Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26394456-20150714132009/@comment-24674051-20150717144548

Depending on how you write the story, a bear or other creature could be a villian, or at least perceived as a villain. just not for a whole arc. The Episode with the Yaoguay (or however that creature is spelled) had Phillip transformed into that beast. Yes, it had magical properties, but it was still just a beast. and yes, Belle used Magic and her brains to defeat the monster.

I'm not saying this to support the idea of Mor'du coming to Once, because I don't think that is necessarily a good idea. I'm just saying that whatever they choose to do, the way they handle the story telling will determine whether the idea is a success or failure.

I mean (ok, I know this is way off topic) you could have an episode that requires the heroes to travel through a land, and the only way to travel is to change into animals (humans are for some reason magically barred from the land). This is one way you could do Lion King or Jungle Book. It's a bad (and I mean really bad) idea (and it's mine so I am allowed to say that), but you could still do it.