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Madame Morrible
Boq, a Munchkinlander, is Elphaba’s first real friend at Shiz University. However, they initially meet as toddlers at Gawnette’s daycare. He’s polite, earnest, and eager to impress, and his social circle at Shiz includes Avaric, whose arrogance he tolerates because they’re friends. He develops an unrequited crush on Galinda, whose attention he never truly wins, though they do share one kiss. His friendship with Elphaba begins when he asks for her help getting Galinda to speak to him, and it evolves as he helps Elphaba with her research for Doctor Dillamond on the origins of Animals and animals. Their shared respect for Doctor Dillamond and their belief in Animal rights bonds them together, and though they go many years without speaking after Shiz, their connection lasts until Elphaba dies. Often caught between more forceful personalities, Boq tends to follow rather than lead, though he remains generally good-natured and dependable. He ultimately marries Milla, one of Glinda’s friends from Shiz, and goes on to work in Munchkinland’s agricultural sphere.
Boq Quotes in Wicked
The Wicked quotes below are all either spoken by Boq or refer to Boq. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Prologue: On the Yellow Brick Road Quotes
“She’s a despot. A dangerous tyrant,” said the Lion with conviction.
[...] “I hear she’s a champion of home rule for the so-called Winkies.”
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16. The Murder and Its Afterlife Quotes
“People who claim they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us.” He sighed. “It’s people who claim that they’re good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
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Boq Character Timeline in Wicked
The timeline below shows where the character Boq appears in Wicked. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
9. Galinda
A Munchkinlander named Boq introduces himself to Galinda and Elphaba, claiming he remembers Elphaba from Gawnette’s daycare years ago....
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10. Boq
Boq’s friends try to convince him to go out drinking one night, but he stays behind...
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Boq dresses up and eagerly arrives to meet Galinda, only to find that Elphaba has come...
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During the summer holiday, Boq stays behind at Shiz in Briscoe Hall while most of his classmates go home. He...
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One afternoon off campus, Boq spots Elphaba and invites her to join him for tea. She tells him she’s been...
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Boq brings Crope and Tibbett into his arrangement with Elphaba, and the four spend the summer...
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...summer, Elphaba receives a letter from Galinda inviting her to Pfannee’s lake house. Though hesitant, Boq convinces her to accept, offering to come along with Avaric as chaperones. Madame Morrible also...
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While going through a codex in the library, Boq notices an illustration of a Kumbric Witch holding a “beast of unrecognizable species,” surrounded by...
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One day, Boq and Avaric encounter Elphaba, Galinda, and a group of distraught girls outside Crage Hall, all...
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11. The Charmed Circle
...herself “Glinda,” the name Dillamond had mistakenly used when they first met on the train. Boq notices other changes in her as well. With Ama Clutch still in the hospital, Elphaba...
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Elphaba and Boq sit next to each other in Doctor Nikidik’s class, Dillamond’s replacement. Boq wonders if Dillamond...
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...with help from two girls as the class erupts in chaos. Seeing Elphaba shaken afterward, Boq invites her to tea “for old times’ sake.”
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Over time, Boq realizes that while he was once hopelessly infatuated with Galinda, what he truly wants from...
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...bar, the Peach and Kidneys, where they drink and grieve Ama Clutch in community. Afterward, Boq, Avaric, and others try convincing the girls to visit the Philosophy Club, a local sex...
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At the Philosophy Club, Boq, Avaric, and their friends are ushered in by an old crone named Yackle, who informs...
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12. City of Emeralds
...despite Elphaba’s better judgment, she and Fiyero continue meeting at her home. Fiyero shares that Boq married Milla and moved back to Nest Hardings in Munchkinland—the site of Elphaba’s ancestral estate,...
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16. The Murder and Its Afterlife
While searching for Dorothy, Elphaba is led to Boq and Milla’s home, where Dorothy had recently stayed. Boq is delighted to see her, and...
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Boq recalls their time working for Doctor Dillamond and says he and Milla to this day...
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The next day, Elphaba returns to Boq’s and tells him she has killed Madame Morrible. Frightened, Boq and Milla arm themselves and...
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...Elphaba, in unbearable pain, begins to die, she sees figures from her past—Melena, Nessa, Frex, Boq, Glinda, Doctor Dillamond, Madame Morrible, Fiyero, the Wizard, Yackle—before everything fades away.
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