Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13475854-20140330141810/@comment-3560615-20140508051138

Stonicus wrote: Malificent fought Regina to keep Regina from getting the dark curse, saying that was too evil even for her. So, she might not be as evil as it would require for a good villain.

I have to admit, just because of this I'd love to see Malificent as a recurring antagonist on the show. With Regina and Rumpel we have "heroes" that struggle to become good and try to fight the darkness in them (at least Regina, Rumpel - in my opinion - will always be something like a wildcard). With Malificent we have an antagonist who decided to retire just to be thrown into a dungeon in a form she couldn't change and maybe doesn't like just to be slain and be revived as a ghost... So maybe her way of answering to that - if breaking the original Dark Curse revived her in EF - is to swear revenge on Regina and struggle to find the darkness in her again.

I'm not sure if I want her to be the "known" main antagonist, but as some kind of Regina's personal nemesis and counter-character, that could be really cool. So maybe they reintroduce her in 4B, starting her quest to become really dark again, and then transform her slowly into the Disney-Canon-Malificent as Mistress of all Evil from season 5 on, making her some kind of the mastermind behind future-villains while on the outside she seems to stay in retirement - maybe even becoming close to Regina (once again?). Something like Harley Quinn on the short-lived Birds of Prey-show, the true villain in disguise who manages to be close to the heroes.