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An '''Episode Titlecard''' is the unique graphic used at the beginning of ''[[Once Upon a Time]]'' episodes.
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{{Icons|MProtect|List|OUAT|OUaTW|S1|S2|S3|S4|S5|S6|S7}}An '''Episode Title Card''' is the unique graphic used at or near the beginning of [[ABC]]'s ''[[Once Upon a Time]]'' beginning with the [[The Thing You Love Most|second episode]] of the [[Season One|first season]]. One is also used near the beginning of every episode of ''[[Once Upon a Time in Wonderland]]''.
   
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The Episode Title Cards feature a [[:Category:Characters|character]], [[:Category:Creatures|creature]], [[:Category:Locations|location]] or [[:Category:Items|item]] featured (or not) in the episode. This unique graphic appears under the ''Once Upon a Time'' title in the blue forest, the red forest, or in a [[Wonderland]] red and white chessboard surrounded by mushrooms and with a mountainous background, under the ''Once Upon a Time in Wonderland'' title.
View the titlecard gallery [[Episode Titlecards/Gallery|here]].
 
   
 
View the title card gallery '''[[Episode Title Cards/Gallery|here]]'''.
==Season One==
 
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The episodes and their featured item are listed below:
 
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==''[[Once Upon a Time]]''==
*"[[The Thing You Love Most]]": '''A black unicorn'''
 
 
===[[Season One]]===
*"[[Snow Falls]]": '''A [[Troll Group|troll]]'''
 
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"[[Pilot]]" is the only episode of Season One to not feature a title card. It instead features four slides that set the premise for the series. The subsequent episodes and their featured item are listed below:
*"[[The Price of Gold]]": '''[[Cinderella]]'s [[Fairy Godmother]]'''
 
*"[[That Still Small Voice]]": '''[[Rumplestiltskin]]'s [[Rumplestiltskin's Spinning Wheel|spinning wheel]]'''
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*"[[The Thing You Love Most]]": '''[[Maleficent's Unicorn]]'''
*"[[The Shepherd]]": '''[[The Dragon]]'''
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*"[[Snow Falls]]": '''A [[Bridge Trolls|Bridge Troll]]'''
 
*"[[The Price of Gold]]": '''[[Cinderella (The Price of Gold)|Cinderella]]'s [[Fairy Godmother (The Price of Gold)|Fairy Godmother]]'''
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*"[[That Still Small Voice]]": '''[[Rumplestiltskin]]'s [[Spinning Wheels|spinning wheel]]'''
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*"[[The Shepherd]]": '''A [[Dragons|Dragon]]'''
 
*"[[The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter]]": '''The [[Wolf]]'''
 
*"[[The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter]]": '''The [[Wolf]]'''
*"[[Desperate Souls]]": '''The [[Zoso|Dark One]]'''
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*"[[Desperate Souls]]": '''The [[Zoso|Dark One]] riding a [[Horses|horse]]'''
*"[[True North]]": '''The [[Blind Witch (True North)|Blind Witch]]'s [[Gingerbread House|gingerbread house]]'''
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*"[[True North]]": '''The [[Blind Witch (True North)|Blind Witch]]'s [[Gingerbread House (True North)|Gingerbread House]]'''
 
*"[[7:15 A.M.]]": '''[[Red Riding Hood]]'''
 
*"[[7:15 A.M.]]": '''[[Red Riding Hood]]'''
*"[[Fruit of the Poisonous Tree]]": '''The [[Magic Mirror|Genie]]'''
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*"[[Fruit of the Poisonous Tree]]": '''The [[Magic Mirror|Genie of Agrabah]]'''
 
*"[[Skin Deep]]": '''Rumplestiltskin's spinning wheel'''
 
*"[[Skin Deep]]": '''Rumplestiltskin's spinning wheel'''
*"[[What Happened to Frederick]]": '''[[Frederick]] in his golden form'''
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*"[[What Happened to Frederick]]": '''[[Frederick]] as a golden statue'''
*"[[Dreamy]]": '''The [[Seven Dwarves]]'''
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*"[[Dreamy]]": '''The Seven [[Dwarves]] walking'''
*"[[Red-Handed]]": '''Red Riding Hood'''
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*"[[Red-Handed]]": '''[[Red Riding Hood]]'''
 
*"[[Heart of Darkness]]": '''[[Jiminy Cricket]]'''
 
*"[[Heart of Darkness]]": '''[[Jiminy Cricket]]'''
*"[[Hat Trick]]": '''[[Wonderland]]'s mushrooms'''
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*"[[Hat Trick]]": '''[[Wonderland]]'s [[Magic Mushrooms|mushrooms]] and flying birds'''
*"[[The Stable Boy]]": '''Young [[Snow White]] on a runaway horse'''
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*"[[The Stable Boy]]": '''A woman riding a horse''' (possibly either [[Snow White]] or [[Evil Queen|Regina]])
 
*"[[The Return]]": '''[[August Booth]] riding his motorcycle'''
 
*"[[The Return]]": '''[[August Booth]] riding his motorcycle'''
*"[[The Stranger]]": ''' Jiminy Cricket'''
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*"[[The Stranger]]": '''[[Jiminy Cricket]]'''
 
*"[[An Apple Red as Blood]]": '''Snow White walking with the Seven Dwarves'''
 
*"[[An Apple Red as Blood]]": '''Snow White walking with the Seven Dwarves'''
 
*"[[A Land Without Magic]]": '''The [[Dark Curse]]'''
 
*"[[A Land Without Magic]]": '''The [[Dark Curse]]'''
   
==Season Two==
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===[[Season Two]]===
Every episode of [[Season Two]] thus far has featured titlecards tailored to the episode. One image from [[Season One]], that of [[Red Riding Hood]], has been reused, along with nine new slides so far.
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Every episode of [[Season Two]] feature a title card tailored to the episode. Two images from [[Season One]], that of [[Red Riding Hood]] and that of [[Rumplestiltskin]]'s [[Spinning Wheels|spinning wheel]], have been reused, alongside twenty new slides.
 
*"[[Broken]]": '''The [[Wraith]]'''
 
*"[[Broken]]": '''The [[Wraith]]'''
*"[[We Are Both]]": '''Enchanted branches'''
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*"[[We Are Both]]": '''[[Magic|Enchanted]] branches'''
*"[[Lady of the Lake]]":''' [[Sir Lancelot|Lancelot]]'''
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*"[[Lady of the Lake]]": '''[[Lancelot]]'''
*"[[The Crocodile]]": '''[[Jolly Roger]]'''
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*"[[The Crocodile]]": '''The ''[[Jolly Roger (Ship)|Jolly Roger]]'''''
 
*"[[The Doctor]]": '''Lightning in the [[Land Without Color]]'''
 
*"[[The Doctor]]": '''Lightning in the [[Land Without Color]]'''
*"[[Tallahassee]]": '''A [[The Beanstalk|beanstalk]]'''
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*"[[Tallahassee]]": '''A growing [[beanstalk]]'''
*"[[Child of the Moon]]": '''[[Red Riding Hood]]'''
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*"[[Child of the Moon]]": '''Red Riding Hood'''
*"[[Into the Deep]]": '''[[Cora]]'s heartless victims rising from the ground'''
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*"[[Into the Deep]]": '''[[Cora]]'s [[Enchanted Hearts#Ripped Out Hearts|heartless victims]] rising from the ground'''
 
*"[[Queen of Hearts (Episode)|Queen of Hearts]]": '''Geyser rising from the dry bed of [[Lake Nostos]]'''
 
*"[[Queen of Hearts (Episode)|Queen of Hearts]]": '''Geyser rising from the dry bed of [[Lake Nostos]]'''
 
*"[[The Cricket Game]]": '''[[Pongo]]'''
 
*"[[The Cricket Game]]": '''[[Pongo]]'''
*"[[The Outsider (Episode)|The Outsider]]": '''The [[Yaoguai]]'''
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*"[[The Outsider]]": '''The [[Prince Phillip|Yaoguai]]'''
 
*"[[In the Name of the Brother]]": '''[[Rumplestiltskin]] in the Land Without Color'''
 
*"[[In the Name of the Brother]]": '''[[Rumplestiltskin]] in the Land Without Color'''
*"[[Tiny]]": ''TBA''
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*"[[Tiny]]": '''[[Anton]] ripping a tree out of the forest'''
*"[[Manhattan]]": ''TBA''
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*"[[Manhattan]]": '''[[New York City|Manhattan]] skyline'''
*"[[The Queen is Dead]]": ''TBA''
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*"[[The Queen Is Dead|The Queen is Dead]]": '''The [[Storybrooke Free Public Library]]'''
*"[[The Miller's Daughter]]": ''TBA''
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*"[[The Miller's Daughter]]": '''Rumplestiltskin's spinning wheel'''
*"[[Welcome to Storybrooke]]": ''TBA''
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*"[[Welcome to Storybrooke]]": '''A tree falling on [[Kurt Flynn]]'s [[Kurt's Truck|truck]]'''
*"[[Selfless, Brave and True]]": ''TBA''
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*"[[Selfless, Brave and True]]": '''[[August Booth|August]]'s trailer'''
*"[[Lacey]]": ''TBA''
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*"[[Lacey]]": '''[[Robin Hood (Lacey)|Robin Hood]] releasing an arrow'''
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*"[[The Evil Queen (Episode)|The Evil Queen]]": '''The [[Evil Queen's Palace|Evil Queen's palace]]'''
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*"[[Second Star to the Right]]": '''[[wikipedia:Big Ben#Elizabeth Tower|Elizabeth Tower]] in [[London]]'''
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*"[[And Straight On 'Til Morning]]": '''[[Neverland]]'''
   
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===[[Season Three]]===
==Others==
 
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The majority of Season Three's title cards featured a slightly altered forest background, however, the reason for this has not been confirmed.
Unused titlecards that have been released:
 
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*"[[The Heart of the Truest Believer]]": '''[[Henry Mills|Henry]] and [[Peter Pan]] in flight '''
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*"[[Lost Girl]]": '''The fake [[Excalibur]] resting in a stone'''
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*"[[Quite a Common Fairy]]": '''[[Tinker Bell]]'''
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*"[[Nasty Habits]]": '''A [[Lost Boys|Lost Boy]] dancing around a bonfire'''
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*"[[Good Form]]": '''The ''[[Jolly Roger (Ship)|Jolly Roger]]'' '''
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*"[[Ariel (Episode)|Ariel]]": '''[[Ariel (Character)|Ariel]] sitting on a rock'''
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*"[[Dark Hollow (Episode)|Dark Hollow]]": '''[[Storybrooke Free Public Library]]'''
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*"[[Think Lovely Thoughts]]": '''[[Skull Rock]]'''
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*"[[Save Henry]]": '''The [[Pan's Shadow|Shadow]]'''
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*"[[The New Neverland]]": '''[[Medusa]]'''
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*"[[Going Home]]": '''[[Emma Swan|Emma]]'s [[Yellow Bug|car]] driving through the forest, surrounded by the Dark Curse's green mist'''
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*"[[New York City Serenade]]": '''[[New York City]] night time skyline'''
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*"[[Witch Hunt]]": '''The [[Zelena|Wicked Witch of the West]] on her broomstick'''
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*"[[The Tower]]": '''[[Rapunzel (The Tower)|Rapunzel]]'s tower'''
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*"[[Quiet Minds]]": '''[[Lumiere]]'s lit candle stick'''
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*"[[It's Not Easy Being Green]]": '''The [[Walsh|Wizard]]'s four geysers of fire'''
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*"[[The Jolly Roger]]": '''[[David Nolan|David]]'s [[David's Truck|truck]]'''
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*"[[Bleeding Through]]": '''A [[World-crossing#Cyclones|cyclone]]'''
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*"[[A Curious Thing]]": '''A [[Flying Monkeys|flying monkey]]'''
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*"[[Kansas (Episode)|Kansas]]": '''The [[Emerald City]]'''
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*"[[Snow Drifts]]": '''[[Zelena]]'s [[Time Travel Spell]]'''
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*"[[There's No Place Like Home]]": '''A swan'''
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===[[Season Four]]===
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Every title card of the first half of Season Four features the forest background with falling snow. The title card for "[[A Tale of Two Sisters]]" is the generic form of subsequent title cards until "[[Heroes and Villains]]".
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*"[[A Tale of Two Sisters]]": '''A snowfall'''
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*"[[White Out]] ": '''The ice wall created by [[Elsa]]'''
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*"[[Rocky Road]]": '''[[Any Given Sundae]]'''
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*"[[The Apprentice (Episode)|The Apprentice]]": '''[[Apprentice|The Apprentice]]'s enchanted broom'''
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*"[[Breaking Glass]]": '''The ice staircase created by Elsa'''
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*"[[Family Business]]": '''[[Ingrid]]'s ice cream truck'''
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*"[[The Snow Queen (Episode)|The Snow Queen]]": '''The kite found by [[Ingrid]], [[Helga]] and [[Gerda]]'''
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*"[[Smash the Mirror]]": '''[[Emma Swan|Emma]]'s [[Yellow Bug|car]] driving through the forest'''
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*"[[Fall]]": '''[[Gerda]] and her [[King Arendelle|husband]]'s shipwreck, and Gerda's message in a bottle'''
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*"[[Shattered Sight]]": '''A blizzard'''
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*"[[Heroes and Villains]]": '''A [[World-crossing#Magic Doors|Magic Door]] aspiring the snow fall'''
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*"[[Darkness on the Edge of Town]]": '''[[Cruella De Vil]]'s [[Cruella's Cars|car]]'''
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*"[[Unforgiven]]": '''[[Maleficent]]'s [[Dragons|dragon]] form'''
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*"[[Enter the Dragon]]": '''The tree burnt by Maleficent'''
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*"[[Poor Unfortunate Soul]]": '''[[Ursula (Sea Witch)|Ursula]]'''
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*"[[Best Laid Plans]]": '''[[Maleficent's Unicorn]]'''
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*"[[Heart of Gold]]": '''The [[Emerald City]]'''
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*"[[Sympathy for the De Vil]]": '''A pack of dalmatians running through the forest'''
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*"[[Lily (Episode)|Lily]]": '''[[Emma Swan|Emma]]'s [[Yellow Bug|car]] driving through the forest'''
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*"[[Mother]]": '''[[Lily Page|Lily]]'s [[Dragons|dragon]] form'''
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*"[[Operation Mongoose Part 1]]": '''[[Emma Swan|Emma]]'s [[Emma's Prison Tower|tower prison]]'''
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*"[[Operation Mongoose Part 2]]": '''A swan'''
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===[[Season Five]]===
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From "[[Souls of the Departed]]" to "[[Firebird]]", every title card features the forest background, but the color is red instead of blue to reflect the [[Underworld]].
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*"[[The Dark Swan]]": '''[[Granny's Diner]]'''
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*"[[The Price]]": '''[[Merlin]]'s tree'''
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*"[[Siege Perilous]]": '''[[Brocéliande]]'''
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*"[[The Broken Kingdom]]": '''[[Camelot Castle|Merlin's Tower]]'''
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*"[[Dreamcatcher (Episode)|Dreamcatcher]]": '''A pumpkin'''
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*"[[The Bear and the Bow]]": '''An arrow shot through the "O" in "Once"'''
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*"[[Nimue (Episode)|Nimue]]": '''A [[Middlemist Field|field]] of Middlemist Flowers'''
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*"[[Birth]]": '''The [[darkness]] rising from the [[Vault of the Dark One]]'''
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*"[[The Bear King]]": '''[[Merida]] riding a horse'''
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*"[[Broken Heart]]": '''The ''[[Jolly Roger (Ship)|Jolly Roger]]'' '''
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*"[[Swan Song]]": '''A group of [[Darkness|Dark Ones]]'''
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*"[[Souls of the Departed]]": '''The fallen clock tower from the [[Underworld]]'''
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*"[[Labor of Love]]": '''The [[Underworld Cemetery]]'''
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*"[[Devil's Due]]": '''[[Hook]] hanging from a chain'''
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*"[[The Brothers Jones]]": '''The ''Jewel of the Realm'''''
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*"[[Our Decay]]": '''[[Munchkins]]'''
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*"[[Her Handsome Hero]]": '''An [[Ogres|ogre]] running through the forest'''
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*"[[Ruby Slippers]]": '''[[Ruby]]'''
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*"[[Sisters]]": '''The [[Underground Mill]]'''
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*"[[Firebird]]": '''[[Emma Swan|Emma]]'s [[Yellow Bug|car]] driving through the forest'''
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*"[[Last Rites]]": '''[[Storybrooke Town Hall]]'''
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*"[[Only You (Episode)|Only You]]": '''The ''Once Upon a Time'' logo on a flying dirigible'''
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*"[[An Untold Story]]": ''No special feature''
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===[[Season Six]]===
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*"[[The Savior]]": '''[[Jafar]] flying through the forest on his [[Flying Carpet|carpet]]'''
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*"[[A Bitter Draught]]": '''The [[Evil Queen's Palace|Evil Queen's palace]]'''
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*"[[The Other Shoe]]": '''[[Gus]] running in the "O" in "Once"'''
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*"[[Strange Case]]": '''[[wikipedia:Big Ben#Elizabeth Tower|Elizabeth Tower]] in [[Victorian England|London]]'''
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*"[[Street Rats]]": '''The hour glass used by [[Jafar]] to trap [[Jasmine]]'''
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*"[[Dark Waters]]": '''A [[Krakens|kraken]]'''
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*"[[Heartless]]": '''[[Wilby]]'''
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*"[[I'll Be Your Mirror]]": '''The [[World Behind the Mirror]]'''
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*"[[Changelings]]": '''The swingset in the [[Dream World]]'''
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*"[[Wish You Were Here]]": '''The statue of [[Prince Charming (Wish Realm)|King David]] and [[Snow White (Wish Realm)|Queen Snow]] in the [[Wish Realm]]'''
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*"[[Tougher Than the Rest]]": '''An [[Enchanted Trees|Enchanted Tree]]'''
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*"[[Murder Most Foul]]": '''[[Pleasure Island]]'s ferris wheel'''
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*"[[Ill-Boding Patterns]]": '''An [[Ogres|ogre]]'''
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*"[[Page 23]]": '''The [[Evil Queen's Palace|Evil Queen's palace]]'''
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*"[[A Wondrous Place]]": '''The [[Flying Carpet]] in the woods'''
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*"[[Mother's Little Helper]]": '''The forest covered in spiderwebs'''
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*"[[Awake]]": '''A closing [[Magic Doors|magic door]]'''
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*"[[Where Bluebirds Fly]]": '''The [[Emerald City]]'''
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*"[[The Black Fairy (Episode)|The Black Fairy]]": '''[[Tiger Lily]], [[Black Fairy|Fiona]], and the [[Blue Fairy]] in flight'''
 
*"[[The Song in Your Heart]]": '''An orchestra'''
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*"[[The Final Battle Part 1]]": '''The [[Wikipedia:Seattle Center Monorail|Seattle Center Monorail]]''' (original airing and [[Once Upon a Time: The Complete Sixth Season|Blu-ray/DVD]] version) / '''A growing [[Beanstalk]]''' ([[Wikipedia:iTunes|iTunes]]/streaming version)
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*"[[The Final Battle Part 2]]": '''No special feature''' (original airing and Blu-ray/DVD version) / '''The Seattle Center Monorail''' (iTunes/streaming version)
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===[[Season Seven]]===
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Breaking from a traditional cut to the title card, the card zooms out from inside the "O" in "Once" to show the Seattle skyline in the background of the forest. The title card for "[[Hyperion Heights]]" is the generic form of subsequent title cards (except for "[[The Guardian]]", "[[Homecoming]]", and "[[Leaving Storybrooke]]").
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* "[[Hyperion Heights]]": '''[[Seattle]] skyline'''
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* "[[A Pirate's Life]]": '''A swan'''
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* "[[The Garden of Forking Paths]]": '''An excavator'''
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* "[[Beauty]]": '''Gravestones, jack-o-lanterns, and other Halloween decor'''
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* "[[Greenbacks]]": '''A fire truck'''
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* "[[Wake Up Call]]": '''[[Gothel's Tower]] in good condition'''
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* "[[Eloise Gardener (Episode)|Eloise Gardener]]": '''The entrance to [[Gothel's Garden]] and the garden gnome'''
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* "[[Pretty in Blue]]": '''[[New Wonderland]]'s mushrooms'''
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* "[[One Little Tear]]": '''[[Anastasia (The Garden of Forking Paths)|Anastasia]]'s floating lanterns'''
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* "[[The Eighth Witch]]": '''San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid'''
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* "[[Secret Garden]]": '''[[Madame Leota]] in the "O" of "Once"'''
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* "[[A Taste of the Heights]]": '''The [[Rollin' Bayou]]'''
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* "[[Knightfall]]": '''The head of [[Ivy Belfrey|Ivy]]'s doll in the "O" of "Once"'''
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* "[[The Girl in the Tower]]": '''The [[Troll (Hyperion Heights)|Troll]]'s statue form'''
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* "[[Sisterhood]]": '''The [[Flynn's Barcade]] sign'''
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* "[[Breadcrumbs]]": '''The [[Jolly Roger (Wish Realm)|Jolly Roger]]'''
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* "[[Chosen]]": '''The [[Gingerbread House (Chosen)|Gingerbread House]]'''
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* "[[The Guardian]]": '''The word "Once" formed by flowers'''
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* "[[Flower Child]]": '''A carriage'''
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* "[[Is This Henry Mills?]]": '''[[Regina Mills|Regina]]'s [[Regina's Car|car]]'''
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* "[[Homecoming]]": '''A fiery portal replacing the "O" in "Once"'''
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* [[Leaving Storybrooke|"Leaving Storybrooke"]] : '''A "Leaving Storybrooke" road sign.'''
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===[[:Category:Specials|Specials]]===
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From "[[Magic is Coming]]" to "[[Storybrooke Has Frozen Over]]", the specials used the traditional series title card format which feature the special's title beneath the ''[[Once Upon a Time]]'' logo. The title cards for "[[Wicked is Coming]]" and "[[Storybrooke Has Frozen Over]]" featured the generic form of the forest background used in the majority of [[Season Three]]'s title cards.
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Starting from "[[Evil Reigns Once More]]", the specials used a new specialized title card design with the special's title centred on-screen and a small ''Once Upon a Time'' logo above the special's title.
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"[[Dark Swan Rises: A Once Upon a Time Fan Celebration|Dark Swan Rises]]" used a unique design that does not follow either title card convention.
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*"[[Magic is Coming]]": '''The [[Dark Curse]]'''
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*"[[The Price of Magic]]": '''The Dark Curse'''
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*"[[Journey to Neverland]]": '''[[Neverland]]'''
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*"[[Wicked is Coming]]": ''No special feature''
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*"[[Storybrooke Has Frozen Over]]": ''No special feature''
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*"[[Secrets of Storybrooke]]": '''Overgrown branches and flying butterflies'''
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*"[[Dark Swan Rises: A Once Upon a Time Fan Celebration|Dark Swan Rises]]": ''Specialized title card''
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*"[[Evil Reigns Once More]]": ''Specialized title card''
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*"[[The Final Battle Begins]]": ''Specialized title card''
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===Others===
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====Promotional Title Cards====
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Several unique title cards have been used for televised promotional purposes for individual episodes and each [[Season Four]] onwards season/storyline. These have been paired with sneak previews and other promotional trailers for their respective season:
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*"[[Ariel (Episode)|Ariel]]": '''The ''Once Upon a Time'' logo underwater'''<ref>[[:File:3x06 - Ariel - Promo]]</ref>
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*[[Season Four|Season 4A]]: '''A snow-covered forest with a golden ''Once Upon a Time'' logo covered in ice'''<ref>[[:File:ABC "Frozen" Promo]]</ref>
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*[[Season Four|Season 4B]]: '''A forest filled with overgrown grass and vines'''<ref>[[:File:4x12 - Darkness on the Edge of Town - Promo 3]]</ref>
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*[[Season Five|Season 5A]]: '''A black swan on a lake with Camelot Castle in the background'''<ref>[[:File:SDCC Season 5 Promo]]</ref>
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*Season 5A: '''A target'''<ref>[[:File:SDCC Season 5 Merida Promo]]</ref>
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<small>'''Note''': The title card with a target was only used at [[wikipedia:San Diego Comic-Con International|San Diego Comic-Con]] for [[Merida]]'s promotion and has not been used for any other purposes.</small>
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====Unused Title Cards====
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There are several title cards unused on-screen that have been released:
 
*'''A white horse'''
 
*'''A white horse'''
 
*'''A male and a female on horseback'''
 
*'''A male and a female on horseback'''
 
*'''[[Mulan]]'''
 
*'''[[Mulan]]'''
 
*'''[[Aurora]] pricking her finger on a spinning wheel'''
 
*'''[[Aurora]] pricking her finger on a spinning wheel'''
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==''[[Once Upon a Time in Wonderland]]''==
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*"[[Down the Rabbit Hole]]": ''No special feature''
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*"[[Trust Me]]": '''[[Silvermist]] flying'''
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*"[[Forget Me Not]]": '''The [[Forget Me Knot]] replacing the "O" in "Once"'''
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*"[[The Serpent]]": '''A cobra'''
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*"[[Heart of Stone]]": '''The [[Red Queen]]'s [[Red Queen's Carriage|carriage]]'''
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*"[[Who's Alice]]": '''A flower from [[Boro Grove]]'''
 
*"[[Bad Blood]]": '''A [[Dragons|dragon]]'''
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*"[[Home]]": '''The [[White Rabbit]]'''
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*"[[Nothing to Fear]]": '''The [[Jabberwocky]]'s tower prison'''
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*"[[Dirty Little Secrets]]": '''[[Well of Wonders]]'''
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*"[[Heart of the Matter]]": '''Jafar's [[Serpent Staff|serpent staff]]'''
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*"[[To Catch a Thief]]": '''The [[Cora|Queen of Hearts]]' [[Wonderland Vault|vault]]'''
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*"[[And They Lived...]]": '''The [[White Rabbit]]'''
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
*Three titlecards have been repeated:
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*Several title cards have been reused for regular episodes:
**[[Rumplestiltskin]]'s [[Rumplestiltskin's Spinning Wheel|spinning wheel]] was used for "[[That Still Small Voice]]" and "[[Skin Deep]]".
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**[[Maleficent's Unicorn]] was used for "[[The Thing You Love Most]]" and "[[Best Laid Plans]]"
**[[Red Riding Hood]] was used for "[[7:15 A.M.]]", "[[Red-Handed]]" and "[[Child of the Moon]] ".
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**[[Rumplestiltskin]]'s [[Spinning Wheels|spinning wheel]] was used for "[[That Still Small Voice]]","[[Skin Deep]]" and "[[The Miller's Daughter]]".
**[[Jiminy Cricket]] was used for "[[Heart of Darkness]]" and "[[The Stranger]]"
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**[[Red Riding Hood]] was used for "[[7:15 A.M.]]", "[[Red-Handed]]", "[[Child of the Moon]]" and "[[Ruby Slippers]]".
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**[[Jiminy Cricket]] was used for "[[Heart of Darkness]]" and "[[The Stranger]]".
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**The ''[[Jolly Roger (Ship)|Jolly Roger]]'' was used for "[[The Crocodile]]", "[[Good Form]]", "[[Broken Heart]]" and "[[The Brothers Jones]]" (under her former name the ''Jewel of the Realm'').
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**The [[Storybrooke Free Public Library]] was used for "[[The Queen Is Dead]]" and "[[Dark Hollow (Episode)|Dark Hollow]]". However, its appearance is identical to that in "[[Pilot]]" with a different sign.
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***The library's [[Underbrooke Library|damaged Underworld counterpart]] was used for "[[Souls of the Departed]]".
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**The [[New York City]] skyline was used for "[[Manhattan]]" and "[[New York City Serenade]]".
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**The [[Emerald City]] was used for "[[Kansas (Episode)|Kansas]]", "[[Heart of Gold]]" and "[[Where Bluebirds Fly]]".
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**The animation of [[Maleficent]]'s dragon form in "[[Unforgiven]]" was reused from the [[Dragons|Dragon]] in title card of ''[[Once Upon a Time in Wonderland]]'''s episode, "[[Bad Blood]]"; however, the backgrounds are different to match the respective series.
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**[[Emma Swan|Emma]]'s [[Yellow Bug|car]] driving through the forest was used for "[[Smash the Mirror]]" and "[[Lily (Episode)|Lily]]" while an slightly altered variant with a green hue was used for "[[Going Home]]" and a red [[Underworld]] hue for "[[Firebird]]".
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**The swan title card was used for "[[There's No Place Like Home]]" and "[[Operation Mongoose Part 2]]".
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***The graphics and music used for the ''[[Once Upon a Time]]'' logo in the swan title card is different in the broadcast version and the online release version of its respective episodes. The original title card is used for broadcast versions of "[[There's No Place Like Home]]" and "[[Operation Mongoose Part 2]]", however for online releases, the title cards for "[[Snow Drifts]]" and "[[Operation Mongoose Part 1]]" are respectively used instead.
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**The woman riding a horse was used for "[[The Stable Boy]]" (representing either [[Snow White]] or [[Evil Queen|Regina]]) and "[[The Bear King]]" (representing [[Merida]]).
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**The [[Evil Queen's Palace|Evil Queen's palace]] was used for "[[The Evil Queen (Episode)|The Evil Queen]]", "[[A Bitter Draught]]" and "[[Page 23]]".
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**[[wikipedia:Big Ben#Elizabeth Tower|Elizabeth Tower]] was used for "[[Second Star to the Right]]", representing [[London]], and "[[Strange Case]]", representing [[Victorian England]].
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**The [[Magic Doors|Magic door]] with [[Arendelle]] crocuses was used for "[[Heroes and Villains]]", where it aspired the surrounding snowfall, and "[[Awake]]" where it simply closed.
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**The [[Beanstalk]] was used for "[[Tallahassee]]" and "[[The Final Battle Part 1]]".
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*The [[White Rabbit]] was used for "[[Home]]" and "[[And They Lived...]]", but the animation differed between title cards.
   
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An Episode Title Card is the unique graphic used at or near the beginning of ABC's Once Upon a Time beginning with the second episode of the first season. One is also used near the beginning of every episode of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.

The Episode Title Cards feature a character, creature, location or item featured (or not) in the episode. This unique graphic appears under the Once Upon a Time title in the blue forest, the red forest, or in a Wonderland red and white chessboard surrounded by mushrooms and with a mountainous background, under the Once Upon a Time in Wonderland title.

View the title card gallery here.

Once Upon a Time

Season One

"Pilot" is the only episode of Season One to not feature a title card. It instead features four slides that set the premise for the series. The subsequent episodes and their featured item are listed below:

Season Two

Every episode of Season Two feature a title card tailored to the episode. Two images from Season One, that of Red Riding Hood and that of Rumplestiltskin's spinning wheel, have been reused, alongside twenty new slides.

Season Three

The majority of Season Three's title cards featured a slightly altered forest background, however, the reason for this has not been confirmed.

Season Four

Every title card of the first half of Season Four features the forest background with falling snow. The title card for "A Tale of Two Sisters" is the generic form of subsequent title cards until "Heroes and Villains".

Season Five

From "Souls of the Departed" to "Firebird", every title card features the forest background, but the color is red instead of blue to reflect the Underworld.

Season Six

Season Seven

Breaking from a traditional cut to the title card, the card zooms out from inside the "O" in "Once" to show the Seattle skyline in the background of the forest. The title card for "Hyperion Heights" is the generic form of subsequent title cards (except for "The Guardian", "Homecoming", and "Leaving Storybrooke").

Specials

From "Magic is Coming" to "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over", the specials used the traditional series title card format which feature the special's title beneath the Once Upon a Time logo. The title cards for "Wicked is Coming" and "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over" featured the generic form of the forest background used in the majority of Season Three's title cards.

Starting from "Evil Reigns Once More", the specials used a new specialized title card design with the special's title centred on-screen and a small Once Upon a Time logo above the special's title.

"Dark Swan Rises" used a unique design that does not follow either title card convention.

Others

Promotional Title Cards

Several unique title cards have been used for televised promotional purposes for individual episodes and each Season Four onwards season/storyline. These have been paired with sneak previews and other promotional trailers for their respective season:

  • "Ariel": The Once Upon a Time logo underwater[1]
  • Season 4A: A snow-covered forest with a golden Once Upon a Time logo covered in ice[2]
  • Season 4B: A forest filled with overgrown grass and vines[3]
  • Season 5A: A black swan on a lake with Camelot Castle in the background[4]
  • Season 5A: A target[5]

Note: The title card with a target was only used at San Diego Comic-Con for Merida's promotion and has not been used for any other purposes.

Unused Title Cards

There are several title cards unused on-screen that have been released:

  • A white horse
  • A male and a female on horseback
  • Mulan
  • Aurora pricking her finger on a spinning wheel

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Trivia

References