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I don't think so. Adam and Eddy have said several times I think that the idea began with thinking about how frustrating it would be to be the Evil Queen and always lose, and they thought about where she could win and decided it would have to be in our world. Then they went from there. Regina was always going to be the character of the Evil Queen, since the idea of the Evil Queen was how the show began.