Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24339224-20141014222845/@comment-24936039-20141017201710

Daveyelmer wrote: It was implied that the Snow Queen targeted Marian because she was trying to frame Elsa, and Marian had been a near-victim of Elsa's reflexively created Snow Monster, but the theory that the SQ may have targeted Marian because she disparaged Regina is, at the very least, interesting.

Interesting indeed.

Alternative - Marion is FATED to die (she has cheated death (inadvertently) by being taken to Storybrooke by Emma) so it was just one more opportunity for the scales of life/death to balance out that Auntie Vanilla cursed Marion (Auntie Vanilla had ample opportunities to curse other customers... Leroy, Roland and/or Robin).