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* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse, everyone (even Regina) treats Emma's plan for Zelena as this if she succeeds in carrying it out, since for all the evil she's done, Zelena is still a helpless victim in this situation, rather than dying in the heat of battle or as an actual execution for her misdeeds. Once he learns the truth of what happened in Camelot, Hook treats Emma's actions in saving him as a betrayal which cannot be forgiven, too.

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* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse, everyone (even Regina) treats Emma's plan for Zelena as this if she succeeds in carrying it out, since for all the evil she's done, Zelena is still a helpless victim in this situation, rather than dying in the heat of battle or as an actual execution for her misdeeds. Once he learns the truth of what happened in Camelot, Hook treats Emma's actions in saving him as a betrayal which that cannot be forgiven, too.



* NoOntologicalInertia: Because the wound which was dealt to him was by Excalibur (a blade meant to kill immortals), and because her healing of it was done by her Dark One powers, Emma cannot reforge Excalibur and remove the darkness from herself [[DiabolusExMachina without Hook's wound reopening and killing him]].
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* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse, everyone (even Regina) treats Emma's plan for Zelena as this if she succeeds in carrying it out, since for all the evil she's done, Zelena is still an innocent in this situation, rather than dying in the heat of battle or as an actual execution for her misdeeds. Once he learns the truth of what happened in Camelot, Hook treats Emma's actions in saving him as a betrayal which cannot be forgiven, too.

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* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse, everyone (even Regina) treats Emma's plan for Zelena as this if she succeeds in carrying it out, since for all the evil she's done, Zelena is still an innocent a helpless victim in this situation, rather than dying in the heat of battle or as an actual execution for her misdeeds. Once he learns the truth of what happened in Camelot, Hook treats Emma's actions in saving him as a betrayal which cannot be forgiven, too.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: When Emma arrives in the hospital, Robin and Regina assume she's here for the newborn baby and threaten to fight her. Emma just smiles, says "I'd worry...if I was here for the baby" and teleports away with Zelena.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: When Emma arrives in the hospital, Robin and Regina assume she's here for the newborn baby and threaten to fight her. Emma just smiles, says "I'd worry..."That would be a problem...if I was here for the baby" and teleports away with Zelena.
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* InJoke: When Dr. Whale pops up with white hair (due to David Anders' role on ''Series/{{iZombie}}''), he's mocked for the "dye job" but shrugs it off as "Emma changes her hair and no one notices."

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* InJoke: When Dr. Whale pops up with white hair (due to David Anders' Anders's role on ''Series/{{iZombie}}''), he's mocked for the "dye job" but shrugs it off as "Emma changes her hair and no one notices."
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* ThisIsUnforgivable: Hook is '''sickened''' that Emma made him a Dark One to keep him alive. Emma does not take it well.

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* LampshadeHanging: Whale dyed his hair blonde, just because. It's actually due to David Anders now keeping his hair that color for his role on ''Series/IZombie''.
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* LampshadeHanging: Whale dyed his hair blonde, just because. It's actually due to David Anders now keeping his hair that color for his role on ''Series/IZombie''.
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In the past, Emma deals with Merlin under Arthur's control. In the present, Emma begins her plans for the sword.

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In the past, While Emma deals with Merlin under Arthur's control. In tries to prepare Hook for the present, Emma begins the truth of what she did in Camelot, and the true nature of her plans for Excalibur, Zelena gives birth to her child. In the sword.
past at Camelot, Emma must pay a terrible price to free Hook and the others from Arthur and Zelena's captivity.
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** After spending centuries hunting down the Dark One of Rumplestilskin for killing the woman he loved, Hook has now become the Dark One thanks to his new love, Emma.
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* VillainousValor: Zelena wants Killian to use his enchanted hook to cut off her her PowerNullifier so she can then free them from their manacles. He hesitates, since the last time he tried to make a deal with her, she betrayed him. But after taunting him that he has no choice but to trust her...she follows through on the deal. (This may be, however, because she wanted to linger and return to discover the truth of what happened in Camelot, and then taunt him and Emma, as she herself states.)

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* VillainousValor: Zelena wants Killian to use his enchanted hook to cut off her her PowerNullifier so she can then free them from their manacles. He hesitates, since the last time he tried to make a deal with her, she betrayed him. But after taunting him that he has no choice but to trust her...she follows through on the deal. (This may be, however, because she wanted to linger and return to discover the truth of what happened in Camelot, and then taunt him and Emma, as she herself states.)

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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: After what Emma had planned for her, Zelena very much relishes revealing the truth to Killian from the memories in the dreamcatcher.



* TwistingTheKnife: After what Emma had planned for her, Zelena very much relishes revealing the truth to Killian from the memories in the dreamcatcher.
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* TwistTheKnife: After what Emma had planned for her, Zelena very much relishes revealing the truth to Killian from the memories in the dreamcatcher.

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* TwistTheKnife: TwistingTheKnife: After what Emma had planned for her, Zelena very much relishes revealing the truth to Killian from the memories in the dreamcatcher.
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** Love, the very thing which has been the source of goodness, heroism, and hope throughout the show, is the reason Emma fell--because she was not willing to sacrifice Kilian in order to let Excalibur be reforged and cut the darkness out of her. At the same time, it is sadly fitting, since it was for love of Bae (to keep from being sent off to war and dying) that Rumple became the Dark One.

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** Love, the very thing which has been the source of goodness, heroism, and hope throughout the show, is the reason Emma fell--because she was not willing to sacrifice Kilian Killian in order to let Excalibur be reforged and cut the darkness out of her. At the same time, it is sadly fitting, since it was for love of Bae (to keep from being sent off to war and dying) that Rumple became the Dark One.
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* MoralEventHorizon: In-story, everyone (even Regina) treats Emma's plan for Zelena as this if she succeeds in carrying it out, since for all the evil she's done, Zelena is still an innocent in this situation, rather than dying in the heat of battle or as an actual execution for her misdeeds. Once he learns the truth of what happened in Camelot, Hook treats Emma's actions in saving him as a betrayal which cannot be forgiven, too.

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* MoralEventHorizon: In-story, InUniverse, everyone (even Regina) treats Emma's plan for Zelena as this if she succeeds in carrying it out, since for all the evil she's done, Zelena is still an innocent in this situation, rather than dying in the heat of battle or as an actual execution for her misdeeds. Once he learns the truth of what happened in Camelot, Hook treats Emma's actions in saving him as a betrayal which cannot be forgiven, too.



* WhamShot: Killian's name under the {{Glamour}} on Excalibur.

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* WhamShot: Killian's name under the {{Glamour}} on Excalibur. Also, him rising out of the Vault of the Dark One.

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* BlackHumor: Zelena claiming, as she is wheeled off to have her baby delivered, that you should never accept onion rings from the Dark One.
* BoobyTrap: Emma does a magical version of this with the chest that holds the Flame of Prometheus, so that when Zelena opens it she becomes ensnared in vines of darkness.



* CommitmentIssues: It turns out that more than just wanting the power to protect her loved ones, this is why Emma is afraid to let go of the darkness--because her fear of commitment drove her to only confess her love to Hook, and Neal before him, when she thought she was losing them, and now that she knows giving up the darkness will take them back to Storybrooke where she'll start a new life in a new home with him, she's afraid of the future.



* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhere: Said verbatim by Hook to Emma.
* InJoke: When Dr. Whale pops up with white hair (due to David Anders' role on Series/iZombie), he's mocked for the "dye job" but shrugs it off as "Emma changes her hair and no one notices."

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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhere: EquivalentExchange: Once again, a trade must be made--Emma can use the power of the tethering spell to both free Merlin from control and save Killian's life, but the price is that he could become another Dark One, thus multiplying the darkness and making it impossible to defeat, and that such an act would also corrupt Emma. So it is basically a sacrifice of heroism and goodness for life...and Emma is willing to pay the price.
* ForcedToWatch: Happens twice to Emma--first watching Merlin as he is in turn forced to kill Snow, and then later frozen by squid ink and forced to watch Zelena reveal Hook's memories to him.
* HappyPlace: When Killian is dying, Emma takes him to a field of flowers ([[{{Motif}} the same ones Nimue brought the seeds for, and which Arthur gave to Guinevere]]) where she tries to get him to keep fighting and eventually performs the tethering ritual.
* HostageForMacGuffin: Arthur and Zelena force Merlin to deliver this ultimatum: trade the dagger and spark for [[IHaveYourWife Snow, Charming, Regina, Hook, and Robin]] or else they will kill them.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: When Regina and the Charmings go to save Zelena and face down Emma, Regina comments that she's the only one who gets to hurt her sister.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Emma feels this way about her actions in saving Hook. Regina also references this as the reason Emma trusted her with the dagger, because she would take the necessary actions to save everyone, even and especially killing or destroying Emma.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight:
Said verbatim by Hook to Emma.
** This is also what Emma tries with Merlin back in Camelot. Thanks to FightingFromTheInside, he succeeds.
* InJoke: When Dr. Whale pops up with white hair (due to David Anders' role on Series/iZombie), ''Series/{{iZombie}}''), he's mocked for the "dye job" but shrugs it off as "Emma changes her hair and no one notices."



* {{Irony}}
** Early in the episode, Hook chases down Arthur only to be easily toppled, losing his sword, and unable to disarm or defeat his opponent. Flashback to Camelot three weeks earlier, and during the exchange of the heroes for the dagger and spark, Hook easily disarms Arthur of Excalibur.
** Love, the very thing which has been the source of goodness, heroism, and hope throughout the show, is the reason Emma fell--because she was not willing to sacrifice Kilian in order to let Excalibur be reforged and cut the darkness out of her. At the same time, it is sadly fitting, since it was for love of Bae (to keep from being sent off to war and dying) that Rumple became the Dark One.
* MoralEventHorizon: In-story, everyone (even Regina) treats Emma's plan for Zelena as this if she succeeds in carrying it out, since for all the evil she's done, Zelena is still an innocent in this situation, rather than dying in the heat of battle or as an actual execution for her misdeeds. Once he learns the truth of what happened in Camelot, Hook treats Emma's actions in saving him as a betrayal which cannot be forgiven, too.



* StartOfDarkness: Emma's use of dark magic to save Hook's life ends up transforming him into another Dark One.
* ThatManIsDead: When Hook addresses Gold as "crocodile," Gold responds he's not that man anymore.

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* NoOntologicalInertia: Because the wound which was dealt to him was by Excalibur (a blade meant to kill immortals), and because her healing of it was done by her Dark One powers, Emma cannot reforge Excalibur and remove the darkness from herself [[DiabolusExMachina without Hook's wound reopening and killing him]].
* NoSell: On stabbing Hook...because he too is now a Dark One.
* RedHerring: Everyone thought Emma intended to destroy light magic, and was going to use Zelena's baby to do it; Belle even found a spell she thought would be used, one which required the cries of a newborn. Instead, it was Zelena herself she wanted...and to pour her darkness into so she could then be slain, thus destroying all dark magic instead.
* StartOfDarkness: Emma's use of dark magic to save Hook's life ends up transforming him into another Dark One.
One--and at the same time results in her becoming the Dark Swan.
* ThatManIsDead: When Hook addresses Gold as "crocodile," Gold responds he's not that man anymore.anymore.
* TheReveal: Aside from Emma's true plan, and her motive in saving Killian, it's finally revealed why she blames the others sans Henry for failing her: because they all refused to let her keep the dark powers so as to save Killian.
* TwistTheKnife: After what Emma had planned for her, Zelena very much relishes revealing the truth to Killian from the memories in the dreamcatcher.
* VillainousValor: Zelena wants Killian to use his enchanted hook to cut off her her PowerNullifier so she can then free them from their manacles. He hesitates, since the last time he tried to make a deal with her, she betrayed him. But after taunting him that he has no choice but to trust her...she follows through on the deal. (This may be, however, because she wanted to linger and return to discover the truth of what happened in Camelot, and then taunt him and Emma, as she herself states.)
* WhamEpisode: Not only do we find out what Emma's true plan was, but TheReveal was that she needed to destroy the darkness, not just because it was right or to save herself, but to save Killian. Now Zelena is free and out for {{Revenge}}...and because of being made a Dark One against his will, Hook seems to want the same.
* WhamShot: Killian's name under the {{Glamour}} on Excalibur.
* WhatTheHellHero: Hook, Snow, and Charming try to call Regina on using the dagger to force Emma to confess what was keeping her from letting go of the darkness, but when Hook goes to speak to her later, [[SubvertedTrope Emma says]] Regina was in the right to do as she did, and she was glad of it.

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** Hook uses the magic inside his hook to freeze Emma.

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** Hook uses the magic inside his hook to freeze take the cuff off of Zelena.
** Rumple and Hook discuss the squid ink, which Hook later uses on
Emma.
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* MysticalPregnancy: Zelena suddenly goes from just two months along to labor instantly thanks to Emma.

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* MysticalPregnancy: Zelena suddenly goes from just two months along to labor instantly thanks to Emma. She also seems really, really well for someone who just gave birth.
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* CameBackWrong: Thanks to Emma, Hook has been reborn as, basically, a co-Dark One with her.



* StartOfDarkness: Emma's use of dark magic to save Hook's life is what causes her to finally become the Dark One.

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* StartOfDarkness: Emma's use of dark magic to save Hook's life is what causes her to finally become the ends up transforming him into another Dark One. One.
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* StartOfDarkness: Emma's use of dark magic to save Hook's life is what causes her to finally become the Dark One.
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** Hook uses the magic inside his hook to freeze Emma.

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** Zelena says Regina fixed her binder so she can't cut her hand off again as she did before.



* MysticalPregnancy: Zelena suddenly goes from just two months along to labor instantly and blames dark magic.

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* MysticalPregnancy: Zelena suddenly goes from just two months along to labor instantly and blames dark magic.thanks to Emma.

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** Zelena thinks she killed Whale the last time they met.

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** Zelena thinks she killed Whale the last time they met. met but he says she just slammed him against a wall. When Emma enters, guess what happens to Whale...



* MysticalPregnancy: Zelena suddenly goes from just two months along to nine months pregnant instantly and blames dark magic.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: When Emma arrives in the hospital, Robin and Regina assume she's here for the newborn baby and threaten to fight her. Emma just smiles, says "I'd worry...if I was here for the baby" and teleports away with Zelena.
* MysticalPregnancy: Zelena suddenly goes from just two months along to nine months pregnant labor instantly and blames dark magic.
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** Zelena thinks she killed Whale the last time they met.
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* InJoke: When Dr. Whale pops up with white hair (due to David Anders' role on Series/iZombie), he's mocked for the "dye job" but shrugs it off as "Emma changes her hair and no one notices."
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* ContinuityNod:
** Hook reveals the rings he wears mark men he's killed in the past. Once as trophies, now as regrets.


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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhere: Said verbatim by Hook to Emma.

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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhere: Said verbatim by Hook to Emma.Emma.
* ThatManIsDead: When Hook addresses Gold as "crocodile," Gold responds he's not that man anymore.
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* IKnowYoureStillInThere: Said verbatim by Hook to Emma.

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* IKnowYoureStillInThere: IKnowYoureInThereSomewhere: Said verbatim by Hook to Emma.
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In the past, Emma deals with Merlin under Arthur's control. In the present, Emma begins her plans for the sword.

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*IKnowYoureStillInThere: Said verbatim by Hook to Emma.

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