Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-4130835-20140322115108/@comment-6588773-20140330031627

Will Nenya wrote: ... I would love to have seen Alice with the Queen of Hearts and Mad Hatter :D I couldn't agree more!

which brings me to this. I would like to leave this as a refresher about the mad hatter.

He's a bad guy. Besides leaving his daughter, Grace, he was working with then villain, Rumple, and he staged a fraud, [in Season 2, the Doctor] with Whale and Rumple so Regina couldn't have Daniel. I think that says a WHOLE LOT about Whale, and Hatter. Watch it again, you will see!

Rumple knew Regina would turn bad if Whale did not succeed bringing Daniel back, and Whale only wanted an 'enchanted heart' because a normal heart wouldn't work to bring his brother back, implying he WAS in fact ABLE to bring Daniel back, but tricked her and kept the magic heart for himself meant for Daniel, creating Evil Regina!

Why Rumple needed Regina to be Evil is a mystery… and why Whale would opt for the deal, instead of asking for an extra heart from the hundreds in Regina's Mother's (Cora's) vault of hearts, and using another of the hundreds of hearts to help her. It seems Jefferson was the middleman in all of this. I believe Regina deserves a second go to have Daniel back! Whale and Rumple are complete asses for doing this to her, and it's worse than when Regina locked Belle away (Season 1), because at least it did not end up killing anyone, making someone evil, or keeping someone dead when they could be brought back to life.

If Whale is the Wizard, he's as bad a villain as anyone else, even the WW. He essentially made Regina evil, is that not something to dwell on? He INDIRECTLY created this curse, and all the drama that's come with it, because it's all linked to Regina only wanting Daniel back, and Whale purposefully denied her that.