Regina Mills/Evil Queen Character Analysis

[midnight dreary]

For general discussion on the Once Upon a Time character Regina Mills/Evil Queen.

Here are a few study questions to get the conversation started:

1. What was the Evil Queen’s reasoning behind choosing this particular curse?
2. Does the Evil Queen know all of the details of the curse?
3. Why does the Evil Queen hate Snow White?
4. What tragedy did the Evil Queen suffer that made her hate Snow White?
5. Where did the Evil Queen get her magical power from?
6. Why did Regina Mills choose to adopt a son?
7. What is the Evil Queen’s relation to Rumpelstiltskin?
8. Does Regina Mills know about Rumpelstiltskin’s dagger?
9. What other fairytale might the Evil Queen be involved in?
10. Is the Evil Queen the original Millers daughter?
11. Will Regina Mills/Evil Queen ever be fully redeemed?

Regina Mills/Evil Queen is a complex, and at times, controversial character. So as always, keep the conversation open, friendly and honest.

Let the debate begin!

[ciela_crow]

Oooh i’m so glad we have a character discussion forum now :). For a while I was deadset on Regina being the Miller’s daughter, and I had all kinds of proof. But now, i’m starting to rethink the theory. I regretfully came across some spoilers for future episodes. And they do sort of make sense. Like whenever Regina got the curse back from Maleficent, Maleficent said “Not even its unholy power can bring your loved one back from the dead.”. I had always thought that Rumplestiltskin killed her baby. But I don’t think Rumple would ever actually do that. In the episode “What happened to Frederick” Katherine asks regina if she has ever been in love and Regina says “Yes, once.” And you can see real pain in her eyes. So that leads me to wonder what Snow actually did to her. Because the writers are going with the theme “evil is not born, its made.”.

[weedith]

I don’t read spoilers so this is just based on my own speculation —- I get the sense that Regina’s pain is somehow to do with a child. In “Snow Falls” Charming asks Snow if she really did ruin the Queen’s life and Snow says “yes.” I don’t think Snow stole EQ’s boyfriend. Snow seemed almost regretful when she said yes, and I don’t see that as a rivals for love relationship. I also see EQ as a generation older since she was married to Snow’s father. I don’t have a scenario of how it might have happened but I am thinking maybe EQ lost a baby or lost the ability to have a child. That would be consistent with Regina wanting Henry.

Just a theory.

[hjbau]

I would think the Queen is at least ten maybe fifteen years older then Snow. It seems to me that what happened between Snow and Regina has to do with a guy. Maybe Regina had a love and her mother didn’t like it and so her mother had the guy killed.

[ciela_crow]

That would seem like her mom. They say the magic day is going to be April 1st. So thats when were going to find out why shes so evil.

[Slurpeez]

Ginnifer Goodwin and OUAT creators, Kitsis and Horowitz talk about what to expect in episode 18 regarding the EQ and her motives:

Those parallels will play heavy into an early April episode, where the audience will finally learn the catalyst of the Evil Queen’s hatred for Snow White, which ultimately lead to the curse. To tease the upcoming reveal, Kitsis asked fans to ponder this: “Why was the Evil Queen so unhappy at their wedding? Why did her very wedding make her so upset?” Adds Horowitz: “True love seems to piss off the Evil Queen, why is that?”

“It’s a real gift to the audience that we’re going to tell that story this season,” Goodwin notes. “It’s a very important piece of the puzzle, and folks will sympathize with the Evil Queen in ways they’re not expecting.”

From a recent interview of Lana Parrilla (Regina) regarding the EQ’s mother and her love for Henry:

As TVGuide.com previously reported, that episode will flash back to a young Evil Queen – and a young Snow White not played by Goodwin – and the Queen’s own mother, Cora (Barbara Hershey). “Cora helps me understand Regina more because the way Regina is with Henry – we see that she loves her son, maybe not in the healthiest way, but she does and that’s very similar to how Cora loves Regina,” says Parrilla, who also teases that we may see more heart-crushing before the season is up. “Cora loves her daughter, but she wants the best for her and she controls and manipulates the situation in the same ways that Regina does with Henry.”

While Parrilla was shy to say whether Regina might ultimately change her mind about the curse, she noted, “There are some concerns and questions around the curse that you’ll see, like, who really made that curse and what was in that curse?”

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/tv/tvguide/article/Once-Upon-a-Time-s-Mama-Drama-Will-Emma-Finally-3395800.php#ixzz1ojEah0ID

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

[ciela_crow]

I’m gonna try question 11. Will Regina ever be redeemed?

I really don’t know how I feel about her being redeemed or not. I know that I hate her with a passion, but I have felt bad for her on occasion. I think that somewhere (in this season or not) we’re going to find out why she created the curse, what Snow did to her, who she loved, and any other reason she may have had for enacting the curse. Lets face it, we all want our happy endings, and our enemie’s, not so much. I think that overall, she was heartbroken and miserable and angry, and her need for veangence against Snow White ultimately led to her using the curse. What she did was crazy, horrible, and just plain evil right? But it took guts. So I think she won’t be forgiven for what she did, but she will be understood.

[hjbau]

I think that there is a chance for the Queen to be redeemed because the person she is the most angry with, Snow, is still alive and then Henry is there and i could imagine her doing something redeemable. Saving Henry’s life. I can’t imagine it right now, but i could imagine the show going somewhere where it is possible.

[obisgirl]

@Midnight Dreary wrote:

For general discussion on the Once Upon a Time character Regina Mills/Evil Queen.

Here are a few study questions to get the conversation started:

1. What was the Evil Queen’s reasoning behind choosing this particular curse?

She tried to kill Snow by hiring the huntsman (that backfired since he took pity on her), the poisoned apple didn’t work. The dark curse was probably her last option.

@Midnight Dreary wrote:

2. Does the Evil Queen know all of the details of the curse?

She may not. She knew the curse would create an existence where all happy endings would be stolen but she didn’t even know that Rumple would end up remembering his FT past, which is why he allowed him to have a good life and agree to his stipulation that she has to obey whenever he says, “Please.”

@Midnight Dreary wrote:

6. Why did Regina Mills choose to adopt a son?

I think the reason why adopted Henry is because she learned very quickly that what Maleficent said was true, enacting the Dark Curse will create a void she will never be able to fill. But the EQ, being a stubborn witch, decided to adopt Henry, thinking he could fill that void but I don’t think it really has.

@Midnight Dreary wrote:

7. What is the Evil Queen’s relation to Rumpelstiltskin?

I had a spin-off theory that she was Rumple’s original wife but I don’t think that’ll work anymore. From ‘Skin Deep’ though, it looked like they were ‘frenemies’ like how the EQ is frenemies with Maleficent.

@Midnight Dreary wrote:

8. Does Regina Mills know about Rumpelstiltskin’s dagger?

I hope not. I don’t want the EQ to have more power than Rumple.

@Midnight Dreary wrote:

11. Will Regina Mills/Evil Queen ever be fully redeemed?

I want Mr. Gold/Rumple to be redeemed but I’m not sure I like the idea of the EQ being redeemed. Some people are just innately evil. I think the EQ is pure evil. Plus, I don’t want to forget how she crushed Graham’s heart.

[mia]

I think one of the messages of the show is that there isn’t pure evil or pure goodness. I’m surely not defending what Regina has done so far, but we need to learn of the real reason behind it, yet. Yes, she’s evil, but she’s also desperate and lonely, not to mention her affection for Henry (not the healthiest, but it’s there). Pure evil wouldn’t feel anything of the sort. Pure evil doesn’t need a reason for its acts and just does it for the pleasure of doing it. We haven’t seen any of the characters do that so far. They did horrible things, but they always did them because they had a reason. It wasn’t always understandable to us – and it shouldn’t – but they were driven to do them by their emotions, something true evil doesn’t really have.
I like to use Lord Voldemort as an example of pure evil. The guy truly didn’t have any morals, didn’t care for anybody or anything but himself. He did the things he did because he could do it and because he found pleasure in them (and because he thought he was right).

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