Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20141104223506/@comment-1894786-20141105145220

Cruella was confirmed by the actress on Twitter (talk about an oops! moment) and one theory suggests she might be a hunter of magical creatures (giving me Van Helsing vibes, honestly!) and that she might come into conflict with Maleficent, who can turn into a dragon.

After Angelina Jolie's movie earlier this year, I doubt they'd make Once's Mal the big bad. Especially since she had so many opportunities to destroy many major characters in both regular Once and Wonderland before the Curse hit (Robin and Will for stealing from her, Will and Ana for using her looking glass portal, Rumple for sending Charming to shove True Love inside of her, Charming for fighting her, Belle and Mulan for freeing Philip from her Curse, Regina for threatening her Unicorn, etc.) she's never hurt anyone except for Aurora and her mother, so I don't think Mal is a villain at all. She didn't even fight Regina head on. If you look at their fight in 1x02, she was being DEFENSIVE, not OFFENSIVE. So Maleficent isn't really evil on Once.