As much as she's capable of loving anyone.

Of course!

Im not really sure.

No! she just dosen't want him too get close to Emma because he knows her secret.

I don't think she actually understands how love works to be honest. Which could be part of the problem.

I truly think she does love him, in her own way. The only way she knows how to love.

If she didn't love him she wouldn't be so defensive towards Emma for staying in town.

i like to think she does, and i really hope she does but i can't say for sure.

When other people challenge her, she writes them off and tries to destroy them. When Henry says things like "I found my real mother" and calls her evil, she doesn't write him off. Instead, she works harder at trying to connect with him. I'm not saying she's good at it, but I think she is giving what she has.

Well, she did raise him for 10 years, and took him in when his birth mother was unable to, but she was also strict and always seizes the chance at taking away things that make him happy, so I'm not really sure.

Probably not...but I think some part of her does.

I think that's why Emma stood in the city, she can tell when people lie...

Regina may be evil but she is not incapable of loving.

Did you see her face when Henry rejected her? When she saw him talking to that stranger? When he was trapped in the mine? Someone who can't love would not exhibit those kinds of emotions.

I think her problem is that she has covered her heart with layers of hatred and revenge. Perhaps this curse reduction means her layers will get peeled away and by the end, she will end up how she was before she went evil.

Regina/Evil Queen KILLED HER OWN FATHER!

^^ Totally agree. Evil people can love, just because one is evil doesn't man they just lose the emotion of love!

if she doesn't love her father, I doubt she loves a boy who isn't even hers

She killed her father because she loved him :( The thing you love the most.

YOU DON'T KILL SOMEONE YOU LOVE!

she loved herself more!

you just DON'T KILL the one you love because you just want to have things your way.

^^ Once again exactly.

She did love him this is odd to say but, just because you love someone doesn't mean you can't kill them. She loved her father a lot and if anything the killing of him proved it (the curse worked because her father is the thing she loved the most.

I don't believe she is in love with herself, she has this obsessive desire for vengeance. She didn't kill her father because she wanted to enhance her beauty, talent, knowlage, ect. She did it because of her strong blood lust. Thus she doesn't love herself the most.

She can totally love Henry even if she killed her father; 1. We are still uncertain as to weather or not Regina remembers everything or just snippets of her other life. And if she only remembers bits and pieces then she may not even remember her father. 2. Gina's love for her father and love for Henry are two different things. Her relationship with her father in her other life does not effect her love for Henry. 3. Gina has done so much for Henry to gain his affection, it's when he doesn't even appreciate the things she tries to do for him that gets her irritated with him. The very reason (outside the curse) that Gina hates Emma is because she fears that Emma will take Henry (the person she loves most) away from her.

Killing someone does not mean you cannot love. Take for instance (oh boy I've been dying to drag Bellatrix into this) Bellatrix killed her own cousin to gain the affection of Voldemort, whom she loves deeply. Being evil or killing someone does not neccacarily lessen ones ability to love.

so, IF SHE LOVES HENRY we can expect any day for her to KILL HIM!


Just because she wants a new curse or whatever.


If she had the heart to KILL THE ONE SHE LOVED MOST I wonder what she'll do to someone who she simply loves, or loves a little bit... make them suffer and then kill them maybe...

I doubt she will kill Henry. Gina and Queenie are almost two different people. Gina isn't as evil, she shows more affection to the ones she loves. Gina unlike Queenie has not killed anyone yet, and once again, I highly doubt she will... especially not Henry. Why, because she does love Henry a lot. Just because he is not her real child doesn't mean Gina klcant love him as if he were. Most mothers will never kill their child, like wise I don't think Gina would either. She'd probably kill Emna to keep Henry because she loves him so much.

Just because she wants a curse does not mean she loves herself more then anything. And even though she killed her father, she still loved him a lot. The curse's working proved that her father was indeed the thing Queenie loved the most.

There is no curse to be made or sacrifice to make. That's somewhat irrelevant. She isn't going to kill Henry because she doesn't feel any motivation to do so. And going back to the previous points; Gina has a very different personality then her other self. Queenie may kill loved ones Gina is less likely to. And if you are going to bring Gramham up; he broke up with her she didn't love him when she killed him because he really hurt her by dumping her for Emma. Gina is more likely to kill for love; she already displayed the 'I can't have him no one can' thing. In that sense her love for Gramham was strong enough to make her kill for it. And in the case of Henry as I said before she'd kill Emma to keep him. Also she doesn't intentionally make the ones she loves suffer. It's one of those things where she tries so hard to bring people close to her but it only pushes them away. She tries really hard to gain Henry's affection but he just doesn't care, her gifts and attempts to show him love only seem to push him away.

@zanhar1 agree to disagree. I can't possibly understand your point.

I can accept Regina would like to love Henry (just because she doesn't really want to be a monster, a.k.a. a person incapable of loving).

But what Regina has is not LOVE. you do not deliberately kill& bring suffering to the ones you love. Her BLACK HEART does not know what love is, CAN'T LOVE.

yet.

I hope that by the end of the series she'll learn. and have her redemption. however she must pay for all the evil she's done.

I suppose that's all we can do, agree to disagree lol.

I still think she can love and tries her hardest to do so.

My question would be how did the curse work then if she didn't kill something she loved. Some People with personality disorders do make people they love suffer (sadistic personality disorder). I also believe it is near impossible for a human to stop loving all together, it's a human emotion one can't just get rid of it.

I hope she gets her happy ending as well, but I bet she's gonna die, all my favorites do. D:

I agree with zanhar on the capability to love. If Regina didn't love her father, his death wouldn't have mattered when she next attempted the curse. As Rumpelstiltskin said, it "requires great sacrifice". Apathy regarding someone's death is not sacrifice, plain and simple.

Of course she can love him and kill him, it's not impossible. Think of a depressed person that's contemplating suicide. They may love everyone around them and not want to hurt them, but they decide that their death is ultimately best in the long run and go through with it...I hate to compare the two, but it's the best I've got. Regina reached a point of complete desperation, and in this pit of said emotion, she believed there was no other way to be happy.

As for loving Henry, I fully believe that she does. His rejection hurts her in a way that the rejection of others does not, it's painfully obvious. She may be strict and over-bearing, but I know plenty of mothers with that demeanor that would die for their children (and part of me believes Regina would be willing to as well).

Regina wasn't aware of Henry's fairy-tale theory until Emma came to town. We learn from Archie that she's been trying to bring Henry closer to her for YEARS. She was doing so without a prompt that he knew she was the Queen; she genuinely wanted him to care and to reciprocate her feelings.

She doesn't get any positive feedback from Henry, and if she didn't truly love him, she would have stopped trying to get through to him a long time ago. But no, she fights to pull him closer. She loves him, she just doesn't understand it as well as others and I'm willing to bet that it all goes back to Snow White's betrayal.

Well said

@LadyKnighton -I AGREE!

Well, Lana Parrilla said that she is playing her character as if she really does love Henry so...

I think she wants to but is unable too

i say no because the only reason she keeps him so close is because she dnt want him around emma and because she dnt want him to let emma figure out her secret and what she has done remember she known that one day emma was gonna come to stop her curse she mite kill henry....lyke she said no one knows what she is capable of...lyke she kills the people she love(her father and the officer)....to bad henry is still alive!!she dnt love him!

It was revealed in the show

Emma: Do you love him?
Regina: What?
Emma: Do you love Henry?
Regina: Of course I love him! *goes inside*

Emma had a frightened and worried look on her face. She can tell whenever anyone is lying so that means Regina doesn't love Henry. Emma wouldn't have stayed if she did. She even said Henry didn't have his best chance and she couldn't leave. Regina is just using Henry to hold Storybrooke together.

That or Emma just wanted to be with her son. It's natural for a mom to want to be there for her son.

Yeah but still the lying thing(which could be a fairy-tale gift she got when she entered the wardrobe and being Snow's daughter) makes it good proof that she doesn't love him. I'm not saying she's incapable of real feelings, since she loved her father but I don't see her as loving Henry.

@zanhar1 Damn...you really just took the words right out of my mouth. I shall bow to your awesome knowledge. *bows* :P I do think Regina loves Henry.

ETA: Oh btw I love the Bellatrix statement you put in. That is true.

@muffin thanks :P Bellatrix had to be added or my life would be incomplete.

@Katara maybe, maybe not. All shall be revealed, hopefully.


Just to add to my point Gina offered to go into that mine (in still small voice) to save Henry. She would've risked her life had Emma not butted in.

^It's easy to say "I'll go" and then not go! I doubt she would have risked her life for him.

She's his mother, she raised Henry for 10 years not knowing who he "actually" was. He is her son of course she loves him. Call her a "monster" if you want but she is his MOTHER, adoptive or not, evil queen or not she loves him because he is her son. She has never been "cruel" or "mean" to him. She's been a parent.

If she didn't love him she wouldn't be so hurt by his cold attitude toward her.

The reason she didn't go was because Emma didn't let her. She was gonna go but Emma stole the spotlight.

She only said she'd go so she'd seem heroic and try to win his favor. She's trying to control him just like Story Brooke. Besides Regina wouldn't last ten sounds, Emma had to do it.

^^^Regina had Henry for 10 years and couldn't get him to love her. he's scared and unhappy with her.

Emma had him for 10 minutes and Henry loved her instantly.

this says something. there are millions of good, loving adoptive mothers out there! and their adoptive children choose to stand by their side, even when their real parents show up!

I think if Henry felt loved he wouldn't have been so lonely and unhappy. he wouldn't have run to Emma.

@Katara I think it's all about how you interpreted it, I think she offered to go in because she does care, not to seem heroic. And I think, seeing as she is the one who managed to curse a whole kingdom, Gina would make it out alive no problem. Of course they are different from their fairy tail characters, so I guess we'll never know if she could or not.

@Princess But we don't know what her relationship with Henry was prior to the show. He couldn't possibly have hated her since birth. I have faith in Henry and Gina.

Naturally Henry would love his birth mother instantly, they are biological family, it's only natural. Like-wise it's only natural to hate a step-mom or an adoptive mom, since they are not blood related.

Not necessarily, it really depends on the child, every kid reacts to situations differently.

She's the mayor, it's hard to be a single mom, hold up an important job, and juggle a child all at once. He didn't particularly have to be lonely either, there were many other kids in Mary's class he could've talked to. As you say about Gina, he chose to not have friends.

I hope you don't get the wrong idea,Henry is one of my favorite charters and I'm not trying to make him the bad guy.

I understand, I don't like that he chooses to be a loner, yet him an Emma are tied as my favorite character.

They are tied for third on my list :P

If Regina would love Henry, Henry would love her back. He wouldn't be so miserable and lonely.

If Regina would love Henry, Henry would love her back. He wouldn't be so miserable and lonely.

As I said being a single mom and managing a job isn't the easiest especially if you're a mayor. And she tries to show him affection, she buys him nice toys that he rejects. She tries to hug him and love him but he pushes her away.

why does he pushes her away? he feels unloved.

Some kids are just like that. It's really hard to love someone who won't let you. He doesn't give Gina a chance because she is Queenie. I think he want to love her but all at once he's afraid of her so he pushes her away.

She had him since he was a baby... all this time... The kid has good instincts. pushes evil away from him. although he leaved wit it forever.

That still doesn't prove she doesn't love him, rather it proves he doesn't love her and may have some trust issues.

he didn't have any trust problem with Emma! and she gave him for adoption! He went for her and put all his trust in him!

What about the other children why didn't he ever talk to any of them?

This is a bit off topic though I don't think we're here to discuss Henry.

yep! let's not forget REGINA DID NOT ALLOW HIM TO TALK TO ANY CHILDREN. now, how messed up was that?

poor henry was so happy to talk with hansel and gretel behind her back...

When did it say she didn't let him talk to the children? As far as I know he was free to do so as he pleased.

Oh wow two pages lol.

yeah! we got heated :P

well, Emma noticed how lonely Henry is. And Mary said it too. I've seen how hysterical Regina got when she saw him talking to those children. Plus Henry seemed so happy and amazed that he can talk to somebody his age!
I never saw any children in Regina's house.

She got hysterical because she didn't want to lose him. He hates her as it is! He could've asked to go to some other kid's house. I never heard him ask Gina about visiting a friend.

I think she got hysterical because he doesn't want him to interact with fairytale characters, scared he might find out more details about the curse!

I think he's not allowed to socialize with other children. if he were...and it was somehow his choice not to... then I DON'T THINK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SO HAPPY AND EXCITED to talk with hansel&gretel!

That's a possibility, I can see it both ways. But I have faith in Gina.

I think he was happy to talk to hansel and gretel because they are orphans like him. They understood him.

she may love him, but she's too posseisve and annoying. she's not his real mum anyway. what's great about being adopted is if you get sick of those parents, you can leave them and find the birth parents, and I'm glad Henry did that, I think it's cool.

yes

To add to one of my prior statements; according to Lana, Regina does love Henry. And if Lana says she's portraying Regina as loving Henry then I believe it's more of a fact that she loves Henry than an opinion. I could be wrong.

I DO believe that she DOES 'love' Henry! Just say I say everything Zanhar1 says!

Thanks ^_^

Henry has faith and hope for Gina since the curse was broken...he wants to save 'everyone' he still cares for her (after all she's done. It's so sweet <3) He's trying to 'change' her and save everyone else from her 'evilness' at once! I thought that he 'hated' her but he doesn't.....in the end of 'Broken' he was harsh towards her (.understandable) He thinks he had to be for her to 'change' evidently.....
Gina didn't 'expect' Henry to save her in reality AND the 'nightmare.' He is really trying to redeem her! :-) <3 she loves him so much that she'll do anything for him just like Emma! She's actually going to 'try' and 'save' her former enemies 'for Henry!' :-) <3

Regina may be evil, but when it comes down to it, she really does love Henry!

^ Indeed

I don't think she's capable of love. She said it herself to Henry: "I'm not good at this". But now she is willing to try to learn apparently.

I personally think everyone is capable of love. And she never said she can't love she said she's not very good at it. And she did show she knew how to love when she was with Frankendan.

well, that's debatable. I believe she can't love since her heart is poisoned by all the hatred and evilness (to take the heart of thousands does that to your own heart). But I won't go into it. I think we've made enough comments on this pick.

That's true, we've already made 2 pages lol.

Of course! I don't doubt it, we all know she's capable of love.

In her own way.

After season 3 episode 9 how can anyone pick no?

Yeah I can tell she loves him so much and I think he's her redeemer in a way and she definitely loves him
Primcessyvonne- lol what did you think after season 3 where it proves she loves Henry!

Regina's whole world is Henry. She loves him more than air.