Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150420021238/@comment-25926288-20150425030454

BallerinaBelle wrote: Agree with everything everyone said here and just want to add, even the law says self-defense is not murder. Murder is primarily about intent, I think Charming even explained to Snow at one point that the difference in killing Regina for revenge and someone else for protection was the intent. They only vaguely remember things in previous arcs, lol. Charming was clearly fine with killing Regina, was he tempted by the darkness and was going to be a villain? I mean it's not like he changed his mind!

As I put it, anyone can do good or evil things and sometimes gray things. Emma's intent was clearly saving her son...unless the writers are going to say she wasn't thinking about her son, she just wanted to take her anger at her parents out on someone...sigh! I mean if they wanted that they could have rescued Henry and then in a dark alley Emma kills Cruella, then we know the clear, obvious intent.