Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20160301190120/@comment-1916997-20160430024137

JennaMae wrote: JMXD96 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Off the top of my head, Jefferson came to mind, as he has been to most other worlds, and he would be somewhat unexpected, seeing as Seb is usually pretty busy with other stuff. I thought the same thing, especially if the characters are Jekyll and Hyde and if they are from the LWC as many of us expect them to be since Jefferson took Frankenstein to the EF. It would definitely make a lot of sense for Jefferson to return at this point! If only I had faith that Sebastian Stan would actually want to reprise his role on OUAT due to his film success. It would be a happy surprise!

After reading around, it seems like the most popular theory is that it's actually "the Evil Queen" returning. I don't know to feel about that though because she's not actually a separate character, that was just a nickname given to Regina during a period of her life. It'd be like if Zelena announced that she wasn't going to be wicked anymore after 5x21 and then someone trying to convince me down the road that the "Wicked Witch" was a whole other person. However, the show /has/ made distinctions in the past between the "Evil Queen" and "Regina Mills" so maybe the writers are going to look at it that way. If Regina did revert back to the Evil Queen, it'd be like just another memory wipe for her character though. And you know this show HAS to have one of those like every season, haha. The way that quote is written though, would the Evil Queen really be "unexpected"? Like we see Regina revert other times to her Evil Queen persona, and we see Evil Queen in flashback quite often. To me that's not "unexpected".