Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26443838-20160509033408/@comment-1916997-20160509144926

Chameleon-Guy wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: We had death of 3 recurring characters in this episode (Arthur, Robin, Hades). I think that fills our death quota for this arc. Robin was a main character, even though not a lead.

And Rumple can't die, he's the boss. Right and all the main characters are recurring characters. Recurring literally just means we see them more than once.