Concealing Gloves

Concealing Gloves
General Information
Origin:	Enchanted Forest
Current Location:	Storybrooke
Physical Description
Type:	Magic gloves
Color:	Blue
Usage Information
Possessed by:	Elsa Gerda † Ingrid † Rumplestiltskin † (formerly)
Used by:	Elsa Ingrid †
Used on:	Elsa Ingrid †
Used for:	Concealing the wearer's ice powers
Show Information
First appearance:	"There's No Place Like Home"
Latest appearance:	"Smash the Mirror"
Relevant Pages

“

Rumplestiltskin: These gloves can help conceal your powers.
Ingrid: And stop them?
Rumplestiltskin: Well, only if you believe it. Faith can be powerful.

”

—Rumplestiltskin and Ingrid ^src

Concealing Gloves are magical items featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They first appear in the twenty-second episode of the third season.

Concealing Gloves are based on Elsa's gloves from the Disney film, Frozen.

History

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Before First Curse

Accompanied by her sisters Helga and Gerda, Ingrid goes to Misthaven to find a way to be rid of her ice powers. The Dark One, Rumplestiltskin, agrees to help if the three sisters forfeit their ribbons to him. Once they comply, he gives Ingrid two things; gloves to cancel out her magic as long as she is wearing them, and a urn to trap her in if she ever becomes too dangerous. Sometime after returning home to Arendelle, Ingrid is sitting in the royal garden looking at the gloves when Helga's suitor, the Duke of Weselton, tries to seduce her. When her attempts to rebuff him fail to deter him, she panics, dropping the gloves, and knocks him away with an ice blast. The Duke lies to Helga about Ingrid attacking him after he rejected her feelings, but Helga calls him out for lying and spurns him because of his unsavory behavior. He then threatens to reveal to the kingdom that Ingrid is a monster for having magic. Ingrid retaliates by shooting ice at the Duke, but he uses Helga's body as a shield, causing her to freeze and die instead. After the Duke flees, Gerda is so horrified by Ingrid killing their sister that she traps her in the urn. Before leaving the area, she picks up the fallen gloves. ("The Snow Queen")

Years later, following her sister Anna's return home from Misthaven, Gerda's daughter Elsa is busy preparing a chocolate feast for her while she has her gloves on. Learning from Ingrid that Anna is locked in the dungeons, Elsa, gloves on, angrily confronts her about about wanting to take her powers away, but after the guards leave, she reveals it is just a ruse. Finally realizing their aunt is up to no good, Elsa goes with her sister look for urn. The two plan to trap Ingrid in the urn, but the plan goes awry when Ingrid curses Anna and tries to push Elsa into killing her. Elsa refuses, but Anna imprisons her sister in the urn. ("Smash the Mirror")

After Second Curse

After the urn is pulled from Rumplestiltskin's vault into Storybrooke, Elsa breaks free and pulls off her gloves, using her magic to freeze and pulverize the urn. ("There's No Place Like Home")

Trivia

• Production Notes
• Set Notes

Production Notes

• In a deleted scene from "Smash the Mirror," Mary Margaret notices that Elsa seems very focused on her gloves. Elsa says that her parents gave them to her so they would conceal her magic, but Mary Margaret says that she thinks they didn't work. Elsa agrees and says that her sister's love helped.

Costume Notes

• Like the rest of Elsa's outfit, the design of the gloves changes between the third and the fourth season.

Appearances

Once Upon a Time: Season Three
"The Heart of the Truest Believer":	"Lost Girl":	"Quite a Common Fairy":	"Nasty Habits":	"Good Form":	"Ariel":	"Dark Hollow":	"Think Lovely Thoughts":	"Save Henry":	"The New Neverland":	"Going Home":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"New York City Serenade":	"Witch Hunt":	"The Tower":	"Quiet Minds":	"It's Not Easy Being Green":	"The Jolly Roger":	"Bleeding Through":	"A Curious Thing":	"Kansas":	"Snow Drifts":	"There's No Place Like Home":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears

Once Upon a Time: Season Four
"A Tale of Two Sisters":	"White Out":	"Rocky Road":	"The Apprentice":	"Breaking Glass":	"Family Business":	"The Snow Queen":	"Smash the Mirror":	"Fall":	"Shattered Sight":	"Heroes and Villains":
Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Darkness on the Edge of Town":	"Unforgiven":	"Enter the Dragon":	"Poor Unfortunate Soul":	"Best Laid Plans":	"Heart of Gold":	"Sympathy for the De Vil":	"Lily":	"Mother":	"Operation Mongoose Part 1":	"Operation Mongoose Part 2":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Specials
"Magic is Coming":	"The Price of Magic":	"Journey to Neverland":	"Wicked is Coming":	"Storybrooke Has Frozen Over":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Archive
"Secrets of Storybrooke":	"Dark Swan Rises":	"Evil Reigns Once More":	"The Final Battle Begins":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.