There’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Return to Oz reference in Wicked that’ll re-traumatise 80s kids

If you were one of many who joined the hordes of hardcore Wicked fans hitting cinemas for its opening weekend, you might have noticed a reference to a “Professor Mombi” early on in the film.

As they list the professors at Shiz University during ‘Ozrientation’ as Elphaba is entering, they mention a Professor Mombi being head of biology, a name guaranteed to send chills down the spine of 80s kids.

This is because a Princess Mombi is one of the main antagonists of cult classic 1985 Disney movie Return to Oz, which really lent into the whole baffling trend of making children’s movies deeply terrifying at that time.

Violent, emotionally devastating rabbit snuff movie Watership Down was regularly televised every Easter back then. Spooky 1982 puppet flick The Dark Crystal freaked

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