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Eskaver wrote: Chameleon-Guy wrote: Regina still reabsorbed her darkness, isn't that the same thing? I don't see what damage was done. Saying Regina solved self-love before is incorrect. Regina been established that she hated what she was becoming in 2x02, but Regina always projects the blame to the wrong target and got nowhere fast. In season 4, she learned that her happiness shouldn't be contigent on a single person. Hook learned that in the following season. Rumple....I don't think has. All our villains on the main cast are self-loathing. So, saying that Regina always put Regina first is quite misleading. Regina put her hatred/revenge above all else. That's why she killed her father, putting her revenge above all else. Regina is completely self involved.

She doesn't regret any of the evil she did because she got soemthing (Henry) out of it,

In s4 her plan was to make someone else give her a happy ending without having to do any actual work and flat out said she deserved one. Even though said plan involved essentialyl raping her "soulmate" and potentially erasing the people she claims to love from existence.

She made Robin's rape about her and how she felt.

In the s5 finale, her whole speech was "I hate that I'm a villain because it doesn't work out well for me." Her whole point was that if she reverts, she doesn't get a happy ending, not 'innocent people will get hurt'.

To say that Regina needed to "learn to love herself" is ludicrous, she has always loved herself. Her problem is she is never satisfied with what she has.