Emma: "He's Not, He's MINE!!!" (Once Upon A Time - S2E10) 

It’s weird to remember that Regina is basically Emmas’s grandmother even though not by blood. You can see the pride in her eyes when she finds out she can do magic

Heroes are heroes. Villains will always be villains.

It was sad, because Regina was actually telling the truth...stupid Mr Gold

She didn’t know

emma saw what was there. u can't blame her for it. she was still new to magic and no one knew that Cora was in town. If it was anyone, I'm sure they would do the same as well

@Jonah Munley they saw regina (cora took regina's form) kill the cricket through a dreamcatcher using emma's magic. It was cora's strategy to manipulate regina

MiAtheRED I'd be pissed off too if the kid I gave up so he could have a happy life was put in an abusive home. Regina was horrible to Henry. She tried convincing him he was insane, she continually isolated him from anyone who made him feel valid, and she put his life at risk because of her lust for revenge. Emma has every right to keep Henry away from Regina after that.

Emma can get out of here with the BS. She gave Henry up for adoption, not even an open one either. For over 10 years she never tried to find him or look for him. Emma gave birth, but she wasn't his mother at that time. She had only known Henry for a week and thought she was entitled to the same decision making process that Regina had?

Well, actually Regina’s his step great grandmother. Through marrying Snow’s father, she took that role

@@Julia.Taunton-Clark99 Royalty is really fucked up hahaha

@DaniBanan1i well... apparently she can hahaha

You do not give up someone for adoption. Then try to claim them years later.

@@thunberbolttwo3953yeah, they originally tried to do that until they figured out about everything she did. Regina killed her father, innocent children, destroyed lives and families. If I gave a kid up for adoption, and then years later discovered they were being raised by someone who did all of that, I would be exactly like how Emma was in this scene too, and possibly worse. I love Regina as a character and how far she comes by the end of the show, but she deserved everything that came to her in this season, because this is right after the curse was broken, and everyone discovered that she had imprisoned them for 28 years all for her revenge plot.

@@lunko1736 Technically, despite what Regina did, it doesn't change that she never abused Henry. She has always loved him, even risking losing her revenge for him (she couldn't demonstrate him well in the past but that was the way it was). And in this scene they easily believed Cora's deception precisely because they were prejudiced against her (because, as Regina herself said, if it was really her, she wouldn't have done it in such an obvious way).

​@@lpallad1I'm a little late to the convo, BUT YES SHE DID. Regina severely abused henry

@@samanthanewman2183 Technically, given that Henry apologized to Regina in the middle of the third season for not having understood that she really loved him and that Regina began to change thanks to him from the beginning, I would say that instead she never really mistreated him and that the only mistakes she made with him were only because she was afraid of losing him.

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Yeah how dare they not think about the evil queen feelings. The person who separated plenty of parents and children

@@GoldenRose116 não importa, em relação ao Harry a Regina foi quem criou ele por anos e anos e muito bem criado

Well, in all fairness, there was pretty hard evidence saying Regina killed Archie so yeah they’re gonna be p!ssed. And who would want a supposed murderer, who’s still supposedly murdering, near a child??

​@@GoldenRose116 thanks you so much for that! People forget that Regina was evil back then, like, wow how dare emma not let Henry with the person who almost kill him and tried to hurt her parents and her life 😢

Susie Brady Complete jerks? Really? Based on her track record and a great frame job by Cora, they had every right to treat her that way. Yeah it sucked that she was really on a path to good and Cora took that from her, but it was always going to be difficult for her to win over everyone’s trust. And that was all on her.

Susie Brady yes!!!! I felt so bad for Regina. Henry is her son.

Keira Schneider no Henry is Emma's son Regina adopted her great grandson by adoption

I feel the same. Everyone is so hard on Regina. I just hate them.

I can completely understand others reaction Regina literary killed thousands of ppl Yes she is trying to change here but it's difficult to forgive someone who has killed thousands.

Ana lol sameeeee! I was like, “ooooooo bitch you tried it, you really did!”

she had a point tho. Emma is wayyy better than regina

@@aleenakhalid4344 Yeah true

Me too. Like she gave him up at first. Regina became my favorite character.

Aleena Khalid no she isn’t

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She ain’t no mother to Henry, REGINA IS AND THATS FINAL

@@HereMays ik but still even when Henry found Emma, she rejected him. That’s not a mother and Ik Regina loves Henry a lot.

@@user-ng2yf4mw4y yes right!? And when Regina took Henry in season 2 she later realised magic wasn't the way to make Henry love her and she let him go with David. That's a real mother right there!!

@@ameliaaa3821 She abused him all of season 1 and all of you Team Regina’s seem to forget that in regards to Emma saying this. Regina was a terrible mother and an awful person at this point. And even though the audience understood her reasons (they weren’t excuses, she killed thousands of people), the characters didn’t and they had every right to call her evil.

@@user-ng2yf4mw4y his adoptive mom is a murderer and a rapist (yeah she raped the cop from season 1 by keeping his heart then she killed him). fuck, she killed an entire village including kids. oh & she kept him away from his grandparents, it was a fucking abusive him, trying to make him sound crazy to others, making him feel invalid and isolating him from everyone else. unless you think that it's okay for a mass-murderer-genocider-rapist to live in a mansion with a kid that she got because she launched a malediction on an entire kingdom?

This is why the writers were amazing. The character were no longer black and white the way we knew them originally they became grey…. They had reasons, they were logical and made sense why they did what they did. Great writers.

I never rooted for her. She is annoying

Same she was THAT girl ❤

Yeah, now they are like best friends

ikr!

Thank God!! Someone reasonable around here. I completely agree with you.

At least, you're both honest and reasonable. You're also right about this.

@Ragna Dragneel yea that’s why I said I understand everyone’s reason but this certainly isn’t normal circumstances so that changes the rules

@Jonah Munley exactly

@Jonah Munley well depends on perspective but I hear you

***** You know who else's memories Regina erased? Henry's. After he disagreed with her plan to kill everyone he loved. See, does Regina love Henry? Yeah, in her own twisted way. But if she's proven anything, it's that it's...a twisted way and that she can and will hurt people, including him.

Twisted because of Snow? Um, no, especially not the former. At best you can say that Snow told a secret when she was was ten years old, but even ignoring the fact that you should no better than to rely on ten year olds to keep secrets, it didn't actually matter. We saw in the next Regina focused episode that Cora had put up a barrier to keep her from escaping. We also saw that Cora had the globe that could track down her blood relatives. We also saw Cora's magical power. Regina never had any hope of escaping with Daniel, just as Daniel never had any hope of surviving. Now, you might be able to claim Cora's responsible for Regina...except still no, because all the horrible things Regina did happened long after Cora was gone and she mostly did it to people who didn't deserve it. Cora wasn't the one who made Regina murder an entire village. She didn't make Regina take Graham's heart and rape him countless times. She didn't make her send innocent children into the blind witch's house to get eaten. She didn't make her strip away the happiness of countless innocent people. Yeah, a lot of people wanted to hurt Regina after the curse, on account of the fact that she ruined all their lives for nearly three decades. And Regina has flat-out said she wasn't sorry for it, either. But you know what, after Emma and Snow and Charming stopped the mob--for no reason except for Henry--the towns people agreed to stop and never made any further attempts. Even though Regina, you know, proceeded to go on to try and kill them all and to destroy the magic beans that were their only way home. Don't paint this as if Regina was justified in her efforts to murder innocent people, because she sure as hell wasn't. Nothing that happened to her justifies even a fraction of what she did, and loving Henry (who she flat-out told to his face wasn't enough) doesn't make it all okay.

Um. What? No, that really wasn't even remotely Snow's fault--who was ten years old and manipulated by Cora from the beginning (as in, since she murdered Snow's own mother). She was not at fault for anything. It was Cora's fault that she was a monster and, as I noted before, there was never any real chance of her letting Daniel live. Just like it was Regina's fault for all the lives she ruined of her own free will.

Um. And from Tinker Bell. And the Genie. And Snow. All of whom tried to help her at great risk to themselves and who she betrayed and/or tried to kill. Hell, quite a few people have tried to help Regina over the course of the show, she just does stuff like toss them in pits. You really can't say no one has given Regina a chance because she's gotten dozens. And yes, Regina thought Snow was to blame...because she's kind of crazy. Cora literally ripped Daniel's heart out in front of her.

None of which changes...anything? There are a fair number of explanations for Regina's behavior, but they aren't excuses for it.

would u let a person who ruined your life take care of your son? yeah, that's how emma feels. so emma has every right to fight for henry. Although she did give him up, she didn't fight for henry until the curse broke. after the curse broke, emma started to feel insecure when henry is with regina because of all the evil things she had done.

Children are not therapy and Regina was actively abusing Henry. Emma being Henry's mother aside, any good adult wouldn't leave a little kid in an evidently horrible situation like that.

You know what's ironic? In 2x09 Regina almost accepted taking Henry away from Emma, but then she risked herself to save them. Then no one accepts her. Not even Emma, she would've most likely done the same to her had she had the opportunity to!

Your forgetting that the reason Henry sought Emma out was because Regina was mistreating him.

I agree. I hate Emma trying to act like a mom. And Henry for being on Emma side all the time. I felt like he never really saw or love Regina as his mother.

This is what I think so pls no hate. I think Emma is just trying to make up for all of the times they were apart. She is becoming a better mother for Henry. And her and Regina are both his mothers and he loves both of them

Idah Galvan regina raised henry well until she convinced henry that he was insane, emotionally abused him- he was the one who sought out emma not the other way round.

@@aditihrishi2508 That is true.

The bottom line is, neither one of them is perfect. Regina made some mistakes with him in the beginning (let's not forget the fact that she deliberately ruined so many people's lives and the fact that she loves Henry doesn't excuse them). Emma gave him up and tried to become his mother later in his life. They are both right and they are both wrong. That's the beauty of the show: heroes can do bad things and villains can do good things.

Nice! I am totally on Team Regina!

Regina abused her son

Laia Masdeu regina have never abused henry.

Laia Masdeu She never abused him..

She did, emotional abuse. Regina made Henry believe he was crazy and basically she raised him in a town of cursed people where he had no friends (bc they didnt age) and he was miserable when he went to find Emma, and I'm sure that if you rewatch season 1 Regina you are going to see it, so if that's not psicological abuse, I give up on this fandom

+mortic0n For real thooo!

+mortic0n Thank you! People just don't get it.

So true

mortic0n Regina has also killed, raped, kidnapped, framed and destroyed many lives. And last time I checked Henry was the one who sought out Emma. There was a reason for that.

King Raped? what're you talking about

but also the irony is henry wouldn't exist without regina being evil and casting the curse. emma would have never met neal and had henry to give up in the first place. if she was living in enchanted forest. wish realm made no sense as neal would still be in the real world. wish henry should not exist or have a different father.

Regina didn't know Henry was a Charming when she adopted him. She found about a week later after the sealed records of the birth parents were send to her. When she found out she wanted to take him back to the adoption agency, but at the last minute she had change of heart. FYI, Regina raised him, he named him, not Emma. She adopted him, because she was lonely, she wanted someone to love her. And back then, there was no one to love her, she killed her father (the only person she ever loved), and Cora was a piece of **it, and on top of it her own mother killed her fiancé right in front of her. Regina is Henry's mother, whether some people like it or not. By the end of the series, Regina finally found the family she always needed. Which unfortunately includes Emma, not a fan of her by the way.

@theleprechaun439 She absolutely knew. They changed that storyline later when they revealed how Emma ended up adopted. They basically retconned all of that. Regina knew who Henry was, she just didn't know who Emma was when she arrived, but she did know that Henry was the son of Snow White's daughter that escaped the curse before it set in

@@ryanabate1981 All I see is someone who is in denial.

EXACTLY. We need context.

Well said. And ten years of harm doesn’t just disappear after one good deed.

Nothing Regina did erases the fact that Emma chose a closed adoption because she couldn't be a mother. People seem to think this is about taking sides. Really it's about the fact that if this town has real law enforcement Regina could charge Emma for kidnapping and then Henry would go into the system because Emma signed away her rights.

@@chaosspy6723 not if the adoptive mother has committed murder. The bio mom could say she took the child into protective custody for a time as she was a bounty hunter and saw a crime committed. And I think she is either sherif here or becomes sherif so technically Emma wasn’t legally doing anything bad. And yes she may have signed her rights away but if there is no next of kin and the adoption is voided for legal reasons (murder) she could petition for her rights to be restored.

@@emilyhess222 She would have to have a clean record to legally get any kind of custody over him and if would take some time. It's just not going to happen. I hate that this show just glosses over stuff like that so they can just give Emma parental power that she willingly have away. Unless the charming could file for custody, Henry would end up in the system because Emma wouldn't be eligible as a caretaker.

@@emilyhess222 Regina ni siquiera asesinó a Archie, ¿Qué dices?

Lene Jeanette Taralrud I do 2 it was all Cora’s fault she is so cruel how could he do this 2 Regina he dauther

I feel bad for Emma. You know, Regina stole her childhood. Ripped it from her just minutes after she was born. She was barely held. Then, she was rushed to a wardrobe, through murderous soldiers who almost killed her father and her. All because of Regina. Now that woman is raising her son, and from what she has seen, Regina is not being a good mother.

@@thedusty194 What childhood did Regina have? With an abusive mother and a weak father? And yet she still became a loving girl who saved Snow. Then she was sold in marriage to Snow's gross father (A fifty something year old marrying an unwilling teenager....) who raped and neglected her. Her true love was ripped away from her, murdered before her by her own mother. Don't you DARE act like Regina had a better life than Emma.

@@elisabetta611 Huh. Didn't Emma grow up with multiple abusive parents in a foster system, go to jail because her bf abandoned her, give birth in jail, find her parents only to have to save them a shit ton of times, and wasn't Bae ripped away from her, Killian alike?

@@elisabetta611 Also, haven't watched to show in two years, so that's just off of the very top of my head.

Livingshadow2009 No, it’s because she’s seen how Regina treats him and realizes that she can do better. And if Regina is a better mother, I’d rather raise my self if I were Henry.

@@93King good thing you’re not Henry then

@@Hagridslefttoee Wow so insightful.

@@93King thank you 😌

@@Hagridslefttoee De nada.

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Nicole G Agree 100%

well to be fair Emma gave him up to give him his best chance

+Bronwyn Lamb yeah and shes practically yelling at said "best chance" who raised henry like her own

to be fair Regina wouldn't have henry if Emma hadn't given him and she still loves he is Emma's son and Regina's son

That's because she is Henry's mother--whether people want to accept this or not. Regina is Henry's mother as well, but people also seem to gloss over how cold and emotionally abusive she was towards Henry when we're first introduced to her. And right now, Emma thinks that Regina just murdered Archie. Of course she wouldn't want Henry around someone like that.

EXACTLY. This is what I'm saying!! All the 'Team Regina' people that are completely ignoring her abusive parenting clearly did not watch the same show. As did the 'Emma is the best mother Regina sucks' faction.

Really? Regina's trying to convince Henry that he was crazy was because she was afraid of losing her son? Brought him into a town where she knew that no one was aging, which would keep him from ever making friends, and decided to adopt a child because she was trying to fill a void. She also wiped his mind after telling him her plan of murdering everyone in Storybrooke just so she could have him all to herself. Regina's adoption was never legal as "Regina Mills" was an identity created by the curse, so Henry doesn't belong with Regina. And you're 100% behind someone who abused her kid, ripped other kids away from their parents, (Emma (if Snow and Charming hadn't sent her away, Regina would have killed her), Owen/Greg, Hansel and Gretel), sent kids into a place where they would die, slaughtered a village which undoubtedly had children, and had a vendetta against a child (Snow) for something her own mother did.

METerrell Exactly.

@@METerrell Yes!

@@METerrell Took the words out of my mouth. Regina is just terrible.

@@DragonGoddess18 I love Regina, but she was a horrible mom for a lot of Henry’s early life.

Meg M Do you know why she “gave” Henry away?

@@93King She still doesn't have the rights. Everybody saying she should lie down and let Regina abuse him are wrong as well though.

I think there is more than one type of motherly figure and I don't think one is necessarily better than the other. Just because Emma is more laid back doesn't mean she's never put her foot down with Henry or that she wouldn't if she had to. Maybe season 1 Emma would be hesitant to do, but I don't think the person she's become now would be afraid to. Regina is more strict, but she can also be a bit more possessive of Henry at times, which I don't think is necessarily a good thing. But at the end of day, I think they are both good parents to Henry.

+Pipsa89 Emma didn't abandon him. She gave him up for adoption because she went to prison for a crime that her boyfriend let her take the fall on and because she wanted him to "give him his best chance" (Emma's own words).

Not true

+Shadowed Kiss oh you're insulting Emma now

How is that an insult? It's canon. When she was seventeen, she went to prison for 11 months for possession of stolen goods that Neal had her retrieve (and he's the one who tipped off the police because of Pinocchio). While inside, she found out that she was pregnant and had no choice but to give the baby up for adoption. Emma and Regina are my favorite characters- I'm hardly insulting her by stating what actually happened.

It still is an insult

Regina is also the reason why she grew op as a orphan with abandonment issues. Not to mention Regina abused him emotionally and gaslighted him

Blue didn't get rid of Nova. She made Nova stay.

THE SO CALLED "HERO'S" MADE REGINA EVIL SNOWING KIDDNAPED MALEFICENTS CHILD AND HAVE DONE HORRIBLE THINGS TOO!

BlueeStarProductions TM I never said that the other characters on this show haven't done bad things. Of course they have. But their bad deeds don't magically wipe away all of Regina's, so my original comment still stands. They still have more than enough reasons not to trust Regina. And as for them "making" Regina, I'm sorry but I call BS on that. Yes, Regina has had bad things happen to her and yes, certain people in her life (Cora and Rumple) have done a lot to put Regina on the path to darkness. But it's not like she had absolutely no free will. She had also been given a few opportunities to make better choices and instead chose to give in to her anger and hatred. That's not on anybody but her.

Yes i do see your point but do you pay attention at all? the shows main thing is that evil isn't born it's made snow told cora about regina and daniel the darkness made rumple evil and his father peter pan abandoned him and cora was traded wrong because she was a pesant and ingrid was evil because her sister was afraid of her snow magic and trapped her in the urn hook stole ursula's voice and maleficent became evil cause of briar rose cruella's hasn't been explained but after heart of gold it will. can you see my point?

Yes, I understand that, but I will never agree with the idea that all of these villains are merely victims of circumstance and nothing more, because it's simply not true. Evil isn't just made by the things that happen to us, they're also made by the choices we make. I've seen both Regina and Rumple be given chances to be better people and then slap it away because they'd rather have power, vengeance and hatred. That's on them and no one else. And the pain they inflict on innocent people who have done nothing to them is also on them.

WHAT FUCKING CHOICE DID REGINA MAKE? YOU ARE REALLY PISSING ME OFF! I AM A REGAL AND YOU ARE A HATER

Liyah Whitehead No, Emma CHOSE to put Henry up for adoption, she can’t just claim him like she did in season 1. She may be Henry’s biological Mother, but Regina is the one who adopted him, took care of him, paid for his clothes, food. took care of him when he was sick (etc) Emma was wrong for saying he was her song, he’s Regina’s son... But now they kinda share him

Theo Smith And what kind of choice did Emma have given the circumstances she was in? But Regina on the other hand had plenty of chances to do right and she CHOSE the opposite.

King Actually Regina did nothing wrong, they were blaming her. Cora is the one who did that to Archie, and regardless the situation Regina is his mother, NOT Emma.

Theo Smith I’m not talking about this specific event. I’m talking about EVERYTHING else she’s done. And last time I checked Regina was the one who basically killed Henry. Not Emma. In her twisted psychotic way she does love Henry, but in no way possible does that excuse what she’s done. And it doesn’t matter what your opinion is they’re BOTH his mother. No matter how emotionally invested you are in Regina it will never change the fact that Emma is the one who gave birth to Henry.

Maria Muse Do you need help pushing her off the cliff? I am in on that. LOL

Andrea Taylor But then Killian's going to kick your asses, and at that point, you've got a pissed-off pirate who just lost the one he loves... again.

Alora Greenleaf Poor Hook now Emma is the Dark one. Season 5 is going to be a ride.

Makenna Lynette He probably loves Emma more, so he'll be way more mad than before so imagine

Snow White is Regina's step-daughter. Also blood will not always win over everything else. Emma barely knew Henry, I understand her wanting a relationship with him but it is not okay to undermine Regina as Henry's legal mother (and in MY opinion real mother) Regina raised Henry from the time he was a baby, Regina is Henry's mom not Emma.

And without Regina Henry would have been adopted by Wendy's brothers who were working for Pan and would have been killed. And if not that maybe he would have not been adopted like Emma and would have grown up in foster care. Emma gave Henry his best chance at life, Regina was/is his best chance.

Just because she gave birth to him does not mean she has any right to call Henry her son after she put him up for adoption. She is not more of a mother to Henry than Regina is.

I'm not saying that Emma wasn't important to Henry being alive because well duh she was. I'm saying that yes Emma carried Henry for nine months but that's it! Regina is the one who raised him who taught him how to walk, to talk, who spent countless sleepless nights with him. Regina adopted Henry, Henry is HER son not Emma's. You can give birth to something but once you give it up it is no longer yours to claim as your own, that right is taken away once you give said thing up, in this case Henry. Emma is his birth mom that does not mean she is his REAL mom.

HOLY DAMN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ADOPTION HERE!!!! My whole problem is that Emma wanted the best for her son, so she made a hard decision and gave him up, so someone else could be his mom. And now Emma thinks she can just come in and basically say to Regina "no, he is not your son he is mine." Putting you kid up for adoption is not letting someone else to take care of your child while you sort your shit out. This is why state give the mother about a month to change their mind after that time has passed they can no longer claim them. I honestly don't think you are grasping what I'm trying to say, its pointless at this point to continue.

It's so funny to see you and others say that when you are completely caught up and waiting for the next episode. Ah, irony is everywhere when you can see the future (rumple quote)

Emma is her biological mother nothing can change that!

Regina is Henry's family. There is a big difference.

Storybrookes Hunt just being his biological mother doesnt make Emma his mother. It just means she gave birth to him. Being a mother to a child is far more than giving birth. There are many other facts in the mix

She didn't want to give him up, she wanted him to have a good life and probably thought about him every day. Just like when she cried when they took him. She was being a mother by putting his needs over her own love for the child. She grew to love him. She listened him when no one else did. She is as much as a mother as Regina. The woman who doubted everything he said and drove him so upset he crossed a country to find someone that has the Dna to love him.

ElizabethRoseX Makeup Henry crossed the country to get Emma to break the curse. If looking back on season 1 Henry is all about Emma breaking the curse. He didnt cross the country to find someone to love him. In Henrys young mind, Regina (his mother) was evil and had no love for him due to the fact she was the evil queen. In season 1 Henry based everything off the storybook he had.

Ikr everyone is hating on Emma they were both really good mums at some points but both haven’t been the best at other times

Throughout the later seasons on the show Henry as grown so much closer to Regina and they have the best scenes in the show together! I feel the actor who plays Henry has more chemistry on screen with Lana aka Regina than with Emma. Emma has no right to call Henry her son since she hasn't actually done any of the proper mother things like first day at school, teaching him to walk, talk etc.

+PomegranatesAndDroids ok first of all, Regina never tried to kill Henry. Everything she's done was in order to protect him, or what she thought will keep him by her side. the moment she understood henry took the apple she was horrified and heartbroken, and cooperated with Emma to save him. She tried to kill Henry's "grandparents" even before Henry existed, and him being related to them has nothing to do with it. if you'll searched the family tree you'll see it's impossible to find someone that is NOT related to henry somehow. I totally understand regina for going after the charmings, especially after what snow did to her. she held a grudge, which she already let go of by now. And yes she made Archie lie to henry, but she didn't want her son to see her as an evil queen, can you blame her? she did love him, a lot. that much that after she found out his birth mother was the savior, she kept him and drank a potion to make her forget so it won't disturb her raising him. In season 2 we see paintings Henry painted for Regina, calling her "mommy" and you can see they had a very good relationship before this storybook thing. She did much more than change his diapers- she soothed him, she loved him, she sacrificed everything she had built for him. He was the one thing that made her heart whole, that filled that gape in her heart after the dark curse. "bare minimum"? she gave her son everything she had, all the time and all the love possible. once he started seeing her an the evil queen she got panicked- she didn't want the curse broken and she didn't want him to hate her. when she saw henry doesn't want to be with her, she let him go with david, because she knew what's best for her child, and she knew holding him with her won't do him any good. she was selfless and loving, and that's the most important thing in a mother: to always put your child first. Emma gave him up and never even thought about him for 10 years. when he arrived in her house she said "son? i don't have a son". she didn't come back to storybrooke to save him, she came because he pretty much blackmailed her (clever henry ;). And what claim does Emma have on Henry? both legally and logically, she has no right to bump into his life and take him from his mother. she signed on a CLOSED ADOPTION, she intended on never seeing him again, she didn't care. if she did she wouldn't sign a closed adoption. And Regina was the one to raise him in the past 10 years, she knows him and he's the only thing she truly loves. and suddenly his birth mother decides to show up and stay to keep an eye on him. then she moves in and spends more and more time with him. then she takes him to herself claiming she knows what's best for him, and suddenly regina is the one begging for some quality time with her son?? suddenly he's emma's son and regina is second best? at what right? Henry is Regina's son, plain and simple.

tal shemesh It doesn't matter that killing Henry wasn't her intention. What matters is that she put her child in danger in order to satisfy her own petty jealousy and insecurities by killing Emma, the one person whom Henry loved and trusted at the time. I can't believe I have to explain why attempted murder is not an attribute of a good parent. Good parents don't willingly put their children in danger. Regina cares so little about Henry's well-being that she made him feel like he was crazy (that's called gaslighting, which is a recognized form of child abuse), isolated him from the entire town so that it was impossible for him to make any friends, and systematically tried to kill his entire family. She used physical force and magic to imprison him in her home to further keep him isolated from the birth family that he was just starting to know. In real life, when a parent gives up their child and asks for a closed adoption, that pretty much ends their involvement in the child's life unless the child seeks a relationship down the road and the parent reciprocates that notion. That's exactly what happened in the pilot. Henry sought Emma out; not the other way around. It wasn't like Emma up and decided one day that she wanted him back. He came to her, sad, scared, and lonely, and she came back into his life because she cared. If you can claim that Emma didn't care about Henry, then you and I clearly aren't watching the same show. She was devastated when she gave him up for adoption, but she was 18, an orphan, and in prison serving someone else's sentence. She didn't want him to grow up like she did and she felt like she had nothing else to offer him. She made a selfless decision in an impossible situation. When she took Henry home and she saw that he did indeed grow up like she did, she made it her mission to be there for him as a friend, since she didn't feel like she had a right to be his mom. But Regina had even less of a right to claim to be Henry's mom because she was abusive. When you abuse your child, you lose the right to call yourself a parent. We never see Regina do any of the things that she claims. We never see her nurse a sick Henry back to health. We never see her show him any affection or genuine concern prior to the curse breaking. We never see her put his needs first. That's what she tells Emma, but unfit parents lie and say they're good parents all the time. All we see from Regina is a disregard for Henry as anything other than a possession to her that she thinks can be stolen by another person.

+PomegranatesAndDroids It's funny that some people can't comprehend the simple notion that Regina is not a good mother. Giving a child for adoption does not make one automatically a bad parent, it's not a bad thing per se. There are countless instances in which it's actually a responsible, or loving thing to do. Emma's case is an example of it. It's not that she did not want him, she deemed herself unworthy and unfitting to raise him, in given conditions. She was objective and she decided to put the needs of the child before her love and affection. I like Regina, but I'm not some idiotic fanboy. Not only that she abused him, kept him pretty much imprisoned as You said, lied to him etc., but she also, after all this went down, considered erasing his memory, and killing everyone else. See, what I hate about the OUAT "fanbase" is the fact that they have no objectivity of whatsoever. None, and it's terrifying actually. If they like a character, given character is absolved of all the sins instantaneously. So a person that punished the x amount of people driven by her petty need for revenge, most of which completely innocent, who killed a vast amount of people and who had all this, let's face it psychopathic urges, is somehow a benefiting parent because she did not destroy what was essential and object of her obsession. But fed and dressed him. Compliments for even mentioning this, for the sever backlash was an obvious outcome >.

+miloradvlaovic i never said she was a good person. she was horrible (more reasons why i like her but nvm :P ) but she WAS a good mother to Henry until that whole story book thing that lasted for a half a year. you could see she truly loved him and vice versa by the way he protected her after the curse was broken, the way she tried to change for him, the paintings he made for her as a child writing "mommy" on them, the fact she kept them all this time, the way we learn in season 3 that she erased her own memories and sacrificed the curse in order to be a better mom for Henry. it was much more than dressing and feeding him, i dont understand how cant you possibly see it. was she wrong in season 1? yes. but she was afraid and jealous of Emma, and she didn't want the curse to be broken. she thought she could have Henry AND the curse, but when it came to saving henry or helping Emma to break the curse, she didn't hesitate for a second. the way she cried over his body when they were sure pan killed him (she was in a much worse state than Emma, just saying), the way she sent him with David when she saw staying with her is not what's best for him at the moment.. really HOW can't you see it? i don't say she was a good person back in season 1, she was a villain. but Henry was the one thing she truly loved, even in her state, and people can be bad to others and still be good parents for their children, as long as they both love each other.

lol I love that part in the bloopers. This cast is so loveable!

don't think regina would ever give up henry but like it or not emma is in henry's life now and she and regina share henry as their son and im fine with that

Exactly

well now she in his life noe and his mother

Agreed

+Isaiah Pena Jesus, Emma isn't perfect either. She tore Henry's first love, Violet's heart out, and commanded her to break Henry's heart. This show is about redemption and second chances if you hadn't noticed, Drop The Hate!

Truly loser.

+Lola McCready The word you're looking for is "angry" not "hate". If you hate the MAIN PROTAGONIST you're not a fan of the show.

+LordofFullmetal not true. I am the biggest oncer ever and Emma is my worst character on the show. You don't have to love the protagonist. For example in Harry Potter, Harry was my worst character. I've talked to many oncers who hate Emma too. I just haven't liked her since day one but I don't mind if you like her because you have your own opinion.

+LordofFullmetal as you can tell by my comment on this video you can tell I am an Evil Regal 😂

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+Ibrahim Anjum Um why? Just because I don't like Emma? And I said that everyone has their own opinions and I respect them...

Lance Matthew Yeah I felt the same way when Mary Margaret was innocent and Regina was framing her.

Eszra Exactly.

Eszra 01 thank you finally someone with sense

She did love henry. Watch the episode where they show her first getting henry as a baby. Get your facts straight before you comment something utterly stupid.

Both were scared they would completely take over his life and when finding out that she is the evil queen, Emma was scared Henry could be hurt by her magic. Maybe she could've given her a chance , but I find the incident that put him under a sleeping curse made her a lot more wary since her magic put him under a spell he almost didn't wake up from.

They do eventually both become his mom. They are both very strong, beautiful, powerful, yet still very stubborn women who just had to learn to trust each other first and realize that Henry loved BOTH of them and that they could both share the title of "Mommy" and not lose him. And you're right....while Regina wasn't always the perfect Mom for Henry, she raised him....she was there for all the late night bottle feeds, the tantrums, the times when he was sick and through his first years of school and she felt very threatened when Emma showed up out of the blue claiming SHE was his mother AND nurturing his belief in fairy tales to boot. But eventually, she learned to trust Emma that Emma wouldn't take Henry from her. And Emma, while she IS Henry's biological mother, hasn't been perfect either. She gave Henry up and lost the first ten years of his life, HE had to go find HER, and then she has moments like this where she's challenging Regina's right to parenthood....not to mention other things like when she was the Dark One and when she was just learning magic and fled from everyone, including her son.

I agree. Plus they now share custody of Henry so it's not that much of a problem for them anymore

Sé que es un comentario de hace tres años, pero como eres el único comentario en español quise responderte. Regina lo cuido durante los primeros diez años pero físicamente, o sea, tuvo salud física, una casa, comida, ropa y educación, pero ella se olvidó completamente de su salud mental y emocional que es tan importante como la física. Hacer pasar a tu hijo como que está loco y llevarlo a terapia cuando sabes que no es así es abuso psicológico, hacerlo crecer en un pueblo donde nadie envejece excepto por él, también es emocional y psicológicamente muy dañino. Y la frutilla del pastel descubrir que tu madre adoptiva es la reina malvada que maldijo a todo un reino, incluyendo a tu familia biológica no es nada agradable tampoco. Además en esta escena particular Emma vio como Regina mataba a Archie (sé que era cora haciéndose pasar por Regina, pero Emma no sabe eso), así que es obvio que Emma va a actuar como actuó y tratar de alejar a Henry de Regina.

Finally! Someone who gets it!

+Scorpi Opal Jesus, Emma isn't perfect either. She tore Henry's first love, Violet's heart out, and commanded her to break Henry's heart. This show is about redemption and second chances if you hadn't noticed, Drop The Hate!

Did you not read the part where I said she changed and became a better parent? Or did you just read the first bit and get mad? Yes I have noticed. Again, you didn't read what I said. There's no hate. I'm pointing out facts. Regina, unintentionally, abused Henry. But like I said, SHE CHANGED. And I don't recall saying that Emma is perfect.

+Scorpi Opal You're saying it hasn't washed away all of her past actions. Emma ripping a heart out isn't gonna wash away either. Redemption, this show is about redemption, so let it be.

+Scorpi Opal Regina did love him, in an episode we see Henry's drawings from a young age, where he calls her 'mommy'. She also erased her memories just to be a better mother. Emma just bursts randomly into their happy lives and demands her son back, who she only knew about because he personally went to go get her. That's when Regina started abusing Henry. She didn't mean to hurt him, she was just scared of losing him.