Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5583089-20140617224509/@comment-5583089-20140621174446

But even though the dark one has reformed, he is the bearer of the title which is evil, even when he tries to be good, its in his nature, even now resurrected, even though he let go of his hate a stood up to pan making him a coward no more, he is still the dark one, and without any magical training that title seems to imbue the bearer with huge power, nobody trained rumpel, he just knew and had the power and knowledge innate.

But he really wanted the power to protect his son, that's love, not a bad thing, he made some mistakes and was twisted by power but in the end, he was still a good man trying to protect his son  at any costs.

But what makes Maleficent so strong? what emotions does she rely on? jafar seemed simlar to pan in being selfish, yet he was still far weaker it seems, Emma may get powerful but not unstoppable as she is true love and therefore anchored to defensive and healing mostly, and elsa's emotions don't seem to bear the magnetude of weight held by most other users, i think she just has an innate elemental power that is highly destructive, but the dark one likely overpowered and trapped her.

Jafar seems like a dark one type character yet neither mentioned eachother, and the red queen gained magic training via cora, yet despite her own emotion and things she went through, she was no match for jafar, and it cant all be emotion, as baby zalena displayed immense power from nowhere.