Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170429134340/@comment-25536775-20170719211519

Eskaver wrote: Welcome to the thread that never ends!

1. I will say it in two ways: Regina wasn't that much more weak, Rumple wasn't that much more powerful. We don't have levels or numerical amounts so everything sounds very vague. So, first, we must recognize that there were like three other magic users around in that season. Regina was only in contrast to the Blind Witch, Maleficent, and Blue, besides Rumple and Cora. Regina has shown greater feats in current seasons due to powerscaling. So, nope, she wasn't any stronger in season 1, as feats would actually say she looked fairly weak in season 1.

2. It's a misunderstanding. Glinda's exact words are "But only a purveyor of the strongest light magic will be able to accomplish such a feat [of removing Zelena's pendant]". The Brackets are there to show what she was referring too. So, all in all, it's vaguery being tossed around that really doesn't mean much. It's faulty on the writers' end becuase they also use magic to refer to every magical instance and act and you may forget that technically the magic users need magic to use their magic in a magicless world that actually has magic. (braindead). Regina does have "light magic", just not mastery over the photokinetic energy that Emma often wields. (Also, a beam of energy or puff of smoke may look identical, but sometimes they are different spells and have different effects....).

3. She's not weaker. Much of the interlude she's been reduced to a fireballing witch, but she's accomplish stronger feats than when she was evil. Much of her weakness comes from her confidence in herself.

4. Rumple needed someone to kill the thing they loved. Rumple didn't cast the DC because he wanted the people he love to live. He had noone to kill. Belle, he thought was dead, and he was using the curse to get to Bae. Plus, he saw the future and Regina cast the curse.

Plus, you don't need magic to cast the Dark Curse. As for 3, the reason Regina feels extremely weak to the viewership is because Once's antagonists have become gradually more powerful as the show went on.

Season One? Regina's the main antagonist. An exceptional witch.

Season Two? She's facing Cora, who's less powerful, but skilled enough to have faced Rumpel and nearly won.

Season Three? Pan, the anthropomorphic personification of Neverland, and Zelena, who's Witch on Steroids.

Season Four? Ingrid's magic is Disney Magic, it doesn't follow the internal logic of the Onceverse so she's a headache to powerscale. As for the QoD, they're a trio and Regina actually stood rather gracefully against them.

Season Five? She's up against Dark One Bonanza, and then literally ''​expecting to fight a God. ''

Season Six? Her opponents are now an unkillable evil version of herself and a psycho fairy who's insofar the oldest being in the Onceverse, as far as we know.