Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20131118032545/@comment-24092059-20131118044745

My theory is that Malcom is affraid of loosing his dream of being able to fly and basically live in that dream world. And him being cruel to Rumple is basically him trying to destroy that conection of being a father, kinda like the reverse of the 1990's movie hook, where peter forgets he was peter because he grew up and became robin williams...I mean a father. hough if you notice Malcom was extremely manipulative almost to the point where he didn't care about what happened to little rumple ie: the tree climbing part. The only reason why rumple didn't climb the tree is because Malcom noticed that rumple was just not going to do it.