The WCU (Wicked Cinematic Universe)

So apparently Wicked: For Good just went full Infinity Gauntlet on the box office smashing every first-day ticket record Fandango had to offer.

• Best first-day ticket pre-seller of 2025.

• Best PG film debut in Fandango history.

• Top 10 all-time presales, period.

Translation: Universal just realized they’re sitting on a green-skinned gold mine.

And if there’s one thing Hollywood loves more than emotional resonance, it’s intellectual property. The Wicked Cinematic Universe (the WCU™) is happening, folks. It’s only a matter of time before we get a mid-credits scene where Glinda opens a portal to Arendelle and starts recruiting Elsa for the Defenders of Broadway.

Let’s get ahead of this thing.

Wicked: The College Years

Before Shiz University became the ivy-covered birthplace of friendship and flying monkeys, it was a party school with a bubble wand problem. Picture Elphaba’s roommate drama, Glinda’s pyramid scheme skincare line, and Fiyero DJ-ing in a fedora. Think Pitch Perfect, but with hexes.

Song to look out for: “We’re All Just Majoring in Magic (And Minoring in Trauma)”

Wicked Babies

Muppet Babies walked so this could fly. We open on toddler Elphaba trying to color inside the lines without turning the crayons into snakes. Glinda’s in a pink stroller singing “Popular (Nap Time Remix)”.

Spin-off potential: infinite. Merchandising: obscene.

The Wizard Begins

We go full Joker (2019) here. Gritty origin story. Just a guy from Kansas with a bad haircut and a dream — until one day, a hot-air balloon changes everything. By act two, he’s gaslighting an entire magical kingdom and selling it as leadership.

Tagline: “You either die a magician or live long enough to see yourself become the fraud.”

Glinda and the Goblet of Glamour

Crossover time. She transfers to Hogwarts for a semester abroad, teaches the girls of Mean Girls: The Musical how to contour with fairy dust, and defeats Voldemort through the power of self-esteem.

MCU has multiverses. WCU has sequins.

Les Misérabl-oss: A WCU Story

You thought Les Mis and Wicked couldn’t coexist? Wrong. Fantine and Elphaba share a cell and duet about moral decay and split ends. Jean Valjean gives the Emerald City its first redemption arc. Gavroche? A flying monkey now. Don’t question it.

The Emerald City Initiative

Nick Fury appears (played by Patti LuPone, obviously) to tell Elphaba, “You’re not the only misunderstood soprano out there.”

Cut to:

• Maria from West Side Story twirling in slow motion.

• Jenna from Waitress loading a pie into a rocket launcher.

• Alexander Hamilton loading a different kind of pistol.

• Evan Hansen trying to join the team via LinkedIn.

Final shot? Lin-Manuel Miranda hovering above Oz saying, “We’re putting together a team of emotionally damaged people who sing their feelings.”

Cue overture.

Wicked: Into the Multimusical

The crossover event of the century. Glinda lands in The Sound of Music, Elphaba in Sweeney Todd, and somehow the Mamma Mia cast is still just on vacation. Defying gravity meets dancing queen. Thanos doesn’t stand a chance against a full-voiced belt at mezzo-forte.

The Post-Credit Scene

A pair of ruby slippers on the ground. A hand (painted green) reaches down.

Voiceover: “There’s no place like home… unless home is the franchise.”

Cut to black.

Hollywood, if you’re reading this strike while the broomstick’s hot. The WCU is right there. Green is the new gold.

And if you need someone to write Avengers: Endgame (But Make It Broadway) my DMs are open, and I already have the tagline:

“Defy Gravity. Again.”

Elphaba and Glinda will return.