Apprentice

"I am his Apprentice. And you are not the first Dark One I have faced."

- The Apprentice to Zoso

The Apprentice is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. He débuts in the fourth episode of the fourth season. He is portrayed by guest star Timothy Webber and co-star Graham Verchere.

The Apprentice is based on a character of the same name from the poem, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and on Wart from the Disney film, The Sword in the Stone.

Trivia
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Character Notes

 * His transformation into a mouse is a reference to Mickey Mouse, the Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia.
 * According to Rumplestiltskin, he is thousands of years old. However, that is an exaggeration, as the Apprentice has been living for five hundred years at most.


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Production Notes

 * His casting call describes him as, "an elderly, grizzled and unflappable knight who for many, many years has dedicated himself to serving a righteous cause".


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Disney

 * According to a note on the board in the Storybrooke library, the owner of his house is Yen Sid, a reference to the powerful sorcerer from Disney's Fantasia.
 * The young Apprentice wears red robes similar to the ones worn by Mickey Mouse, who is the Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia. His clothes also resemble the robes worn by young Arthur in The Sword in the Stone.