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The Scarecrow
The Lion travels with Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, and the Scarecrow in hopes of gaining courage from the Wizard. Elphaba believes he is the same Lion cub that Dr. Nikidik once tried to use as a test subject in a Shiz University lecture, an experiment she had criticized at the time. That memory softens her toward him—at least initially—though she never confirms whether he is indeed the same being.
The Lion Quotes in Wicked
The Wicked quotes below are all either spoken by The Lion or refer to The Lion. 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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The Lion Character Timeline in Wicked
The timeline below shows where the character The Lion appears in Wicked. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue: On the Yellow Brick Road
Flying on her broomstick, the Wicked Witch of the West follows a Lion, a Tin Woodman, a Scarecrow, and a young girl named Dorothy as they travel down...
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16. The Murder and Its Afterlife
...Dorothy traveling the Yellow Brick Road with her companions—the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Lion—she follows them from the sky. A storm forces her to land and rest. By morning,...
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...Tin Woodman, named Nick Chopper, asked for a heart, the Scarecrow for a brain, the Lion for courage, and Dorothy for a way home. The Wizard told them they would only...
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...wonders if Nick Chopper is the same man whose axe Nessarose once enchanted, if the Lion is the same cub Doctor Nikidik experimented on at Shiz, and if, by extension of...
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...civil for long. She sends Chistery and the other monkeys to fetch Dorothy and the Lion, unharmed, but orders them to leave the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow behind. Liir promises to...
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When Chistery and his companions deliver a shaken Dorothy and Lion to Kiamo Ko, Liir and Nanny greet them warmly. Then Elphaba appears, and Dorothy tries...
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