Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3966122-20131220140714/@comment-23871096-20140105101402

TVDaddictneedstogetlife wrote: XxBadWolfxX wrote: Applegirl wrote: XxBadWolfxX wrote: Applegirl wrote: The dreamshade wound, I believe, is different. I mean, it's basically a very fast acting poison. It deteriorates a person's condition very rapidly, and that's why Mr. Gold showed himself to be in such extreme, physical pain during that time. I honestly believe the dagger embedded into both his own and Pan/Malcolm's hearts. Look at what he did with the blade after his line about being a villain. He twisted it deeper into both their wounds. How is that something avoidable? For Pan to die, he had to die as well. Though he did stab  himself with the dagger, I think he did not show much pain because he had finally accepted the fact he himself needs to die to save everyone. Justto add ( :

For anyone who wonders why Rumple had to die to stop Pan. Rumple had to turn Pan into The Dark One!! Which made him grow old again. And Rumple had to die in order to transfer his power to Pan. Malcolm became The Dark one for awhile and then was in turn killed by Rumple.

This broke the cycle of the dagger.

Rumple v.v </3 Always and forever a hero. This is the first time I'm hearing a theory like this. I didn't really see proof that Pan became the Dark One. It wasn't hinted in the scene.What I see is Rumple killing himself with the dagger is what made the cycle break. Therefore, his powers did not transfer to anyone else after that. Like with Zoso and Cora's failed attempt, we know that only if another person stabs the Dark One, then the attacker is the one who becomes the next Dark One. When have we ever seen evidence that a Dark One stabbing himself and another person at the same time makes the other person the Dark One? Is evidence needed tho.. The Dark One dagger was the item responsible for turning Pan back into Malcolm. To me it logical that Rumple had to transfer his power to Malcolm for a milli-second.

Then in turn, kill Malcolm at the same time. If Rumple didn't use the power of the dagger and what it did. Then their would be no reason for Rumple to be killed along side Malcolm.

Therefore Rumples "undoing" of his Dark one power was to transfer, then kill Pan.

This also means in a way, Henry was Rumples un-doing. This is prophesy fulfilled.

Because Pan was in Storybrooke because of Henry's rescue.

For anyone to get dark one's power, one must kill current dark one  first.Pan should've killed Rumple first with DO dagger to get the Dark one's power.I didn't see that happened so i'm not entirely convinced with your theory. It's ok ( : Also another clue was with Rumples vision of Belle. He told her he needed to be the "monster" aka Dark One in order to defeat Pan. He went thru the trouble of changing his wardrobe on Hook's ship so he can become the Dark One.... To defeat Pan. Why do we think that is? o;  Not to mention Rumple said repeatedly that only he has can/has what it takes to defeat Pan. Which is the Dark One curse.