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Widow Lucas/Granny
Widow Lucas/Granny
Played By: Beverley ElliottThe strict, yet loving grandmother of Red Riding Hood. In Storybrooke, she's the owner of the local bed-and-breakfast and diner.
- Apron Matron: To her granddaughter Ruby mostly, and as the owner of her own diner she also has a literal apron too.
- Badass: Granny turns out to be this and was one her whole life.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She can turn from a strict, but loving, grandmother to threatening people with her crossbow pretty easily.
- Cool Old Lady: In the Enchanted Forest, she puts a group of enraged villagers and hunters in their places, and she wields a crossbow with efficiency. In Storybrooke, she runs a Bed 'n Breakfast AND a Diner, not to mention appears to like motorcycles and still like cute guys, when she tells Emma "If you won't, I will!" when August offers Emma a ride on his motorcycle.
- Dark and Troubled Past: When she was a child, her father and brothers went out to hunt and kill the wolf that was terrorizing their village to protect her. However the wolf manged to overpower and kill them. Granny, who was watching from the roof, accidentally fell off and rolled right in front of the wolf. The wolf marked her and later turned her into one. The wolf was revealed to be Red's grandfather.
- Deadpan Snarker: So much so that fandom has nicknamed her "Sassy Granny".
- Good Is Not Nice: Has shades of Type IV. As Snow says, she's kind of intense, but there's no doubt she's one of the good guys.
- Green Eyes: Of the spitfire and magic variety, since she is surprisingly violent despite her age and was a werewolf in her youth.
- Idiot Ball: Granny not just telling Red that she needs to wear the hood to resist becoming a werewolf, which costs people their lives. She tries to Handwave it by saying she didn't want Red to have to live with this knowledge about herself, but is this really such a bad thing for Red to know, if all she has to do to stop it is to wear a red cloak one night a month (maybe three, if the night on either side counts as well—still a low number)? There is no way Red wouldn't eventually find out, and she certainly would rather have been able to stop her rampages herself, than find out an occasional, believed-innocent breaking of the rules resulted in people dying. Granny even admits how stupid she was.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: She's able to shoot a handgun out of King George's hand a split second before he tried to murdered Ruby in cold blood after framing her and tricking her into believing that she killed Billy. All this with nothing but a crossbow.
- Knight in Sour Armour: Of the cynical second variety since she is not the most positive person but she can be violently protective of those she loves.
- Mama Bear: Do not mess with her granddaughter. When King George framed Ruby for murder and then tried to shoot her, Granny shoots the gun out of his hand and threatens to put the next one between his eyes.
- Massive Numbered Siblings/Outnumbered Sibling: In "Red-Handed", she mentioned that she had six brothers killed by the wolf, which could be a reference to The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids.
- Meaningful Name:
- The surname "Lucas" was derived from the Greek word "lykos", which means "wolf".
- The word "lycanthropy", the clinical term for the mental disorder where one believes they can or have turned into an animal, is also derived from lykos meaning "wolf" and anthropos meaning "being human".
- Never Mess with Granny: Especially not Enchanted World Granny.
- The Nose Knows: Even though she can no longer turn into a wolf, she still has a sharp sense of smell.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: And apparently ends when a woman reaches menopause.
- Parental Substitute: To Red and implied to be one to Snow.
- Poor Communication Kills: If Red's Grandma had told her about her werewolf nature, she and Snow never would have suspected Peter and he never would have been killed. To say nothing of all the other men who got ripped apart.
- Properly Paranoid: About Werewolves. The amount of bolts and locks she's installed to defend her cottage ought to be an indication, as should the fact she spends all night with her crossbow trained on the door.
- Retired Monster: A literal example since she can no longer turn into a wolf due to age, but still not someone to mess with.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: While she can no longer become a wolf she still has the tracking ability of one like Ruby does.
- Scars Are Forever: Granny has some due to her encounter with the Big Bad Wolf as a young girl.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: She's usually polite, but make no mistake, she has no qualms about deploying her signature rapier wit.
- Weapon of Choice: She's usually seen with a crossbow, even after the curse is broken.Red: Granny, do you really need that?
Granny: We've got a lawless town, Ruby, damn right I need it.
- Wrench Wench: In "Child of the Moon", Granny shows herself to be handy with a welding torch.
The Blue Fairy/Mother Superior
The Blue Fairy/Mother Superior
Played By: Keegan Connor TracyThe old and powerful ruler of the fairies. In Storybrooke, she's the mother superior in the convent.
- Absolute Cleavage: Even more so than the Evil Queen. The Evil Queen. (Not so much in Storybrooke, what with her being, you know, a nun and all.)
- A God Am I: Possibly a side effect of being the only authority figure of the fairies; believes she knows what is best, and does not take kindly to other fairies questioning her decisions, even when she may be wrong; she also has the power to take away a fairy's magic and turn them human, just ask Tinker Bell.
- Back from the Dead: The death of Peter Pan's Shadow brought her back to life.
- Big Good: She may have done some less-than-stellar things, but she still remains the most powerful force of good, always willing to help the heroes.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing/Good Is Not Nice: While she does go around helping those in need, she can also be extremely judgmental and cruel to those she feels are undeserving of her help especically if you're a dwarf and she catches you dating one of her fairy minions. Made more explicit in "Quite a Common Fairy" where she refuses to help Regina because her mother was Cora and Rumpelstiltskin was tutoring her in magic, and when Tinker Bell tries to prove her wrong with some stolen pixie dust, she takes her magic and wings and turns her into a human for betraying her trust.
- Control Freak: Pretty much the cause of most of her other flaws.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Another victim of Peter Pan's shadow ripping, with the extra insult that it was completely at random and anyone would have done for Pan's scheme. She gets better, though.
- Fairy Godmother: Shes this for Pinocchio.
- The Fair Folk: Of the "trickster with questionable morality" type. Some of the things she does that end up inconveniencing others borders on Troll territory.
- Fairy Sexy: Well her outfit tends to emphasize her chest, which leads to her Fan Nickname.
- Fan Nickname: The posters in Television Without Pity have taken to call her "The Boob Fairy".
- The High Queen/God Save Us from the Queen!: For the fairies, she has an absolute and irrefutable control over them. If you are a good fairy, then all is well. If you are not so ideal, then you can expect some nastier side of her to show up.
- Hypocrite: She will help anyone in following their beliefs and dreams except if they have too much darkness in them, even if they may really need the help. As shown by her refusing to help Rumpel find Baelfire, or offer any help to Regina as revealed in "Quite a Common Fairy." Tinker Bell calls her out for the latter.
- Lady of War: She led her fairies into battle to help Snow and Charming.
- Meaningful Name: The Blue Fairy is also referred to as "Reul Ghorm", which is Scots Gaelic for "blue star".
- Most Common Super Power: Once again, see her nickname "The Boob Fairy".
- Nun Too Holy: Mildly. The only activity she engages in that is not expected of a nun is going out for celebratory drinks with David Nolan and the seven dwarves after finally finding diamonds in Storybrooke's mines to grind into fairy dust. Other than that, she is a perfect example of what a nun should be. It's even funnier considering she is the freaking Mother Superior.
- Older Than She Looks: She looks the same now as she did decades ago when Geppetto was a little boy and even centuries before that when Rumpelstiltskin's son Baelfire asked for help saving his father. And she's implied to be ancient even then.
- Only Mostly Dead: Her shadow/soul got ripped off by The Shadow, but when it was killed then hers was returned, and she was revived.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Of a mostly benevolent, borderline Holier Than Thou type.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Fairies are supposed to help people, but the Blue Fairy refuses to offer any help to Regina, because she was Cora's child and because she sees evil in her. When Tinker Bell calls her out on that, she replies that she is the one who decides what is proper fairy behavior.
- She later says she was overly harsh, though, and apologizes to Tink for what she did to her.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: "Dreamy" and "Quite a Common Fairy" reveals she's not as nice as she wants people to think.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After being restored back to life, she is genuinely grateful, and shows her gratitude by finally giving Tink her wings back. She also gives them the wand they need in order to defeat Pan.
- True Blue Femininity: Very feminine, tries to be fair and gentle, and is best known by her title of "The Blue Fairy".
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: If she does anything that could be seen as wrong, she believes it's for "the greater good."
Dr. Victor Frankenstein/Dr. Whale
Dr. Victor Frankenstein/Dr. Whale
Played By: David Anders
Centric Episodes: "In the Name of the Brother"A misguided scientist from a different land, whose manipulation of Regina results in him being cursed like those in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke, he works in the hospital as Dr. Whale.
- Abhorrent Admirer: To Ruby, though his abhorrence is related to his personality rather than his looks. Though his abhorrence seems to be relaxing a bit after his backstory episodes and his regained memories, so time will tell if he'll be less of a lech in future episodes.
- Ambiguously Evil: He wants to stop death, protect his beloved brother and save lives...he also robs graves, manipulates Regina, is willing to let a man die with nary a thought, and merely looks on, coldly, as his father is beaten to death.
- An Arm and a Leg: When he brings Daniel back and he Came Back Wrong, Daniel ripped an arm off. He goes to Rumpel to get it repaired.
- The Atoner: It's implied that his brother Came Back Wrong and Dr. Whale wants to make up for things by bringing him back to life the right way this time around. It's later confirmed in "In the Name of the Brother".
- Casanova Wannabe: Despite his Casanova-like tendencies, he doesn't seem to be very popular with anyone, much less the ladies themselves.
- Creating Life: His stated goal as Doctor Frankenstein.
- Cynicism Catalyst: He originally started out as an idealistic scientist who wanted to find a way to bring the dead back to life. After his little brother was killed, he ended up doing some morally ambiguous things that culminated in bringing said brother back to life as the creature from Frankenstein.
- Determinator: He's a bit too obsessed with bringing his brother back to life.
- Driven to Suicide: In "In the Name of the Brother". He is stopped by Ruby.
- For Science!: As Dr. Frankenstein, he seems to want to bring back the dead partly to prove that he, and by extension science, can.
- Freudian Excuse: His desire to bring the dead back to life stems from wanting to bring back his late mother (and later his little brother) because his father was never the same after she died.
- Handsome Lech: Big time. In fact, this is the first thing we found out about him in his introductory episode. And when the curse is broken, he only has this to say amidst all the chaos of everyone trying to readjust to their old memories.Whale: Hey lemme ask you something. Are the nuns still nuns, or can they y'know... date? [offhandedly] Don't say it's me asking.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: While he's contemplating suicide, he admits to Ruby this is the reason he's been showing up to work drunk since regaining his memories. The name Frankenstein has becoming synonymous for a Mad Scientist and a creator of monsters, when he always wanted it to be remembered for someone who saved lives.
- Hospital Hottie: A gender flipped example as the handsome doctor Whale.
- Hot Scientist: The natural result of making the Handsome Lech Doctor Frankenstein.
- Jerkass: Not the nicest person most of the time, in addition to being selfish and rude to others even when he's in the middle of a date with them.
- Jerkass Façade/Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His second focus episode shows he's a bit of a combination of these.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: He'll go to great lengths to be reunited with his brother, even bringing said brother back from the dead.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: He wears one as a doctor in Storybrooke, in the Enchanted Forest, and in his own world as Dr. Frankenstein.
- Mad Scientist: Doctor Whale is Doctor Frankenstein after all.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Whale manages to walk around with his arm ripped off with nothing worse than a few winces.
- Meaningful Name: His last name in Storybrooke is the same name as director James Whale, who directed Frankenstein (1931) and its sequel, Bride of Frankenstein. Doubles as Foreshadowing.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He is a lecherous Jerkass as Dr. Whale, brings people back as mindless monsters (unintentionally) as Dr. Frankenstein, and he didn't even bother trying to stop his brother from killing their father back in his own land.
- Mysterious Past: Prince Charming doesnt even know who he was back in the Enchanted Forest. That's because he's not from the Enchanted Forest at all.
- Not So Different: When he's feeling alone and stressed enough to try to kill himself, Ruby stops him. She then tells him that the two of them are damaged people who have lost loved ones, so they aren't that different from each other, but Ruby is okay with that because they have a second chance now. As Dr. Whale says later, they're both monsters. (Note that this is taken lightly, not as a slight against either of them.)
- Pride: He believes science trumps magic. When his arm was ripped off, Rumpel told him the price to pay was admitting he is wrong.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: It is clear the guy tries to keep himself looking nice.
- Skewed Priorities: After the curse is broken and the wraith attack has left Storybrooke in turmoil, his only concern is to wonder whether he can date any of the fairies turned into nuns by the Curse?
- Super Doc: Every time a character goes to the hospital he's the one who treats them, whether they need a GP, surgeon, or pediatrician.
- The Unfavorite: His father clearly prefers his little brother over Victor.
- "Well Done, Son!" Guy: His father never really respected his scientific achievements and made it quite clear Victor was the family's Un Favorite.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to stop death.
- Wrong Guy First: In Storybrooke, he goes on a terrible first date with Mary Margaret before she develops UST with David.
The Magic Mirror/Sidney Glass
The Magic Mirror/Sidney Glass
Played By: Giancarlo Esposito
Centric Episodes: "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree"The Genie of Agrabah who falls in love with the Evil Queen. He later becomes the Magic Mirror, and in Storybrooke, he is a newspaper editor named Sidney Glass.
- Adaptational Villainy: The Genie was a good guy in the original story. Here, he starts out as this, but is blinded by his love for Regina and commits murder for her.
- All Love Is Unrequited: In love with Regina and completely devoted to her even though he knows the feeling is not mutual.
- Apologetic Attacker: Apologizes to King Leopold when he kills him.
- Badass Beard: Not as Sidney Glass, though.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: As The Genie, he used his last wish to make it so that he would "never leave the Queen's side and always be able to look upon her face". Getting trapped in a Magic Mirror wasn't exactly what he intended, however.
- Butt Monkey: Mostly serves as one because of Regina in both worlds.
- Brutal Honesty: In his mirror form.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: A very borderline case, but one nonetheless.
- Composite Character: He is both The Genie from Aladdin and The Magic Mirror from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Deadpan Snarker: He is rather prone to snarking off as Sidney Glass.
- Dramatic Deadpan: How the Genie introduces himself.
- Fallguy: Takes the rap for Kathryn's kidnapping, despite it being a patently obvious attempt by by Regina to frame Mary Margaret for murder.
- Guyliner: As the Genie.
- Hired to Hunt Yourself: The Genie was asked by King Leopold to identify Regina's lover.
- Ignored Enamored Underling: He's lovingly devoted to Regina, who sees him as a pawn.
- Jackass Genie: While it's the magic that's malicious, he's still personally a jerkass in either world.
- Love Makes You Evil: As the genie, he killed Snow White's father to earn the affections of the Queen. As Sidney Glass, he lets himself be manipulated by Regina and takes the fall for framing Mary Margaret because of his unrequited love for her.
- Love Makes You Stupid: When King Leopold granted him the last wish from his own lamp, he said that he would never use it, because it always backfires. He used it anyway because he loved Regina, and got trapped in a mirror as a result.
- Love Martyr: To Regina.
- Magical Negro: For Regina. Unlike most examples, his selfless devotion to Regina is not presented positively. Instead, it's portrayed as an unhealthy obsession that allows Regina to manipulate him into killing the man who freed him, getting trapped in a mirror, falsely confessing to a kidnapping, and ending up in a mental hospital. He remains in love with her even though she makes it clear that she does not care about him.
- Magic Mirror: The Trope Namer from the enchanted forest.
- The Mole: Doubly subverted. First he acted as a mole for Emma against Regina, but then it turns out he was a mole for Regina against Emma.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Always does what Regina tells him, even if he knows what he's doing is immoral or harmful to him.
- Our Genies Are Different: And apparently they can be sealed into Mirrors and just as prone to their magic backfiring on them as the people they grant wishes for.
- Put on a Bus: Sidney is conveniently locked away in Regina's private asylum where he apparently remains even after the curse is broken due to the fact that his actor committed to co-starring in another series, Revolution.
- The Bus Came Back: For the mirror at least. Only time will tell how and if Sidney returns in Storybrooke.
- Token Minority: One of the very few people of color in Storybrooke.
- Unwitting Pawn: As the Genie to Regina.
- Yes-Man: In Storybrooke.
King George/Albert Spencer
King George/Albert Spencer
Played By: Alan DaleThe adoptive father of the twins James and David, who hopes to save his kingdom from ruin by marrying his son off to the daughter of King Midas. In Storybrooke, he is Albert Spencer, Storybrooke's district attorney.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Most of his villainy is based on politics and he is known as "King Charmless" for a reason.
- Bald of Evil: And he most certainly is evil.
- Batman Gambit: He stole Ruby's cloak that keeps her human during the full moon and murders Billy/Gus and frames Ruby. The most obvious reason was to discredit David's position of power, but his true reason is to have David so distracted by trying to save Ruby, it gives him ample opportunity to find Jefferson's magic portal hat and burn it. It works. Also counts as a Xanatos Gambit since if the first part had worked, David would have been discredited which would leave him capable of stepping into the power vacuum.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Played with. King George clearly doesn't really see the point in good, believing more in the privilege and power that being a royal has. However, he understands how love works, as he could recognize some sensible courses of action should things not go his way dealing with Snow and Charming.
- Evil Is Petty: His actions in "Child of the Moon" are all because of a petty grudge on Charming.
- Evil Old Folks: And he is pretty active about his villainy despite his age.
- Fantastic Racism: Doesn't think highly of talking animals or werewolves.
- Good Parents: Played with. While he obviously loved James, he didn't do a terribly good job of raising him. The result is a greedy, selfish man who'll betray people (even his own lover Jack) at the drop of a hat - not that George would have a problem with that, but he's also so arrogant and convinced of his own superiority that he gets himself killed.
- Icy Blue Eyes: He is cold to everyone, even his adoptive son(s).
- Impoverished Patrician: The kingdom's flat broke, which is why he needs the alliance with Midas, no matter who or what gets destroyed in the process.
- It's All About Me: In Season 2, he's far more concerned about proving that he's the one who should rule the kingdom rather than his subjects.
- Jerkass: As the King in the enchanted forest who hunted down Snow and Charming and continuing his vendetta in Storybrooke.
- Karma Houdini: Even though he has killed to try and make Charming suffer, he never seems to get the punishment he deserves.
- Knight Templar: He believes what he believes is right and anyone who opposes him is wrong and must be destroyed.
- Love Is a Weakness: King George tells Snow White that love is a disease and Charming's love for her will ruin his marriage and the kingdom unless she convinces Charming that she doesn't love him.
- Manipulative Bastard: Well he was able to frame an innocent for murder pretty convincingly, and then took the opportunity it made to destroy Jefferson's hat.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: David assumed because he beat him back in the Enchanted Forest, he can be beaten easily again. How wrong he was.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: His response to Charming trying to back out of marrying Abigail.
- Prince Charmless: King Charmless. It's even his Fan Nickname!
- Princess in Rags: In Storybrooke, since he has no kingdom there.
- Revenge: His main motivation against Charming.
- Revenge by Proxy: And when he couldn't get direct revenge, he destroyed the Mad Hatter's hat, the only known way to get Emma and Snow back to Storybrooke. His other actions in "Child Of The Moon" are also technically this, since he's trying to turn the town against Charming by framing Ruby for murder and trying to kill her.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: He is seen leading the charge when Shepard runs off to find Snow White.
- Start of Darkness: According to himself, his whole Love Is a Weakness shtick started when he married his wife but was unable to have sons, which turned their marriage into a loveless Hell for both of them.
- The Sociopath: Aside from his (original) son and maybe his wife, he believes in the "love is weakness" philosophy, and boy does he stick to it.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: At first, everything he does is to protect his kingdom, even if it means lying, murder, blackmail or bargaining with Rumps. After a while he veered into self-centered Knight Templar territory and presnelty he's diving close to pure Manipulative Bastard status since he killed an innocent man in cold blood so that he could frame Ruby for murder and use David's belief in her to try to usurp his power and influence with the townspeople, all in the name of revenge.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: In "Child of the Moon", Spencer is exposed as Billy's murderer and destroys Jefferson's hat. Then he disappears for several episodes.
Princess Abigail/Kathryn Nolan
Princess Abigail/Kathryn Nolan
Played By: Anastasia GriffithThe daughter of King Midas, who is being forced to marry Prince Charming. In Storybrooke, she is Kathryn Nolan, the wife of David.
- Arranged Marriage: She was engaged to Charming before he met Snow.
- The Atoner: In Storybrooke, she is trying really hard to be as loving as possible towards David in order to make up for their supposed argument that led to him leaving and getting into an accident that put him in a coma for years.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Kathryn Nolan is absent in Season 2 as her actress is now starring in Copper. However Word of God stated she and Jim have reunited after the curse was broken and are living together in her house.
- Daddy's Girl: Abigail to King Midas.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has moments of this as Abigail.
- Hidden Depths: Abigail is introduced as a vapid, spoiled brat, but she actually has her own secret army and is more than willing to help Charming find Snow White since she doesn't want to marry him either.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Eventually towards David and Mary Margaret.
- Jerkass Façade: As Abigail.
- Just Friends: With Prince Charming after they parted ways.
- Moment Killer: She really knows how to show up at the most awkward times possible whenever Mary Margaret and David are sharing a moment.
- Never Found the Body: Averted, in that her body was found. Alive.
- Nice Girl: Noted by Mary Margaret.
- Royal Brat: Our initial introduction to her in the Enchanted Forest suggests she's this, but later events change the impression: she acts cold because she's no more interested in her Arranged Marriage with Charming than he is, and for the same reason - her True Love is someone else. She acts like a brat in hopes that Charming would get sick of her and call off the marriage, until she learns that this is uncalled for.
- Spoiled Brat: As would be expected of King freaking Midas' daughter. Turns out to actually be Spoiled Sweet.
The Mad Hatter/Jefferson
The Mad Hatter/Jefferson
Played By: Sebastian Stan
Centric Episodes: "Hat Trick"A man able to jump from different worlds through the aid of his hat. He became trapped in Wonderland and was known as the Mad Hatter until the Dark Curse brought him to Storybrooke, where he lives as a rarely-seen recluse.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: One of the better examples on the show: In keeping with the show's treatment of other fairytale characters, the Mad Hatter is not a strange-looking older man with mad scientist hair, but an extremely handsome young man.
- Anti-Villain: He's pushed into what he does by Regina's manipulation and betrayal plus love of his daughter. Also he's been driven more than a bit crazy by his time in Wonderland and being one of the few conscious people in Storybrooke. Though it is subverted after his first appearance in chronological order when he helped manipulate Regina for his own greedy motives, and was blissfully unrepentant, unlike Victor Frankenstein, who sounded a bit shaken after his participation.
- Blessed with Suck: He remembers the Enchanted Forest while few others can... and is tormented by the fact that his daughter is living happily with a different family and has no memory of him. On top of that, he finally has everything he wanted to give Grace but it is impossible to share it with her.
- Deliver Us from Evil: Jefferson gave up being a realm jumper after he had Grace. The difference in his character before and after becoming a father is especially prominent when we see that he was a weapons-grade Jerkass during his traveling days in "The Doctor", very unlike the man we were first (episodically, if not chronologically) introduced to in "Hat Trick".
- Destination Defenestration: Mary Margaret pushes him out a window in order to escape.
- Dimensional Traveler: Via his magic hat.
- Disappeared Dad: He told Grace he would only leave her with the neighbours for a day, but ends up trapped in Wonderland.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a gruesome one around his neck from his decapitation in Wonderland. He hides it with a scarf in Storybrooke.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Jefferson wore a black leather coat before he stopped his portal jumping work for Rumpelstiltskin.
- Heroic BSOD: When he's stuck in Wonderland.
- Kick the Dog: Now matter how much help he gives to Regina, she always kicks him when things get rough, leading to ...
- The Dog Bites Back: Him freeing Belle and sending her to Rumpel with the information Regina was holding her prisoner.
- His prior treatment of Regina falls neatly in this category. It's like a circle of dog kicking.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Regina's treatment of him may be Kick the Dog behavior, but after seeing his role in her breaking and corrupting it's also rather karmic.
- Losing Your Head: It was hacked off in Wonderland but was reattached when the Queen of Hearts ordered him to recreate his multidimensional hat.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: Willing to put himself in one if his deal with Regina pays off: he gives her the power to defeat Emma, and she rewrites Storybrooke so that he and Grace are together, but neither of them remember the Enchanted Forest.
- Made of Iron: He took the blunt force of a telescope to his head and still managed to chase after Emma, as well as falling out of a two story window and fleeing from the scene of impact.
- Madness Mantra: "Get it to work, get it to work, get it to work, get it to work..."
- Meaningful Name: Jefferson's name is a reference to the band Jefferson Airplane, which had a hit song called "White Rabbit", itself a reference to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- Nice Hat: He has one that allows for travel between different dimensions, including the Enchanted Forest and Wonderland. Regina steals it after trapping him in Wonderland forcing him to try and make a new one.
- No Sense of Personal Space: His proximity while he converses with Emma and Regina seem too close to be necessary.
- The Ophelia: Gender-Flipped.
- Papa Wolf: He loves Grace more than anything.
- Portal Network: Jeffersons Magic Hat contains one of these, full of doors to various universes.
- Put on a Bus: After he's reunited with Grace, he hasn't been seen since. This is because Sebastian Stan was commited to both a Broadway play and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
- Stalker Without A Crush: How he acted toward Emma and Grace/Paige when he spied on them through his telescopes.
- Tall, Dark and Handsome and Snarky
- Took a Level in Kindness: At some point between the Enchanted Forest events in "The Doctor" and "Hat Trick", he loses much of his ruthlessness that he shown when he was willing to help Rumpelstiltskin corrupt Regina. This is because he found a woman to love and have a child with...and when his evil "line of work" caused him to lose said woman, he quit it for good and focused only on being a good man and good father for his daughter.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: He fakes a limp after Emma ran over him with her car, to take her to his house.
Seven Dwarves
Played By: Lee Arenberg
Centric Episodes: "Dreamy"An ill-tempered dwarf who allies himself with Snow White. In Storybrooke, he's a gruff handyman named Leroy.
- The Alcoholic: In both universes.
- Batman Gambit: Need to sell candles? Just cut the power to the festival leaving candles the only option and have plenty in stock.
- Break Her Heart to Save Her: Grumpy does this to Nova after being convinced by the Blue Fairy that they should not be together.
- Broken Bird: His name starts out Dreamy but he falls in love with the fairy Nova and breaks it off because his boss Bossy and her boss The Blue Fairy claim it will never work and both will be miserable, he breaks his axe bearing the name "Dreamy" on it and becomes Grumpy.
- Catchphrase: Calls all women "sister."
- Deadpan Snarker: Shades of this in his bluntness.
- Determinator:
- Breaking out of jail, selling a ton of candles, going door to door to every house in Storybrooke, trying to deal with Gold, cutting power to a whole festival. He may be a grouch and hitting the sauce, but in a pinch, he's your guy.
- In Season 2, he spearheads the campaign to mine for fairy dust and cultivate magic beans to allow them to one day possibly return home to the Enchanted Forest, even knowing the odds are highly against them succeeding.
- Fantastic Caste System: Forced to work in the mine, forbidden to ever leave it and never allowed to fall in love. When he asks why he can't do something else, he's told that it's because he's a Dwarf; Mining is all they're supposed to do!
- Gray Eyes: Fitting his cynical personality.
- Grumpy Bear: Unsurprisingly he is grumpy a lot.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He wanted Nova to stay with the other fairies since he thought it was what was best for her.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When he's not an outright dreamer type that makes impossible promises, he comes across a gruff guy who calls everyone "sister." But he does really care for those he loves, like his brothers and Snow White.
- The Leader: Definitely comes across as a Type III and unofficial leader of the seven dwarves.
- Love Hurts: After he chooses to give up on running off with Nova the fairy.
- Meaningful Name:Just like all names given by the dwarf's axes. He just happened to have it happen to him twice.
- Meaningful Rename: His heartbreak caused his positive daydreaming "Dreamy" persona to become the cynical grouch "Grumpy".
- Misery Builds Character: If given the chance to forget his pain he would refuse as his pain defines him. It helps make him "Grumpy".
- My God, What Have I Done?: Is aghast that he caused Sneezy to lose his Fairy Tale memories. Again. He's determined to set things right.
- Not So Different: Snow and Grumpy bond over their "lost" loves.
- Number Two: Often shares this role with Red, towards Snow and Charming.
- The Reliable One: Shaping into this in Season 2, where he takes the initiative to find out what happens when they cross the town line and spearheads the campaign to mine for fairy-dust and cultivate magic beans.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: As Dreamy with Nova the fairy.
- That Man Is Dead: Once he gives up love in the fairy tale universe, his true name becomes Grumpy, and he declares that he's no longer Dreamy.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: With Nova. According to Season Two extras...they break up.
- Undying Loyalty: To Snow White and Charming.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: As Dreamy.
- You Are Not Alone: To Snow after she temporarily breaks up with Charming to save his life.
Sneezy/Tom Clark
Sneezy/Tom Clark
Played By: Gabe KhouthOne of the seven dwarves allied with Snow White. In Storybrooke, he's a pharmacy owner named Tom Clark.
- Butt Monkey: Not a very lucky person, and loses his memories as "Sneezy" since Grumpy pushed him over the boundary line in Storybrooke.
- Ill Boy: Given how often he sneezes.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: He forgets his memories of his fairy tale self after crossing the Storybrooke border.
- Meaningful Name: Not sure if he has a medical reason for it but he sneezes fairly often.
- Sacrificial Lamb: A non-lethal version. Sneezy was chosen to be the one to cross the border of Storybrooke to see what would exactly happen to those that do.
- What Happened to the Mouse?:
- After losing his memories as Sneezy and being reduced to his Storybrooke self again, we don't see how he reacted to the Wraith attack, Ruby turning into a werewolf and the sight of Anton the Giant rampaging through the town?
- More to the point, part of his brothers' motivation for going to work mining fairy dust diamonds in Storybrooke was to try curing his memory loss with fairy dust. What became of that idea?
- Grumpy reveals that the Blue Fairy was busy working on the problem the entire time. Turns out the solution was fairy dust plus a strand of the de-aged Pinocchio's hair and voila, instant memory restoration.
Played By: Faustino Di BaudaOne of the seven dwarves allied with Snow White. He reunites with Mary Margaret in Storybrooke after the Dark Curse is broken.
- Meaningful Name: Like all the dwarves, his name is directly related to his personality.
- Senior Sleep Cycle: Though he isn't that old.
- Sleepyhead: Which is why he is named "Sleepy".
Played By: David-Paul GroveOne of the seven dwarves allied with Snow White. He reunites with Mary Margaret in Storybrooke after the Dark Curse is broken.
- Back-Alley Doctor: Harmlessly so. Despite his name, he received his doctorate from a pickaxe.
- Meaningful Name: Just like all names given by the dwarf's axes. Doc is a pretty smart guy, and acted as Snow's doctor while she was giving birth.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: The smartest of the seven dwarves.
Played By: Mike ColemanOne of the seven dwarves allied with Snow White. He reunites with Mary Margaret in Storybrooke after the Dark Curse is broken.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Happy can get really angry when he is fed up with Snow White in the episode "Heart of Darkness".
- Meaningful Name: Just like all names given by the dwarf's axes. Happy tends to be a happy guy, though he does has his limits.
- Nice Guy: When he is happy at least, and he is a pretty chipper fellow.
- When He Smiles: As his name suggests, he has a bright smile.
Played By: Mig MacarioOne of the seven dwarves allied with Snow White. He reunites with Mary Margaret in Storybrooke after the Dark Curse is broken.
- Ambiguously Brown: His ethnicity is never touched upon, but his actor Mig Macario is Filipino.
- Meaningful Name: Just like all names given by the dwarf's axes. He seems rather bashful, which is why he is so quiet.
- The Quiet One: A side effect of his bashful nature.
- Shrinking Violet: As his name impies.
Played By: Jeffrey KaiserOne of the seven dwarves allied with Snow White. He reunites with Mary Margaret in Storybrooke after the Dark Curse is broken.
- Ambiguous Disorder: As his name suggests, he has some problems, but there's really not enough detail to give a real diagnosis.
- Cute Mute: Like the character from the Disney adaption of Snow White.
- Man Child: His "Dopey" mannerisms can make him seem pretty childlike.
- Meaningful Name: Just like all names given by the dwarf's axes. He isn't the brightest crayon in the box.
- The Speechless: Once again, just like his Disney film counterpart.
Enchanted Forest Residents
Cora/The Queen of Hearts
Played By: Barbara Hershey, Rose McGowan (younger Cora)
Centric Episodes: "Queen of Hearts", "The Miller's Daughter"The daughter of a miller and the highly manipulative mother of Regina.
- Abusive Parents: Cora abused Regina physically and emotionally, tried to make her a Gold Digger, and finally ripped out the heart of the man Regina loved and crushed it into dust, killing him. It is revealed that the major cause of this was that she had ripped out her own heart, which made her unable to feel real love for anyone.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Her death scene is very emotional. She finally has her heart back, and realizes that her love for Regina would have been enough for her the whole time, completely abandoning her "love is weakness" mentality. She then dies in Regina's arms, saying "This would have been enough...YOU would have been enough".
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Cora is a tall dark haired woman with a frosty demeanour, much like her daughter.
- Ambition Is Evil: Cora is determined to break away from her past as the miller's daughter and there is absolutely no one that she wouldn't sleep with, cut deals with, manipulate, abuse, or kill to get what she wants.
- And Show It to You: To Daniel right before crushing it and killing him. In front of Regina.
- Arc Villain / Big Bad: For a majority of Season 2, as she is still alive in the Enchanted Forest and scheming to find a way to Storybrooke and exact her revenge on Regina for pushing her through the mirror. Snow mentions that no matter how badly Regina has acted, Cora is worse, and Cora spends episode after episode proving Snow correct on this.
- Ascended Extra: An absolutely terrifying version.
- Batman Gambit: Her entire plan revolves around Regina saving Snow White.
- Beat Still, My Heart: Cora did this to Daniel in front of Regina.
- Break the Haughty: Cora was always bitter, haughty, and had a nasty streak a mile wide. But a childish prank by some royals humiliates her, and this becomes her entire reason to exist - to make everyone else (especially anyone of royal blood) get down on their knees before her.
- The Chessmaster: Her plan that involved killing Snow's motherand manipulating events so that Regina would save the young girl's life in order to get King Leopold to propose to her is definitely the work of one of these. But then there's the fact that she deceived and manipulated Rumplestiltskin TWICE. On top of that, she got Hook to go after Rumple in "The Outsider" with the implication that she knew Hook would not be able to find a way to kill him, instead seeking to break him so that she could play him later on. And then finally, it's implied in "The Queen is Dead" that Regina going on a vendetta against poor Snow was part of her plan to "turn Snow White's heart black as coal" and destroy Eva's legacy; Regina's entire Roaring Rampageof Revenge has been within the cards that Cora played this entire time.
- Collector of the Strange: Rumpelstiltskin may have taught her to rip out hearts, but she made it an art form with her oh so warm and welcoming vault of still beating hearts.
- Composite Character: Cora is both the miller's daughter (from the original Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale) and the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. She also has shades of Koschei the Deathless, given that she's removed her own heart and hidden it for safe-keeping.
- Consummate Liar: Unsurprising, given she's the one Regina inherited it from. She fools everyone in the settlement into thinking she was powerless and replacing Lancelot without Mulan or Snow (who knew Lancelot) realizing until she slipped by mentioning Henry.
- The Corrupter: She basically ruins Regina's HeelFace Turn with a few words.
- Corrupt the Cutie: At the funeral of Queen Eva, Snow's mother, she tells her her plan is to make Snow's good heart black and evil.
- She also starts the work on Regina. Rumpelstiltskin provides the rest.
- Crazy-Prepared: As Queen of Hearts, she doesn't keep her heart where everyone else does, making it impossible for Hook to rip it out.
- Dangerously Genre Savvy: As "Queen of Hearts", she has moved her heart either outside her own body or somewhere else in her body in case someone tried her favorite trick against her.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Has been masquerading as Lancelot for quite some time.
- Death Equals Redemption: It's only as she's dying that she shows true love for her daughter and regrets all the evil she's done.
- Death by Irony: At the funeral of Queen Eva, Snow White's mother, she tells the dead queen her plot in corrupting Snow White as a final means of destroying Eva and her "goodness." She is finally killed because Snow crossed the line by tricking Regina into putting Cora's cursed heart back into her body. Snow even used the same Cursed Candle Cora gave her as a means of saving her mother.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Regina held her after Regina put the cursed heart back in her. For those last moments, she finally realized just having Regina would have been enough for her.
- Disproportionate Retribution: So, a flighty princess tripped you and humiliated you in front of a bunch of nobles. It's perfectly reasonable to kill her in a slow, painful way with evil magic a decade later.
- The Dreaded: Finding out that Cora is trying to find a way to Storybrooke is an Oh Crap! moment for Regina and Rumpelstiltskin.
- Dying as Yourself: Albeit a "self" that she hadn't been for most of her life.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: As a young woman in "The Miller's Daughter".
- Establishing Character Moment: In "The Stable Boy", we are introduced to Regina riding a horse with her father complimenting on her skill. Then her mother shows up, derides her for riding her horse in a masculine form, and uses magic to restrain her while she insults various choices Regina made in her life.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- Regina. At least in her last moments.
- Had a romance with Rumpelstiltskin and reveals that this was why she removed her heart
- Evil Counterpart: By Season 2, she is becoming this to Regina, of all people. Large parts of the two characters' backstories are almost identical, but Regina recognises that she has done truly horrible things and appears to be sincerely trying to make amends. By contrast, Cora, if anything, is getting even more sociopathic. Of the major characters in the show, Cora was (before Peter Pan came along) the only one who could still be considered to be completely and unrepentantly evil until her last episode, "The Miller's Daughter", which manages to drum up some sympathy for her.
- Evil Matriarch: She is the head of the family, despite marrying up to be with Henry, by using her powerful magic to make them all afraid.
- Evil Old Folks: As the mother of Regina, she is one of the oldest living characters in the series and very evil.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: She didn't approve of Regina horseback riding in an undignified manner and casually tortured her until Regina promised to be good.
- The Fashionista: Apparently, her first stop after arriving in Storybrooke and ruining Regina's redemption arc was going to get her hair did and assembling a modern wardrobe. She also takes time out of her Evil Gloating at Queen Eva's funeral to sass the Blue Fairy's outfit.
- Faux Affably Evil: Always speaks with a maternally put-upon tone that suggests a constant attitude of "really, dear, if you weren't so unreasonable, I wouldn't have had to torture you."
- Follow in My Footsteps: Cora wants this for Regina and will do whatever it takes to achieve it.
- For the Evulz: Her murder of Johanna. She already had what she wanted, but she proceeded to throw Johanna to her death out of pure malice.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Twice. First, in the Enchanted Forest she rose from a poor miller's daughter to wealthy noblewoman and one of the deadliest sorceresses in the world. Then again in Wonderland, where she rose from having been banished there with nothing but the clothes on her back to becoming the Queen of Hearts.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: As the Queen of Hearts.
- Gold Digger: Marries Henry Sr. purely for the power and wealth of his position. The night before the wedding, she even flat-out states to his father "I don't love your son."
- Go Out with a Smile: She remembers how much she loved her daughter before she died, resulting in this trope.
- Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have: She's very well kept for a woman of her age.
- Greater Scope Villain: For Regina's character in Season 1.
- Hoist By Their Own Petard: So, you give a little girl a candle that could save one person by deliberately killing another so that you could corrupt her? Well, the corruption worked, but bet you never thought she'd grow up and kill you with it for all the hell you caused her!
- Ice Queen: Main reason is she lacked a heart.
- It's All About Me:
- It's rather telling that Cora's immediate response to Regina claiming that she has no right to control her the way she does because it's "my life" is to retort "It's mine." Not to mention how it took twenty odd years in Wonderland plus the twenty-eight years before the curse was broken for it to occur to her to ask her daughter what she wants instead of deciding for her.
- As of "The Miller's Daughter," it seems that most of this attitude comes from not having her heart, as she seems to genuinely feel love for Regina after it's restored. Of course...
- Killed Off for Real: Right after getting her heart back. The heart that allows her to love her daughter right before it kills her. That was put into her by Regina. Who had been manipulated by a broken Snow. Ouch.
- Kneel Before Zod: She wants all the uppity nobles, especially one woman who played a prank on her, to kneel before her.
- Knight Templar Parent: She will do what she thinks is right for her daughter because she honestly believes Regina needs her.
- Lady of Black Magic: Thanks to Rumpel teaching her how to channel those dark emotions.
- Love Is a Weakness: Her motto. And it's a weakness she's more than willing to use or remove as she sees fit. Unfortunately, love is also ironically her weakness with regards to Regina. And Rumpelstiltskin.
- Manipulative Bitch: Oh, definitely. For emphasis, her daughter is no slouch at it herself, but falls prey to Cora's manipulations as easily as anyone else, even though she knows better.
- Master of Illusion/Voluntary Shapeshifting: Shows a more fully realized version of Regina's ability to transform into an old crone in Hat Trick by posing as Lancelot. And later as Regina herself to frame her. And as Henry. And as the Blue Fairy.
- It's gotten to a point where the Memetic Mutation "Everyone is Cora" has been born.
- Meaningful Name:
Rumpelstiltskin: Cora? It's not a very pretty name. Sounds like something breaking.
- The meaning of "Cora" in Greek is "The Maiden Of Hearts" which is fitting because she made a habit out of ripping a person's heart out, killing them.
- Furthermore, she is The Queen of Hearts in Hat Trick after her daughter pushed her through a looking glass. The word corazon is Spanish for "heart."
- Rumpelstiltskin even lampshades the irony of her name, given her future modus operandi;
- Merlin and Nimue: Much like her daughter after her, Cora served as Rumpelstiltskin's apprentice. Unlike Regina, Cora's tutelage involved tongue.
- Mind over Matter: Cora has a habit of using this with magic to bring things to her or toss people around.
- My Beloved Smother: She will do anything that will, from her view, advance Regina's status to queen.
- Necromancer: Apparently, she wasn't scary enough already.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: Cora is relatively immune to Hook's "pretty face".
- People Puppets: If she doesn't kill them when she takes the heart, she can use them this way too.
- Never Mess with Granny: Ever. You will regret it if you do.
- Older Than They Look: She looks about the same in the present as she did when Regina was a teenager.
- Parental Abandonment: She abandoned her first daughter Zelena.
- Parental Marriage Veto: Regina loved Daniel. She... disapproved.
- Playing with Fire: When she can't get close enough to Snow to rip out her heart, she improvises with fireballs.
- Rags to Riches: She was born a miller's daughter—confirmed to be THE miller's daughter in "We Are Both"—and became landed gentry through various deals. She won't settle for anything less than her daughter going even further up the social ladder.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: She's usually seen dressed in a black and dark red dress.
- Rich Bitch: Averted in her youth. As the Miller's daughter, she was poor as mud.
- Social Climber: Started out as a lowly miller's daughter who used charm, wiles, and treachery to get into the court's good graces and marry nobility. She will settle for Regina being nothing less than being queen after her.
- The Sociopath: Casually tortures her daughter to get her way, says that love is weakness, kills the man said daughter loves...
- Soul Jar: Apparently, being just figuratively heartless was too subtle...
- Stage Mom: Makes her daughter miserable because she'd rather Regina be queen than happy. Or, as she puts, being queen is the only way Regina will be happy (even if she disagrees on that point) because power is real and love is an illusion.
- She continues this trend as Evil Mentor to the Red Queen in Wonderland, who is more receptive to it.
- Start of Darkness: When she was a young woman, she was tripped by an immature Princess Eva (Snow's mother before she wed Snow's father) and Eva claimed Cora hurt her. The King of the land forced Cora to apologize on her knees and wouldn't pay her for the flour. This was the start of her darkness as she would use the emotion she felt here to channel magic to spin straw into gold.
- Stepford Smiler: Type C.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Presenting Her Majesty, the Queen of Hearts.
- The Unfettered: No matter what deal she has to make, no matter whose life she has to end, Regina will marry up. Barbara Hershey, who also played a Stage Mom in the movie Black Swan, says that Cora would consider her Black Swan character "weak".
- Unholy Matrimony: She was in a relationship with Rumpelstiltskin prior to her marriage to Henry.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Actually surprisingly averted, given this show's trend. Cora was already bitter, proud, vengeful and calculating before Rumpelstiltskin came into her life, although she was not yet evil by any stretch. The way she used her wits to her advantage and didn't hesitate to talk back to arrogant royalty is actually admirable.
- Who's Laughing Now?: Embittered by her poor living circumstances and the way nobles treated her, Cora's greatest aspiration was to make them all bow to her. Painfully.
- Would Hurt a Child: Arranged for Snow's horse to go crazy in the first place, which could have killed her.
- Yandere: If Cora does actually love Regina, it's a possessive and cruel love that doesn't allow for deviation from what she wants.
Played By: Jamie ChungA stoic warrior unaffected by the Dark Curse. She helps Prince Phillip find Princess Aurora.
- Aborted Declaration of Love: To Aurora.
- Action Girl: Is a female warrior.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: There's hardly ever a moment where's she's not aloof and composed, a stark contrast to how she's portrayed in the Disney film.
- As of Season 3, this seems to have been toned down somewhat; she's dropped most of the old-fashioned honorifics from her diction and started using contractions. She actually even smiles now.
- Always Save the Girl: Towards Aurora.
- Back for the Finale: Along with Phillip and Aurora, she finds Neal washed up on a beach in the Enchanted Forest.
- Badass: Taking on Regina's men single handedly and Cora with a sword.
- Badass Gay: Fell in love with Aurora.
- Heartbroken Badass: In addition to being Badass, suffers from a case of Incompatible Orientation.
- Bi the Way: As of "Quite a Common Fairy", turns out she's had feelings for both Phillip and Aurora (although Aurora's assumption that she had feelings for Philip was never confirmed).
- Bodyguard Crush: Revealed to be in love with Aurora who she swore to protect in Season 3
- Cool Sword: Carries a jian that can deflect magical attacks.
- Declaration of Protection: Towards Aurora, see the quote above.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Her last scene (chronologically) in Season 2 has her finally smiling, and in Season 3, she's doing it much more often and acting less aloof and reserved, complete with letting her hair down.
- Fake Nationality: Character from Chinese legend played by Korean-American Jamie Chung.
- Good Is Not Nice: She's not overly friendly but she's definitely one of the good guys.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: She has a helmet, but never wears it beyond the initial conceal-that-she's-a-woman scenes.
- Honor Before Reason: To an extent. Her oath to protect Aurora means she'll take only a few hours to decide to steal the compass and try to make a deal with Cora, despite knowing that Cora's... not nice and wants to go to another world to be not nice to many more people.
- I Gave My Word: She told Phillip that she would protect Aurora and she fully intends to keep that promise.
- Becoming the Mask: She started off protecting Aurora due to her unrequited feelings toward Phillip and no personal affection for Aurora. As the two girls grew to become friends, Mulan's feelings shifted completely from Phillip to Aurora.
- Incompatible Orientation: She gets inspired to reveal her love for Aurora, just as Aurora announces she's pregnant.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Learns that Aurora is pregnant with Phillip's child before she could confess her feelings for Aurora. She expresses fake happiness at this then she tells Aurora that she would be joining the Merry Men instead of her planned confession. After hugging each other farewell, Mulan leaves in tears. (Though Aurora's not exactly happy at this parting, either.)
- Just Friends: She claims she is just Phillip's friend, but Aurora doesn't quite buy it, and statements from the writers seem to confirm her suspicions.
- As of "Quite a Common Fairy," she ends up having to accept this status for her and Aurora as well.
- Lady of War: Calm, stoic, and completely deadly in battle.
- The Lancer: To Phillip and Lancelot.
- Not So Stoic: After Aurora tells her that she's pregnant with Phillip's child, right before Mulan can tell her that she's fallen in love with her. Mulan congratulates Aurora, but the second Mulan turns away she starts to cry.
- The Quiet One: She doesn't talk a lot, contrasting with the more spirited Aurora.
- Samus Is a Girl: Her introduction, mirroring Charming's first meeting with Snow.
- The Stoic: In Season 2.
- Suddenly Sexuality: See Bi the Way.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Aurora's Girly Girl.
- Token Minority: One of the few characters of color on the show to have lines without being killed.
- Twofer Token Minority: She's bisexual or possibly homosexual.
- Undying Loyalty: To Aurora, as protecting her was Phillip's last wish.
- You Go, Girl!: Mulan refuses to be called "a girl" and prefers saying that she is a woman and a warrior to the surprised Aurora.
Princess Aurora
Princess Aurora
Played By: Sarah BolgerThe true love of Prince Phillip who was placed under the Sleeping Curse by Maleficent.
- Back for the Finale: Along with Phillip and Mulan, she finds Neal washed up on a beach in the Enchanted Forest.
- Bad Dreams/Recurring Dreams: Since waking up from the Sleeping Curse, she's had recurring nightmares of being trapped in a room on fire. As it turns out, Henry's been having them, too, and so has Mary Margaret - which ends up being key to getting Mary Margaret and Emma out of the Enchanted Forest.
- Bad Liar: Proclaims to be one.
- Deadpan Snarker: She deals with Cora with glorious disdain.
- Deep Sleep: Until Prince Phillip woke her up.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She was initially not very friendly towards Mulan, but eventually warmed up to her.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: She had a mild moment where she was shocked that Prince Phillip's traveling companion who he had fought alongside through many battles was a girl.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She's always wearing a purple dress.
- Heroic Suicide: Aurora is ready to sacrifice herself for others, since she doesn't believe she can be happy, but thinks they can and should. Snow White and Mulan don't let her go through it, but still.
- The Ingenue: A classic example of one.
- The Insomniac: As a side effect of the sleeping curse and it's bad enough that Aurora gives up sleeping until Snow promises to help her through it.
- Irony: In the first episode of the second season, Aurora accuses Mulan of having feelings for Phillip, which Mulan strongly denies. She goes on and says "Deny it all you want, I know love when I see it." to Mulan. The latter is revealed to be in love with her in Season 3 and Aurora is completely unaware of it.
- Legacy Character: Her mother was the original Sleeping Beauty.
- Non-Action Snarker: Hell yes. Despite being far weaker than Cora it doesn't stop her from using her tongue to lash back.
- Oblivious to Love: From Mulan.
- People Puppets: Briefly Cora's.
- Plucky Girl: Lampshaded by Cora when she holds her captive.
- Princess Classic: Beautiful, sweet, gentle, and a non-combatant.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Sweet, demure, and brave enough to sass Cora when she was captured.
- Stranger in a Familiar Land: She was in Deep Sleep when Regina cast the Curse, so she doesn't know anything about it.
- Sugar and Ice Personality: She is sweet to Phillip, her Love Interest, but cold and proud towards Mulan when she senses her interest towards him. Of course, this changes over time and she and Mulan become very close.
- Talking in Your Dreams: As a side-effect of the Sleeping Curse, she has found the power to wander the dream realm for those like her, such as Henry.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Mulan's Tomboy.
- What Beautiful Eyes: Big and blue-green.
Played By: JoAnna Garcia-Swisher
Centric Episodes: "Ariel"A mermaid from the undersea kingdom of Atlantica who can travel between realms.
- Adaptational Badass: On her very first scene she saves Snow White's life and she has the ability to travel through dimensions.
- Adorkable: Her unfamiliarity with the human world causes plenty of it.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Regina takes a mini salad trident to the neck for abusing her trust.
- Break the Cutie: Subverted big-time, as even after 28 years without a voice, Ariel is still as spirited as ever.
- Chekhov's Gun: The fork she keeps from the ball. She uses it to stab Regina in the neck as she was magically strangling Snow White. Ariel herself is an example due to her ability to travel between dimensions.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Her existence was foreshadowed way back in "Skin Deep" when Regina told Rumpel she needed help dealing with a certain mermaid.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Thanks to being unused to walking on legs.
- Fish out of Water: In both a literal and figurative sense. She is this whenever she spends time on land, whether it's in the Enchanted Forest or Storybrooke.
- Friend or Idol Decision: Chooses to help Snow escape and enrage the Evil Queen rather than take the easy way out.
- Love at First Sight: Typical for a fairy tale heroine. She falls for Prince Eric at first sight when she saves him from a shipwreck.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: And in this case, it's because...
- Plucky Girl: As expected.
- The Pollyanna: "I'm an optimist!"
- The Speechless: Regina reduces her to this as punishment for helping Snow escape. In exchange for helping Regina and Gold get some equipment from his place, she returns her voice.


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MIDDLEWEIGHT takes time out from training for world title clash with Saul Alvarez to congratulate his young nephew Adam.
THE Scots boxer opens his heart in this searingly frank interview with the Sunday Mail's Scott McDermott.
THE English fighter will head to Las Vegas for the highly-anticipated bout, which will be his first world title bout since 2012.
HE had a glittering ring career which him saw him take on some of the best fighters of his generation including Alex Arthur, Anthony Crolla, Erik Morales and Amir Khan.
THE Siddiqui family say they couldn't be more relived to end their tireless campaign as doctors prepare to start vital transplant treatment.
HOLLYWOOD'S finest flocked to the ringside at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for the Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather superfight.
BRIT boxer says that the unbeaten American, will defeat PacMan on points.
ROBERT took a break from snapping top footballers and celebs to capture powerful images of British soldiers at Camp Bastion.
THE potential fight would be the most eagerly-awaited in years, with a date of May 2 already pencilled in at Las Vegas' MGM Grand.
A SILVER medallist was the real winner at last summer's Commonwealth Games, and a boxing comedy gold won our hearts.
THE Bolton boxer says that the unbeaten American, who carefully picks and chooses his opponents, is looking for reasons not to fight him.
LOSING not an option for former two-time world champ if he wants chance to get in the ring with boxing's legendary unbeaten star.
We are happy to reveal the winner of our Summer Selfies competition.
GRAEME believes that following Kell Brook's stunning victory in America against Shawn Porter that a fight against Amir Khan would be monumental for the sport in Great Britain
CHARLIE FLYNN and Josh Taylor finally had the chance to celebrate their gold winning victory in style last night, enjoying a well earned treat after months of sacrifice.
THE 35-year-old has been in the ring with greats including Amir Khan and Erik Morales but rates tonight's bout with former footballer Woodhouse as his most important.
GRAEME looks at the most likely potential opponents for boxing's pound for pound best fighter in the world.
THE former footballer says he has the utmost respect for Glaswegian Limond, but did add that he is a better boxer - and a better footballer.
AMIR KHAN takes on Luis Collazo in the early hours of Sunday morning and is hoping a win can get him a showdown with undefeated American Floyd Mayweather
AS the Queen announces her annual honours list SHARI takes time to award this year's MBEs - the Most Bonkers Entertainers.
THE former World Champion gave out DVDs, game consoles and other gifts, collected by charity Colours of Islams, to patients at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
THE Cumbernauld tough guy says he will get in the mood for tonight's fight with Willie Limond by sobbing his heart out to chick flicks.
THE Glasgow battler says if he wins tonight's fight with Mitch Prince he wants to get back in the ring with Khan to avenge the last loss.
THE RESPECTED light-welterweight has the vacant Commonwealth belt firmly in his sights as he prepares to take on undefeated fellow-Glaswegian Eddie Doyle.
MBE Tommy has controlled the St Andrew's Sporting Club since 1987 and has featured six world title holders since then.
TWO young brothers killed in a Christmas Day crash were on their way to the wedding of boxer Amir Khan's second cousin.
KHAN reckons he's set for a good 2013 after seeing off Carlos Molina earlier this month and insists he still wants another shot at Garcia after being beaten in July.
KHAN issued the threat to take on his enemy after defeat Carlos Molina but Garcia's coach - and father - insists he'll beat the Brit boxer if the fight goes ahead.
THE Bolton bruiser saw his bout with Molina stopped in the 10th round and insists he's learning something new all the time under Hunter which can make him a great fighter.
THE Scot is without a defence after opponents twice pulled out of fights but the WBO lightweight champion's team are working to set up a showdown with England's fallen star Khan.
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text: 06 Feb 2014 Incredible holidays for 2014 Previous slide Next slide 1 of 15 View All Skip Ad Snorkelling in Antarctica If you are hungry for an adventure, how does snorkelling among penguins, seals and orca whales in Antarctica float your boat? Aurora Expeditions offers 10- and 12-day Antarctic cruises that give you the chance to snorkel past exquisitely sculpted icebergs and experience the Antarctic wilderness in an astonishingly intimate way. Led by expert polar-diving guides, clad in seriously hardcore waterproof drysuits designed specifically for snorkelling in these conditions, you will snorkel daily - weather permitting - in sheltered bays and around islands and shipwrecks. With three departures in the next three weeks - and last-minute places available for them all - you will have to be ready to seize the moment. If that sounds a bit too spontaneous, book ahead for the dates already scheduled for February 2015. Francesca Syz Aurora Expeditions runs a selection of voyages that offer polar snorkelling, including Across the Antarctic Circle, February 10-19 and 19-28, and Weddell Sea & Antarctic Peninsula, February 28-March 11, from about £4,395 per person, excluding flights and snorkelling excursion cost (020-7228 1230; auroraexpeditions.com.au ). Credit: Karen Hinchliffe The Northern Lights in Iceland According to a Travel Supermarket survey published in December, observing the Northern Lights is now the number one travel experience for Britons. The aurora borealis has surged in popularity in recent years, overtaking the Egyptian pyramids, the Great Wall of China and America's Route 66 as the thing to see before you die. Unlike those other experiences, however, a trip to see the Northern Lights comes with no guarantee that you will witness anything at all, which perhaps adds to its allure. A combination of luck, patience, a cloudless sky (well away from artificial light) and a generous helping of electrically charged solar particles in the atmosphere are essential before those magical pink and green streamers of light will put on a nocturnal display. Boost your chances by travelling between November and February. Arctic regions, including northern Sweden, Finland and Alaska, are best. Iceland, despite being mostly situated beneath the Arctic Circle, is proving an increasingly popular destination for would-be Northern Lights-watchers, not least because it is so easy to get to, but also because, in the event of a no-show, there are countless otherworldly distractions to ensure you don't return home feeling short-changed. The eccentric Hotel Rangá (ask for the safari-style Africa suite if you are looking for something a bit different) provides a comfortable remote base in the sparsely populated south, with lectures on the Northern Lights and telescopes for up-close sky-gazing. Iceland in winter is bleak and enchanting; arguably much more appealing than in the touristy summer months. Whether you are whale-watching on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in the west, exploring the glaciers and volcanoes in the dramatic Thorsmork mountain range in the south, or simply driving around the gloriously deserted ring road that skirts the country's perimeter, there is plenty to cram into the four or five hours of winter daylight. And then ample time to sit and wait in the dark for the sky to put on a show. Paul Davies The Iceland specialist Discover the World offers the three-night Aurora Nights Self Drive based at the Hotel Rangá from £595 per person (based on two adults sharing) including return flights with Icelandair from London, Manchester or Glasgow, three nights' accommodation with breakfast and three days' car hire (discover-the-world.co.uk ). Credit: Nature Picture Library A private tour of the Sistine Chapel, Rome There is something deeply thrilling about being in a very famous location that is usually unpleasantly rammed with tourists - alone. Stay at the incredibly luxurious Villa Nocetta, a six-bedroom contemporary holiday rental set within its own sweeping grounds in the centre of Rome, and this is just the sort of thing your personal concierge prides themself on being able to arrange. One of the most exciting experiences on offer is an early morning private tour of the Vatican, the highlight of which is time in the Sistine Chapel an hour before general admissions begin, so you have it all to yourself with the occasional exception of another small group doing the same thing. The tour will also take in the Vatican Galleries, Raphael's Rooms and the Basilica of St Peter. On certain days of the year it is also possible to book a tour that includes 15 minutes in the Sistine Chapel literally all by yourself - even the security people clear off. You can lie on the ground and look up at the ceiling if you wish. Life doesn't get more privileged than that. Francesca Syz Villa Nocetta sleeps 12 and costs from €3,214 per night, including VAT and city tax, with a minimum stay of three nights (0039 06 66 37 119; villanocetta-rome.com ). A four-hour early morning Vatican tour, which includes a private visit to the Sistine Chapel, costs €220 per person based on two sharing the experience and can be arranged through the villa's personal concierge. British Airways flies from London Gatwick to Rome from £82 (ba.com ). Credit: Getty Images Watching lunar rainbows over Iguaçu Falls, Brazil Iguaçu Falls, one of the new seven natural wonders of the world designated on 11/11/11, span Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, but are largely located in Argentina. So they are best seen from Brazil. Hotel das Cataratas sits directly opposite the falls, inside the Brazilian Iguaçu National Park, a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1987 (1984 on the Argentinian side; there is also a Sheraton hotel inside the park in Argentina, but you cannot access the falls - by train - until the park opens at nine on that side, when the hordes arrive, so what's the point?). Part of the enormous pleasure of staying at the Cataratas is that you have access to the park when no one else does. So before 9.30 and after 6.30 it is your own private playground. Get up at dawn and make your way across the road for your first sight of the falls, then follow the path through tropical rainforest (you will see lots of birds - there are 400 species in the park) past the Three Musketeers (three discrete falls, though they were five while I was there, such was the weight of water after storms two weeks before), and down to the Devil's Throat, the money ticket. The falls are 260ft high at this point. (On a visit Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly exclaimed, 'Poor Niagara!') Here the walkway juts out over the falls and you will get soaked (during the rainy season the rate of the flow of water going over the falls can approach three million gallons per second - that's a lot of water) but have a fine view, and endless rainbows. And if you plan your stay well you will be rewarded with a lunar rainbow, a moonbow, the white (to the naked eye) rainbow that occurs with a full moon. For these the hotel runs a 90-minute walking tour with its resident biologist, so grab the opportunity. Kathryn Holliday The details Doubles at Hotel das Cataratas cost from £375 including breakfast, based on two sharing (0055-45 2102 7000; hoteldascataratas.com ). Return flights to Iguaçu Falls from London Heathrow via Sao Paulo with TAM start from £844 and depart daily (tam.com.br ). Credit: Getty Images Explore the secret gardens of Venice Thinking about Venice, visual references tend towards the weirdly turquoise canals, the winding alleyways and the extraordinary palazzos and churches. Lesser-known are its gardens, some of the prettiest in Italy. For those you have to know where to look. A good place to start is the Bauer Palladio on Guidecca Island, whose own three-acre garden - the biggest in Venice - has been nursed back to life from a state of serious disrepair by the hotel's owner, Francesca Bortolotto Possati, a passionate gardener. What you see today is a beautiful garden combining classical Italian design and traditional English flowers - heavenly in both spring and summer. Join the renowned Venetian garden designer and great mate of Possati's Countess Tudy Sammartini for a three-hour garden tour taking in the Bauer's own plus other exquisite private gardens owned by family friends, including the one at Countess Anna Barnabò's Palazzo Cappello Malipiero Barnabò. Francesca Syz The Bauer Palladio Hotel & Spa is offering Telegraph readers a two-night stay from €600, including breakfast and tea in the garden. A three-hour garden tour costs €180 for up to three people (0039-041 520 7022; bauerhotels.com ). Credit: Massimo Casiraghi Komodo dragon-spotting, Indonesia It's not every day one is invited to see Komodo dragons in their natural habitat, let alone by Gerald Durrell's widow, Lee. So why not take the chance to be one of just 100 guests aboard the next environmentally sustainable Durrell expedition cruise, heading off the beaten track to Borneo, Bali and beyond for island-hopping of the highest order. Hosted by Dr Lee Durrell and the accomplished marine biologist and award-winning photographer Mick Fogg, this truly exotic wildlife holiday sails from Singapore to Bali through the Java Sea, seeking out wild orang-utans in Borneo and Komodo dragons on the island of Pulau Komodo; snorkelling among the untouched corals of the Anambas archipelago and taking part in a ceremony to release a pair of captive mynah birds back into the wild on Nusa Penida, just off Bali. At the time of going to press there were only seven places left and these were in the most luxurious cabins, but if the price tag doesn't phase you, book now. Francesca Syz The Ultimate Travel Company offers the two-week Orang-utans, Monkeys and Dragons cruise, October 7-20, from £8,401 per person in an Oceanview Stateroom, including meals and wine on board, shore visits with local guides and one year's membership to the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. The price also includes international flights with Singapore Airlines from London Heathrow and private transfers throughout (020-3051 8098; theultimatetravelcompany.co.uk ). Credit: Mick Fogg A night in the Walig Hut, Gstaad Palace, Switzerland After the old-school glamour of Gstaad Palace, there is something invigoratingly unexpected about the rustic Walig Hut, a wooden shack on a wildflower-smothered hillside 20 minutes' drive above Gstaad, built in 1786 for farmers to kip in while tending to their herds. Acquired by Gstaad Palace and restored just enough to be warm and comfortable while retaining its absurd charm and simplicity, it can be hired by guests for private lunches, candlelit dinners and, best of all, overnight for up to two adults and two children. Wrap up in blankets and watch the ludicrously pretty mountain landscape fade in the dusk light from your terrace before retiring inside for dinner by the wood-burning fire: wild-garlic and deer sausages, fondue, red-berry meringue and a bottle of locally produced Philippe Gex white wine. Francesca Syz A night for two in the Walig Hut, which is open between June 21 and September 14, including a three-course dinner, costs from about £1,070 (palace.ch ). Swiss flies from London City from £89 and London Heathrow from £84 return to Geneva (swiss.com ). Then it is two and a half hours by train to Gstaad. Dinner with Florin Postolachi, leader of the 15 November Association, Romania and Moldova With the final remnants of the Communist era in Romania and Moldova being swept away as we speak, now is an excellent moment to delve into the dark history of these former Soviet countries. Join Regent Holidays' eight-day Behind the Iron Curtain group tour at the end of August and visit key sites in Bucharest, Brasov and Tiraspol, with experiences ranging from visiting a collective farm to an evening spent dining with parliamentary member Florin Postolachi. The leader of the 15 November Association, named after the date of the first major uprising against Ceausescu, he will share stories and photographs and explain how the secret police operated in Ceausescu's time. Francesca Syz Regent Holidays offers the Behind the Iron Curtain group tour, August 29-September 5, from £1,860 per person, based on two sharing, including return flights from London Heathrow to Bucharest with British Airways, transfers, accommodation and sightseeing with an English-speaking guide (020-7666 1244; regent-holidays.co.uk ). Hiking the Kungsleden (King's Trail), Swedish Lapland To Swedes the King's Trail in the far north of the country is a classic hike and one of its best-loved. To the rest of us this 270km path taking in birch forests, valleys, lakes, glaciers and mountain peaks, scattered with reindeer, is an unexpected gem of a ruggedly beautiful, away-from-it-all mountain trek for which a basic - but not exceptional - level of fitness is required. The route is uniquely well serviced by simple but comfortable mountain huts, which means you can revel in the feeling that you are hiking in serious wilderness by day, safe in the knowledge that you will be chatting with your fellow walkers around the dinner table at the next hut on your route by nightfall. Only those with a month to spare should attempt the entire route. We suggest an eight-day group trip with Nature Travels from Abisko to Kebnekaise. Francesca Syz Nature Travels offers eight-day treks from £747 per person, including two nights in mountain stations, five in mountain huts, all meals (excluding alcoholic drinks), guides and transfers. There are eight departures between June and September (01929-503080; naturetravels.co.uk ). British Airways flies from London Heathrow to Stockholm from £99 return (ba.com ). Continue on by overnight train transfer. A trek to the lost Mayan city of El Mirador, Guatemala If you find the idea that there are lost ancient cities buried deep in the jungle unspeakably exciting, you will probably know about Tikal in Guatemala, one of the most important ruined Mayan cities in Central America and one of the country's biggest tourist attractions. OK, now forget that. If you are genuinely up for an adventure, you need to go to El Mirador, a ruined city founded around the 6th century BC that is twice the size of Tikal and several centuries older, and was once the capital of the entire Mayan civilisation. The grandest Mayan settlement ever discovered, it is thought to have had a population of about 100,000 at its peak. It is much more challenging to get to than Tikal, so most people don't bother, which means that when you do get there you have the place pretty much to yourself, save for archaeologists working on-site between March and July (about three per cent of the site has been excavated so far). Last Frontiers can arrange five-day trips to El Mirador which involve two seven-hour treks into the jungle over two days, one in each direction, with a day exploring El Mirador in the middle and camping all the way. Francesca Syz Last Frontiers offers a 12-day trip to Guatemala to include the El Mirador jungle trek from £3,427 per person, including international flights with Iberia, transfers, full-board during the trek and breakfast elsewhere (01296-653000; lastfrontiers.com ). Credit: Getty Images Vana, Malsi Estate, Himalayas, India The most exciting thing to happen in the world of Indian wellness since Ananda in the Himalayas opened in 2000, Vana, which launched a month ago in the lower foothills of the Himalayas, is everything a contemporary centre of wellbeing should be. It is simple, beautiful and low-impact in design, has a holistic philosophy that is both forward- thinking and fully embracing of the ancient traditions of Ayurveda, Tibetan healing and yoga (plus excellent spa treatments and pool-based aqua fitness), and is in a lovely location amid lush sal forest and mango and lychee orchards. Expect programmes tailor-made for you by a proper doctor after a detailed assessment, warm, nurturing staff throughout your stay, bedrooms with meditation areas and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the forest, and unique experiences such as Indian music therapy where you meditate to a man playing a wooden flute. There is also fantastic modern sculpture everywhere (for example a giant Bodhi Tree made of scrap metal) and Indian-Japanese-European food all grown in the grounds or nearby. Francesca Syz Greaves India offers a nine-night trip, with eight full-board nights at Vana, from £2,750 per person, including international flights with Virgin, internal flights and transfers, daily treatment and activities and a 75-minute daily Vana signature spa treatment (020-7487 9111; greavesindia.co.uk ). Bird of prey-spotting on the Isle of Mull, Scotland The Isle of Mull is also known as Eagle Island because of its impressive population of both the white-tailed eagle, which, on the brink of extinction, was reintroduced to the neighbouring island of Rum and migrated to Mull, and the golden eagle (Mull and Skye have the world's largest concentration of the golden eagle, Britain's second largest bird). Exodus is launching its first ever wildlife holiday in Britain this year, with four departures in May and June. The eight-day Highland & Island Wildlife of Scotland takes in the spectacular Cairngorms National Park for pine marten- and badger-spotting before heading to the Treshnish Isles off Mull to look for dolphins, porpoises, basking sharks, seals and minke whales, and then back to Mull itself to see peregrine falcons, golden eagles, white-tailed eagles, cuckoos and ravens, among others, swooping fabulously about its Gribun Cliffs. Francesca Syz Exodus offers the Highland & Island Wildlife of Scotland trip from £1,649 per person, including accommodation and all meals, all excursions and the services of a wildlife expert. The first departure is May 17 (0845-287 7636; exodus.co.uk ). Credit: Peter Cairns A weekend in Jerusalem, Israel A little after sunrise I walked up a wooden ramp to the side of the Western Wall, the most sacred site in Judaism. It led to the Temple Mount, which is also one of Islam's most important shrines, known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif. In Jerusalem it is shocking how close different sites of religious passion are to one another - in some cases on top of each other. It was a day of tension: Ariel Sharon was on his deathbed and outside Al-Aqsa Mosque Palestinian women shouted 'Allah Ho Akbar' as armed Israeli police officers moved up fast to monitor them. I exited through the Chain Gate and descended to the Western Wall. Families bustled about preparing for bar mitzvahs while at the wall devotees recited prayers. An old man wailed as he rocked back and forth. Nearby, beside an entrance to the Old City, it was possible to take a tour of the underground passages that thread through the city. By a passage that was still being excavated an original section of the Western Wall had been uncovered and four women sat on plastic chairs facing the stones. Emerging hours later I found myself at the start of the original Via Dolorosa. Dropping down from the first Station of the Cross, commemorating the trial of Jesus by the Sanhedrin, I climbed to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It was the time of the Coptic Christmas, and rival processions were operating: Ethiopians bearing a gold cross; Armenian priests with sacristans; the Coptic Patriarch, preceded by a hereditary Muslim guard. Inside the church Catholic priests led prayers as we passed the stone where Christ's body had been laid. In the American Colony hotel, a sense of frenetic disputation continued: a peace envoy to the Middle East was expected - Tony Blair. Patrick French Steppes Travel offers a private four-day break to Jerusalem from £1,695 per person including three nights at the American Colony hotel with breakfast, two days' guided sightseeing, and flights. An expert-led group tour from September 8-17 costs £3,195 per person, half board, including sightseeing and flights (0845-0756 079; steppestravel.co.uk ). Credit: Getty Images Douro Vineyard Walk, Portugal It has been a decade since wine lovers began to see Portugal's ravishingly beautiful Douro Valley as a place to go not just for wonderful port but also for excellent table wine. We love Arblaster & Clarke's five-night Douro Vineyard Walk, which combines wine and walking (mainly easy with a few unavoidable steep bits), taking you to some of the Douro Valley's best quintas and private wine estates. The adventure begins in Porto, where you board the train to Pinhão, one of Michael Palin's Great Railway Journeys, and transfer to your base, the five-bedroom Quinta do Passadouro, whose red wines are currently some of the most exciting in the valley. Forget corporate wine-tasting rooms, this trip is about feeling the sun-baked soil beneath your feet. Each day will take you walking through a different vineyard (Niepoort, Quinta do Noval and Quinta do Vale D.Maria's among others), where you will enjoy a picnic lunch under a shady tree or a more formal meal at the wine house, exploring and wine tasting all the way. Francesca Syz Arblaster & Clarke offers the Douro Vineyard Walk, May 12-17, from £1,095 per person, including five nights at Quinta do Passadouro, nine meals with wine, visits, tastings and a guide (01730-263111; winetours.co.uk ). Tap flies from London Gatwick to Porto from £126 return (flytap.com ). Credit: Getty Images Dinner at El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, Spain There have been weird and wonderful things bubbling away in the Roca family kitchen for several generations, and Joan, Josep and Jordi, the three brothers behind the three-Michelin-starred El Celler de Can Roca, the restaurant in a Girona suburb voted the best in the world last April, cite their paternal grandmother, Grannie Angeleta, as their muse. Even if you find the whole idea of molecular gastronomy ridiculous, you would be hard pushed not to enjoy the experience of eating here. Just being in the restaurant - a glass-walled triangular dining room wrapped around a pretty courtyard, feels a treat. Then there is the culinary journey (one of two tasting menus with seven or 14 courses): an avant-garde take on time-honoured Catalan culinary traditions, each course paired with exquisite wines from the 27,000 strong cellar. The menu is dictated by nature and season but is always colourful, light, delicate, intense and joyously harmonious. Things kick off with a miniature olive tree centrepiece from which you pluck caramelised olives stuffed with anchovies. Other taste sensations include grilled king prawn with seawater and a sponge cake of plankton, summer truffle bon bon with brioche and sourdough ice cream with cocoa pulp, fried lychee and sherry vinegar meringue. Bookings are taken from midnight on the first day of each month. Francesca Syz The seven-course Tasting of our Classics menu costs €135 and the 14-course Feast menu, €165, excluding wine (0034-972 222 157; cellercanroca.com ). Ryanair flies from London Stansted to Girona from £34 return (ryanair.com ). The hotel scene in Girona frankly isn't that exciting so I would opt for Fernando's Apartment in the old Jewish Quarter through airbnb.co.uk , which costs from £103 per night. Credit: Getty Images Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image Back to image


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To The Editor: I'd like to add my name to the list of those asking that Stephen Black's column be dropped. We have endured his rantings far too many years.
If you can't find a replacement columnist a blank space would be a great improvement.
Kenneth E. Martin
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Civil Rights Gone Wrong
Jackson, Jesse, The Nation
In 1957 Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, called out the National Guard to resist integration in Little Rock. President Dwight Eisenhower was hardly a champion of civil rights, but he was not a man to be trifled with. He nationalized the Guard, called in the Army and backed Faubus down.
Bill Clinton, an 11-year-old boy in nearby Hot Springs when Governor Faubus turned out his National Guard, has called racial discrimination the abiding "scar" of our history. Last year, he decided to "mend" affirmative action, not "end" it. But the question is whether he will defend it. Today, California Governor Pete Wilson stands in the schoolhouse door, and his state is violating the law of the land. Will the President enforce it?
Wilson has strong-armed the University of California into ending affirmative action admission and employment programs. He pushed the state's passage of Proposition 209, which prohibits the taking of affirmative steps to remedy discrimination. (Wilson argues that discrimination is no longer a problem.) The measure of his defiance can be seen in California law schools where affirmative action measures have been scotched. This year, offers of admission to African-Americans at Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley's law school, are down 81 percent; to Hispanics, down 50 percent; and to Native Americans, down, 78 percent. At U.C.L.A.'s law school, offers to African-Americans are down 80 percent, to Hispanics 32 percent. Law school officials acknowledge that the drop-off in students actually admitted will be even worse, as talented minority candidates are likely to go where they are more welcome. Next year, the same decline will play itself out at the undergraduate level across the state as those schools abandon the law.
According to his aides, the President plans to launch a "national discussion about race" in mid-June, hoping to make racial healing a theme of his second term. As a son of the South, witness to the bitter conflicts over integration, he wants Americans to confront their fears and feelings. (Just recently he offered an apology for the infamous Tuskegee experiments.) Great, but he's not a minister, he's a President. When Presidents speak, people listen--but only if action ensues. A failure to act speaks louder than words.
Clinton governs at a time when the entire cause of civil rights is under furious attack. …


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Four persons were arrested on Wednesday for the murder of a man during a marriage party, police said. Ravinder Gujjar was murdered on Friday night following an altercation with a group of six men, four of whom have been arrested.
The accused are identified as Parikshit Saini, Kavindra Kataria, Manish Kataria, and Nishant Sharma alias Nishu. We are trying to arrest two others, Surendra Pal Singh, DCP (West), said.
Police also recovered swords and rods from their possession.
According to police, last Friday, Ravinder and his friends had gotten into two separate scuffles, one of which ended in the murder.
During the wedding ceremony, Ravinder and his friends had an altercation with a group of men over a song being played by the DJ. However, those gathered at the function intervened and pacified the youngsters, a police officer said.
Later, Ravinder was urinating by the roadside when another youth, Naveen alias Happy, the younger brother of Parikshit Saini, checked him. This led to a verbal duel. Happy left the spot and came back with Parikshit and his friends, carrying swords and rods. They then murdered Ravinder, the officer said.
All four accused were produced in a Gurgaon court and remanded in police custody for two days.


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Written on: 24/04/2009
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