Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140530013558/@comment-1894786-20140614002835

April35313 wrote: I'm still thinking that Marian will turn out to be an evil villain. It amps the drama and gives them a villain for the 4B arc. Not too mention it will allow the consequences of Emma and Hook's messing with the timeline to be something other than the personal heartbreak of Regina. Bringing Elsa to SB I think is unlikely to have long term consequences, for I doubt any character of major importance is going to die because of it. Rather, I think that there will be the threat of harm, and no doubt discomfort, and some people will turn into icicles, though everything will be ultimately turned back to normal.

However, much as people love Elsa, if they are to keep her from being a true villain (and I doubt she will be killed), I can't see that extending beyond the 4A arc. They will need some sort of villain for 4B. Marian as evil being, i.e. Maleficent of the Black Fairy or some other, would fill that role handily, not to mention that it would make a nice parallel arc for Regina. As the villain of the first season she spent her time trying to ruin the Charming's happy ending/trule love. Would it not make sense to have a villian who spent her/its time trying to ruin hers by being the fly in the OQ ship ointment? Moreover, they've already said that Regina will not go full-on evil again, and while Rumple could become a villain again (assuming he loses Belle for misleading her in regards to the dagger), too many fans ship Rumbelle, so I can't really see that happening either. Thus, I would think that they would need a villain for the second half that was truly evil. Elsa won't die, and Maleficent has already been introduced and more likely than not, Kristin Bauer Van Straten will come back since True Blood has now officially ended. I do like Marian being a villain, but since she helped Snow White, I don't see that happening.

I'd like either Jafar to come back (from Wonderland) or Hades to be introduced. Maybe even Cruella DeVille or Clayton (from Tarzan). Maybe even Madame Gothel (Rapunzel's mother in the Once universe?). There's so many Disney villains they could choose from and implement.

My main hope is that they decide to skip the 4B villain altogether and focus on something else. Like Storybrooke in 2A had no villain. It was Regina trying for redemption, Rumple working on a way to get to Bae, Charming trying to find his family and Storybrooke trying to get its ISH together after the Curse breaking and the Wraith attacking. I'd much rather have 4B be about Storybrooke trying to recover from Elsa's rampage and then everyone going through character growth in stand-alone Storybrooke plots while getting more of an over-arching plot in the fairybacks. Kind of like Season 1...