As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
[SPOILERS] “Abuser” might be too strong a word but Elphaba has a rather complicated relationship with her sister, and while she does come to care a bit more for her she doesn’t exactly forgive Nessa’s transgressions against her
Nessarose and Elphaba had an abusive father; Nessarose was taught a very toxic and dependent version of love and becomes abusive and manipulative towards Boq.
Not explicitly, though The Wizard consistently drinks from a bottle whose contents 'help ease the pain'. It's not directly alcohol, but it seems similar in some ways.
[spoilers] While it isn't graphic, a character is covered by tin after their heart is shrunk/disappeared. During quick black and white flashes, you can sort of see straw ripping out of somebody's body, but it's quick and not super explicit.
No, but a) an effigy of someone is burned and you see paint melting, and b) someone is melted by water off-screen, which sizzles and seems akin to burning somewhat.
A character is described as 'sleeping' or 'resting' (can't remember) after an extreme strain to their body. I think they fall to the floor as well, but it's not really shown much. They wake up off-screen.
While no bone is officially broken, when Dorothy and the gang are walking into the wizard’s parlor to speak to him, there’s a shot of the scarecrow twisting his ankle in a very unnatural position with a crunch sound effect. It’s of course not painful for him, and some straw comes out of him to drive it home, but if that sounds stressful look away when you see them walk in and you’re good once the wizard starts talking! :)
A character is pinned against a wall and is unable to speak, but can breathe. It is not meant to kill them outright and it's unknown if they would have been killed eventually, but they are stopped.
Fiyero leaves Glinda for Elphaba on the very day they were supposed to be married, and there's a brief flashback of Elphaba's mom with her true dad. Implication is that she cheated on her husband (Nessarose 's dad) with him.
the Gale Force (a reference to Stormtroopers in N**i Germany) are very much seen as a fascist army who enslave Animals who can no longer speak and treat them as cattle, so there's no sympathy for cops
*Spoiler* A main character leads the audience and another main character to believe they are going to sacrifice themself. They end up surviving, but it feels very suicide-coded and could be triggering for some.
Several actors who play major characters in this movie have eating disorders. On Glinda it is very visible. The movie seems to encourage it in wardrobe choices when they bedazzle and highlight certain bones that should not be visible. The characters themselves do not have eating disorders
To be clear, this is done in an allegorical manner as opposed to reinforcing problematic tropes uncritically. The discrimination in the musical was intentionally written as analogous to antisemitism.
[MAJOR SPOILERS] I mean technically the only major death is of a black woman although even then her white father passes away first (but even then the scene was also in the epilogue of the first movie)? A bit complicated
To add to the previous comment: It's implied that one of the characters has never had a romantic or sexual partner in the past, and there's a fade-to-black scene that clearly means they have sex.
There are refugees that are fleeing from Oz: Oz is referred to as 'home', but they leave it. Elphaba has a home, it's just one she had to make for herself in a tree.