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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Regina looks shocked when Cora admits to killing Eva.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Regina looks shocked when Cora admits to killing Eva.Eva, ''especially'' when Cora explains the motive in making Regina the Queen.
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She was teaching her to be The Wise Princess, not The High Queen.


* TheHighQueen: This episode establishes that Eva was this - and her dying words were teaching Snow White to be this too.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Cora's wish that she makes to Eva's body comes true in the very next episode [[spoiler: when Snow kills her with the very candle she gave her]].
* ChekhovsGun: The candle Cora gives to Snow in the past [[spoiler: will be used to kill Cora herself in the next episode]].



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Regina looks shocked when Cora admits to killing Eva.



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%%* HostageForMacGuffin* TheHighQueen: This episode establishes that Eva was this - and her dying words were teaching Snow White to be this too.
* HostageForMacGuffin: Cora holds Johanna hostage in exchange for the Dark One's dagger


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* NiceToTheWaiter: Shockingly Snow isn't at first but is quickly taught this by her mother. Serves as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Eva.

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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Symbolized by young Snow's tiara which is noted to be heavier than it looks.



* WhamEpisode: Cora was the one who killed Snow's mother.

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* WhamEpisode: Cora was the one who killed Snow's mother. Snow vows to kill Cora.
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*WhamEpisode: Cora was the one who killed Snow's mother.
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* DeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Mary Margaret reconnects with Johanna, the now-elderly former castle servant who sent her her old tiara for her birthday. Towards the end of the episode, Cora threatens to kill Johanna unless Mary Margaret gives her Rumplestiltskin's dagger - then [[KickTheDog she flings Johanna through the clock face and sends her to her death anyway]].]]

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* DeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Mary Mary Margaret reconnects with Johanna, the now-elderly former castle servant who sent her her old tiara for her birthday. Towards the end of the episode, Cora threatens to kill Johanna unless Mary Margaret gives her Rumplestiltskin's dagger - then [[KickTheDog she flings Johanna through the clock face and sends her to her death anyway]].]]



* SecretTestOfCharacter: A variation. The Blue Fairy [[spoiler:actually Cora in disguise]] gives Snow White a candle that will save her mother's life at the cost of another's. Snow doesn't go through with it and Eva commends her on her decision. The twist is that [[spoiler:Cora]] ''wanted'' her to use it in order to corrupt her.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler: poor Johanna.]]

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* SecretTestOfCharacter: A variation. The Blue Fairy [[spoiler:actually (actually Cora in disguise]] disguise) gives Snow White a candle that will save her mother's life at the cost of another's. Snow doesn't go through with it and Eva commends her on her decision. The twist is that [[spoiler:Cora]] Cora ''wanted'' her to use it in order to corrupt her.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler: poor Johanna.]]
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->'''Cora:''' Well, there you go. You see where good gets you.

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->'''Cora:''' ->'''Regina:''' Well, there you go. You see where good gets you.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: poor Johanna.]]

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler: poor Johanna.]]
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** Queen Eva as well, since this is the only episode so far that we've even seen her.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: A variation. The Blue Fairy [[spoiler:actually Cora in disguise]] gives Snow White a candle that will save her mother's life at the cost of another's. Snow doesn't go through with it and Eva commends her on her decision. The twist is that [[spoiler:Cora]] ''wanted'' her to use it in order to corrupt her.

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->'''Snow White:''' But I thought we were royals.
->'''Queen Eva:''' We are. But that doesn't make us better than anyone else.

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->'''Snow White:''' But I thought we were royals.
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->'''Queen Eva:''' We are but that doesn't make us better than anyone else.

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->'''Queen Eva:''' We are but are. But that doesn't make us better than anyone else.

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->'''Snow White:''' But I thought we were royals.
->'''Queen Eva:''' We are but that doesn't make us better than anyone else.

->'''Cora:''' Well, there you go. You see where good gets you.



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* ExactEavesdropping: Mary Margaret just so happens to find Johanna near the spot where Cora and Regina are searching for Rumpelstiltskin's dagger and discussing their plans to use said dagger to control him.

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* ExactEavesdropping: Mary Margaret just so happens to find Johanna near the spot where Cora and Regina are searching for Rumpelstiltskin's dagger and discussing their plans to use said dagger to control him. This may or may not have been part of Cora and Regina's ploy to get Mary Margaret and David to find the dagger for them.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: poor Johanna.]]

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Upon discovering Cora and Regina's plan to find and take possession of Rumplestiltskin's dagger, Mary Margaret, with the aid of David and Mother Superior, makes it her mission to find it first; and while Mr. Gold continues his quest in New York to reunite with son, Baelfire, Hook devises a plan to rid himself of a crocodile. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, the Blue Fairy offers Snow White an unconventional enchantment that could help save her dying mother, Queen Eva.
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* HostageForMacguffin

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* DoomedByCanon: It was clear that Snow White's mother was going to die, given that her father later remarries to give Snow a new mother.
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* DeathInTheLimelight: In "The Queen Is Dead," [[spoiler:Mary Margaret reconnects with Johanna, the now-elderly former castle servant who sent her her old tiara for her birthday. Towards the end of the episode, Cora threatens to kill Johanna unless Mary Margaret gives her Rumplestiltskin's dagger - then [[KickTheDog she flings Johanna through the clock face and sends her to her death anyway]].]]

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* DeathInTheLimelight: In "The Queen Is Dead," [[spoiler:Mary Margaret reconnects with Johanna, the now-elderly former castle servant who sent her her old tiara for her birthday. Towards the end of the episode, Cora threatens to kill Johanna unless Mary Margaret gives her Rumplestiltskin's dagger - then [[KickTheDog she flings Johanna through the clock face and sends her to her death anyway]].]]
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* LimitedWardrobe: The outfit Queen Eva is buried in is the same one she wears planning a ball and then on her deathbed.
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'''Season 2, Episode 15''':
!The Queen Is Dead


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* DeathInTheLimelight: In "The Queen Is Dead," [[spoiler:Mary Margaret reconnects with Johanna, the now-elderly former castle servant who sent her her old tiara for her birthday. Towards the end of the episode, Cora threatens to kill Johanna unless Mary Margaret gives her Rumplestiltskin's dagger - then [[KickTheDog she flings Johanna through the clock face and sends her to her death anyway]].]]
* ExactEavesdropping: Mary Margaret just so happens to find Johanna near the spot where Cora and Regina are searching for Rumpelstiltskin's dagger and discussing their plans to use said dagger to control him.

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