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** Snow's quip, "To be honest, the glass coffin gave me pause," and, especially, unsheathing Charming's sword to brandish at Regina at their wedding, establish that she is going to be less meek than some previous versions of Snow White.

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** Snow's quip, "To be honest, the glass coffin gave me pause," and, especially, unsheathing Charming's sword to brandish and brandishing it at Regina at their wedding, establish that she is going to be less meek than some previous versions of Snow White.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Emma gets two. The first is when she [[ActionGirl knocks out a fugitive]] by slamming his head against his steering wheel. The second is when she's [[FriendlessBackground alone in her apartment]], [[invoked]][[TheWoobie blowing out the candle on her birthday cupcake]].

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Emma gets two. The first is when she [[ActionGirl knocks out a fugitive]] by slamming his head against his steering wheel. The second is when she's [[FriendlessBackground alone in her apartment]], [[invoked]][[TheWoobie blowing out the candle on her birthday cupcake]].cupcake]].
** Snow's quip, "To be honest, the glass coffin gave me pause," and, especially, unsheathing Charming's sword to brandish at Regina at their wedding, establish that she is going to be less meek than some previous versions of Snow White.

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* DramaticIrony: When Emma sadly admits how her own parents abandoned her on a highway, it's Henry who [[LampshadeHanging points out]] what the audience knows, that her parents actually [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou sent her through the wardrobe for her own protection]].



* HourglassPlot: The episode begins and ends in this manner. The story began with Snow White lying unconscious in a glass coffin, while Charming was in a position to save her. The story ends on the note that the roles are reversed in Storybrook: Charming (presently John Doe) lies in a coma in an enclosed room of glass, while Snow White (Mary Margaret) is in a position to help him somehow.



* IfYouThoughtThatWasBad: Played for Drama. During their conversation at the Castle playground, Henry tells Emma not to take him back to Regina because, as far as he's concerned, life with her "sucks". In response, Emma momentarily loses her composure and sadly lets him know her life was ''[[TraumaCongaLine worse]]''. She tells him how she was found on a freeway as a baby instead of left at a hospital, taken in by the foster system, and sent back by her foster family at the age of 3 when they got a child of their own. The way Emma sees it, Henry doesn't have a leg to stand on if a rich, caring adopted mother is his idea of a terrible childhood.



* MeaningfulEcho: Archie tells Henry that giving into his dark side is always a bad idea, and then Jiminy Cricket says the same thing to Charming.

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Archie tells Henry that giving into his dark side is always a bad idea, and then Jiminy Cricket says the same thing to Charming.Charming.
** In the flashback, Charming and Snow White agree that letting Emma be the one to enter the Enchanted Wardrobe is all they can do to giver her ''her best chance''. Likewise, in Storybrook, Henry wisely recognizes that Emma put him up for adoption for the very same reason, to give him his "best chance" for happiness.
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* TrueLovesKiss

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* TrueLovesKissTrueLovesKiss: The episode opens with the famous scene of Prince Charming waking Snow White with a kiss.

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{{FLASHBACK}}! In the Enchanted Forest, Snow White is awoken from her sleeping curse by Prince Charming's TrueLovesKiss, and subsequently are married. The wedding is crashed by the Evil Queen who proclaims that she will end their happiness before vanishing.
-->'''Evil Queen''': My gift to you is this happy, happy day. For tomorrow, my ''real'' work begins. You've made your vows, now I make mine. Soon, everything you love, everything ''all'' of you love, will be taken from you. Forever. And out of your suffering will rise my victory. I shall destroy your happiness, if it is the last thing I do.




{{FLASHBACK}}! In the Enchanted Forest, Snow White is awoken from her sleeping curse by Prince Charming's TrueLovesKiss, and subsequently are married. The wedding is crashed by the Evil Queen who proclaims that she will end their happiness before vanishing.
->'''Evil Queen''': My gift to you is this happy, happy day. For tomorrow, my ''real'' work begins. You've made your vows, now I make mine. Soon, everything you love, everything ''all'' of you love, will be taken from you. Forever. And out of your suffering will rise my victory. I shall destroy your happiness, if it is the last thing I do.
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-->'''Emma''': Right. The lying thing. Thought your nose grew a little bit.\\

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-->'''Emma''': ->'''Emma''': Right. The lying thing. Thought your nose grew a little bit.\\



-->'''Evil Queen''': Oh, don't worry, dear. In a few moments you won't remember you knew him, let alone loved him.\\

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-->'''Evil ->'''Evil Queen''': Oh, don't worry, dear. In a few moments you won't remember you knew him, let alone loved him.\\

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* InsistentTerminology: Emma is a bail bonds''person''.



* WomenAreWiser: Averted. Snow White HotBlooded -ly tries to attack the Queen, while Prince Charming tries to talk things out.

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* WomenAreWiser: Averted. Snow White HotBlooded -ly HotBlooded[=-ly=] tries to attack the Queen, while Prince Charming tries to talk things out.
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{{FLASHBACK}}! At Snow and Charming's castle, a council[[note]]Charming, Snow, Red Riding Hood, Granny, Grumpy, Doc, Geppetto, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket[[/note]] discusses how to combat the Queen and her curse. After some arguing, the Blue Fairy arrives with a tree truck, telling them that is is enchanted and tasks Geppetto with making it into a cabinet, although it comes with the flaw that it can only protect one person from the curse.

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{{FLASHBACK}}! At Snow and Charming's castle, a council[[note]]Charming, Snow, Red Riding Hood, Granny, Grumpy, Doc, Geppetto, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket[[/note]] discusses how to combat the Queen and her curse. After some arguing, the Blue Fairy arrives with a tree truck, trunk, telling them that is it is enchanted and tasks Geppetto with making it into a cabinet, although it comes with the flaw that it can only protect one person from the curse.
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{{FLASHBACK}}! Snow and Charming arrive to an underground cell, where Rumplestiltskin is being held. Although a guard warns them to hide their identities, Rumplestiltskin already knows who they are and why they have come. He tells them that the Queen is preparing a curse, which will trap everyone in a prison of time where everything the love will be taken away, but that their unborn child is the only one who can defeat the Queen, and will seek them out on her twenty-eighth birthday. In exchange, Snow fulfills Rumplestiltskin's request of knowing the child's name: Emma.

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{{FLASHBACK}}! Snow and Charming arrive to an underground cell, where Rumplestiltskin is being held. Although a guard warns them to hide their identities, Rumplestiltskin already knows who they are and why they have come. He tells them that the Queen is preparing a curse, which will trap everyone in a prison of time where everything the they love will be taken away, but that their unborn child is the only one who can defeat the Queen, and will seek them out on her twenty-eighth birthday. In exchange, Snow fulfills Rumplestiltskin's request of knowing the child's name: Emma.

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