Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6036560-20140421102126/@comment-5106672-20140424235055

Toma Cre wrote: I think it might make an interesting moral dilemma for Emma, if Zelena succeeds in travelling to the past and killing Eva. Suppose somehow Emma escapes being erased from history due to her being the Saviour but Snow, Henry and Regina were never born.

Assume the curse didn't happen in the new timeline because Regina was not there to cast it (and Zelena died in the finale). If Emma tries to "fix" the timeline, she will be morally responsible for the entire EF population being devastated by the curse (not to mention all the lives Regina killed while she was still evil); but if she does not do anything, Henry and Snow are lost to her forever.

So Emma would have to become a villian in order to save her family. It depends on your point of view. From present day EF's point of view, she wouldn't be a villain because even all the evil Regina did including her curse brought something good, or at least some growth, to everyone. And so did Snow. So, even if it meant to bring back a tyrant and the curse, she would make things right for everybody, not only for her family.

From alternate EF yes, she would be a villain because she would potentially distrupt new happy endings and stuff. But most of the people she knew and loved wouldn't be even there – Red, just to mention one. And who knows what Rumple would do in order to get to the LWM, so that could turn into more bloodshed and darkness in the EF, so maybe she would do good after all.