Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25491743-20180415180332/@comment-28162607-20180608192812

DatNuttyKid wrote: AlbOuat wrote: Overall, I think Regina (particularly The Stable Boy), Rumple (Desperate Souls), Cora (The Miller's Daughter), Cruella (Sympathy for the De Vil) and Tremaine (One Little Tear) were the best backstories.

But in general all the villains backstories are pretty great, like Zelena (It's Not Easy Being Green), Hook (The Crocodile), Fiona (The Black Fairy) and Ingrid (The Snow Queen).

Ursula's was a bit underwhelming but absolutely not bad. Wish we could have seen Pan's (more in deeply), Hades' and especially Maleficent's. (Am I missing someone of the main villains?) I'm not a huge fan of Fiona's because it doesn't explain why she goes through with her destiny to destroy the realms and it's inconsistent with her present-day motives. She doesn't gain anything from her realm-destroying, and we're expected to believe all she wants is to be reunited with her son, yet she does nothing but antagonize him prior to 619. But Rumple calls her out on her inconsistency before killing her, so it seems like the writers were aware of it and never properly explained it.

I also don't really see why we need more of Pan's backstory? We saw how he became Pan and why he hated Rumple. And he explained why he was greedy and immature. We could have actually seen his time with his father and the blacksmith, but by that logic, we also would have needed to see why his father and the blacksmith became cruel. It has to stop at a certain point, lol.

Besides that, I agree with what you said. The only other arguably "main" villain with a backstory is Greg. His wasn't bad, I suppose, although I don't like him as a character. I also think that with Pan, less is more in a way. He wasn't someone the writers wanted the audience to sympathise with, so just showing that he is a lazy, immature piece of (BEEP) made him a more effective villain while explaning the "why he did what he did"