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* CouchGag: The title card features Pan's Shadow.
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* TitleDrop: ''Twice'' by Regina. She not only states the episode title, but drops the series "OnceUponATime" title when she tells her story to Henry.

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* TitleDrop: ''Twice'' by Regina. She not only states the episode title, but drops the series "OnceUponATime" series title when she tells her story to Henry.
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* NoSell: On Pan taking Henry's heart again, because it was [[GenreSavvy enchanted by Regina]] [[CallBack with the same spell]] [[DramaticIrony Cora used]].

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* NoSell: On Pan taking Henry's heart again, because it was [[GenreSavvy enchanted by Regina]] with [[CallBack with the same spell]] used by [[DramaticIrony Cora used]].Cora]].

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* DramaticIrony: Regina takes a forgetfulness potion so she won't remember who Henry's birth mother is and thus waste all her time worrying about her coming to Storybrooke and breaking the curse...but it's entirely likely that also forgetting the sacrifice she was making (keeping Henry meant there was a chance her {{Revenge}} would one day be undone), or else the fact she was giving up those memories for selfish reasons, or just the way memory potions work (see what happened to Snow White), also cost her the ability to be a good mother.

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Regina takes a forgetfulness potion so she won't remember who Henry's birth mother is and thus waste all her time worrying about her coming to Storybrooke and breaking the curse...but it's entirely likely that also forgetting the sacrifice she was making (keeping Henry meant there was a chance her {{Revenge}} would one day be undone), or else the fact she was giving up those memories for selfish reasons, or just the way memory potions work (see what happened to Snow White), also cost her the ability to be a good mother.



* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Pan ties Emma, Mary Margaret and Regina to a tree that traps them in their regret. Unfortunately for Pan, Regina ''is not very bothered about the people she has tortured and murdered'' because it got her the one thing she ''does'', unconditionally, love - Henry. Thanks to this, she is able to break free and unleash all on the person who has harmed her son - in this case, Pan himself.

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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: NiceJobFixingItVillain:
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Pan ties Emma, Mary Margaret and Regina to a tree that traps them in their regret. Unfortunately for Pan, Regina ''is not very bothered about the people she has tortured and murdered'' because it got her the one thing she ''does'', unconditionally, love - Henry. Thanks to this, she is able to break free and unleash all on the person who has harmed her son - in this case, Pan himself.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter gives one to Emma, Snow and Regina for their failure as mothers, which is [[ParentalAbandonment absolutely horrendous]] [[{{Hypocrite}} coming from him]]. Fortunately, no regrets are given by Regina.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter gives one to Emma, Snow and Regina for their failure as mothers, which is [[ParentalAbandonment absolutely horrendous]] coming from [[{{Hypocrite}} coming from him]]. Fortunately, no regrets are given by Regina.



* TitleDrop: ''Twice'' by Regina. She drops the "OnceUponATime" when she tells her story to Henry.

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* TitleDrop: ''Twice'' by Regina. She not only states the episode title, but drops the series "OnceUponATime" title when she tells her story to Henry.
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** Rumple seems to agree with the NotSoDifferent speech from Peter Pan in the previous episode about the fact they both abandoned their son, to which Neal replies that's not the case because he came back for him.

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** Rumple seems to agree with the NotSoDifferent speech NotSoDifferentRemark from Peter Pan in the previous episode about the fact they both abandoned their son, to which Neal replies that's not the case because he came back for him.
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** Cora, despite being ''dead'', actually manages to ''help.'' Regina places the spell she used to stop people taking a heart ''on Henry'', so his heart is perpetually safe from Pan.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Pan ties Emma, Mary Margaret and Regina to a tree that traps them in their regret. Unfortunately for Pan, Regina ''gives no fucks about all the people she has tortured and murdered'' because it got her the one thing she ''does'', unconditionally, love - Henry. Thanks to this, she is able to break free and unleash all of the shit on the person who has harmed her son - in this case, Pan himself.

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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Pan ties Emma, Mary Margaret and Regina to a tree that traps them in their regret. Unfortunately for Pan, Regina ''gives no fucks ''is not very bothered about all the people she has tortured and murdered'' because it got her the one thing she ''does'', unconditionally, love - Henry. Thanks to this, she is able to break free and unleash all of the shit on the person who has harmed her son - in this case, Pan himself.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter gives one to Emma, Snow and Regina for their failure as mothers, which is [[ParentalAbandonment absolutely horrendous]] [[{{Hypocrite}} coming from him]]. Fortunately, no fucks are given by Regina.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter gives one to Emma, Snow and Regina for their failure as mothers, which is [[ParentalAbandonment absolutely horrendous]] [[{{Hypocrite}} coming from him]]. Fortunately, no fucks regrets are given by Regina.
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** In a way, Regina - she's not exactly "evil" or "good", in fact she's probably somewhere in between, but the fact that she has tortured and murdered millions and it means absolutely fuck all to her is enough to break Pan's "regret tree" and let her ''unleash all of the shit'' on Pan and win the day.

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** In a way, Regina - she's not exactly "evil" or "good", in fact she's probably somewhere in between, but the fact that she has tortured and murdered millions and it means absolutely fuck all nothing to her is enough to break Pan's "regret tree" and let her ''unleash all of the shit'' hell'' on Pan and win the day.
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*** Slightly subverted, however, in the fact that Regina would never have gotten the chance to do this (nor could they have retrieved the heart and saved Henry) if Emma hadn't been able to appeal to the Lost Boys as a fellow orphan and offer them homes and loving families, so that one told them about the pixie dust tree.


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* EnemyMine: Emma and Regina having to work together ever since the season started to save Henry comes to a head in an interesting way--Emma acts heroically, by appealing to love, family, and their commonality as orphans, to get one of the Lost Boys to tell them where Pan has gone, and then Regina acts villainously by refusing to regret any of her past atrocities because they got her Henry, thus allowing her to break free of the tree and get Henry's heart back from Pan.

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* ContinuityNod: Not only do the flashbacks reveal that even from the beginning, Archie was trying to offer therapy and kindness to Regina, it turns out he was the one who gave her the idea to adopt Henry and encouraged her to keep him while focusing on the present, not the past or future. It's also clear he already cares for the boy, as he will in the years to come.



** And finally there's the fact that despite Regina taking the potion, it's likely the fact that Sidney doing the digging to unseal Emma's records [[HoistByHisOwnPetard is how Henry, eleven years later, was able to find her with the parent-seeking website in the pilot]]--which again thanks to the potion, Regina had no idea was possible until it was too late.



* PlaceOfPower: Because it is where he made his deal with the Shadow and cast away Rumple to become Pan, the pixie dust tree has become this for Peter, allowing him to snare others with their regrets as well as shield himself until he has fully absorbed the magic from Henry's heart.



* WhamLine : How do we know Pan and Henry have swapped bodies? He finishes Felix's quote.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Rumple seems to agree with the NotSoDifferent speech from Peter Pan in the previous episode about the fact they both abandoned their son, to which Neal replies that's not the case because he came back for him.

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* WhamLine : WhamLine: How do we know Pan and Henry have swapped bodies? He finishes Felix's quote.
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Rumple seems to agree with the NotSoDifferent speech from Peter Pan in the previous episode about the fact they both abandoned their son, to which Neal replies that's not the case because he came back for him.him.
** Tink also has a quiet moment like this with Regina where she not only expresses happiness that Henry got rescued, but points out the Evil Queen did find love after all and thus proved she still had good in her. Which leads Regina to turn it back on her when they see the pixie dust glowing, revealing the former fairy believes again.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: How Peter shows Felix that he swapped bodies with Henry.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter gives one to Emma, Snow and Regina for their failure as mothers, which is [[ParentalAbandonment absolutely horrendous]] [[{{Hypocrite}} coming from him]]. Fortunately, no fucks are given by Regina.

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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: How Peter shows Felix that he swapped bodies with Henry.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter gives one to Emma, Snow and Regina for their failure as mothers, which is [[ParentalAbandonment absolutely horrendous]] [[{{Hypocrite}} coming from him]]. Fortunately, no fucks are given by Regina.Regina.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: How Peter shows Felix that he swapped bodies with Henry.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The baby Gold found for Regina just happened to be Emma's. (Per WordOfGod, Gold didn't have his memory until he heard Emma's name.) [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Regina calls it fate and destiny]].

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The baby Gold found for Regina just happened to be Emma's. (Per WordOfGod, [[invoked]]WordOfGod, Gold didn't have his memory until he heard Emma's name.) [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Regina calls it fate and destiny]].
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** Another case is Regina's rant to Mr. Gold as she realizes just who Henry's mother is, and what Rumplestiltskin's plan was-and Mr. Gold, who doesn't have his memory back, ''has absolutely no idea what she's talking about.''

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** Another case is Regina's rant to Mr. Gold as she realizes just who Henry's mother is, and what Rumplestiltskin's plan was-and was--and Mr. Gold, who doesn't have his memory back, ''has absolutely no idea what she's talking about.''



* MamaBear: Regina, Emma and Mary Margaret are tied to a tree that traps them in their regret with its own vines. Regina ''rips the vines apart and takes back control by stealing Henry's heart out of Pan's body.'' To be clear, Regina has tortured and murdered millions, but because it got her the one thing in her life - her son - she regrets nothing.

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* MamaBear: Regina, Emma and Mary Margaret are tied to a tree that traps them in their regret with its own vines. Regina ''rips the vines apart and takes back control by stealing Henry's heart out of Pan's body.'' To be clear, Regina has tortured and murdered millions, but because it got her the one thing in her life she loves - her son - she regrets nothing.
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** Another case is Regina's rant to Mr. Gold as she realizes just who Henry's mother is, and what Rumplestiltskin's plan was-and Mr. Gold, who doesn't have his memory back, ''has absolutely no idea what she's talking about.''

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** In a way, Regina - she's not exactly "evil" or "good", in fact she's probably somewhere in between, but the fact that she has tortured and murdered millions and it means absolutely fuck all to her is enough to break Pan's "regret tree" and let her ''unleash all of the shit'' on Pan and win the day.



* MamaBear: Regina.

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* MamaBear: Regina.Regina, Emma and Mary Margaret are tied to a tree that traps them in their regret with its own vines. Regina ''rips the vines apart and takes back control by stealing Henry's heart out of Pan's body.'' To be clear, Regina has tortured and murdered millions, but because it got her the one thing in her life - her son - she regrets nothing.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Pan ties Emma, Mary Margaret and Regina to a tree that traps them in their regret. Unfortunately for Pan, Regina ''gives no fucks about all the people she has tortured and murdered'' because it got her the one thing she ''does'', unconditionally, love - Henry. Thanks to this, she is able to break free and unleash all of the shit on the person who has harmed her son - in this case, Pan himself.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter gives one to Emma, Snow and Regina for their failure as mothers, which is [[ParentalAbandonment absolutely horrendous]] [[{{Hypocrite}} coming from him]].

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter gives one to Emma, Snow and Regina for their failure as mothers, which is [[ParentalAbandonment absolutely horrendous]] [[{{Hypocrite}} coming from him]]. Fortunately, no fucks are given by Regina.
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* BlindObedience: Felix, Pan's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is loyal beyond all reason to him. He literally believes Pan is always right and that Pan always wins. When all the lost boys are given a chance to go home by Emma, they all take it except for Felix who calls them out as traitors.
* BodySnatcher: Pan switched bodies with Henry before being sucked into PandorasBox by Rumplestilskin. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowed]] in episode 2 when Emma and the others found what they thought was Henry and it turned out to be Peter wearing some of his clothes.

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* BlindObedience: Felix, Pan's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is loyal beyond all reason to him. He literally believes Pan is always right and that Pan always wins. When all the lost boys Lost Boys are given a chance to go home by Emma, they all take it except for Felix who calls them out as traitors.
* BodySnatcher: Pan switched bodies with Henry before being sucked into PandorasBox by Rumplestilskin. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowed]] {{Foreshadow|ing}}ed in episode 2 when Emma and the others found what they thought was Henry and it turned out to be Peter wearing some of his clothes.



* NothingCanStopUsNow: Nearly word for word by Regina after she casts the curse. Then Peter Pan in present days, after he gets Henry's heart.

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* NothingCanStopUsNow: Nearly word for word by Regina after she casts the curse. Then Peter Pan in the present days, day, after he gets Henry's heart.



* UndercoverAsLovers: John and Michael Darling might have posed as a gay married couple in hopes of adopting Henry. Keep in mind they are [[IncestSubtext brothers]]. Alternatively, one of them is there as the official adopting parent and the other is there for support.

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* UndercoverAsLovers: John and Michael Darling might have posed as a gay married couple in hopes of adopting Henry. Keep in mind they are [[IncestSubtext brothers]].brothers]] (not that the adoption agency would have known this). Alternatively, one of them is there as the official adopting parent and the other is there for support.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The baby Gold found for Regina just happened to be Emma's. Of course, it's not really a coincidence, given season 1 demonstrated Gold kept his memory all the way through the 28 years. [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Regina calls it fate and destiny]].

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The baby Gold found for Regina just happened to be Emma's. Of course, it's not really a coincidence, given season 1 demonstrated (Per WordOfGod, Gold kept didn't have his memory all the way through the 28 years. until he heard Emma's name.) [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Regina calls it fate and destiny]].



* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Rumple seems to agree with the NotSoDifferent speech from Peter Pan in the previous episode about the fact they both abandoned their son, to which Neal replies that's not the case because he came back for him.

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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Rumple seems to agree with the NotSoDifferent speech from Peter Pan in the previous episode about the fact they both abandoned their son, to which Neal replies that's not the case because he came back for him.
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** Although Henry has been saved and taken away from Neverland, Peter Pan switched bodies with him just before he was about to be sucked into Pandora's box and has now taken control of Henry's body.

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** Although Henry has been saved and taken away from Neverland, Peter Pan switched bodies with him just before he was about to be sucked into Pandora's box PandorasBox and has now taken control of Henry's body.



* BodySnatcher: Pan switched bodies with Henry before being sucked into Pandora's Box by Rumplestilskin. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowed]] in episode 2 when Emma and the others found what they thought was Henry and it turned out to be Peter wearing some of his clothes.

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* BodySnatcher: Pan switched bodies with Henry before being sucked into Pandora's Box PandorasBox by Rumplestilskin. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowed]] in episode 2 when Emma and the others found what they thought was Henry and it turned out to be Peter wearing some of his clothes.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The baby Gold found for Regina just happened to be Emma's. Lampshaded by both him and Regina, although on his part he was genuinely observing the unlikelihood of the birth mother having been found near Storybrooke since at this point he actually doesn't remember anything from before the curse. [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Regina calls it fate and destiny]]. Ultimately subverted as it's implied that Rumplestiltskin somehow built this into the Curse beforehand. Considering that he can see the future...

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The baby Gold found for Regina just happened to be Emma's. Lampshaded by both him and Regina, although on Of course, it's not really a coincidence, given season 1 demonstrated Gold kept his part he was genuinely observing memory all the unlikelihood of way through the birth mother having been found near Storybrooke since at this point he actually doesn't remember anything from before the curse.28 years. [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Regina calls it fate and destiny]]. Ultimately subverted as it's implied that Rumplestiltskin somehow built this into the Curse beforehand. Considering that he can see the future...
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* WhamLine : How do we know Pan and Henry have swapped bodies? He finishes Felix's quote.

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* DramaticIrony: Regina takes a forgetfulness potion so she won't remember who Henry's birth mother is and thus waste all her time worrying about her coming to Storybrooke and breaking the curse...but it's entirely likely that also forgetting the sacrifice she was making (keeping Henry meant there was a change her {{Revenge}} would one day be undone), or else the fact she was giving up those memories for selfish reasons, or just the way memory potions work (see what happened to Snow White), also cost her the ability to be a good mother.

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* DramaticIrony: Regina takes a forgetfulness potion so she won't remember who Henry's birth mother is and thus waste all her time worrying about her coming to Storybrooke and breaking the curse...but it's entirely likely that also forgetting the sacrifice she was making (keeping Henry meant there was a change chance her {{Revenge}} would one day be undone), or else the fact she was giving up those memories for selfish reasons, or just the way memory potions work (see what happened to Snow White), also cost her the ability to be a good mother.

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