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*SpannerInTheWorks: Two cases into both a hero and a villain!
**Elsa [[HeroAntagonist tricks the others by giving a sack full of rocks instead of Anna's necklace]] and uses it to locate Anna, which prevents the fairies from being able to develop a antidote quickly. Fortunately Anna is found and her hair can also serve as a component for a antidote, but then....
**Rumple uses Hook to trap the fairies into the Sorcerer's Hat. Which then effectively exhausts the town of any means to counteract the Spell.
*TheNeedsoftheMany: Both Regina and Snow agree that Elsa should give up the necklace so that the fairies can create a antidote for the Spell of Shattered Sight, as saving the town from tearing itself apart is more important than finding Anna.
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** Doubling as a CallBack, Blackbeard mentioned being forced to walk the plank. Hook did it in ''The Jolly Roger'', a season 3 flashback after the end of the first curse and beginning of the second curse.

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** Doubling as a CallBack, Blackbeard mentioned being forced to walk the plank. Hook did it in ''The Jolly Roger'', a season 3 flashback after the end of the first curse and before the beginning of the second curse.
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* BittersweetEnding: Elsa and Anna (plus Kristoff), are ''finally'' reunited, but they are unable to stop the Spell of Shattered Sight, thanks to Rumple.

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* BittersweetEnding: Elsa and Anna (plus Kristoff), Kristoff) are ''finally'' reunited, but they are unable to stop the Spell of Shattered Sight, thanks to Rumple.
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* HarmlessFreezing: Anna, Kristoff and Hans are all unfrozen without harm.

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* HarmlessFreezing: Anna, Kristoff and Hans stay frozen for 30 years and are all unfrozen without harm.
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* MythologyGag: When Hans shows up and threatens to arrest or kill her and Kristoff, Anna resentfully mentions having "sung a song" with him.

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* MythologyGag: When Hans shows up and threatens to arrest or kill her and Kristoff, Anna resentfully mentions having "sung a song" with him. Obviously, Anna sees how singing "Love is an Open Door" with him was a big mistake.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Snow is angry that Elsa risked the entire town for her sister. It actually creeps Regina out.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Snow is angry that Elsa risked the entire town for her sister. It actually creeps Regina out. Of course, Snow herself risked the entire town to save Regina in the season 2 finale.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hook tried to blackmail Gold and threatened to kill Belle this season, but he's ''horrified'' at how Gold is choosing power over everyone else, including making him trap the fairies.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hook tried to blackmail Gold and threatened to kill Belle this season, Gold, but he's ''horrified'' at how Gold is choosing power over everyone else, including making him trap the fairies.
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* ApologeticAttacker: Hook when using the fairies to fill that hat under Rumple's orders.

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* ApologeticAttacker: Hook when using the fairies to fill that hat the Hat under Rumple's orders.



* GoshDangItToHeck!:After thawing Anna's first words are "Holy Cats, that is cold!"

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* NoSell: Elsa and Emma realize that they can do this to the Spell of Shattered Sight with their bracelets, since the Snow Queen wants them alive.

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* NoSell: Elsa and Emma realize that they can do this to the Spell of Shattered Sight with their ribbon bracelets, since the Snow Queen wants them alive.



** Also comes up again later, when Hook declares he's going to lose Belle if he keeps trying to hold onto power, only for Gold to claim he can have both.

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** Also comes up again later, when Hook declares he's going to lose Belle if he keeps trying to hold onto power, [[TemptingFate only for Gold to claim he can have both.both]].
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* GoshDangIttoHeck!:After thawing Anna's first words are "Holy Cats, that is cold!"

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* GoshDangIttoHeck!:After GoshDangItToHeck!:After thawing Anna's first words are "Holy Cats, that is cold!"
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* GoshDangIttoHeck!:After thawing Anna's first words are "Holy Cats, that is cold!"
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***It's possible they came back with the Wishing Star, but couldn't use it on Elsa because they weren't pure of heart, so they could have left it in Arendelle as a necklace until they left again for another journey when their ship sank.
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* SelfishEvil: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Gold when a disgusted and horrified Hook confronts him about saving his wife and grandson but letting the rest of the Storybrooke fall prey to the Snow Queen's spell.

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* SelfishEvil: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Gold when a disgusted and horrified Hook confronts him about saving his wife and grandson but letting the rest of the Storybrooke fall prey to the Snow Queen's spell.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Elsa approaches hers when they break through the cave-in to find only a deserted beach, and it appears she can never find Anna, who may even be dead.

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* DespairEventHorizon: Elsa approaches hers when they break through the cave-in to find only a deserted beach, and it appears she can never find Anna, who may even be dead. Also Anna herself, believing she and Kristoff will drown in the trunk and wanting him to marry her before they die.
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* EvilIsPetty: Rumpel goes after the faries to put in his hat.

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* EvilIsPetty: Rumpel Gold goes after the faries fairies to put in his hat.the Hat.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Hans, of all people, relents when Anna puts a sword on one of his brothers, the same brother who, along with the others, treated him as if he were invisible.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hook tried to blackmail Gold and threatened to kill Belle this season, but he's ''horrified'' at how Gold is choosing power over everyone else, including making him trap the fairies.

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* EvilIsPetty: Rumpel goes after the faries to put in his hat.



* OOCIsSeriousBuisness: Snow is angry that Elsa risked the entire town for her sister. It actually creeps Regina out.

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* OOCIsSeriousBuisness: Snow is angry that Elsa risked the entire town for her sister. It actually creeps Regina out.
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** Emma mentions Maleficent having been held prisoner under the library. Also counts as {{Foreshadowing}}[=/=]ChekhovsBoomerang, seeing as who one of the villains of the second half of the season has been announced to be...

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** Emma mentions Maleficent having been held prisoner under the library. Also counts as {{Foreshadowing}}[=/=]ChekhovsBoomerang, seeing as who one of the villains of the second half of the season has been announced to be...
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** Lastly, the scene where Elsa wished for Anna to return pretty much confirmed that they happened at the same time. An amazing stroke of luck for the two sisters; had it been a little longer, they might never have been reunited.

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** Lastly, the scene where Elsa wished for Anna to return pretty much confirmed that they happened at the same time. An amazing stroke of luck for the two sisters; had it been a little longer, they might never have been reunited.
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* LampshadeHanging: Kristoff points out how desperate Anna's plan to find Elsa is through the use of an IncrediblyLamePun--she thinks Rumplestiltskin has Elsa because she finds a golden straw on the floor, so he says she's literally grasping at straws. (Of course, [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight she's right]].)
* MythologyGag: When Hans shows up and threatens to arrest or kill her and Kristoff, Anna resentfully mentions having "sung a song" with him.


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* SelfishEvil: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Gold when a disgusted and horrified Hook confronts him about saving his wife and grandson but letting the rest of the Storybrooke fall prey to the Snow Queen's spell.
-->'''Gold''': When it comes down to a choice between everyone else, and me...I'll always choose me.
** Also comes up again later, when Hook declares he's going to lose Belle if he keeps trying to hold onto power, only for Gold to claim he can have both.
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* BadassBoast: Subverted, since she actually doesn't ''want'' to frighten or hurt anyone, so it is delivered with sadness and regret instead.
-->'''Robin''': I'm not afraid of you.
-->'''Regina''': But you should be.


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** Emma mentions Maleficent having been held prisoner under the library. Also counts as {{Foreshadowing}}[=/=]ChekhovsBoomerang, seeing as who one of the villains of the second half of the season has been announced to be...


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* ContinuityNod: Once again Gold makes reference to how much he hates fairies. [[KickTheDog And he follows through on this hatred]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Elsa approaches hers when they break through the cave-in to find only a deserted beach, and it appears she can never find Anna, who may even be dead.
* DeusExMachina: While it was set up long before this that the necklace was of mysterious and unknown origin, and there were plenty of hints as to its true nature in this episode (somehow appearing out of the Snow Wall, Elsa mentioning it was old but she didn't know where it came from, the pieces of mirror embedded in it showing it was more than what it seemed, Anna and Blackbeard speaking of the wishing star as a sculpture without ever describing it or showing it), the revelation of its power at just the right moment so Elsa could save Anna and Kristoff (and thus create the vaccine for the town) was rather fortuitous.


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* ISurrenderSuckers: Turns out to be Kristoff's ploy to get him and Anna free of Hans and his brothers.


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* JustInTime: Played straight, then subverted. Through her bitter despair, Elsa happens to make a wish on the necklace/wishing star at just the right moment to save Anna and Kristoff from drowning. But then, just as they are all rushing back to Granny's Diner to give Anna's hair to the fairies, they discover the place already empty and trashed thanks to Hook using the Hat under heart-compulsion.


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* NotWhatItLooksLike: The locator spell seems to have failed...but then the necklace it was cast on turned out to be the wishing star that could bring Anna back. It could even be said that the spell didn't fail at all, because it brought Elsa to where Anna was ''going'' to be.


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* VillainTeamUp: Hans and Blackbeard, of all people.

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* SimultaneousArcs: The Arendelle scenes and Storybrooke scenes happened concurrently. There're many evidences supporting this:
** Hans mentioned about thirty years has passed since they were frozen. Given that Anna's adventure happened a year or two before the first curse, the time seemed fit.
** Double as a CallBack, Blackbeard mentioned being forced to walk the plank. Hook did it in ''"the Jolly Roger"'', a season 3 flashback after the end of the first curse and beginning of the second curse.
** Lastly, the scene where Elsa wished for Anna to returned pretty much confirmed that they happened at the same time. An amazing stroke of luck for the two sisters, had it been a little longer, they may never be reunited.
** In conclusion, it would seem Ingrid unfreezed Arendelle the night she casted the Spell of Shatered Sights. The reason is either she needed all her magic to cast it or now that her plan is complete's there's no need to freeze Arendelle any more.

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* SimultaneousArcs: The Arendelle scenes and Storybrooke scenes happened concurrently. There're There are many evidences pieces of evidence supporting this:
** Hans mentioned about thirty years has passed since they were frozen. Given that Anna's adventure happened a year or two before the first curse, the time seemed seems to fit.
** Double Doubling as a CallBack, Blackbeard mentioned being forced to walk the plank. Hook did it in ''"the ''The Jolly Roger"'', Roger'', a season 3 flashback after the end of the first curse and beginning of the second curse.
** Lastly, the scene where Elsa wished for Anna to returned return pretty much confirmed that they happened at the same time. An amazing stroke of luck for the two sisters, sisters; had it been a little longer, they may might never be have been reunited.
** In conclusion, it would seem Ingrid unfreezed unfroze Arendelle the night she casted cast the Spell of Shatered Sights. Shattered Sight. The reason is must either be that she needed all her magic to cast it or that now that her plan is complete's there's complete, there was no need to freeze Arendelle any more.more.
** One thing left unexplained by this explanation of the timeline is precisely how the wishing star made it back to Arendelle for Elsa to find it and give it to Anna, since the journey their parents took to find it seems to be the same one on which their ship sank...
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Emma captures the Snow Queen and interrogates her at the sheriff’s station. But the Snow Queen uses her prior knowledge of Emma to try to persuade her into thinking that they are more alike than she could possibly imagine. Regina and Robin Hood’s relationship grows increasingly complex as they struggle to find a way to save his dying wife, Emma begins to see what she missed out on by not growing up and being a family with Snow and Charming when she sees how involved Mary Margaret is in baby Neal’s life, and Henry begins his after school job in Gold’s shop while trying to help Regina find a clue to the identity of the author of the storybook. Meanwhile, in Arendelle of the past, we learn about the origin of the Snow Queen and her familial connection to Elsa and Anna as we see her discover her spectacular yet deadly ice powers.

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Emma captures As the Snow Queen Spell of Shattered Sight approaches Storybrooke, Mary Margaret and interrogates her at David rally the sheriff’s station. But residents to prepare for the Snow Queen uses her prior knowledge curse while Belle and the fairies work together on an antidote. Gold, with Hook as his reluctant servant, sets about an exit strategy of Emma to try to persuade her into thinking that they are more alike than she could possibly imagine. his own. Regina and Robin Hood’s relationship grows increasingly complex as they struggle Hood ready themselves for the worst while, with the help of a locator spell, Emma and Elsa search desperately for Anna. In Arendelle, Anna and Kristoff awaken to find a way to save his dying wife, Emma begins to see what she missed out on by not growing up and being a family with Snow and Charming when she sees how involved Mary Margaret that their kingdom is once again in baby Neal’s life, and Henry begins his after school job in Gold’s shop while trying to help Regina find a clue to the identity of the author of the storybook. Meanwhile, in Arendelle of the past, we learn about the origin of the Snow Queen and her familial connection to Elsa and Anna as we see her discover her spectacular yet deadly ice powers.
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* BattleCouple: Anna and Kristoff.



* ChekhovsGun: The necklace Elsa gave Anna turned out to be a wishing stone.

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* ChekhovsGun: The necklace Elsa gave Anna turned out to be a wishing stone.star.
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Arendelle was frozen in over 30 years. Long after the Snow Queen left.


* NoOntologicalInertia" After the Snow Queen leaves for Earth, her deep freezes of Arrendelle and Prince Hans are reversed.
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** Double as a CallBack, Blackbeard mentioned being forced to walked the plank. Hook forced him to walk the plank in ''"the Jolly Roger"'', a season 3 flashback after the end of the first curse and beginning of the second curse.

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** Double as a CallBack, Blackbeard mentioned being forced to walked walk the plank. Hook forced him to walk the plank did it in ''"the Jolly Roger"'', a season 3 flashback after the end of the first curse and beginning of the second curse.

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* HarmlessFreezing: Anna, Kristoff and Hans are all unfrozen without harm after the Snow Queen leaves for Earth.

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* ChekhovsGun: The necklace Elsa gave Anna turned out to be a wishing stone.
* HarmlessFreezing: Anna, Kristoff and Hans are all unfrozen without harm after the Snow Queen leaves for Earth.harm.

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* CallBack: The bottle Anna's mother threw overboard reappears.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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** Blackbeard mentioned he was forced to walk the plank. Hook did it in season 3B.



** Lastly, Elsa was able to wish for Anna to return just as she's about to drown.

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** Lastly, the scene where Elsa was able to wish wished for Anna to return just as she's about returned pretty much confirmed that they happened at the same time. An amazing stroke of luck for the two sisters, had it been a little longer, they may never be reunited.
** In conclusion, it would seem Ingrid unfreezed Arendelle the night she casted the Spell of Shatered Sights. The reason is either she needed all her magic
to drown. cast it or now that her plan is complete's there's no need to freeze Arendelle any more.

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\n\n!!Tropes:\n'''Season 4, Episode 9''':
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Emma captures the Snow Queen and interrogates her at the sheriff’s station. But the Snow Queen uses her prior knowledge of Emma to try to persuade her into thinking that they are more alike than she could possibly imagine. Regina and Robin Hood’s relationship grows increasingly complex as they struggle to find a way to save his dying wife, Emma begins to see what she missed out on by not growing up and being a family with Snow and Charming when she sees how involved Mary Margaret is in baby Neal’s life, and Henry begins his after school job in Gold’s shop while trying to help Regina find a clue to the identity of the author of the storybook. Meanwhile, in Arendelle of the past, we learn about the origin of the Snow Queen and her familial connection to Elsa and Anna as we see her discover her spectacular yet deadly ice powers.

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* NotQuiteDead: It turns out that Hans was still alive after the Snow Queen froze him, and the spell is undone after she leaves for our world.

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* NotQuiteDead: It turns out that Hans was still alive after the Snow Queen froze him, him.
* SimultaneousArcs: The Arendelle scenes
and Storybrooke scenes happened concurrently. There're many evidences supporting this:
** Hans mentioned about thirty years has passed since they were frozen. Given that Anna's adventure happened a year or two before
the spell is undone first curse, the time seemed fit.
** Double as a CallBack, Blackbeard mentioned being forced to walked the plank. Hook forced him to walk the plank in ''"the Jolly Roger"'', a season 3 flashback
after she leaves the end of the first curse and beginning of the second curse.
** Lastly, Elsa was able to wish
for our world.Anna to return just as she's about to drown.
* YearInsideHourOutside: 30 years has passed since Arendelle was frozen. But Kristoff and Anna only felt a moment.
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: If the Spell of Shattered Sight is used on a person once, they'll NoSell any future usage of the spell, and their hair can be used to create a potion that acts like a vaccine.
* ApologeticAttacker: Hook when using the fairies to fill that hat under Rumple's orders.
* BittersweetEnding: Elsa and Anna (plus Kristoff), are ''finally'' reunited, but they are unable to stop the Spell of Shattered Sight, thanks to Rumple.
* CallBack: The bottle Anna's mother threw overboard reappears.
* HarmlessFreezing: Anna, Kristoff and Hans are all unfrozen without harm after the Snow Queen leaves for Earth.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The Spell of Shattered Sight only affects a person once.
* NoOntologicalInertia" After the Snow Queen leaves for Earth, her deep freezes of Arrendelle and Prince Hans are reversed.
* NoSell: Elsa and Emma realize that they can do this to the Spell of Shattered Sight with their bracelets, since the Snow Queen wants them alive.
** It turns out that the spell only affects a person once, so not only is Anna immune now, her hair could be used to create a vaccine for the spell.
* NotQuiteDead: It turns out that Hans was still alive after the Snow Queen froze him, and the spell is undone after she leaves for our world.

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