Regina Mills

**Regina Mills**, formerly known as **the Evil Queen**, is the ultimate main protagonist of *Once Upon a Time*. She was the deuteragonist of the Emma Swan Saga of the series and one of the two main protagonists of the seventh season.

She is the daughter of Cora and Henry, the younger half-sister of Zelena, adoptive mother of Henry Mills and adoptive grandmother of Lucy and step-mother of Snow White and step-grandmother of Emma Swan and Neal Nolan.

As of the series finale, Regina is the queen of the United Realms.

## History

Regina is the daughter of Henry and Cora. Around ten years old, she met her half-sister Zelena and the two became childhood friends, however, when they found out they were sisters, Cora cut their memories off, and forgetting they ever found each other. ("Sisters")

Growing up, Regina cannot stand her mother using magic on her whenever she disobeys her. It is also revealed she fell in love with Daniel, the stable-boy, and saved Snow White from her runaway horse. She hated her soon-to-be stepdaughter, Snow so much after it cost the death of Daniel when her mother took out his heart and crushed it. ("The Stable Boy")

She later gets help from Tinker Bell, who helps her find her soulmate, who she is unaware is named Robin Hood of Locksley, also known as a thief. However, Regina cannot bring herself to introduce herself to Robin and blames Tinker Bell for her misery. Regina also kills her own husband with the help of the Genie who she turns into the Magic Mirror. After Leopold's death, Regina hunts her step-daughter, Snow White down, but fails to catch her every time. Her mother also tried to get Regina to have children of her own, but Regina refused to listen to her mother and took the infertility potion to prevent her from having any children.

She later poisons Snow with giving her the enchanted apple, causing her to fall into a death like sleep but the enchantment didn't last long as Regina realized that she could not get rid of Snow White, but let her go in exile, but Snow fought back, and a war was wagered against Regina and her ally, King George. Regina soon lost the war and was captured by Snow White and her husband, Prince Charming. However, before she was executed, Snow stopped her execution, with the Blue Fairy stopping the arrows from flying. Later freeing Regina from her cell, Snow tested to see if the Queen could truly change. However, the evil queen took this advantage and stabbed her, but Regina was shocked that Snow could not be killed as Charming and Snow and their family, are under the protection of Rumplestiltskin's magic. However, Regina found a loophole in this and threatened the kingdom with the Dark Curse, which she cast on the entire kingdom of the Enchanted Forest. She later became known as Regina Mills, ruling Storybrooke as mayor with an iron fist. She feels happiness for the first time when Owen Flynn and his father, Kurt. However, it takes a dark turn when they try to leave. Later, she adopted Henry after Emma gave him up for a closed adoption.

## 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 swordswoman, 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

## Appearances

### The Show

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4
* Season 5
* Season 6
* Season 7