Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20160301190120/@comment-26116863-20160502195430

JennaMae wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: I agree. I just don't see Regina, after everything she's gone through, reverting back to EQ. Even if Robin dies (as many suspect) She'll be sad, but she has many friends, and now even close family, to help her deal with tragedy. The theory about Regina reverting to the Evil Queen has to do with the Jekyll/Hyde theme we're predicting for 6A. That tale has to do with someone taking a potion that turns them into someone else - an evil version of themselves, right? They're saying that someone is going to slip Regina the potion and THAT will make her into the "Evil Queen" for the duration of the arc, not that she's going to decide for herself to go back to being the EQ because Robin died. Because like you said, she has a family now with the Charmings and just started a real sisterly relationship with Zelena. The writers (and the viewers) do seem to love the EQ and that persona has been brought up a lot recently, so a way to bring her back in the present without having Regina take a huge backslide in her redemption would be for it to be an involuntarily change. This all sounds intriguing to me, although from the wording, I still don't think she would be the person that A&E and Jen are talking about. She could take the potion herself if she was upset enough but felt that she needed a character -regression-shortcut after being good for so long. She can be irrational when she's upset, like when she drank that infertility poition to spite Cora. Something like "I want to be evil again, but I can't bring myself to kill anyone. You people weakened me with emotions! ".

Maybe if she lost all hope after losing Robin and began to think that being a Hero was futile. She would also need to have something at stake. She would basically be following Rumple's lead.

I know it's far fetched, but I wanted to throw the possibility out there.