Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20150313202428/@comment-4453062-20150506145236

DatNuttyKid wrote: The Trigger wasn't sustatining her, it was the magic of the curse. As long as they're in Storybrooke, she's alive. Yeah. Even the writers on Twitter clarified that Maleficent was never technically fully dead because of the preservation spell Regina placed on her. That was their loophole, and Adam and Eddy even admitted they purposely never completely killed her because they always had plans to bring her back one day.