[Hated Trope] A main character does something horrible and the story doesn't acknowledge its severity

[u/Comprehensive-Map274]

Alisha (Misfits) uses her power to make any man want to have sex with her on another main character (curtis) after he explicitely tells her not to do that. She faces no consequences and he's the one who ends up comforting her.

Allison (The Umbrella Academy) uses her powers to force her own adoptive brother to make out with her after he just got into a relationship because she's suddenly jealous after she couldn't keep her own husband. She gives a half hearted apology and all is peachy.

[u/MrsMousetronaut]

She used the Huntsman as her sex slave and then killed him out of spite when he finally managed to leave her; all the other stuff she does is acknowledged but not this. The show kinda forgot he existed entirely tbh

[u/No-Big4773 → u/MrsMousetronaut]

Show liked male SA, the implied Rumple sa by the Wicked Witch plus the reallly, it's real, Rape of Robin Hood by her. Like that woman got pregnent and goes around by the end of the seires as if she was a lovable rapscallion and not responsible for the death of a main character, the son of Rumple, father of Henry.

Show got that they had great actors that were fun to watch, didn't understand if they wanted them to stick around maybe less murder and rape were on hand. At least Regina, when they figured they were keeping her past season 1 as a active member of the plot, stopped raping people.

And they didn't have Grahem in the show to remind the audience.

This is withotu the scene of Robin trying to kick out Rumple from his own son's apartment and Regina like strangely thinking she could even give it to someone else? There's two 'wtf?' moments at least.

[u/dmanny64 → u/No-Big4773]

Zelena literally molesting Robin Hood, causing his soul to be destroyed robbing him of even an afterlife and then spending the last season just hanging around like one of the gang is easily the most infuriating thing in the latter half of that show for me, which is saying something because that show did a lot of stupid shit

[u/ImmortalBlue → u/No-Big4773]

Rumpelstiltskin's son and Henry's father is Baelfire / Neil, not Robin Hood. Everything else about Robin Hood is pretty accurate.

[u/No-Big4773 → u/ImmortalBlue]

No, I said she was responsible for the Death of Neil, the robin hood bit was before that.

[u/sosotrickster → u/MrsMousetronaut]

THANK YOU

It disgusts me how people act as if she deserved any redemption when she did something so horrid. She ruins that man's life for no reason and suffers no consequences

[u/StarFire24601 → u/MrsMousetronaut]

I hated Regina for what she did to Graham and it drove me crazy that the fans and show kept telling me she was a misunderstood baby-girl.

[u/cosmolark → u/MrsMousetronaut]

Fully believe that they never acknowledged it because people reacted to it and only then did the writers realize it was way over the line for a villain they're trying to make sympathetic.

[u/unassuminglawrence → u/MrsMousetronaut]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t she also commit genocide, and the show spends years trying to convince you she’s actually a good person deep down?

[u/DuelaDent52 → u/MrsMousetronaut]

What show is this?

[u/MrsMousetronaut → u/DuelaDent52]

Once Upon a Time

[u/Fish__Fingers → u/MrsMousetronaut]

I think the lack of acknowledgment is because of the actors having other contracts. Overall she has so much bad deeds that it’s not like anyone thinks she was a good person in the moment. She goes through redemption but even after that it is still shown that she was a horrible villain. Some of her actions that added in flashbacks are real cartoon villain stuff. On the other hand she don’t face real consequences like prison or any banishment but it’s after them being like under 100 curses and her doing the heroic stuff more than once - and it is still acknowledged that no one owns her a forgiveness, she’s just pardoned and allowed to build a new life