Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-11464223-20140207061100/@comment-5305135-20140208124914

I'd prefer to see Dorothy as a flashback character only. I can imagine while in the flashback just as Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow and Lion attempt to leave the Wicked Witch's castle (in The Wizard Of Oz (using movie as reference as I have never read the books) that the WWotW decides to 'fake her death' at Dorothy's hands so when the water goes over her, she uses her magic to look as if she's 'melting' and afterwards goes into hiding to undertake whatever she is planning to do in OUaT. Perhaps she needed to remain hidden and presumed dead for some reason.

This way Dorothy doesn't have to be integral at all to the WWotW's current story, but serves her purpose to those who want to see her appear. Plus gives Wicked Witch all her Oz back story that we are familiar with.