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* [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks]]: ''Entertainment Weekly'''s Ken Tucker, while not completely giving [[Once Upon a Time]] a terrible score, didn't exactly give it praise with its pilot episode. So when even people who watched it with low expectations wound up loving the show, just about everyone reading his opinion piece ripped him a new one. A possible subversion, given that some of Ken's attackers [[Hatedom|already loathe him for numerous reasons]], and used this as yet another reason to call him a grumpy dinosaur (despite his surprisingly wide tastes in TV).
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: It's hard not to feel sorry for Rumpelstiltskin after learning his full life story.
** Ditto Regina, Hook, Greg Mendell, and even Cora.
** While not villains, Jefferson aka the Mad Hatter, Dr. Whale aka {{spoiler|Dr. Frankenstein}}, and August Booth aka {{spoiler|Pinocchio}} also qualify.
** Zelena the Wicked Witch is one in both the present and backstory of the episode "Kansas."
* [[Lighter and Softer]]:
** This, along with [[Reconstruction]], may explain the show's success. After years of sexed up comedy shows, reality TV, [[Darker and Edgier]] dramas with [[Black and Gray Morality]] conflicts, and grislier police/medical/lawyer procedural shows, a straight up battle between good and evil with an intriguing mystery at the core feels so refreshing to audiences in comparison.
** The story of Hansel and Gretel is softened by making it an accident that the children were separated from their father rather than him abandoning them.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Rumpelstiltskin. The whole first season was basically the story of his biggest [[Batman Gambit]].
** Regina as the mayor, particularly in the second half of the first season. It is glorious
** Cora and {{spoiler|Peter Pan}} pick up the slack after Rumpelstiltskin and Regina start declining in villainy.
** Even Captain Hook has his moments as this, particularly in "Into the Deep" and "The Evil Queen".
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]:
** Regina Mills/The Evil Queen:
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*** Alternatively, if you were willing to accept the [[Sympathetic Murder Backstory]] on the death of her father, the [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|repeated rape]] and murder of {{spoiler|Graham}} certainly qualifies. Ironically, though, it's never spoken of again, thus never held against her.
*** And if you were wiling to accept even ''that'', then the revelation {{spoiler|that she's kept Belle (who, unlike Snow White or the Huntsman, never crossed her or did her any harm at all) shut away in a mental ward for twenty eight years, presumably either to keep her quiet or as some sort of bargaining chip against Mr. Gold}} might just do it.
*** Also {{spoiler|arranging to have Kathryn Nolan, who'd seen her as a friend, killed just to frame Mary Margaret for murder so that Snow and Charming can't find their happy ending.}}
** In short, it's hard to pick just one for the Evil Queen.▼
*** {{spoiler|Apprehending and murdering Kurt Flynn and leaving Owen fatherless back in Storybrooke's earliest days might have put her over the line.}}
** If you didn't already consider Cora to have crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] with her {{spoiler|constant emotional and physical abuse of her own daughter, then killing Daniel in cold blood and forcing her to marry the King probably would do the trick}}.▼
*** "The Evil Queen" has Regina sinking to her lowest. {{spoiler| In the past, we see her order the massacre of an entire village just because the villagers wouldn't reveal the location of Snow White to her. In the present, we see her planning to activate Storybrooke's built-in self destruction to kill everyone in it so that she could have Henry to herself at last. And she ''tells Henry what she plans to do'', wiping his memory of the conversation with magic after he protests.}}
▲*** In short, it's hard to pick just one moment of crossing the line for the Evil Queen.
** Cora:
▲*** If you didn't already consider Cora to have crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] with her {{spoiler|constant emotional and physical abuse of her own daughter, then killing Daniel in cold blood and forcing her to marry the King probably would do the trick}}.
*** Even worse {{spoiler|is that she killed Snow White's mother and then later hexed the horse Snow was riding so that Regina could come to her rescue, setting in motion the events that led to the above!}}
*** {{spoiler|Having killed Sir Lancelot so that she could impersonate him for who knows how long, and then later massacring everyone in Lancelot's village so that she could control their corpses through their hearts she'd ripped out}} definitely earns her nastiness points too.
*** How about {{spoiler|framing her own daughter for murder just so that the town could turn against her and she'd have no one left to turn to except into her open arms?}}
*** Oh, and {{spoiler|throwing her hostage, Johanna, out the clocktower window to her death ''even after'' Snow had given her the Dark One's dagger! Even ''Regina'', who was willing to uphold the bargain, was momentarily shocked that her mother did this!}}
* [[Narm]]: Prince Charming on Abigail and Frederick: "Have you tried True Love's Kiss?" Admittedly they do live in a world where the power of love can legitimately break curses, but come on, he sounds like he's recommending chicken soup for a cold.
* [[Strangled by the Red String]]: Some think that the show is relying too much on [[Because Destiny Says So]] to convince the audience that Mary Margaret/Snow White and David/Charming are meant to be together instead of building a genuinely meaningful connection between the two.
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