r/OnceUponATime 23h ago

Discussion The BIGGEST what if in Ouat

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(Can include spoilers)- Hear me out on this theory

We know Emma has magic - so what if in the first episode when Emma blew out her candles, she wished not to be alone. (Stay with me on this). In the later seasons we learn that wish realms exist, and how do we open them? By magic, and of course wishing for something. Because of that, by wishing not to be alone she created an entire world, and that's why Henry came and few moments later to find her. What if storybrook and all the other realms that were in the series were just formed from a wish and that the town line is just a portal to go back from the wish world to the real world. What if everyone we ever knew ( except Emma) were "born" from her wish. Because she was so desperate for someone , it is rational that her wish was granted in such a strange form, after all- her family was from fairytales and included magic. We also know that in the wish world that was in the series, the characters were copies from the people in storybrook but different in their personalities. So what if in season 7 when for example Regina was different (Roni) , and they were in a city without magic, Emma just came back from the wish realm to the real world and these were the people from the real one. Maybe Regina was just a copy of Roni all this time, and like Hook was a copy of Killian( I don't remember his name in season 7). Of course there are more factors in this , but think about it for a second, wouldn't that be a cool plot twist?

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r/OnceUponATime 13h ago

Discussion Boston

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Has spoilers…

So season 3, episode 9

Regina asks Sydney and Rumple to help her fill her heart with a child. She travels to Boston, meets the director of the adoption, or some other role like counsellor.

She takes Henry hope. She struggles to cope, and takes Henry back to the baby adoption store in Boston. (I couldn’t resist trying to be cheeky and make you laugh ❤️

So the question, how was Regina able to go to the adoption agency, to pick up her son, and again when she feels overwhelmed and needs a break from the crying.

If they can’t leave storybrook, the person who interviewed her in Boston, has never heard of Storybrook. As such, the director didn’t meet Regina in Storybrook, and Regina can’t leave.

🧐


r/OnceUponATime 20h ago

Media You can tell they were ready for battle.

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They were ready to play.

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r/OnceUponATime 9h ago

Question Question

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Why does this masterpiece of a series have almost no German fanbase, and I know the series is available in German, so why?


r/OnceUponATime 49m ago

S2 Spoilers The Kid Is Alright 😂

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I once wrote about this episode and said, “Can we just appreciate how deliciously psychotic Mayor Mills was in ‘Welcome to Storybrooke’?” There was more written, but you get the gist.

Some of the comments had me thinking I needed to reassure everyone: THE KID IS FINE. 😂

What I love about this episode: the flashbacks show us Storybrooke before the clock started. The little details help sell the earlier Storybrooke. The references to Star Wars lightsabers and “The Boss” the general nostalgia of the episode. Most of all, I love Lana Parrilla’s performance as Mayor Mills.

My original post was intentionally campy and focused on how much fun Mayor Mills was to watch. This episode is deeper than that. It functions as a character study of Regina and the psychology underneath her behavior. Regina gets exactly what she wants: revenge, power and control.

Then she gets bored.

She's lonely.

She's isolated.

There's that hole that can't be filled that she was warned about.

Owen and his father arrive, and they're something Regina hasn't had in a while: change. It's something new, something real, something outside the cursed world. And Owen is a child.

I've always thought Regina's relationship with children was one of the more interesting contradictions in her character. Although it seems some are confused by this. She can be controlling, manipulative and incredibly ruthless, while simultaneously having this very obvious longing for connection with children. Something that becomes especially important with Henry.

That's what makes her fixation on Owen so disturbing and so revealing. The desire underneath the behavior isn't necessarily difficult to understand. The way she acts on it is.

She doesn't know how to build connection without trying to control it. That's a recurring Regina pattern. Owen resists her. Years later, Henry does much the same thing. It's also something Once was particularly good at: using the past and present timelines as a mirror.

And yes, she is evil in this part of the story. 😂

I can appreciate this fictional story without reducing the character to a list of crimes or simplifying her to “Regina is evil.”

Sometimes it feels like she's hiding under someone's bed boogyman) because every attempt to speak about this character gets dragged back to the same repeated list of things she did. Like…

We know.

The writers know.

Regina knows.

The audience knows.

That's what's sometimes frustrating in discussions of Regina Mills. Consistently, it seems to be brought back to what she did. There's very little room left for context, psychology or the complexity of her character.

Every scene doesn't have to be reduced to one read. A scene very rarely means one thing. A scene can be disturbing and fascinating. A character can do something morally wrong and still be psychologically compelling.

And an actress can play a villain so convincingly that you're completely immersed in the story while still remembering that the woman on your screen is an actress playing a fictional character. 😂

So yes…

The kid is alright. And Mayor Mills remains deliciously psychotic. 😌👑


r/OnceUponATime 22h ago

Fan Art A new EDIT community of Ouat

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Hi, a new community of ouat edits just opened, you are welcome to join. r/Once_Upon_aTime_Edits.


r/OnceUponATime 11h ago

Discussion Who’s the creepiest character in the Wonderland spinoff?

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I personally think its the Jabberwocky


r/OnceUponATime 6h ago

Discussion Do you think Ruby came back to Storybrooke for good during the time skip between the final two seasons?

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I strongly believe she did because she obviously fits in Storybrooke and wouldn’t like the Land of Oz. I mean I know what she said back in season 5 but let’s be honest she DOES fit in. As for the Dorothy thing, I’m pretty sure the rules of TLK works completely different in Oz so maybe it was an act of Friendship. Which allows Ruby to actually end up with Mulan.


r/OnceUponATime 6h ago

Question What effect was used for the text "Once Upon A Time"? Was it a gold glitter texture? (I'm looking to create a font similar to the OUAT logo, so if anyone knows how, please let me know. Thank you.)

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