Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5106672-20140324015542/@comment-11464223-20140330022349

Raelizflo wrote: Why is everyone forgetting that Rumple is known as the coward throughout this series? Season 2, The Crocodile episode, it was all about how he needed to gain power through being the dark one to compensate for his cowardice. Obvy, Rumple is the cowardly Lion, Imp, Beast, and Crocodile...if we're playing the match up game with the Oz folk. We're not forgetting that. Quite the opposite, it seems you're forgetting Rumple's actions more recently-in the Midseason Finale. He left everything behind then, he did what he had to do.

And now, more recently than that, he's gone mad/lost his marbles/insane. As a result, you could say, that based on more recent events, it's more likely he'll play the role of the scarecrow than of the cowardly lion.