Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-5895297-20131019194655/@comment-1916997-20131031152318

Thought I'd explain this just in case people still don't understand the Red Queen. The Red Queen is not met to be a Regina-type villian. The Red Queen is a chess master villian. This is a type of villian who manipulates everyone around them to acheive their goals. We saw in the second episode how she even bested Jafar, using her wit, while Jafar can only use brute force (through Vadar strangle) when he wants something. This is especially good as the Red Queen (in both her original version in Through the Looking Glass, and in this show) is based on an actual chess piece (the queen, of course), which they allude to in her chess piece shaped castle. Also, side note, the Queen of Hearts is based on the playing card of the same name, but most of you probably realized that seeing as how in the animated Disney film, the guards were actually shaped like playing cards.