Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26211594-20151009183748/@comment-5106672-20151110031906

LostGirl01 wrote: Well, let's look at its dictionary defenition, shall we?: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense  She claims to be this good, moral person, and yet does evil things when people aren't watching, like ripping out Belle's heart and using it to manipulate Rumple.

Fine, then my next logical assumption is that my commentary is not being acknowledge not because of the perceived insult as you say, but due to lack of willingness. Wait, how do we call that, again? Just joking.

With this said, let's see what the show presents us with, shall we? Regina would be a hypocrite if she told people one thing, then went off and did the exact opposite in the present. Example: "Please, I've changed and I'm good now. Why won't anybody accept me?", then she goes and slaughters a neighbourhood of peasants. "Emma, you shouldn't have ripped your son's girlfriend's heart", then she goes and rips hearts right, left and centre. She had her big character turning point in Mother, when she realised hew own part in causing others' as well as her own misery and stopped clinging to her victim complex. Has she been doing any of the above after that? Because if so, I might be watching the wrong show and have some massive catch up to do.

What she's doing now is providing others with insight and advice based on her own experience and ACTING on said insight and advice. She isn't calling out Emma for ripping Violet's heart because she thinks when Regina did it it was god but when others do it it's wrong. She is calling out Emma because she has finally, at long last, realised what she herself did was wrong and doesn't want Emma to go through the same path of darkness, guilt, self-justification and all. She has advised Emma not to give in to dark magic; the next thing, she aimed fireballs sideways to Arthur's shoulder as a decoy, instead of hitting him or, say, knock him and the guards off like she did the Lost Boys. Speaking of which, to be fair, she's been protecting Emma from that kind of darkness since the Neverland arc (remember going dark herself not to have Emma do that?). That's learning from your mistakes and not wanting others to repeat them because you've gained wisdom on how bad what you did was. She is giving advice and acting on that, not like, giving advice then still doing what she says is wrong, which would be hypocrisy indeed.

Then we've got the Evil Queen façade. First, it is wrong to assume that she admits her dark past to Emma because she's the only one who knows her dirty secrets: I guess the whole Storybrooke knows about that. Second, please, do tell us how nice you are when you're angry at, or threatening people who are opening hostile to you. I'm not even bringing up the whole bad parenting argument and the need not to be perceived as weak, I'll stick to simple logic: someone's treatening you, you remind them you can actually cause harm to deter them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the threats have followed suit since the turning moment in Mother, have they?

So yes, she went from "Perhaps I'm good and everyone sees me as evil", then attempting to blow the whole town up in S2 – which isn't hypocrisy, it's downright delusion and that's another thing altogether – to trying to hold up to standards while recurring to evil ways to haste things, to doing so strictly as desperate measures, to realising she shouldn't do that at all and actually not doing that. Please, do tell me where the hypocrisy is in that.