the first film, Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman both hinted two possible sequels plus clarified they wouldn't be called Wicked Part Three or Four. Presumably these could adapt further books if not original stories while unannounced if despite omission from the musical if Elphaba's son Liir will appear allowing for a movie based on Son of a Witch