# Villains with a point

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** comic-books-manga\
**Created:** [September 5, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/villains-with-a-point/919885 "2020-09-05T16:17:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/villains-with-a-point/919885/59 "2020-09-06T16:37:55Z")

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> [@solost](#):
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> That manipulative witch bitch Glinda was the real villain of The Wizard of Oz- she sends Dorothy on a wild goose chase that could have easily led to her death, and at the end said, “psych! you already had the power to go home the whole time”.

That was the biggest change between the MGM movie and the book. ITB, after her witch-squishing, Dorothy was met by the (unnamed) Good Witch of the North who sent her on her journey. She didn’t tell Dorothy about the shoes because she didn’t know.

After being left behind by the Wizard’s sudden departure via balloon, Dorothy is told that perhaps Glinda, the Good Witch of the _South_ might know another way for her to get back to Kansas. After another round of adventures, she meets up with Glinda who, being wiser than TGWotN, knows the shoe trick.

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