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Once has beeen founded on doing twists of well-known tales, etc. They never copy something exactly (besides abysmally selling out to do Frozen which ended up messing up some of their plans). Once is all about twisting things so you'd never be complacent.

King Arthur in Arthurian legend was told to be either a decent, brave guy or a jerk. Depedns on whose telling it. Peter Pan was also a jerk in the Barrie Novels.

Plus, Once tries (and sometimes fails) at trying to that the black-and-white Morality of fairytales and make the shades or moral grey.