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The primary characters of the first season. From left to right: Archie Hopper, Regina Mills, Henry Mills, Emma Swan, Graham Humbert, Mr. Gold, Mary Margaret Blanchard, and David Nolan.

The characters of the American fantasy-drama television series Once Upon a Time are renditions of classic fairy tale and fantasy characters. They inhabit the town of Storybrooke, Maine, and live under the curse of the The Evil Queen to remain trapped in time and live forever without happy endings. They are initially unable to recall their memories of their respectful worlds in which they once lived until the curse is broken by Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter Emma Swan breaks the curse.

Main characters

Emma Swan

Jennifer Morrison plays Emma Swan.

Emma Swan (played by Jennifer Morrison) was born as an infant to Snow White and Prince Charming, on the day that the The Evil Queen casts a curse that vows to destroy everyone's happiness and assure her with the only happy ending. Gepetto forms a magical wardrobe for the pair after The Blue Fairy informs him of the curse. The plan was originally to let Snow and Charming travel through the wardrobe but The Blue Fairy reluctantly agrees to Gepetto's bid of letting his son Pinocchio travel through, later lying to the royals that only one place is available. They decide that Snow should be the one to travel with Emma inside of her. However, Emma is born shortly after. Snow then insists that Emma must be the one to go through the wardrobe, having visited Rumplestiltskin who reveals that their daughter is the key to breaking the Queen's curse on her 28th birthday. Emma is placed in the wardrobe and successfully travels through before the curse takes hold.

As an infant, Emma comes to the real world and is separated from her parents. She grows up in foster care, never having a real family or home, thus essentially growing up alone. At eighteen, she meets Neal Cassidy and together, they plan to flee to Tallahassee. Neal, however, is persuaded by August Booth (Pinocchio) to turn Emma in to the police to protect her destiny as the savior of Storybrooke. Emma is jailed, finding out she was pregnant and giving birth to Henry. She then places him up for adoption to give him a better life. On her 28th birthday, she is reunited with her son when he comes to her house. He explains her origins but she does not believe him. She returns him home to his adoptive mother Regina Mills in Storybrooke, who is worried Emma may want to be in Henry's life. Her repeated warnings to leave town and to keep away from Henry, make Emma decide to stay. Regina eventually forbids Emma from seeing him without her permission.

In Storybrooke, Emma is often at odds with Regina, who doesn't want Emma to be in Henry's life. Emma tries to get Henry to let go of his theories about the curse, but later accepts the fact that Henry will not give it up, though she remains skeptical about the curse existing. With Regina making sure Emma doesn't get to keep her room at "Granny's", Emma moves in with Mary Margaret (Snow White), neither aware that they're related. Emma's plans to stay in town take on a more permanent form when, despite Regina's protests, Sheriff Graham appoints Emma as his deputy. Emma and Graham are attracted to each other, but she feels betrayed upon learning of his sexual relationship with Regina. Desperate, Graham kisses her, triggering flashes of his true identity. He leaves Regina soon after and begins a relationship with Emma. Regina, outraged that yet another person has left her, then crushes Graham's magically detached heart, causing him to die in Emma's arms.

Emma is later elected sheriff by the town's people, but is forced to arrest Mary Margaret for the alleged murder of Kathryn Nolan. Despite evidence that suggests Mary Margaret is the murderer, Emma believes that Regina framed Mary Margaret. She tells Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) that she is willing to go further than it takes to find evidence against Regina, suddenly becoming, in Mr. Gold's words, a "woman of faith." Mary Margaret disappears soon after, and Emma goes looking for her. In the search, she is abducted by Jefferson (The Mad Hatter) who orders her to make him a magical hat so that he can return home: something only she can do as she brought magic to Storybrooke. She tries to convince him the curse and magic are not real, but he is frustrated that she chooses not to believe Henry. She and Mary Margaret, who was also kidnapped by Jefferson, are eventually able to escape by pushing him out of a window. Emma convinces Mary Margaret to return to her cell and face her trial, saying that she's her family (although she, at this point, means it in a non-literal way). Emma later sees Jefferson's daughter, from whom he claimed to be separated for twenty-eight years. Seeing that the illustrations in Henry's book of the Mad Hatter and his daughter are identical to Jefferson and his, she begins to wonder if the curse is real.

Emma, however, continues to refuse to believe in the curse, and becomes suspicious of a new man in town, August Booth, who takes a big interest in both her, and Henry. They become friends before August takes her out of town and into the woods where she was found as a baby. He shows her the tree he found her in, telling her his true identity, and that they escaped the curse together. He shows her his leg, slowly turning back into wood, but her denial is so strong that she sees his leg as skin. She insists that she cannot handle the responsibility of being a "savior", and returns home. Later, confused and still angry over what August did, Emma asks Henry if he wants to live with her. He replies, "More than anything," and she makes the decision to leave Storybrooke. He stops her from doing this to force her to fulfill her destiny and break the curse, and although she doesn't believe, Emma turns back to Storybrooke. She eventually decides to stay in Henry's life, visiting when she can, but she will leave Storybrooke. After telling Regina this, she receives an apple turnover from Regina, which is made from the same cursed apple that put Snow White under a Sleeping Curse. Before she can eat it, Henry, knowing it to be poisoned, eats it instead, to prove that magic exists, causing him to fall unconscious. Rushing him to the hospital, Emma finds Henry's book among his things, and she finally believes that the curse is real. To save Henry, she and Regina reluctantly collaborate and turn to Mr. Gold for help. He tells them that Henry can only be saved with true love, a bottle of which is hidden in the belly of the dragon Maleficent. Emma defeats Maleficent with Charming's sword and retrieves the bottle. Mr. Gold tricks Emma into giving the bottle to him, fleeing. Dr. Whale is unable to revive Henry, leading to the prediction of his death. Henry dies, but is he awoken by Emma, who now believes and admits that she loves him, kissing him on the forehead. The kiss awakens Henry and breaks the curse, allowing all residents to remember their true identities. However, the residents of Storybrooke do not return to the Enchanted Forest.

After the curse is broken, Emma reunites with Snow and Charming, but has trouble seeing them as her parents, and cannot go along with their desire to be a family. When a wraith is released into Storybrooke, they manage to send it back to the Enchanted Forest, but Emma and Snow are sucked into the portal as well. There, they meet Princess Aurora and Mulan, who recently lost Prince Philip to the wraith sent through from Storybrooke. They are taken to a small village that was untouched by the curse, and are thrown into a makeshift prison, where they also meet Regina's mother Cora. They later meet one of the village's residents, Lancelot, an old friend of Snow, though it is later revealed to be Cora in disguise. She takes the ashes that remained after the wardrobe was set on fire, and plans on using them to travel to Storybrooke, using Captain Hook (posing as a blacksmith) to infiltrate the safe haven and find information on Emma and Mary Margaret. However, he is forced to reveal his interest and help the two return to Storybrooke by journeying up a beanstalk to collect a magical compass. Emma and Hook climb the beanstalk together, confront the Giant, and obtain the compass. Emma then handcuffs Hook to the walls of the castle, telling him that she does not trust him. She returns to the others who later find Cora and Hook at Lake Nostos, readying a portal back to Storybrooke. A fight ensues with Emma and Snow regaining the upperhand, and travelling back home through the portal.

Emma is persuaded by Mr. Gold to travel with him to Manhattan, where he believes his son, Baelfire, lives. Emma is shocked when she discovers that Baelfire and her ex-boyfriend Neal, are actually the same person. She is forced to introduce him to his son, and is reluctant to accept Neal's apologies after he explains to her that August had told him to leave Emma behind. They return to Storybrooke, where they face Cora and Hook. At the same time, Emma is forced to deal with a stranger entering Storybrooke, as well as Neal's fiance Tamara who Neal invites to Storybrooke. Emma believes something is wrong with both of them, but her suspicions are disregarded. She is eventually proven to be right, when it is revealed that the stranger, Greg Mendell and Tamara are working together to destroy all magic and Storybrooke. Neal is wounded during a fight with Tamara when a portal is opened, and Neal falls through - before revealing to Emma that he still loves her. Greg and Tamara then kidnap Henry, using another bean to transport to Neverland. Emma, her parents, Regina, Hook and Mr. Gold join forces to follow them with Hook's ship.

Henry Mills

Henry Mills (played by Jared S. Gilmore) is Emma Swan and Neal Cassidy's 11-year-old son, whom she gave up for adoption after giving birth in jail. He is also Snow White, Prince Charming and Rumplestiltskin's grandson, as Rumplestiltskin's son Baelfire (Neal) is Henry's father. After the curse is enacted, he is adopted by Regina Mills (The Evil Queen), who finds him through Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin); Henry is named after Regina's father.

Henry receives his cherished book of fairy tales from his teacher Mary Margaret (Snow White) and discovers that the residents of Storybrooke are actually characters from this book after noticing he is the only one in town who ages. His realization that Regina is The Evil Queen strains his relationship with her, and she takes him to regular therapy sessions with Dr. Archie Hopper to end his rebelliousness and his unwavering belief in the curse. Hoping to break the curse and learn why he was put up for adoption, Henry finds his biological mother Emma Swan in Boston and brings her to Storybrooke. He eventually convinces Emma of the truth by eating a poisoned apple turnover, ultimating in her believing. Shortly after he is pronounced dead, Emma tells Henry she loves him and kisses him on the forehead, awakening Henry and breaking the curse.

After the curse is broken, Emma and Mary Margaret are dragged into a portal, leaving his grandfather David (Prince Charming) to look after him whilst he figures a way to get them back. Regina initially refuses to let go of Henry, until she realises that she does not want the same fate for him that she endured. Following the death of Regina's mother Cora, and Regina vowing to exact her revenge on Mary Margaret, Henry seeks to remove magic from Storybrooke. When Emma and Regina work together to stop the trigger from destroying Storybrooke introduced by Greg Mendell and Tamara, he is kidnapped by the pair and transported to Neverland, where it is revealed that Peter Pan wants possession of Henry.

Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard

Ginnifer Goodwin plays Snow White and Mary Margaret Blanchard.

Snow White, (played by Ginnifer Goodwin as an adult, Bailee Madison as a child), is the daughter of King Leopold and Queen Ava, and later stepdaughter of The Evil Queen Regina. She is the true love of Prince Charming, mother of Emma Swan, and later grandmother of her son Henry.

Snow White was born to Queen Ava and King Leopold. When she was young, her mother turned fatally ill - it is later revealed that Regina's mother Cora poisoned her in an attempt to make her daughter Queen. She was rescued from a runaway horse by Regina which lead to her having a loveless marriage with Snow's father. After Regina assumed the throne by killing the King, she recruited The Huntsman to kill Snow; he spared her for her selflessness. Snow then lives in the forest, stealing from nobles to earn enough money to move out of the realm. She meets Prince James while robbing him, nicknaming him Prince Charming when he captures her to regain his stolen engagement ring. The pair fall in love on their journey to buy back the ring, but he returns to his fiancée Princess Abigail. She then purchases a potion from Rumplestiltskin that would erase all of her memories of James. James then sends her a letter telling her to meet him at the castle to run away before his marriage. She attempts to meet him, but King George catches her in the castle and forces her to tell James that she does not love him. Afterwards, she moves in with The Seven Dwarfs. James breaks off his engagement, but Snow drinks the potion shortly before the news reaches her. The potion changes her into a mean-spirited and cruel person, and she realizes that her anger stems from the death of her father. She tries to kill Regina, the person responsible for her father's murder, but James takes the arrow meant for the Queen. He tells her that he would rather die than let her become evil, and she realizes that no one else is willing to die for her. She kisses him and regains her memory. However, the pair are later separated when George's knights capture James. She and the dwarfs then set out to rescue James, but they soon learn that the Queen has taken him captive. She and Snow agree to meet parlay. In exchange for James' life, Snow eats an apple containing a sleeping curse. James breaks free of his imprisonment and kisses her in the Enchanted Forest, bringing her back to life.

King George continuously pursues Snow and James. Using his knight Lancelot as a pawn, Snow is brought to George and forced to drink a potion cursing her with the inability to give birth. She is released and joins James (and Lancelot) to seek out James' mother Ruth. Snow keeps the curse a secret from James, telling a mortally wounded Ruth he truth after she suspects something wrong. Lancelot and James lead the party to a lake of healing water, however, the lake had dried out leaving only a small shell full of remaining water. Ruth presumably drinks the water, but the effects prove useless. Wishing to see James and Snow married before she dies, Lancelot marries the two with Ruth dying shortly after. As part of the marriage ceremony, Snow and James drink from a cup. Unbeknownst to Snow, Lancelot and Ruth had secretly placed the lake water into the cup, removing Snow's curse, a fact which is only known between Lancelot and Snow. Charming and Snow are later married in a full ceremony. The Queen arrives at the wedding and announces that she will place a curse on everyone to destroy their happiness. Snow soon falls pregnant and gives birth to Emma just as the curse begins to take hold of the Enchanted Forest. Emma is placed in a magical wardrobe crafted by Gepetto and transported to Maine.

In Storybrooke, she is Mary Margaret Blanchard, Henry's favorite teacher at Storybrooke Elementary School. She additionally volunteers part-time at Storybrooke General Hospital. When David Nolan (Prince James) awakes from his coma, the pair gradually fall in love, despite David's marriage to Kathryn Nolan (Princess Abigail). Mary Margaret resigns from the hospital due to the heartache she endures from David's company, and subsequently starts a brief relationship with Dr. Whale (Dr. Victor Frankenstein). However, she develops stalker-like behavior, memorizing David's daily schedule and attempting to bump into him. She then tries to avoid David, but they find they cannot stay away from each other and begin a secret relationship. After the affair becomes public and David's marriage breaks down, Mary Margaret is labeled a tramp and becomes an outcast. Some of the residents reach out to her after she sells candles to help the local nunnery pay its rent. She is arrested for Kathryn's apparent murder after her fingerprints are found on a box containing a human heart shortly after she disappears. The box is later found to be Mary Margaret's and the heart is proven to be Kathryn's. Emma believes that she is being framed and asks her to trust her until she can be proven innocent. Mary Margaret finds one of Regina's skeleton keys - placed there by Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) - in her cell and escapes, but is captured and held captive by Jefferson/The Mad Hatter. She is later found by Emma, and the pair are eventually able to escape when Mary Margaret kicks him out of a window. Mary Margaret willingly returns to her jail cell to face her trial. When Kathryn is released by Mr. Gold, Mary Margaret is released. However, her relationship with David becomes strained as he did not believe she was innocent. David eventually decides to leave Storybrooke when Mary Margaret does not give him a reason to stay, but they are reunited when the curse is broken, and they regain their memories.

After the curse is broken, Mary Margaret reunites with Charming and Emma for the first time in 28 years. With the introduction of magic into the town, Mr. Gold sends a wraith to kill Regina. Emma, Mary Margaret and David decide to help Regina using Jefferson's hat to send it into a portal, believing killing her is not the right decision. However, when Emma falls into the portal with it, Snow jumps in after her desperate not to lose her again. They appear in the remaining untouched area of the Enchanted Forest, a short distance away from Princess Aurora and Mulan. She is knocked unconscious by Mulan when she and Emma attempt to escape, and the two are thrown into a makeshift prison, the same place Regina's mother, Cora, is kept. Mary Margaret was able to identify Cora in her disguise as Lancelot. After Cora escapes, Mulan and Princess Aurora work with Emma and Mary Margaret to get them back to Storybrooke while evading Cora and Captain Hook. They eventually make it back to Storybrooke, using a petrified bean that was restored with the help of the water from Lake Nostos. In Storybrooke, Mary Margaret awakes David from his sleeping curse that he willingly undertook to use as a way of communication between both worlds. When Cora and Regina join forces in the town and attempt to gain power from killing Mr. Gold; Mary Margaret, David, Emma and Neal attempt to save his life. Tired of constantly losing by being good, Mary Margaret finds that the only way to save Mr. Gold is to kill Cora by burning the same candle that Cora used to kill her mother Ava. In a moment of weakness, Mary Margaret tricks Regina into restoring Cora's poisoned heart, killing her. This results in her vowing to take revenge on Mary Margaret. She pleads for Regina to kill her when she cannot deal with what she has done, but Regina taunts her by removing her heart, showing that it has blackened as a result of her actions. When Henry is captured by Greg and Tamara and taken to Neverland, Mary Margaret travels with Emma, David, Regina, Mr. Gold, and Captain Hook to the location in order to rescue Henry.

Prince Charming/David Nolan

Josh Dallas plays Prince "Charming" James and David Nolan.

Prince "Charming" David (played by Josh Dallas) is a poor shepherd whose twin brother was given to King George as an heir in a deal with Rumplestiltskin. The real Prince James is killed in battle and the shepherd takes his brother's name in exchange for the prosperity of his mother's farm and the promise that he can return home afterward. He is also the true love of Snow White, father of Emma Swan, and later grandfather of Henry.

After he slays the dragon, King Midas declares Prince James worthy to marry his daughter Abigail and unite the kingdoms. James, wants to marry for love and therefore tries to decline, but George vows to kill James' mother if he does. He visits his mother Ruth, to say goodbye and receives her wedding ring, which she claims is followed by true love. Before his marriage he met and fell in love with Snow White. He invites her to visit the castle to run away together, but George catches her and forces her to tell James that she does not love him. Abigail then helps James to flee since she does not want to marry him either. When he finds Snow, he learns that she cannot remember who he is. To prevent her from killing the The Evil Queen Regina, he takes the arrow meant for her and tells Snow that he would rather die than let her become evil. She realizes that no one else would die for her; she kisses him and regains her memories. The pair are however separated again when George's knights capture David. He is rescued from being beheaded by the Queen, who takes him captive and uses him to convince Snow to willingly eat a cursed apple that contains a sleeping curse. He later awakens Snow from her enchanted sleep and the pair marry. At their wedding, the Queen announces that she will cast a curse on the Enchanted Forest and take away everyone's happiness. James and Snow seek advice from Rumplestiltskin, who tells them that Emma, the daughter they are expecting, will break the curse in 28 years. Emma is born shortly before the curse takes hold, and James places her in a magical wardrobe to protect her from the curse. He is seriously wounded by the Queen's knights in the process.

In Storybrooke, he first appears as a comatose John Doe, who has gone unidentified for years. He awakens after Mary Margaret (Snow White), reads him the story of Snow White and Prince Charming. He is then reunited with his wife Kathryn Nolan (Princess Abigail), and is identified as David Nolan. He and his wife were previously separated after he left their house following an argument and, unknown to Kathryn, fell into a coma. David suffers from amnesia and cannot remember his life with Kathryn. He falls in love with Mary Margaret and decides to leave Kathryn for her. His false memories of his marriage begin to return and he decides to work things out with Kathryn instead. He eventually gives in to his attraction to Mary Margaret and begins having an affair with her. Kathryn is later accepted to a law school in Boston and David suggests they end their marriage. She writes David a letter telling him that she wants him and Mary Margaret to be happy together and that she forgives them both. Regina steals the letter from the Nolans' home and burns it before he can read it. Kathryn disappears shortly after. David becomes a suspect in her disappearance, because of a phone call he made to her immediately before she went missing and the fact that he starts exhibiting strange trance-like behavior during which he cannot recall his actions. The suspicion is dropped when Mary Margaret's fingerprints are found on a box containing a human heart assumed to be Kathryn's. In an attempt to prove Mary Margaret's innocence, he asks Dr. Archie Hopper to help him regain his memories of the black-outs. He recalls some of his memories of the Enchanted Forest, namely when he was telling Snow not to kill the Queen. He confuses these for more recent memories and believes he is telling Mary Margaret to not kill Kathryn. When Kathryn is revealed to be alive, David visits her at the hospital, where she says that she is no longer angry at David because she realizes that he and Mary Margaret belong together. The two break up on good terms. Mary Margaret is upset over David doubting her innocence and refuses to speak to him. He therefore decides to move to Boston, however, as he approaches the town limits, the curse is broken and he regains his memories. He returns to town and reunites with Snow.

After the curse is broken, David is reunited with Emma for the first time in 28 years and embraces Henry as his grandson. He prevents Dr. Whale|Dr. Whale from killing Regina. With the introduction of magic into the town, Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) sends a wraith to kill Regina. Emma, Mary Margaret and David decide to help her using Jefferson/The Mad Hatter's hat to send it into a portal, believing killing her is not the right decision. However, when Emma falls into the portal with it, Snow jumps in after her desperate not to lose her again. He attempts to follow them but the portal closes before he can be contained. Regina lets David take care of Henry while Emma and Mary Margaret are absent, and they move into Mary Margaret's apartment. David assures Henry that he will find the pair, taking Emma's role of the town's sheriff. After failing attempts of transportation, David willingly falls under a sleeping curse to communicate with Mary Margaret in her dreams. When she returns to Storybrooke, he is awoken by true love's kiss. When Henry is captured by new arrivals Greg Mendell and Tamara and taken to Neverland, David travels with Mary Margaret, Emma, Regina, Mr. Gold, and #Captain Killian "Hook" Jones to the location in order to rescue him.

The Evil Queen/Regina Mills

Lana Parrilla plays The Evil Queen and Regina Mills.

Queen Regina (played by Lana Parrilla) is the daughter of Cora and Henry. She becomes the second wife of King Leopold and the step-mother of Snow White. She later adopts Emma Swan's biological son and names him Henry. She is later known as The Evil Queen, the main antagonist of the series.

When Snow White was a child, Regina's mother Cora set up Regina's marrying King Leopold, killing her true love Daniel to prevent her running off with him. Since Snow revealed to Cora Regina's attraction to Daniel, Regina vowed to destroy Snow's happiness to avenge her lost happy ending. While preparing for her wedding, she meets Rumplestiltskin for the first time, who studies magic with her and promises to help her be rid of her mother. She sends Cora through a looking glass and although her mother disappears and she is finally relieved, she is married anyway. She remains unhappy in her loveless relationship, so obtains control of a Genie and uses him to kill the King, making her ruler of Leopold's realm. Later, she and Jefferson/The Mad Hatter journey into Wonderland to rescue her father Henry.

She eventually puts Snow White into a deathlike sleep with the use of a cursed apple. Snow is later awakened and she and Prince Charming decide to fight King George and The Evil Queen. After George's army has fallen, The Evil Queen attempts to attack Snow, but The Blue Fairy temporarily makes her powerless. Regina is sentenced to execution but Snow intervenes to save her, explaining to Charming that Regina was once good and that she can become so again. Snow then makes a deal with Rumplestiltskin, who gives her an enchanted knife. She visits Regina's prison cell and offers freedom to the women that once saved her life. However, she stabs Snow but fails to inflict damage as she learns the knife is enchanted. Snow White then banishes Regina, and threatens to kill her if she ever tries to hurt anyone in her kingdom. At her palace, the Queen is visited by Rumplestiltskin who hints that she may be able to harm Snow and Charming if they were in another world. On the day of their wedding, The Evil Queen vows to cast a curse on the inhabitants of the Enchanted Forest that will take away their happiness, leaving her with the only happy ending. She previously traded this curse to Maleficent in exchange for a sleeping curse. She forcibly retrieves it from her only friend when negotiations go sour. She has difficulty enacting it with the help of some accomplices so visits its creator Rumplestiltskin for advice. In exchange for the information she desires, he asks that she give him a place of comfort and respect in the "new world" the curse will send them to and that she must do anything he asks when he utters "please". Agreeing, The Evil Queen learns she must use the heart of the thing she loves most. Understanding this to be her father Henry, she cuts out his heart and enacts the curse. Shortly after, she travels to Snow's castle where she triumphantly exclaims to her and Charming that the curse is taking them "somewhere truly horrible."

In Storybrooke, she is Mayor Regina Mills. With Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin)'s help, she adopts Henry Mills as a baby not knowing that he is really the grandson of Snow White and Prince Charming. Her relationship with Henry is strained: he prefers the company of his birth mother Emma Swan, constantly rebels, and lies to her to spend time with Emma or in the second season, with David Nolan. Because of this, Regina forbids Emma from seeing Henry. Regina is determined to convince Henry that his theory about the curse is false, starting him on regular sessions with therapist Dr. Archie Hopper (Jiminy Cricket). When Archie's methods are too slow, Regina tries to force him to tell Henry that his idea is crazy; Archie refuses and threatens to declare her an unfit mother if she continues to meddle in his sessions with Henry. She has a sexual relationship with Sheriff Graham Humbert (The Huntsman, but crushes his heart when he breaks up with her, revealing that she remembers her identity as The Evil Queen. Regina manipulates Emma's trust of Sidney Glass (The Genie/Magic Mirror) to keep an eye on Emma's activities.

The power struggle between Regina and Rumplestiltskin continues in Storybrooke where she is constantly at odds with Mr. Gold. He helps Emma defeat Regina's candidate for Sheriff. Unbeknownst to him, Regina is holding Belle, Gold's true love, captive underneath the Storybrooke Hospital. She tries to prevent the relationship between David Nolan (Prince Charming) and Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White), by reuniting David and his wife Kathryn Nolan (Princess Abigail). When the pair start an affair, she uses this to discredit Mary Margaret after the Nolans' marriage falls apart, stealing Kathryn's letter stating that she never loved David and that she is allowing him to be with Mary Margaret. After Kathryn goes missing, Mary Margaret is set up and arrested. Regina makes another deal with Gold to ensure her defeat, leaving a key in her cell. She becomes angry with him when she learns that Mary Margaret did as he predicted but returned to her cell after. Regina is upset when she discovers that Gold never killed Kathryn but returns her alive. Emma tells Regina she knows the truth and declares her intentions to get Henry back. When Gold suggests that Regina may need to give up Henry to keep the curse in full strength, she replies that she simply needs to get rid of Emma. Gold declines to help her any further, so she asks Jefferson (The Mad Hatter) for help. She uses the last of her magic to retrieve her cursed apple from the Enchanted Forest. Regina then makes a turnover to poison Emma with, but Henry eats it instead. Henry falls under a sleeping curse leading Emma to realize the curse's reality. Regina then works with Emma to save him. Gold informs them that to break the curse, they need to retrieve a bottle of true love. After Emma obtains the potion, Gold tricks Emma into giving the bottle to him. In the hospital, Dr. Whale (Dr. Frankenstein) announces Henry's death.

When the curse is broken, Regina tells Henry that she always loved him and returns home in tears. Despite this, she smiles when she sees a magical cloud of smoke engulfing the town, thus restoring magic to Storybrooke. Upon realizing their true identities, a mob of residents arrive at Regina's house intending to kill her for the curse she enacted, but Snow and James stop them and lock Regina in a cell in the sheriff's office for her own safety. Mr. Gold marks her with an amulet that summons a wraith that attempts to suck out her soul. However, it is sent through a portal into the Enchanted Forest, though Emma and Mary Margaret fall through as well. Henry is heartbroken by their loss, and tells Regina he never wishes to see her again until she returns them to Storybrooke. Regina is unable to reclaim her magic, until she visits Mr. Gold taking back a magic book which belonged to her mother Cora. She then reclaims Henry but realizes she behaved like her mother Cora to force Henry to stay with her, she offers to let Henry continue living with David. In a rare gesture of kindness, she assures Henry she loves him very much, and that is why she is letting him leave her for as long as he pleases. Later, Whale reanimates Daniel (Regina's true love)'s corpse but he becomes a mindless monster. He briefly remembers her and urges her to move on and love again. As he unwillingly suffers the side effects of his resurrection and goes to attack Regina, she turns him to dust, much to her dismay, seeking consolation in Archie Hopper. When her mother arrives in Storybrooke, Regina is framed by her for the false murder of Archie. Cora convinces her to look for The Dark One's dagger to control and force him to kill Emma and her parents, leaving her completely innocent in Henry's eyes. When Cora ends up killed during the fight to protect Mr. Gold, Regina holds Mary Margaret accountable and vows to avenge her mother. Mary Margaret later visits Regina and dares her to kill her as a way of avenging Cora. Regina removes Mary Margaret's heart, but puts it back in stating that her heart is already filled with darkness.

Captain Hook warns Regina about newcomers Greg Mendell and Tamara who offered him a deal to help them take magic from Storybrooke. He tells Regina that he can help her by betraying the outsiders and offering his services. Regina agrees and tells Hook that Storybrooke has a fail-safe trigger that will destroy Storybrooke, enabling her to be with Henry. However, it is later revealed that Hook was tricking her, allied with Greg and Tamara all along. Regina also discovers that Greg is in fact Owen Flynn, a boy she befriended at the beginning of the curse, who has returned to find his father that went missing after Regina had him falsely arrested. She has been made powerless by Greg and Tamara who activate the trigger in order to remove magic and Storybrooke. Regina and Emma manage to control the energy and stop their efforts. However, Henry is captured by the pair and taken to Neverland. Regina travels with Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Mr. Gold, and Hook in order to rescue Henry.

Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold

Robert Carlyle plays Rumplestiltskin and Mr. Gold.

Rumplestiltskin (played by Robert Carlyle) is a whimsical yet sinister sorcerer who delights in making deals with desperate people. Rumplestiltskin is also The Dark One, the Beast and the ticking crocodile that cost Captain Hook his left hand. He is the true love of Belle, father to #Baelfire/Neal Cassidy, and grandfather to Emma Swan's biological son Henry.

Rumplestiltskin was originally a poor spinner who deserted from the Ogre Wars. His wife Milah is disgusted by this and leaves with Captain Killian Jones. His son Baelfire was also to join the Ogre Wars, but he gains the power of The Dark One and prevents it. Baelfire wants him to get rid of his powers so they take a magical bean from the The Blue Fairy that will take them to a world without magic. Rumplestiltskin is too afraid to lose his powers and Baelfire crosses over alone, the portal quickly sealing behind him. Rumplestiltskin blames The Blue Fairy for Baelfire's disappearance and vows that he will create a curse that will reunite him with his son. Rumplestiltskin becomes the most powerful being in the Enchanted Forest and enters a power struggle with his former student, the The Evil Queen Regina. He begins making deals with other characters from the forest, constantly warning them that "magic always comes at a price." Among his more infamous deals were with Jiminy Cricket and Cinderella. He later meets Killian Jones again and learns that Milah willingly went with him as opposed to being taken. In the ensuing fight, he kills Milah and cuts off Jones' hand, leading Jones to become Captain Hook.

As part of a deal to save her town, Belle becomes the caretaker of his estate. Over time, the pair form a bond that is shown when Rumplestiltskin opens up to her about his missing son. He asks her to leave his castle to buy straw, giving her the option to return home. While away, she learns from The Evil Queen that true love's kiss will break any curse, making Belle return to Rumplestiltskin and kiss him. As he begins to form back to his old self (before becoming The Dark One), the transformation is stopped after he appears angry upon realizing that Belle has spoken with Regina. He mistakenly believes that she is working for the Queen and forces Belle to leave forever, telling her that his power is more important to him than she is. She leaves, but not before telling him he will regret his decision. Later, the Queen visits him and lies that Belle was imprisoned and tortured because of her association with him and eventually committed suicide. Heartbroken, he places the chipped cup that Belle accidentally caused in a place of honor. Later, he is frozen by a quill created by the The Blue Fairy, to prevent Cinderella from giving up her child. The Evil Queen takes possession of his curse intended to reunite him with his son. He asks that she give him a place of comfort and respect in the "new world" the curse will send them to and that she must do anything he asks her to do so long as he says "please", in exchange for telling her how to set the curse in motion.

In Storybrooke, he is Mr. Gold, the owner of the pawn shop Mr. Gold Pawnbroker & Antiquities Dealer, and the town's wealthiest resident. He helped build the town and owns most of it, including Granny's Inn. It is revealed that he found a boy named Henry after Regina feels lonely, only for her to later learn that he is in fact Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter Emma Swan's biological son. As in the Enchanted Forest, he continues to make "deals" with the residents. He backs Emma in her bid to be sheriff after Graham Humbert's death, starting a fire and manipulating the voters' fear of him to get Emma elected. When she wins the position, he reminds her that she owes him a favor. When flower vendor Moe French (Belle's father Sir Maurice), robs Mr. Gold's home, Emma retrieves everything but the chipped teacup Gold treasures as a reminder of Belle. To recover the cup, he kidnaps Moe and tortures him; his ranting seeming to show that he is truly punishing Moe as retaliation for causing Belle's death. Emma arrests Gold and Regina visits him in his cell, offering to return the cup if he tells her his real name. He admits that he knows he is Rumplestiltskin and assures her that he is still more powerful than she is. When Mary Margaret is accused of the murder of Kathryn Nolan, he offers his legal services, which she accepts. Emma believes that Regina framed Mary Margaret and asks him to help her find proof. It is later revealed that Gold kidnapped Kathryn in a deal with Regina, after she is released behind Granny's Diner.

When August Booth (Pinocchio) appears in Storybrooke, Gold believes that he is Baelfire. He admits that he regrets not going with Baelfire and only wants to be forgiven. Gold soon realizes that he is not his son when August tries to use The Dark One's dagger to control him. August reveals that he is deathly ill and needs magic to heal, but thinks that Emma won't bring magic to Storybrooke soon enough to save him. Mr. Gold points out that there is no magic whatsoever in Storybrooke and leaves August to find a different way. Regina later comes to ask for help destroying Emma; he refuses, secretly hoping the curse will be broken so that he can continue searching for his son. When Henry accidentally consumes an apple turnover made by Regina for Emma, he tells Emma where to find a bottle of true love, the only thing that will save him. After she retrieves the potion, he tricks her into giving it to him. Later in his shop, Gold is visited by Belle who has been released from the hospital asylum by Jefferson. She tells Gold that Regina had locked her up. Belle regains her memory when the curse is broken, admitting to Gold that he loves him. He then takes her to a well that has "the power to restore what one has lost." He drops the bottle of true love into the water, causing a cloud of magical smoke to engulf the town and bring magic back to Storybrooke. Gold promises Belle that he will not kill Regina for what she did to her, though he later visits the sheriff's office where Regina is being held. Confronting her about Belle's imprisonment, he marks her with an amulet and summons a wraith to kill her. Heartbroken that he betrayed her, Belle leaves his shop. However, when Gold's plan fails Belle returns, though he urges her to leave as he is "still a monster". Belle tells him that is why she needs to stay, and they reconcile. He learns later on that anyone who attempts to leave Storybrooke will have their memory of their magical self completely erased, enraging Mr. Gold, since he had planned to leave town to search for Baelfire.

Gold begins to experiment with magic, upsetting Belle, who again leaves him. Worried about what Belle's father will do to control her, he enlists David Nolan (Prince Charming) and Ruby (Red Riding Hood) to help search, and rescues her from having her memory wiped by being sent across city limits. He sets Belle up with a job as the town librarian, confessing that he is using magic as a crutch and is now trying to find a way to break the new curse so that he can leave Storybrooke. The two start their relationship anew. When Gold finds a way to cross the magic barrier, he uses the formula on William Smee, making him serve as his guinea pig. When he uses the potion himself and prepares to cross the town line, Captain Hook arrives and shoots Belle causing her to fall over the town line and lose her memory. The effects of the attack cause Belle to lose her memory again, and she is admitted to the hospital.

Gold is later visited by Cora (Regina's mother) who gives him a globe-like item that reveals where Baelfire is, in exchange for the location of Regina. Upon realizing his son is in Manhattan, he asks Emma Swan to be his guide outside of Storybrooke, along with Henry. They arrive at the apartment building where Baelfire lives, but he is seen escaping. Emma tracks him down only to find that he is Neal Cassidy, Henry's father. He refuses to meet with Gold and Emma returns to Gold and Henry claiming she lost him. Gold breaks into Bae's apartment to wait for him. Realizing that Emma is holding information back from him about his son, Gold threatens her before Neal enters and demands that Gold leaves Emma alone. Gold discovers that Emma and Neal were romantically involved in the past and that Henry is his grandson as Neal is his father. He attempts to make amends with his son and re-establish a relationship, citing that he has changed. He also asks Neal to return to Storybrooke with him where he can use magic to reverse time so that they can start over. Neal rebuffs this offer and says that magic will not fix their problems. After the group are forced to return to Storybrooke together when Gold is attacked by Hook, Gold begins to die. However, he is healed when Cora's poisoned heart is returned to her body by Regina before she manages to stab him with The Dark One's dagger. Gold later obtains a potion made by Mother Superior, which he uses to restore Belle's memories. After Henry is captured by Greg Mendell and Tamara and taken through a portal, Mr. Gold uses his globe to track them to Neverland. He makes a temporary truce with Hook, agreeing to take him, Emma, Mary Margaret, David, and Regina to Neverland. When asked who they're up against at Neverland, he states "someone we should all fear".

Belle/Lacey

Emilie de Ravin plays Belle.

Belle (played by Emilie de Ravin) is the daughter of Sir Maurice who rules a town threatened by the Ogre Wars. Rumplestiltskin offers to protect them if Belle becomes the caretaker for his estate. Her father and fiancé Gaston (Sage Brocklebank) refuse to let her leave, but Belle accepts the deal.

Over time, the pair form a bond that is shown when Rumplestiltskin opens up to her about his missing son. He asks her to leave his castle to buy straw, giving her the option to return home. While away, she learns from The Evil Queen Regina that true love's kiss will break any curse, making Belle return to Rumpelstiltskin and kiss him. As he begins to form back to his old self (before becoming The Dark One), the transformation is stopped after he appears angry upon realizing that Belle has spoken with Regina. He mistakenly believes that she is working for the Queen and forces Belle to leave forever.

In Storybrooke, it is revealed that Regina has hidden Belle underneath the town's hospital. She is later released by Jefferson/The Mad Hatter, enraged that Regina would not compensate him for helping her retrieve a poisoned apple that almost killed Snow White and Henry Mills. He tells Belle to find Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin), and inform him that Regina held her captive. She finds Gold but does not remember who he is. He hugs her, promising to protect her, and tells her that she will remember. When the curse is broken, she regains her memories as Belle and professes her love for Gold. The two embrace, and Belle stands beside him as he brings magic to Storybrooke. In retaliation to her imprisonment, Belle begs Rumplestiltskin not to kill Regina, which he agrees to. She comes back to his shop but leaves, heartbroken, when she learns that Gold has unleashed a wraith to exact his revenge on Regina. Later, she returns when she learns that Regina was unharmed by the creature. She is touched when she notices her chipped cup and realizes that Gold had kept it ever since she left. Although he asks her to leave as he is "still a monster," she tells him that this is why she has to stay, and she reconciles with him.

When Gold finds a way to cross the barrier out of Storybrooke without losing his memories, Belle accompanies him. However, before they part, Captain Hook arrives and shoots Belle. The effects of the attack cause Belle to fall across the border and lose her memory again. Gold attempts to help Belle remember herself, but she is confused and is admitted to the hospital following the attack. Belle is later visited by Regina who learns about Mr. Gold's plot. She hands Belle a card leading her to a bar called The Rabbit Hole. Mr. Gold finds Belle in her identity of a scantily-clad barfly named Lacey playing a game of table pool. He confronts Regina about restoring Belle's cursed memories as she claims that the current spell on her cannot be broken. Gold enlists David's help to retrieve Belle's previous memories as he tries to get Lacey to give him a chance. She accepts her terms and arranges an appointment at Granny's, but is found with another man named Keith. When Gold attacks the man, Lacey stumbles upon this and quotes that what was said about Mr. Gold was true and that he was not who she thought he was. She seemingly enjoys the angry side of his personality. Unlike Belle (who brought out the best in Mr. Gold), Lacey encourages the darker urges in him. Thanks to a potion made by Mother Superior, Belle drinks the formula from her chipped cup and regains her identity as Belle. As Mr. Gold along with Emma Swan, Mary Margaret (Snow White), David Nolan (Prince Charming), Regina, and Captain Hook travel to retrieve Henry from Neverland, Gold gives Belle a protection spell to cast around Storybrooke to make it invisible again. He tells her that he may not be returning to her but loves her.

Captain Killian "Hook" Jones

Captain Hook (played by Colin O'Donoghue), originally known as Killian Jones, is a pirate captain who seduced away Rumplestiltskin's wife, Milah. In a later fight with Rumplestiltskin, he cuts off Jones' hand, which he then replaces with a hook, thus receiving his name.

Whilst in Neverland, he finds Rumplestiltskin's son Baelfire after he is taken to the area following his separation from his father. Hook takes him aboard The Jolly Roger and forms an unlikely friendship with him, until Bae learns that Hook had taken Milah from Rumplestiltskin. He hands Bae over to The Lost Boys who take him to Peter Pan. Returning from Neverland, Hook breaks into The Evil Queen Regina's palace where she is holding Belle. He asks for information on how to destroy Rumplestiltskin but she refuses, causing Hook to knock her out. The Evil Queen arrives and stops him killing Belle, instead offering him a job to dispose of her mother Cora. When Captain Hook finds Cora in Wonderland, he attempts to kill her, only to discover that she has no heart. Captain Hook and Cora realize they have a common goal and decide to team up. When the Dark Curse is activated, Cora protects Captain Hook and the area that they are in with a barrier spell.

Hook is later shown in this protected area after the curse is broken, visited by Cora who presents the remains of the magical wardrobe that can cross to Storybrooke. He is eager to follow in order to exact his revenge on Rumplestiltskin that took his hand and love. He poses as a one-handed blacksmith to infiltrate the rebel camp that Cora (posing as Sir Lancelot) controls. However, Emma Swan, Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White), Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) and Mulan suspect him and force him to confess his true identity and how he was sent as a spy. He tells them that he can help them get back to Storybrooke if they take him. Hook says that they need to find a special compass and leads them to a beanstalk where it is hidden at the top. He and Emma travel up the beanstalk and retrieve the compass, but she later chains him to a wall because she doesn't truly trust him. Hook later escapes, meeting with Cora. Rather than kill him for his betrayal, Cora decides to simply abandon him. He later sneaks into Cora's camp and frees Aurora (who had earlier been captured by Cora's zombies), telling her to pass on the message that Emma can trust him. In a twist, however, Hook reveals that he stole Aurora's heart, and gives it to Cora so that the Princess could be controlled. Cora and Hook then use the heart to find the group. They create a portal from the wardrobe's ashes at Lake Nostos, only to be stopped in their tracks by the group. The two are temporarily sustained and Emma and Mary Margaret return to Storybrooke. However, Cora and Hook eventually make it to the town through a magic bean that Hook stole from the Giant at the top of the beanstalk.

After Cora abducts Archie Hopper, setting Regina up for his apparent murder, it is revealed that Cora actually has Archie tied up in Hook's ship. Hook then interrogates him in order to find Rumplestiltskin. When Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) finds a way to cross the barrier out of Storybrooke without losing his memories, Belle accompanies him. However, before they part, Hook arrives and shoots Belle. The effects of the attack cause Belle to fall across the border and lose her memory again. Before Gold can harm Hook, a car coming into Storybrooke knocks Hook off of the road, before crashing. Hook survives, later leading Mary Margaret and David Nolan (Prince Charming) to his ship, where Cora had shrunk and imprisoned Anton the Giant. Taking advantage of Anton mistaking David for his twin brother, Hook escapes. He later meets with Regina and Cora, who find information that leads to the whereabouts of The Dark One's dagger, the only thing that can kill Mr. Gold in Storybrooke. However, he is betrayed by Cora, who plans to use it to force Gold to kill Mary Margaret, David, and Emma and leave Regina innocent of wrongdoing in Henry's eyes. After this incident, he sails to New York City, and attacks Mr. Gold by using his hook as poison. After being knocked out by Emma, Neal Cassidy (Baelfire, Rumplestiltskin's son) recognizes Hook due to his past encounter with him. It is later shown that Hook was captured by Neal's girlfriend Tamara, to be used in her and Greg Mendell's plot to destroy magic in Storybrooke. Hook later helps David into obtain a magic bean stolen from Greg and Tamara. Although he originally betrays the trust of the Storybrooke residents by traveling away from the town, he has a change of heart and returns to help Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Regina, and even Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) travel to Neverland, after Greg and Tamara abduct Henry Mills and take him there through a portal.

Baelfire/Neal Cassidy

Baelfire "Bae" (played by Dylan Ray Schmid) is the son of Rumplestiltskin. He lives alone with his father after his mother Milah leaves. On his fourteenth birthday, Bae would be taken to fight in the Ogre Wars. A few days before his birthday, he and Rumplestiltskin run away, but they are discovered. His father then becomes The Dark One and kills the soldiers who attempt to take Bae. Although Rumplestiltskin claims that Bae is safe, his son responds that he is not and that he is scared. Rumplestiltskin later agrees to find a way to dispose of his powers that does not kill him. Bae asks the Blue Fairy for help and receives a magic bean that will take him and his father to a world without magic. After using the bean to open a portal, Rumplestiltskin is too afraid to lose his powers and Bae is forced to cross over alone.

He arrives in London, England, during the Victorian era and spends six months as a street urchin. While stealing bread from The Darling Family's house, he is discovered by Wendy Darling, who offers him sanctuary. When her parents find him, they choose to adopt him. Bae is told that the Darling children are being stalked by a mysterious shadow and Bae, who has lost everything to magic, makes them promise not to go near the shadow again. However, Wendy becomes curious and decides to go with The Shadow to a place called Neverland. When Wendy returns the following morning, Bae learns about the land, the mysterious Lost Boys, and of other mysterious creatures. But when Wendy reveals that The Shadow intends to kidnap one of her brothers, Bae promises to protect Wendy and her family from magic. On the night that The Shadow returns, Bae chooses to sacrifice himself for the sake of his adopted family and is taken away, while Wendy and her brothers watch helplessly. While en route to Neverland, Bae manages to break free of The Shadow and is rescued by Captain Hook. While staying with Hook, Bae learns that his mother, Milah, fell in love with Hook, which resulted in her leaving him and her death at the hands of his own father, Rumplestiltskin. Angry at Hook and his father, Bae wishes to be returned to The Darling Family, but is captured by the Lost Boys. After a number of unspecified adventures, Bae returns to the real world during the 20th century, taking on the identity of Neal Cassidy.

Neal Cassidy (played by Michael Raymond-James) meets Emma Swan in Portland, Oregon, 11 years prior to the curse being broken. They become a couple, living off petty crimes as they travel. Neal learns that he is wanted for stealing a case of watches in Phoenix and decides to flee to Canada. Emma suggests that she retrieve the watches in order for them to use the money from selling them to change their identities and relocate to Tallahassee together; Neal agrees. However, Neal is accosted by August Booth (Pinocchio) who convinces him of the existence of magic by showing him the contents of a box (revealed to be Booth's typewriter with the sentence "I know you're Baelfire" typed out). He then explains the curse and Emma's destiny. For her own good, August asks Neal to leave Emma, who is later arrested by an officer telling her that the tip was called in by Neal who has presumably fled to Canada. Shocked and heartbroken, she complies without resistance. Two months later, Booth and Neal meet in Vancouver and Booth reveals Emma's fate. Neal asks him to give Emma their car and the proceeds of the sale of the watches. In prison, Emma receives a package containing the car keys, but not the money. Booth agrees to send Neal a postcard if the curse is broken, keeping his word when Neal is shown in an apartment finding the postcard inscribed with the word 'Broken'.

After receiving from Cora a magical globe that can track Baelfire, Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) finds that he is in Manhattan. Neal's true identity as the son of Rumplestiltskin is eventually revealed to Emma when she, Henry and Mr. Gold find him. Upon arriving in Storybrooke, Neal invites his fiancé Tamara to the town. Although she reacts negatively to his claims about magic, it is later revealed she is fully aware of Storybrooke's nature and is Greg Mendell's lover and secret contact, having been tricking Neal as part of their plan to destroy magic. After realizing Tamara's true identity, Emma and Neal track her down. However, Tamara shoots Neal and throws a magic bean under their feet that creates a portal. Neal saves Emma but is sucked in instead. Neal, not wanting Henry to lose both his parents, decides to let go of Emma's hand after telling her that he loves her. It is presumed that Neal died from his wound but it is later revealed that he was transported to the untouched part of the Enchanted Forest where Mulan, Princess Aurora, and Prince Phillip pronounce him alive and washed upon the beach.

Recurring and guest characters

Red Riding Hood/Ruby

Meghan Ory plays Red Riding Hood and Ruby.

Red Riding Hood (played by Meghan Ory), is a young woman who temporarily transforms into a wolf.

Red meets Snow White during the latter's fleeing from King George. A wolf is terrorizing the area at the same time. Red and Snow work together to attempt to kill the wolf, gradually leading them to believe that the wolf is actually Peter, Red's lover. Red convinces Peter to chain himself up in the woods for the night while she keeps him company. Her grandmother has always told Red to wear her red cloak for reasons unknown. However, these reasons are revealed when she transforms into the wolf and eats Peter.

During her travels with Snow, she encounters Quinn, a fellow werewolf who leads her to an underground home of a society of werewolves. Here, she reunites with her mother, Anita. Red learns to control her wolf transformation as to not become a mindless killer, eventually deciding to stay with the pack. Searching for Red, Snow discovers the ruined home and is attacked by Quinn, before he is killed by The Evil Queen's soldiers. After the soldier's defeat, Anita plans to kill Snow in revenge but in turn is accidentally impaled on an arrow by Red in wolf form. Red buries her mother in the forest. She is later seen bringing Snow food every month, telling her that Prince James has not yet called off his wedding. When James comes looking for Snow in the forest, Red tells him that she has not returned from her trip to his father's kingdom. When King George's guards arrive to kill James, Red transforms into a wolf to fight them off and allow his escape. She and Granny are later seen helping Snow attempt to rescue James, after he is taken prisoner by The Evil Queen.

In Storybrooke, she is Ruby, a rebellious young woman who wants to leave town but is held back by her grandmother's ill health. She works at Granny's Café as a waitress. Her relationship with her grandmother is strained, as her grandmother disapproves of her behavior and her provocative attire. When Sheriff Emma Swan attempts to find Ashley Boyd (Cinderella) after she goes missing whilst pregnant, Ruby covers for Ashley, leading Emma in the wrong direction. Ruby later becomes tired of her grandmother telling her to take on extra responsibility, quits her job, and intends to leave town. Instead, she temporarily moves in with Mary Margaret and takes a job as Emma's assistant at the sheriff's station. Due to her tracking skills inherited from the wolf's curse, she manages to locate David Nolan (Prince James) unconscious in the forest, and discovers a buried box containing a human heart. Finding the heart horrifies her and she decides to resume working at Granny's. As the result of her new-found maturity, she begins to wear less revealing clothes and minimizes her make-up. She apologizes to her grandmother, who tells her that she was working Ruby so hard because she wanted her to take over the café when she retired.

When Emma breaks the curse, Ruby's memories are returned and reunites with her grandmother and Snow. Later, she seems to have difficulty reconciling her two lives (probably as a result of her maturity growth), and generally goes by her "cursed" name, managing to display more of her wolfish abilities. On the first full moon since the curse was broken, Ruby transforms into a wolf. Later, an apparent wolf murder of Billy (Gus) near the docks is discovered. Albert Spencer (King George) rallies an angry mob to kill Ruby. An investigation reveals that Spencer is actually the murderer, having stolen Ruby's cloak in an attempt to frame her, proving her not guilty. After comfort by David, she discovers she remembers self-control as a wolf. When a man from outside of Storybrooke crashes into Storybrooke, Ruby tracks Dr. Whale to the docks and uses her wolf's fast paced ability to prevent him jumping into the river. During a discussion, Dr. Whale reveals that he is actually Victor Frankenstein to which Red compares his story of him trying revive his brother to her being a werewolf. Her shared experience convinces Whale to return to the hospital's surgery.

Jiminy Cricket/Dr. Archie Hopper

Raphael Sbarge plays Jiminy Cricket and Dr. Archie Hopper.

Jiminy Cricket (played by Raphael Sbarge as an adult, Adam Young as a child and Morgan Roff as a teenager) is the son of con artists.

Jiminy desires to live an honest life, but is too weak-willed to leave his family. He receives a potion from Rumplestiltskin that will free him from his parents but inadvertently gives it to a young couple, transforming the pair into puppets. He wishes on a star in the hopes that the couple will be transformed back. The Blue Fairy appears and tells him that she cannot undo Rumplestiltskin's work. To make things right, she transforms him into a cricket so that he can be free from his parents and guide the couple's son Geppetto. He later helps the dwarfs confront Snow White about her mean-spirited behavior after she drinks a potion and forgets about her true love Prince James. The confrontation drives her to want to kill the The Evil Queen. Later, he advises the residents of the Enchanted Forest against waging war with the Queen and urges them to find a peaceful solution. When Geppetto is told by the Blue Fairy to carve the wardrobe to transport Emma, he forces the fairy to agree to let Pinocchio go with her. Jiminy tells Geppetto this is wrong.

In Storybrooke, he is Dr. Archie Hopper, the town's psychotherapist. He is good friends with Marco (Geppetto). Archie is asked by Regina to convince Henry that his ideas about the curse and the true identities of the Storybrooke residents are "crazy." Regina becomes impatient and asks him to take a more radical approach. Although it violates his conscience, he initially complies with her demands. Archie later confides to Henry that he wants to be free to do as he wants, and Henry tells him that Jiminy Cricket was a man who took a long time deciding what the right thing to do was. Archie then stands up to Regina and threatens to declare her an unfit mother if she continues to interfere with his sessions with Henry. Archie later puts David under hypnosis to help him remember his actions during his black-outs, causing David to remember some of his memories from the Enchanted Forest. Emma breaks the curse and he regains his memories as Jiminy Cricket. He begs Emma not to let a mob of residents hurt The Evil Queen, saying that she should not stoop to Regina's level. He is later asked by Regina to help her be willing to let go of using magic. Regina's mother Cora later assumes the form of her daughter and abducts Archie while disguising a person she killed as Archie. Archie is later found by Belle on Captain Hook's ship, from which he is rescued.

The Huntsman/Sheriff Graham Humbert

Jamie Dornan plays The Huntsman and Sheriff Graham.

The Huntsman (played by Jamie Dornan) is a nameless hunter who is a solitary recluse, raised by wolves.

The Huntsman considers the wolves to be his true family, and is greatly saddened by the deaths of animals, but he does not hesitate to kill humans, who he views as selfish, honor-less creatures. He is considered by The Evil Queen Regina the perfect assassin, and is hired to kill Snow White and cut out her heart. When The Huntsman tracks Snow down, she proves her purity of heart and he lets her go. He offers the Queen a stag's heart instead. The Queen realizes she has been tricked and tears out the Huntsman's heart, keeping it in her vault and using it to make him her slave, threatening to kill him by crushing it if he defies her again. When Prince James is led to his execution, the Huntsman helps him escape. James asks him to come with him, but The Huntsman replies he cannot leave and not to let his sacrifice (his loss of his heart) be in vain. After James escapes, the Huntsman tells the Queen he will attempt to recapture him, but the Queen uses the Magic Mirror to track him down instead.

In Storybrooke, he is Sheriff Graham Humbert, the town's handsome and level-headed police officer. In the earlier parts of Storybrooke, Sheriff Graham helps Regina from preventing Owen and Kurt Flynn from leaving town. When Emma Swan arrives, he is one of the few residents who go directly against Regina: first by refusing to continue arresting Emma and then by making her his deputy. He and Emma are attracted to each other, though he has a secret sexual relationship with Regina. Emma feels betrayed that he did not tell her by covering it up through his work. Graham reveals to her that he "doesn't feel anything" with Regina and desperately wants to feel "something" with someone else. To prove he has no feelings for Regina, he kisses Emma, inadvertently triggering memories of his past as the Huntsman. Emma rejects his advances, disgusted by his past relationship with Regina. As the flashbacks of his previous life continue, he seeks advice from Henry Mills, who tells him about The Huntsman and his missing heart. Graham is unable to find his heart in Regina's vault, disguised as her father's mausoleum, but ends his relationship with Regina, insisting that Emma has nothing to do with the break-up. Shortly after, he starts a new relationship with Emma, regaining his lost memories in the process. However, Regina crushes his heart (hidden beneath her father's mausoleum) and he dies in Emma's arms. His final words were to Emma, thanking her for helping him remember who he truly was.

Jamie Dornan stated that he knew about Graham's death since the pilot's filming. Producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz commented that Graham's death was always planned and was meant to prove how serious the curse is; they felt that killing a lesser character would not create the intended effect. Although Graham is dead, the producers stated that because of the popularity of the character, they are trying to "move heaven and earth" to bring the Huntsman back.

Pinocchio/August Booth

Eion Bailey plays Pinocchio and August Booth.

Pinocchio (played by Eion Bailey, Jakob Davies as a young Pinocchio) is a puppet that Geppetto carved from an enchanted tree.

As a little boy puppet, he gives his life to save Geppetto from drowning in a storm. As a reward, the Blue Fairy turns him into a real boy, promising that the spell will hold so long as he is selfless, brave and truthful. The boy remained mischievous, though he means no harm. Later, the Blue Fairy asks Geppetto to carve another enchanted tree into a magical wardrobe with the ability to save two people, the pregnant Snow White and Prince James, from the The Evil Queen's curse. The curse will send everyone else to a land without magic and Pinocchio, who is a real boy because of magic, may turn back into a puppet. Geppetto bargains with the Blue Fairy to use the second spot for Pinocchio instead, and the Blue Fairy lies to Snow and James, saying that the wardrobe can only save one. Snow gives birth to Emma. Instead of giving up Pinocchio's spot to Snow as the Blue Fairy asks, Geppetto sends his son ahead and asks him to protect the child and get her to believe when the time is right. After emerging in the real world, Pinocchio and the infant Emma are taken to an orphanage. He leaves Emma to run away as the man taking care of them was cruel.

His alias counterpart in the real world is August Wayne Booth. He first appears in Portland, Oregon in 2001 where he confronts Neal Cassidy, a thief who fell in love with Emma Swan, and convinces him to leave her because Neal would prevent Emma from achieving her destiny. After Emma is arrested for possession of stolen items, he visits Vancouver to inform Neal know how Emma was doing. In return, he gives August the keys to his car, which he later mailed to Emma. August in turn promised to let him know that once the curse was broken, he would send him a message, resulting in a postcard inscribed "Broken" that Neal would receive in the second season. August visits Storybrooke upon Emma's return to the town, carrying a large wooden box containing a typewriter. After being referred to as "The Stranger", he gives his full name to Emma. After Henry Mills loses his story book of fairy tales, it is revealed that he has been adding his story of Pinocchio to it. He later tells Henry that he believes in the curse and wants to convince Emma that it is real. He later fails to control Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) with his dagger, revealing that he is deathly ill and needs magic to heal himself turning to wood. He believes that Emma will not believe in the curse and will therefore be too late to save him. Gold points out that not even he can help August as there is no magic in Storybrooke and leaves August to find a different way. He conspires with Gold to force Emma to ask August for help to break the curse. When she agrees, August takes her out of Storybrooke to tell her his story., revealing that he is the seven-year-old boy who found the infant Emma. He attempts to prove the curse's existence by showing his now-wooden leg, but Emma's denial refuses to see it. Afterwards, he visits Marco (Geppetto), who makes August his assistant.

When Emma attempts to leave Storybrooke, Henry comes to August, who reveals that he will soon be completely wooden. He gives up on making Emma believe in the curse and wants to spend his remaining time with his father. When Emma realises the curse's reality, she visits August for help, though he completely turns to wood before her eyes. After the curse is broken, he is shown briefly to still be wood, but blinks. Henry tells Geppetto who Pinocchio is, but upon finding his hotel room, Marco discovers that Pinocchio is gone, leaving only his hat. Weeks later, Mary Margaret finds August living in an abandoned trailer in the woods ashamed of the mistakes that he has made. She tries to convince August to return to Storybrooke, but August chooses not to since he is afraid to face his father. He is later found by Tamara and offered the potion that will keep him human forever if he leaves Storybrooke. August drives out of the town, until he realizes that Tamara intends to bring harm to the Storybrooke citizens. August returns to the Sheriff's office to warn Emma but is instead confronted by Tamara who uses a taser on him mortally wounding him. August collapses outside the station and again dies in Marco's arms. Henry Mills and Mother Superior are able to determine that August's actions on that day were selfless, brave, and true and she is able to restore August into his original form of a seven-year old Pinocchio. Mother Superior hopes that Pinocchio can choose the right path this time. However, Pinocchio had lost all of his memories as August, thereby unable to identify his attacker to Emma.

The Seven Dwarfs

The Seven Dwarfs are a group of dwarf miners who are good friends with Snow White and Prince Charming. Their names reflect their personality traits. The names of the human forms of Doc, Bashful, Dopey and Happy have not been identified.

Dreamy/Grumpy/Leroy

Lee Arenberg plays Dreamy, Grumpy and Leroy.

Grumpy (played by Lee Arenberg) is one of the Seven Dwarfs who hatched from eggs. Like all dwarfs, he is immediately sent to work in the mines and given an axe, which names him Dreamy. Because his egg was accidentally sprinkled with fairy dust by the fairy Nova, he dreams about her and falls in love with her. Later, he meets her and the pair make plans to buy a boat and see the world. However, the Blue Fairy tells him that if he and Nova run away together, she will lose her wings and she will never be truly happy. To prevent this, Dreamy ends their relationship and breaks her heart. He returns to the mines and breaks his axe mining; when he is given another, it renames him Grumpy. He is later caught possessing a stolen diamond, which he was unaware of, and is seen in King George's dungeon in a cell next to Snow White's. He is freed by Stealthy, another dwarf, and he in turn frees Snow. As he and Stealthy escape, they are discovered by George and his guards and Stealthy is killed. Before the guards can kill Grumpy, Snow agrees to co-operate with George in exchange for Grumpy's life. Grumpy and the remaining six dwarfs run into Snow outside the castle. Grumpy tells her that she must live with the pain of a lost love to grow as a person and does not allow her to drink a potion that makes her forget about her love for Prince James. The seven dwarfs then allow her to live with them. Later, Grumpy tells her that James has called off his wedding to Princess Abigail, but discovers that she has consumed the potion. The dwarfs confront Snow about her new, mean-spirited behavior, but inadvertently drive her to try to kill the The Evil Queen Regina instead. He takes her to see Rumplestiltskin, who gave her the potion, but he advises her on the best way to kill the Queen instead. Eventually, Snow regains her memory by kissing James and apologizes to the dwarfs for her behavior. She decides to rescue James, who has been captured by George; the dwarfs go with her. Grumpy is later seen discussing the best course of action against The Evil Queen and her curse, calling for war. He is also seen as a guard looking out for the curse in a watchtower of Snow and James' castle.

In Storybrooke, he is Leroy, a janitor at the hospital and the "town drunk." He, like the rest of Storybrooke, is distant towards Mary Margaret (Snow White), after learning about her affair with David Nolan (Prince James). He meets Sister Astrid (Nova), quickly forming a bond with her. After learning of the nunnery's rent problems, he decides to help Mary Margaret sell candles to raise money for them. When he and Mary Margaret fail to sell enough candles, he lies about the number they sold because he is unable to disappoint Astrid. He tries to sell his boat to Mr. Gold in the hopes that he will forgive the rent; Mr. Gold refuses. Astrid later learns about the candles and is upset that he lied. That night, Leroy causes a blackout, forcing the residents to buy candles. The candles sell out and the nunnery is able to pay its rent. Leroy then offers the grateful Astrid the opportunity to be the first passenger on his boat.

Leroy's memories as Grumpy are restored when the curse is broken, meeting with Mary Margaret and the other dwarfs. He wishes for Regina to be killed by the mob led by Dr. Whale, though he decides against it at Snow's insistence. He unites the dwarfs together and they begin to mine for fairy dust again.

Sneezy/Tom Clark

Sneezy (played by Gabe Khouth) is one of the Seven Dwarfs who often sneezes. 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 fairy tale characters cannot leave the town. Upon drawing the shortest straw, Sneezy crosses the border, losing his memories of his past life once again. Later, Mother Superior/Blue Fairy creates a potion that successfully restores his memories.

Sleepy/Walter

Sleepy (played by Faustino Di Bauda) is one of the Seven Dwarfs who has a sleepy personality. In Storybrooke, he is Walter, a security guard that works at Storybrooke Hospital that occasionally dozes off on the job.

Doc

Doc (played by David Paul Grove) is one of the Seven Dwarfs who helps Snow White give birth to Emma. In Storybrooke, his counterpart is not named.

Bashful

Bashful (played by Mig Micario) is one of the Seven Dwarfs. In Storybrooke, his counterpart is not named.

Dopey

Dopey (played by Jeffrey Kaiser) is one of the Seven Dwarfs. In Storybrooke, his counterpart is not named.

Happy

Happy (played by Mike Coleman) is one of the Seven Dwarfs. In Storybrooke, his counterpart is not named.

Widow Lucas/Granny

Widow Lucas (played by Beverley Elliott), simply referred to as "Granny", is the grandmother of Red Riding Hood.

When her granddaughter Red begins a relationship with a young man called Peter, she disapproves. As news of a wolf killing villagers becomes known, Granny warns the others that the wolf is a monster. She tells them that when she was a girl, a wolf killed her father and her brothers and then scolded her before walking away. Red and Snow White come to believe Peter is the wolf, and go against Granny's wishes, Red chains Peter in the wood and spends the night with him. Granny discovers the deception and reveals that Red inherited the family curse and is in fact the wolf. Granny received a red cloak from a wizard, who enchanted it so that it prevents Red's transformation. Granny herself became a wolf when Red's grandfather turned her into a wolf after marking her with a bite. The other aspects of the curse faded with age, but she has kept her heightened senses. By the time Granny and Snow find Red, she had already killed Peter. The pair are later seen helping Snow rescue Prince Charming, determined to find the best way to fight the The Evil Queen Regina and her curse.

In Storybrooke, she is only known as Granny and is the owner of Granny's Bed and Breakfast and Granny's Cafe. Her health problems prevent Ruby from leaving town. Their relationship is hostile as Granny disapproves of Ruby's behavior and sexually provocative attire. Ruby becomes tired of her grandmother telling her what to do and quits her job, eventually returning and apologizing to her grandmother, who tells her that she was making Ruby work so hard because she wanted her to take over when she retired. Granny's memories are returned when the curse is broken by Emma Swan. She embraces Snow and Prince James when they meet again for the first time since the curse was broken.

The Genie/Magic Mirror/Sidney Glass

Giancarlo Esposito plays the Genie, Magic Mirror and Sidney Glass.

The Genie (played by Giancarlo Esposito) and his lamp were discovered by King Leopold. The King does not wish for anything, using his wishes to free the Genie and invite him to live in his castle to help him find true love.

He falls in love with the King's wife Queen Regina and gives her a hand mirror. The King reads in the Queen's diary that she has fallen in love with the man who gave her the mirror and asks the Genie to locate him. The Queen is then locked in her room to prevent her from leaving the King. To free her, her father has the Genie bring her a locked box filled with poisonous vipers from the Genie's land of Agrabah, to allow the Queen to free herself by suicide. Instead, the Genie uses the vipers to kill the King and allow the Queen to be with him. However, she tells him that since the vipers were from his country, the guards will find out that he was the murderer and flee. Realizing the Queen never loved him, he uses his wish to remain with her and to never leave her sight; thus trapping him in the hand mirror. As a spirit in the Magic Mirror, he is able to move between and see through all other mirrors in the Enchanted Forest, acting as a spy to Regina.

In Storybrooke, he is Sidney Glass, a reporter for Storybrooke's local newspaper The Daily Mirror. On Regina's request, he researches Emma's past to help Regina expel her from Storybrooke. After Graham's death, Regina attempts to appoint him sheriff, but the wording of the town charter calls for an election. He loses the position to Emma. Regina has him removed from the newspaper staff, and Sidney goes to Emma, claiming that he wants to expose Regina as the corrupt person she is. The exposé helps Emma find information on Regina planning to "steal" town funds. This plan fails when Regina reveals to Storybrooke's residents that she is using the money to build a play ground for the town. Despite this, Sidney tells Emma that he will help her take down Regina, but it is revealed that he is secretly in league with her, using Emma's trust in Sidney to gain leverage over Emma. Emma later learns that he planted a bug in a vase after it is used to tip off Regina upon discovering a key piece of evidence that would have cleared Mary Margaret of Kathryn Nolan's murder. Emma confronts Sidney and realizes that he is in love with Regina. Still, Emma presses him to help defeat Regina. However, after Kathryn is found alive, Sidney falsely confesses to kidnapping Kathryn and framing Mary Margaret so that he could "find" Kathryn and become famous. Later, a cell labeled "S. Glass" is seen in the hospital basement's psychiatric ward, suggesting that Regina had locked him in the asylum.

King George/Albert Spencer

Alan Dale plays King George and Albert Spencer.

King George (played by Alan Dale) is the adoptive father of Prince James and his twin Prince "Charming" David.

King George and his wife were unable to bear children on their own, so he struck 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's realm in exchange for gold. James is killed before completing and his twin brother Charming is recruited to carry out the task. George tells Charming that he can return home after the dragon is slain. The task is completed, but Midas deems the prince worthy of marrying his daughter and uniting the kingdoms. George reneges on his promise and forces Charming to marry; if he does not, George will kill Charming's mother and burn his home. Later, the King learns that Charming has fallen in love with Snow White. He forces Snow to break Charming's heart and allow him to marry Midas's daughter or he will kill the prince. Charming still breaks off his engagement, fleeing his home with George and his knights tracking him down. They eventually capture him, and George orders Charming to be beheaded. The The Evil Queen Regina rescues Charming and takes him as her captive. When he learns of Prince Charming and Snow White's plan to take the Kingdom, he kidnaps Snow with the help of Sir Lancelot and uses a potion that he put in Snow's water to prevent her from having children. This plan is foiled when water from Lake Nostos breaks the curse.

In Storybrooke, he is the coldhearted District Attorney Albert Spencer who leads the prosecution, for the Kathryn Nolan "murder case", against Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White). Following the curse on Storybrooke being partially broken, Spencer meets with David and warns him that he plans to make his life hell as revenge for ruining his plans as King George. Spencer later murders car mechanic Billy (Gus), framing Ruby (Red Riding Hood). He tries to form an angry mob to kill her. James uncovers Red's cloak and a bloodied weapon in Spencer's car, discovering his identity as the killer. Spencer burns Jefferson's hat (supposedly sealing the only hope for Emma and Snow's return) and escapes from David.

Dr. Victor Frankenstein/Dr. Whale

David Anders plays Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Dr. Whale.

Dr. Victor Frankenstein (played by David Anders) is a man of science from an unknown world (unlike the other fairy tale characters) who believes magic to be inferior to science. He is the older brother of Gerhardt Frankenstein and the son of Alphonse Frankenstein. His character is based on James Whale, the director of the films Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

Victor originally sought 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. In order to further his experiments, Victor robs a grave for body parts, but is caught by Gerhardt. A police officer arrives, and fatally wounds Gerhardt. When Victor works to bring Gerhardt back to life, the first attempt fails. When Victor tells his father that he is doing this so his father can have two sons again, Alphonse states "and now I have no sons" and leaves. When Rumplestiltskin arrives, Victor explains Gerhardt's heart could not take the electricity needed to revive him, so it instead offered a heart from the Enchanted Forest strengthened by magically removing it. As part of a bargain, he creates a false attempt to reanimate Daniel (Regina's lost love) to make it easier for Rumplestiltskin to teach her the dark arts. He keeps the heart Regina gave him to use on Daniel. Once the experiment "fails", Jefferson returns him to his own world. Frankenstein successfully reanimates his brother, but inadvertently turns him into a monster, beating Alphonse to death. Victor can not bring himself to kill his brother once more, so decides to keep him locked in the tower of his castle until he can devise a way to help Gerhardt overcome his psychotic rage.

In Storybrooke, his counterpart is Dr. Whale, a doctor working in the Storybrooke General Hospital. He is strongly connected to Regina Mills (The Evil Queen), doing whatever she says without hesitation. He briefly becomes romantically involved with Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White) when she tries to move on from David Nolan (Prince Charming). However, he develops a fascination with Ruby (Red Riding Hood). After the curse is broken, he leads a mob to Regina's home intending to kill her, but is stopped by Emma and Charming, who are unaware of his true identity coming from a separate world. 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 robs Daniel's preserved corpse and reanimates him with a magical heart. The reanimation is successful, but turns Daniel into a monster who savagely rips off Whale's arm and escapes. After checking out of the hospital, Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) reattaches his arm, taunting him for putting more faith in science than magic. As Whale begins to drink heavily, mourning his brother's loss, news of an outsider named Greg Mendel crashing his car into Storybrooke reaches the hospital. Whale is reluctant to handle the surgery of Mendel to evade him exposing the truth of Storybrooke. When Whale later leaves the hospital, Ruby is sent to track him down, preventing him from jumping into the town's dock waters. Whale reveals his true identity to Ruby, who persuades him to return to the surgery. When Henry Mills is informed of Whale's identity, Henry tells them that Victor Frankenstein is not a fairy tale character, suspecting that the curse may have affected other worlds based on story books.

The Blue Fairy/Mother Superior

The Blue Fairy (played by Keegan Connor Tracy), or the Reul Ghorm is a high-ranking fairy godmother who uses her magic to help others, although her plans are practically machiavellian at times. While she is quite powerful, she is unable to undo Rumplestiltskin's magic. To to help fix a problem created by his magic, she transforms Jiminy into a cricket and guides him to help Geppetto. She also transforms the puppet Pinocchio into a real boy. She is able to create a quill that temporarily freezes Rumplestiltskin when he signs using it, aiding in his imprisonment. Rumplestiltskin is antagonistic towards her and other fairies because he blames her for the disappearance of his son Baelfire after she helps him take away his father's powers by giving him a magical bean that will transport them to a world without magic, but Baelfire crosses over alone. The Blue Fairy presents the idea of fashioning a wardrobe from a magical tree that could ward off any curse, which saves Emma from the The Evil Queen Regina's curse by sending her to the new world.

In Storybrooke, she is the Mother Superior of the town's nuns who were all fairies prior to the curse. Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) is the nunnery's landlord, who refuses to forgive one month of their rent in exchange for Leroy's boat because he and the nuns "have history", most likely a reference to the Blue Fairy's aiding his son in leaving the Enchanted Forest. She tells Mr. Gold later about August Booth (Pinocchio)'s fake history, leading him to believe that his son Bae has returned. When the curse is broken, she warns Regina Mills (The Evil Queen), "If I were you, your Majesty, I'd find a place to hide." When Henry later begs her to use magic to restore order in Storybrooke, she tells him she cannot without her wand or fairy dust. She sets about organizing disaster relief after the town is damaged by a wraith. Although she generally seems to have no difficulty with her reclaimed memories (her personality being much the same in both worlds), she is among those who try to flee Storybrooke after the attack. She has since helped aid the primary characters in their attempts to stop Regina from using her powers, believing that she might have turned on them because of Regina's desire to win Henry back. When August is tasered by Tamara and dies in Marco's arms, she is able to restore him to a seven year old real boy Pinocchio.

Sleeping Beauty/Princess Aurora

Sarah Bolger plays Sleeping Beauty/Princess Aurora.

Princess Aurora (played by Sarah Bolger) is Prince Phillip's true love, who was put under a sleeping curse by her stepmother Maleficent, thus receiving her alias Sleeping Beauty.

She first appears when she is awoken from her deep sleep by Phillip, accompanied by Mulan. Phillip is later marked by a wraith who assures Aurora of his love and begs her not to get in the way of the creature's attack. She watches as Phillip's soul is sucked from him, and she and Mulan lay him to rest at the same place she had slept during her curse. Mulan gives Aurora the amulet that had caused the wraith to mark Phillip. She then tells Aurora that their part of the Enchanted Forest had been spared from The Evil Queen's curse, and that she had actually been asleep for 28 years, though time had been frozen. When time resumed, Mulan and Phillip continued their search to find her. Emma and Mary Margaret (Snow White) are transported from Storybrooke to the remaining part of the Enchanted Forest, after falling into a portal with the wraith. Mulan and Aurora reach a safe haven along with Snow and Emma, who they take prisoner. Although she 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, assist their return to Storybrooke. The four set off to find Rumplestiltskin's squid ink which is the key to them returning to Storybrooke. However, Aurora is abducted and sent to Cora. Captain Hook frees her following Cora abandoning him, not allowing him to be part of her plan to return to Storybrooke. After Cora discovers Aurora missing, she plans to kill Hook but stops when he reveals to her that she holds Aurora's heart. The foursome reunite and travel to Rumplestiltskin's cell but are captured within it upon learning that Aurora's heart was being manipulated by Cora. They manage to escape but Aurora insists Mulan tie her up as she cannot be trusted. A duel pursues between the trio and Cora and Hook, the latter gives Aurora's heart to Mulan to even the odds. Mulan restores Aurora's heart to her and frees her from the cell. Aurora then reveals that Cora told her that the soul of a wraith's victim can be restored, and they agree to try in order to get Prince Phillip back. Later Mulan and Aurora recover Prince Phillip's soul and find a wounded Neal Cassidy (Baelfire) on the beach after he is transported from a portal in Storybrooke.

Mulan

Jamie Chung portrays Mulan.

Mulan (played by Jamie Chung) is a warrior. She assisted best friend Prince Phillip during his search to rescue his love Princess Aurora.

Spared by the Dark Curse, which had left their land unaffected but frozen for 28 years, Mulan and Phillip resume their search for Aurora. After she is rescued, Mulan finds an amulet that unleashes a wraith. Unbeknownst to her and Aurora, the wraith marks Phillip as its next victim. In order to protect them, Phillip leaves the two during their journey to a safe haven to spare them from the wraith. Mulan and Aurora find him just as he is about to be killed, but he urges them not to interfere. After his soul is sucked out by the wraith, Mulan and Aurora lay him to rest at the same palace where Aurora had stayed during her curse, and she gives the amulet to a heartbroken Aurora. When Emma and Mary Margaret appear a short distance away, Mulan believes that they were responsible for unleashing the wraith, and for Phillip's death. Mulan knocks Snow unconscious when they arrive at their safe haven, after she and Emma try to escape. Mulan later trusts Emma and Snow, who Mulan wanted to have as their leader, upon learning that Sir Lancelot is actually dead, with Cora using his body in disguise. She vows to help Emma and Snow return to Storybrooke, setting off with the two and Aurora to find Rumplestiltskin's squid ink which is the key to them returning to Storybrooke. However, they are captured within his cell upon learning that Aurora's heart was being manipulated by Cora after Captain Hook stole it from her. They manage to escape but Aurora insists Mulan tie her up as she cannot be trusted. A duel ensues between the trio with Cora and Hook, the latter giving Aurora's heart to Mulan to even the odds. As Emma and Mary Margaret successfully return to Storybrooke, Mulan restores Aurora's heart to her and frees her from the cell. Aurora then reveals that Cora told her that the soul of a wraith's victim can be restored, and they agree to try in order to get Prince Phillip back. Later Mulan and Aurora restore Prince Phillip and the trio find a wounded Neal Cassidy (Baelfire) on the beach after he is transported from a portal in Storybrooke.

Owen Flynn/Greg Mendell

Greg Mendell (played by Benjamin Stockham as a child, Ethan Embry as an adult) is a man who crashes his car upon entering Storybrooke during an altercation between Captain Hook and Rumplestiltskin.

When Greg is brought to the hospital, Emma and the others debate whether to save his life and risk the truth of Storybrooke being revealed to the outside world. When Dr. Whale successfully saves him, Emma visits Greg and asks him what he saw at the scene of the accident. He tells her that he did not witness anything but after she leaves, Greg calls an unknown person, telling them that he is okay but will not believe what he saw. While still resting in hospital, Greg visits Belle in her room who was shot by Hook before he entered. Greg explains to her that he also witnessed magic being used. Belle is surprised that someone else believes in magic, after the residents of Storybrooke blame her wild imagination. When Regina searches Belle's belongings with magic at the hospital, Greg secretly uses his phone to record a video of the incident and sends it to a contact simply titled "Her", deciding to remain in the town and investigate the strange happenings of Storybrooke.

As later revealed, Greg's identity is revealed to be Owen Flynn. As a child, he and his father Kurt were camping out in the woods of Maine in 1983, the night the Dark Curse took everyone not protected by Cora's shield to the new world. He enjoys Regina's company while waiting for their truck to be repaired from the damage the curse caused to it. However, this only leads her trying to keep him and his father in Storybrooke. He escapes, vowing to find his arrested father no matter what. This implies that Greg did not crash into the town by accident: he was looking for it, and is determined to expose the secret world of Storybrooke as he could not convince anyone of its existence after he escaped. After witnessing Regina's talk with Mary Margaret, Greg vows to find out what happened to his father. When Regina finally discovers who Greg really is and that he is looking for his father, she asks him to leave town and says that his father had already left. However Greg is determined not to leave town, as it turns out that he has someone helping him expose Storybrooke: Neal Cassidy's fiancée, Tamara.

Later, Tamara kidnaps Hook and Greg and Tamara team up with him to get what they want. They later kidnap Regina by using Hook to be loyal to Regina so that he can take away her magic with science. He then tortures Regina in an attempt to force her to reveal where his father really is. She eventually reveals that she killed his father. A hurt Greg then plans to kill Regina but escapes when David comes after him. Tamara and Greg later obtain a trigger from Regina that they plan to use to obliterate Storybrooke and its inhabitants. Due to the distraction of the trigger, Tamara and Greg kidnap Henry Mills realizing that he is more important than the duo destroying magic. They escape by throwing a stolen magic bean into Storybrooke's waters and jumping into the portal with Henry to Neverland.

Tamara

Tamara (played by Sonequa Martin-Green) is a woman determined to seek out magic for her own personal gain, and at any cost.

Her quest begins in Hong Kong, where she visits "The Dragon", a self-proclaimed healer, claiming to have cancer. It is during this time that she meets August Booth (Pinocchio), who also seeks the healer as he is gradually turning to wood. The two later meet at a bar where August steals $10,000 from her as a settlement to The Dragon's cure. Once acquired, August goes to drink the potion, only for Tamara to find him and take it back. She later returns to The Dragon, who learns her true intentions, only to be tasered and killed by her.

Tamara later follows August to New York City, where, after seeing him talking to Neal Cassidy (Baelfire), begins a scheme to learn about Storybrooke. Pretending to bump into Neal, the two eventually become an engaged couple. She is later introduced to Emma Swan and Henry (Neal's son) when they and Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) travel to Manhattan. Tamara is later invited to Storybrooke by Neal who informs her of his magical background. Although initially skeptical, she warms up to the idea. However, it is revealed that she already knows of magic and is only pretending to care about Neal. She finds August hiding in the woods, offering to retrieve the potion in her New York apartment if he leaves Storybrooke forever. But when August learns that she killed The Dragon, he returns to warn Emma about Tamara's deception to take magic from Storybrooke, only to be killed by her. Tamara tells Neal that she wants to stay with him in Storybrooke, unaware that she also has a loving connection with Greg Mendell, the stranger who crashed into the town and who has been giving Tamara pictures of Storybrooke's magical secrets.

Tamara and Greg were sent to Storybrooke on a mission to obtain magical objects and send them back to a location known as the "Home Office." In addition to sending Greg's pictures, they also obtain magic beans and a device known as the "Trigger" which can self-destruct Storybrooke and all those born in the Enchanted Forest. Teaming up with Hook, they kidnap Regina and torture her, later fighting with Neal and Emma as they attempt to rescue Regina. Tamara reveals her deception to them and shoots Neal, opening a portal with a magic bean and sending him through it. Tamara and Greg activate the trigger but are foiled, instead kidnapping Henry and jumping in a portal to Neverland, claiming he is more important than destroying magic.

Other characters

Abraham

Abraham (played by C. Ernst Harth) is a Giant who is the brother of Anton and Arlo. He seems to like to pick on Anton, especially for his love of all things human, calling him "Tiny" and breaking a golden harp that Anton finds in the treasure room. During an invasion led by Prince James and Jack, Abraham is killed after being struck with a poisoned sword.

Alphonse Frankenstein

Alphonse Frankenstein (played by Gregory Itzin) is a leading military official who is the father of Victor and Gerhardt Frankenstein. Alphonse openly favors Gerhardt over Victor as he is a fellow soldier, while Victor is a scientist. When Gerhardt is shot and Victor tries to bring him back to life, Alphonse immediately blames Victor for Gerhardt's death and disowns him. Although Victor successfully revives Gerhardt and brings him to their father, Alphonse declares that the being before him is not Gerhardt, but a monster. Alphonse begins to attack Victor, but is stopped by Gerhardt who proceeds to beat Alphonse to death, Victor silently watching.

Anita

Anita (played by Annabeth Gish) is the leader of a pack of werewolves that reside in a buried castle.

After a werewolf Quinn finds Red Riding Hood, he leads her to a buried castle that is his home he shares with other werewolves. There, she meets Anita who reveals to her that she is Red's mother, insisting that her grandmother lied to her about her status. Snow White accidentally leads The Evil Queen's knights to invade the castle. An enraged Anita tells the other wolves to tie her up, so they could take her life in return for the knight-caused bloodshed. Anita demands Red to kill her to which she objects. Anita turns into a wolf and plans to feed on Snow since Red won't. Red transforms into a wolf and protects Snow by unintentionally impaling her mother with a pole. Anita perishes and is later buried. Snow hugs Red, saying "I know what it's like to lose your family". Red replies "I didn't lose my family today, I protected it."

Anton/Tiny

Jorge Garcia plays Anton the Giant/Tiny.

Anton (played by Jorge Garcia) is based on the Giant that appears in Jack and the Beanstalk. He resides in a realm of Giants which can only be accessed through a large beanstalk. His brothers Abraham and Arlo call him "Tiny" and often mock his love for knowing more of the outside world. He journeys down the beanstalk and befriends Prince James and his lover, a woman named Jack. They gave Anton a piece of mushroom from Wonderland to allow him to shrink to human size. Jack tells Anton how James' kingdom is on the verge of bankruptcy and needs money. Anton offers to give them some of the vast treasure from his home. However, they betray him, leading a small army in a fight against the Giants which leads to the death of all their kind except for Anton. Arlo orders Anton to destroy their magic beans to avoid going into the wrong hands. James steals some of the treasure for his country and coldly leaves Jack behind to die, following being stabbed by Arlo. Anton develops a hatred towards humans for what happened to his family.

When Emma Swan and Captain Hook arrived at Anton's castle to look for a magic compass, they draw out Anton and Emma ends up using a powdered poppy to knock out Anton. When Emma finds the compass, Anton wakes up and traps Captain Hook beneath some rocks. Anton lunges towards Emma and grabs her in his hand and proceeds to squeeze the life out of her. Emma pleads with him that she needs the compass to get back to her son. Anton does not heed her. Almost out of breath, Emma bites Anton's hand causing her to be dropped. Catching her breath, Emma runs away and grabs Jack's sword laying nearby. Emma cuts the rope holding a large iron trap and it falls on top of Anton seemingly trapping him. Menacing him with the poisoned sword, Emma demands the compass. Anton reluctantly gives it to Emma stating that she is going to kill him anyway and that all humans are alike. Emma states that they are not all alike and walks away. Anton then breaks out of the trap and runs towards Emma, but rather than grab Emma again, he reveals a secret exit from his lair, saying that he owes Emma a favor for not killing him. Emma states that Anton actually owes her two favors since she could have killed him while he was unconscious.

Hook reveals to Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White), David Nolan (Prince Charming), and Leroy (Grumpy) that Cora shrunk Anton to bring him to Storybrooke. Seeing David, Anton believes he is James and attacks him before running off. Regina Mills (The Evil Queen) meets with him saying they have a mutual goal in wanting Charming dead and gives Anton a piece of mushroom to regain his giant size. He rampages through Storybrooke, not believing David's tales of how it was his twin who invaded the beanstalk. However, the magic wears off, causing him to fall into a pit. David rescues him, convincing him to trust them all. Anton reveals to the group that he still has a magic bean that can be grown, but warns them this is why Cora brought him to Storybrooke. They decide to let him harvest the beans so that they can be ready for when Cora comes for them. The Dwarfs hand Anton an axe and the name "Tiny" appears on it. David later tells Mary Margaret that Anton has informed him that the first crop of magic beans is growing well. It is revealed that a magic barrier was placed so that Anton can keep the crops protected. Emma learns about the magic bean plans and what Cora did to Anton.

Arlo

Arlo (played by Abraham Benrubi) is a Giant who is the brother of Anton and Abraham. Arlo is struck by a poisoned sword from an invasion led by Prince James and Jack. He manages to use the sword to kill Jack. Before he dies, Arlo tells Anton to destroy their magic beans.

Blind Witch #1/Miss Ginger

The first Blind Witch (played by Patti Allan) was a participant in The Evil Queen Regina's curse, and was considered to be among those with the darkest souls in the Enchanted Forest. Her eyes had been sewn shut under unknown circumstances, and she sided with the Queen with the belief that she would be happy in the new world. She cut off a lock of her hair which was used to enact the curse.

In Storybrooke, she is Miss Ginger, a bespectacled busybody. She is first seen at Regina's press conference to appoint Sidney Glass as the new town sheriff. Later, Emma overhears a phone conversation between Miss Ginger and Regina about the air temperature in Miss Ginger's office. Miss Ginger calls the sheriff's office when she believes there to be a prowler outside her house, but Ruby assures her it is only Pongo. Miss Ginger regains her memories after the Dark Curse is broken.

Blind Witch #2

The second Blind Witch (played by Emma Caulfield) was a witch who had a very keen sense of smell, particularly for children. When Hansel and Gretal sneak into her house to retrieve a little black sack, Hansel bites into a cupcake thus awakening her from her slumber. She locks them both in a cell while preparing the oven for cooking. She attempts to roast Hansel first but Gretel tricks her by passing for her brother. While she leads Gretel out of the cell, Gretel grabs the key out of her pocket and tosses it to Hansel. Hansel releases himself and tries to attack her, but trips and alerts her. As the Blind Witch tries to grab him, both children push her into the oven, bar the door, and escape. Regina, secretly watching from her palace, unleashes a fireball which flies through her mirror and transports into the Blind Witch's oven, killing her.

Bossy

Bossy (played by Ken Kramer) is a dwarf who is also the leader of the other dwarfs.

Caterpillar

The Caterpillar (voiced by Roger Daltry) is an inhabitant of Wonderland. He appears when The Evil Queen Regina and Jefferson come to Wonderland. As in the Disney film and literature, he reclines on his mushroom and asks "Who are you" to them, blowing smoke rings in Jefferson's face.

Cinderella/Ashley Boyd

Cinderella (played by Jessy Schram), nicknamed Ella, was originally a maid who wished to attend the royal ball. Her fairy godmother appears to grant her wish, but Rumplestiltskin kills the fairy. Warning her that "all magic comes with a price", he offers her a contract: her wish in exchange for something she will have in the future. She signs without reading the contract, desperate for a better life, and attends the ball where she meets Prince Thomas. The two fall in love and marry.

At the wedding reception, Rumplestiltskin reminds Ella of the contract and informs her that he is asking for her first-born child. When she discovers she is pregnant, she attempts to run away. However, Thomas and Prince Charming devise a plan to capture Rumplestiltskin. The plan succeeds, but Thomas disappears. Rumplestiltskin vows that she will never see Thomas again until the contract is fulfilled.

In Storybrooke, she is 19-year-old Ashley Boyd, a single, pregnant maid. The baby's father Sean Herman (Prince Thomas), is not allowed by his father to continue seeing Ashley. Sean's father 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 tries to flee town but goes into labor at the city limits. Sheriff Emma Swan finds her and brings her to the hospital. There, Emma agrees to be in-debt to Mr. Gold if Ashley is allowed to keep the baby to which Mr. Gold agrees. Ashley gives birth to a daughter, and Sean visits the hospital to reconcile with Ashley and to see his daughter. A few months after, he proposes they get engaged.

Cora/Queen of Hearts

Barbara Hershey plays Cora and the Queen of Hearts.

Cora (played by Barbara Hershey as an adult, Rose McGowan as a younger Cora) is Regina's mother, with arguably more powerful magic and more evil than her.

Cora is the daughter of a local poor, drunken miller, similar to the Miller's Daughter in the Rumpelstiltskin story. Fed up with her father, she delivers the flour to the castle of King Xavier. Cora is degraded and humiliated by the petty and cruel noble court. In order to attend a noblemen's party, she steals a red dress and mask for a masquerade ball being held by Xavier. There, Cora makes the acquaintance of Prince Henry and briefly dances with him before Xavier berates her for reaching above her station. Cora claims she can spin straw into gold and save the kingdom. King Xavier laughs at this and states that if Cora can spin all the straw in the tower into gold, she will have Henry's hand in marriage, but if she does not succeed, she will be killed. In the tower she is approached by Rumplestiltskin who states that he will spin the straw into gold for her if Cora agrees to give him her firstborn child. She agrees after asking him to teach her how to spin. Cora manages the task and later demonstrates her skill in front of the whole court, accepting Henry's hand in marriage. Afterwards, Cora is approached by Rumplestiltskin who changes his deal so that he can claim whatever child Cora suggests to him. Cora then asks Rumplestiltskin the secret of ripping out someone's heart. She plans to run away with him but chooses power over love, ripping her own heart out to avoid giving into her feelings for Rumplestiltskin. She marries King Xavier, becoming Queen, and presents the newborn Regina to Xavier's court, stating that she will one day be Queen.

An older Cora shows to be a controlling mother towards Regina. She feels that Regina does not act like a proper lady and wants her to achieve a high status in life. She believes her husband coddles Regina too much and uses her magical powers to force Regina to submit to her demands. Cora's designs on taking over the kingdom began with a plot to kill Queen Ava (Snow White's mother) by fatally poisoning her to make Regina Queen. In addition, she causes Snow's horse to become wild, 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 which she shares with Snow. However, when Snow wants to do the best for Regina by innocently telling Cora about their relationship, Cora kills him believing such a marriage would ruin her plans of royalty. This begins Regina's overpowering and destructive hatred for Snow White, whom she does not tell. Cora tells the grieving Regina that love is an illusion and that only power is real.

Rumplestiltskin gives Regina a gateway to Wonderland, disguised as a looking glass mirror. Regina forces Cora through it after becoming unbearable to her daughter. Trapped in Wonderland, she becomes the Queen of Hearts as she does not have a heart. When Captain Hook is sent to kill her by Regina (who does not want her mother following her to the new land created by the curse), Cora defeats him and uses him in a plan to get closer to Regina again. Hook brings her apparent lifeless body to Regina, before escaping and shielding part of the Enchanted Forest from the curse, freezing them in time for 28 years.

After the curse is broken and Emma and Mary Margaret are transported to the shielded Enchanted Forest, they encounter Cora who pretends to be a prisoner in the safe haven. When Cora found out that Regina and Henry were in Storybrooke, she is revealed to have killed Sir Lancelot and disguises as his body. She attempts to get access to the portal created by the magical wardrobe used to transport Emma, but Emma has no other choice but to burn it to avoid Cora killing her mother Snow. However, Cora later retrieves a portion of the wardrobe's remains, which still harnesses its magic. Cora then meets with Captain Hook and the pair agree a plan to travel to Storybrooke, where she can deal with her daughter and Hook can deal with the "Crocodile" that took his hand (Rumplestiltskin). Cora and Hook find Emma and Mary Margaret and use the waters of Lake Nostos and the wardrobe remains to create a portal, only to be stopped in their tracks by Emma, whose heart was too strong for Cora to rip out. May Margaret and Emma use the portal to return to Storybrooke. However, Cora and Hook eventually follow them, using a magic bean from Hook.

Once in Storybrooke, Cora impersonates Regina to seemingly kill Dr. Archie Hopper, thus causing Regina to lose everything. In truth, Cora killed someone else and made the body look like Archie's, keeping him prisoner on Hook's ship to use his knowledge of Storybrooke and tell Captain Hook where he could find Rumplestiltskin. In the form of Henry Mills, Cora finds Regina's hideaway and reconciles with her, turning a rehabilitating Regina back to evil by playing on her love for Henry; though she still loved her daughter, Cora only cared about power. Cora transports Anton the Giant to Storybrooke, shrinking him down to human size before sending Regina to give him a mushroom from Wonderland to change him back and cause enough chaos to allow her to move freely. She begins to seek out The Dark One's dagger to control Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) and kill Mary Margaret (Snow White), David Nolan (Prince Charming) and their daughter Emma. Doing so, she betrays Hook, who also wants to kill Rumplestiltskin. When she and Regina learn that Mary Margaret and David have found the dagger in the clock tower, they get possession by using Snow's servant Johanna as bait, only to have Cora kill Johanna. They discover that Rumplestiltskin's name is slowly disappearing from the dagger, indicating that Gold is dying. Cora tells Regina that she must kill Gold, giving her the power of The Dark One. Regina is against the plan, saying that it will ruin any chance she has to get Henry back. Cora reassures her and states that with this power, she can protect their family.

Cora and Regina fight their way past their opponents in order to get to Gold. Meanwhile, Mary Margaret uses the candle that Cora originally poisoned Snow's mother with to poison Cora's heart. Regina catches her but Mary Margaret persuades her to give her mother's heart back in order for Cora to truly love her daughter. Gold asks Cora if she ever loved him, and Cora tells him that her love for him was the reason she had to rip her heart out. She raises the dagger to stab him, but Regina places her heart back into her. Cora smiles lovingly at Regina, who smiles back, realizing that she can finally love Regina truly. However, Cora falls to the ground and dies in Regina's arms. Regina realizes that Mary Margaret is responsible for her death and vows to avenge her mother.

Daniel

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Noah Bean plays Daniel.

Daniel (played by Noah Bean) was a stable boy at Regina's home when she was a teenager; he gave her riding lessons and was also her love interest. After Regina saves a young Snow White's life, King Leopold proposes to her. To avoid this unwanted marriage, Regina then devises a plan to run away with Daniel, but Snow White catches them kissing. Regina then explains to little Snow that she does not love her father and that she wants to marry Daniel. She makes Snow promise not to tell Cora, but Snow does so anyway after Cora tricks her. That night, as Daniel and Regina try to run away together, Cora stops them. She pretends to give Daniel her marriage blessing, but in fact pulls out Daniel's heart and squeezes it into dust, killing him right in front of Regina.

After Regina learns basic magic, she uses a preservation spell on Daniel's body, keeping him in a glass case. She dedicates her time to finding a way to bring Daniel back to life. Jefferson brings Dr. Victor Frankenstein to her from his world and he performs an experiment on Daniel's body, however that fails. It is later revealed that he failed on purpose as part of a deal with Rumplestiltskin, who wanted Regina to give into her dark side.

After the curse in Storybrooke is broken, Dr. Whale (Victor Frankenstein) wishes for Regina to return him to his world. To surprise her, he tries the experiment again and this time actually succeeds. However, the pain of resurrection turns Daniel into a "monster" who rips off Whale's arm. Guided by his last thoughts, Daniel goes to the town's stables, where he stumbles into Henry Mills. He is about to attack him, but David (Prince Charming) and Regina stop him. During a brief moment of painful lucidity, Daniel tells Regina to forget their love and move on and "love again". He also asks her to let him go before lapsing back into psychotic behavior and attacking her. A heartbroken Regina has no choice but to use magic and turn Daniel to dust.

Frederick/Jim

Frederick (played by Greyston Holt) is a knight and true love of Princess Abigail. The couple were to be married, until he is turned into a gold statue protecting her father King Midas. He is restored by the magical waters of Lake Nostos, gathered by Prince Charming, and is happily reunited with Abigail.

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. According to producer Edward Kitsis, after the Dark Curse is broken, he finds Kathryn and resumes his relationship with her.

Geppetto/Marco

Tony Amendola plays Geppetto and Marco.

Geppetto (played by Tony Amendola as an adult, Michael Strusievici as a young boy) is an elderly carpenter and Pinocchio's caretaker. Geppetto was orphaned when Jiminy Cricket accidentally transformed his parents into puppets.

Geppetto carved himself a son named Pinocchio out of magical wood. During Pinocchio's adventures, he and Gepetto end up being chased by the whale Monstro during a thunderstorm. Pinocchio sacrifices his life for Gepetto's. For this act, The Blue Fairy turns him into a real boy, finally bestowing Gepetto with a son. The Blue Fairy asks Geppetto to carve another enchanted tree into a magical wardrobe with the ability to save two people, the pregnant Snow White and Prince Charming from The Evil Queen Regina's curse. However, the curse will send everyone to a land without magic and Pinocchio, who is a real boy because of magic, may 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 and tells him to protect the child and get them to believe in magic after the curse is broken.

In Storybrooke, he is Marco, the town's handyman. Marco states that he and his wife are unable to have children. August Booth (the adult Pinocchio) later tells Marco that he failed his father and though he tried to keep his promise, it was too late. Marco tells him that if he had a son, that would be enough. August offers to work as Marco's assistant though he cannot be paid, and Marco agrees to take him on. Marco's memories as Geppetto are restored when the curse is broken.

After the curse was broken, August (who had turned back into wood) returned to life, albeit still made of wood. In the woods, Mary Margaret (Snow) encounters the living August, telling Marco of his existence. The three immediately trek to August's hideaway, Marco admitting that he had lied about the wardrobe only holding one and that the second spot was given to Pinocchio. Furious, Mary Margaret attacks him, an act in which he claims to have deserved. August is later tasered by Tamara, in his dying breath attempting to warn everyone of her evil. Luckily, The Blue Fairy resurrects him for his honesty, Marco taking in a now seven-year-old Pinocchio as his son once more.

Gerhardt Frankenstein/Frankenstein's Monster

Gerhardt Frankenstein (played by Chad Michael Collins) is the brother of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the younger son of Alphonse Frankenstein. Gerhardt is a decorated soldier and considered to be a "success story" in the eyes of Alphonse. Despite this, Gerhardt supports his brother's scientific efforts. One night, Gerhardt came across Victor digging up a body in the graveyard for an experiment. A soldier comes to the cemetery and in the melee of getting away, Gerhardt is shot and killed. Devastated at the death of Gerhardt, Victor attempts to revive him with one of the hearts he has, but the heart does not survive the process. Alphonse then comes in and sees Gerhardt's body lying on the table, berating Victor for causing misfortune to fall on his favored son. Victor then seeks to revive him with the "perfect heart", which Rumplestiltskin states he can provide from the Enchanted Forest, as long as Victor does something for him. When Victor gets the right heart, he successfully revives Gerhardt as the infamous monster. When Victor presents Gerhardt to their father, Alphonse declares that the being before him is not Gerhardt. To protect Victor from an attack led on him by Alphonse, Gerhardt openly murders his father. Victor locks Gerhardt in a dungeon to later execute him. Sensing what he is about to do, Gerhardt has Victor point a pistol at his head, indicating that he wishes to die. However, at the last minute, Victor changes his mind and walks out, saying he can fix this. A despondent Gerhardt is left in the tower alone.

In discussion between Dr. Whale and Rumplestiltskin in Storybrooke, it is mentioned that Gerhardt remains in Dr. Whale's world.

Gnome

The Gnome (played by Layton Keely) was one of the evil characters that were gathered by The Evil Queen Regina to help enact the Dark Curse. When the first attempt fails, the Gnome laughs at The Evil Queen who retaliates by turning him to stone. His petrified form is seen in Storybrooke in Mayor Regina Mills' garden.

Grace/Paige

Grace (played by Alissa Skovbye) is the daughter of Jefferson. At the market, when she and her father pass a toy wagon, she spots a white, stuffed rabbit and asks him to get it for her. The merchant (The Evil Queen in disguise) however demands more money than he owns, forcing them to leave without it.

In Storybrooke, she is Paige who now believes that she is the daughter of another family and is no longer aware that Jefferson exists. After the curse is broken, she is reunited with Jefferson when he finally feels worthy in her presence.

Gus/Billy

Gus (played by Jarod Joseph) is a mouse in the Enchanted Forest, presumably one of Cinderella's only friends, along with Jaq and the other mice.

In Storybrooke, he was given a human body and 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 reasoning being her werewolf persona later in the night. Billy is found the next day near the docks, apparently murdered by a wolf, presumably Red. His body was mutilated beneath his tow truck with his legs thrown in a nearby dumpster. It is revealed that Albert Spencer (King George) killed him alongside a passerby and left doctored evidence that Red was responsible, because he wanted his adopted son David Nolan (Prince Charming) to look irresponsible of the town's safety.

Hansel and Gretel/Nicholas and Ava Zimmer

Hansel and Gretel (played by Quinn Lord and Karley Scott Collins) are brother and sister, the children of a woodcutter. After The Evil Queen Regina captures their father in the forest, they are forced to retrieve a small black sack (something precious) for her from the Blind Witch. After they succeed, the Queen invites them to live with her in her palace but they refuse, stating they want to be reunited with their father. She reacts to this by transporting them to the infinite forest. Their father is then brought to the Queen and released, without knowing where his children are located.

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 not to let them be separated by social services, Emma finds their father and convinces him to take care of them.

Igor

Igor (played by Yurij Kis) is the assistant of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, helping him in the resurrection of his brother Gerhardt.

Jack

Jacqueline "Jack" (played by Cassidy Freeman) is a lover and friend of Prince James as well as an acquaintance of Anton the Giant. She is a female version of the hero from Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk.

In her early life, she once traveled to Wonderland where she had slain the Jabberwocky and gained a magic mushroom from a "wise woman." She becomes a lover of Prince James and agrees to assist him in freeing the royal land of their debts. She meets a giant named Anton with James and tricks him into leading the pair to the treasure atop the beanstalk where he originates. After they travel up the beanstalk successfully, they begin a fight against the giants for their treasure. However, Anton's brother Arlo stabs Jack with her own poisoned sword and Prince James flees with the treasure, leaving her behind to die. Her skeleton is shown lying in Anton's home when Emma and Hook climb the beanstalk to retrieve a compass.

Jefferson/The Mad Hatter

Jefferson (played by Sebastian Stan) is a man who owns a magical hat that can be used to travel between different worlds. He worked for both Rumplestiltskin and the The Evil Queen Regina, obtaining objects from other worlds for them. His name derives from the song "White Rabbit" performed by Jefferson Airplane, whose lead singer was Grace Slick - Grace is used as the name of his daughter.

When he first meets Regina, Rumplestiltskin had him bring Dr. Frankenstein to their world to pretend failing to revive her true love Daniel, in order to make her become evil. In his later life, he gave his job up as his daughter Grace lost her mother because of it. He lives with Grace in the forest, collecting and selling mushrooms to survive. When the Queen asks for another favor, he initially refuses, but eventually agrees with the condition that his daughter "will want for nothing" afterwards. He takes the Queen to Wonderland, where she rescues her father Henry. His hat contains the rule that the same amount of people who enter must return. However, as the Queen takes her father back, she abandons Jefferson. He begs the Queen to reconsider, but she tells him that if he truly cared for Grace, he would have never left her. Jefferson is left behind and captured by the knights of the Queen of Hearts, who behead him, though he survives. He is then ordered to make another magical hat to return home. His head is then reattached, leaving a scar around his neck. Although he makes thousands of hats, none are able to take him home, leading him into insanity and earning his alter ego as The Mad Hatter.

In Storybrooke, he is able to remember his life in the Enchanted Forest, which is his part of the curse. He lives near the forest in a large house, from which he uses telescopes to spy on Sheriff Emma Swan's office and on his daughter Grace, who is now named Paige. He captures Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow White) after she escapes from her cell though he says he did this to save her from the curse, as she was intending to leave Storybrooke. He later abducts Emma when she goes looking for Mary Margaret. He orders Emma to make a magical hat that will take him home: a task only she can do as she has brought magic to Storybrooke. He also tells her that the curse is real and that his curse is to watch Grace be happy with a different father. Emma tricks Jefferson into sympathizing with him, knocking him out shortly after. However, he awakens and attempts to kill Emma, before Mary Margaret pushes him out of a window. He disappears, leaving nothing but his hat. Jefferson returns when Regina leaves a White Rabbit playing card on his daughter's bike. She tells Jefferson she can return his daughter to him with her memories returned. Jefferson feels that this would be cursing his daughter to remember both of her lives and instead demands he be allowed to forget and have a new life with his daughter. Regina agrees, provided Jefferson help her get rid of Emma. With the last of Regina's magic, the pair revive his hat's abilities and he retrieves the cursed apple that put Snow White into a deathlike sleep from the Enchanted Forest. When he calls on Regina to uphold her end of the bargain, she promises that she will after Emma is dealt with. However, after Henry Mills is cursed instead, Regina refuses to help Jefferson. Furious, Jefferson frees Belle from her cell and instructs her to tell Mr. Gold that Regina held her captive.

After the curse is broken, he becomes trapped under a car following a wraith's destruction through Storybrooke. He is freed by James in exchange for information about his hat in order to find a way to get back to Emma and Mary Margaret who were taken through a portal using his hat. He spends the following days avoiding his daughter, feeling guilty for leaving her behind in their previous lives. However, Henry encourages him, saying he would give anything to be reunited with his mother again. Jefferson eventually seeks out Grace, and they happily reunite.

Johanna

Johanna (played by Lesley Nicol) is the personal maid of Queen Ava and is close to her and her daughter Snow White. When Snow catches Johanna trying on her tiara, she scolds her until Ava calms her down and tells her that every servant deserves the Royal Family's respect. When Ava collapses with ill-based symptoms, Johanna and Snow stand by her side. As her illness gets worse, the Royal Doctor tells Johanna to call for King Leopold. Johanna comforts a distraught Snow and informs her of The Blue Fairy as a magical mentor and adviser to Ava, and that if anyone can help her, she can. She instructs Snow on how to find the fairy and talk to her. Johanna is present when Snow returns to Ava's bedside after having seen the fairy and being offered dark magic as a way to save her. When Snow reveals she could not do it and Ava dies, Johanna comforts her. She helps Snow with her mother's funeral, appearing in the audience and taking her away after the service.

In Storybrooke, Johanna is seen as its citizens regain their memories. She manages to buy the tiara from Mr. Gold ([[#Rumplestiltskin/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 goes out to find her. Mary Margaret is overjoyed to be reunited with Johanna and share a moment of tenderness. When Mary Margaret and David Nolan (Prince Charming) find Rumplestiltskin's dagger in the Storybrooke Clock Tower, 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, whose heart is reinserted into her body, Cora kills Johanna by throwing her out of the clock tower. Mary Margaret mourns her death, swearing revenge on Cora.

King/Mitchell Herman

The unnamed King (played by Ted Whittall) and father of Prince Thomas is based on the King from Cinderella. He is a loving father to Thomas and is eager to let him marry his true love, Cinderella.

In Storybrooke, he is Mitchell Herman who does not approve of Sean (Thomas)'s relationship with Ashley Boyd (Cinderella) and forbids him to see her when she falls pregnant. Mitchell even arranges for Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) to take Ashley's baby away when she gives birth. This plot is thwarted by Emma Swan who agrees to owe Gold a favor in exchange that he lets Ashley keep her baby.

King Leopold

King Leopold (played by Richard Schiff) is the father of Snow White and the husband of The Evil Queen Regina, his second wife. After Regina saves his daughter, Leopold marries her in order to give his daughter a mother. 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 uses his first wish to free him from the lamp. He uses the second wish to give the third wish to the Genie. Leopold 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. As the Genie apologizes, the King dies after he is bitten before telling the Genie that he should not have made the wish.

King Midas

King Midas (played by Alex Zahara) is a rich King with the power to turn all he touches to gold. Despite his wealth, he is a kind and caring King who wishes to have the dragon terrorizing his kingdom slain, desiring the happiness of his daughter Princess Abigail above everything else. Abigail's true love, a knight named Fredrick, is accidentally transformed into a golden statue whilst protecting him. He promises King George gold in return for the head of the dragon, which is to be killed by George's son Prince James. However, after the Prince is killed, George learns that he has a twin brother who could take the Prince's place. David, posing as James, replaces the Prince and completes the task. Midas deems the dragon's slayer worthy to marry his daughter and offers to unite his kingdom with George's through marriage between their children. Since Fredrick is restored by Lake Nosto's water, Midas does not appear to have a problem with Abigail marrying him instead of David.

King Xavier

King Xavier (played by Joaquim de Almeida) is a wealthy king based on the unnamed King from the Rumpelstiltskin story. After Cora, the miller's daughter bumps into Princess Ava, he forces her to kneel down and apologize, humiliating her. During a masquerade ball held by Xavier to determine who will be the bride of his son Prince Henry, he recognizes one of the dancers to be Cora. To answer for a piece of straw on her dress, she claims to be able to turn straw into gold. Xavier soon tells Cora that if she can stay in a tower filled with straw and spin it all into gold overnight, she can marry his son. If she fails, she must forfeit her life. After Rumplestiltskin teaches Cora the art, to Xavier's surprise, all the straw is spun into gold and Cora takes Henry's hand in marriage. The night before her marriage, Cora visits Xavier with the intention of ripping out his heart. During this, he tells her that "love is weakness" (a phrase that eventually becomes her trademark). She leaves with her own heart in a box, sparing King Xavier. Months later, when Henry and Cora's daughter is born, Cora shows her child to the King's court. King Xavier asks Cora what the child is named, she replies Regina, for one day she will be Queen.

Knave of Hearts

The Knave of Hearts (played by Paul McGillion) is a servant of Cora (as the Queen of Hearts). When The Evil Queen Regina and Jefferson come to Wonderland, the Knave of Hearts leads the army to capture them. Jefferson is captured, but The Evil Queen escapes. The Knave of Hearts brings Jefferson to the Queen of Hearts who asks him how he has entered Wonderland. Jefferson states that he came by use of his hat, but no longer has it since The Evil Queen obtained it. The Knave of Hearts has Jefferson become a Hatter in order to make another hat that is similar to his.

The Knave of Hearts is present when Captain Hook later comes to Wonderland when he is hired by The Evil Queen to kill Cora in Wonderland.

Kurt Flynn

Kurt Flynn (played by John Pyper-Ferguson) is the father of Owen Flynn. While camping in Maine, the curse went into effect, causing Storybrooke to magically appear overnight. The effects of their car being destroyed cause Kurt and Owen to find Storybrooke where they are directed to Regina. She agrees to have Kurt's car fixed, but develops a bond with Owen after realizing she is not truly happy. After Kurt witnesses Regina Mills (The Evil Queen) controlling Sheriff Graham Humbert (The Huntsman)'s heart, he and Owen attempt to leave town. Following a high speed car chase through the town, Kurt is arrested. He orders his son to escape the town; Owen vows to find his father again.

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 finds that Regina had killed Kurt shortly after Owen escaped. Owen receives confirmation upon finding his father's skull at their old campsite.

Maid Marian

Maid Marian (played by Christie Liang) is the target for the affection of the Sheriff of Nottingham. She runs away with Robin Hood after falling in love with him. Sometime later, Marian is pregnant and falls ill, causing Robin Hood to obtain a magic wand from Rumplestiltskin's castle to heal her. After successfully curing her, Rumplestiltskin takes Belle to witness him killing Hood for stealing from him. However, after seeing the restored Marian and realizing her pregnancy, Belle begs Rumplestiltskin not to kill him or else the child would become fatherless. Rumplestiltskin purposely misses shooting him, alarming the pair to escape the woods.

Maleficent

Kristin Bauer van Straten plays Maleficent.

Maleficent (played by Kristin Bauer van Straten) is a witch who is able to take the form of a fire-breathing dragon.

After trying to kill Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)'s mother with no avail, Maleficent returned her attention to Aurora herself who she inflicts with a sleeping curse, putting both the Princess and her kingdom into a thorn-adorned ruin. The reason and circumstances for this currently remains unknown. When Mulan asks Aurora how she came to be in her cursed state, Aurora tells her that she is not the only one who knows about sacrifice; she also had told Prince Phillip not to come after her. Maleficent had also cursed Phillip by transforming him into a beast called the Yaoguai and banished him to a far away land so that he is incapable of reaching Aurora. He remains in this form until he is eventually found by Belle who uses fairy dust to return him to human form.

Afterwards, in hope to find Snow White, Prince Charming makes a deal with Rumplestiltskin; he will receive his mother's charmed ring if he manages to hide Rumplestiltskin's potion inside the belly of a beast. He heads to the said location and encounters Maleficent who unexpectedly turns into a giant fire-breathing dragon. Charming manages to place the potion inside Maleficent's body and retrieves the ring from Rumpelstiltskin to find and awaken Snow White.

Eventually Maleficent gives up on her revenge against Aurora's mother, finding solace in her pet black unicorn. It is also revealed that she is approached at some point by the The Evil Queen Regina, who trades the Dark Curse, created by Rumplestiltskin, for Maleficent's sleeping curse, in order to punish Snow White. However, frustrated at the failure of the sleeping curse, The Evil Queen desires the Dark Curse once more, but Maleficent refuses, proclaiming that they made a deal and the curse belongs to her now. Regina challenges her to a magic spar after reminiscing over how Sleeping Beauty has bested Maleficent, referring to Aurora's mother. Regina eventually defeats Maleficent by threatening her unicorn and takes back the curse. She allows Maleficent to live, saying that she is her only friend. Maleficent warns of the curse's dangers and of how it would leave a void in Regina's heart.

When the curse takes hold, Regina Mills (The Evil Queen) traps Maleficent in her dragon form and imprisons her in a cave beneath Storybrooke's abandoned library. Later, in a desperate attempt to prove magic and the curse is real, Henry Mills takes a bite of a poisoned apple turnover that was intended for his birth mother Emma Swan. He falls under a sleeping curse, leading Emma to finally believe in the curse. She forms an unlikely alliance with Henry's adoptive mother, Regina, to find a cure. They go to Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) for an answer, who states that the potion needed to save Henry is hidden inside Maleficent under the library. The potion will revive Henry, but he requests Emma must be the one to retrieve it. Eventually, Emma supposedly kills Maleficent and retrieves the bottle of true love inside of her.

However, the caves below the library are imbued with strong magic that kept Maleficent alive as she was actually kept in the cave to protect the "fail-safe" trigger that could end the curse and destroy Storybrooke. Maleficent reforms as an undead-like body from the earth to fight Captain Hook, who Regina uses as a distraction while she retrieves the trigger to destroy the curse.

Milah

Milah (played by Rachel Shelley) is Rumplestiltskin's deceased wife and Baelfire's mother. She is first introduced consuming alcohol at the local village tavern with a band of pirates, one of them revealed to be Killian Jones. The next morning, a local villager tells Rumplestiltskin that the same pirates had abducted her. Rumplestiltskin arrives at the docks and begs the pirates for his wife back, but only after Rumplestiltskin defeats Jones in a duel. He is too afraid to fight Jones and abandons Milah. Some time later, after Rumplestiltskin became The Dark One and Baelfire has left, Jones encounters Rumplestiltskin and informs him that Milah has died. After stopping Rumplestiltskin from ripping out Jones' heart, Milah reveals herself to be alive and that she had fallen in love with Jones, willingly haven sailed away with him. In exchange for her life as well as Jones', she offers him a magic bean that he wants to use in order to find Baelfire. After seeing the bean and promising both Jones and Milah their safety, Rumplestiltskin confronts Milah about leaving her son. Milah admits that she regrets leaving her son and retorted that her misery clouded her judgement since she never loved Rumplestiltskin. This causes an enraged Rumplestiltskin to rip her heart out and crush it, leaving her to die in Jones' arms.

Mr. William Smee

Mr. William Smee (played by Christopher Gauthier) is a man capable of procuring objects that are hard to find. In the Enchanted Forest, he makes a deal with Rumplestiltskin in order to get his life extended; Smee trades him a magic bean for his age reversal. Captain Hook manages to intervene and kidnaps Smee to obtain the magic bean, later appointing him as a crewman on his ship, The Jolly Roger. Hook uses the bean to create a portal that takes the ship to Neverland where he and his crew will never age. In Neverland, William Smee serves as an adviser to Hook, assisting in his murderous aspirations to kill Rumplestiltskin and his aspirations to obtain information and raise the newly arrived Baelfire. He worries of the crew being murdered by The Lost Boys, who are searching for Baelfire.

In Storybrooke, William Smee appears as a homeless man who kidnaps Belle under the orders of her father Moe French. When Mr. Gold captures Smee to learn where Hook is, Smee states that he wasn't able to find Hook in Storybrooke. Mr. Gold later uses him as a guinea pig for a spell that would enable anyone to cross the border to Storybrooke without losing their memories again. When Captain Hook arrives Storybrooke, Smee immediately begins following orders. He gives Hook Mr. Gold's most prized possession: Baelfire's shawl. In retaliation, Mr. Gold turns Smee into a rat.

Nova/Sister Astrid

Nova (played by Amy Acker) is a new fairy being trained by The Blue Fairy. While carrying a bag of fairy dust, Nova accidentally sprinkles some on an egg. When the egg hatches in the dwarf mines, Dreamy emerges. Nova and Dreamy later fall in love and plan to run away. When The Blue Fairy tells Dreamy that Nova will lose her wings if she elopes with him, Dreamy ends the relationship breaking Nova's heart. He is renamed Grumpy after he returns to the mines.

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 Sister 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.

Peter

Peter (played by Jesse Hutch) was the son of a blacksmith and Red Riding Hood's lover. Red and Peter had plans to leave the village and see the world together. During a series of nightly wolf attacks, Red and Snow believe that Peter is the wolf and is behind the bloodshed. The two devise a plan to chain Peter down, Red staying with him overnight. It is later revealed that Red is actually the wolf and she ends up killing Peter by ripping him to shreds. While talking to Dr. Whale in Storybrooke, she sadly admits to "eating her boyfriend."

Presumably, the name Peter comes from Peter and the Wolf, a composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936.

Pongo

Pongo is the pet dalmatian of Archie Hopper.

Prince Henry

Prince Henry (played by Zak Santiago as a young man, Tony Perez as his older self) is the son of King Xavier. He married Cora after she demonstrated the ability to spin straw into gold. He is also the loving but weak father of the The Evil Queen Regina and serves as her royal valet in the Enchanted Forest. Regina's adopted son Henry Mills in Storybrooke is named after him.

Henry is supportive of Regina, but does not protect her against the manipulations or actions of her mother. Although he objects to Regina's cruel and evil behavior as queen, he continues to possess a strong love for her. When Regina is locked in her room at the palace, Henry brings poisonous vipers to the Genie to free her. Some time after, he is abducted by Cora and held captive in Wonderland as leverage against Regina. Regina rescues him with the Mad Hatter's help. He advises her to visit Maleficent to retrieve her curse. When she is unable to enact the curse properly, she visits Rumplestiltskin and is told that she must tear out the heart of the thing she loves most, understanding this to mean her father. He tries to convince her that they can still be happy together and start a new life, but she kills him. He is buried in a grave near the site where she enacts the curse.

In Storybrooke, his tomb becomes a large mausoleum.

Prince James

Prince James (played by Josh Dallas) is the deceased twin brother of Prince "Charming" David. He competes in a battle against a challenger, preparing for his acceptance from King Midas to slay a dragon as part of a deal between him and James' father, King George. However, after celebrating the deal, James is stabbed to death by the nearly dead challenger. This worries George about his future and his kingdom, until Rumplestiltskin tells him that James has a twin brother, as it appears that the king adopted James through Rumplestiltskin in order to save the kingdom. He then tells the King that he can bring the twin to the castle to have him pose as James, in return for a wand that the Fairy Godmother carries.

Prior to these events, James and his lover Jacqueline 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. Anton later believes David to be James, viciously punching him at first glance.

Prince Phillip

Prince Phillip (played by Julian Morris) is the true love of Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty). In addition to Aurora being cursed to sleep, the evil witch Maleficent transformed Phillip into a monster of Chinese folklore called the Yaoguai.

When Belle hears of a beast that roams the kingdom, she decides to have an adventure and help hunt. She later meets Mulan who helps her hunt the Yaoguai through the forest. The beast injures Mulan, but Belle uses fairy dust to return Phillip to his human self. He tends to Mulan's wounds from his previous unintentional attack, and she gratefully became his companion on his quest to find and awaken Aurora. As The Evil Queen Regina's curse is activated, those spared from it are frozen in time. He and Mulan later rescue Aurora from her sleeping curse.

A wraith later marks Phillip as his next victim by burning its symbol into his hand. Desperate to protect Aurora and Mulan, he leaves them during their journey to a safe haven. The two later locate him but he begs them not to interfere with his plans. The wraith sucks out Phillip's soul, and he presumably dies. He is laid to rest in the same place as Aurora during her curse, and when Emma and Mary Margaret (Snow White) arrive a short distance away, Mulan believes they caused the wraith to appear as well as Phillip's death. It is later revealed by Cora that Prince Phillip's soul was merely transported to another world, and Aurora and Mulan agree to search for it. They successfully restore Phillip and the three find a wounded Neal Cassidy (Baelfire) along a shoreline.

Prince Thomas/Sean Herman

Prince Thomas (played by Tim Phillipps) is the husband of Cinderella whom he met the night she struck a deal with Rumplestiltskin. They decide to wed. However, at their wedding reception, Rumplestiltskin reminds Ella of the contract and informs her that he is asking for her first-born child. When she discovers she is pregnant, she attempts to run away. However, Thomas and Prince Charming devise a plan to capture Rumplestiltskin. The plan succeeds, but Thomas disappears. Rumplestiltskin vows that she will never see Thomas again until the contract is fulfilled.

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 Ashley. 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.

Princess Abigail/Kathryn Nolan

Anastasia Griffith plays Princess Abigail and Kathryn Nolan.

Princess Abigail (played by Anastasia Griffith) is the daughter of King Midas. She was to marry Prince "Charming" James, but when James falls in love with Snow White, Abigail helps him run away. She is in love with Frederick, a knight she was to marry until he was turned into gold while protecting her father.

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. Later, she gets accepted into a law school in Boston, and asks David to move with her. David refuses and suggests they end their marriage. Kathryn then learns about David's affair with Mary Margaret. She is initially furious, but soon realizes that David never loved her the way he loves Mary Margaret. She decides to go to Boston alone, leaving David a letter telling him that she wants him to be happy with Mary Margaret and that she forgives them both. Regina steals the letter from the Nolans' home and burns it before David can read it. As she leaves Storybrooke, Kathryn's car crashes at the city limits. It is found abandoned by a teacher, who is really Frederick. The missing persons case becomes a murder trial when a heart proven to be Kathryn's is found in Mary Margaret's jewelry box. It is revealed that Regina worked with Rumplestiltskin to attempt to frame Mary Margaret for Kathryn's murder, when Rumplestiltskin was in fact hiding Kathryn. She is later found alive behind Granny's Diner. She does not remember anything about her disappearance other than being imprisoned in a basement. Sidney Glass eventually takes the blame for Kathryn's kidnapping. After the curse was broken, Kathryn and Frederick live happily together in Kathryn's home.

Queen Ava

Queen Ava (played by Rena Sofer) is the deceased mother of Snow White and the first wife of King Leopold. As a Princess, she trips a young Cora, who is working as a miller's daughter, causing Eva to fly into rage. As a better adult, she teaches her daughter kindness, respect for the service, and to avoid black 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 Blue 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 dies shortly after. Following the funeral of the Queen, the "Blue Fairy" is revealed to be Cora in disguise. Over the corpse of Eva, Cora confesses to poisoning her in order to place Regina on the throne, as well as to turn Snow White evil.

Quinn

Quinn (played by Ben Hollingsworth) is another wolf that Red Riding Hood encounters when he steals her cloak in the woods. Quinn informs Red that she doesn't need to use the cloak and that there is another way to control her wolf-side, taking her underground into a buried castle. Red is introduced to Anita, who claims to be her mother. Snow White discovers the castle, and Quinn chokes her to protect their society. Red claims her to be a friend and she is saved. The Evil Queen's knights then invade the castle, killing Quinn with an arrow.

Robin Hood

Robin Hood (played by Tom Ellis) is an archer, who breaks into Rumplestiltskin's castle to steal a magic wand. Rumplestiltskin kidnaps him and tortures him with the intention of killing him before Belle frees him. Hood tries to get Belle to flee with him, but she refuses, remembering her promise to serve Rumplestiltskin. As punishment for freeing him, Rumplestiltskin forces Belle to come with him to murder Hood. In Sherwood Forest, the two find him tending to a sickly Maid Marian who is pregnant and ill. Belle persuades Rumplestiltskin not to leave a child fatherless; the arrow purposely misses, leaving Robin Hood and Marian to flee.

Ruth

Ruth (played by Gabrielle Rose) was the mother of Prince James and Prince Charming.

She tried to convince her second son to marry a grain merchant's daughter for her dowry 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. When Charming came back and tells her that he is forced to marry King Midas' daughter, Princess Abigail, and that they can never see each other again, she gives him her ring in order for him to pass on to his true love, which turns out to be Snow White.

Ruth is shot by a poisoned arrow when Charming arranges a rendezvous at her hideout which King George ambushed. As Charming, Snow and Lancelot take her to find the curative waters of Lake Nostos, she offers Snow a charm that indicates the sex of her firstborn child, but because of the potion King George has given Snow, it indicates nothing for her. When the lake is found to have dried up, Ruth wants to give the last remaining water to Snow to cure her; Snow protests, but Ruth does not appear to be healed by the water, and as her dying wish asks to see Charming and Snow married.

Seer

The Seer (played by Brighid Fleming as a child, Shannon Lucio as an adult) is first seen as a little girl and prisoner kept in a cage in the camp of the forces of the Duke. Rumplestiltskin is training with the army during the Ogre Wars and is stationed in the camp. When he hears a child's voice call his name, Rumplestiltskin responds by pulling back the covering of the cage, horrified to see a child whose eyes appear to be cut out and sewn shut with eyes embedded into her palms. She informs him that she can see the future, and that if he gives her some water, she will tell him his fate. He accuses her of merely overhearing his name, but she then tells him of his secret fear that he will be a coward like his father. He proceeds to give her some water and she tells him that she foresees his wife Milah giving birth to his child and due to his actions on the battlefield, his son will become fatherless. The Seer then tells him that they are fated to meet again, then vanishes.

Years after the predictions come true, Rumplestiltskin returns as The Dark One to see the now adult Seer demanding her help to find his son Baelfire. She complies and with this information she gives him the ideas for an evil curse and how it would play out when it is enacted. Before she dies, she asks him to place his hands on hers and in the process, transfers her power to him. The Seer tells him that the person that will lead him to his son is a young boy; but he will be the undoing of The Dark One. However, he is unaware that the boy would later turn out to be his grandson in Storybrooke, Henry Mills.

Sheriff of Nottingham/Keith

The Sheriff of Nottingham (played by Wil Traval) was once humiliated by Robin Hood who then stole Maid Marian (whom the Sheriff of Nottingham loved), turning him into an alcoholic. During his hunt for Robin Hood, the Sheriff of Nottingham runs into Rumplestiltskin who is also looking for Robin Hood. Rumplestiltskin magically rips out the Sheriff's tongue temporarily in order to get the whereabouts of Robin Hood.

In Storybrooke, he is Keith who was a frequent visitor to the Rabbit Hole bar. One of the nights, he met Belle in her Storybrooke identity of Lacey and tries to flirt with her to no avail. When Lacey goes out with Mr. Gold later that night, Mr. Gold later finds Lacey in the alley hooking up with Keith. He angrily pushes Keith off of her thinking she was being forced upon, but discovers it was planned. Keith approaches Mr. Gold to apologize stating he did not know they were still a couple, which Mr. Gold bitterly affirms. Using magic, he rips out Keith's tongue and destroys it, viciously beating him repeatedly. Lacey is attracted to Mr. Gold's dark side and watches happily as he continues to give Keith a continuous brutal beating.

Sir Lancelot

Sir Lancelot (played by Sinqua Walls) is a knight who used to work for King Arthur. Under the orders of King George, Sir Lancelot captures Snow White and brings her to King George. King George has Sir Lancelot give Snow a cup of cursed water that makes her barren forever with no chance of producing children. When Sir Lancelot goes after Snow, who later attacks him, he mentions that he had no knowledge of the water's content. Using the remnants of the water in Lake Nostos, Sir Lancelot is able to undo the curse on Snow. His form was later assumed by Cora in order to reactivate the Magic Wardrobe that brought Emma and Pinocchio to Storybrooke. The ruse was exposed by Mary Margaret (Snow White). After the group escape from Cora, Mulan reveals that Lancelot was cut down by a villain sometime after the curse and died an honorable death.

Sir Maurice/Moe French

Eric Keenleyside plays Sir Maurice.

Sir Maurice (played by Eric Keenleyside) is the ruler of a land and Belle's father.

He first appears to be waiting for Rumplestiltskin to save his people from the war. While Belle has hope, he does not. Rumplestiltskin appears and makes a bargain; he will end the war, but Belle must accompany him and be his maid in return. Maurice unaccepts, but Belle makes her own choice, agreeing to the bargain.

In Storybrooke, he is Moe French, a florist who is the owner of the flower shop "Game of Thorns". Mr. Gold repossesses the shop's van, insisting that the loan he made Moe is due, despite the "half a grand of roses" in the back of the van. While Moe shouts that Gold is "the lowest", he and his associate drive away with Moe's van. There is later a robbery at Mr. Gold's house, and he tells Sheriff Emma Swan he believes it was Moe. While Emma recovers most of what was stolen by Moe, Gold is still missing his chipped cup, an object which he holds most dear to remind him of his lost love Belle. Gold abducts Moe, bringing him to his cabin in the woods and beating him viciously. Emma stops Mr. Gold, and Moe is taken to the hospital. After the curse is broken, Moe begins to search for Belle, hiring 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 her past-self, but more importantly Rumplestiltskin. After Gold rescues Belle, she tells both him and her father that she wishes to never see either of them again.

Stealthy

Stealthy (played by Geoff Gustafson) was a dwarf who was part of the Seven Dwarfs' group. He receives his name from his axe, like the other dwarfs, because of his skillful infiltration abilities. When he tries to break Grumpy and Snow White out of their prison cell in King George's castle, he is killed during their escape. Grumpy would later comment, "I miss Stealthy," when trying to sneak into an enemy lair.

The Darling Family

The Darling Family consists of Wendy (played by Freya Tingley), Michael (played by Benjamin Cook), John (played by William Ainschough), Nana, and Mr. and Mrs. Darling.

When Baelfire attempts to take him and his father to a land without magic, following his actions as The Dark One, the magic bean used as a portal drops Bae in London. As a poor street urchin, Bae breaks into The Darling Family's house, stealing bread. He is soon discovered by Wendy Darling, who offers him food and shelter secretively. Wendy is later caught feeding Bae by Mr. and Mrs. Darling, but Mrs. Darling welcomes him as a member of the family and adopts him. The children tell Bae of a mysterious shadow that comes to their window every night with the ability to transport them to the magical world of Neverland. Having had his life torn apart by magic in the Enchanted Forest, Bae warns them about the dangers of magic and makes them promise not to go near The Shadow. Despite this, Wendy departs with The Shadow to Neverland.

The day after her departure, Wendy tells of Neverland being much like Bae's home, being inhabited by fairies and mermaids. However, the cries of The Lost Boys for their mothers at night are horrifying to her. The Shadow is a kidnapper and will not allow them to leave (hence the name "Neverland"). Wendy is only able to return for she is not a boy, The Shadow promising to come back for her brothers. That night, the children create traps to protect themselves. This plan does not work and The Shadow attempts to kidnap Michael. Bae pushes him out of the way and offers himself as a replacement, sacrificing himself. Wendy, having developed feelings (possibly romantic) for Bae, protests and tries to stop him from being taken, but is too late as The Shadow flies away with him. Wendy, John, and Michael look on helplessly as The Shadow takes Bae to Neverland. Once aboard The Jolly Roger in Neverland, Bae protests to Captain Hook that he wishes to be returned to The Darlings as he views them as his real family.

The Dragon

The Dragon (played by Tzi Ma) is a healer who runs a clinic in Hong Kong. He would often deal with particular illnesses and diseases where he has particular ways into treating them. Shortly before Storybrooke's memories are returned, August Booth (who had been in China) starts turning back into wood. He seeks the attention of The Dragon who demands an item close to August's soul plus $10,000. Meanwhile, Tamara who claims to have cancer also seeks The Dragon's help, meeting with August in a bar. August steals her money to pay The Dragon, receiving a bottle of potion that will cure his "illness". However, before he can consume the potion, Tamara catches him and takes back the bottle. Later that night, Tamara murders The Dragon, revealing herself to be a killer of magical beings. August returns days later, only to find The Dragon's corpse.

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys (also known as the "Lost Ones") are the murderous inhabitants of Neverland and servants of the currently unseen Peter Pan.

Felix

Felix (played by Parker Croft) is a member of The Lost Boys. He leads the group into searching Captain Hook's ship for a certain boy. Hook allows Felix and The Lost Boys to search his ship when he thinks that the boy in question is Baelfire (who hides from their sight). When Bae later discovers Hook as the man who took his mother away, he doesn't want any part on The Jolly Roger, Hook then allowing The Lost Boys to bring Bae to shore. Upon examining his face, Felix states that he is not the boy that Peter Pan wants as the parchment of the boy in question resembles Henry Mills.

The Shadow

The Shadow is a mysterious dark being with gleaming eyes, taking on the shape of an adolescent boy. At night, The Shadow enters the open windows of sleeping children and kidnaps unsuspecting boys, flying them away to Neverland in hopes of them being Henry Mills, the target in question. Wendy Darling was taken by The Shadow, but as she was a girl, was allowed to be brought back to her home, once she sees how much The Lost Boys missed their parents but were unable to return. Baelfire, who had been living with The Darlings, promises to protect Wendy and her brothers. When The Shadow returns to The Darling's nursery, Bae rescues Michael Darling from being taken, by allowing himself to act as a replacement. The Shadow takes Bae to Neverland but drops him in the waters encircling Neverland when frightened by a lit match. Captain Hook's ship, The Jolly Roger quickly discovers him drowning, leaving The Shadow without a prisoner. It is currently unknown if The Shadow is the villainous Peter Pan or a part of him.

Watchy

Watchy (played by Richard Ian Cox) is a dwarf who watches over the dwarf eggs until they hatch.

Woodcutter/Michael Tillman

The Woodcutter (played by Nicholas Lea) was Hansel and Gretel's father who was captured by The Evil Queen's guards. After banishing Hansel and Gretel to the Infinite Forest for refusing to live with her, she asks him why. The Woodcutter replies that they are family and family does not abandon one another. The Evil Queen releases him while telling him that he and his children can live together as a family once they find one another.

In Storybrooke, he is a mechanic named Michael Tillman who is the owner of Marine Garage. He is the father of Nicholas and Ava whom he wasn't aware about until Emma tells him. At first, he refuses to take in Nicholas and Ava because he fears that he would not make a good father and that he wouldn't be able to support them. Later, when Emma takes 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 decides takes them in.

Zoso

Zoso (played by Brad Dourif) is an unmatched sorcerer who was The Dark One before Rumplestiltskin. He used his powers to have parents send their children to fight in the Ogre Wars. However, Zoso was only a slave to the land's Duke who wielded The Dark One's dagger which enabled anyone who possessed it to control him. Seeking freedom from the Duke, Zoso manipulates Rumplestiltskin while in the form of a beggar by telling him to burn down the Duke's castle and steal The Dark One's dagger. After the objectives are filled, Zoso victoriously insults Rumplestiltskin who ends up stabbing Zoso with the dagger. Before regressing back to human form and dying, Zoso states that Rumplestiltskin is the perfect pawn in ensuing his death because he is also a desperate man.