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Kingfan22 wrote: I think it's rumple's fault. He plays a big role in almost all the villains turning evil and was willing to ruin the live of multiple people and destroy the lives of hundreds more just for his own selfishness. He put in basically all the work in casting the dark curse everyone else was just pawns in his plans

Well, one can't blame Rumple for all of it, only partial at best. He didn't make Regina cast the curse. Regina is in her 30s and I think she can think for herself. Regina could have found other ways to her happiness and even other ways to her revenge.

Rumple doesn't make people do anything, he just nudges. Rumple didn't make Cora who she was. Cora was liek that and was the one that requested to learn magic. So on and so on.

You can say that he partially helped Snow and Charming to get together, so he didn't only manipulate evil, villainous things.

Who's fault is it that the curse was casted by Regina? Why it's Regina herself. Who's responsible for the Dark Curse in general? Merlin, simply because I'm sure he could have destroyed it or something.