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* CouchGag: The title card features Red Riding Hood.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[invoked]] Red's backstory here was meant to lead to more, but the show soon grew so complicated that there wasn't any room for it and Meghan Ory was released from her contract.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[invoked]] Red's backstory here was meant to lead to more, but the show soon grew so complicated that there wasn't any room for it and Meghan Ory Creator/MeghanOry was released from her contract.

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* FamilyEyeResemblance: Anita shares her green eyes with her mother and daughter.



* GreenEyes: Something Anita shares with her mother and daughter.

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* {{Jerkass}}: While he had good intentions, Quinn not only tried to burn Red's cloak, her only defense against turning into the wolf, but he also tried to strangle Snow.


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* {{Jerkass}}: While he had good intentions, Quinn not only tried to burn Red's cloak, her only defense against turning into the wolf, but he also tried to strangle Snow.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Completely unintentional, but because Red missed her agreed-upon meeting, Snow follows the wolf tracks to the pack's den...and this leads the Evil Queen's soldiers there which results in Quinn's death. Despite both her and Red's protests, Anita casts the blame on Snow, which has dire consequences indeed.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Completely unintentional, but because Red missed her agreed-upon meeting, Snow follows the wolf tracks to the pack's den...and this leads the Evil Queen's soldiers there which results in Quinn's death. Despite both her and Red's protests, protests as to her innocence, Anita casts the blame on Snow, which has dire consequences indeed.
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* InternalReveal: Emma and Snow finally learn from Aurora [[CliffHanger at the end of the episode]] that she is sharing her nightmares in the netherworld room of fire with Henry (thanks to Gold's amulet letting him control the dream).
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* IAmAMonster: Red was convinced of this until taught otherwise about her wolf self by Anita and her pack; despite being forced to kill her mother when defending Snow White, she still embraces both sides of her nature. In Storybrooke however her long time without changing has robbed her of her control, and this (plus Spencer's {{Frameup}} with Billy) convinced her she's a monster again, to the point she chains Belle up instead of herself and offers herself to the townspeople's TorchesAndPitchforks mob. Thankfully, David finally convinces her otherwise.

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* IAmAMonster: Red was convinced of this until taught otherwise about her wolf self by Anita and her pack; despite being forced to kill her mother when defending Snow White, she still embraces both sides of her nature. In Storybrooke however her long time without changing has robbed her of her control, and this (plus Spencer's {{Frameup}} with Billy) convinced convinces her she's a monster again, to the point she chains Belle up instead of herself and offers herself to the townspeople's TorchesAndPitchforks mob. Thankfully, David finally convinces her otherwise.

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* IAmAMonster: Red was convinced of this until taught otherwise about her wolf self by Anita and her pack; despite being forced to kill her mother when defending Snow White, she still embraces both sides of her nature. In Storybrooke however her long time without changing has robbed her of her control, and this (plus Spencer's {{Frameup}} with Billy) convinced her she's a monster again, to the point she chains Belle up instead of herself and offers herself to the townspeople's TorchesAndPitchforks mob. Thankfully, David finally convinces her otherwise.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Variation. Ruby is so convinced she is a monster, and that she killed Billy/Gus thanks to her loss of control, that she willingly changes and offers herself to the townspeople as penance. David, then, has to appeal to who she truly is inside, not to fight against her "monstrous" nature, but to convince her of her own innocence so she will change back; the minute he succeeds, she has her control back.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Despite the fact their fight takes place in wolf form, this is how Anita ends up being accidentally killed by Red, rather than via fangs and claws.



* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Lesser example, but because Emma never told David what she did to obtain the potion of True Love, Regina is still focused on Henry/resisting using magic/grieving over Daniel, and Gold is busy with Belle, neither he, Ruby, nor Belle are aware of the cavern under the library which would have been a much safer place to chain Ruby up than the diner freezer.

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Lesser example, but because Emma never told David what she did to obtain the potion of True Love, Regina is still focused on Henry/resisting using magic/grieving over Daniel, and Gold is busy with Belle, neither he, Ruby, nor Belle Granny are aware of the cavern under the library which would have been a much safer place to chain Ruby up than the diner freezer.freezer. Neither is Belle, though she does offer to chain her in the library itself.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Completely unintentional, but because Red missed her agreed-upon meeting, Snow follows the wolf tracks to the pack's den...and this leads the Evil Queen's soldiers there which results in Quinn's death. Despite both her and Red's protests, Anita casts the blame on Snow, which has dire consequences indeed.



* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: This episode goes to show that werewolves in ''Once'' can transform at will.

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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: This episode goes to show that werewolves in ''Once'' can transform at will.will, once they learn to accept who and what they are.



* ShoutOut: [[Film/TheLostBoys A group of gothic, sinister, darkly supernatural creatures, living in a sunken room which had once been part of an ornate, sumptuous building, offering one of the protagonists the chance to join them and have control of their own destiny via the same powers they share]]. And the leader even ends up getting ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice!
* TakeAThirdOption: As Red herself points out, her grandmother wanted her to choose being a human and fear her wolf self, while Anita and her pack want her to embrace being a wolf no matter what the cost to her morals or humanity, with neither caring what she herself wanted. In the end she chooses to be both, because Snow White, her only true friend at this point, is the only one who accepted her as both.



* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: King George justifies killing an innocent man with the fact that he was actually [[TalkingAnimal a mouse]].

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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: King George justifies killing an innocent man with the fact that he was actually [[TalkingAnimal a mouse]]. Ruby beautifully calls him out on just who had the true humanity.
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* KickTheDog: Not only does Albert/George kill Billy/Gus, frame Ruby for it, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking reveal to the whole town that David is a shepherd rather than a prince]] (and thus unworthy of leadership), he destroys Jefferson's hat so there is no way for anyone in Storybrooke to help Emma and Snow get back--and this [[HopeSpot right after Leroy and the other dwarves had found the diamonds Blue and the other fairies could have made into the dust to restore the hat]].[[labelnote:*]]He [[KarmaHoudini seemingly gets away with this too]], until it's finally revealed in Season Six that [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty he's been locked up in the asylum ever since]], presumably by David as acting sheriff. Regina certainly wouldn't have minded at this point, even if she hadn't been focused on Henry and resisting magic.[[/labelnote]]


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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Lesser example, but because Emma never told David what she did to obtain the potion of True Love, Regina is still focused on Henry/resisting using magic/grieving over Daniel, and Gold is busy with Belle, neither he, Ruby, nor Belle are aware of the cavern under the library which would have been a much safer place to chain Ruby up than the diner freezer.
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%%* GreenEyes: Something Anita shares with her mother and daughter.

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%%* * GreenEyes: Something Anita shares with her mother and daughter.



* OfCorsetsSexy: We first see Anita in a rather revealing corset and leather pants much like another character we've seen before. Given how the show rarely does things without reason, the savvy viewer should figure out at least some of the spoilers.

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* OfCorsetsSexy: We first see Anita in a rather revealing corset and leather pants much like another character we've seen before. Given how the show rarely does things without reason, the savvy viewer should figure out at least some of her less-than-admirable nature before the spoilers.reveal.
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