Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4453062-20160217065238/@comment-25926288-20160429114359

Farerb wrote: Interesting question:

Why what Gold did, taking Zelena as leverage over Hades is any different than Regina takung Belle's heart in 4B? Why is he seen as "Villain" while Regina wasn't? To whom? I'm thinking there are three morally grey teams in this 5b triangle. Rumple wants to stay dark and do dark things, but he's doing it to fight Hades' dark actions.

Now, the "Why is he..." is more relevant to the "Why is Regina allowed to still use "dark" magic in a rather Machievellian way and sometimes just selfish, but Rumple isn't?" The answer to that is, Regina's using it to help "our heroes" or against "the villains" while Rumple isn't helping "our heroes" at all.

Our heroes, meaning Charmings, Hook and Emma, not Belle, not the babies, etc. When Rumple uses magic (and leverage) to help save Hook, they are fine, but when Rumple's using magic (and leverage) to save his child.....um, morally grey?