Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-99.8.108.104-20130507084912/@comment-5679696-20130511005734

Applegirl wrote: GothicNarcissus wrote: She was alive when she was ripped from the Enchanted Forest via the Curse, thus in her Enchanted Forest page she counts as alive. Her Storybrooke page states she's undead, as she died in Storybrooke. Same goes for The Huntsman and Graham, if you notice. You're correct about her counting as "Alive" in the EF because she was affected by the curse. As for the Storybrooke page, yes, she does count as "Undead". It's different from the case of the Huntsman and Graham because the Huntsman was affected by the curse, too, but Graham died a true death in Storybrooke when Regina crushed his heart. Before that, he was just alive without his heart.

For Maleficent's Storybrooke counterpart, she's died at least twice before. Once when Emma killed her with Charming's sword, and then again when Hook stabbed her with his hook. I would count that as being "Alive" but a very twisted and unnatural kind of way to be alive since every time she dies, she is prevented from dying a true and final death like Graham due to the magic in the cave forcing her to regenerate over and over. I think that's why she looked like less and less of former dragon self when she was made to come back from death via magic. I think the terms "die" and "come back from death" do not apply for this case. I think that the spell in the cave doesn't allow her to die, actually. She's just turned into another shape.

So, when Emma "killed" her, she just turned into Maleficent (Ashes Form), then when Hook and Regina went down she turned into Maleficent (Ridiculous Form). When Hook "killed" her, she didn't even became dust, she turned into Maleficent (Ridiculous Huge Form). So, I see it as she has never died.