Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5679696-20130311021240/@comment-6336478-20150401022526

Eskaver wrote: Well, he is! He doesn't have to be in Wonderland being ignored or dominated by his wife, the Queen of Hearts. I mean the husband of the queen is the king, and Henry has similar characteristics of the King of Hearts.

Frome Sparknotes: The King of Hearts - The coruler of Wonderland. The King is ineffectual and generally unlikeable, but lacks the Queen’s ruthlessness and undoes her orders of execution.

Well, Henry didn't do the undoing of executions, but then again the QoH didn't take people's hearts in the book.

Like the Red King, he was a bit more subtle. I would have guessed the White King simply because he was wearing white, but then they mentioned he was the Red King.

Henry isn't directly based on him, but is definitely an allusion to. Most could see when Regina's parents both showed up, that they would definitely be the King and Queen of Hearts if Cora was indeed Queen of Hearts. (Since we're on the Internet, this may come out as bit rude, and I don't mean it that way)

Have you read the novels? You're quoting Sparknotes, which is not the same thing, it's made for students who are too lazy to read/need help remembering the broadstrokes of literature (I used in school myself when I disliked a novel)

It seems like your argument is largely "Well she's the queen so he MUST be based on the king" and that just doesn't hold water. The King of Hearts in the novels has a fully formed personality that really isn't all that much like Henry's (there are similarities, but it feels more like conincidense to me. I doubt they planned for him to be King of Hearts back in 102)

This is OUaT, a unique story, and just because the Queen's husband is the King of Hearts in the book doesn't make Cora's husband that. Heck, maybe they were divorced at the time! (Wouldn't that be a gas?)