Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20160126075725/@comment-3010035-20160127000620

Here's how it goes in my opinion:

NOTE: I am counting appearances in flashbacks, as well as the main story arc.

NOTE 2: I am also counting what people did under someone else's control, like Hook in 4A, and Rumple in 3B.

Season One:

Main Antagonist: Regina

Major Antagonists: Rumple, Sidney, and King George

Minor Antagonists: Maleficent, Cora, and Jefferson

Episodic Antagonists: Martin, Myrna, Hordor, Zoso, and the Blind Witch

Season Two:

Main Antagonists: Cora, Greg and Tamara

Major Antagonists: Regina, Rumple and Hook

Minor Antagonist: King George

Episodic Antagonists: Wraith, Maurice, William Smee, Anita, Jack, James, Eva, Xavier, Sheriff of Nottingham, Maleficent, The Shadow and Felix.

Season Three:

Main Antagonists: Peter Pan, and Zelena

Major Antagonists: Felix, The Shadow, and Rumple

Minor Antagonists: Regina, John, Michael, Walsh, and Blackbeard

Episodic Antagonists: Greg, Tamara, Devin, Cora, Eva, and Jonathan

Season Four:

Main Antagonists: Rumple, Ingrid and Isaac

Major Antagonists: Hook, Zelena, Cruella, Maleficent, and Ursula

Minor Antagonists: Regina, Sidney, Hans, Blackbeard, Charming, Snow White, Emma, Lily, and the Sheriff of Nottingham

Episodic Antagonists: Bo Peep, Zoso, the Duke of Weaseltown, the Chernabog, Cora and the Darkness.

Season Five (Thus Far):

Main Antagonist: The Darkness

Major Antagonists: Emma, Zelena, Arthur, Hook

Minor Antagonists: Sir Kay, Nimue, Lord Macintosh, and the Dark Ones

Episodic Antagonists: Fury, Percival, Vortigan, Brennan, Regina, and Rumple

If anyone is confused about some of the placements:

Rumple is a major antagonist in Season Three, due to his prescense as the Dark One serving Zelena being antagonistic, and due to his antagonistic appearances in flashbacks.

Regina is a minor antagonist in Season Three, due to all the flashbacks to her as the evil queen (in addition to being the main antagonist of the season finale).

John and Michael are minor antagonists as they had two antagonistic appearances (Dark Hollow, and Save Henry).

Hook is a major antagonist in Season Four due to all the things he did under Rumple's control, or in deals set with Rumple, and due to his antagonstic appearance in flashback.

Regina is a minor antagonist in Season Four, due to all the flashbacks to her as the evil queen, and her actions in A Tale of Two Sisters, and Breaking Glass.

Charming and Snow are antagonists in Season Four due to what they did in Unforgiven and Best Laid Plans, in addition to being some of the main antagonists of the season finale.

Emma is a minor antagonist due to her increasingly antagonistic actions in Sympathy for the De Vil, Lily and Mother.

The Darkness and Nimue in my opinion are seperate beings (as stated by Merlin), and therefore I feel as though the Darkness is the main antagonist of Season Five, and Nimue is merely a minor one.

Regina is an episodic antagonist in Season Five, due to the flashbacks to her as the evil queen.

Rumple is an episodic antagonist in Season Five, due to his actions in Swan Song.