History Series / OnceUponATime

''Once Upon a Time'' is a LiveActionTV fantasy series that aired on Creator/{{ABC}}.

->'''Hook:''' Spend enough time around here, you'll eventually find out [[EveryoneIsRelated everyone's related]].

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[[labelnote:From left to right]]Myth/RobinHood, [[Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]], [[Literature/PeterPan Captain Hook]], [[Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}} Rumplestiltskin]], [[Literature/SnowWhite Evil Queen Regina]], [[TheHero Emma Swan]], Literature/SnowWhite, [[Literature/SnowWhite Prince Charming]], [[GenreSavvy Henry Mills]][[/labelnote]]]]

And that's just the beginning of a grand fairy tale of hope, family, death, redemption and many twists and turns.

The {{Fairy Tale}}s we know -- or think we know -- are real. Regina, the Evil Queen (Creator/LanaParrilla) from the "Literature/SnowWhite" story, takes her revenge on Snow (Creator/GinniferGoodwin) and her PrinceCharming (Creator/JoshDallas) by cursing the kingdom on the day of their child's birth. The only way to break the curse is to transport Snow's newborn child to our world, where she will return 28 years later to save [[FairyTaleFreeForAll the fairy tale residents of the Enchanted Forest]].

The {{Fairy Tale}}s we know -- or think we know -- are real. The Evil Queen (Creator/LanaParrilla) from the "Literature/SnowWhite" story takes her revenge on Snow (Creator/GinniferGoodwin) and her PrinceCharming (Creator/JoshDallas) by cursing the kingdom on the day of their child's birth. The only way to break the curse is to transport Snow's newborn child to our world, where she will return 28 years later to save [[FairyTaleFreeForAll the fairy tale residents of the Enchanted Forest]].

->'''Hook:''' Spend enough time around here, you'll eventually find out [[EveryoneIsRelated everyone's related.]]

After said 28 years, we meet Emma Swan (Creator/JenniferMorrison), a reformed thief-turned-Bail Bondswoman (she prefers Bondsperson) who just so happens to be a LivingLieDetector. We also meet a little boy named Henry (Creator/JaredSGilmore), who tracks Emma down at her apartment in Boston and introduces himself to her as her biological [[LongLostRelative son]], whom she gave up for adoption when he was a baby. He persuades her to leave Boston and take him home to [[MeaningfulName Storybrooke]], Maine, on the way telling her that his book of fairy tale stories is full of things that really happened. Emma, unconvinced, returns him to his adoptive mother, Regina, who is also the Mayor of Storybrooke.

After said 28 years, we meet Emma Swan (Creator/JenniferMorrison), a reformed thief-turned-Bail Bondswoman (she prefers Bondsperson) who just so happens to be a LivingLieDetector. We also meet a little boy named Henry (Creator/JaredSGilmore), who tracks Emma down at her apartment in Boston and introduces himself to her as her biological [[LongLostRelative son]], whom she gave up for adoption when he was a baby. He persuades her to leave Boston and take him home to [[MeaningfulName Storybrooke]], Maine, on the way telling her that his book of fairy tale stories is full of things that really happened. Emma, unconvinced, returns him to his adoptive mother, who is also the Mayor of Storybrooke.