@Hellraiser-89 wrote:
No that’s not what I’m saying. I’m comparing her and Rumple and saying that Regina is bad but Rumple is worse. Regina wouldn’t let Henry die, but Rumple would have.
They are similar in the way that they wouldn’t let anyone stand in the way of their children, but Rumple had done it on a much larger scale. Regina just went after Snow and Charming, while Rumple pulled strings all over FTL to get to our world.
And Regina has so far actually done things to redeem herself. Gold hasn’t showed any interest in that and keeps using magic and kidnapping people. He was even about to let Emma and Snow die on their way back from FTL through the portal but Regina made a choice to negate that magic so they could pass through.
To be perfectly fair, it’s not like Regina hasn’t played the puppet master either. She sent innocent children to retrieve the poisonous apple from the blind witch…most of who died in the process. She betrayed her friend Maleficent so that she could steal back the Dark Curse she gave her. She set up the Genie and framed him for King Leopold’s murder just so that she could get revenge on Snow White. She kidnapped Belle because she was “an important chess piece.” And she killed her own father to cast the Dark Curse.
Every villain on this show has manipulated or cheated in order to achieve their own selfish goals, and each one of them was converted to the “dark side” by someone else. A lot of people like to blame Rumpel for turning Regina evil (which is partially true) but people forget that The Dark One manipulated and fooled Rumpel into taking the Dark One’s place. He disguised himself as a poor begger and betrayed Rumpel’s trust. Everyone has been manipulated and everyone started out innocent. So saying that Rumpel is more evil than Regina is false. I think they’re equal. Each of them has manipulated and used people on a grand scale. It just so happens that Rumpel was better at it.