Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170429134340/@comment-25926288-20170512005336

DSP88 wrote: The plot really throws everything into chaos. Every season's new villain needs to be more powerful than the last one which means continually diminishing the power of those established magic users we already know (Regina, Rumple, etc.) or else there is never going to be a challenge that our characters can't solve in one episode. Correct. They alternate powerscaling though.

First, Regina and Rumple.

Then, Cora was bounced off of Regina. Pan was scaled off of Rumple. Zelena, Ingrid, the Queens are scaled off Regina. The Dark Ones and Hades are scaled off of base Dark One (Rumple). And so on. If we went like that (although it's a tad bit more complex), it would go....

Individual Queen of Darkness < Cora = Regina < Zelena and Ingrid

Other DOs= DO Rumple < Pan < Dark Swan < Super Rumple < Hades (full power)