Line #48 Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E12InTheNameOfTheBrother


1	'''Season 2, Episode 12''':
2	!In the Name of the Brother
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6	->'''Victor:''' I just wanted you to have two sons again.\
7	'''Alphonse:''' And now...now I have none.
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9	->'''Dr. Whale:''' I wanted my name to stand for life...but everybody just thinks it's the name of a monster.
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11	Dr. Whale is tasked with mending Hook’s wounds and performing surgery on the stranger whose car crashed upon entering Storybrooke, but some of the townspeople fear that the stranger may have seen magic -- which could expose their true identities to the world -- and think that leaving him to die would be the best solution. Meanwhile, as Mr. Gold tries to reunite with a despondent Belle, Cora attempts to reunite with her daughter, Regina, and in the land that was, Victor Frankenstein desperately wants to prove to his disapproving father that he can, indeed, bring back the dead.
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13	!!Tropes:
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15	* AbusiveParents: Alphonse Frankenstein demeans Victor for his scientific studies and ends up shoving and screaming at him at the end of the episode.
16	* TheAce: Gerhardt is intelligent (though in more of a "wisdom" way than his MadScientist brother), a decorated hero, and handsome, compared to his more melancholy and unethical older brother.
17	* ArtShift: Dr. Whale's flashbacks stand out because he is from another story universe, where everything is black and white. Except for Rumplestiltskin, who shows up in a flamboyant red coat.
18	* AssholeVictim: Alphonse was shoving and insulting his son before Frankenstein's monster choked him to death.
19	* BackFromTheDead: Using a heart Victor received from the Enchanted Forest, Gerhardt is revived as an unspeaking shadow of what he once was.
20	* BadassBoast: Emma delivers one on Gold's behalf.
21	-->'''Emma:''' You're chained down. He's on his feet, immortal, has magic, and you hurt his girl. If I were to pick dead guy of the year, I'd pick you.
22	* CallingMeALogarithm:
23	-->'''Victor''': Are you a philanthropist?\
24	'''Rumplestiltskin''': Well, I've been called worse.
25	* CameBackWrong: Gerhardt Frankenstein is brought to life, sure, but he can't remember his old life, can barely speak, and is violent enough to choke his own father to death after he gets in an argument with his brother. Victor is almost willing to euthanize him, but shooting his own brother in the face is too much for him. For all we know, Gerhardt is still alive, rotting away in the Frankensteins' estate.
26	* CliffHanger: As usual, two--Gold comes to Emma, cashes in on the favor she owed him since "The Price of Gold", and demands she come with him to locate his son (now that he knows where he is thanks to Cora's magic globe)...while stating that if anything happens to Belle while he's gone, he'll kill all of them. Meanwhile after Greg had told Emma he saw and remembered nothing from the accident and claimed it only happened because he was texting, he calls the unknown "Her" and tells them, "You'll never believe what I saw."
27	* CouchGag: The title card features Rumple (as the only thing not black-and-white) in the Land Without Color.
28	* DeathByIrony: Alphonse ended up being beaten to death by his favorite son, who was brought back from the dead by his other son's experiments who he always looked down on.
29	* DeathGlare: [[RunningGag Once again]] Red is all [[ImStandingRightHere "Heeey"]] when Grumpy worries [[TheyWouldCutYouUp what would be done to a werewolf.]]
30	* FantasyForbiddingFather: Alphonse Frankenstein didn't approve of his son's aspirations to bring the dead back to life and even went as far as to purchase an army commission to stop Victor from conducting further experiments.
31	* FreudianExcuse: According to Victor, Alphonse became the man we saw in the flashbacks after his wife’s death and Victors reason for trying to reanimate the dead was to reunite them.
32	** In bitter irony, it was Victors efforts to do so that caused his relationship with Victor to degrade to the point that Alphonse calls him a disgrace to their family. Not to mention Alphonse ended up being beaten to death by his other son who Victor did resurrect. So looks like Victors experiments did end up reuniting his parents after all, but not in the way he intended.
33	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Gold fails to make Belle remember everything with a TrueLovesKiss.[[labelnote:*]]Two seasons later we find out his true love is his own power.[[/labelnote]]
34	* GraveRobbing: How Victor initially plans on finding a body to attempt resurrection before his brother dies and is used instead.
35	* IAmNotShazam:
36	** In-universe example, lampshaded by Victor Frankenstein. "I wanted my name to stand for life...but everybody just thinks it's the name of a monster."
37	** Later, Emma also notes that Dr. Whale doesn't have bolts in his neck, and Henry corrects her, saying Frankenstein wasn't the monster.
38	** Subverted in that in this universe the monster is also a Frankenstein.
39	* IHaveNoSon: What Victor's father said to him when he lost his younger brother. Twice.
40	* IgnoranceIsBliss
41	-->'''Ruby''': Regina thought she was punishing us by erasing who we were. She underestimated just how much crap we wanted to forget.
42	* ImStandingRightHere: Ruby's DeathGlare to Leroy when he's worried about her being cut up.
43	* JockDadNerdSon: Alphonse clearly favors his son Gerhardt, who followed in his father's footsteps and joined the military. He also pressures Victor to join the military as a camp physician.
44	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: When everyone is gathered at the hospital and finds out Whale has been drinking (and seems in no state to operate on the outsider), Charming has to explain [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E5TheDoctor what happened when he brought Daniel back from the dead]]--which, since they weren't there for this, greatly confuses and startles Emma and Snow.
45	* MadScientist: Victor Frankenstein, of course. He's not a cackling madman but he does watch impassively while the reanimated Gerhardt beats their father to death.
46	* MagicMap: Cora gives Rumplestiltskin a [[BloodMagic blood-activated globe]] that enables him to locate his son.
47	* MagicVersusScience: Rumplestiltskin is interested in Victor's work because, although he prefers magic, only science stands a chance of reanimating the dead.
48	* ManipulativeBitch: Cora [[{{Glamour}} disguises herself as Henry]] to get into Regina's vault, and because of this (as well as the FrameUp with Archie) Regina refuses to accept her overtures of love and atonement and intends to have her turn herself in to Emma. But thanks to the judicious use of a memento Henry made for her when he was much younger, and some careful appeals to family and solidarity, Cora is able to convince Regina to join her instead of people who will never forgive her, and work to steal Henry back.
49	* MediumBlending: Everything in Victor's world that has its origin from another world with colors keeps them. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Rumplestiltskin references his "rosy complexion."
50	* TheMourningAfter: In "In the Name of the Brother", Victor reveals that his father was never the same after his mother died.
51	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gerhardt after killing his father and later after attacking his brother.
52	* NiceGuy: We don't see much of Gerhardt, but he seems like a genuinely good guy before he dies.
53	* OverlyLongGag: The patient's ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[ShoutOut ringtone]]. It's as if Disney's saying "We own ''Star Wars'' so we don't have to pay for the song!"
54	* ParentalFavoritism: Victor's father clearly liked the younger son, Gerhardt, for his military experience compared to his older son, who pursued fanciful scientific experiments with his father's money.
55	* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Nicely averted. Despite the fact that most smartphones only have a four-digit passcode, random guessing gets them nowhere. Emma plugs some device into it to get past security.
56	-->'''Mary Margaret:''' You can't just guess, there are ''millions'' of combinations--\
57	'''Ruby:''' Ten thousand.\
58	'''David:''' Leroy, can't you, I don't know, hack it?\
59	'''Leroy:''' You ''do'' know computer hacking and pickaxe hacking are different, right?
60	* SelfMadeOrphan: After Victor brought him back to life, Gerhardt killed their father because he went after Victor for failing to bring Gerhardt back properly.
61	* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Grumpy voices his concern about allowing the stranger to live out of fear that he would expose the magic of Storybrooke to the government.
62	* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Gerhardt is a kind and sweet guy who loves his brother, and dies in his first (and only) episode, only to be turned into a monster.
63	* TheUnfavourite: Victor. See ParentalFavoritism above.

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