Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20141215234519/@comment-1916997-20150123064108

Fragile Daydreamer wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Mal is smiling too much. Isn't she supposed to be the villain of this arc? LOL I kind of have hopes that she'll keep her semi-redemption that we've seen in the franchise up to now and that she'll only be evil in flashbacks.

In fact, since Maleficent has seemed semi-redeemed and she is Regina's only friend from the EF, I could see her be the only QoD that survives. Of the three Queens of Darkness, Maleficent is the most likely to be truly redeemed. Disney even redeemed her, and would probably prefer if OUaT dos the same. While she does practice the Dark Arts, I doubt Maleficent will even be viewed as a villain is the flashbacks.... the villain title will be given to King Stefan. I hope the true villain is the Queen. The original Sleeping Beauty (let's call her Briar Rose for simplicity's sake, since I forgot the name of Disney's Queen...). After Frozen, if they replicated "Maleficent" for 4B, I think that would fall flat since the theater version was so gorgeous (it's Angelina Jolie's best-selling movie to date, I believe...) so I would much rather have Briar Rose be the villain, which made Maleficent come after her, then her daughter, since Aurora must've done something to piss her off, too.

But yeah, Maleficent is the most likely of the Queens of Darkness to be redeemed. Ironically, none of them are queens. Cruella's a fashion designer, Ursula's a sea witch and Maleficent is a fairy LOL Seems like Ursula is now being Once-ified as a Sea Princess/Goddess, Maleficent is now a witch and Cruella is a... Cruella is a... ? All signs point to Cruella being a skinwalker. YES! Glad somebody else is seeing/saying it! I made an argument for this awhile back.... and it would be awesome if she really turned out to be one. I'm not the only person besides you who thinks so either. Several people on various threads have been discussing this as a very real and quite interesting possiblily.