Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13475854-20141208062733/@comment-25597861-20141210220201

Ingrid's death was the most tragic because just when she had come to her greatest epiphany, she couldn't spend any more time with Emma or Elsa. She had finally learned to love herself. Imagine the good she could have done to protect Emma against future villains like Cruella, Maleficent, and Ursula.

And I wouldn't really classify her as a villain, more as an antagonist. She was a woman whose heart was frozen (sometimes I wished someone had ripped out her heart on the show to see if it was truly frozen like Marian's) and then it finally defrosted. Her hairstyle kind of points to this because it was always in a bun as SQ-the woman with the cold heart.

Rumple doesn't elicit that same reaction because his greatest motivation was power and Ingrid's was more for acceptance. And in this world, where everyone desires to be accepted for who they are, her death is more poignant.

But I wonder- Rumple said that magic is never dead and can live on in different forms. This was true for Maleficent who didn't really die. I wonder if SQ could somehow return maybe if they found some of that mirror dust but I highly doubt it. I just wish that when they send off the villains, that they give them some kind of loophole for them to come back. With the way the show is going, I'm going to assume that Cruella, Ursula and Maleficent will die in the next arc. Then that leaves Jafar to somehow escape the genie bottle or some other fairy tale villain- already killed off the blind witch and would be nice to see Zelena again. The pool for iconic villains is shrinking and I don't think it's a good formula for the show.