"A young woman with mysterious powers makes an enormous personal sacrifice - hoping that her decision will effect positive change in the community she leaves behind. In a tearful goodbye, she thanks her closest companion for changing her life and promises they'll always be with each other. But in the end, what the world thinks happens to her might not tell the full story."
"But later, while playing Dungeons & Dragons with his friends, Mike speculates that Eleven's death was an illusion. "I'd like to imagine that she's in a beautiful land somewhere far away," he says. "She finds a small town to call home, safe from the danger of the Black Hand. And it is here, at last, that she finds peace. That she finally finds happiness.""
"Meanwhile, Elphaba in Wicked: For Good explores similarly wide-open terrain with Fiyero after faking her death by being "melted" by Dorothy. Like Eleven, she believes that it's the only way to stop a cycle of persecution and hopes that real change can be fostered in her absence. "The ELphabaism," one user on X (formerly Twitter) wrote, comparing scenes of both characters hiding under a trap door to fake their demise."
Two heroines make deliberate sacrifices and fake their deaths to halt cycles of harm. One telekinetic stays in a dangerous otherworld to end military experimentation, saying a tearful goodbye and promising her closest companion that he will understand. Friends later imagine she is living peacefully in a distant place. A green witch pretends to be melted and vanishes with her partner, traveling wide-open landscapes while hoping her absence will prompt social change. Both exits emphasize ambiguous outcomes, personal sacrifice, and the possibility of hidden lives beyond apparent deaths.
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