Episode Title Cards

An Episode Titlecard is the unique graphic used at the beginning of Once Upon a Time episodes.

View the titlecard gallery here.

Season One

Starting with "The Thing You Love Most", each episode of Season One features the iconic "Once Upon a Time" logo with a forest in the background. Additionally, each episode features a unique item or object, involved in that episode's story, in the forest. Three images were repeated during the season, for a total of eighteen unique slides.

The episodes and their featured item are listed below:

• "The Thing You Love Most": A black unicorn
• "Snow Falls": A troll
• "The Price of Gold": Cinderella's Fairy Godmother
• "That Still Small Voice": Rumplestiltskin's spinning wheel
• "The Shepherd": The dragon Prince Charming defeats
• "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter": A Wolf
• "Desperate Souls": The Dark One
• "True North": The Blind Witch's Gingerbread House
• "7:15 A.M.": Red Riding Hood
• "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree": The Genie
• "Skin Deep": Rumplestiltskin's spinning wheel
• "What Happened to Frederick": Frederick in his golden form
• "Dreamy": The Seven Dwarves
• "Red-Handed": Red Riding Hood
• "Heart of Darkness": Jiminy Cricket
• "Hat Trick": Large mushrooms
• "The Stable Boy": A young woman on a runaway horse (either younger Snow White or a younger version of the Evil Queen)
• "The Return": August Booth riding his motorcycle
• "The Stranger": Jiminy Cricket
• "An Apple Red as Blood": Snow White walking with the Seven Dwarves
• "A Land Without Magic": The Dark Curse

Season Two

The episodes and their featured item are listed below:

• "Broken": The Wraith
• "We Are Both": Branches that were bewitched by Cora / Regina Mills
• "Lady of the Lake": Walking Lancelot
• "The Crocodile": Captain Hook's ship
• "The Doctor": Black and white lightning
• "Tallahassee": A beanstalk
• "Child of the Moon": Red Riding Hood
• "Into the Deep": Necromancy (the people whose hearts were ripped out by Cora)

Unused titlecards that were revealed at San Diego Comic Con are listed below:

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

Trivia

• Three titlecards were repeated during the first season:
  • Rumplestiltskin's spinning wheel was used for "That Still Small Voice" and "Skin Deep".
  • Red Riding Hood was used for "7:15 A.M." and "Red-Handed".
  • Jiminy Cricket was used for "Heart of Darkness" and "The Stranger"
• One titlecard from the first season was repeated in second season:
  • Red Riding Hood was used for "Child of the Moon".
• So far, most of the titlecards are taken from Fairytale Land, with the exception of three episodes: "Hat Trick" (taken from Wonderland) , "The Return" (taken from Storybrooke) and The Doctor (taken from Frankenstein's realm). "Broken" was taken from both Fairytale Land and Storybrooke.