Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4637931-20150420040631/@comment-4945263-20150420043552

I think Cruella never wanted a happy ending since the begging, she accepted because when she knew Issac was involved, she saw her chance at revenge at maybe the possibility to have her curse removed. Seeing Cruella's sociopathic tendencies I bet she tried to kill someone else in the past, so she was bluffing about shooting Henry to try to change Emma's mind and kill Issac for her.

I love unredemeable villains like her, because, unlike tragic villains, they don't need/have a excuse to be evil, they just are because it's fun; or like Cruella said they "splash right into the darkness and have fun with it."

In this world where only a few remain in the realm of the dead, who knows? Maybe she'll come back. Maybe the chat she had with Maleficent (before she OWNED her dragon form) about her egg keeping her young also had a change in her mortality; or maybe the ink change more than just her appereance.