Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20170909025746/@comment-27060727-20171111042953

I might've brought this both in some other thread, but herein lies a huge issue I have with this "The wish characters are all now real!" thing the writers started.

Okay, so the Wish Realm was created by the Evil Queen's wish. She instantaneously created a whole new parallel universe with duplicates of everyone. Simply saying that everyone there was given ~28 years of a different backstory after the dark curse was never cast isn't the big problem. However, now we're getting confirmation that Wish Hook had ventured outside of the wish realm before he got old and came across Emma in 7x11.

So take this prior connection with Tremaine he supposedly has. Tremaine is a REAL person from a REAL realm not created by a wish! (As is Rapunzel, if they're not the same person) Are her memories/encounters with Wish Hook fake ones that must have been planted by the wish the EQ made to give him this whole other backstory? What were the boundaries of that wish when it comes to things like this? Wish Hook didn't actually exist prior to her wish, but I bet the NEF did.