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Character Name: Regina Mills
Series: Once Upon a Time
Timeline: 3x11 'Going Home' – As the smoke envelops her
Canon Resource Link: The Evil Queen & Regina Mills @ The OUaT Wiki
Character History:

"My gift to you is this happy, happy day, but tomorrow my real work begins. You've made your vows, now I make mine: soon everything you love, everything all of you love, will be taken from you forever. Out of your suffering will rise my victory. I shall destroy your happiness if it is the last thing I do." - Regina, the Evil Queen
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young woman named Regina, born to a miller's daughter named Cora and a prince named Henry. She lived, she laughed, she cried, she loved. One man in particular, a stable boy named Daniel.

During a secret rendezvous, Daniel and Regina are interrupted by a little girl on a runaway horse. Regina manages to save her life, and by doing so, is offered the King's hand in marriage as the little girl was his daughter, Snow White. Distraught by the prospect, she convinces Daniel to run away with her, unaware that Snow White saw everything. Snow draws attention to herself and flees, with Regina giving chase. She manages to convince Snow that while King Leopold is a good person, she doesn't love him, she loves Daniel and convinces Snow not to tell her mother. The two of them prepare to leave in the night, but Cora arrives; she'd been waiting for them.

Regina pleads with her mother, begs her to understand that she loves Daniel, that she can't marry the king. Cora retorts that Regina's life belongs to her, because of all the deals she made to get her to this place. Regina continues to beg and plead, and Cora seems to relent. She tells Daniel that a parent will do what is best for their child, and with that, she rips out and crushes his heart. With Daniel out of the way, Regina is free to marry the king. The next day during a dress fitting, Snow White admits to Regina that she told Cora about her plans to run away. And with that one little admission, Regina's life is changed forever.

Right before she's due to be married to the King, Regina tries once again to escape both the kingdom and her mother, but of course, Cora stops her. Going to her father for advice, Regina ends up stealing her mother's spell book and uses it to summon the Dark One - Rumplestiltskin. He provides a Looking Glass so Regina can be free of Cora forever, by banishing her to another realm - Wonderland. After a struggle, and with encouragement from Rumplestiltskin, Regina forces her mother through the portal. Attempting to escape once more, Regina is stopped once again, this time by Rumplestiltskin. Offering her Cora's spell book and to teach her magic, Regina is convinced to return to the castle.

She goes through with the wedding and becomes Snow White's step-mother, all the while trying to use magic to resurrect Daniel. She comes close when Doctor Viktor Frankenstein attempts, but unbeknownst to Regina, the failed resurrection is faked. Distraught, Regina returns to her life in the castle. A life that quickly becomes more and more lonely and as she becomes more and more withdrawn, she begins skipping her magic lessons and inviting Rumplestiltskin's wrath. It's during this period that she meets the fairy Tinker Bell, who casts a spell to help Regina find her true love. Afraid that without the anger she had felt for so long, she would just float away, Regina never goes into the bar and never meets her true love.

Regina bides her time, spending years as Snow White's step-mother and queen of the Enchanted Forest.

Eventually King Leopold discovers a Genie's Lamp and after using his first wish to free the genie, and his second to give the third wish to the genie, brings him home to the castle. The Genie befriends Regina, who feels out of place in the castle even after so long. Friendship eventually turns to love on the Genie's part, and he allows himself into being manipulated into killing King Leopold with a pair of Agrabahn Vipers. When the Genie realises that the everything can be traced back to him, Regina reveals her true colours. Stating that she never loved him and she never will love him, she tries to send him away. However, the Genie uses his wish and is forever bound to Regina: as her Magic Mirror.

With Leopold out of the way, Regina sets her sights on her true enemy: Snow White. Hiring a Huntsman, Regina dispatches him to kill Snow White and return with her heart. When he returns with a heart, she's furious to discover it is in fact a deer's heart and in her rage, rips out the Huntsman's heart and makes him her slave.

Time passes and Regina continues plotting Snow White's demise. In an attempt to gain her subjects' love and loyalty, Regina asks Rumplestiltskin to disguise her as a peasant so she can get rid of Snow White in secret. Snow White eventually discovers the truth, and after fleeing back to her castle and demanding Rumplestiltskin change her back, she gives up on ever gaining her subjects' love and loyalty.

And thus begins the reign of the Evil Queen.

Regina then spends an undefined amount of time meddling in the lives of her subjects, these events include impersonating the sea goddess Ursula and stealing Ariel's voice, banishing Hansel, Gretel and their father to the Infinite Forest and abducting Belle.

Events come to a head when Regina trades untold riches to King George for Prince Charming's life. During a massive rescue attempt fronted by Snow White, Regina demands a parley, at the place where it all began. Convincing Snow White to eat a poisoned apple and sending her into a deep sleep, Regina thinks she's finally won. However the sleeping curse is broken by true love's kiss, a fact Regina is notified of by the Magic Mirror.

An undefined amount of time passes while Snow White and Prince Charming begin taking back the kingdom and Regina seeks out a man named Jefferson, who has a magic hat that can take people to other realms. It takes some doing, but she manages to convince him to take her to Wonderland to retrieve something precious to her. She recovers a chest, and feeds a piece of magic mushroom to the contents, who are revealed to be her father, Henry, who had been kidnapped by the Queen of Hearts. Having recovered her father, Regina leaves Jefferson in Wonderland.

Regina then crashes Snow White and Prince Charming's wedding, revealing that she has a gift for them, a gift that destroy everything they love. She then recovers the Dark Curse from Maleficent, and sends Captain Hook to Wonderland to bring back the heart of her mother, revealed to be the Queen of Hearts. An attempt to cast the Dark Curse is made, using the heart of her prized steed, but it fails as the curse requires the heart of the Thing You Love Most. Distraught, she turns once more to her father for advice. Though he advises her not to go through it, and claims that they can start a new life somewhere else, Regina tearfully apologises and rips out his heart.

The Dark Curse is successfully cast this time, and with an evil fog sweeping the land, Regina gloats about her final victory as everyone in the Enchanted Forest is sent to a Land Without Magic. The Curse creates a hidden town called Storybrooke, in Maine. All of the Enchanted Forest residents are sent there, their memories wiped, new ones implanted and frozen in time. With Regina as mayor, she has everything she ever wanted. However, one thing threatens the curse: the Savior, daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, who had been sent through a magic wardrobe to avoid the effects of the curse and prophesied to return to Storybrooke on her 28th birthday.

Though initially joyful about her victory, her perfect happy ending is quickly disrupted when a pair of outsiders, a father and son named Kurt and Owen respectively, reveal themselves. They'd been camping in the area, and Storybrooke quite literally appeared on top of them. Furious at their intrusion, Regina pushes to have their car fixed as quickly as possible so they can leave. Still relishing in her happy ending, Regina eventually grows bored with the town, it isn't a true happy ending because everybody does what she wants because they have to, not because they want to.

Desperate for a change, she invites Kurt and Owen to dinner. While initially awkward, she quickly bonds with Owen and tries to convince Kurt to stay in Storybrooke permanently. It fails, and when their car is fixed early, Regina calls on the Huntsman--now Sheriff Graham Humbert--to arrest him and keep him in town. However, Kurt overhears her telling Graham what to do and hurries out of town. Graham stops them at the town line, where Regina attempts to convince Owen to stay with her. When she realises that forcing him to stay wouldn't make it real, she lets him go. The incident makes Regina realise something's missing in her life, something that isn't related to the curse.

It takes approximately 17-18 years, but Regina comes to Rumplestiltskin--now known as Mr. Gold-- to fill the hole in her heart. He does this by securing an adoption, and Regina names her new son Henry. The situation changes when Sidney Glass - the former Magic Mirror - uncovers information about Henry's birth mother. She had been found outside of Storybrooke 18 years ago, the day Storybrooke appeared because of the curse.

In her despair over the potential for Henry's birth mother to return, reclaim her son and break the curse, Regina attempts to return Henry to the adoption agency. However, when the agent leaves the two of them alone to retrieve some paperwork, Regina realises that the best thing for Henry is a mother who will never let him go again: her. Informing the agent of this, Regina returns to Storybrooke and takes to her vault of magical items. She begins brewing a potion while telling Henry a story about their current situation, though with a fairly biased spin. With the story finished, Regina drinks the potion and eases her worries about the Savior's return so she can be focused on being a good mother for Henry.

Ten years later, Henry seeks out his birth mother, a woman named Emma Swan and convinces her to come to Storybrooke. Though Regina is initially grateful to her for returning Henry, she quickly sours and warns Emma that Henry is her son, that she signed a closed adoption and there's nothing she can do to take that back. Unbeknownst to Regina, Henry had received a book of fairy tales from his teacher Mary Margaret Blanchard--previously known as Snow White--and believes in the existence of the Dark Curse and that Emma is the Savior.

Due to how Regina treated her, and fearing for Henry's safety, Emma decides to stay in Storybrooke. In the distance, the clock tower that had been permanently stuck at 8:15 strikes 8:16.

Regina and Emma clash multiple times, over Henry, over the town, over every single thing you could possibly think of. Regina attempts to sour Henry to his birth mother, to run her out of town, or have her arrested. With Henry slipping further and further away, and the Curse weakening, Regina begins to get desperate. When Graham leaves her for Emma, Regina collects his heart from her vault and crushes it, killing him instantly.

Events continue like this for some time, with the whole town turning against Regina. Desperate to keep the curse from breaking and from Mary Margaret and David Nolan -Prince Charming- from being together, Regina goes to new lengths--for Storybrooke, at least--and makes a deal with Mr. Gold to have Kathryn Nolan killed and Mary Margaret framed for the murder. Regina continues to stay one step ahead of Emma, now the sheriff, until Kathryn is found alive and well, Gold had only kidnapped her.

With Henry only being driven further and further into Emma's arms, Regina has a vicious nightmare of the townspeople regaining their memories and killing her. Now truly desperate to remove Emma from Henry's life, she tracks down Jefferson, who retains his memories of the Enchanted Forest. She agrees to wipe his memory and that of his daughter, in exchange for him using his hat to collect the poisoned apple from the Enchanted Forest. Of course, she betrays him again once she has the apple and makes it into one of her famous turnovers. Though Emma had finally agreed to leave town on the condition that she could see Henry whenever she wanted, Regina gives her the poisoned turnover. However, Henry intercepts it, takes a bite and falls victim to the sleeping curse.

With Henry dying, Regina is forced to admit to Emma that all of it is true: the Dark Curse, their fairytale identities, everything. Emma is sent to recover Rumplestiltskin's True Love potion from beneath the town. Unfortunately, while Emma is successful in recovering it, Gold steals it from her and Henry passes away. Grieving, Emma tearfully kisses his forehead, breaking both the sleeping and dark curses, returning the memories of everyone in town and bringing Henry back to life. Meanwhile, Gold uses the potion to bring magic to Storybrooke.

With the curse broken and their memories returned, the townspeople convene on Regina's house. She attempts to fight back with magic, but she fails and is imprisoned in the sheriff's department. Furious at Regina for imprisoning Belle all these years, Rumplestiltskin summons a Wraith and marks Regina. Desperate to save her because of a promise they made to Henry to keep Regina alive, Emma and Mary Margaret come up with a plan to send the Wraith through a portal to the remains of the Enchanted Forest using Jefferson's hat. Regina attempts to get the hat to work but it remains powerless until Emma touches her. They're successful in sending the Wraith through, but Emma and Mary Margaret both fall into the portal.

With Henry blaming her for their disappearance, Regina returns to her house alone. Trying, and failing, to use magic to light a candle, she realises what she needs to get her magic, and her son, back. Ransacking Gold's pawn shop, she recovers her mother's spell book and inhales the magic, regaining a large amount of her former power. Using her regained magic, Regina terrorizes the town meeting and only stops when Henry agrees to come with her. Though she finally has what she wanted, Regina realises that she cannot keep Henry prisoner if she wants him to stay with her willingly. After making a speech about how she doesn't know how to love and she wants to redeem herself in his eyes, she lets Henry go with David.

Although she promises Henry that she won't use magic, and indeed begins attending therapy sessions with Archie Hopper -Jiminy Cricket- to deal with her addiction to magic, Regina is forced to use it to once again kill Daniel after Doctor Whale -Viktor Frankenstein- brings him back to life, as a monster who can barely remember his original self. With no body left, Daniel is finally gone for good and Regina willingly returns to her therapy sessions.

When Henry wakes up from a sleeping curse-induced nightmare, Regina is warned that a terrible evil is attempting to make its way to Storybrooke: her mother Cora. Desperate to keep Henry safe, Regina teams up with Gold and steals the magic from the newly discovered fairy dust and uses it to create a vortex over the entrance point from the Enchanted Forest, one that will kill anything that touches it. Convinced by Henry to relent, Regina removes the vortex just in time and saves Emma and Mary Margaret's lives. Unfortunately and unbeknownst to Regina, Cora still manages to make it to Storybrooke.

At the reunion party, Emma lets it slip that Archie told her about Regina's therapy appointments. The next day, Regina angrily confronts Archie and reminds him that he got his PhD from a curse. That night, Archie is seemingly murdered by Regina. After using magic to discover the culprit, Emma confronts Regina at her house. Following an argument and lashing out with her magic, Regina flees when she realises that nobody believes she can change.

"You can pretend all you want but we know how you are. And who you will always be." - Emma Swan
With Regina vulnerable and alone, Cora plays her hand. Disguising herself as Henry, she tracks Regina down in the Mills Family Mausoleum and reveals that she was the one who murdered Archie and framed Regina. After a heart-to-heart, Regina demands that Cora go with her into town to clear her name. They begin driving into town, but Regina changes her mind after Cora convinces her that Henry will never truly be hers as long as Emma is alive. Coming up with a plan to find the Dark One's dagger to control him and have him kill Emma, Mary Margaret and David; Regina, Cora and Hook begin tracking it down. During this, Mary Margaret calls Regina to Granny's Diner to talk, though Regina refuses to play on the side of good as nobody will ever accept her.

Cora manages to get the dagger from Mary Margaret and David by trading it for the life of Snow White's mother's personal maid, Johanna. Though Regina goes along with Cora's plan, and even rips out Johanna's heart, she shows discomfort at the lengths Cora is willing to go to. It is then that Regina finds out about the connection between Cora and Queen Eva, Snow White's mother; Cora had poisoned her as part of her plot to get Regina made queen, something that deeply unsettles her. Mary Margaret hands over the dagger, though Cora kills Johanna anyway. Regina taunts them by saying that this is what being good will get them, and leaves with her mother.

When they're alone, Regina confronts her mother about why she never told her about what she did to Queen Eva, and though Cora says she wanted to spare Regina the burden of knowing, Regina expresses a desire to know the exact lengths it took for her to become Queen. She then begins putting the pieces together about the circumstances surrounding her saving Snow White's life that fateful day, and Daniel's death and shows a growing suspicion of Cora, until she reveals that she wants to become the Dark One so she can give Regina everything she ever wanted.

The two then storm Gold's pawnshop, intent on killing him with the dagger. During the chaos, Mary Margaret slips out, and when Cora suspects someone is tampering with her heart, Regina leaves to find out the truth. Finding Mary Margaret in her vault, she's given her mother's heart, as Mary Margaret knows that all Regina desires is her mother's respect and love. Regina returns to the pawnshop just before Cora kills Gold and places her heart where it belongs. For an incredibly brief moment, Regina finally has what she wants: a mother who loves her. However, Cora soon dies in her arms as Gold returns to good health and in her fury, Regina realises that Mary Margaret is the one to blame.

Regina then plots to enact the Curse of the Empty-Hearted to both kill Mary Margaret and make Henry love her. Though she burns the scroll containing the curse when Henry convinces her to, though doesn't go along with his plan to destroy magic. Later that day, Mary Margaret shows up at her house and pleads with Regina to kill her. It seems at first that Regina refuses to, but then says that's her problem: she never learns from her mistakes. However, when she removes Mary Margaret's heart, she's overcome with happiness as Mary Margaret has blackened her heart by killing Cora, and by doing so will destroy herself and her family. Regina refuses to put her out of her misery, and places the heart back inside her.

Regina then finds Henry in town and shows him a magic bean. Using it, and a fail-safe she built into the Dark Curse, she plans to kill everyone in town and take Henry with her back to the Enchanted Forest. However she's forced to erase Henry's memory of their conversation when he tries to warn everyone. After being tricked by Hook while attempting to recover the fail-safe, Regina is captured by Greg (who is revealed to be Owen, from 18 years ago) & Tamara, two individuals who plan to destroy magic. Regina is then tortured for answers, only admitting that she killed Kurt and buried him at the campsite the two had stayed at under extreme duress. Though Regina is rescued by Emma and David, Greg & Tamara escape with the fail-safe.

The fail-safe is activated and begins draining the magic from Storybrooke and destroying it. Regina and Emma travel to the mines to find and deal with the trigger, and Regina plans to sacrifice her life so they can everyone to safety. Emma tries to convince her otherwise, and after saying that she spent so long being the Evil Queen, she just wants to die as Regina, she begins dampening the effects of the trigger. When the last magic bean goes missing, everybody prepares to die. Emma realises that although alone Regina can only suppress the effects of the trigger for so long, together they might be able to stop it. They're successful, but in the ensuing happiness they realise Henry is gone. Greg & Tamara take him through a portal to Neverland to hand him over to Peter Pan, and Regina, Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Gold and Hook follow them using the last magic bean.

Arriving in Neverland, they're quick to realise it's incredibly dangerous when the ship is besieged by mermaids. Though they work together to stop the mermaids, their efforts quickly devolve into fighting over whether or not to kill the mermaid, with Regina eventually turning her into wood. Doing so exacerbates the storm, and worsens the fighting to a physical level with Regina and Mary Margaret brawling. Soon enough, they make it to shore, and after a speech from Emma about needing to work together, all Regina can say is "You want to be friends? After everything that's happened between all of us?"

To save her son, Regina is forced to work with her worst enemies. Things are amicable enough, until Hook reveals that Tinker Bell is on the island and may be their only hope. Regina attempts to stay behind to avoid Tinker Bell seeing her, and is kidnapped by the fairy. After a confrontation, in which Regina tears out her own heart and hands it to Tinker Belle to use to kill her, Regina explains why she never went into the bar that fateful night in the Enchanted Forest, and tearfully begs Tinker Bell to choose hope and help save the son she loves more than anything.

With Tinker Bell on their side, Regina begins teaching Emma magic, and although she is successful, she decides to leave the group to team up with Gold as she is unsatisfied with the way they're working. Tracking him down, Regina convinces him to work with her by revealing Pan's machinations and claiming that because the two of them are the two most powerful magic users ever, Pan doesn't stand a chance. She then summons the mermaid Ariel to collect Pandora's Box from Storybrooke. With the Box in hand, Regina and Gold return to the group to save Henry. Though they manage to make it to Skull Rock in time, and despite working with Emma to cause a lunar eclipse, they're unable to stop Henry from giving Peter Pan his heart.

They attempt to reclaim Henry's heart, and are trapped by a tree that feeds on regret. Though Emma and Mary Margaret are unable to do anything, Regina calmly explains that while yes, she cast a curse that devastated an entire population, and yes she murdered and tortured, she does not regret a single thing she did, as it got her her son. Able to free herself, Regina rips Henry's heart from Pan's body and collects Pandora's Box (which now holds Mr. Gold.) With Henry's heart restored and Mr. Gold freed, they're finally able to return to Storybrooke despite Pan's best efforts.

The ship returns home to cheers from the Storybrooke citizens, though Regina is left feeling alone and unwelcome because nobody bothers to talk to her. That night, Henry asks to go home with Regina, to her great surprise. They return to her house, and though Henry acts oddly and asks about the magical items in her vault, Regina is merely happy that Henry finally chose her and doesn't notice anything wrong. The Blue Fairy is then killed by Pan's Shadow, keying everyone in to the fact that Pan is still around.

Emma then unintentionally sets Regina off by asking her to keep an eye on him, causing her to think that because Henry chose her, something must be wrong. To keep Henry safe from Pan, Regina hides him in her vault. She promises Henry that when all of this is over, she's going to be the mother he always wanted her to be. However, Pan then reveals himself to be in Henry's body, and magically drugs Regina, causing her to pass out. When she's woken, everybody realises that Pan stole the original Dark Curse that bought everyone to Storybrooke.

Mr. Gold reveals the only way to prevent Pan's curse from affecting them: Regina needs to undo her original Dark Curse. As everybody splits up to prepare the spell to return Pan and Henry to their original bodies, Regina comforts her son, and when the spell is a success, leaves to find Henry. Finally, truly reunited with their son, Regina and Emma embrace him and recover the Dark Curse's scroll so Regina can undo it and save everyone. However, when Regina tries to find out what she needs to do to undo the curse, the magic causes her to collapse. It's then that Pan arrives, takes the scroll away from Regina and places everyone under a freezing spell so he can taunt them as his own curse strikes.

The group watches as Mr. Gold sacrifices himself to be rid of Pan forever, and Regina recovers the scroll. It's then that she reveals what the price for undoing the curse is: the thing she loves most. Everybody will go back to where they belong, but because Henry was born in the Land Without Magic, he'll remain in this land, alone. Hesitant, but ultimately willing to undo the curse to save everyone, Regina explains that since Emma is the Savior, she and Henry can escape and have a normal life, because all she ever wanted was for Henry to be happy.

The group moves to the town line to say goodbye to Emma and Henry. Saying goodbye to Henry, she says that she's a villain, and villains don't get happy endings. Henry responds by telling her she's not a villain, she's his mother and the two embrace for the last time. Regina then takes Emma aside and explains that because the curse will erase Storybrooke from existence, Emma and Henry won't remember it, or any of them. Tearfully, she explains to Emma that to give Henry the happiness she always wanted for him, she can give the two of them new memories, happy memories. With Henry and Emma ready to leave, Regina prepares to undo the Dark Curse. As the green fog from Pan's curse is about to envelop them, Regina unleashes the magic and undoes her curse. As the fog washes over them, she watches Emma and Henry drive away.

"My gift to you... is good memories. A good life for you and Henry - you'll have never given him up. You'll have always been together."
"You would do that?"
"When I stop Pan's curse and you cross that town line, you'll have the life you always wanted." - Regina & Emma

Abilities/Special Powers: Regina is (self-proclaimed) one of the most powerful magic users ever, rivaling the powers of the Dark One, Rumplestiltskin. Magic in the Once Upon a Time universe is fueled by emotion and combined with imagination, to do whatever the caster desires. It can be fueled by, among others, blood lust and hatred (Regina's specialty) or the unconditional love of family.

However, it has drawbacks. Firstly, magic always comes with a price. For example, the price for enacting the Dark Curse created a hole in Regina's heart, that could never be filled. Another time, Regina tried to get rid of Emma with the Sleeping Curse, however the price she paid for recovering the poison apple was that Henry ingested the turnover instead and fell victim to the curse. Secondly, true love can break any curse. Thirdly, magic cannot bring back the dead under any circumstance. It can raise the dead as zombies, but it cannot return a person to their state before death.

Stronger spells also tend to require something physical: an animal sacrifice, an item of immense emotional value or in rare cases, a human sacrifice.

As Regina is capable of many, many things with her magic, here is a list of the more major things she can do:

•Teleportation - Capable of traveling large distances instantly in a puff of purple smoke, has seemingly trained her reflexes so she can teleport out of harm's way. She can also teleport other people or objects away from her.
• Pyrokinesis – She can throw fireballs and set things on fire. The fireballs are also capable of passing through mirrors, however this may be an ability of the Magic Mirror and not Regina herself.
• Magical telekinesis – Can be used to move objects or people, unlock and open doors, choke people and undo bindings.
• Hearts – Regina's specialty. She can rip a heart clean out of someone's chest, enchanting it & them in the process so they survive. With the heart, she can control them, make them do whatever she wants, or squeeze it to cause immense pain. Crushing the heart kills the owner instantly. Through an unknown means the hearts can be used to raised the deceased owner as a zombie, however Regina has never been seen doing this so it's unclear whether she doesn't know how or simply hasn't.
• Spells – Regina is an accomplished spell caster. She's been shown erasing memories, putting people to sleep, preserving bodies, and casting a locator spell to reveal someone's location. She requires learning how to cast the specific spells, but once she knows how to cast them, she can without the aid of a spell book.
• Potions – Provided she has the ingredients, she can brew magic potions. The only ones she's been shown creating are the Sleeping Curse and a potion to ease her troubles and worries so she could raise Henry.
• Conjuring – Can seemingly conjure things out of thin air. These items can be food, magical objects, seemingly anything. It's unclear whether these objects are created by magic, or merely summoned from elsewhere.
• Transmutation – Regina can change the forms of people and objects. Examples include turning metal to water, turning a mermaid into wood and petrifying someone.
• Shapeshifting – Although only used a few times and only during her time as the Evil Queen in the Enchanted Forest, Regina has displayed the ability to turn herself into a mouse and another time disguised herself as the sea goddess Ursula, octopus bottom and all.
• Plant Manipulation – Regina can control both real and fake (as in decorations or wallpaper) to bind or threaten people.

Those are the major abilities, below are a few more minor abilities that bear mentioning.

Regina has also displayed the abilities of ferrokinesis (control over metal) and geokinesis (control over the earth), however each power has been used sparingly so her skill level with these particular abilities is unknown. She has also displayed the ability to steal someone's voice, and then restore it at least twenty eight years later. She also disintegrates Daniel, so presumably she can use this ability on other people. In the graphic novel 'Shadow of the Queen' which is considered canon, she displays the ability to magically heal wounds.

Regina is also able to combine her magic with others, and cast spells in conjunction with another person, as evident by when she creates a much larger than usual fireball with her mother Cora, and causes a total lunar eclipse with Emma.

Third-Person Sample: The last thing she remembered was watching Emma and Henry drive away, as the curse washed over them. She had thought watching Daniel die was the hardest thing she'd ever go through, but watching Henry drive away and knowing she could never see him again, that, that was true heart break. The curse was meant to tear her away from the thing she loves most, was meant to return them to the Enchanted Forest. But this was decidedly not the Enchanted Forest, nor was it Storybrooke. She wipes the few lingering tears from her eyes as she looks around, her breath catching in her throat. If this wasn't the Enchanted Forest, something went wrong when she undid the Dark Curse, was it a side effect of Pan's curse?

Attempting to push aside her thoughts of Henry, at least long enough to get some answers and a way out of this place, she begins walking towards the giant house looming in the distance. She knew the Enchanted Forest like the back of her hand, even after being away so long. But this couldn't be it, the landscape is all wrong, and honestly it's too colourful. But still, something about the place feels familiar and wrong all at the same time, like an old dress that's too tight in one place, torn in another.

What she wouldn't give to have her Magic Mirror right now. Not the fool he became with the curse, of course, but the actual mirror. It was one of the few things she missed from the Enchanted Forest, not that there was much else. How they'd survived so long without any of the comforts Storybrooke had, she didn't know.

She passes through the gardens, barely sparing them a second glance as she makes her way to the mansion. Never seeing Henry again was supposed to her price, but if the curse didn't consider it high enough and threw her into this strange land, well, the inhabitants had better prepare themselves. Without Henry around to make her want to be a better person, to make her a better person, she knew all too well how easy it was for her to slip back into old, familiar patterns. Though a piece of her will always hold onto the small sliver of hope that Henry will find her, she knows it's a long shot.

With a wave of her hand, and confirming that she didn't end up in another Land Without Magic, the doors to the mansion open.

First-Person Sample: [The feed clicks on to show a woman in her late twenties, possibly early thirties. And she does not look pleased. If looks could kill, well, everybody viewing the broadcast would definitely be dead.

Well, that's what she's trying to convey, at least. The half dried tear tracks running down either side of her face tell another story.]

I had thought I'd seen the last of strange lands when I left Neverland. It appears I was mistaken.

[She speaks like a woman resigned to her fate. Of a woman tired of watching the person she loves most being torn out of her life, tired of fighting against the tide.]

I won't bother asking how I got here, [She's pretty sure she already knows. Her attempt to undo the curse failed, scattering them throughout the realms instead of sending them back where they came from.] I'd just like to know where I ended up.

Though I'm sure this land is just as irritating as Wonderland and Neverland were.

[Her hand hovers over the phone, as if she's debating whether to say anything else. Eventually the feed clicks off without another word.]