Regina Mills

***This article focuses on the mainstream version of Regina. The actions of her serum version and Wish Realm counterpart are not counted.***

## Character Information

### Alias

The Evil Queen, Roni, The Eighth Witch, Ursula, Gina, The Queen, The Good King, mayor Mills, Madame Mayor, Your Majority

### Occupation

Queen of the Enchanted Forest (formerly)
Mayor of Storybrooke
Owner of Roni's Bar
Queen of the United Realms

### Romance(s)

Daniel Colter (fiancé)
Robin Hood † (boyfriend)
Dr. Facilier † (ex-lover)

## Defining Moments

### Heroic Action

Saving Snow White from her runaway horse (first heroic act)
Slowed down the trigger to get everyone in Storybrooke to escape
Giving her son, Henry true love's kiss in order to break the second curse and using light magic to defeat her sister

### Event Moral Horizon

Wishing she didn't save Snow White from her doom
Slaughtered an entire village after the residents refused to give up Snow White
Holding Belle captive for years and making Rumpelstiltskin believe she had committed suicide.Orchestrating the murder of her husband.
Killing her father to enact the Dark Curse, mentally abusing Henry and killing Graham

**Regina Mills** is the deuteragonist of ABC's *Once Upon a Time*.

She initially wants revenge against Snow, blaming her for the loss of her fiancé Daniel Coulter, and insured it by casting a powerful curse that ripped everyone from their homeland and took away everyone's 'happily ever after.' While posing as the Mayor of Storybrooke, Regina retained her memories of the Enchanted Forest but her former identity in the fairy tale world is Snow White's evil stepmother.

Throughout  the first two seasons, Regina is in between the line of a heroine and a villain and struggles with her own inner darkness. However, through the love of her son Henry, she was redeemed and transitioned from villain to hero.

## Personality

When Regina was young, she used to be a kind, gentle caring person. She helped others whenever she could and even saved Snow White's life, but Regina soon grew cold after the death of her beloved fiancé, Daniel and had started hating Snow White for the secret she told Cora, Regina's evil mother. Because of her mother's wicked ways, Regina hates magic and vows to never be as evil as her mom. Unfortunately, she does become cold like her mother. Despite the fact she is evil by the time Snow White is a bandit, Regina has a sense of dark humor like her mentor, Rumpelstiltskin does.

Regina is also very vengeful as she vows to destroy Snow White and her happiness for the death of Daniel, and even goes far for framing her for murder for everything she did to her. However, after she adopted Henry, Regina is a good mother and is very protective of Henry, and later, her granddaughter, Lucy. Their relationship changes over time and Regina tries to change for her son's sake. Regina was redeemed by her son and reverts back into the woman she once was. She also loves her newfound family. She was remorseful for a lot of things she did as the Evil Queen.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

Regina has practiced in the dark magic for most of the series, and later learns how to use light magic to defeat her sister. She can cast spells and curses, create objects out of the blue, create energy blasts, perform healing and locator spells, magic immobilization.

* **Blood Magic** Regina was possibly taught blood magic by Rumplestiltskin. With this, regina uses blood magic that only she can access to unless someone from her bloodline can infiltrate it, like Zelena did before their first meeting with each other.
	+ **Locator Spells** - Ability to track someone linked to a person's bloodline, through use of the tracker's blood.
	+ **Protection Spells** - Ability to cast a magical seal that can only be broken by someone of the same bloodline.
* **True Love:** Like any magical individual from the Enchanted Forest, Regina has the power of true love, the purest love of all. She first experienced true love when she was with her lover, Daniel and kept the ring he gave her as a reminder. The true love she had for Daniel was still embodied in the ring Regina used to retrieve the poisoned apple.Regina also has true love for all her friends and family, this includes her sister, Zelena and her son Henry. She first performed true love's kiss on screen with Henry, waking the citizens of Storybrooke from the Curse. Later, Henry would return the favor many years later, when he gave his mother true love's kiss, thus reviving Regina.
* **Heart Removal:** She has the ability to remove the hearts of others who are either magical or non magical. With the enchanted heart, she can command the victim to do whatever she says. Regina can also crush the heart killing the victim, but Regina has not been doing heart removal lately since she had been redeemed by the heroes.
* **Teleportation:** Regina uses teleportation when disappearing in a cloud of smoke, making her teleport herself anywhere she wants.She can also scry using her magic mirror to spy one of her enemies and can also cast a powerful curse.
* **Potion Making:** Regina can make potions with multiple substances. She creates a poiton for sleeping at times..
* **Nature and elemental magic**: - Regina has the power to manipulate and control plants. She has also used pyrokinesis, being able to create fire.
* She also has telekinesis, teleportation and transformation.

### Abilities

* **Sword-fighting:** Magic aside, Regina actually has proved to be a capable swords woman, possibly being taught by her royal guards. She eventually masters it, but Regina hardly does sword fighting because she has her own magic. She was able to hold herself in a duel between herself and Snow during the Shattered Sight curse and during her then-enemy, Sir Henry

## Heinous Acts

### Before the Dark Curse

* Despite Regina saving Snow from the Runaway horse, at the end of the episode Regina states she should have "let her die on the horse" because snow revealed a secret Regina told her not to tell her mother that led to her fiancé, Daniel's murder at the hands of her mother. (1.18)
* In later years, Regina finds out that Cora orchestrated everything to ensure she would become Queen. Cora had fatally poisoned Eva, Snow's biological mother. Knowing that King Leopold was searching for a wife and that Regina was having her horse riding lessons with Daniel, Cora purposefully spooked Snow's horse with an enchantment, which leg to Regina saving her. However, even Regina is left speechless by her mother's choice of words.
* Manipulated the Genie of Agrabah into killing her husband with Agrabahn vipers and is indirectly responsible for him becoming the magic mirror in the first place.
* Begins using the magic mirror to spy on her enemies.
* After he spared Snow White, Regina took the Huntsman's heart and forced him to be hers (both as a lover and a knight). ("The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter")
* Orders an entire village to be slaughtered when the villagers refuse to hand over Snow White. After realizing none of them will love her, Regina swears to punish them all and embraces her title as the "Evil Queen." (2.19, The Evil Queen)
* Conspired to make Rumplestiltskin powerless by manipulating Belle. Later, kidnapped Belle and told Rumplestiltskin, the man Belle had feelings for, she had committed suicide. (Skin Deep)
* In "Mother", Regina purposefully murders a groom when he and his fiancée were their wedding because of her anger of it being the anniversary of Daniel's murder. She then trots back into her carriage and coldly tells her father to find his own way home. She also hangs The sheriff of Nottingham by the ankles in her dungeon when he pretends to be her soulmate.
* Kidnapped an innocent lumberjack and forced his children Hansel and Gretel to enter the house of a blind and cannibalistic witch. Regina later reveals that she had sent other children into the house before but Hansel and Gretel were the only ones to escape it unscathed. After offering for them to live with her in the palace, they reject her and Regina angrily sends Hansel and Gretel to the infinite Forest, never to be reunited with their father again for at least 28 years.
* Forced Snow White to either take a poisoned apple that put her under a sleeping curse or Regina would have Charming killed. After David escapes, Regina attempts to intervene so he can never wake his true love and traps him in the infinite forest like she did with Hansel and Gretel. However, with Rumpelstiltskin's help, David escaped the forest and after helping the sorcerer with the task, David found snow and awoke her with true Love's kiss. (1.20 "An Apple as Red As Blood," 1.22 "A Land Without Magic", 3.02 "Lost Girl")
* Barges in on her stepdaughter's wedding to Charming and threatens to curse the Enchanted Forest and her inhabitants. In the Season 3 flashback following the threat, and before Regina cast the curse, she watches Snow White battling Medusa. Regina mocks Snow for her inability to defeat the Gorgon and simply says she should have let Snow "destroy herself" instead. (1.01, Pilot, 3.10 The New Neverland)
* Tears out her father's own heart to enact the Dark Curse (1.02 The Thing You Love Most)
* On the night the Curse was cast, Regina began to gloat her victory. She ignores Rumpelstiltskin's warning that her actions would cause a hole in her heart, but Regina refuses to listen. After frontal tells her that Snow White and Prince Charming daughter can defeat her one day, Regina makes it clear she had every intention on killing baby Emma that night. regardless of her being an innocent child. ( 3.09 Save Henry)
* She took pleasure in Snow's suffering when she attempted to revive Charming and callously told her "She wouldn't remember him let alone love him." Later Regina mocked Snow's hope that her daughter would one day defeat her. In "Save Henry," is revealed (1.01 Pilot)

### During the First Curse

* When the curse was cast, Regina's curse wiped everyone's memory of who they were and severed their ties to their loved ones in the previous world.
* She had Kurt Flynn, a visitor to Storybrooke, arrested by using Graham's heart to command him to take in Flynn for drunk driving. She nearly forced Owen to stay, but later allowed him to leave. Afterwards, Regina killed Flynn and buried his body near the Toll Bridge.

### After the First Curse

* Lied about the Enchanted Forest being an empty void, even though it still existed. (*We Are Both*)
* Assisted her mother in killing Snow's former handmaiden, Johanna. However, Regina had no intention of harming the old woman, unless Snow and David gave the evil witches the Dagger.
* Swears vengeance on Snow when she tricks Regina into restoring Cora's heart without realizing it is cursed. She wants to cast the Curse of the Empty Hearted so she can force Henry to love her. Even though she ends up destroying the scroll, Regina rips out Snow's heart when she appears. Instead of killing her, Regina spares her so the family Snow tried hard to build will fall apart and Regina will finally have her son and her revenge.
* After discovering Snow and David were growing magic beans and how they were going to abandon her, Regina steals the beans and destroys the crops so the heroes cannot salvage them. Intended to leave Storybrooke with Henry and leave the others to die so his family ties to Emma, Snow, David, Neal and Rumplestiltskin would be severed.
* Abandoned Hook to Maleficent so she could find the trigger that would destroy Storybrooke.

### Season 3

* When Regina was teaching Emma magic in Neverland and the second half of Season 3, she pushed Emma to the limit, even having her dangle on a collapsing bridge.

## Redeeming Qualities

* Was ultimately redeemed by the love of her son Henry. In Season 2 Regina spends most of it trying to become the person Henry needs to be. She finally comes to in the end when she tries to delay the trigger that was activated by Greg and Tamara.
* After fearing that Henry's biological mother will come o Storybrooke and take him back, she takes a forgetting potion so she can be solely focused on her child.

### Season 3

* Regina removed her heart over the pain of losing Henry and buried it. However, Snow, who was forced to stay goodbye to her daughter a second time, convinced her otherwise.
* Turned a Flying Monkey that was attacking Roland, Robin's four year old son, into a stuffed animal. Regina comforted him by giving him a new toy, showing a maternal side she recieved from raising Henry
* After researching many spells after speculating why Zelena wanted Snow and Charming's baby, Regina finds her sister to be a twisted witch if she wants to cast the spells that involve the use of an infant.
* Teaches Emma the basics of how to control her magic.
* After seeing their mothers' history together, Regina officially moves on from her grudge on Snow White, actively helping in saving the latter's unborn child from the former's envious half-sister Zelena. It is Snow who indirectly convinces Regina to take a change with Robin Hood.
* After Henry remembers his time in Storybrooke, Regina tells her son that she loves him and gives him a kiss of true love that breaks the spell.
* During the confrontation with Zelena, Regina was able to use light magic and ultimately defeat her sister.

### Season 4

* Because Gold is plotting to turn Emma's heart dark, Regina refuses to help him in his terrible plan, partially because he is the reason she became a monster and refuses to let the same thing happen to Emma.
* After bringing Zelena back to Storybrooke, she plots to have her written out of the story by using the Author. Even though Zelena mocks Regina that she can never have a child with Robin, Regina states she already has a child: her son Henry and that she is proud with the son she has, regardless of being related by adoption rather than by blood. However, Regina decides not to go through with it because she knows it is morally wrong. Regina simply empathizes with Zelena because they both suffered at Cora's hands due to both her abuse and abandonment of her daughters.

### Season 5

* In the flashbacks,Regina was entrusted with the Dagger and kill Emma if she went to far. Regina tries to avoid this and prevent Emma from using dark magic and even poses as the Savior to protect Emma from losing control with her dark powers.
* Regina refuses to abandon Emma and their family on the quest to save Hook and saves her father from Cora's wrath. In the end, Henry Sr's unfinished business was seeing his daughter a redeemed woman. He is able to go into the realm of Olympus, finding peace at last.
* After Mary Margaret (Snow) began doubting herself when they were unable to help Hercules, Regina encouraged her stepdaughter to embrace her role as the rebellious and brave princess she once was. It inspires Mary Margaret to abandon her cursed identity and embraces her name as "Snow" once again.
* In "Swan Song," unwilling to let Zelena take Robin's baby from him, Regina sends her back to Oz in order to protect both her niece and boyfriend.
* Regina and Zelena finally reconcile after being reminded of their friendship when they were children after their memories are restored.

### Season 6

* In one episode, Regina comments to Snow that she was a "horrible stepmother" towards her

### Season 7

* After Henry is poisoned, Regina tries to heal her son and is forced to enact the Dark Curse in order to save him. Despite her sister protesting, Hook points out to Zelena that if they were in Regina's position with Alice or Robin, they would do the same thing, appealing to their shared role as a parent.
* Threatens to assault Drizella with a bat if she doesn't stay away from Henry
* Ultimately redeems her son's alternate counterpart by reminding him there are others who care about him. Henry later begins seeing Regina as a motherly figure.

## Trivia

* After Regina enchanted Cupids arrows to point her to the direction of the person she hates the most instead of love, the arrow's led her to her reflection in the mirror, revealing deep down, Regina has a sense of self-loathing within her.
* Of all the characters, Regina has had the most episodes focused on her
* For the television series, Regina is a composite of the following characters from different fairy tales.
	+ She is based on the Evil Queen from the fairy tale "Snow White" and the Disney film *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.*
	+ She also takes the place of the child of the Miller's Daughter from the fairytale *Rumpelstiltskin.*
	+ She is also an allusion to the stepmother from "Hansel and Gretel" and briefly takes the place of the sea witch from Hans Christian Anderson's fairytale, "The Little Mermaid"and Ursula from the Disney film adaptation Anderson's fairytale.