<P> In Once Upon a Time, the Magic Mirror started out as a Genie (played by Giancarlo Esposito) where he and his lamp were discovered by King Leopold . King Leopold feels no need to wish for anything and uses the first and second wishes to free the Genie from the lamp and to give the third wish to the Genie . The Genie expresses the desire to find true love, so King Leopold takes the Genie to his castle as he believes the Genie can find true love there . He falls in love with the King's wife Queen Regina and gives her a hand mirror . The King reads in the Queen's diary that she has fallen in love with the man who gave her the hand mirror and asks the Genie to locate him . The Queen is then locked in her room to prevent her from leaving the King . To free her, her father has the Genie bring her a locked box, which turns out to be filled with poisonous vipers from Agrabah so the Queen can kill herself . Instead, the Genie uses the vipers to kill King Leopold and allow the Queen to be with him . She tells him that since the vipers were from his country, the guards will find out that he was the murderer and flee . Realizing the Queen never loved him, he uses his wish to be always with her and to never leave her sight . This traps him in the hand mirror . As a spirit in the Magic Mirror, he is able to move between and see through all other mirrors in the Enchanted Forest . He is used by Regina to spy on and locate others . </P> <P> In Storybrooke, he is Sidney Glass, a reporter for Storybrooke's local newspaper The Daily Mirror . On Regina's request, he researches Emma Swan's past to help Regina expel her from Storybrooke . After Graham's death, Regina attempts to appoint him sheriff, but the wording of the town charter calls for an election . He loses the position to Emma Swan . Regina has him removed from the newspaper staff, and Sidney goes to Emma, claiming that he wants to expose Regina as the corrupt person she is . However, the exposé reveals Regina's attempts to improve the community . Despite this, Sidney tells Emma that he will help her take down Regina, but it is revealed that he is secretly in league with Regina, who is using Emma's trust in Sidney to gain leverage over Emma . Emma later learns that he planted a bug in a vase glass after it is used to tip off Regina upon discovering a key piece of evidence that would have cleared Mary Margaret Blanchard of Kathryn Nolan's murder . Emma confronts Sidney and realizes that he is in love with Regina . Still, Emma presses him to help defeat Regina . However, after Kathryn is found alive, Sidney falsely confesses to kidnapping Kathryn and framing Mary Margaret so that he could "find" Kathryn and become famous . Later, a cell labeled "S. Glass" is seen in the hospital basement's psychiatric ward . The name "S. Glass" is visible on a door in the first season finale, suggesting that Regina had locked him in the Storybrooke Hospital's psychiatric ward after he confessed to the kidnapping . In "A Tale of Two Sisters," Regina frees Sidney Glass from the psychiatric ward to be her Mirror again in order to enlist him into helping get rid of the people that are in the middle of her happiness . Regina temporarily places Sidney in the mirror to find the exact moment in which Maid Marian was apprehended by Regina's men . Regina later consults with Sidney on how to change fate . Regina tells Sidney that the villains in the book don't get a happy ending and wants him to find the writer of the book so that she can make some changes like allowing the villains to get their happy endings . In "Breaking Glass," Regina has Sidney Glass look for the Snow Queen's hideout in order to force her into thawing Maid Marian from her freezing spell . When Emma arrives to know where Sidney Glass is, Regina states that she's too busy to tell her where Sidney Glass is . Sidney later reports to Regina about where the Snow Queen is hiding out after his failed attempt to get a leverage on Regina . Using a compact to remain in contact to Sidney Glass, Regina heads in the directions of the Snow Queen's hideout . Regina later admits that Sidney was in the mirror . Upon strong winds reaching Emma and Regina, Sidney states the Snow Queen had swayed him to her side as Elsa's ice bridge breaks . After Emma and Regina defeat a large Viking made of ice, the Snow Queen takes the compact that Sidney is and retreats . At her hideout, the Snow Queen frees Sidney from the mirror as she wanted the mirror that he was trapped in to go with her mirror that she is putting together . The Snow Queen states that she wants the mirror that Sidney Glass is in since it is filled with dark magic . Before declaring Sidney free, the Snow Queen advises Sidney to get a warm coat since it is "going to get cooler around here ." </P> <P> In the TV miniseries The 10th Kingdom, a magic mirror is a key element of the plot, as protagonists Tony and Virginia Lewis travel from New York into the fairy - tale realm via a traveling mirror, which they subsequently lose and must spend the rest of the series searching for, while their enemy, the evil Queen and protégé of Snow White's deceased stepmother, spies on them with other magic mirrors . The travelling mirror that brought them to this world is destroyed in an accident, but an old mirror referred to as Gustav - which can only communicate and respond to queries made in rhyme - reveals that there were two other travelling mirrors made, with one sunk at the bottom of the ocean and the other in the possession of the Queen . With the Queen's defeat, Virginia returns to New York through the Queen's travelling mirror, although Tony decides to remain in the fairy - tale realm to enjoy his new status as a hero . </P> <P> The mirror in Faerie Tale Theatre was played by Vincent Price, whose face appeared as if mounted on the top of the mirror (in reality, Price stuck his face through a hole). This mirror, as did all of the Queen's (Vanessa Redgrave) other mirrors, turned black as she found out that Snow White was alive . </P>

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