Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1894786-20151104191856/@comment-1894786-20151219033411

CoolDudeAl wrote: To everyone freaking out and saying "Black Beard is still alive", two things. One: We don't really know if Black Beard is actually still alive, as the last we heard of him he was being defeated by Elsa, and the last we saw of him was in the AU (which doesn't mean much). At any rate, he could have died at any point during the Camelot arc, and thus now be in the Underworld. Two: Assuming this is Gold's shop, we don't actually know which Gold's shop this is, SB or UB (Underbrooke, since that's what we're all calling it). If this is UB he is most likely dead, although I suppose he could have also opened a portal to the Underworld like Emma and co. did. If this is SB however, that means he is alive, and just got a portal to SB. Time will tell. Oh, and one final thing, I do agree this looks like a Once set, but can anyone prove it? Like do we have a picture of this carpet being used before? Because then he is confirmed, which would be nice. Isaac confirmed that the AU couldn't bring back the dead, meaning if Blackbeard was dead, he wouldn't have appeared in the AU. Though his appearance is strange, since everyone else featured was in Storybrooke when the book was written. Maybe Isaac only used that limited pool of characters except for Blackbeard?

So as of The Dark Swan (which take place immediately after Operation Mongoose), he is still alive. And I doubt Elsa would execute him. Imprison him, yes. Execute him, no.