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BallerinaBelle wrote: Regina has only been disguising as a villain and hasn't actually been a real villain though. Plus Rumple and crew know she's not on their side and Regina evened the leverage of Robin with Belle. I think her "villain arc" is either over or hasn't started yet. Um, Regina was a villain and now not a villain and not a hero. (Gosh, I dislike these words!)

In real people words, Regina was really evil and now she's not so much. She performed an evil-grey area when taking Belle's heart and choosing to pretend to be evil.

I know I can't change anything, but #RANT, no one uses words like villain and hero in real-life like this. There are people who do good things, bad things, confusing things, sad things, selfish things, etc., but that doesn't make them evil or good or .....a villain. If Snow and David did something bad, they just did something bad. They aren't villains. Regina made a lot of bad mistakes and became a villain. Now, she stopped doing selfish things and did good things. She's not a villain or sociopath, she's just a woman that made the right choice. Regina pretended to be "bad" and did a possibly bad act of using Belle's heart, but no, Regina isn't a villain.

You can be a villain from perspective, but it doesn't define who you are. Emma killed Cruella (Who I hope to see in the Season Finale), but she didn't turn evil. Emma just did a morally grey and understandable thing to do. #RANTOVER

Queens of Darkness refers to any combination of them and will likely only mean Maleficent or some partition thereof. It technically doesn't require all three, which might go to show that it could have just been the crowded Maleficent arc.