Regina Mills

## Regina

* Evil Queen
* Roni
* Regina

*For the daughter of D'Artagnan, see Regine D'Artagnan,*

**Regina Mills** is a character in ABC's *Once Upon a Time*. After her heart grew cold from Snow White revealing a secret, Regina became known as the **Evil Queen**. After casting the Dark Curse, she assumed her real name as the mayor of Storybrooke and the adoptive mother of Henry Mills. However, Regina changed her ways for Henry's sake. In Hyperion Heights, she is **Roni**, the bartender at Roni's. Regina is portrayed by Lana Parrilla, with her younger self portrayed by Ava Acres.

## Magical 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.

## Trivia

* Regina is based on the Evil Queen from both the original "Snow White" fairy tale 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", and an allusion to the stepmother from the fairytale "Hansel and Gretel".
	+ She also briefly takes the place of the sea witch from the fairytale, "The Little Mermaid" and Ursula from the Disney film, The Little Mermaid.
	+ Her title as the **Good Queen** is also derived from the name that is mostly given to Snow White's biological mother in the original fairy tale.