Martin

"Made by elves from elves."

- Martin about the elf tonic.

Martin is a minor character on Once Upon a Time. He is played by guest star Harry Groener and makes his first and only appearance in the fifth episode. He is presumed to be deceased; however, this has yet to be confirmed.Martin is Jiminy Cricket's father. He and his wife Myrna are scam artists.

Season One
Martin is first shown in That Still Small Voice. While putting on a puppet show for people in an unnamed village, he has his son Jiminy sneaking around the crowd, pickpocketing them. Later he and Myrna are counting the money Jiminy collects.

Jiminy admires a cricket he finds by the wagon train. Martin ignores this but later tells him that he is free to do what he and his mother want. He then makes the cricket "disappear," stating the problem is solved.

Many years later, despite being older, Myrna and Martin are still up to their old tricks. They talk about what scam to run next but Jiminy interjects saying that they make enough from the puppet show.

They complain about getting old and tell Jiminy to stay with them until they die. They then tell him to set up for the show. Later they arrive at a house where they pretend to be homeless and need a place to stay.

Myrna tells a story about the town over being hit by the plague and says that they are immune due to the use of elf tonic. They swindle the family into giving up all their gold and objects of worth for a tiny vial of what the family thinks is elf tonic.

When Jiminy tries to kill his parents with the potion Rumpelstiltskin gave him, Martin reveals that he switched Jiminy's potion for rain water. They then laugh not showing a shred of remorse for what happened.