I keep reading posts that claim that Rumpelstiltskin is "complex" and people get upset if they hear that he was never a villain because it "takes away from his complexity" as a character. What complexity? Since season 1 he is the most straight forward character. Mysterious, yes. Complex, not at all. So you think hes a villain because he is in a dungeon locked up and Snow and Charming are afraid of him? That is not something that makes a villainous character. A mysterious character, yes. The first time we get to know anything at all about him is in the 4th episode of the show. And there we learn that he practically put himself in that dungeon, knowing exactly what that squid ink would do and pretending to want to take cinderella's baby exchanging it for a "favor" from Emma, and causing this baby's parents to love her and appreciate her even more than they would because they almost lost her. The first ever Rumple -centric we get shows us a simple man who loves his son so much that he would run through fire to save him. There is nothing complex about that. There's no "darkness inside him" there's no gradual descent into becoming a monster, it is the most simple, non-complex way a character can become a monster. We are told during that episode that he is a coward, and although he looks pretty pathetic and desperate by crawling and kissing boots, we see no evidence of actual cowardice. We just see an oppressed villager being bullied by the powerful upper class. So again, we get mystery, but no complexity. In fact, the more we learn about his character, the less complex he seems. All the horrible things he commits in the enchanted forest are explained by his being a dark one, but he is mostly just isolated. During the beauty and the beast episode we know more about his mysterious past that Belle does.
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