Elphaba Thropp’s parentage is a major lingering question throughout Wicked and Wicked: For Good — and fans will eventually get their answer.

This post has spoilers for Wicked: For Good.

In the first Wicked movie — just like the stage musical of the same name — Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) had a green complexion because her deceased mother drank a magical elixir of the same color that she was given by the then-unidentified man with whom she had an affair.

Neither Elphaba nor her father, who was the governor of Munchkinland before his death, were initially aware of his then-wife’s romantic tryst outside of her marriage. As musical fans will remember, it’s similarly revealed in the film that the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) is indeed the Wicked Witch of the West’s biological father.

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