

Rumplestiltskin follows his advice and later names the doll "Peter Pan".

Seeing his son's reluctance to stay behind, Malcolm gifts him a straw doll, telling him it will protect him if he gives it a name. Before his father goes to look for work, he leaves his son with a pair of wool spinsters. The duped man steals Malcolm's money, leaving both father and son penniless. (" The Black Fairy")Īs a child, Rumplestiltskin watches his father, Malcolm, swindle a man and then get beat up for it, though he tries to intervene to protect him. With great bitterness, and thinking his son is responsible for the death of Fiona, Malcolm announces that he has a fitting name to bestow on the infant: Rumplestiltskin. Later, the Blue Fairy and Tiger Lily take the infant and return him the to his father, Malcolm, telling him that Fiona died in an accident while protecting their son.

Fiona is then banished to the Dark Realm by the Blue Fairy, vowing to do everything in her power to one day get back to her son. Tiger Lily wants to give the Shears of Destiny to Fiona to cut away her powers so the prophecy won't come true, but Fiona insists she needs her powers to protect her son, so she uses the shears to sever his destiny as the Savior. Fiona takes the fairy's heart to prevent her from stopping her, however, this act of evil turns herself into the Black Fairy, revealing she is the great evil that her son is meant to kill one day. While in the sacred fairy vault, Fiona begins gathering ingredients as a horrified Tiger Lily discovers she wants to cast a dark curse to send all the children of the Enchanted Forest to another realm to ensure the great evil never reaches her son. Fiona takes the infant with her as she searches for the great evil who is prophesied to be born the same winter, but she and Tiger Lily are unable to find the child they are looking for. After Fiona becomes obsessed with changing her child's destiny, she transforms herself into a Fairy to protect her son. Shortly after his birth, the Blue Fairy arrives with Tiger Lily, the newborn's fairy godmother, to deliver a prophecy about the child's destiny to become the Savior who will die fighting a great evil. Gold also takes the place of Carl Fredricksen from the Disney/ Pixar film Up.ĭuring a dark winter, Fiona is with her husband Malcolm when she gives birth to a son. He also takes the place of the fairy godmother from the Charles Perrault version of the " Cinderella" fairytale, and the fairy godmother from the Disney film Cinderella. He is also based on the crocodile from the Peter Pan story and the crocodile from the Disney film Peter Pan. Rumplestiltskin is based on the titular character from the " Rumpelstiltskin" fairytale, and the Beast from the fairytale of " Beauty and the Beast" and Beast from the Disney film Beauty and the Beast. He is the main reality version of Wish Rumplestiltskin. He débuts in the first episode of the first season and is portrayed by starring cast member Robert Carlyle and guest star Wyatt Oleff. Gold, currently known as Weaver, and briefly known as the Savior and the Light One, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. Rumplestiltskin, also known as Rumple, the Dark One, and the Crocodile, later known as Mr.
