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I agree with the OP. Rumple was written very strangely this season. The first season, he was villainous enough. Season 2 had him become more of an anti-hero thanks to Belle and Neal and he was doing his best last season to be heroic until the finale. Even then, wanting to kill the person who orchistrated the death of your only child and put you through torture is hardly unreasonable. Then this season...wow. They make his first scene incredibly touching, he finds Merlin's hat and it goes downhill. Everything bad about him gets exaggerated from the aforementioned "take over the world" garbage to his rather nonsensical interractions with Ingrid. Even his flashback with Anna depicted him as more vicious than usual.