History Headscratchers / OnceUponATime

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[[folder:Why didn't Drizella fight back?]]
* She could've have easily frozen Regina and Zelena in place, even while being choked, and cast the curse...unless she ''deliberately'' didn't fight back [[EvilIsPetty so Regina would have to suffer the pain of casting the curse again.]] Thoughts?

* seriously what is her problem? She shows up for like two minutes to complain that Alternate World!Robin has no right to their daughter. Which is MetaphoricallyTrue because they aren't the same person. But she acts like she has the moral high ground here - she's the woman who ought to be separated from her daughter by being locked up somewhere for committing rape by fraud to get pregnant in the first place. She does not have room to pretend that she's a victim here, she's quite the victimizer. What is her problem? And what were the show writers thinking having her show up just to remind everyone that she's a rapist? At least with Regina we aren't getting eternally reminded of all those times when she raped Graham.

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[[folder:"YOU! You can't lie! Tell me..."]]
* What I mean is, why don't any of the myriads of villains use Pinocchio, who due to the Blue Fairy's spell that created him CannotTellALie, to extract valuable information?

** Emma DID use guns early on in Seasons One and Two. She tried using a pistol against Maleficent's dragon form, and then again after being sent to the Enchanted Forest. They didn't work. At all. The second time, Mary chewed her out for it, and pointed out that doing things "the modern way" (so to speak) wouldn't work in their world. As for the apple turnover, Rumplestiltskin EXPLICITLY told Regina that if she killed Emma, the entire Dark Curse would collapse. Regina needed a way to permanently deal with Emma without killing her-- hence the sleeping potion.

** Emma DID use guns early on in Seasons One and Two. She tried using a pistol against Maleficent's dragon form, and then again after being sent to the Enchanted Forest. They didn't work. At all. The second time, Mary chewed her out for it, and pointed out that doing things "the modern way" (so to speak) wouldn't work in their world.

* What is that wolf that showed up in the first season to lead the sheriff towards finding out the truth behind Storybrooke? It can't be Ruby, as this wolf looks completely different from her wolf form. And it's not all in the sheriff's head since Emma could also see the wolf. How did the wolf know about all the things it led the sheriff to? Why did it only guide the sheriff and never anyone else, even after his death?

* What is that wolf that showed up in the first season to lead the sheriff towards finding out the truth behind Storybrooke? Was that supposed to be Ruby as the wolf? Its appearance doesn't seem to match Ruby's wolf form, and if it is supposed to be Ruby, that leads to several other questions, such as: How could she turn into a wolf without magic? How did she know about the things she lead the sheriff to? Why did she specifically choose to guide the sheriff and nobody else, even after the sheriff's death?

* Why do people continue working for villains when villains kill their minions so casually? Over the course of the show, we've seen villains slaughter their own people for little to no apparent reason (like in "The Song in Your Heart", where Regina kills two of her own guards who did nothing to offend her and even seemed to be trying to do what she looked like she needed), so who looks at that and says "Yes, this is a person I'd like to work under? And why do villains do it in the first place? They're destroying their own assets that they'll inevitably have to replace (while their reputation as an employer continues to worsen), and they're making the heroes' jobs even easier in the meantime. So why does this happen?

** Well, it's not that they don't see what they are doing as wrong morally, but that they justify their actions. In the words of the creators, everyone sees themselves as the protagonist of their own stories, not the bad guy. You can see your actions as evil (robbing a bank) but the reasons you have may make up for it (robbing a bank to get the money to save a dying loved one). In this show, most of the vilains really do have some valid reason to at least sympathize with their plight. Regina lost her true love and was emotionally abused, Rumpel is looking for his child, Maleficent lost her baby, Ursula lost her most prized talent which was also a remnant of her deceased mother, etc, etc. Very few villains on this show were evil for evil's sake. [[/folder]]

[[folder: Why not train everyone in magic?]]
* The show has established that magic is something that can be taught. So why not teach everyone magic? It would be much better than most of the heroes showing up to a fight only to be KO'd immediately.
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* As much of a cliche as it is, no one thinks of themselves as evil. So how can the villains can themselves evil with a straight face? If they're so self-aware, shouldn't they at least use the term with some irony or sarcasm?

[[folder:Living Lie Detector]]

* Second Question: Jekyll is very well established at this point to be a logical person, not overtaken with passions. So, was Jekyll's plan of revenge something hatched when Hyde discovered that Rumpelstiltskin had a wife and son? Or was it something that hatched when he was on the ship with her? If the former, you'd think he'd turn to poison, or some sort of trap, something much easier to pull off than ''physically killing Belle''. If the latter, what exactly set that off? Terrible, terrible time to be plotting a revenge scheme. And even then, Jekyll could easily come up with at least ten easy, efficient ways to kill Belle in the ten minutes he was on the ship with her. I understand entirely that the writers needed some dramatic way to show that in order to kill the doppelganger, you have to kill the original... but did the entire situation seem ''too'' contrived?