Wicked: For Renee Good
Metascript Breakdown
Last night I watched the second part of the movie adaptation of the Wicked stage musical. I felt compelled to watch it when I learned the title of the second part is “For Good.”
For Good, as in Renee Good? This seems like predictive programming for the recent Twin Cities ICE-related psyop, given the subtext of the first part, which we discussed when it came out. I describe Wicked as “Antifa coded,” and it seems to indicate a rise of left-wing resistance against a government perceived as fascist.
Here’s my take on part one, and part two will follow:
Wicked (Part One)
The secret police in Oz are rounding up the talking animals. They are disappearing quietly, and nobody notices or wants to talk about it besides Elphaba, the green-skinned witch, who is notably a marginalized outsider. The Wizard’s regime is slowly stripping Animals of rights: they lose jobs, are discouraged or forbidden from speaking, and are removed from public life, but citizens look away or accept the official narrative, so the persecution happens in plain sight with no open resistance.
The Wizard, played by Jeff Goldblum, is basically President Trump. The story presents him as a manipulative populist figurehead with showman-style leadership, reliant on image over substance, who uses “law and order” rhetoric while targeting vulnerable groups.
However, the film and musical were developed from a 1995 novel and a 2003 stage show, both written well before Trump’s presidency. Many would then describe this resemblance as a “coincidence.” I suggest it’s predictive programming for the future politician, Trump, whose role on the world stage is largely scripted.
Her refusal to stay silent about what is happening to them is what gets her branded “wicked” and turned into a public enemy, even though she is the one actually trying to stop cruelty.
She uncovers the fact that the Wizard has no real power and relies on spectacle and illusion, and decides to oppose him. Learning this betrayal is what pushes her from trying to work within the system to openly opposing him, even knowing it will make her an enemy of the state. The state rebrands her as “wicked,” a dangerous extremist, and later a terrorist, using her image to unite the public around fear and obedience.
This is classic anti‑dissident propaganda. This foreshadowed 2025, when President Trump signed an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, initiating investigations into its funding and decentralized cell structure. A subsequent “national security presidential memorandum” was issued to counter domestic terrorism, specifically citing “anti-Americanism” and “anti-capitalism” as animating threads of the movement.
Elphaba has to choose between principle and friendship with Glinda, the “good” witch, and chooses to protect the persecuted animals, so their friendship breaks along moral lines. She makes the Emerald City go dark with an EMP-like terrorist attack
Part One ends abruptly with the blackout in the Emerald City.
SYMBOLIC MEANING OF THE COLOR GREEN
I correlate her green skin with the green hair of the Joker and their shared struggle. The Joker’s “Kill The Rich” theme echoes the Antifa-esque subtext of Wicked. Joker connects to Luigi Mangione, who rose to fame by killing a rich CEO, a murder considered acceptable to Antifa sympathizers as necessary for “the greater good.”
The video game character Luigi (known for his green beret) was referenced following Mangione’s emergence as the game Luigi’s Mansion had just come out and, like the Ghost Gun in the video game (about a haunted mansion), the weapon linked to Mangione is described as an untraceable “ghost gun”: a firearm with no serial number, assembled from a 3‑D‑printed frame plus commercially bought parts.
Finally, on January 1, 2025, a 37-year-old active-duty Green Beret named Matthew Alan Livelsberger died in a vehicle explosion (a Tesla Cybertruck) outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. This “Green Beret” attacked Musk and Trump symbolically in this act, which reflects the Joker/ Wicked/ Luigi Antifa-theme of fighting the capitalist system.
Now on to the second part, Wicked: For Good, and how it relates to ICE and the death of Renee Good:
Relatedly, I had just watched part of the recent Golden Globes and watched Mark Ruffalo’s interview, where he displays his “BE GOOD” pin and talks about Renee Good and ICE deportations.
A few things immediately came to mind:
“For Good” is conspicuously timed with the martyrdom of Renee Good. Her actions are seen as morally righteous by the left, by Antifa, yet the system portrays the anti-ICE activists as “wicked” terrorists. The protests were triggered by the killing of Renee Good, so these are in essence “for Good.”
Mark Ruffalo recently played Kenneth Marshall, a flamboyant, egomaniacal failed politician and colony leader in Bong Joon-ho’s 2025 sci-fi film Mickey 17. This Trump-like character survives an assassination attempt by an anti-tyrant Luigi Mangioni-like character and even poses for the media with blood on his cheek in a Trump-like manner following the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting.
Mark Ruffalo plays the Incredible Hulk with green skin:
The second part begins with Elphaba disrupting the forced labor operations, like an anti-ICE protester interrupting arrests. The animals are not allowed to speak and have been put to work building the yellow brick road.
She liberates the animals, and for this is branded “wicked” and an enemy to Oz. The propaganda against her ensures nobody takes her side.
Elphaba attempts to get Glinda to help her expose the Wizard and save the animals.
Glinda suggested she “should look into trademarking GOOD,” beginning a pattern emphasizing the word, which persists throughout the movie. It’s practically force-memed into the movie. Elphaba says they can’t let “Good” be reduced to just a word. She insists it has to mean something. Glinda is demonstrated to be living in a bubble throughout, lost in her selfishness, while Elphaba is focused on others. Whereas Glinda saw “Good” as a word to trademark and commodify, Elphaba saw it as an ideal to be achieved.
As she tries to convince the animals to remain in Oz, Elphaba attempts to motivate them by talking up the meaning of Oz, not as a place, but as an ideal, a dream to be shared with everyone. This didn’t work as the animals were terrified of the winged monkeys and the threat of forced labor, not to mention the loss of their voices. This seems to indicate that Oz had betrayed its fundamental values. “Oz wouldn’t be Oz without all of us,” she says as they leave.
At one point, after animals are banned from using the train, Munchkins, too, were banned, prompting the Munchkin Boq to exclaim, “This is not the Oz I know!”
The Fakeness of Oz/America
The propaganda and the lies keep everyone in a bubble. The Wizard explains to Elphaba that the people of Oz “want to believe” and therefore the truth wouldn’t make a difference. His magic is fake, and Glinda has no magic, only contraptions to make it seem she does. The yellow gold bricks might be fake, as the Wizard indicates by hitting his face with one and showing it to be spongy and not dense.
This seems to be a statement about the American Dream, with Oz as America, Trump as the Wizard.
The Wizard explains that “the truth is not fact or reason” but “what everyone agrees on,” and that “we got a lot of people who believe all sorts of things that aren’t true.” He asks, “You know what we call it? History.”
The song “For Good” contains a message about privilege and the responsibility of those, such as Renee Good, to use it in the struggle against the rise of fascism:
(Elphaba):
I’m limited
Just look at me - I’m limited
And just look at you
You can do all I couldn’t do, Glinda
So now it’s up to you
For both of us - now it’s up to you...
Glinda sings
“Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better? But because I knew you, I have been changed for good.”
To fix the system, Elphaba has to sacrifice herself. She is ironically labeled wicked when she demonstrated herself to be the good one. There is a “false flag” when Madame Morrible sends a storm through Oz and blames it on Elphaba. Now, an enemy of the state, she is hunted down and apparently taken out by a bucket of water.
Glinda takes over Oz, exiles the Wizard, and liberates the animals, who are allowed back to their former places in society with their rights restored.
The Psyop Overlap
The activism fighting the Wizard to save the animals and Munchkins is labeled terrorism, as Trump has done with Antifa and their activism; we have the witch becoming “good” through martyrdom in her fight against the Wizard.
Becoming good or doing it for the good are deliberate double entendres that point at Renee Good. The relationship between Glinda and Elphaba seems to have a mirror in that of Renee Good and her wife. Ariana Grande and Cynthia displayed many public displays of their closeness with tearful interviews, physical affection, matching tattoos, and constant joint appearances during Wicked promotions. This lead fans to speculate about a romantic relationship.
What does it mean to “Be good”? To leave the safety of the status quo and fight to liberate the animals and Munchkins. To be good is to be a martyr, sacrificing the self for the collective greater good against a wicked system. The “green” movement contains the same core message: that the capitalist system is irredeemably toxic and must be preplaced by something sustainable.
“Try to change things. Be Glinda the good” -- Elphaba
Glinda’s fiancé, Fiyero, walks off the stage of another political event because his conscience bothered him. (Like Mark Ruffalo taking a stand at the Golden Globes with his Be Good pin.) He ditched his shallow life after awakening to the regime’s cruelty toward Animals, choosing Elphaba and rebellion over a life of privilege with Glinda. He was “woke” to the truth about Oz. Later, he is sacrificed for betraying Oz.
Fiyero is crucified but is saved from death by a spell, after which he is reborn as the Strawman. This reinforces the theme that sacrificing one’s privilege, comfort, or position for the struggle of liberating the oppressed is how one can “be good.”
In Summary:
My review isn’t really specifically the movie, but it’s how the movie intertwines with the world stage, both in theme, subtexts, symbolism, and the actors
This film definitely constitutes predictive and concurrent programming
Final Note:
Nathan Crowley, the production designer for Wicked, claims a distant familial connection to Aleister Crowley: his grandfather was reportedly Aleister’s cousin. Crowley built massive physical sets, including the Emerald City and Shiz University, aiming for a practical, almost vintage Hollywood feel, with inspiration from the 1939 Wizard of Oz.
Interestingly, Liber OZ, a short manifesto written by wizard Aleister Crowley in 1941, could be described as anti-tyranny and a declaration of universal rights.
It’s also significant that Crowley collaborated extensively with Christopher Nolan as production designer on Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Christopher and Jonathan Nolan have created copious predictive programming content over the years, with recent works focusing on atom bombs and nuclear fallout (Oppenheimer and Fallout).
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