Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20150313202428/@comment-26376853-20150508200913

Eskaver wrote: Disneian wrote: If the villains gain their happy ending by being "heroes" and the hero loss their happy ending as "villains", then it's still the "heroes" get their happy ending and "villains" don't. If Gold really wants to change their fates, villains should get their happy ending by being a villain. I think the finale, instead of using Chekov's gun, will use a Catch-22. (Yes, we solve confilicts with plot devices, lol) Isaac says in this book the villains get their happy ending, but aren't the villains technically the heroes....so, contradictory much. So, it maybe that the Heroes will always get their happy endings and even when they are AU Villians, they get their happy endings.

Or they'll hope or believe their way out. They are heroes because this altering buisness actually has effects like the DC (and yes I have been convinced that what the author does is altering the present ;). The people get fake memories, some happy, some not, just so that Rumple (and the rest of the villains) get their happy endings.