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* ThePromise: Emma calls on the one Regina made back in "The Dark Swan" to get her to agree to her HeroicSacrifice plan. Although clearly very unhappy, Regina doesn't go back on her word, though it ends up being unnecessary. (And a case could be made that appealing to Hook one last time to have a change of heart may have been her way to try and save everyone without having to keep her promise.)
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: In flashback, before she sends him after Cora, Regina tests Hook's mettle by having him face his long-lost father. At first he seems to pass, when after hearing what happened to the man he decides he doesn't deserve to lose any more. But once he finds out his father [[DeadGuyJunior named his new son after his dead brother Liam]] (and used the same line about bravery and always being there for him that he had on him), he fails, destroying the letters of passage and killing his father. (Of course from Regina's POV it was passing.)
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: In flashback, before she sends him hi m after Cora, Regina tests Hook's mettle by having him face his long-lost father. At first he seems to pass, when after hearing what happened to the man he decides he doesn't deserve to lose any more. But once he finds out his father [[DeadGuyJunior named his new son after his dead brother Liam]] (and used the same line about bravery and always being there for him that he had on him), he fails, destroying the letters of passage and killing his father. (Of course from Regina's POV it was passing.)
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Although he mocks her for it, the fact Regina finally calls Killian by his first name instead of Hook or one of her various nicknames shows not only how dire things have become, but that she finally sees him as a person and is willing to try and save him, for Emma.
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Although he mocks her for it, the fact Regina finally calls Killian [[FirstNameBasis by his first name name]] instead of Hook or one of her various nicknames shows not only how dire things have become, but that she finally sees him as a person and is willing to try and save him, for Emma.
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** Emma is fully prepared to take all of the darkness into herself and then be slain by Excalibur to save everyone. Instead, once he is reminded of all he lost, of how his need for revenge had cost his half-brother a happy life, and that however he tried to deny it, he still loved Emma, Hook makes the sacrifice instead.
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** Emma is fully prepared to take all of the darkness into herself and then be slain by Excalibur to save everyone. Instead, once he is reminded of all he lost, of how his need for revenge had cost his half-brother a happy life, and that however he tried to deny it, he still loved Emma, Hook makes the sacrifice instead.sacrifice.
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* BrokenPedestal: Young Killian Jones is more than rocked to learn his father traded him and his brother to the owner of the ship in exchange of his debts.
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* BrokenPedestal: Young Killian Jones is more than rocked to learn his father traded him and his brother to the owner of the ship in exchange of for his debts.
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* DisappearedDad: Hook's father not only abandoned him and his brother but sold them to slavery on a ship to get out his debts.
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* DisappearedDad: Hook's father not only abandoned him and his brother but sold them to slavery on a ship to get out of his debts.
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** Emma plans on getting around this with saving Hook's life by sharing her heart with him.
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** Emma plans on getting around this with saving Hook's life by sharing her heart with him. (This is likely another reason Regina is coming along, since she's the only one Emma trusts who can remove hearts now.)
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** And while it's possible it may return, it does seem the entire plotline of Camelot and Arthur going evil has now been shoved aside. However, like plots such as Mulan and Ruby's adventures, or what will happen with Merida and her kingdom (and her desiring revenge on Arthur), this may actually end up being a case of TwoLinesNoWaiting or ThreeLinesSomeWaiting, rather than actually aborting them.
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** And while it's possible it may return, it does seem the entire plotline of Camelot and Arthur going evil has now been shoved aside. However, like plots such as Mulan and Ruby's adventures, or what will happen with Merida and her kingdom (and her desiring revenge on Arthur), this may actually end up being a case of TwoLinesNoWaiting or ThreeLinesSomeWaiting, ThreeLinesSomeWaiting in the second half of the season, rather than actually aborting them.
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Hook unleashes the Dark Ones upon Storybrooke as Emma must find a way to redeem her mistake.
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mistake. And in the Enchanted Forest of twenty-eight years ago, a test of Hook's strengths and weaknesses by the Evil Queen may prove key to saving everyone in the present, thanks to the untold story of his missing father.
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** Remember how Merlin's message said Nimue was the key to defeating the Darkness? Yeah it didn't pan out like that.
*** Although since the Darkness wasn't destroyed, only moved, and the heroes are preparing to travel to the Underworld, where all the spirits of past Dark Ones came from this episode, that plotline may yet pan out in the second half of the season.
*** Although since the Darkness wasn't destroyed, only moved, and the heroes are preparing to travel to the Underworld, where all the spirits of past Dark Ones came from this episode, that plotline may yet pan out in the second half of the season.
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** Remember how Merlin's message said Nimue was the key to defeating the Darkness? Yeah it didn't pan out like that.
***that. Although since the Darkness wasn't destroyed, only moved, and the heroes are preparing to travel to the Underworld, where all the spirits of past Dark Ones came from this episode, that plotline may yet pan out in the second half of the season.
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*** Although since the Darkness wasn't destroyed, only moved, and the heroes are preparing to travel to the Underworld, where all the spirits of past Dark Ones came from this episode, it may still pan out that way.
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*** Although since the Darkness wasn't destroyed, only moved, and the heroes are preparing to travel to the Underworld, where all the spirits of past Dark Ones came from this episode, it that plotline may still yet pan out that way.in the second half of the season.
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*** Although since the Darkness wasn't destroyed, only moved, and the heroes are preparing to travel to the Underworld, where all the spirits of past Dark Ones came from this episode, it may still pan out that way.
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* HypocrisyNod: When Regina tries to tell Hook he can't curse the town, he literally laughs at how ''she'' of all people has no room to talk on cursing the innocent.
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* HypocrisyNod: When Regina tries to tell Hook he can't curse the town, he literally laughs at how ''she'' of all people has no room to talk on cursing the innocent. Although she does make the point that she's no longer that person any more (so it isn't as hypocritical if she's condemning him for doing something she herself did that she now knows was wrong).
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Before she sends him after Cora, Regina tests Hook's mettle by having him face his long-lost father. At first he seems to pass, when after hearing what happened to the man he decides he doesn't deserve to lose any more. But once he finds out his father [[DeadGuyJunior named his new son after his dead brother Liam]] (and used the same line about bravery and always being there for him that he had on him), he fails, destroying the letters of passage and killing his father. (Of course from Regina's POV it was passing.)
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Before In flashback, before she sends him after Cora, Regina tests Hook's mettle by having him face his long-lost father. At first he seems to pass, when after hearing what happened to the man he decides he doesn't deserve to lose any more. But once he finds out his father [[DeadGuyJunior named his new son after his dead brother Liam]] (and used the same line about bravery and always being there for him that he had on him), he fails, destroying the letters of passage and killing his father. (Of course from Regina's POV it was passing.)
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* NotSoDifferent: Hook and Gold, again. Not only do we find out he too was abandoned by his father, but like Gold he ends up killing him. The man even dies in his embrace, the same way Malcolm did with Rumple; the difference is that Killian's father seems to have truly changed, become a better man, and pleads with Hook to do the same, while Malcolm was of course an unrepentant villain whose dying breath was spent on trying to tempt his son with a WeCanRuleTogether speech. Emma also draws the line between Hook and Gold by pointing out that if he goes through with his plan, Hook will be just like the monster he was hunting for hundreds of years.
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** The only way that the Dark Ones can complete their resurrections is by having others (namely, all of Emma's loved ones) take her place.
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** The only way that the Dark Ones can complete their resurrections is by having others (namely, all of Emma's loved ones) take her their place.
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* BatmanGambit: Gold pulls off a truly brilliant one to ensure that when Hook is killed, Gold once again becomes the Dark One and more powerful than ever.
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* BatmanGambit: Gold pulls off a truly brilliant one to ensure that when Hook is killed, Gold once again becomes the Dark One and more powerful than ever. Not to mention if the plan had gone as originally intended, it would have been Emma who died, not only giving all the darkness back to Gold but depriving Storybrooke of the Savior.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Gold warns Emma that Excalibur may not work and that it "chooses who it considers worthy and what miracles it will provide", this hints that using it won't save everyone the way Emma thinks, thanks to his plan.
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** And while it's possible it may return, it does seem the entire plotline of Camelot and Arthur going evil has now been shoved aside.
*** Like plots such as Mulan and Ruby's adventures, or what will happen with Merida and her kingdom (and her desiring revenge on Arthur), this may actually end up being a case of TwoLinesNoWaiting or ThreeLinesSomeWaiting, rather than actually aborting them.
*** Like plots such as Mulan and Ruby's adventures, or what will happen with Merida and her kingdom (and her desiring revenge on Arthur), this may actually end up being a case of TwoLinesNoWaiting or ThreeLinesSomeWaiting, rather than actually aborting them.
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*** Likeaside. However, like plots such as Mulan and Ruby's adventures, or what will happen with Merida and her kingdom (and her desiring revenge on Arthur), this may actually end up being a case of TwoLinesNoWaiting or ThreeLinesSomeWaiting, rather than actually aborting them.
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* IdiotBall: When Hook is doing his TeleportSpam to avoid being stabbed by Excalibur, only to suddenly turn into Henry. And Emma falls for it, lowering her guard so he can get the sword away from her. Granted, she may have thought it was really him, [[IHaveYourWife summoned by Hook as a hostage]], but she really should have remembered he could use a {{Glamour}} just as easily as she or Gold could.
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* AbortedArc: Remember how Merlin's message said Nimue was the key to defeating the Darkness? Yeah it didn't pan out like that.
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** Remember how Merlin's message said Nimue was the key to defeating the Darkness? Yeah it didn't pan out like that.
** Remember how Merlin's message said Nimue was the key to defeating the Darkness? Yeah it didn't pan out like that.
*** Like plots such as Mulan and Ruby's adventures, or what will happen with Merida and her kingdom (and her desiring revenge on Arthur), this may actually end up being a case of TwoLinesNoWaiting or ThreeLinesSomeWaiting, rather than actually aborting them.
* ArcWords: "I will always find you" and giving someone their "best chance" return. The former is especially meaningful since this time it's Emma saying it about Hook.
* TheAtoner: Emma has become this. Hook becoming it (again) is why he makes his HeroicSacrifice.
-->'''Emma''': I'm not giving in to the darkness. I'm giving in to love. I'm going to do it right this time.
* BaitAndSwitch: Belle comes back to the pawn shop, revealing Henry called her and told her everything, and seems about to lay into Gold for lying to her again...only to instead hug and kiss him, praising him for finally being a hero by being willing to sacrifice himself for her.
* ArcWords: "I will always find you" and giving someone their "best chance" return. The former is especially meaningful since this time it's Emma saying it about Hook.
* TheAtoner: Emma has become this. Hook becoming it (again) is why he makes his HeroicSacrifice.
-->'''Emma''': I'm not giving in to the darkness. I'm giving in to love. I'm going to do it right this time.
* BaitAndSwitch: Belle comes back to the pawn shop, revealing Henry called her and told her everything, and seems about to lay into Gold for lying to her again...only to instead hug and kiss him, praising him for finally being a hero by being willing to sacrifice himself for her.
* BringIt: After everything she's been through, and having been the Dark One, Emma is ''no one'' Gold wants to cross, since she still has the Savior's light magic and has nothing left to lose at that point.
* CelestialDeadline: The heroes only have until the moon reaches its height to find some way to remove the marks of Charon or otherwise stop the Dark Ones. After that, they'll be exchanged to the underworld so the Dark Ones can truly live again.
* ChronicVillainy:
** Gold ''again''. Apparently because Belle dumped him in the previous episode, he decided he'd rather have all the power of the Dark One again than die and go back to the underworld. While it's understandable he'd feel this way, considering how he describes the place, it seems his selfish need to protect himself once more matters more than being brave or a hero.
** Also, it seems trying to use the love she has for their daughter didn't work on Zelena after all, since she not only proclaims she's going to have sole custody (because she expects Robin and Regina to be dying soon) but that she will raise her baby to be wicked just like her.
* ChronicVillainy:
** Gold ''again''. Apparently because Belle dumped him in the previous episode, he decided he'd rather have all the power of the Dark One again than die and go back to the underworld. While it's understandable he'd feel this way, considering how he describes the place, it seems his selfish need to protect himself once more matters more than being brave or a hero.
** Also, it seems trying to use the love she has for their daughter didn't work on Zelena after all, since she not only proclaims she's going to have sole custody (because she expects Robin and Regina to be dying soon) but that she will raise her baby to be wicked just like her.
** When Killian's father asks about Liam, Hook alludes to his fate in "Good Form."
** The tornado Regina summons to send Zelena back to Oz not only looks like the one from "The Dark Swan", but the one which brought her to Oz as a baby in the first place.
** Emma's plan to save Hook is for them to share a heart, the same as Charming and Snow were revealed to have done in Season 3B.
** The tornado Regina summons to send Zelena back to Oz not only looks like the one from "The Dark Swan", but the one which brought her to Oz as a baby in the first place.
** Emma's plan to save Hook is for them to share a heart, the same as Charming and Snow were revealed to have done in Season 3B.
* DramaticIrony:
** As something of a staple for them, when Belle is embracing Gold and praising him for being a hero, doing the right thing for a change and being selfless, this turns out to be the farthest thing from the truth--for while him sending her away was truly selfless, his plan with Excalibur to get the power back is his most selfish act to date.
** Gold, thanks to Emma's blackmail, now is being forced to help rescue the man who's been trying to kill him for centuries, and who took his wife from him.
* DyingAsYourself: Hook pleads for this at the last, and gets it.
** As something of a staple for them, when Belle is embracing Gold and praising him for being a hero, doing the right thing for a change and being selfless, this turns out to be the farthest thing from the truth--for while him sending her away was truly selfless, his plan with Excalibur to get the power back is his most selfish act to date.
** Gold, thanks to Emma's blackmail, now is being forced to help rescue the man who's been trying to kill him for centuries, and who took his wife from him.
* DyingAsYourself: Hook pleads for this at the last, and gets it.
* GodzillaThreshold: Emma agrees with Regina that now that the Dark Ones have been summoned back, they actually do have to unleash "everything they've got" on Hook, even if it means killing him.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Emma is fully prepared to take all of the darkness into herself and then be slain by Excalibur to save everyone. Instead, once he is reminded of all he lost, of how his need for revenge had cost his half-brother a happy life, and that however he tried to deny it, he still loved Emma, Hook makes the sacrifice instead.
** Belle believes Gold did this for her, sending her to safety across the town line (and letting her fulfill her dream of seeing the world) while he stayed behind to give his life to the Dark Ones. While this would have been the case if Killian hadn't had his change of heart, his backup plan with Excalibur negated the sacrifice, thus subverting the trope in the end.
* HistoryRepeats: The show's theme of abandonment turns up again, since Hook (who had abandoned Baelfire) was himself abandoned by his father, and as part of his EvilPlan is also completely willing to abandon Henry (son of the woman he loved and whom he had taken under his wing to make up for abandoning his father Baelfire) to the underworld.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Emma is fully prepared to take all of the darkness into herself and then be slain by Excalibur to save everyone. Instead, once he is reminded of all he lost, of how his need for revenge had cost his half-brother a happy life, and that however he tried to deny it, he still loved Emma, Hook makes the sacrifice instead.
** Belle believes Gold did this for her, sending her to safety across the town line (and letting her fulfill her dream of seeing the world) while he stayed behind to give his life to the Dark Ones. While this would have been the case if Killian hadn't had his change of heart, his backup plan with Excalibur negated the sacrifice, thus subverting the trope in the end.
* HistoryRepeats: The show's theme of abandonment turns up again, since Hook (who had abandoned Baelfire) was himself abandoned by his father, and as part of his EvilPlan is also completely willing to abandon Henry (son of the woman he loved and whom he had taken under his wing to make up for abandoning his father Baelfire) to the underworld.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: When Gold gives Excalibur to Emma, he calls her a very brave woman, and clearly shows great respect for her being willing to do the thing he couldn't bring himself to do. How much of this is genuine is uncertain, though, since his BatmanGambit ends up proving how truly cowardly he still is, and her willingness to sacrifice herself (if it worked) would just give him the power he craved, and he'd be more likely to view this as more foolish heroic stupidity rather than something to respect.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Excalibur being used to destroy the darkness, since after Emma stabs Hook with it, it dissolves into dust. This might have been Gold's doing though, since the result was to siphon the power into him and recreate the dagger.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: While his backup plan suggests otherwise, Gold trying to send Belle to safety, and giving her what she had always dreamed of, implies he truly did adhere to this trope, despite her having left him.
* TheLastDance: Rather than "spend their last hours with their noses in a book", Mary Margaret suggests they follow Gold's advice and use their time to say good-bye to their loved ones. Henry alters this to them spending one last good time together, a dinner at Granny's.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Excalibur being used to destroy the darkness, since after Emma stabs Hook with it, it dissolves into dust. This might have been Gold's doing though, since the result was to siphon the power into him and recreate the dagger.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: While his backup plan suggests otherwise, Gold trying to send Belle to safety, and giving her what she had always dreamed of, implies he truly did adhere to this trope, despite her having left him.
* TheLastDance: Rather than "spend their last hours with their noses in a book", Mary Margaret suggests they follow Gold's advice and use their time to say good-bye to their loved ones. Henry alters this to them spending one last good time together, a dinner at Granny's.
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* MythologyGag: The Dark Ones each mark a Storybrooke resident with the "mark of Charon" so they can take their places in the living world.
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* MythologyGag: MeaningfulEcho: Not only does Hook's father's line about looking inside whenever you're scared and finding out "the kind of man you want to be/really are" get repeated by him to his new son, but Regina uses it on Hook, both in the past and the present, to the point of it becoming ArcWords for the episode. And at the end, when she discovers the truth about Gold, Emma gets him to give her what she wants by threatening to reveal "the kind of man he really is" to Belle.
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** The Dark Ones each mark a Storybrooke resident with the "mark of Charon" so they can take their places in the livingworld.world.
** Regina retorts to Zelena, as she is sucked away by the tornado and proclaims she'll see her again, that it will be "somewhere over the rainbow."
* NoOntologicalInertia: Stabbing Hook with Excalibur doesn't just kill him, it also brings back the wound it had dealt in Camelot which being tethered to it had healed.
* NothingIsScarier: Gold's description of what the underworld is like definitely partakes of this, and gives a good reason (besides selfishness and desire for power) for him to do anything he can to try and avoid being taken back there. Also displays some HorrifyingTheHorror, since from his words it really isn't about his being a coward (or at least not completely).
-->'''Emma''': Stop it, you're scaring Henry!
-->'''Gold''': He should be. We all should be scared.
* NotThisOneThatOne: Hook thinks the huge belligerent bruiser in the tavern is the one Regina brought him to face. She cavalierly kills him with a NeckSnap and disgustedly reveals the one she brought him to face was the bartender: his missing father.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Because she can hold over him the knowledge of what he's done, and threaten to expose it all to Belle, Emma is able to make one of these to Gold: to open the portal to the underworld for her to rescue Killian, and also to come along for the ride. Whether it's simply to make a portal back possible or to act as insurance/protection remains to be seen.
* MythologyGag:
** The Dark Ones each mark a Storybrooke resident with the "mark of Charon" so they can take their places in the living
** Regina retorts to Zelena, as she is sucked away by the tornado and proclaims she'll see her again, that it will be "somewhere over the rainbow."
* NoOntologicalInertia: Stabbing Hook with Excalibur doesn't just kill him, it also brings back the wound it had dealt in Camelot which being tethered to it had healed.
* NothingIsScarier: Gold's description of what the underworld is like definitely partakes of this, and gives a good reason (besides selfishness and desire for power) for him to do anything he can to try and avoid being taken back there. Also displays some HorrifyingTheHorror, since from his words it really isn't about his being a coward (or at least not completely).
-->'''Emma''': Stop it, you're scaring Henry!
-->'''Gold''': He should be. We all should be scared.
* NotThisOneThatOne: Hook thinks the huge belligerent bruiser in the tavern is the one Regina brought him to face. She cavalierly kills him with a NeckSnap and disgustedly reveals the one she brought him to face was the bartender: his missing father.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Because she can hold over him the knowledge of what he's done, and threaten to expose it all to Belle, Emma is able to make one of these to Gold: to open the portal to the underworld for her to rescue Killian, and also to come along for the ride. Whether it's simply to make a portal back possible or to act as insurance/protection remains to be seen.
* OrpheanRescue: Emma forces Gold into granting her the ability to embark on one of these for Killian. As a variation, not only is her whole family (plus Regina and Robin) going along, she compels Gold to join them, too.
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* PutOnABus: Zelena although the bus is actually a green tornado whisking her back to Oz.
* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: After Hook pulls a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the other Dark Ones, Emma resolves to bring him back to the land of the living. The episode ends with Emma and the others boarding Charon's ferry and sailing into the Underworld.
* ThatManIsDead: Emma quotes this saying Hook died back in Camelot
* WeWillMeetAgain: While the Twister takes her back to Oz, Zelena screams at Regina that she hasn't seen the last of her. Given how Zelena managed to escape death, Regina should probably be more worried.
* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: After Hook pulls a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the other Dark Ones, Emma resolves to bring him back to the land of the living. The episode ends with Emma and the others boarding Charon's ferry and sailing into the Underworld.
* ThatManIsDead: Emma quotes this saying Hook died back in Camelot
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* PutOnABus: Zelena Zelena, although the bus is actually a green tornado whisking her back to Oz.
*RescuedFromTheUnderworld: After Hook pulls a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the other Dark Ones, Emma resolves to bring SecretTestOfCharacter: Before she sends him back after Cora, Regina tests Hook's mettle by having him face his long-lost father. At first he seems to pass, when after hearing what happened to the land of man he decides he doesn't deserve to lose any more. But once he finds out his father [[DeadGuyJunior named his new son after his dead brother Liam]] (and used the living. The episode ends with same line about bravery and always being there for him that he had on him), he fails, destroying the letters of passage and killing his father. (Of course from Regina's POV it was passing.)
* SpannerInTheWorks: Gold didn't count on Emma being able to hear the whispers from the dagger and know that theothers boarding Charon's ferry darkness still existed because, as he said, "most ex-Dark Ones are dead."
* SpottingTheThread: In retrospect, it really should have been a red flag that he was up to something underhanded when [[OutOfCharacterAlert Gold gave Excalibur to Emma, no questions asked andsailing into no deal required]], when he'd been completely unwilling to trust her in the Underworld.
previous episode. Not to mention how long he took before bringing the sword to her.
* ThatManIsDead: Emma quotes this saying Hook died back inCamelot
Camelot.
* WhamEpisode: Let's see...not only does Hook end up sacrificing himself to destroy the Darkness and save Emma's loved ones, but it all turns out [[SenselessSacrifice to have been for nothing]], because Gold enchanted Excalibur so that instead the Darkness would be siphoned into him. So now not only is he the Dark One again, he has the power of ''all the Dark Ones'', including Emma herself. Which means that unless his heart having been purified, and his brief stint as a hero, means he can be that person Merlin mentioned who could hold the Darkness at bay and not succumb to it again, he's now become the most powerful and dangerous BigBad of the show. ''And'' now he's been forced into being a guide for Emma and the others as they go to the underworld to rescue Hook.
* WeWillMeetAgain: While the Twister takes her back to Oz, Zelena screams at Regina that she hasn't seen the last of her. Given how Zelena managed to escape death, Regina should probably be moreworried.worried.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Although he mocks her for it, the fact Regina finally calls Killian by his first name instead of Hook or one of her various nicknames shows not only how dire things have become, but that she finally sees him as a person and is willing to try and save him, for Emma.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Gold didn't count on Emma being able to hear the whispers from the dagger and know that the
* SpottingTheThread: In retrospect, it really should have been a red flag that he was up to something underhanded when [[OutOfCharacterAlert Gold gave Excalibur to Emma, no questions asked and
* ThatManIsDead: Emma quotes this saying Hook died back in
* WhamEpisode: Let's see...not only does Hook end up sacrificing himself to destroy the Darkness and save Emma's loved ones, but it all turns out [[SenselessSacrifice to have been for nothing]], because Gold enchanted Excalibur so that instead the Darkness would be siphoned into him. So now not only is he the Dark One again, he has the power of ''all the Dark Ones'', including Emma herself. Which means that unless his heart having been purified, and his brief stint as a hero, means he can be that person Merlin mentioned who could hold the Darkness at bay and not succumb to it again, he's now become the most powerful and dangerous BigBad of the show. ''And'' now he's been forced into being a guide for Emma and the others as they go to the underworld to rescue Hook.
* WeWillMeetAgain: While the Twister takes her back to Oz, Zelena screams at Regina that she hasn't seen the last of her. Given how Zelena managed to escape death, Regina should probably be more
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Although he mocks her for it, the fact Regina finally calls Killian by his first name instead of Hook or one of her various nicknames shows not only how dire things have become, but that she finally sees him as a person and is willing to try and save him, for Emma.
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* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: After Hook pulls a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the other Dark Ones, Emma resolves to bring him back to the land of the living. The episode ends with Emma and the others boarding Charon's ferry and sailing into the Underworld.
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** And while it's possible it may return, it does seem the entire plotline of Camelot and Arthur going evil has now been shoved aside.
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* AbortedArc: Remember how Merlin's message said Nimue was the key to defeating the Darkness? Yeah it didn't pan out like that.
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* ThatManIsDead: Emma quotes this saying Hook died back in Camelot
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* ThatManIsDead: Emma quotes this saying Hook died back in CamelotCamelot
* WeWillMeetAgain: While the Twister takes her back to Oz, Zelena screams at Regina that she hasn't seen the last of her. Given how Zelena managed to escape death, Regina should probably be more worried.
* WeWillMeetAgain: While the Twister takes her back to Oz, Zelena screams at Regina that she hasn't seen the last of her. Given how Zelena managed to escape death, Regina should probably be more worried.
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* BalancingDeathsBooks:
** The only way that the Dark Ones can complete their resurrections is by having others (namely, all of Emma's loved ones) take her place.
** Emma plans on getting around this with saving Hook's life by sharing her heart with him.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Hook and Regina apparently agreed to this in regards to him killing his father.
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* Patracide: {{Patricide}}: Killian on his own father.
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* BatmanGambit: Gold pulls off a truly brilliant one to ensure that when Hook is killed, Gold once again becomes the Dark One and more powerful than ever.
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* Patracide: Killian on his own father.
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* OhCrap: Zelena's expression when she realizes Regina now has the power to fuel her magic wand.
* PutOnABus: Zelena although the bus is actually a green tornado whisking her back to Oz.
* PutOnABus: Zelena although the bus is actually a green tornado whisking her back to Oz.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Gold tries to brush off the request for Excalibur as the only reason Emma would need it is...and Regina completes that it's Emma's plan to put the darkness in herself and destroy it, Gold stunned to realize she means it.
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* DisappearedDad: Hook's father not only abandoned him and his brother but sold them to slavery on a ship to get out his debts.
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* DisappearedDad: Hook's father not only abandoned him and his brother but sold them to slavery on a ship to get out his debts.
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* Hypocrite: When Regina tries to tell Hook he can't curse the town, he literally laughs at how ''she'' of all people has no room to talk on cursing the innocent.
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* Hypocrite: HypocrisyNod: When Regina tries to tell Hook he can't curse the town, he literally laughs at how ''she'' of all people has no room to talk on cursing the innocent.
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* ContinuityNod:
** When Regina calls him by name, Hook notes the many dark nicknames she's used on him in the past.
* Hypocrite: When Regina tries to tell Hook he can't curse the town, he literally laughs at how ''she'' of all people has no room to talk on cursing the innocent.
** When Regina calls him by name, Hook notes the many dark nicknames she's used on him in the past.
* Hypocrite: When Regina tries to tell Hook he can't curse the town, he literally laughs at how ''she'' of all people has no room to talk on cursing the innocent.
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Hook unleashes the Dark Ones upon Storybrooke as Emma must find a way to redeem her mistake.
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*BrokenPedestal: Young Killian Jones is more than rocked to learn his father traded him and his brother to the owner of the ship in exchange of his debts.
*DisappearedDad: Hook's father not only abandoned him and his brother but sold them to slavery on a ship to get out his debts.
* MythologyGag: The Dark Ones each mark a Storybrooke resident with the "mark of Charon" so they can take their places in the living world.
*ThatManIsDead: Emma quotes this saying Hook died back in Camelot
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*BrokenPedestal: Young Killian Jones is more than rocked to learn his father traded him and his brother to the owner of the ship in exchange of his debts.
*DisappearedDad: Hook's father not only abandoned him and his brother but sold them to slavery on a ship to get out his debts.
* MythologyGag: The Dark Ones each mark a Storybrooke resident with the "mark of Charon" so they can take their places in the living world.
*ThatManIsDead: Emma quotes this saying Hook died back in Camelot
