1x18 - Stable Boy

Mary-Margaret is VERY angry with Regina and tells her to leave Storybrooke forever because it'll be better for everyone (especially Henry.)

Regina actually 'accepts' this because she loves Henry and leaves....

Later a house fire is lit at 'Reginas House' and Henry is very sad because he left his 'book' in there. Mary-Margaret tells Emma and Henry that Regina 'died' in the fire. Henry is extremely sad and cries to Emma.

Emma must investigate the fire ( its her job as sheriff) to see how or WHO started it! She finds fingerprints on the singed door handle. Those fingerprints belonged to Mr.Gold.........

I've been meaning to create this article ever since Ariel had appeared on Once Upon A Time and I never got to it until now. At least now I'll be able to have a stable list until season 5 comes around. These characters are my personal favorites and I might make my top 10 WORST characters list sometime. But for now, it's the top favorites. Anyway, keep in mind that this is just my personal opinion, so don't be rude. Enjoy!

10.Henry

I know that this is actually a very unpopular opinion because no one besides me has him as one of their favorites....

I'm curious as to what it would've been like. However I don't think it would be better if they did it this way. I mean there would be a HUGE plot hole about Emma not noticing everyone else not aging, except her. But I thought I'd make my own version of what I think the first episode would've been like. I'm not going to be doing this with every episode because it would just be a big mess and it's not worth it. This is just for fun. It's only going to be showing things from the real world, not the fairy-tale world. Please let me know what you think and don't take anything about this too seriously,...

Inspired by the who has a harder life poll, I decided to make another article on this (I'll also be utilizing some comments from there). It kind of goes hand in hand with an older article I wrote; link so I'll kind of be bring up why I think she's still sympathetic as I believe these topics go hand in hand.

One more side note; despite the source of inspiration this article is going to be Regina focused and I won't be drawing too many comparisons to other characters for the sake of saying she has it harder because I think each character has his/her own struggles that were equally as difficult....