Wicked Witch of the West

Wicked Witch of the West
Wicked Witch of the West
Oz character
	The Wicked Witch of the West (illustration by W. W. Denslow, 1900)
First appearance	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Created by	L. Frank Baum
In-universe information
Alias	Momba (1910); (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910 film)); Bastinda (1939); (The Wizard of the Emerald City); Smarmy (1969); (The Songs from The Wizard of Oz); Evillene (1974); (The Wiz); Elphaba Thropp (1995); (Wicked); Old Snarl-Spats (2000); (The Unknown Witches of Oz); Mordra (2005); (The Living House of Oz); Chester (2007); (The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's); Azkadellia (2007); (Tin Man); Billie Westbrook (2011); (Dorothy and the Witches of Oz); Lynessa (2013); (Grimm Fairy Tales presents Oz); Theodora (2013); (Oz the Great and Powerful); Zelena (2014); (Once Upon a Time); Pyrena (2017); (The Wicked Wizard of Oz); Mistress West (2017); (Emerald City); Langwidere (2017); (Lost in Oz); Morella (2019) ; (How the Wizard Came to Oz);
Species	Witch
Gender	Female
Title	The Wicked Witch of the West
Occupation	Ruler of the Winkies; (at time of death)
Family	The Wicked Witch of the East (sister)
Nationality	Ozian of Winkie descent
Role	Antagonist

The Wicked Witch of the West is a character in the classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by the American author L. Frank Baum, who is the evil ruler of the Winkie Country, the western region in the Land of Oz. She is inadvertently killed by the child Dorothy Gale with a bucket of water. In Baum's subsequent Oz novels, the Wicked Witch of the West is referred to occasionally.

Margaret Hamilton played the role of the witch in the classic 1939 film based on Baum's novel. Hamilton's characterization introduced green skin, a feature repeated in later literary and dramatic representations, including Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked (as well as the novel's 2003 stage musical adaptation and subsequent two-part film adaptation), the 2013 film Oz the Great and Powerful, and the television series Once Upon a Time.