Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20160901162450/@comment-5052946-20160913133545

CoolDudeAl wrote: 8Rob wrote: I don't think they had anything planed for Zelena after 3x20 I always found her "death" suspisious, especially since in the flashback Glinda explained how the pendant kind of becomes a lifeforce for them, and the pendant was totally fine in Regina's vault.

I think they did plan to make her come back. Maybe not making her good like Regina, but I think the whole Marian thing was already planned as unlike the other vilains, Zelena had an extremely similar background to Regina, making her much more interesting than Pan, for example.