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Eskaver wrote: Factually incorrect. People “feel” like the show does that, but it isn’t true.

Regina split her Evil self from her Good self. So, all the evil she did was within the Evil self. Of course the whole point was that Regina had to accept that.

The other characters were just doing some dissonance because it’s weird to call both of one person the same thing and responsible technically. In season 6 there is that scene where Snow and Regina talk. Snow says to Regina "in the past when you- I mean the evil queen" in reference to her past evil deeds.