Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6302057-20141203042730/@comment-1894786-20141229005318

I think they need to retcon the Curse. They said nothing could stop it, Cora did. They said it would rip away all the lands. It only took all of the Enchanted Forest (minus Cora's Safe Haven), one person from the Land Without Color, one person from Wonderland (two if Will was there when the Curse hit), and MAYBE one troll from Arendelle (Pabbie's statue could've just been a cute easter egg like the Tinkerbell ornament in Pilot). And both Zelena and Hook stated the Curse has a limited scope, which Ariel and Eric escaped. The one thing the Curse was promised to do which it did, was freeze time. The Enchanted Forest, Wonderland, Victorian England, and the Land Without Color were all frozen in time, and probably any other world we visit later as well. Victorian England was frozen while Alice was in the asylum. And it seems like the only world that was aware were the Enchanted Forest citizens because they knew what happened.

I think the Curse affects a massive area where it's casted and takes all the living, but if the caster wants, the Curse can pull people from other lands or certain deceased people, which is why Regina wanted Cora dead, because she loved her mother and therefore the Curse would've taken her to Storybrooke from Wonderland automatically. But she specifically chose to take Henry and Daniel's corpses.

And I also think that the Curse automatically rips back all the people that were originally hit by it. Will seems to have been living in Wonderland with Ana until Snow's curse ripped him back to Storybrooke, but this is unconfirmed and the fact that Eric was still on Hangman's Island with Ariel during Snow's curse suggests that the person only gets pulled back if they're within the limits of the Curse.

Maybe Will was transported to the Enchanted Forest when Regina undid the Curse, since apparently everyone went back to the Enchanted Forest, regardless of their world of origin. And that's why he was brought to Storybrooke with Snow's Curse. Everyone said that travel between the worlds was impossible during the missing year. This could mean Will couldn't get back to Ana at all during that year, and Rabbit was unable to use his powers? That's my only explanation for it.