Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20171230023419/@comment-31231929-20171230184818

- how Emma's story is that of the Ugly Duckling's

- how Killian is simmilar to Barrie's Captain Hook, but that he is much more complex and sympathetic. How he is an anti-hero as opposed to a straight up villain.

- how the show incorporated many stories into the CS love story

- the Snow White story

- Hansel and Gretel

- the beast in BaTB being a villain

- Whale/Frankenstein's backstory

- Rumplestilksin as the Dark One and the Crocodile

- Peter Pan as a villain and as Rumple's father (the entire Peter Pan story in general)

-the Little Mermaid

- how OUATiW did Alice in Wonderland and combined it with One Thousand and One Nights (as well as how the main show did the Mad Hatter and Queen of Hearts part of the story)

- the Wicked Witch as the Evil Queen's sister and the WIzard of Oz story in General

- Frozen/the Snow Queen

- the Queens of Darkness's backstories (especially Ursula's)

- how the show combined Arthurian Legend with Dark One Mythology

- Greek Mythology

- Aladdin as a Savior and how the show incorporated the movie/One Thousand and One Nights

- Cinderella being the "evil" stepsister

- the Jekyll and Hyde twist

- how Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea was incorporated into Killian's backstory

- David as Hamlet

- how Season Seven is doing Cinderella

- Alice of Wonderland and Other Places as Wish Hook's Daughter and how he is an allusion to the Prince of the Rapunzel tale

This is probably the majority of the stories, but I think one of Once's greatest strengths has been how it is able to adapt these tales to fit the complicated web that is this show