Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20160501123222/@comment-5925413-20160502104445

MBrody wrote: Even when he no longer had the Darkness, he still made selfish decisions. And his actions are far worse than anything Emma ever did. […] Rumplestiltskin repeatedly rationalizes everything he does and never seems to truly care for anyone but himself.

What selfish actions? Like, running from the Ogres' War, sparring a man's life and selling his own and only own second child (not even Milah's), telling his son whose mother abandoned him for a pirate that she died? Then, 200 years later, freed of his DO curse, he saved Belle's life? Defeated Hook? Oh, and he got his power back. How evil indeed.

Hook didn't need to become a DO to make far worse deeds. Like abandoning Emma in a cell without any known way out. Among others.