Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20171024194401/@comment-34924658-20171102023255

For anyone late to the party, since the thread above and the argument now aren't necessarily the same, it has long been suspected that the Red Queen was Anastasia "Tremaine" from Cinderella, due to their multiple similarities. Eventually the writers confirmed she was indeed not Cinderella's stepsister, however, recently they implied that she was intended to be some version of her in a podcast interview, so I asked Jane Espenson on Twitter and she confirmed that they were indeed based on the same character. However, Jane specifically said "from the same fairytale". I didn't take this as meaning much, but some are saying that she meant it as Anastasia was only based on the fairytale and everything else was just a coincidence/allusion to Anastasia Tremaine. I don't agree with this, as most of the similarities (namely her name) come from the Disney film. So thus we are all divided on what the article should say. So state what you think.