"In the continuity, Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey, ), the carefree prince who starts growing a conscious after he meets Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), becomes the Scarecrow. He starts off as a dashing, charismatic narcissist, but as Fiyero grows to care for Elphaba and her battle for animal rights, he turns against the Wizard's fascist regime and becomes a fugitive with the Wicked Witch."
"Later in the film, he is captured by the Wizard's guards and tortured. Elphaba, desperate to save her lover, casts a spell to keep him from dying or feeling any pain . We don't see Fiyero's face for almost the entirety of the second half of the movie because goes out of its way to obscure it and hide his identity, but we unknowingly see the back of his head a few times. That's because Elphaba's spell turned him into the Scarecrow who accompanies Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz ."
"We don't actually see Fiyero as the Scarecrow until the final moments of , and while an eagle-eyed Wizard of Oz fan may have caught onto this twist when he was strung up on a cross in a cornfield during Elphaba's spell, plenty of first-time viewers were genuinely shocked by this reveal, not only because of Fiyero's dark fate, but because Bailey straight up looks like a patched together version of Ryan Reynolds in his Scarecrow look."
Fiyero transforms from a dashing, narcissistic prince into the Scarecrow after growing to care for Elphaba and opposing the Wizard's fascist regime. He becomes a fugitive alongside the Wicked Witch and is later captured and tortured by the Wizard's guards. Elphaba casts a spell to prevent his death and pain, inadvertently turning him into the Scarecrow who accompanies Dorothy. The film conceals Fiyero's face for most of the second half, revealing him only in the finale. The Scarecrow's patched-together design surprised and amused many viewers and sparked viral social-media reactions noting an uncanny resemblance to Ryan Reynolds.
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