Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151116014923/@comment-25926288-20151120153707

CTrent29 wrote: Why do we keep calling the entity "the Darkness"? It's Nimue. Why not call it for what it truly is?

If that ink was capable of immobilizing both Rumpelstiltskin and Emma, that means that particular squid is more powerful than "the Dark One". What other beings or creatures are more powerful? The Chernabog? After all, Rumpelstiltskin needed Maleficent, Ursula and Cruella's help to distract it and retrieve the curse. Why didn't he simply kill it? Well, it's actually corrupted magic from the Holy Grail. But they don't do words or math very well. Let's not get started on season 4's potential for Darkness stuff. (But it's not Nimue, because it's the other Dark Ones too).

The ink was always able to immobolize the DO, even back in season 1 and 3. Squid Ink was said to immobolize even the most powerful of magical beings.

As for the Chernabog thing, they never said why Maleficent didn't just poof all of them out of the cave, either. But that's why I always say that magic is overpowered. Rumple could have just did all that stuff himself and then poofed out.

But all that is off-topic.