Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24674051-20140422161814/@comment-6770938-20140424090716

Unless she assassinate Ava. Let's summarize the possible outcomes if the past is altered.

First off, Zelena arrives at the time Ava was eavesdropping Cora and Jonathan. And she assassinates Ava, and the outcomes might be -

With Ava dead, Leopold and Ava would't be married, thus shutting down Snow's birth. And since snow never existed, she and David would never meet, fall in love, get married or give birth to Emma. With Emma wiped, she wouldn't have met Neal, therefore Henry would never be born. Also Cora would never met prince Henry and Regina's birth would also be shut down.

But I guess Zelena was really stupid not to think that while this plan would bring her revenge, once thought through, she would also realize that it would also backfire on her.

In the original timeline, Cora met Rumple after she gave away Zelena, being humiliated by Ava again, and then learned the ways of magic. If Ava's dead, then I guess Zelena would never have been in foster cares, not rejected, not travelled to Oz, not acquire the Gateway Hirgh Heels from Walsh, nor become Rumple's apprentice, or learn the ways of magic, for she probably will just living her good life in the palace with the riches. Also, Cora also wouldn't have met Dark One Rumple, since she's then happily married to Leopold. And there would be no magic for either of them.

With no magic for Zelena or Cora, things would get REAL messy since neither of them has the ability to perform any of their original actions, and hence triggers the Grandfather Effects, causing a paradox that would very well cease all their existences.

Wow, my mind is getting messed up trying to make sense of the space-time continuum.

Anyway, does she really have to go through all these hard ways to time travel? She has the Gateway High Heels, for chrissakes! Why not just transport herself to LWM 1985 and meet with Dr. Brown and "borrow" his DeLorean? That would save a hell of a lot of time.

Time travel breaks the laws of magic, but it's possible in a world of science, and it does not break the rules there.

Thoughts?