Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25536775-20170510235618/@comment-25536775-20170525000406

Eskaver wrote: DracoWombat wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: I would say that since Black invented the Dark Curse in the first place, she was able to make a version where she didn't need to crush a heart. Besides, it is clearly somewhat different, as the smoke was different from what we have seen everytime the Dark Curse is cast. So long story, short: It's not the exact same curse, so it doesn't need a heart. The smoke for Hook's curse was different from Regina's, and so was Pan's.

Regina and Snow: Black with shades of purple and green lightning.

Pan: Green

Dark Hook: Vibrant purple with yellow lightning.

Black Fairy: Black Still wonder if they aren't just meaningless choices. (Purple = Transportation? Green (Snow) and Yellow (Hook) = Memory loss, Black = Storybrooke creation/alteration? Although Black's seemed more like Regina's curse, simply on steriods.)

Green as a color was a running theme throughout season three (I guess contrasting with the red in seasons one and two?), Neverland had a lot of green and it seemed like Pan's signature color (to a lesser extent than it was Zelena's, but still).

I mean, the changed Dark Curse look in season five was probably just a special effects budget issue; the yellow matches the color of Dreamcatcher Magic.

Black's Curse looked the most different from Regina's IMO. Black's spread in graceful tendrils of pitch black smoke with no color variations and no particularly chaotic look. The other curses had lightning and other colors, and spread as a homogenous mass through the ground.