Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27023843-20170805015805/@comment-25375217-20180427040619

My favorites are:

Fiona gets an honorable mention for her potential, even though she fell (in my opinion) even flatter than Tamara. Arthur, Nimue, and Jekyll/Hyde were also neat.
 * 1) Cruella: Easily the best villain on the show. Her name is not a misnomer and it's fabulous. I love sympathetic backstories, but this twist was incredible to watch.
 * 2) Ingrid: The exact opposite of Cruella; easily the most sympathetic villain. Honestly, they're pretty close to equal, but Ingrid loses out because she doesn't get snippy one-liners, lol.
 * 3) Victoria: Another fairly sympathetic villain, although less so in that it's harder to relate to her; a lot of people can say they want a family like Ingrid does, but very few can say that they driven insane locked up in a tower for years only to find out once they escaped that their family moved on from them. Still, her backstory was great and a very classic Once twist. I love the combination of Rapunzel and Lady Tremaine.
 * 4) Drizella: And we're back to sympathetic and relatable. Drizella loses to her mother largely because I'm biased towards Gabrielle Anwar, but she's also less creative and pretty straightforward as a villain -- mom was mean to me, so now I'm gonna be mean to everyone.
 * 5) Zelena: I love Zelena as a character, but purely as a villain, she loses out a bit. A lot of what I love about her has been her redemption arc. Still, she was a lot of fun in 5A and (slightly less so in) 3B, so she gets props for that.
 * 6) Tamara: Gotta include her here, too, lol. At this point, I only claim to like her because very few people do, but I still wish she had been used to her full potential, which I believe was much greater than Greg's. Sonequa was a fantastic actress but it would have been nice if they had found someone with a clear schedule. I think I've mentioned on another thread that I could honestly see Tamara being a member of the core cast starting in Season 3. (I might've posted that on Tumblr, though.)