Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161018212924/@comment-25926288-20161019121223

As I said in the other thread, the only time I believe Rumple was OOC was when they had him about world domination. That was the only time he was OOC.

Rumple attempting to kill Henry was Rumple being on the fence as he was doing it very, very slowly. He was a person that valued power over love and had a nasty habit of self-preservation. He overcame that in part in 3A. That's called character progression.

At the end of season 5, you clearly see that he didn't want to hurt Henry as he choose a sleeping spell instead of force choking Henry to death.

Rumple hurting Belle deals nothing with being OOC. He makes mistakes and Belle gets upset. Rumple going about things the bad way has been a consistent thing, at best you can say character regression from 3A's finale, but he's been doing it before then and after then since.