Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161215144521/@comment-5679696-20161215155450

I disagree with most of these as reasons for him being dumb.
 * Rumple knows that villains never win. But he thinks he is better than any other villain, and he usually does get what he wants. Same for the Happy Endings. Same goes for what he says about getting everything.
 * Rumple never let the Author decide his fate, but he was dying. He was desperate.
 * Rumple is looking for his son in literally every flashback we've seen.
 * Rumple saw the future. He KNOWS that he will get the Dark Curse cast, so it is pointless to try and go to the LWM through another portal. Besides, Rumple wants magic, and he can't have magic in the LWM unless he brings it with him via the Dark Curse.