Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24018644-20150413153456/@comment-25926288-20150503110535

Budloopy4 wrote: I feel like Zelena is more powerful than Ingrid was, but then again sometimes weaker magicians get the upper hand on others sometimes. For example, I don't know why rumple didn't just poof belles heart out of Regina's hand and kill/punish her two episodes ago. Not that I want that, but he is the freakin dark one, dark it up rumple. And also that time when the queens of darkness kidnapped belle, he was magically holding maleficent while cruella and ursula were holding belle. Why didnt he just poof the other two, or cut the tentacles, or something. Three of the arguably weakest witches on the show somehow magically outnumbered the, as the wizard of oz put it, "the most powerful sorceror in all the realms," give or take. Magic in Once (though I love it) is largely "Does what ever the plot demands?" So far we never really see stronger magic users hit by someone weaker. We see Elsa hit Ingrid, okay. That's about it. My theory was that you can't poof magical items once they are out of your posession, which was why Cora had to coerce Snow to give her the dagger or why the Dark One never just poof the dagger into existence, instead they have to carry it around. But that has been disproven.

Remember that scene where the powerful deity Poseidon couldn't just take the shell from Hook? Yeah, so convincing, right? In theory, he could have froze him, cut off his hand, pry open his fingers and take the shell. Or just poof it into his hand, like he did the squid ink.

My theory is that Ursula's tentacles are like a squid and can immobolize/ neutralize even the most powerful magic users, like squid ink. Ursula could have literally killed Belle even if she was teleported. Now, why didn't he immobilize them like he did to all the Merry Men in 3x16, Emma and Snow in 4x11, etc because of the plot. He's the most powerful in the land, but they need to build up the QOD as a formidable opponent and show that they can stand up to a powerful opponent.

In truith, Ursula was stronger than we ever got to see and we'll never see. She has Poseidon's powers plus her own and we saw very little (Strong, but not skilled even though she had like 200 years?). Cruella had one power and that was hardly a threat. Maleficent is actually quite powerful, they just downplayed her to raise up Regina. I mean if Regina was shown losing and being weak in the second episode noone would take the character seriously as a threat.

So, Ingrid was clever and used her powers effectively, but she wasn't --well, if Rumple couldn't tell, I doubt Ingrid would be able to.