Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151218154731

I'm no Star Wars fan, but I think I just realized this fact.

Rumple is the Darth Sidious of Once, except the whole Palpatine aspect, but you could potentially count Mr. Gold as that facet of character.

From what I know about SW and from their wiki, Darth sidious had a number of apprentices and such and that helps add to this theory. Rumple has apprentices, Cora, Zelena, and Regina. I believe that Regina was potentially his Anakin. However, I think that's who Emma is.

Rumple may have been leading Regina down a dark path and even using dead loved ones against them, but I feel like Rumple had been succeeded nd planned to be succeeded by Emma. Emma's the Anakin and she even completed her turn into DO because of her fear of a loved one dying.

So, I've got it as Rumple as Sidious, Zoso as Plageuis, Cora as Maul, Regina as Dooku, and Emma as Anakin. I guess Zelena was another of those random apprentices I don't know of. 