Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4196008-20140716031208/@comment-4196008-20140723124243

Harbinger3781 wrote: Alexalaz wrote:

Maybe it was a better move to have Maleficent in Season 4a and after that frozen. (Since the "Dark Fairy" was for unknown reasons, mentioned so many times last year.) Hey... didn't Mal died during first season? I thought Emma sword-javelin'd her already... or was that an impostor - and the REAL Mal was somewhere out there?

Regina confirmed back in 2x20 that Maleficent is cursed to stay alive in any form, that's why she returned (in a zombie form) for the second season.