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A good bunch is about spells and how the show progressed.

I'll take Rumple for an example, his magic was reddish for majority of the teleports, if there was one. Teleporting object was purple though. A good tell of magic spells changing is the immobolization spell. In season 2 and 3, it was always blue, but then Zelena's was green....everything she did was green for no reason. That's when I believe the production crew decided to "Zelena" everyone and make the immobolization spell (seen in 5x07) for Regina purple and Rumple's reddish in season 4. Glamours were blue-ish purple, then Zelena's was green, then Rumple did a green one, then he did his usual reddish purple smoke, now it's colorless.

Rumple and Regina's magic was only really every black for the "rat" spell.

Rumple's was gray for the "tongue" spell. Amara's and Jafar's were gray for the petrification spell. Also greyish for the "immolation" spell aka disintegration.

Pan is simple as his power was practically pixie dust and only that color for one episode, which is why I never get why people think his magic was every green.

Regina has had purple, red and green blast without distinguishing what's what. I could only assume that the red is fire magic because it looks like it half the time.

Emma is "Zelena" with all her magic being white, except when she was the Dark One.

All in all. who knows.