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Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Oh, God. Cruella. Or maybe Hades. Not even love could redeem him.

That's a bit unfair, though. It took Rumple what, all of six seasons to finally be able to choose family / love over power, how'd you expect Hades to make that in two episodes? Perhaps, given time, Zelena could have redeemed him after many and many and many slips on both parts. But alas, he got whacked at the first occasion.

I think the perception of how evil villains are also depends a lot on how much screen time they had.