Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24674051-20150302183848/@comment-1894786-20150309033746

And let's not forget the Dragon, Emma's own magic, Peter Pan's immortality spell on John and Michael, Walsh being able to turn into a flying monkey, Ingrid using troll magic in non-magical Storybrooke on Sleepy, and apparently Zelena using a glamour spell to masquerade as Marian for six weeks... A lot of magic can work in the real world and it makes no sense for some of it to work, and for some of it not to.

And let's not forget that Rumple firmly believed that cleaving himself from the dagger would allow him to be able to use magic out in the real world, since he planned to conquer it. I want to know how that would even work.

But back to the topic at hand, considering Chernabog is the embodiment of evil itself, I doubt it'll really be gone.