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When Snow White becomes pregnant, Geppetto forms a magical wardrobe for her and Charming, after Rumplestiltskin informs them that their daughter is the key to breaking the Evil Queen's curse in 28 years. Emma is born shortly after and placed in the wardrobe, successfully travelling to the new land.^[3] In the real world, Emma grows up in foster care, bouncing from various families, one including Sarah Fisher's (the Snow Queen). As a teenager, Emma becomes a petty criminal with Neal Cassidy. They plan to start a new life in Tallahassee, Florida, until Neal is persuaded by August Booth (Pinocchio) to turn Emma over to the police, to protect her destiny. Emma is jailed, later giving birth to Henry,^[4] whom she gives up for adoption to give him a better life; he is then adopted by Regina Mills (the Evil Queen).^[5] After some time in prison, Emma becomes a bail bond agent and a police officer, where she catches criminals. On her 28th birthday, a ten-year-old Henry arrives in Boston, explaining Emma's origins. Disbelieving him, she returns him home to Regina in Storybrooke, who becomes worried that Emma wants to be in Henry's life. Regina's repeated warnings to leave town and keep out of Henry's life make Emma decide to stay.^[3]

In Storybrooke, Emma initially wants Henry to let go of his theories of the curse, but later plays along.^[6] She moves in with Mary Margaret (Snow White), unaware that they are related, and Sheriff Graham appoints Emma his deputy as the two form an attraction,^[7] until Regina crushes his heart, causing him to die in Emma's arms.^[8] Emma is soon elected sheriff, assisting in the arrest of Mary Margaret for the alleged murder of Kathryn Nolan, until she is found alive.^[9] When August Booth (Pinocchio) arrives in Storybrooke revealing her destiny of breaking the curse, a pressured Emma decides to leave the town, not wanting Henry to suffer from her and Regina's feud. Regina, however, attempts to poison Emma, though Henry willingly consumes it to prove that magic exists.^[10] Emma finally believes, but Henry is pronounced dead. However, he is awoken with true love's kiss from Emma, thus breaking the curse and allowing all residents to remember their true identities.^[11] Emma reunites with her parents, only to fall through a portal with her mother to the Enchanted Forest.^[12] They meet Princess Aurora and Mulan who help them return to Storybrooke.^[13][14] Emma then helps Mr. Gold travel to Manhattan to locate his son Baelfire, who she discovers is Henry's father Neal.^[4] Returning to Storybrooke, Emma deals with newcomers Greg Mendell and Neal's fiancé Tamara.^[15] Emma's skeptical theories on the pair are proven correct when it is revealed they want to destroy magic.^[16] After Emma and Regina stop their trigger to destroy Storybrooke, Henry is taken to Neverland by Greg and Tamara; Emma, her parents, Regina, Hook and Mr. Gold follow them.^[17] The team eventually manage to rescue Henry from the sinister Peter Pan,^[18][19] and return to Storybrooke.^[20] However, Pan enacts the original curse once more, forcing Emma and Henry to leave Storybrooke after Regina reverses her curse, erasing the events following its enactment. Emma's past is temporarily altered by Regina and she lives with Henry in New York City instead of giving him up for adoption.^[21]

One year after the curse's reversal, Hook restores Emma's memories with a potion and the two return to Storybrooke with Henry to save her family by breaking the new curse caused by Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West.^[22] She finds Neal trapped within Mr. Gold's body, thus causing him to lose his mind. Neal asks for Emma to free his father by killing himself to defeat Zelena; she reluctantly agrees.^[23] Regina later helps Emma to strengthen her magical powers, though they are removed when Zelena curses Hook.^[24] After Emma and Hook are dragged into Zelena's time portal, she accepts Storybrooke as her home, regaining her magic to re-open the portal to the present where she begins a relationship with Hook. However, unaware to her, she also brings a previously deceased Maid Marian to the future, shattering her growing friendship with Regina, whom Emma hopes will accept her as a friend despite their differences. The two later regain their friendship to defeat the Snow Queen with Elsa, who helps Emma to finally embrace her powers fully and control them. When Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff leave Emma learns that Mr. Gold is back to his evil ways. Emma also learns that Gold has Hook's heart and she gets it back and puts it back in him. Emma later learns that Regina wants to find the writer of the book.

An older Henry receives his cherished book of fairy tales from his teacher Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White), discovering that the residents of Storybrooke are characters from it after noticing he is the only one in town who ages.^[20] His realization of Regina's true identity strains his relationship with her, and she sends him to regular therapy sessions with Dr. Archie Hopper to end his belief in the curse.^[5] Hoping to break the curse, Henry finds his biological mother Emma Swan in Boston and brings her to Storybrooke.^[3] He eventually convinces her of the truth by consuming a sleeping curse intended for her by Regina,^[10] nearly resulting in him dying. However, he is awoken with true love's kiss by Emma, which also breaks the curse.^[11] Emma and Mary Margaret are then dragged into a portal, leaving David (Prince Charming) to look after him.^[12] Following the death of Regina's mother Cora, and her vowing to avenge Mary Margaret, Henry seeks to remove magic from Storybrooke. When Emma and Regina stop the trigger enacted by Greg Mendell and Tamara from destroying the town, he is kidnapped by the pair and taken to Neverland, where it is revealed that Peter Pan (Henry's great-grandfather) wants possession of him as he owns "the heart of the truest believer".^[17][26] Pan eventually persuades Henry to give him his heart, putting it into Pan's body, telling him it will save magic.^[27] Regina reclaims the heart and resurrects Henry. However, Pan inhabits Henry's body in Storybrooke,^[20] until Gold corrects the bodies. However, Pan enacts the original curse again, forcing Emma and Henry to leave Storybrooke forever. Regina erases the events following the curse's enactment, and gives the pair new happy memories. Henry's past is altered and instead of being put up for adoption, he lives with Emma in New York City.^[21] A year later, Hook restores Emma's memories,^[21] leading her to return to Storybrooke with both Henry and Hook to save their family.^[22] With no memories, Henry is initially confused and suspicious of Emma's decision to relocate to Storybrooke, until Emma restores his memories with his book. Henry later helps Regina to search for his storybook's writer. When Emma's magic goes out of control, after being manipulated by the Snow Queen, Henry tries to help calm her down, only to end up getting injured. He joins Mary Margret, David, Regina, and the others in their hunt for Emma. After the search is over, he watched Emma's display in the sky, when the Snow Queen decides to enact the Spell of Shattered Sight. Later on, Regina seals Henry in her office, to prevent other people from hurting him when the spell engulfs Storybrooke. Henry, after the spell, shows Emma and Regina a room full of empty books in the same house that Gold and Belle had their honeymoon at.

As a young girl, Snow White's mother dies when Cora poisons her, in an attempt to make her daughter Regina Queen. Snow is later rescued from a runaway horse by Regina, which leads to her having a loveless marriage with Snow's father. After Regina assumes the throne by killing the King, she recruits the Huntsman to kill Snow, but he ends up sparing her for her selflessness.^[8] Snow then lives in the forest, meeting Prince David while robbing him who she nicknames Charming. The pair fall in love, but he returns to his fiancée Princess Abigail.^[7] though the Evil Queen holds him captive.^[30] In exchange for Charming's life, Snow eats an apple from the Queen containing a sleeping curse.^[16] Charming breaks free of his imprisonment and awakens her with true love's kiss. The two are later married, though the Evil Queen announces her curse to destroy their happiness. Snow gives birth to Emma and she is placed in a magical wardrobe and transported to the real world as the curse takes hold.^[3]

In Storybrooke, she appears as Mary Margaret Blanchard, Henry Mills' teacher at Storybrooke Elementary School.^[3] As a part-time volunteer at the General Hospital, she awakens David Nolan (Prince Charming) from his coma, and the pair gradually fall in love, despite David's marriage to Kathryn Nolan (Princess Abigail).^[7] Beginning a secret relationship, the affair becomes public and David's marriage breaks down. Mary Margaret becomes an outcast in the town,^[31][32][33] and is arrested for Kathryn's "murder" after fake evidence is discovered.^[34] Kathryn is later found alive, though Mary Margaret's relationship with David becomes strained as he did not believe her innocence.^[35] He decides to leave Storybrooke, but the two are reunited when the curse is broken, and they regain their memories.^[11] The two find Emma, only for Mary Margaret to be transported with her back to the remaining Enchanted Forest through a portal, though they manage to return to Storybrooke.^[13] After Regina and her mother Cora attempt to gain power by killing Mr. Gold, Mary Margaret curses Cora's heart with the same candle that Cora used to kill her mother Eva and tricks Regina into killing her. She pleads for Regina to kill her when she cannot deal with what she has done, but she instead taunts her. When Henry is kidnapped and taken to Neverland, she travels with Emma, David, Regina, Mr. Gold, and Captain Hook to rescue him.^[17] Upon returning to the town with Henry, Peter Pan enacts Regina's curse again,^[36] leading Mary Margaret to be returned to the Enchanted Forest with the other inhabitants, while Emma and Henry escape to New York City.^[21]

Back in the Enchanted Forest, Snow learns she is pregnant but discovers that Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West wants her baby. Snow and Charming realize they must enact a new curse to return to Emma and stop Zelena. A reassuring David lets Snow crush his heart, though she later requests Regina split Snow's heart to give to both of them. Zelena then adds a forgetting potion to the curse, causing them to lose their memories of the past year. A year later, Emma returns to Storybrooke, learning her mother is pregnant. Zelena plots to steal the baby by becoming her mid-wife,^[22] though she is ultimately defeated and Mary Margaret gives birth to a son, whom she names after Henry's father and Rumplestiltkin's son, Neal. Mary Margaret later becomes the Mayor of Storybrooke.

David was originally a poor shepherd whose twin brother James was given to King George as an heir in a deal with Rumplestiltskin. When James is killed in battle, David takes his brother's name in exchange for the prosperity of his mother Ruth's farm. King Midas declares David fit to marry his daughter Abigail and unite the kingdoms. However, David wants to marry for love, but George vows to kill his mother if he declines.^[38] Before his marriage, he falls in love with Snow White, who nicknames him Charming,^[7] later inviting her to run away. After continuous interceptions by George, the Evil Queen Regina captures him to convince Snow to willingly eat an apple containing a sleeping curse.^[16][31] He later awakens her and the pair marry, before Regina announces that she will cast a curse to destroy their happiness. Rumplestiltskin informs them that their expected child will break the curse in 28 years. Emma is born shortly before the curse takes hold, and Charming places her in a magical wardrobe to protect her from the curse, before being wounded by the Queen's knights.^[3]

In Storybrooke, he first appears as a John Doe, who has gone unidentified for years.^[3] He awakens after Mary Margaret (Snow White) reads him their story. He reunites with his wife Kathryn (Princess Abigail), and is identified as David Nolan.^[7] David suffers from amnesia and cannot remember his fake life with Kathryn. He falls in love with Mary Margaret and begins an affair with her,^[31] ending his marriage to Kathryn, who is soon reported as being murdered^[32] - a plan arranged between Regina Mills and Mr. Gold. David becomes a suspect in her disappearance, until evidence against Mary Margaret is found.^[34] Kathryn is found alive, though David's relationship with Mary Margaret becomes strained, as he did not believe her innocence.^[30][35] He decides to move to Boston, though the curse is broken shortly after, and he reunites with Snow and Emma.^[11] David agrees to send a wraith released into Storybrooke through a portal, though Emma and Mary Margaret are dragged with it. David looks after Henry while Emma and Mary Margaret are absent.^[12] After failing attempts of transportation, David falls under a sleeping curse to communicate with Mary Margaret. He is awoken by true love's kiss when the two return. When Henry is kidnapped to Neverland, David travels with Mary Margaret, Emma, Regina, Mr. Gold, and Captain Hook in order to rescue him from Peter Pan.^[17] In Neverland, David is poisoned by Dreamshade,^[18] though Hook partially cures him and the group successfully return to Storybrooke where Mr. Gold fully heals him.^[39] After Pan enacts the original curse once more, David is returned to his original world with the remaining inhabitants, while Emma and Henry escape to New York City.^[21]

Back in the Enchanted Forest, David learns that Snow is pregnant but also discovers that Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West wants their baby. The two realize they must enact a new curse to return to Storybrooke and make Emma stop Zelena. A reassuring David lets Snow crush his heart, though she later asks Regina to split her heart in two to give to both of them. Zelena then adds a forgetting potion to the curse, removing their memories of the past year. A year later, Emma returns to Storybrooke, and David and Mary Margaret reveal they are having a baby.^[22] Zelena poses as the couple's mid-wife, stealing a symbol of David's courage from him.^[40] Zelena is ultimately defeated and Mary Margaret gives birth to a son, whom she names after Henry's father and Rumplestiltkin's son, Neal.

As a young woman, Regina's mother sets up her marrying King Leopold, killing Regina's first love Daniel to prevent her running off with him.^[43] Since Snow revealed to Cora Regina's attraction to Daniel, Regina vows to destroy Snow's happiness.^[8] She meets Rumplestiltskin who teaches her magic and helps her send Cora through a looking glass to Wonderland. She remains unhappy in her loveless relationship, using a Genie to kill the King,^[29] making her ruler of Leopold's realm, and thereafter being known as the Evil Queen.^[8] An older Snow White and Prince Charming banish Regina to take back the kingdom, though Rumplestiltskin persuades her to cast his curse by killing her father, taking everyone to the real world.^[3][5]

In Storybrooke, she is Mayor Regina Mills.^[3] With Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin)'s help, she adopts a baby whom she names Henry, unaware of his relations.^[3][5] Regina originally sends him to therapy sessions with Dr. Archie Hopper to stop his beliefs in the curse.^[7] She has a sexual relationship with Sheriff Graham (the Huntsman), but crushes his heart when he breaks up with her.^[8] The power struggle between Regina and Rumplestiltskin continues in Storybrooke where she is often at odds with Mr. Gold.^[44][45] Initially unbeknownst to him, Regina kept Gold's true love Belle captive, after telling him she had died.^[46] She tries to prevent the relationship between David Nolan (Prince Charming) and Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White), by implicating her in David's wife Kathryn Nolan (Princess Abigail)'s false murder.^[7] When Henry's birth mother Emma Swan arrives in Storybrooke, Regina desperately seeks to remove her from his life, resorting to attempting to poison her. However, Henry willingly consumes the curse instead, dying shortly after. Emma finally believes,^[16] awakening Henry with true love's kiss and breaking the curse.^[11] After her mother arrives in Storybrooke, Cora convinces Regina to obtain the Dark One's dagger to gain power, though she later dies during the fight to protect Mr. Gold. Henry is then kidnapped and taken to Neverland by new arrivals Greg and Tamara, after they are stopped by Regina and Emma from destroying Storybrooke. Regina travels with Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Mr. Gold, and Captain Hook,^[17] eventually managing to rescue Henry from the evil Peter Pan,^[27] and return to Storybrooke.^[20] However, Pan enacts Regina's curse once more,^[36] forcing her to reverse the original curse returning her and the remaining inhabitants to their original worlds while Emma and Henry escape to New York City.^[21]

Back in the Enchanted Forest, Regina struggles to come to terms with the loss of Henry, though Mary Margaret and Robin Hood persuade her to move forward.^[22] Regina soon learns she is half-sisters with Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West. To save them from Zelena's threats, Regina helps Snow and David enact a new curse to return to Storybrooke, before Zelena adds a forgetting potion to it. With no memories of the past year, Regina faces the struggle of Henry's lost memories of her in Storybrooke until his book restores his memories and she breaks the curse with true love's kiss, restoring the residents' memories of the past year. She meanwhile forms a bond with Robin Hood, which turns romantic after she learns he is her soul mate.^[47] Zelena later obtains Regina's heart as an ingredient in her scheme to change the past, though Regina uses her newly discovered light power to defeat her. After Emma and Hook are dragged into Zelena's time portal, they inadvertently return with Maid Marian, who was originally sentenced to death by Regina. To the anger of Regina, Marian, Robin, and Roland are reunited, causing a schism in her own relationship with Robin. Marian is later frozen by the Snow Queen, leading Regina to find a cure for her to help Robin. Meanwhile, Regina and Henry seek to discover the writer of his book, believing that the events depicted, are the cause of her suffering. Regina later puts Marian's heart back in her, and realizes that Marian, Robin Hood and Roland have to leave Storybrooke. Regina later learns that the writer might be in Storybrooke.

As a boy, Rumplestiltskin's father Malcolm abandons him with two spinners, from whom he receives a magic bean to create a portal to another world. His father uses the bean to take them to Neverland, though he forces Rumplestiltskin to be returned to the Enchanted Forest, realizing his son is preventing him from becoming a boy again. Rumplestiltskin witnesses as his father transforms into Peter Pan. In his adult years, Rumplestiltskin is a poor spinner who deserts from the Ogre Wars, to the disgust of his wife Milah, who leaves him for the pirate Killian Jones. Rumplestiltskin is then tricked by Zoso and eventually becomes the Dark One. Rumplestiltskin kills Milah and cuts off Jones' hand, making him Captain Hook. He prevents his son Baelfire being forced to join the wars,^[44] though Bae wants rid of his powers, creating a portal to transport them to a world without magic. Rumplestiltskin fears losing his powers, leaving Bae to cross over alone; he vows to find his son.^[35] He trains Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, until she becomes jealous of his continued teaching of her half-sister, the Evil Queen Regina, who he chooses to cast his curse. As part of a deal to save her town, Belle becomes the caretaker of his estate and the two form a romantic bond until Rumplestiltskin forces her to leave forever, mistaking her for working with Regina, who later claims that Belle committed suicide. Soon afterwards, Prince Charming and Snow White use squid ink to immobilize, and placed him into a magical jail.^[45] Regina enacts his curse, and he requests that she give him a place of comfort in the "new world" that they will be sent to.^[5]

In Storybrooke, he is Mr. Gold, the owner of a

Neal and Belle travel to Rumplestiltskin's castle and are located to the Dark One's vault where Neal resurrects Rumplestiltskin but kills himself. Before he dies, Rumplestiltskin merges Neal's body with his own. When Snow White and Prince Charming enact a curse to stop Zelena, Mr. Gold is returned to Storybrooke under Zelena's control. Emma later finds him, only to find that Neal is trapped within him, thus causing Gold to lose his mind. Neal asks for Emma to free Gold to defeat Zelena, though he will die; she reluctantly agrees.[23] Mr. Gold proposes to Belle, also giving her his dagger. Unknown to her, it is a fake, and Gold uses the original to kill Zelena. He later marries Belle with her father's blessing. Despite his love for Belle, Gold is still deceiving everyone around him, especially Hook after finding out about using the dagger, thus resulting in Gold threatening, then later removing his heart, so he do his bidding, and tricked Emma into giving up her power so he can save her, but thanks to Elsa, that failed and Gold believes that the Snow Queen, who wanted Emma, was behind it.

When Mr. Gold visits Ingrid again, he threatens to take vengeance on her life if she does not keep the Spell of Shattered Sight from affecting Belle and Henry, and provide him with an escape route from Storybrooke, both of which she agrees to. Then, Ingrid tells him that the Spell of Shattered Sight will cover Storybrooke by sunset. Gold then meets up with Hook, telling him to use the hat to absorb the Fairies' magic, so that he can kill the cure for the Spell of Shattered Sight, and so that he can gather enough magic to cleave himself from the Dagger of Kris. As part of his plan, Gold leads Belle out of Granny's Diner so that Hook can capture the Fairies with the Sorcerer's Hat. After Hook completes the task, Gold tells him to enjoy the last day of his life, because when Gold finishes his final preparations by the next morning, he will kill Hook. Soon afterwards, Gold locks Belle inside of his shop, to prevent others from hurting her when the spell hits. After the spell, Gold tries to kill Hook, but is stopped by Belle who forces him to leave town. Six weeks later, Gold finds Ursula in New York and offers his assistance. After this Gold has to find Maleficent and Cruella.

In Storybrooke, Belle is kept beneath the town's hospital for 28 years by Regina.^[46] She is later released by Jefferson and finds Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin), professing her love for him when the curse is broken and standing beside him as he brings magic to Storybrooke.^[11] When Gold finds a way to leave Storybrooke without losing his memories, Belle is shot by Captain Hook, causing her to fall across the border and lose her memory again. Belle later "remembers" her cursed self as a scantily-clad barfly named Lacey, who encourages the darker urges in Gold. Gold later finds a potion that regains her original identity. As Mr. Gold, along with Emma Swan, Mary Margaret, David, Regina, and Captain Hook travel to retrieve a kidnapped Henry from Neverland, he gives Belle a protection spell to cast around Storybrooke.^[17] He encounters a form of Belle frequently in Neverland as an illusion to act as a crutch to his cowardliness;^[52] she is later revealed as his father Peter Pan's shadow in disguise. The two are reunited when the group return to Storybrooke after retrieving Henry,^[36] though Gold sacrifices himself to kill his father. However, Pan's curse remains and Belle, along with the other inhabitants are sent back to their original worlds.^[21] In the Enchanted Forest, Belle and Neal travel to Rumplestiltskin's castle and are directed to the Dark One's vault. To the disapproval of Belle, Neal unlocks the vault, resurrecting Rumplestiltskin but sacrificing himself.^[23] Belle is returned to Storybrooke when Snow and Charming enact a new curse to stop Zelena from taking their baby. Upon his freedom, Mr. Gold proposes to Belle after trusting her with his dagger (unknown to her, it is a replica) and the two are married. After feeling a surge of guilt when Elsa tries to find Anna, Belle uses the fake dagger to "force" Rumplestiltskin to take her to the Snow Queen's lair, so that she can steal the Sorcerer's hat and use it to force the Snow Queen to reveal where Anna is. Instead, she ran into the Mirror of Shattered Sight, which caused her to feel that she was responsible for Anna's disappearance, and believe that Rumplestiltskin only married her because he could manipulate her, and that her dagger was a fake. The enchantment causes her to lash out and cut Rumplestiltskin when he tries to get her away from the mirror, and when he teleports them back to his shop, she apologizes for losing trust in him, and promises never to use the dagger on him again. When Ingrid, the Snow Queen, freezes the police station's door shut to keep the others from warning Emma of her scheme, she convinced Rumplestiltsking to go help out. After the Snow Queen cast the Spell of Shattered Sight, she found a counterspell for the Spell of Shattered Sight, and worked with the Fairies on the cure. However, when the cure was close to its completion, Rumplestiltskin led her out of Granny's Diner, so that Hook could capture the Fairies with the Sorcerer's Hat. Then, Rumplestiltskin locks Belle inside of his shop, to prevent others from getting to her when the spell hits. After the spell, Belle learns that the dagger is a fake and forces her husband Gold to leave Storybrooke.

After this time period, Hook follows Emma and Mary Margaret to Storybrooke with Cora, through a magic bean obtained by Hook.^[54] When Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) finds a way to leave Storybrooke without losing his memories, Hook shoots his love Belle, causing her to fall across the town's border and lose her memory again. After Gold travels to Manhattan to locate Baelfire, Hook poisons him, but is captured by Neal Cassidy (Baelfire)'s fiancé Tamara, to be used in her and Greg Mendell's plot to destroy magic in Storybrooke. He originally leaves Storybrooke with a stolen magic bean for himself, but returns to help Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Regina, and Mr. Gold travel to Neverland with his ship, after Henry Mills is transported there.^[17] In Neverland, Hook becomes the group's guide for directions,^[39] and they retrieve Henry from the sinister Peter Pan and journey back to Storybrooke,^[20] where Pan enacts the original curse again. Hook, along with the other inhabitants, are taken to their original worlds, while Emma and Henry escape to New York City with new memories. A year later, Hook arrives in the city and eventually restores Emma's memories with a potion, returning to Storybrooke with both Emma and Henry to break the new curse by Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West.^[22] After Hook and Emma are dragged into Zelena's time portal, Emma uses her magic to re-open the portal to the present and begins a relationship with Hook, after he reveals he traded his ship for her. Hook's love for Emma would be put to the test after discovering that Gold was still in control of the dagger and has not changed. When he threatened to tell Belle and later Emma about using the knife, Gold in turn threatened Hook into doing his bidding by vowing to reveal Hook's dark side again, and later on while attempting to save Emma from Gold's plan to strip her of her powers, loses his heart to Gold, making Hook his puppet to use him to get what he wants. Soon afterwards, Gold tasks Hook with using the hat to drain the Fairies' magic, in order to kill the cure for the Spell of Shattered Sight, and to obtain enough power to free himself from the Dagger of Kris. Hook reluctantly agrees to the task, since Gold has his heart, and traps the fairies in the hat after Gold convinces Belle to leave Granny's Diner. When Emma and Elsa later arrive with Anna and Kristoff, Hook hides behind the counter, leading them to believe that the Fairies had been dealt with by the Snow Queen. With his job complete, Hook gives the hat to Gold, who tells him to enjoy the last day of his life wherever he wants, because when Gold completes his final preparations by the next morning, he will kill Hook. When the Spell of Shattered Sight was close to engulfing Storybrooke, Hook visits Emma one last time to say goodbye to her, before leaving to chain himself to a dock at the marina. When the Spell of Shattered Sight finally hits, Hook looks on as thunder rumbles and mirror shards rain from the sky. After the spell, Gold tried to kill Hook, but he was stopped by Belle. Emma later restores Hook's heart.

After a number of unspecified adventures, Bae returns to the real world during the 20th century, taking on the identity of Neal Cassidy. In Portland, he meets Emma Swan with whom he falls in love with. The two plan to run away until Neal is accosted by August Booth (Pinocchio), who forces him to leave Emma to fulfill her destiny; Emma is arrested for possession of stolen watches. In Storybrooke, Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) and Emma track his son to Manhattan, and his true identity is revealed to Emma, while Neal discovers the two have a son, Henry.^[50] Neal reluctantly returns to Storybrooke with his father, for Henry and Emma's sake, inviting his fiancé Tamara, though it is revealed she is working with Greg Mendell to destroy Storybrooke. After this discovery, Neal is shot by Tamara and falls through a portal to the Enchanted Forest.^[17] After Neal discovers Emma is in Neverland,^[26] he uses the Shadow to travel there, rescuing Henry from his sinister grandfather, Peter Pan, and returning to Storybrooke.^[20] After Pan enacts the original curse again, Neal, along with the other inhabitants are consumed by the curse and returned to their original worlds.^[21]

In the Enchanted Forest, Neal and Belle visit Rumplestiltskin's castle and are located to the Dark One's vault. Neal unlocks the vault, resurrecting Rumplestiltskin but sacrificing himself. Before he dies, Rumplestiltskin takes his body and merges it with his own. After Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West informs Rumplestiltskin that a new curse is coming, Neal temporarily splits from his father's body and sends a dose of memory potion to Hook to help Emma break the curse back in Storybrooke. Back in Storybrooke, Emma finds Neal trapped within Mr. Gold, thus causing him to lose his mind. Neal asks for Emma to free Gold to defeat Zelena though he will die; she reluctantly agrees.^[23]

In Storybrooke, he is Dr. Archie Hopper, the town's psychotherapist.^[3] He is good friends with Marco (Geppetto). Archie is asked by Regina Mills (the Evil Queen) to convince her adopted son Henry that his ideas about the curse are false.^[5] Although it violates his conscience, he initially complies with her demands. Archie confides to Henry that he wants to be free, standing up to Regina and threatening to declare her an unfit mother if she continues to interfere with his sessions.^[49] Emma later breaks the curse and he regains his memories as Jiminy.^[30] Regina's mother Cora later assumes the form of her daughter and abducts Archie while disguising an unspecified person she killed as his body. He is later found by Belle on Captain Hook's ship, from which he is rescued.^[57] After Peter Pan enacts the original curse again, Archie, along with the other inhabitants are consumed by the curse and returned to their original worlds.^[21] When the Wicked Witch of the West enacts a new curse, Archie is sent back to Storybrooke.

Seventeen years later, Pinocchio (under the alias of August Booth) travels to Portland and confronts Neal Cassidy, a thief who falls in love with an older Emma. He convinces him to leave Emma to allow her to fulfill her destiny. After Emma is arrested for possession of stolen items, he informs Neal of Emma's sentencing and later when the curse is broken.^[12] August enters Storybrooke upon Emma's arrival to the town,^[14] attempting to convince her of the curse's reality.^[30] He informs Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) and Emma that he is deathly ill and needs magic, though her denial refuses to see his condition.^[60] When Emma realizes the curse's reality, she visits August for help, though he completely turns to wood.^[11] After the curse is broken, Mary Margaret finds August hiding in the woods, ashamed of the mistakes that he has made. He is later found by Tamara and offered a potion that will keep him human forever if he leaves Storybrooke. Upon realizing that Tamara intends to bring harm to the Storybrooke citizens, August attempts to warn Emma, but is fatally wounded by Tamara. However, it is determined that August's actions were selfless, brave, and true and Mother Superior (the Blue Fairy) restores him to his original form of a seven-year old Pinocchio.^[61]

In Storybrooke, he is Leroy, a janitor at the hospital and the "town drunk".^[7] He quickly forms a bond with Sister Astrid (Nova), and after learning of the nunnery's rent problems, he and Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White) sell enough candles to raise the money, to the content of Astrid.^[33] Leroy's original memories are restored when the curse is broken, reuniting with Snow and the other dwarfs.^[12] He unites the dwarfs together and they begin to mine for fairy dust again. After baby Neal's celebration Leroy and Walter were going home when Elsa freezes their car.

In Storybrooke, he is Tom Clark, the owner of the Dark Star pharmacy. After the curse is broken, Sneezy joins the other dwarfs in an experiment to find out why the residents cannot leave town. Sneezy crosses the border, losing his memories of his past life once again. Later, Mother Superior (the Blue Fairy) creates a potion that restores his memories.^[17]

In Storybrooke, he is Walter, a security guard who works at Storybrooke Hospital and occasionally dozes off on the job. He is also the Dwarfs Designated Driver and he falls asleep during that too.

As a girl, a wolf killed her father and brothers and then also transformed her into a wolf. The other aspects of the curse faded with age, but her heightened senses remain. Red inherited the family curse and is also a wolf, though Granny received an enchanted red cloak from a wizard, to prevent her transformation. When her granddaughter begins a relationship with a man called Peter, she disapproves. As news of a wolf killing villagers becomes known, Granny warns the others not to fight the monster. Red and Snow White believe Peter is the wolf, until Granny informs Snow of her curse. By the time she and Snow find Red, she had already killed Peter.^[34] Granny is transported to the real world when the Evil Queen Regina casts her curse.

In Storybrooke, she is known simply as Granny and is the owner of Granny's Bed and Breakfast and Cafe. Her health problems prevent Ruby (Red Riding Hood) from leaving town, who assists her grandmother as a waitress. Their relationship is initially hostile as Granny disapproves of Ruby's behavior and provocative attire.^[3][34] Ruby becomes tired of her grandmother and quits her job, though she eventually returns and apologizes to her. She reveals her plans to allow Red to take over when she retires.^[34] Granny's memories are returned when the curse is broken by Emma Swan, and she embraces her family and friends.^[11][12] After Peter Pan enacts the original curse once more, Granny, along with the other inhabitants, are returned to their original worlds.^[21] When Snow White and Prince Charming enact a new curse as part of their plan to stop Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, Granny is sent back to Storybrooke.

In Storybrooke, she is Mother Superior of the town's nuns, who were all fairies prior to the curse. When the curse is broken, Henry requests she use magic to restore order in Storybrooke, but she is unable to without her wand or fairy dust.^[12] When August Booth (Pinocchio) is murdered by Tamara, she restores him to a seven-year old real boy.^[61] Following the successful mission to rescue Henry from Neverland, the town's heroes return to Storybrooke. However, Peter Pan uses his shadow to kill Mother Superior by ripping her own from her body, seeing her as a threat to his plot to take over Storybrooke.^[36] After Tinker Bell kills Pan's shadow, Mother Superior's shadow is returned. She thanks Tinker Bell and restores her fairy status. After Regina ends her curse to stop Peter Pan's curse, Mother Superior was sent back to the Enchanted Forest. Mother Superior was returned to a re-created Storybrooke after Snow White and Prince Charming enacted another curse as part of their plan to stop Zelena. After Ingrid, the Snow Queen, enacted the Spell of Shattered Sight, Mother Superior helped work on a counterspell, only to be stopped in her work when Hook was forced by Mr. Gold to use the Sorcerer's Hat to absorb her, to collect her magic.

Victor originally seeks a way to restore life to the dead, but has his funding pulled by his father. Rumplestiltskin offers him gold in exchange for the scientific method on how to revive the dead as magic could not. Victor robs a grave for body parts to experiment on, but is caught by Gerhardt who is shot by a police officer. As Victor attempts to bring Gerhardt back to life, electricity cannot revive him, so Rumplestiltskin instead offers a heart from the Enchanted Forest. As part of a bargain, he creates a false attempt to reanimate Daniel (the Evil Queen Regina's lost love) to make it easier for Rumplestiltskin to manipulate her. In his own world, Frankenstein reanimates his brother with the heart, but inadvertently turns him into a monster, beating his father to death. Victor imprisons him until he can devise a way to help Gerhardt overcome his psychotic rage.^[15]

In Storybrooke, he is Dr. Whale, a doctor working in Storybrooke General Hospital. His name is a reference to James Whale, director of the films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. He originally assists Regina Mills (the Evil Queen), doing whatever she says without hesitation.^[7] After the curse is broken, he leads a mob to Regina's home intending to kill her.^[12][75] Victor later seeks a way to return to his brother, believing if he were to do something for Regina she would bring him back. He successfully reanimates Daniel's corpse with a magical heart, turning him into a monster who savagely rips off Whale's arm. Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) reattaches his arm, and he later heals outsider Greg Mendell who crashes his car into the town.^[15] After Peter Pan enacts the original curse again, Whale, along with the other inhabitants, are returned to their original worlds.^[21] When Snow White and Prince Charming enact a new curse, as part of their plan to stop Zelena, Dr. Whale is sent back to Storybrooke.

Geppetto carved himself a son named Pinocchio out of magical wood. During Pinocchio's adventures, he and Gepetto are chased by a whale during a thunderstorm, ultimating in Pinocchio sacrificing his life for Gepetto's. For this act, the Blue Fairy turns him into a real boy, finally bestowing Gepetto with a son. She asks Geppetto to carve a magical wardrobe with the ability to save the pregnant Snow White and Prince Charming from the Evil Queen Regina's curse. However, the curse would send everyone to a land without magic and Pinocchio, a real boy because of magic, could turn back into a puppet. Geppetto bargains with the fairy to use the second spot for Pinocchio, ultimating in her lying to the other inhabitants, claiming the wardrobe can only save one. When Snow's child is born, instead of giving up Pinocchio's spot to her, Geppetto sends his son, telling him to protect the child and get them to break the curse.

In Storybrooke, he is Marco, the town's handyman. August Booth (the adult Pinocchio) offers to work as Marco's assistant to which Marco agrees. His memories as Geppetto are restored when the curse is broken. August (who had turned back into wood) returns to life, albeit made of wood. Mary Margaret (Snow White) encounters August, telling Marco of his existence. Marco admits that he had lied about the wardrobe's abilities, saying that it was able to transport two. August is later murdered by Tamara, in his dying breath attempting to warn everyone of her evil, without success. Mother Superior (the Blue Fairy) resurrects him for his honesty, and Marco takes in a now seven-year-old Pinocchio as his son once more.^[61]

In Storybrooke, Regina appears to have cared a great deal for her father, naming her adopted son Henry Mills after him, and turning his tomb into a large mausoleum.

King George and his wife are unable to bear children on their own, leading George to strike a deal with Rumplestiltskin for an heir. Years later, the kingdom falls into financial trouble, and Prince James offers to slay the dragon plaguing King Midas' realm in exchange for gold. James is killed in battle, and his twin brother David is recruited to carry out the task. The task is completed and Midas deems the Prince worthy of marrying his daughter and uniting the kingdoms. George reneges on his promise to return David home and forces him to marry, otherwise he will kill David's mother and burn his home.^[38] Later, George learns that David has fallen in love with Snow White. He forces Snow to break David's heart,^[31] though David still breaks off his engagement, fleeing the kingdom.^[32] George's knights capture him, and David is sentenced to death, though the Evil Queen Regina intercepts him, instead using him in her plan to curse Snow.^[16] A reawakened snow is then kidnapped by George, who again curses her to never have children. This plan is foiled when water from Lake Nostos breaks the curse.^[80] King George later joins forces with the Evil Queen to fight Snow and Charming's forces, which ends with George's army being defeated and the Evil Queen being apprehended.

In Storybrooke, he is the cold-hearted

When he first meets Regina, Rumplestiltskin has Jefferson bring Dr. Frankenstein to the Enchanted Forest to pretend failing to revive her true love Daniel, in order to make her become evil. In his later life, he lives with his daughter Grace, selling fungus to survive. He initially refuses to help Regina, though later agrees if his daughter will want for nothing. He takes Regina to Wonderland, where she rescues her father Henry and abandons Jefferson, who is beheaded by the knights of the Queen of Hearts. His head is reattached and he is ordered to make another hat to return home. Although he makes thousands of hats, none take him home, leading him into insanity and earning his alias as the Mad Hatter.^[9]

In Storybrooke, he remembers his pre-cursed life, and lives in a large house. He captures Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White) and abducts Emma, ordering her to make a hat that will take him home. Emma knocks him out and when he awakens to kill Emma, Mary Margaret pushes him out of a window. He disappears, leaving nothing but his hat.^[9] Jefferson returns upon request of Regina to remove Emma, promising a new life with his daughter. He retrieves the apple that cursed Snow White into a deathlike sleep from the Enchanted Forest.^[16] However, after Henry Mills is cursed, Regina refuses to reward Jefferson, who later frees Belle from her cell and instructs her to tell Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) that Regina held her captive.^[11] After the curse is broken, he initially avoids Grace, feeling guilty for unintentionally abandoning her, but they eventually happily reunite.

In Storybrooke, she is Kathryn Nolan, the wife of David Nolan (Prince Charming). David however is in love with Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White), and starts an affair with her.^[31][38] She is later accepted into a law school in Boston, though David refuses to relocate and suggests they end their marriage. Kathryn then learns about David's affair, deciding to move to Boston alone. However, her car is found abandoned at the town's limits,^[32] and a missing persons case becomes a murder trial when a heart proven to be Kathryn's is found in Mary Margaret's jewelry box.^[30][34] It is later revealed that Regina worked with Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) to attempt to frame Mary Margaret for Kathryn's murder, when Mr. Gold in fact kidnapped Kathryn. She is later found alive, though she does not remember her disappearance.^[43] Sidney Glass (The Genie/Magic Mirror) falsely takes the blame for her kidnapping.^[35] After the curse is broken, Kathryn and Frederick find each other and live happily together in her home.^[84]

As a young woman, Cora is asked for her hand in marriage by a man named Jonathan claiming to be a Prince. The two conceive a child, Zelena, though Cora discovers Jonathan's fake identity. She then meets Prince Leopold, forming a strong bond, until realizing that he is engaged to Princess Eva, who informs Leopold of her secret child. Cora is banished from the kingdom, and she sends Zelena away to Oz, in order to become a royal.

Sometime later, Cora later claims to King Xavier that she can spin straw into gold, who states that if she can, she can marry his son Prince Henry, but if not, she will be killed. She is then approached by Rumplestiltskin who states that he will teach her magic if she gives him her first born child. She agrees and accepts Henry's hand in marriage. Rumplestiltskin then changes his deal to claim whatever child Cora suggests to him. She plans to run away with him but chooses power over love, ripping her own heart, marrying Henry, and giving birth to Regina.^[86]

As an older woman, Cora is a controlling mother towards Regina, wanting her to achieve a high status in life. Cora's designs on taking over the kingdom begin with killing Queen Eva (Snow White's mother) by fatally poisoning her. She then causes a young Snow's horse to become wild and rush towards a river, knowing that Regina would save her. Cora uses this opportunity to arrange a marriage between Regina and Snow's father King Leopold. However, Regina is in love with the stable boy Daniel, a secret that Snow innocently informs Cora of. Cora then kills him, believing that such a marriage would ruin her plans of Regina's royalty.^[43] Rumplestiltskin later helps Regina send Cora to Wonderland via a magical mirror, where she becomes the Queen of Hearts.^[13] She later meets Anastasia, the soon to be Red Queen of Wonderland and teachers her magic. She also recruits Will Scarlet as one of her Knave of Hearts and instructs him to hunt Alice down for certain reasons. When Captain Hook is sent to kill her by Regina (who does not want her mother following her to the new land created by Rumplestiltskin's curse), Cora instead collaborates with him, shielding part of the Enchanted Forest from the curse and freezing them in time for 28 years.^[54]

After the curse is broken, and Mary Margaret (Snow White) and her daughter Emma Swan are transported to the Enchanted Forest, they encounter Cora.^[13] Cora learns that Regina and her adoptive son Henry are in Storybrooke, and retrieves a magical bean, following the two back to Storybrooke with Hook.^[54] Cora impersonates Regina to supposedly kill Archie Hopper (Jiminy Cricket), thus causing Regina to lose Henry. She then turns a rehabilitating Regina back to evil by playing on her love for him. She seeks out the Dark One's dagger to kill their enemies,^[86] though Regina returns her heart which, unbeknownst to her, has been poisoned by Mary Margaret with the same candle that Cora poisoned Snow's mother with. Upon possessing her heart, she loves Regina truly, until she dies in her arms.^[86] Cora is later summoned as a ghost by Regina, in an attempt to discover the truth behind her giving away Zelena. Cora instead possesses Mary Margaret, allowing her to see her mother, Eva's dark past. Regina removes Cora's ghost from Mary Margaret's body and returns her to the spirit world.

She first appears when she is awoken from her deep sleep by Phillip, accompanied by Mulan. Phillip is later marked by a wraith, who sucks out his soul. Mulan tells Aurora that part of the Enchanted Forest had been spared from the Evil Queen's curse, as Emma Swan and Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White) are transported from Storybrooke to the area, after falling into a portal with the wraith.^[12] Although Aurora tries to kill Snow at first, believing her to be the cause of Phillip's death, she later trusts her and Emma and with Mulan's help, assists their return to Storybrooke. Aurora learns from Cora that the soul of a wraith's victim can be restored. Her and Mulan successfully recover Phillip's soul and find a wounded Neal Cassidy (Baelfire) after he is transported from a portal in Storybrooke,^[17] assisting him on his quest to find Emma and Henry.^[26] It is later revealed that Aurora and Phillip are expecting a baby, much to Mulan's dismay as she secretly has romantic feelings for her, though she leaves to join Robin Hood's Merry Men.^[73]

Aurora and Phillip later greet the inhabitants of Storybrooke in the Enchanted Forest upon their transportation, after Peter Pan's curse took them back to their original worlds.^[22] Prior to the curse's reversal, they were under the protection of Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, though she transforms them into flying monkeys when they reveal her intentions of stealing Snow White and Prince Charming's baby. After Zelena's defeat, the two are restored to human form and begin to live in Storybrooke, where along Mary Margaret and Ashley, attends parenting classes with her newborn child.

Aurora and Phillip later greet the inhabitants of Storybrooke in the Enchanted Forest upon their transportation, after Peter Pan's curse took them back to their original worlds.^[22] Prior to the curse's reversal, they were under the protection of Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, though she transforms them into flying monkeys when they reveal her intentions of stealing Snow White and Prince Charming's baby. After Zelena's defeat, the two are restored to human form and begin to live in Storybrooke.

Spared by the curse which had left their land unaffected but frozen for 28 years, Mulan and Phillip resume their search for Aurora. After she is rescued, the trio encounter a wraith, who sucks out Phillip's soul. When Emma Swan and Mary Margaret (Snow White) appear in the area, Mulan believes that they were responsible for unleashing the wraith, and for Phillip's death.^[12] Mulan later trusts Mary Margaret and Emma, helping them return to Storybrooke. Aurora later learns from Cora that the soul of a wraith's victim can be restored. Mulan and Aurora successfully recover Phillip's soul and find a wounded Neal Cassidy (Baelfire) after he is transported from a portal in Storybrooke,^[17] assisting him on his quest to find Emma and Henry.^[26] It is later revealed that Aurora and Phillip are expecting a baby, much to Mulan's dismay as she secretly has romantic feelings for her, though she leaves to join Robin Hood's Merry Men.^[73]

In Storybrooke, Smee appears as a homeless man who kidnaps Belle under the orders of her father Moe French (Sir Maurice).^[92] Mr. Gold later uses him as an experiment for his spell that would enable anyone to cross the border to Storybrooke without losing their memories. When Hook arrives in Storybrooke, Smee immediately begins following orders, retrieving Mr. Gold's most prized possession: Baelfire's shawl. In retaliation, Gold turns Smee into a rat. After Peter Pan enacts the original curse again, Smee (now in human form), along with the other inhabitants, are consumed and returned to their original worlds.^[21] When Snow White and Prince Charming enact a new curse, as part of their plan to stop Zelena, Smee is sent back to Storybrooke.

Almost three decades later, a man crashes his car into Storybrooke; his name is later revealed to be Greg Mendell, an alias of Owen. His name is a reference to the geneticist scientist, Gregor Mendel.^[95] When Greg is brought to the hospital, the residents debate whether to save his life and risk the truth of Storybrooke being revealed to the outside world. He is ultimately saved, and remains in the town to investigate the strange happenings of Storybrooke. Regina eventually learns of Greg's identity, telling him to leave the town. Greg ignores her, as it is revealed he is in alliance with Neal Cassidy's fiancée, Tamara.^[61] The two kidnap Regina and torture her to reveal his father's whereabouts. She eventually tells him that she killed his father. A hurt Greg plans to kill Regina but escapes when David Nolan (Prince Charming) tracks him down. Greg and Tamara later obtain a trigger to obliterate Storybrooke, though it is foiled.^[16] The two instead kidnap Henry Mills, travelling to Neverland, though upon arrival, they realize that they had been fooled. When confronted by the Lost Boys, the pair refuse to hand Henry to them, causing Peter Pan's Shadow to rip out Greg's shadow from his body, killing him instantly.^[17][26]

Tamara later follows August to New York City, where she begins a scheme to learn about Storybrooke. She befriends Neal Cassidy (Baelfire), eventually becoming an engaged couple. Tamara is invited to Storybrooke by Neal who informs her of his magical background. She finds a completely wooden August, offering to give him a cure if he leaves Storybrooke forever. However, when August learns that Tamara killed the Dragon, he warns Emma Swan about Tamara's deception, only to be mortally wounded by her. He is later resurrected to his child self, though unable to identify who attacked him. Tamara is later shown to be in a romantic alliance with Greg Mendell, a stranger who crashed into the town and who also wants to destroy magic.^[61] Tamara and Greg are instructed by the "Home Office" to send them magical objects, including magic beans and a "trigger" which can self-destruct Storybrooke. After Emma becomes suspicious of the pair, Tamara reveals her deception, shooting Neal and sending him through a portal, before fleeing.^[16] Tamara and Greg activate the trigger but are foiled, instead kidnapping Henry and travelling through a portal to Neverland.^[17] However, they soon realize that they are being fooled. When confronted by the Lost Boys (the real "Home Office") the pair refuse to hand Henry to them. After the Shadow rips out Greg's shadow, Tamara is hit by an arrow. Mr. Gold finds Tamara and heals her on order to find the location of Henry. After Tamara asks for forgiveness for attacking his son, Mr. Gold kills Tamara by crushing her heart.^[26]

In his earlier history, Will Scarlet was a part of Robin Hood's group where Will took him to raid an abandoned castle that was used as Maleficent's retreat. After it was discovered that someone had stolen a looking glass from Maleficent's retreat and her voice is heard that their campfire, Robin Hood asks who disobeyed his orders by taking one of Maleficent's items. When Robin Hood discovers that Will was behind the theft the next morning upon his departure, Robin Hood tells Will that he hopes his luck will last.

After a pregnant Marian falls ill, he breaks into Rumplestiltskin's castle to steal a magic wand. Rumplestiltskin catches and tortures Robin with the intention of killing him, though Belle frees him.^[99] After Regina loses her love Daniel, Tinker Bell leads her to Robin Hood, claiming he is her true love. However, Regina is scared to love again and refuses to meet him. Marian is later killed by Regina (now the Evil Queen) for supporting Snow White, leaving Robin to raise Roland alone.

Whilst looking for a globe belonging to Rumplestiltskin, Neal and Mulan encounter Robin Hood in Rumplestiltskin's castle. He reluctantly uses Roland as bait to call Peter Pan's shadow to allow Neal to travel to Neverland. When Peter Pan's curse takes everyone from Storybrooke back to their original worlds, he rescues Regina and Mary Margaret in the Enchanted Forest from a flying monkey. He later offers them shelter as they plan to take back their castle from Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West.^[22] He gradually forms a bond with Regina, and after Snow and Charming reluctantly enact a curse to save their baby from Zelena, Robin is sent to Storybrooke with no memories of the past year. He again likens to Regina who gives him her heart to hide from Zelena after she learns he is her true love. The two later begin a romantic relationship. However, this relationship is shattered after Emma, who traveled to the past with Captain Hook, unintentionally saved Marian before she could be executed by Regina and brought her back to the present. Robin Hood and Roland are reunited with Maid Marian to the hurt of Regina. Robin decides to remain loyal to Marian, leaving Regina on a quest to remove her. When Marian is hit with a freezing spell that was in her ice cream cone, Robin Hood was unable to use the true love thing to break the spell due to his relationship with Regina prior to being reunited with her. Upon agreeing with Robin Hood, Regina and Henry had to remove Maid Marian's heart until Regina can find another way to unfreeze her.

Robin Hood later encountered Will Scarlet again at Granny's diner. The two of them end up investigating the Storybrooke Library.

After Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West opens a time-travel portal, Emma and Hook are dragged into it and sent to the Enchanted Forest of the past. Emma decides to rescue Marian (though she does not know her identity) and the two take her back to present day Storybrooke. Marian is reunited with Robin and Roland, to a hurt and angered Regina, whom Robin had been in a relationship with. Marian is extremely hostile towards Regina, disbelieving her reformation. However, Regina saves Marian's life after she comes under attack by a snow monster in Storybrooke. Marian later falls under a frozen spell after the Snow Queen places a spell on her ice cream cone. In order to keep Marian alive, Regina removes her heart and Henry places it in a container, until Regina can find a way to unfreeze her. However, it seems fate/time, is trying to mop up mistakes; Robin and Regina found an alternate page of Once Upon a Time that showed them falling in love before Robin became the thief he is, when she actually never met him then.

He later appears as a fugitive boy pretending to escape from the Lost Boys. He "befriends" Henry who is also attempting to escape upon arriving in Neverland, following his kidnap from Storybrooke. He later reveals his true identity and tells Henry he possesses "the heart of the truest believer", which he now owns.^[26] He blackmails John and Michael Darling to help him with his tasks, in exchange for their sister Wendy's life, who had been lured back to Neverland. Pan falsely claims to Henry that magic is dying in Neverland, and needs Henry's power. He then persuades Henry to give him his heart, leading Henry to temporarily die. After Pan traps Gold inside Pandora's Box,^[27] Regina successfully reclaims Henry's heart and revives him, before Pan swaps his and Henry's souls.^[20] Once in Storybrooke, Pan orders the Shadow to kill Mother Superior after reading Henry's book. He then steals the original curse from Regina that created Storybrooke, planning to enact it to turn the town into "The New Neverland."^[36] His plot is successful, though before it takes place, Gold kills both Pan (who reverts to Malcolm) and himself with the Dark One's dagger.^[21]

Upon arrival at Neverland, Regina meets Tinker Bell who reluctantly forgives Regina for what she did to her. Tinker Bell agrees to help her and the rest of the group in their quest to find Henry, having being promised a home with them.^[73] After she successfully arrives in Storybrooke with the rest of the group, Regina requests that Mother Superior give her wings back. She refuses, noting that Tinker Bell does not believe in herself, therefore she cannot either. She later manages to believe, using her pixie dust to kill Peter Pan's shadow. Her actions result in saving Mother Superior, who was killed by the Shadow, and the latter restores Tinker Bell to fairy status.^[36]

Later known as the Wicked Witch of the West, she overtakes Regina's castle, following Peter Pan's curse that returns Storybrooke's residents to the Enchanted Forest. Regina learns of their relations, while Zelena tricks Neal into resurrecting Rumplestiltskin, sacrificing himself. After merging his son's body with his own, Rumplestiltskin becomes insane, manipulated by Zelena with his dagger. After Zelena threatens Snow and Charming's baby, they learn from Glinda that light magic will defeat Zelena. Believing Emma to be the key, they cast a new curse to take them to Storybrooke. Charming sacrifices his heart to Snow, but Zelena adds a forgetting potion to the curse, removing the characters' memories of the past year.

In Storybrooke, Zelena appears as a midwife who befriends Mary Margaret, scheming to get closer to her unborn baby, while holding Mr. Gold prisoner.^[104] Emma later finds Gold, discovering that Neal is trapped within him. Neal asks Emma to free Gold in order to defeat Zelena, though he will die; she reluctantly agrees.^[23] Zelena later curses Captain Hook to remove Emma's powers. Belle learns that Zelena needs four ingredients (David's courage, Regina's heart, Rumplestiltskin's brain, and David and Mary Margaret's newborn son)^[40] to enact a time-travelling spell to travel to the past. She successfully obtains different forms of the items, though Regina uses her newly discovered light magic to defeat her. She spares her life, giving Zelena a second chance. However, Rumplestiltskin avenges Neal by stabbing Zelena with his dagger, shattering her into pieces. Shorty afterwards, Zelena's magic within her pendant enacts the time-travel spell, opening the portal which Emma and Hook fall through. Sending them back to the Enchanted Forest of the past, Emma reclaims her magic and re-opens a portal back to present-day Storybrooke.

Some time later, she is placed into the urn by Anna (thanks to the Spell of Shattered Sight cast on her by Ingrid) and is trapped within the Dark One's vault by Rumplestiltskin, who had taken the urn to exchange for obtaining the Sorcerer's Hat from Ingrid. When Emma Swan and Captain Hook are dragged into a time portal to the past, they inadvertently bring Elsa to Storybrooke. Elsa soon becomes frightened, creating a snow monster to protect herself. Elsa then discovers Anna's necklace and vows to find her, placing an ice cave barrier around Storybrooke to prevent anyone escaping. David later helps her to control her magic and free herself and a trapped Emma from the cave. The inhabitants set out to help Elsa find her sister. Elsa soon discovers the Snow Queen, though she has no memories of who the Snow Queen is.

In Storybrooke, Elsa discovers Anna's necklace in Mr. Gold's pawn shop and vows to find her. Using Bo Peep's staff, Elsa, David Nolan, and Captain Hook are able to hear Anna's heartbeat.

Using Anna's necklace and a locator spell provided by Belle, Emma and Elsa follow it's trail to the Storybrook Library. When in the mineshaft, they find a caved-in path causing Emma and Elsa to find another way to the other side. Elsa opens up a hole in the wall where they end up on a beach. When Elsa ends up hoping for Anna using her necklace (which was a Wishing Star), she ends up saving Anna and Kristoff from their fate at the bottom of Poseidon's Graveyard, and brings them to Storybrooke. Anna and Elsa are reunited as they head to meet up with the fairies, to find a way to counter the Spell of Shattered Sight. However, the fairies have all disappeared, since Hook was forced to use the Sorcerer's Hat to absorb them, so they head off to the Sheriff's Station to brace for the worst.

When Kristoff appeared to rescue Anna from Ingrid after she manipulated Anna into imprisoning Elsa in an urn, Ingrid froze both of them.

30 years later, Arendelle unthaws and Anna and Kristoff end up on the run from Prince Hans and his three brothers, as they have taken over the kingdom. With help from Blackbeard, Prince Hans and this three brothers capture Anna and Kristoff. Anna and Kristoff are then placed in a trunk and thrown off the ship into Poseidon's Graveyard (which was the area where the ship carrying Anna and Elsa's parents sank).

When Elsa ends up hoping for Anna using her necklace (which was a Wishing Star), she ends up saving Anna and Kristoff from their fate at the bottom of Poseidon's Graveyard, and brings them to Storybrooke.

She manifested her powers at a young age when she, Helga, and Gerda were attacked by a crimimal. Following an incident where Helga was accidentally frozen to death because of the Duke of Weselton's trick, Gerda sealed Ingrid away in a magical urn, while mourning Helga's death and her own actions. She was released from the urn by Prince Hans, who she then froze for calling Elsa was a monster, implying that she was a "monster." She also freezes 3 of Hans' other older brothers as revealed by Prince Hans in "Fall." The Snow Queen later informs Elsa that she is her aunt, as she is the sister of Queen Gerda of Arendelle. At some point afterwards, Ingrid visits the Apprentice to have him ask the Sorcerer for an item that she needs to complete her family. Upon finding out that Elsa is on to her, Ingrid then used her power to have Anna turn on Elsa, which resulted in Anna imprisoning Elsa in the urn. Afterwards Ingrid freeze Anna and Kristoff. Unfortunately, Rumplestiltskin would take the urn and Anna's necklace from Ingrid as part of an exchange for the Sorcerer's hat. However, she ends up giving the hat to the Apprentice who in exchange for the item, is given the one thing she needs to complete her family, a new sister, which leads her to a portal that sends her to New York City in 1982. Once there, Ingrid bides her time until Emma showed up in Storybrooke.

In Storybrooke, she works at an ice cream parlor called "Any Given Sundae", under the alias Sarah Fisher. When Elsa is brought to the town, the Snow Queen takes advantage of Elsa's ice barrier that surrounds Storybrooke. The Snow Queen places a spell in Maid Marian's ice cream cone, causing her to fall into a frozen sleep. Emma soon discovers the Snow Queen and uses her magic to save Captain Hook, after she threatened to kill him. She escapes after implying that she knows Emma, whom she taunted. Sarah then uses Sidney in a plot to lure Regina into allowing her to take her magic mirror, in exchange for Sidney's freedom. It was later discovered that Sarah was Emma's foster mother in our world, having taking her in after she was caught by Social Services in Minnesota. Her true plan is later uncovered; the Snow Queen wants two new sisters to replace the ones she lost, but they must have magic like her. She also planned to use the Spell of Shattered Sight, to have the inhabitants of Storybrooke kill each other off, until only she, Elsa, and Emma are left. In hindsight, the loss of her true sisters seems to have driven Ingrid insane; she doesn't see how much Emma and Elsa despise her. Although Ingrid hasn't considered the possibility, Elsa and Emma may end up trying to stop her plans by killing her, which is pretty much the only logical option since Ingrid won't listen to reason. Later on, Ingrid allowed herself to be "captured" by Emma, implanting an ice shard in her in the process, allowing her to talk with Emma in private at the police station. When Belle discovers that the mirror in the Clock Tower was a fake, David, Mary Margret, and the others catch on to Ingrid's plan too late, and they are unable to warn Emma, as Ingrid had frozen over the police station doors shut. Then, Ingrid plays on Emma's emotions, eventually making her lose control of herself and her magic, which destroys a chunk of the wall and allows the Snow Queen to escape. After Ingrid discovered that Mr. Gold was planning to use the Sorcerer's Hat to absorb Emma and her powers, she tries to stop him, only to realize that he had imprisoned her in a force field made from the urn dust. Then, she tries to warn Emma via an illusion, which initially causes Emma to lose control of her car and crash. However, Emma still refused to believe her, continuing to drive off towards the abandoned mansion. After Elsa saved Emma and the urn dust wore off, Ingrid places her ribbons on all three of them, allowing her to harness their powers. Then, she warns Mr. Gold not to underestimate her and casts the Spell of Shattered Sight over Storybrooke. When Mr. Gold visits Ingrid, she agrees to keep the Spell of Shattered Sight from affecting Belle and Henry, and an escape route from Storybrooke, in exchange for Gold not seeking vengeance on her life. Then, she tells him that the Spell of Shattered Sight will cover Storybrooke by sunset.

As Storybrooke starts to tear itself apart due to the spell, Emma and Elsa confront Ingrid at "Any Given Sundae" where their powers can't work on her due to the ribbons on them. At her lair, Ingrid then proceeds into the next part of her plan where she restores the good memories of Emma and Elsa to them while stating that they don't have it in them to kill her. When Anna arrives with the note about her mother's last words that involved the truth of Ingrid and Helga being Elsa and Anna's aunts while stating that Arendelle deserves to know about Ingrid and Helga. Ingrid then begins to attack Anna and manages to knock her down. Upon reading the note, Ingrid sees that Anna is right and begins to regret her actions. Ingrid then undoes the Spell of Shattered Sight by destroying herself. Before she dies, Ingrid states that Emma has found her family and returns the memories of Emma and Elsa to them, now that she has her sisters' love. Ingrid then disappears to the afterlife, where she is happy to join Gerda and Helga there.

At some point, Maleficent worked with Cruella de Vil and Ursula into kidnapping Belle in order to obtain a magic gauntlet that Rumplestiltskin claimed from his visit in Camelot.

After failed attempts to kill Princess Aurora's mother, Maleficent inflicts Aurora with a sleeping curse, putting both the Princess and her kingdom into a thorn-adorned ruin. Maleficent also curses her true love Prince Phillip by transforming him into a beast called the Yaoguai and banishing him to another land so that he is incapable of reaching Aurora. He remains in this form until he is found by Belle who returns him to human form.

In Wonderland, when Will Scarlet (the Knave of Hearts) and Robin Hood's Merry Men invade Maleficent's castle to steal gold, her voice is projected into their camp, telling them to return a stolen Looking Glass.

She is approached at some point by the Evil Queen Regina, who trades the Dark Curse created by Rumplestiltskin, for Maleficent's sleeping curse, in order to punish Snow White. Later, in hope to find Snow White, Prince Charming is given a locating spell from Rumplestiltskin if he manages to hide a potion inside the belly of a beast (Maleficent). The witch transforms into a fire-breathing dragon, though Charming manages to place the potion within her.^[11] Eventually, Maleficent gives up on her revenge against Aurora's mother, finding solace in her pet black unicorn. However, the Evil Queen, frustrated at the failure of the sleeping curse, desires the Dark Curse once more, but Maleficent refuses. Regina challenges her to a spar, eventually defeating Maleficent, but she allows Maleficent to live, saying that she is her only friend.^[5]

In Storybrooke, it is revealed that Regina Mills (the Evil Queen) trapped Maleficent in her dragon form and imprisoned her beneath Storybrooke's abandoned library. Later, when Henry Mills falls under a sleeping curse to prove the curse's reality to Emma Swan, Emma is forced to kill Maleficent to retrieve the potion within her, later revealed to be a bottle of true love. Regina later travels beneath the library to retrieve the "fail-safe" trigger to destroy Storybrooke, finding Maleficent alive in an undead-like body form.^[105]

In Storybrooke, she is Miss Ginger, a bespectacled busybody.

In Storybrooke, she is 19-year-old Ashley Boyd, a single, pregnant maid. The baby's father Sean Herman (Prince Thomas), is forbidden to see Ashley by his father; the latter arranges for Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) to pay Ashley in exchange for the baby. She originally agrees to the exchange, but later decides to keep her child. She attempts to flee town but goes into labour at the city limits. Emma Swan brings her to the hospital, where she gives birth to a daughter and reunites with Sean. Emma agrees to be in-debt to Mr. Gold if Ashley is allowed to keep the baby.^[45] Ashley and Sean are later engaged. A few years later, Ashley begins teaching parenting classes in Storybrooke.

In Storybrooke, he is Sean Herman, a factory worker who was forced by his father to leave Ashley after she falls pregnant. When Emma tries to find Ashley, who was fleeing town at the time, she tries to enlist Sean for assistance, but his father Mitchell tells Emma that Sean will have nothing to do with her. Realizing he has made a deal with Mr. Gold, Emma finds Ashley and brings her back to the hospital to give birth. Sean decides to go against his father's wishes and visits Ashley to reconcile with her and to see his daughter. A few months later, he proposes to Ashley and the pair are engaged.^[45]

In Storybrooke, he becomes a human named Billy, a car mechanic who works at Marine Garage. He shows an interest in Ruby (Red Riding Hood) but is denied a date, unaware of the reason being her werewolf persona later in the night. Billy is later found dead, apparently murdered by Red in her wolf form. David Nolan (Prince Charming) however eventually discovers that it was actually his own adoptive father, Albert Spencer (King George), who gruesomely murdered him, leaving doctored evidence that Red was responsible, because he wanted David to look irresponsible of the town's safety.^[81]

Prior to these events, James and his lover Jacqueline "Jack" searched for means of financially saving his kingdom. Using shrinking products from Wonderland, they encounter and shrink Anton the Giant, hoping to trick him into sharing his treasure with them. Their conquest leads them (and an army) into Anton's palace where they slay the giants inside, stealing a great portion of treasure.^[106]

When Prince James is killed in battle, she tries to convince her second son, shepherd David, to marry King Midas' daughter in order to save their farm. When Rumplestiltskin arrives, she reveals to him that he had a twin brother and she, along with her husband, gave him away to keep their farm. David returns to tell her that they can never see one another again, after King George forces David to marry Princess Abigail. Ruth gives him her ring to pass on to his true love, Snow White.^[38] Ruth is later shot by a poisoned arrow when David arranges a rendezvous at her hideout which King George ambushes. As David, Snow and Lancelot take her to find the curative waters of Lake Nostos, she offers Snow a charm that indicates the sex of her first-born child. However, because of the curse George forced upon Snow, it indicates nothing for her. When the lake is found to have dried up, Ruth wants Snow to have the remaining water to cure her, but Snow protests. However, Ruth is apparently unaffected by the water, and as her dying wish, she asks to see David and Snow married. It is later revealed that she had replaced the water with that in the canister Snow had drank from, in order for her to be cured of King George's curse.^[80]

In a flashback in "The Apprentice," it was revealed that Zoso was unable to obtain a specific magic box that was guarded by the apprentice of an unnamed sorcerer.

In Storybrooke, they are siblings Nicholas and Ava Zimmer, who have never met their father and live on their own since their mother died. In order to avoid them being separated by social services, Emma finds their father and convinces him to take care of them.^[14]

In Storybrooke, he is a mechanic named Michael Tillman who is the owner of Marine Garage. He is the father of Nicholas and Ava (Hansel and Gretel) whom he isn't aware of until Sheriff Emma Swan informs him. At first, he refuses to take them in because he fears that he would not be able to support them. Later, when Emma is forced to take them to social services in Boston, she pretends that her car breaks down and calls him. When he arrives to tow her car, she tells him to at least see them before making a decision; he chooses to take them in.^[14]

As a Prince, Leopold meets Cora after she is betrayed by Jonathan, a man claiming to be a Prince. The two form a strong bond until Cora learns he is engaged to Princess Eva, who informs Leopold of her secret child, leading him to remove Cora from his kingdom. Becoming King, Leopold marries Eva and the two have a daughter Snow White, though Eva later dies after being poisoned by Cora. After Regina saves Snow from a runaway horse, Leopold marries her in order to give his daughter a mother.^[43] He is always thankful for his daughter and rules his realm with kindness, wanting nothing except for the happiness of his kingdom and its subjects. When he finds The Genie's lamp, he cannot think of anything he desires, so instead frees the Genie and invites him to his castle to work with him. These actions end in disaster when the Genie falls in love with Regina and plots to kill the King to free her from the loveless marriage. The Genie places poisonous vipers in the King's bed, killing him.^[29]

In Storybrooke, he is Moe French, a florist who is the owner of the flower shop "Game of Thorns". Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) repossesses the shop's van, insisting that a loan he made Moe is due. There is later a robbery at Mr. Gold's house, and Gold holds Moe accountable, abducting him and beating him viciously. Sheriff Emma Swan stops arrests Gold and Moe is taken to the hospital.^[46] After the curse is broken, Moe begins to search for Belle, hiring Mr. William Smee to locate her. Initially they are reunited, but when Moe learns that Belle still has feelings for Rumplestiltskin, he tries to send her across town lines in order to have her forget him. After Gold rescues Belle, she tells both him and her father that she wishes to never see them again.^[92] The two later reconcile and Moe gives his blessing to Belle to marry Mr. Gold.

In Storybrooke, he is Jim, a physical education teacher at Storybrooke Elementary School. Kathryn Nolan (Abigail) is originally in a relationship with David Nolan (Charming). However, after Kathryn learns the truth of Mary Margaret (Snow White) and David's affair, she attacks her in her workplace, also the school, unknowingly bumping into Jim. After she decides to leave Storybrooke, she crashes her car at the city limits. Jim finds her car abandoned.^[32] According to producer Edward Kitsis, after the Dark Curse is broken, he finds Kathryn and resumes his relationship with her.

In Storybrooke, Nova is Sister Astrid, a kind-hearted but clumsy nun. Leroy (Grumpy), offers to help her come up with the money to sell candles. When he does, he asks Astrid, who is as smitten with Leroy as he is with her, to be the first passenger on the new boat he purchased. She agrees without hesitation.^[33]

In Storybrooke, she is Paige, who believes that she is the daughter of another family and is no longer aware that Jefferson exists.^[9] After the curse is broken, she is reunited with Jefferson.

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After the curse in Storybrooke is broken, Dr. Whale (Victor Frankenstein) wishes for Regina to return him to his world. In order to persuade her, he attempts the experiment on Daniel again, this time succeeding. However, the pain of resurrection turns Daniel into a "monster" who rips off Whale's arm. During a brief moment of painful lucidity, Daniel tells Regina to forget their love and "love again", before lapsing back into psychotic behaviour and attempting to attack her; a heartbroken Regina turns Daniel to dust.^[107]

In discussion between Dr. Whale (Victor) and Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) in Storybrooke, it is mentioned that Gerhardt remains in Frankenstein's world.^[107]

As a Princess, Eva is spoiled and selfish, forced into an arranged marriage to Prince Leopold, who simultaneously falls in love with Cora. However, Eva learns of Cora's secret child with Jonathan, a man claiming to be a Prince, and informs Leopold, leading him to remove Cora from his kingdom. She later trips Cora, who is working as a miller's daughter, causing Eva to fly into a "rage". As a changed, mature adult, she teaches her daughter, Snow White, kindness, respect for service, and to avoid dark magic. She unexpectedly falls ill before Snow's birthday. The Royal Doctor cannot heal her, so her servant Johanna informs Snow that she should talk to the Blue Fairy. The fairy offers Snow a magic candle which would save the life of her mother at the cost of another's life. She refuses the candle which pleases Eva, who eventually dies. Following the Queen's funeral, the "Blue Fairy" is revealed to be Cora in disguise. Over the corpse of Eva, she confesses to poisoning her in order to place Regina on the throne, as well as to turn Snow White evil.^[108]

In Storybrooke, Johanna is seen after the curse is broken. She manages to buy Snow's tiara from Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin)'s shop to give to Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White) on her birthday. When Mary Margaret learns it is from Johanna, she is overjoyed to be reunited with her. Mary Margaret and David Nolan (Prince Charming) are located to Rumplestiltskin's dagger in the Storybrooke Clock Tower, where they are confronted by Regina Mills (the Evil Queen) and her mother Cora who have captured Johanna. Regina rips out Johanna's heart and threatens to crush it if Mary Margaret does not hand over the dagger. Though Mary Margaret forfeits the dagger to them for the safety of Johanna, Cora kills Johanna by throwing her out of the clock tower.^[108]

Years later when the curse is broken, a stranger crashes his car into Storybrooke. The driver inside is revealed to be a man named Greg Mendell. His true identity is later released as an older Owen. He is still shown to be looking for his father, however, his search comes to a tragic end when he learns that Regina had killed his father shortly after he escaped. Greg receives confirmation upon finding his father's skull at their old campsite.

In Storybrooke, he is Keith, a frequent visitor to The Rabbit Hole bar. He meets Lacey (Belle) and later goes on a date with her. Upon realizing that she and Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) are still a couple, Keith approaches Gold to apologize. Gold again takes Keith's tongue and proceeds to viciously beat him, to the amusement of Lacey.^[99]

Wendy is later shown to be a prisoner of Peter Pan in Neverland, who is using an adult John and Michael to head to Storybrooke and prevent Belle and Ariel giving Mr. Gold Pandora's box, which he and Regina are seeking in order to defeat Pan in exchange for Wendy's freedom. Pan later forces Wendy to pretend to be ill to Henry in order for him to harness his belief in magic, before she is returned to her cage. Mr. Gold is instructed by Ariel to attempt to save Wendy on his quest to kill Pan.^[109] Wendy is later saved by Bae, and in return she informs him and the rest of the group of Pan's intentions to kill Henry. She is then rescued and escapes Neverland en route to be reunited with her brothers.^[20] Upon their reunion in Storybrooke, The Darlings return to London.^[36]

As an adult, he was ordered to retrieve the infant Henry by Peter Pan in Storybrooke, but failed after Regina decides to keep him after her initial struggle. He returns to Storybrooke years later with Michael before Belle casts a cloaking spell around the town. He and Michael find Belle and Ariel in Mr. Gold's shop and retrieve Pandora's Box from them, revealing that they were sent by Peter Pan to prevent the two giving the item to Mr. Gold. Belle and Ariel later stop the pair from destroying the box with a dwarf axe. It is then revealed that the brothers wanted to destroy the object in a deal to save Wendy, who is being held prisoner by Peter Pan in Neverland. Mr. Gold is instructed by Ariel to attempt to save Wendy on his quest to kill Pan.^[109] After the Darlings are reunited in Storybrooke, the siblings return to London.^[36]

As an adult, he was ordered to retrieve the infant Henry by Peter Pan in Storybrooke, but failed after Regina decides to keep him after her initial struggle. He returns to Storybrooke years later with John before Belle casts a cloaking spell around the town. He and John find Belle and Ariel in Mr. Gold's shop and retrieve Pandora's Box from them, revealing that they were sent by Pan to prevent the two giving the item to Mr. Gold. Belle and Ariel later stop the pair from destroying the box with a dwarf axe. It is then revealed that the brothers wanted to destroy the object in a deal to save Wendy, who is being held prisoner by Peter Pan in Neverland. Mr. Gold is instructed by Ariel to attempt to save Wendy on his quest to kill Pan.^[109] After the Darlings are reunited in Storybrooke, the siblings return to London.^[36]

Regina later summons Ariel to Neverland, revealing that mermaids can travel through realms. She promises to return her legs if she retrieves Pandora's Box from Mr. Gold's shop to defeat Peter Pan.^[19] After she completes the quest, Regina gives her the ability to use both her legs and fins, allowing her to continue her search for Eric in Storybrooke. With help from Belle, she finds Eric as a fisherman and the two reconcile.^[36] After Peter Pan enacts the original curse again, Ariel, along with the other inhabitants, are consumed and returned to their original worlds.^[21]

After the characters are returned to their worlds, it is later revealed that Eric was kidnapped by the pirate Blackbeard and sent to Hangman's Island when Ariel enlists Captain Hook to capture Blackbeard so that he can take her to Ariel. This did not go according to plan as Captain Hook made Blackbeard walk the plank much to Ariel's dismay. After Zelena posed as Ariel, Emma later discovered that Ariel found a safe haven on Hangman's Island with Eric, unaffected by the new curse enacted by Snow White and Prince Charming (as part of their plan to stop Zelena).^[24]

Whilst summoning Ariel in Neverland, Regina (the Evil Queen) mentions that Eric was transported to Storybrooke, where she locates Ariel to in order to retrieve an item from Mr. Gold's shop.^[19] Later, Eric is reunited with Ariel (who is now permanently human thanks to the spell on the special bracelet) in Storybrooke and the two of them reconcile where Eric was found as a fisherman in Storybrooke's fisherman market. After Peter Pan enacts the original curse again, Eric, along with the other inhabitants, are consumed and returned to their original worlds.^[21] It is later revealed that Eric was kidnapped by the pirate Blackbeard and sent to Hangman's Island, in a bid to steal the Jolly Roger from Captain Hook. Ariel later finds Eric and the two live together on the island, unaffected by the new curse enacted by Snow White and Prince Charming (as part of their plan to stop Zelena).^[24]

The Evil Queen poses as Ursula in order to talk Ariel into keeping her legs in exchange that she gives Snow White her mermaid appearance with a mystical bracelet. This ruse was discovered when both of them are found by the Evil Queen, though Ariel helps Snow to escape after removing the bracelet. When the Evil Queen returns to her palace, the real Ursula contacts her through one of her mirrors stating of her knowledge of her masquerade, and warning her not to impersonate her again.^[19]

Ursula has been confirmed to appear in the second half of Season 4.^[111] A flashback revealed that Ursula (who is also shown to assume a human form while emitting her octopus tentacles when needed) worked with Maleficent and Cruella de Vil in order to obtain a magic gauntlet that Rumplestiltskin obtained during his visit to Camelot.

Six weeks after Belle used the Dark One's Dagger to drive Mr. Gold out of Storybrooke, Ursula was seen on Earth working as an aquarium worker in New York feeding the fish there. Mr. Gold finds her and offers her a chance to get even with the heroes and find the Author. They then head out to find Cruella de Vil and Maleficent.

Before the First Curse, Medusa lived in a Cavern near the old Summer Palace in the Enchanted Forest. One day, she was visited by two intruders, Snow White and Prince Charming. After being warned by the Evil Queen on the Dark Curse, they planned to cut off her head and use it against the Evil Queen. However, Medusa entraps Charming and turns him into stone. Eventually, Snow White tricks her into seeing her own reflection, turning her into stone and freeing Prince Charming.

When Ariel angrily confronts Captain Hook over her missing true love Prince Eric, Hook learns that Blackbeard is responsible. Ariel and Captain Hook confront Blackbeard who states that he will inform them of Eric's whereabouts in exchange for the stolen Jolly Roger and his life. Captain Hook chooses his ship and forces Blackbeard to walk the plank where he was killed by the nearby sharks. After Blackbeard is dead, Captain Hook told Blackbeard's crew that they can either share their captain's fate or join him.^[24]

About a year later, it was revealed that Blackbeard was saved by a mermaid, assuming it was Ariel. At some point, Anna and Kristoff visited Blackbeard at the shores of the Enchanted Forest where he invites them on board. Anna and Kristoff states that Blackbeard has the Wishing Star and that they want to purchase it. Blackbeard states that the Wishing Star will theirs once he is paid in his weight in gold. When Prince Hans and his three brothers arrive and apprehend Anna and Kristoff, Blackbeard reveals that he knew Anna and Elsa's parents. Anna and Kristoff are then placed in a trunk and thrown in the part of the ocean called Poseidon's Graveyard (which is where the ship carrying Anna and Elsa's parents had sank). The trunk was something that Blackbeard used as a precaution to prevent them from being rescued by mermaids.

When Emma and Captain Hook accidentally ended up back in time, they see Snow White trying to cut a deal with Blackbeard to take her out of the Enchanted Forest and away from the Evil Queen.

Banished north of the Dark Forest and south of Rumplestiltskin's castle, Glinda resides in a snow-filled pocket dimension. Rumplestiltskin cryptically informs Snow White, Prince Charming, and Regina of her location and they visit her about help to defeat Zelena. She informs them that light magic is the only way to remove Zelena's pendant, which will successfully defeat her by draining her magic.^[112]

As the youngest of the three sisters, Gerda was always close with Ingrid and Helga, and was the one who sought out Rumplestiltskin's help in controlling Ingrid's magic. Unfortunately, after seeing Helga's destroyed frozen body, Gerda, refusing to believe Ingrid's story that she killed her by mistake, after an incident caused by the Duke of Weselton, and seeing her sister as a monster, exiles Ingrid into the urn. Gerda then speaks to The Grand Pabbie about a request for a memory potion to have the entire Kingdom of Arendelle forget about the existence of Helga and Ingrid, but The Grand Pabbie states that the truth will come out eventually, and that magic always comes with a price.

Years later, Gerda, along with her husband, left on a mission to find out about Elsa's powers, only to be lost at sea, just moments after she wrote a note that she threw into the ocean, in the hopes of the message reaching her daughters in time.

When Gerda had sealed Ingrid away in a mystical urn after an incident caused by the Duke of Weselton where Helga was accidentally frozen to death, she speaks to Grand Pabbie about a memory potion to forget the existence of Helga and Ingrid. Grand Pabbie states that the truth will come out soon and that magic comes with a price.

Elsa and Anna visit Grand Pabbie to talk about what their parents did on that voyage. Grand Pabbie states that he doesn't know, but stated that they were going to Misthaven instead of the Northern Isles. Grand Pabbie states that they didn't tell him why they went to Misthaven.

When Belle visits Arendelle, Anna takes her to see Grand Pabbie so that Belle could know what happened to her mother when the Ogres raided Sir Maurice's castle. He gives Belle a special stone in which when brewed with tea, it can help her regain the memories of what happened to her mother when the Ogres invaded Sir Maurice's castle. Anna later tells Grand Pabbie about Ingrid the Snow Queen where he was sworn to secrecy to keep the info on her mother's sisters Ingrid and Helga private. He tells Anna that the answers to questions about Ingrid being related to her mother must be answered by Ingrid.

In Storybrooke, Bo Peep works as a butcher at a butcher shop called "The Chop Shop." She is visited by David Nolan and Captain Hook. Having remembered what David did to her back in the Enchanted Forest, Bo Peep decided to seek revenge on David. However, she is stopped by Captain Hook who then confiscates Bo Peep's shepherd crook in order to find where Anna is held. Bo Peep sees that David is a hero on Earth.

Hans, three out of twelve of his older brothers, and their army are first seen travelling to locate a mystical urn to imprison Elsa within. When at the North Valley, Hans's army attack Elsa and Kristoff in order to claim the urn. Hans holds Kristoff at swordpoint in order to get Elsa to hand over the urn. Elsa surrenders, though when Hans claims the urn and opens it, he unknowingly releases the Snow Queen, who freezes Hans while his three brothers flee, only to end up frozen as well.

Ingrid later bring both Hans, 3 of his frozen brothers, and the magic urn to the royal castle, and hides them in a wardrobe in her room.

After Ingrid leaves, Arendelle thaws in 30 years, and Hans unthaws and reunites with his three older brothers, as he becomes the new King of Arendelle, with his first act being to arrest Anna and Kristoff. Anna and Kristoff then run from them, as they head out to find Blackbeard. Prince Hans and his three brothers catch up to them at Blackbeard's ship. Hans revealed that they had an informant on the docks and took the swiftest ship to find them. With all of the treasury of Arendelle in his possession (which leaves Anna and Kristoff unable to barter for the Wishing Star), Prince Hans plans to send Anna and Kristoff to their deaths, by throwing them into Poseidon's Graveyard (which is where the boat that carrying Anna and Elsa's parents have sunk) within a trunk.

After Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff have returned to Arendelle, it was stated that Prince Hans and his brothers were driven out of Arendelle.

The Apprentice protects his teacher's creation, a box capable of transforming into a hat for absorbing and accumulating magic, from each person that takes on the Dark One's powers. As an added measure of security, the sorcerer curses the box so those who have succumbed to darkness may never open it and only someone who has been tempted into darkness but has not given into it can do the opposite. While sweeping the grounds of the box's location, Zoso (who was the Dark One at the time) arrives in an attempt to open the guarded relic. After being magically thrown aside by Zoso, The Apprentice watches the Dark One's futile endeavor to access the box's contents only to be blasted away by the artifact's magic. Once the Apprentice informs the Dark One of why his mission will never succeed, a beaten Zoso teleports away. Years later, Zoso's successor Rumplestiltskin conspires to possess the sorcerer's box and utilize the hat within it. The Apprentice, now living in a small cottage, stores the box in his basement for safekeeping. By some method, he ingests a poison that Rumplestiltskin created which will transmutate him into a mouse. In a deal with Anna, Rumplestiltskin sends her to put a bottled substance (which she presumes to be poison) into the apprentice's tea. In actuality, it is an antidote to cure him. During one day, the Apprentice opens his door to Anna and invites her in for tea and biscuits. He even allows her to stay at his home as long as she desires. As he sweeps the floor, Anna checks on the boiling kettle. Despite Rumplestiltskin's instructions, she dumps the bottled substance into a fire. After Anna's departure from the cottage, he turns into a mouse. Since discovering the truth, Anna rushes to the apprentice's house and begs Rumplestiltskin to undo the poison's effects, but the Dark One tricks the girl into nearly succumbing to darkness but ultimately turning away from it. After Rumplestiltskin gains the box, the Apprentice's mouse form jumps onto and bites the Dark One's hand. Startled, Rumplestiltskin drops the dagger to which Anna seizes it and commands him to give the box to her. She forces him into sending her and the box to Arendelle as well as reverting the Apprentice into a human.

Sometime later, the Apprentice is visited by Ingrid where she wants him to ask the Sorcerer what she needs to complete her family. After Ingrid had frozen Anna and Kristoff following her tricking Anna into imprisoning Elsa in a magical urn, she is approached in a cave by the Apprentice. In exchange that Ingrid hands him the box instead of giving it to Rumplestiltskin, he will tell her what the Sorcerer told him about Ingrid's question. Ingrid does so and the Apprentice tells her that she will need a true sister. As the sister in question is not born yet, the Apprentice tells Ingrid that the sister she requires will grow up on Earth as he manifests a portal door to take Ingrid to Earth in the 1980s.

In Storybrooke, he is shown to be living in a house. Mr. Gold and Captain Hook (who goes along with Mr. Gold's plan to get rid of his "cursed" hand) visit his house in order to get him to activate the box upon using a transformed broom to trace his location. Once Mr. Gold opens the box and utilizes the hat's power, the Apprentice is sucked into the hat.

Many years later, Emma came to regret walking off on Lily. With Captain Hook in her company, Emma revisited the footage of her and Lily, where the footage after that played a key part in helping Emma identify the Snow Queen as one of Emma's foster parents.

Helga was always close to Ingrid and Gerda, until she met the Duke of Weselton, who asked for her hand in marriage. When she discovered that the Duke was trying to seduce Ingrid, Helga turned down his marriage proposal, calling him the "Duke of Weaselton," and vowing to end his "diplomatic mission" in Arendelle. As Ingrid was about to attack The Duke, he placed Helga in front of him, resulting in Ingrid killing Helga instead. This lead to Gerda blaming Ingrid for Helga's death and resulted in Gerda imprisoning Ingrid in the urn. After mourning her actions and Helga's death, Gerda used a spell from Grand Pabbie to wipe Helga and Ingrid's names from Arendelle's history.

At some point, Cruella worked with Maleficent and Ursula in order to obtain a magic gauntlet that Rumplestiltskin obtained from his visit to Camelot.