Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26347158-20150419103813/@comment-25617147-20150420013813

DatNuttyKid wrote: he didn't say she was a boring housewife, he said she became irrelevant. The character of Belle was introduced as Rumple's true love. This would be true even if it was Bob and Rumplette, Bob would still be Rumplette's true love and become rather irrelevant once he married her. Although Bob is no longer with Rumplette, he also isn't relevant to any of the Kings of Darkness, besides the fact that they kidnapped him once, so he doesn't need any plots in 4B either. (What would the Kings of Darkness' names be...? Cruello, Ursulo, and Maleficent...o?)

The main reason I don't think Hook will die is because they've made a big deal out of all of Emma's boyfriends dying and her not wanting Hook to join them. If Hook died... that'd kinda ruin all of it. Unless he died to save Emma, which none of her other boyfriends did. And they did bring August back, so she still has a guy if that happens. Exactly. It's not an attack towards Belle's gender. It's just that she is hardly important now and coincidentally it happened after she got married.