Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20150313202428/@comment-4453062-20150506150508

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: I still don't understand how Maleficent's revival didn't break the laws of magic, but Rumple's and Ana's (the only other two resurrections) make sense. Rumple is the Dark One, as long as there exists Darkness in the world, there must be a Dark One. And a life for a life seems like it would be a pretty dark price to pay to resurrect a Dark One. As for Ana, her life was meant to continue, so she was given Well of Wonders water to revive herself with.

Mother Superior wasn't really dead for long, so she was easily revived when separated from her shadow, the Safe Haven's subjects weren't really dead or alive, they were just... undead, and aside from those cases, I can't really think of any other resurrections. There are a few others would argue. Henry (he flatlinned, and there was a line about how magic was unpredictable in our world. However, I still think it was just the sleeping curse taking full effect, and not real death), and Phillip (some argue that his soul being taken should equal death, but I don't agree. Cora even mentioned how souls could be returned to one's body.). Some cases the person turned out to not have died at all in the first place, like with Blackbeard. Now the one resurrection that I find the most problematic is Charming. His heart was literally crushed, which is typically as dead as you can get. Having Regina rip Snow's heart in half to give one half to revive Charming felt very handwavy. Not to mention, what is the price of casting the dark curse for Snow if she no longer had to lose the thing she loved most? Now there could be a price of sharing a heart, but we have yet to see it.