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[[folder:Cruella De Vil]]
!!Cruella De Vil
->'''Played By:''' Victoria Smurfit
->'''Centric Episodes:''' "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "Sympathy for the De Vil"

A young woman who is seemingly trapped by her abusive mother. She sought out the Author's help in escaping and was granted by him the power to control animals, before revealing that she, herself, has killed her own father, and her two stepfathers afterwards.
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See [[Characters/OnceUponATimeEnchantedForest the Enchanted Forest character page]].
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[[folder:Madeline]]
!!Madeline
->'''Played By:''' Anna Galvin

Cruella's mother, who locks her in the attic after killing all three of her husbands in the past.
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* TheBeastmaster: Unlike her daughter, it's not from magic. She's just really good at training dogs.
* BlackWidow: Cruella says she's had three husbands and killed them all. [[spoiler: As it turns out, however, Cruella was the one who killed Madeline's husbands.]]
* KarmicDeath: She used her dalmatians to force Cruella to obey her. [[spoiler:When Cruella gets her magic, she takes control of the dalmatians and command them to kill Madeline.]]
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A young woman who seemingly is trapped by her abusive mother. She sought out the Author's help in escaping and was granted by him the power to control animals, before revealing that she, herself, has killed her own father, and her two stepfathers afterwards.

* AbusiveParents: Subverted ''hard''. She comes off this way at the start of "Sympathy for the De Vil", but in the end she turns out to be anything but...
* AdaptationalBadass: From a fashion designer with no magic powers to TheBeastmaster. Though this actually is more in line with her portrayal in the original book.
* TheAlcoholic: "Cruella! Thought I caught a whiff of desperation and gin."
** Then again, as Rumple says it, it could just be a case of KickTheDog.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Cruella in "Darkness in the Edge of Town", where she blames gin along with bad judgment for her misfortunes.
* AnachronismStew: Her wardrobe choices really stand out in the Enchanted Forest. "Sympathy for the De Vil" reveals that she's originally from 1920s England in another world (like Alice's Victorian world), however.
* ArcVillain: One of the main antagonists of the Queens of Darkness arc.
* AxCrazy: She slaughters people left and right for nothing other than sick amusement. This part of her is so bad that [[spoiler: her idea of a happy ending was being allowed to resume her killing spree.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: Initially with Gold, Maleficent and Ursula. However, after Maleficent's return, she and Ursula become her and Gold's CoDragons and Cruella is eventually [[spoiler: killed by Emma]].
* TheBeastmaster: Her magic is power over animals.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:In "Sympathy for the De Vil", she acts like a poor abused woman to manipulate the Author into giving her the power to kill her mother. She shows her true colors when he comes home and she's finished making her new fur coat.]]
* ButtMonkey: Mary Margaret knocks her out with a frying pan in "Poor Unfortunate Soul" and in "Best Laid Plans", the flashbacks to the Enchanted Forest show her getting knocked out by sleeping dust and [[spoiler:sucked into a portal to the Land Without Magic]].
* CardCarryingVillain: Rather uniquely among the show's major villains, she's just plain evil and owns it, without any kind of tragic backstory to explain her actions until "Sympathy for the De Vil". [[spoiler:And the backstory pretty much explains that she effectively became one of the most depraved characters in the show as a child, and was locked in the attic by her mother to circumvent this.]]
* CoolCar: Her classic Excalibur Series IV, complete with "DEV IL" vanity plate.
* DeadpanSnarker: Cruella manages to ''out snark Rumplestiltskin''... by asking him if he wants a step stool so that he can look her in the eyes when he threatens her.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Her final fate, blasted off a cliff by Emma.]]
* TheDragon: To Maleficent and Gold with Ursula.
* ForTheEvulz: It is a recurring theme in the series that evil is not born, it is made. [[spoiler:Cruella is the only true exception to that rule. She absolutely relishes in acting evil, and has no qualms in manipulating, betraying and killing people. She poisoned her own father, killed the two other husbands of her mother, killed her mother by making her dogs eat her alive, ''and'' killed the dogs to wear their fur as a mantle. And she would not have stopped there. For all that he did wrong, the Author did the universe a favor by magically making her unable to kill anyone. You know that this woman is thoroughly and irrevocably evil when her wish and her idea of an happy ending is to be able to kill again.]]
* GoldDigger: How she gets by in the real world.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Emma ends up blasting Cruella off a cliff to save Henry's life, unaware that the Author had made it impossible for Cruella to kill anyone. This is actually the first version of the character to actually die.]]
* LargeHam: Smurfit isn't quite at Glenn Close's level, but chews plenty of scenery in her own right.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: Her hair and eyebrows are the result of getting a face-full of the Author's magic ink.
* TheMole: She and Ursula pretend to be reformed to get into Storybrooke.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: [[spoiler:She's able to escape her mother by convincing the Author to rescue her from her attic. It's only much later that we find out he should have left her there.]]
* PrettyInMink: Taken straight from the original.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She's only introduced halfway through Season 4, but not only did she play a big part in helping Rumplestiltskin get his hands on the Dark Curse, she and Ursula share some deep, dark secret with Snow and Charming.
* TheRoaringTwenties: She's originally from a realm stuck permanently in this era.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:She killed not only her father, but her two stepfathers as well, prompting her mother to imprison her in their house's attic. After she escapes years later, and after the Author grants her power over animals, she turns her mother's Dalmatians on their owner, and then skins them.]]
* TheSociopath: Completely and utterly, [[spoiler:as confirmed in "Sympathy for the De Vil".]]
* TermsOfEndangerment: Calls other people "darling".
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Aside from "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and their own [[DayintheLimelight spotlight episodes]], try to find a scene where Ursula and Cruella ''aren't'' together.
* ThouShaltNotKill: [[spoiler:The Author used his magic quill to make her unable to kill anyone.]]
* UnexpectedCharacter: Seriously, even though Archie has Pongo for a pet, who actually expected her to show up?
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Rumpelstiltskin's plan is for her to be killed by Emma, which would send Emma on a path towards evil given that she's actually unable to hurt anyone. It works perfectly.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: [[EnfantTerrible Subverted.]]]]
* VerbalTic: She tends to call people "Darling."
* WomanOfWealthAndTaste: But of course.

* TheBeastmaster: Unlike her daughter, its not from magic. She's just really good at training dogs.

* BlackWidow: She's had three husbands and killed them all. [[spoiler: As it turns out, however, Cruella was the one who killed Madeline's husbands.]]

A young woman who is trapped by her abusive mother. She sought out the Author's help in escaping and was granted by him the power to control animals, before revealing that she, herself, has killed her own father, and her two stepfathers afterwards.

* BlondesAreEvil: Initially a blonde before adapting the black and white hairstyle after accidentally getting magic poured on her.

* ForTheEvulz: It is a recurring theme in the series that evil is not born, it is made. [[spoiler:Cruella is the only true exception to that rule. She absolutely relishes in acting evil, and has no qualms in manipulating, betraying and killing people. She killed her own father, the two other husbands of her mother, her mother by making her dogs eat her alive, ''and'' killed the dogs to wear their fur as a mantle. And she would not have stopped there. For all that he did wrong, the Author did the universe a favor by magically making her unable to kill anyone. You know that this woman is thoroughly and irrevocably evil when her wish and her idea of an happy ending is to be able to kill again.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: She used her dalmatians to force Cruella to obey her. [[spoiler:When Cruella gets her magic, she takes control of the dalmatians and command them to kill Madeline.]]

LaserGuidedKarma: She uses her dalmatians to force Cruella to obey her. [[spoiler:When Cruella gets her magic, she takes control of the dalmatians and command them to kill Madeline.]]

A young woman who is trapped by her abusive mother. She sought out the Author's help in escaping [[spoiler: and was granted by him the power to control animals, before revealing that she, herself, has killed her own father, and her two stepfathers afterwards.]]

*** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Cruella in "Darkness in the Edge of Town", where she blames gin along with bad judgment for her misfortunes.

Cruella's mother, who locks her in the attic after [[spoiler: killing all three of her husbands in the past. As it turns out, however, Cruella was the one who killed Madeline's husbands.]].

Cruella's mother, who locks her in the attic after [[spoiler: killing all three of her husbands in the past]].

Cruella's mother who tries locks her in the attic after [[spoiler: killing all three of her husbands throughout the past]].