Dwarves

"There are no female dwarves. Dwarves don't fall in love, dwarves don't get married, and dwarves don't have children. Why do you think you were hatched from an egg?"

- Bossy to Dreamy

Dwarves are a humanoid creature species featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They are native to the Enchanted Forest, and first appear in the first episode of the first season.

Several dwarves are derived from characters featured in the fairytale "Snow White".

Biology
Dwarves physically resemble humans, but have distinctive ears and noses. They are described as "little people", even though they seem to be the same height as an average human. Dwarves are born from eggs, though how these eggs come into existence is not known as there are no female dwarves, and all that hatch from eggs are male in gender. Dwarves hatch out of the eggs fully grown and fully clothed.

Dwarves don't fall in love, and are not interested in romantic relationships. Grumpy, however, is an exception because his egg is accelerated by fairy dust, which was accidentally dropped by Nova.

Culture
Dwarves mine the diamonds that get crushed into Fairy Dust. They love to work, and even whistle while they do it. A group of dwarves hatched at the same time, live and work together as brothers.

Dwarves receive their names from a special pickax, which materializes with each of their own personal names. While these pick axes can also be used by others, they will not show the name of someone who is not a dwarf, but will work for a person who has been shrunken by magic, like a giant who have been shrunken to human size. If a dwarf's ax breaks, the new ax may give them a different name if the dwarf in question has gone through a major change in personality.

Known Dwarves

 * Bashful
 * Bossy
 * Doc
 * Dopey
 * Grumpy (formerly known as Dreamy)
 * Happy


 * Helper Dwarf
 * Sleepy
 * Sneezy
 * Stealthy †
 * Watchy

Trivia
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On-Screen Notes

 * The seven dvarves are featured in the title card for "Dreamy" and "An Apple Red as Blood".


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Production Notes

 * For the episode "Dreamy", the dwarves' noses were made of silicone and their ears from gelatin.
 * The eighth dwarf, Stealthy, was originally going to be called "Sneaky", but the name was changed after Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis got a note from ABC claiming the name "seemed derogatory."


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Disney

 * As they're working on the Bean Fields, Leroy and the other dwarves whistle the melody of "Heigh-Ho" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
 * When Isaac is taken prisoner, the Dwarves whistle an altered version of "Heigh-Ho", and Grumpy says, "Heigh-ho" and "off to work we go"; a reference to the song.
 * When Emma shows up in the mines to steal Happy's pick ax, the Dwarves are whistling "Heigh-Ho".


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Set Dressing

 * Cartoonish carnival cutouts (where you put your face in the hole and it looks like you have a different body) of dwarves are in front of town hall during the preparations for Miner's Day. They can also be seen behind Mary Margaret's desk.


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Other Notes

 * The seven dwarves were originally unnamed in the Snow White fairytale. They first received names in the 1912 play, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In the play, they were named "Blick", "Flick", "Glick", "Snick", "Whick", "Plick" and "Quee". They were renamed in the 1937 Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, where they were given the names used on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
 * The standard plural of the noun "dwarf" is "dwarfs". The plural "dwarves" was popularized (though not invented) by the famous author J.R.R. Tolkien in his fantasy fiction works, and specifically refers to fictional fantasy races. The characters on Once Upon a Time correctly refer to the species as dwarves.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.