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I'd say Gold is the overall season Big Bad. He brought the Queens here but he also got Isaac to rewrite the story. But in each half of the season he has a Big Bad Duumvirate going. First half (4x11-4x19): Rumple, Maleficent, and Cruella (Ursula is sorta one of these but Cruella sticks around in Storybrooke two episodes longer so... But lets count Ursula too) and then after 4x19 (when Cruella dies and Maleficent decides to leave) it becomes a new Duumvirate with Rumple and Isaac.