Fiona did not require any sacrifice or heart, manufacturing the Black Curse to benefit herself the most. In place of a sacrifice, the coven simply used Regina's blood, as she had previously cast the curse.
A devastated Emma goes to Henry's body, whispers to him that she loves him and kisses him on the forehead. This act is seen as "true love's kiss:", therefore the pure love shockwave occurs. Emma has broken the curse, bringing Henry back to life and causes everyone in Storybrooke to regain their memories.
All magic comes with a price! To answer the actual question of the thread, the reason Regina cast the curse was so that she could get Snow White in another land as there was a protection spell on her and David where she couldn't do anything to them in their land.
Once Upon A Time 1x01 "Pilot" The Dark Curse is cast
Why didn t Rumple cast The curse?
explanation is that Rumple created the curse, but didn't have the heart (ha!) to enact it himself because he was still too afraid of losing power in a land without magic. Though even then, he must have known Regina would eventually use it if she got it from him.
What did Snow and Charming do to Maleficent's baby?
The Charmings then stole Maleficent's (Kristin Bauer Van Straten) dragon egg with the promise they would return it—but since nothing ever goes as planned on Once, the Apprentice banished the egg to the real world, much to the Charmings' chagrin, especially once they saw the egg housed a human baby and not a monster.
The Evil Queen is Snow White's vindictive wicked stepmother who is obsessed with being "the fairest in the land". The beautiful young princess Snow White evokes the Queen's sense of envy, so the Queen designs a number of plans to kill Snow White through the use of witchcraft.
Cora sent Zelena back to the adoptive father who mistreated her. Without these memories, Zelena continued to have a miserable childhood and as an adult, she developed a deep resentment and hatred toward Regina.
But the Wicked Witch interrupts her with the big secret we've all been waiting for: The reason Zelena could break the blood spells is because she is Regina's half-sister. Angry over her sister having the better life, Zelena plans to take everything away from her, which was partly why she cast the new curse.
In moments before the finale, Emma is able to finally let her walls down and tells Hook she loves him. Emma then chooses to sacrifice herself for the town of Storybrooke, asking her parents and Hook to save her, she voluntarily plunges the dagger into the Darkness, transforming into the new Dark One.
Maleficent had a vendetta against Sleeping Beauty and her mother from the beginning, casting a sleeping curse on Aurora. She traded her sleeping curse for the Dark Curse, which the Evil Queen took back when the sleeping curse on Snow White was undone by Prince Charming's kiss.
Co-creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis had tried to take the fantasy show in a new direction this year after losing most of the original cast. While hard-core fans followed “OUAT” from its traditional Sunday time slot to Friday, the audience was not large enough to merit renewal by the Alphabet network.
But if you're talking about why he asked for Emma and Regina's names from Snow and Cora before they were born, it was because he needed them to plot for the casting and breaking of his curse to find Bae in the LWM/Storybrooke.
It should come as no surprise that Rumplestiltskin is the best villain. It's largely because of him that other characters on this list like Regina, Zelena, and Cora became such fearsome and vengeful villains.
Snow realizes that Emma Swan is the only one who can do this, and, since Emma's not with them, the only way to defeat Zelena is to enact the dark curse to get back to Emma. After the Charmings are reunited with Regina, they tell her that the only way to stop Zelena is to re-enact the dark curse.
A self-destructive Evil Queen Regina actually takes a potion that makes it so that she can never give birth to a baby. She does it really just to spite Cora, not thinking so much about herself, and believing that there's no way for her to ever find happiness again anyway.
Months later, Cora gives birth to Zelena and afterwards leaves her near a tree, telling her daughter that because she is a miller's daughter she can't give her the life she always wanted. After she leaves, a green tornado arrives and it carries the baby away to Oz.
Originally kind-hearted, Regina turned the path of darkness and became known as the Evil Queen with a deep hatred for Snow White and she later cast the first curse to punish her and all the other inhabitants. In the city, Regina became Regina Mills the mayor of Storybrooke and Henry's mother.
Determined to remain the fairest of all, the Queen becomes insanely jealous of Snow White, the only one whose beauty surpasses her own. She eventually uses dark magic in the form of an aging potion to transform herself into an old woman, in a final attempt to do away with her only, unknowing rival.
Maleficent is sometimes incorrectly referred to as an evil queen, likely because she lives in an abandoned castle in the Forbidden mountains, but she isn't actually a queen in Maleficent or in Sleeping Beauty (in Maleficent her aunt and uncle were technically rulers of the Moors, although that was cut from the final ...
The Evil Queen, also known as the Wicked Queen, Queen Grimhilde, or just the Queen, is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and remains a villain character in their extended Snow White franchise.
Emma immediately does some research and uncovers the truth that the woman, Lilith "Lily" Page, is not only Maleficent's daughter, but was once the childhood friend of Emma, who also discovers that fate has controlled her life down to the finest detail, which includes influencing the one friend she ever had.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, Snow and Charming learned that their unborn baby had the potential to be a hero or a villain by being a product of true love, and they were willing to do anything to prevent their child from heading down a dark path — even if it meant trusting the Queens of Darkness, Maleficent, Cruella de ...
In an upcoming episode, Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) have their second baby, while the residents of Storybrooke go on high alert in an attempt to keep Zelena (Rebecca Mader) from stealing the newborn for her own wicked purposes.
