Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150618155459/@comment-5106672-20150714160349

Utter solitude wrote: Eh, I find it equally possible that the curse pulled people from their worlds that Regina would need or wanted to punish on a subconscious level. I really can't get behind the idea that she personally crafted an untold number of people's fates personally.

That, and we don't know that Frankenstein wasn't in the Enchanted Forest at the time. There's many possibilities. Exactly. Probably Regina held a subconscious grudge against Frankestain for failing to resurrect Daniel, as she's never been reasonable when it came to her lover. Further evidence of her not being aware of the manipilation is that she never tried to hack the Curse to have Victor remember his past and bring back Daniel during the 28 years he had him at her disposal, and she was genuinely shocked when Daniel was back. Besides, Frankestain could have made it back to the Enchanted Forest to seek a new Enchanted Heart to retry his experiment on Gerhart.

As for Jefferson, I think the fact Regina needed Cora assassinated not to end up with her in Storybrooke implies the Curse would reach for other EF natives in other lands. Well, some of them, anyway, as Anastasia wasn't brough along. That part was made very unclear by OUAT:Wonderland.

Going back to the original topic, something must have definitely happened in-between The Evil Queen, when Regina still turned to Rumple for help, and Skin-Deep, when she tried to strip him of his powers. Perhaps she learned from Maleficent of the Bald Mountain incident and argued that, given how easily Rumple tried to dispose of his allies/pawns when it suited him, it was safer to outpower him before he tried a trick on him.