Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1894786-20151104191856/@comment-24674051-20151112183800

Actually, in response to the people that think Cora and Pan may be going soft. Assuming that we are looking at an Underworld representation, it may very well be that they are not going soft, so much as they have to pay a pennance before they will be allowed to move on to the afterlife. Some mythologies of the afterlife include having people correct their past mistakes before being allowed to move on. We would not see Ingrid in this sequence, because she actually corrected her mistakes (at least most of them) before she sacrificed herself. But the Other villains (Cora, Pan, Cruella, the Blind Witch, James, etc.) would need to make up for their past mistakes. We might also see Killian's father here (depending on how that story plays out). So, in order to move on, they are going to have to shape up (according to common social standards). That may be why they might appear to be "going soft".

That's all just speculation, though.