How did the wicked witch last so long? Shouldn't natural selection have taken out someone who melts in water?

Question

And don't say it's just a movie because that is like saying the writers were just making stuff up for entertainment and that is just wrong.

Thompson's water seal! lol Then I have to ask, which came first, wicked witches or high quality water seal?

Sounds like someone is a frustrated writer!

Answer 1

If you've read "Wicked" and "Son of a Witch" you'd know that The Wicked Witch of the West had always had an aversion to water, had addressed the issue of bathing (by cleaning herself with oil), and she *had* reproduced. Given her knowledge of sorcery, she had managed to make her clothing impervious to water, but not her skin. As far as natural selection goes, let's say that her inability to tolerate water is a mutation, but we'll need to read future installments of the series to find out how it plays out with her descendants....

Answer 2

The film never explores the exact nature of the water that Dorothy threw on the wicked witch. It could have been isotopic heavy water, or deionized water, or something could have been dissolved in the water. In any of these situations, the water wouldn't necessarily have been something that the witch would have encountered every day. If it was really just regular water, which of course is heavily abundant in nature, I agree that her continued survival up to the point that she met Dorothy is unlikely.

Answer 3

The book "Wicked", on which the musical is based, addresses this. Seems she was fanatically careful about exposure to water. The wide brimmed hat and long dress were part of the deal.

Ever known someone who's got severe, life-threatening allergies to bees, poison ivy, peanuts, and so on? They learn to adapt.

But I'm not sure and epi-pen would do much for her if she got caught in a rainstorm. She probably checked the weather report each time before she went flying.

Answer 4

NO,,,,,,, Natural Selection has nothing to do with it! This is OZ,,,Munchkin Land,,,,,The Emerald City. Nothing NATURAL about it! But, In Oz wisdom, this is the answer to your question;
Dorothy was wearing the Ruby Red Slippers. That made her a "powerful witch" by Oz standards. The previous owner of THE SHOES was her sister, the wicked witch of the East, who wouldn't have tried to kill her. Rain alone won't melt a witch in Oz, only another witch who is wearing THE SHOES.

Answer 5

Well, in the book Wicked, they talk aboiut how she would never go near water as a child and ended up creating a spell to make her cloak completely water proof. If you consider the musical Wicked, it says that she never had an aversion to water.

Answer 6

Quite possibly if you look at her outfit it is made from a water impermeable material and as it was designed to keep off rain then it would not have affected her until the water was thrown up at her by Dorothy. Also she could have been bathing in alcohol. She also is a fictional creature affected by laws of fiction.

Answer 7

In Darwin's process of natural selection, the wicket witch was one of those intermediate and missing links. She existed between two stages of final forms, the ones that are never found, she was a link somewhere between a flagellum and homo sapien. Her flaw was that she was water soluble, not a survivor of the fittest, and could not reproduce. This, partly because she was wicked and ugly.

Answer 8

She lasted so long because she was fictional and her charcter was needed for the plot. Natural selection has no place in fiction.

Answer 9

well probably by thinking outside the box and a vivid use of imagination... making the impossible possible through the magic of creativity and exploration.

Answer 10

Umbrella?