Trying to Please Everyone: Or Converting multiple Pop Culture Utopias into a Timeline.
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I not sure how current you are going but While the current film Shang Chi and the legend of the Ten Rings is not a bad film ,it is a insult to the original comic "Master of Kung Fu".
Master of Kung Fu is a fairly grounded comic that would never do creatures and dragons .
If you want to do that story , do it as a current Iron Fist movie.
If you want a Master of Kung Fu movie in the current phase of Marvel , it would have to be more along the lines of the recent Black Widow film .
A fairly straight adventure film and not a fantasy film with Creatures,
Master of Kung Fu is a fairly grounded comic that would never do creatures and dragons .
If you want to do that story , do it as a current Iron Fist movie.
If you want a Master of Kung Fu movie in the current phase of Marvel , it would have to be more along the lines of the recent Black Widow film .
A fairly straight adventure film and not a fantasy film with Creatures,
I think it's a bit of a stretch to call the 2021 film "An insult to the original comics". There is no mean-spiritedness to old material, no jabs or 4th-wall breaks to take the piss out of it (Outside of maybe the Mandarin scene which is more of a jab at Iron Man 3 than anything else). Really all they did was take the material in a different, more cinematic direction. That's no insult.
I’m not going in any particular order, just taking requests for what to cover, though I do have a list I’m going through that by medium. Currently no Shang-Chi 2021 movie exists, but there was a Bruce Lee and a Brandon Lee movie in the past due to both surviving longer, and those are both straight up martial arts films.
Do you have copies of those movies ?
I love to watch them .
Any plans for Lupin the Third or Golgo 13?
Lupin the Third is so far OTL with changes to the anniversary films. Nothing on Golgo 13. I'm not done with Anime though and plan to touch up both Pokemon and One Piece eventually.Do you have copies of those movies ?
I love to watch them .
Any plans for Lupin the Third or Golgo 13?
So far largely same as OTL with a bunch of deferences. Almost all anime has already been covered.
Once Upon a Time: Season Two(2012-2013)
Once Upon a Time: Season Two
Episode One begins by showing how the residence of Fabletown trying to settle into their new roles with Belle and Beast in their roles of Assistant to the Mayor and Sheriff. Bigby has gone into the Homelands in order to bring back Boy Blue, tracking his sent along with the Huntsman. A mysterious windlike Creature is seen entering a dungeon protected by a giant Spider, which it kills, seemingly by sucking out its breath. The Spider is revealed to have been guarding Grimhilde, who is a prisoner there. Also present in a cell with a wooden head from one of the wooden soldiers, which is still alive. The Wooden head does not need to breathe and so survives. While enchanted spells prevent Grimhilde from being killed, forcing the Zephyr to leave. Several main characters enter the dungeon. A woman runs to the dead giant spider, calling it "Mr.Webb" and begins to cry while holding it. She is revealed to be Miss Muffet, the dead giant spider presumably being the Spider from the nursery rhyme, who was acting as a guard.
A scene is shown in which a creature travels to an arctic wasteland and speaking to a mysterious entity, who travels to Fabletown. He identifies the culprit of the murders as a creature known as a Zephyr, and reveals himself to be the North Wind, Bigby's father. A Zephyr was summoned to target one person, Grimhilde. Grimhilde is questioned as to who would want to kill her. She points out that she has many enemies, inclduing the Adversay trying to silence her, Rumplestiltskin, and her own mother.
Bigby's backstory is revealed(and is Animated, which appears to be the case for most of the flashbacks to the Homelands, helping to convey the idea that the original Fairy Tales and life in the Homelands was much more pleasant and lighthearted due to it being done in the tradition Disney style).
The North Wind shapeshifted into the form of a wolf and fell in love with a female wolf but then departed. Bigby was born among a litter of cubs. He was the runt of the litter and bullied. Then his mother became sick and his siblings abandoned her, but Bigby stayed behind with his mother until she died and then defended her body from predators and scavengers, failing. As a result he vowed to eat bigger and bigger animals, growing overtime. He would travel to and confront his father, who he blamed for his mother's death, who simply swatted him away, using the wind to carry him a great distance away, only for Bigby to try again and again with the same result.
In Fabletown, a plan is hatched to exile Grimhilde into another land where the Zephyr can kill her without endangering others. The Homelands are not chosen as Grimhilde could reach the Adversary's forces which could kill the Zephyr or the Zephyr could endanger innocents including Boy Blue or Bigby Wolf. Grimhilde is instead sent through an enchanted mirror to the land of Oz, where death is impossible, by the Witch Ozma. The Zephyr follows and nearly kills Grimhilde but she is rescued by the Good Witch Glinda, who kills the Zephyr by trapping it in a bubble, where because there is no air, the creature cannot suck out any air and is made of air, it essentially cannibalizes itself. Glinda tells Grimhilde that she is there for reformation.
Episode 2 begins with two Orcs talking as they walk and haggle a woman for taxes. They then begin to discuss the stories of a Black Knight killing "Innocent tax collectors" in the woods but one of the Orcs dismisses that as just a myth. They are then confronted by a mysterious figure. One Orc believes him to be the Black Knight, but the other insists he's wearing Blue, causing an argument before the two are killed by the figure, who is revealed to be Blue when he removes his hood. "Actually it's Blue." The episode then continues to follow Boy Blue, who reaches a land known as the Rus, full of Russian Fairy Tales, this includes battling three knights who work for Baba Yaga, and spotting a group of mice carrying a sleeping cat. The residents of Fabletown, meanwhile investigate Boy Blue's trail, finding that he went to Wonderland first before traversing through the homelands and a group goes there. This leads into a battle with the Queen of Hearts, though they are able to escape after learning that Boy Blue stole the Vorpal Blade, the weapon Blue has been using in his scenes(the sword can at times be heard going "Snicker Snack" as a referenced to the poem).
Episode 3 is a breather episode following Bigby Wolf during World War II, where he is part of a squad to stop the Nazis from reviving the Frankenstein Monster, leading to a battle between the two. The Episode is entirely in Black and White with the exception of the scenes in the end set in the present day. Another crossover occurs here as since Disney was hesitant to depict Nazis, the Nazi Agents were made agents of Hydra instead.
Episode 4, is another breather episode, at least seemingly, Jack Horner leaves Fabletown with a Lilliputtian named Jill and moves to Hollywood, where he purchases Jim Henson Studios(with Kermit the Frog making an appearance selling the Studio). Jack then begins to make a movie about himself, making him out to be the hero of the series. Jill is forgotten about and calls the Fabletown authorities, a call intercepted by investigator Nick Burkhardt, who meets a disgruntled Jack after all his wealth has been confiscated and Jack decides to reveal everything to him.
Episode 5 begins with a meeting between the Queen of Hearts and Captain Hook, who is hired by the Queen as his Ship has the ability to travel between universes. In Oz, Grimhilde decides to reveal that she has information that can help reach the Adversary, which is the knowledge of where a portal resides. Emma Swan,Bigby and the Huntsman track Boy Blue and all four along with Grimhilde leading the way, discover Maleficent. Who has been trapped in Dragon form. Grimhilde is able to escape, leaving the rest to die. Bigby transforms into his giant wolf form and battles Maleficent but is defeated. It is ultimately, Emma, wielding the Vorpal Blade, that kills Maleficent in her dragon form after Boy Blue ties up the enchanted Witching Cloak around the Dragon's mouth. It is revealed that portal was hidden inside the dragon when its body disappears, leaving a skeleton and a floating orb of light serving as the portal. The four then head inside.
Episode 6 follows the four as they find themselves in the Capitol of the Empire, revealed to be in Homelands version of Italy known Tuscane, with the capitol being called Calabri Anagni. The Four make a plan to assassinate the Adversary. Unfortunately, there plan to assassinate the Emperor is troubled by two things. One is neither have actually seen the Emperor and he is revealed to be a massive giant in a black suit of armor. It is mentioned that he is believed to be related to the Dark Lords Morgoth and Sauron and his visual appearance seems to support this. The othe one is the arrival of Jadis, the Snow Queen. The four attempt the assassination anyway. We are also following a newly arrived soldier who is asking a lot of questions about the Adversary that makes his superior suspicious. We are also told that Boy Blue is in disguise. When the word gets out of a spy in the room, the superior points out the soldier and he is murdered. Only for it to be revealed to have not been him. Boy Blue instead disguised himself as a cleaning lady. Boy Blue is able to decapitate the Emperor only to be frozen and captured by the Snow Queen, forcing the other three heroes to abandon him.
Episode 7, has Bigby, the Huntsman and Emma breach the Snow Queen's castle to rescue the frozen Boy Blue after he was taken there. The three battle the Snow Queen's forces and are nearly successful until Grimhilde arrives and begins to help the Snow Queen. Not only does this give enought time for Boy Blue to be moved to an unknown location, but the Huntsman is killed by Grimhilde and dies in Emma's arms.The episode ends with Boy Blue finding himself in a wooden cabin and meeting Geppetto, who reveals himself to be the Adversary.
Episode 8 dives into the backstory of how Geppetto became the Adversary. Essentially, after becoming human, Pinnochio kept leaving home to go on adventures and left Geppetto alone. He therefore created more children. The Blue Fairy brought them to life and usd her magic to make them more loyal, due to also being hurt by Pinnochio abandoning Geppetto. Some of them would go onto become human. Then on day, a group of townspeople requested a double of the King be created to replace him as he was starting to slip into insanity. Geppetto created a wooden double of the King which replaced him and the King suddenly became a more respected figure and good King until it came time for him to die naturally. His son was a corrupt spoiled brat and so the process was repeated.
Eventually overtime several rulers were replaced and due to the enchantments of the Blue Fairy, all were loyal to Geppetto. So by complete accident, Geppetto had become a ruler. However several problems arose. The Blue Fairy began to visit less and less. Geppetto kidnapped her and has been extracting the Blue Fairy Magic from her blood. He has used it to create a grove of enchanted wood, though because of the reach of the Empire, there is now a reliance on mortal allies with the Emperor being used as a figurehead and everyone who saw him beheaded was executed. Boy Blue revelas he hid the body of Pinnocchio in the Witching cloak, hoping Geppetto could revive him and bargains for the release of the real Red Riding Hood, not an imposter. Red Riding Hood is brought to the cabin only to not recognize Boy Blue, revealing that the Red Riding Hood, Boy Blue met and fell in love with was an imposter. Keeping his end of the bargain, Geppetto revives Pinnocchio, who is caught up. The Cabin is attacked by Bigby Wolf, who was able to sneak into its location following Blue's scent. However, Geppetto is revealed to be completely protected by magic spells and so cannot be harmed. Bigby settles for rescuing Boy Blue and uses C4 to blow up the sacred Grove, starting a fire. Boy Blue tries to convince Pinnocchio to go with him but he is conflicted between going with him and staying with his father despite the horrible things he's done and Boy Blue and Bigby flee the scene. Emma Swan is revealed to have planted enchanted Beanstalks, which grows and the group climbs up into the cloud kingdom of the Giant, detonating C4 and destroying the Beanstalk to mark their escape. It is explained the Cloud Kingdom has gateways to all universes and they are able to pass throught back to Earth by parachuting out of the clouds.
Episode 9 as Emma Swan be approached by Nick Burkhardt. Burkhardt implies that he knows about Fabletown. Emma then talks to the rest of Fabletown which gathers. It is decided to arrange meetings with the Fable residents of other lands still opposing the Adversary. This includes Mulan as the ambassador from China(Ming Na Wen), Sinbad of the Arabian Fables, and an adult Mowgli. Mowgli visits Bagheera on the farm and discovers that he is imprsoned for his role in the Coup on the Farm. Bagheera vows to release him and is pleased to learn Shere Kahn is dead. Mowgli expressed a desire to dance on his grave. Bagheera reveals that Baloo dances on Shere Kahn's grave every night, puts on a show and a Sunday Matinee where he charges tickets. Mowgli and Baloo are seen relaxing comfortably.
The conflict of the episode emerges due to the failure to understand the Arabian Fables and the disgust over the Arabian Fables posessing slaves, which are illegal in Fabletown. Mayor Charming is forced to bring in King Cole as an ambassador since he speaks Arabic. Thanks to subtitles, it is shown that Cole is actually intentionally lying about what the other is saying during translations to create a positive impact. Sinbad learns english and he and Charming become friends. Sinbad decides to free his slave, angering his vizier, Yusuf, who released a Djinn in Jaffar's posession. Something Frau Totenkinder secretly witnesses. Yusuf orders the Genie to travel to Agrabah and kill all of Sinbad's allies there and then return to kill all of Fabletown. The third wish being to make Yusuf a powerful ruler. Frau Totenkinder reveals what she saw to Sinbad and Charming. Sinbad explains to Charming that long ago the Wise King Solomon sealed the Djinn away because he saw them as too powerful to run free(in the animation, Genies resembling that from Aladdin and Jeanie from I dream of Jeanie). The Djinn travels to Baghdad, encountering several American soldiers there who the Djinn in a human female form flirts with, insulting them in Arabic, while they call the language beautiful. The Djinn then heads through a portal and kills several people before returning to Fabletown as they are confronting Yusuf. However, Frau Totenkinder reveals that while she could not alter a Djinn's magic, she used her magic to make Hakim make different wishes then he thought he heard himself say. The wishes were to kill Yusuf's allies, then kill him, and then return to the bottle, which the Djinn does, ending the threat.
Episode Ten appears to be a side story until the very end. The story follows two wooden soldiers named Rodney and June, who fall in love. Rodney is a soldier and June is a nurse. They fall in love and send a letter to Geppetto to be turned into humans. They choose to go on a journey together to meet Geppetto personally. Geppetto offers them the chance to become human in exchange for a deal. The deal turns out to spy on Fabletown and the two pose as humans, spying on the residence.
In Episode 11, the meeting within Fabletown is underway. This is parralleled by the forces of the Empire in the Homelands having a similar round table discussion. Both sides discussing the inevitable war that will occur between them. The Empire table is filled with cameos with the Queen of Hearts, Grimhilde, Captain Hook, The Nome King, Baba Yaga, witchhunter Hansel, and the Snow Queen being in attendance. The Snow Queen proposes a genocidal plan of releasing several deadly plagues. The scene of Humanity being wiped out by disease, winter, nuclear war and fires is animated. Pinnocchio is horrified and brings up what he thinks would happen. His hypothetical scenario is animated and voice. In it, the residents of Fabletown, decide to reveal their existence to the world and do so, Bigby transforming in front of the UN. The armies of the Earth then use Beanstalks to invade the Homelands. Leading to several "Heavy Metal album cover-esque" scenes of a midieval fantasy land being blown apart by modern technology. This includes controversial scenes of Fighter Jets devastating the city of Agrabah and gunning down people on flying carpets. The Aftermath of the war having the nations of Earth return to colonization and taking the Homelands for themselves. This stuns the members of the Empire council. When the possibility of Pinnocchio lying is brought up. He points out that he wouldn't be able to lie without them knowing about it as his nose still grows. After the meeting, Geppetto tells the Snow Queen to make plans to attack Fabletown first before attacking the rest of the world. Captain Hook corners Pinnocchio and begins to question him, realizing that Pinnocchio's lies can allow him to learn information that is truthful even if he doesn't know it. Hook abducts him and begins to interrogate him about the location of Peter Pan, which Pinnocchio can reveal. Hook curiously asks if Geppetto truly is the adversary and Pinnocchio is shocked when he answers that he isn't. Hook asks who is but the answer is not seen by the viewer.
Episode 12 and 13 are a two parter titled "Second Star on the Right" and "And Straight on Till Morning". Frau Totenkinder summons the dark one Rumplestiltskin and asks him for help in combatting the forces of the Empire due to his power. Rumplestiltksin is said to have ended the Ogre wars. Rumpelstiltskin agrees to help if they find the son he lost. Flashbacks reveal his origin, including how he got his powers by killing the Previous Dark One. His son wishes a normal life and maes him promise that if he found a way to be normal, he would take it. His son Baelfire, finds a way to open a portal to the human world where they can live normal lives and does so, but Rumplestiltskin refuses to be pulled in, leading to Baelfire being pulled in alone.
In the present, the cast searches for Baelfire, who is discovered to be Nick Burkhardt. Burkhardt is revealed to be immortal and is Henry's father. After this revelation, Captain Hook appears with Pinnocchio and reveals to the Fabletown group that Peter Pan is the true adversary. After this is revealed, Henry is abducted by what is implied to be Peter Pan. A team is formed that will board Captain Hook's ship and travel to Neverland to retreive him and discover the validity of the claim he is the Adversary. The group includes Emma Swan, Prince Charming, Snow White, Rumplestiltskin(who is oddly insistent in coming), Hook, Nick Burkhardt and Bigby. As the group leaves, The Empire is seen preparing for war on Fabletown.
Episode One begins by showing how the residence of Fabletown trying to settle into their new roles with Belle and Beast in their roles of Assistant to the Mayor and Sheriff. Bigby has gone into the Homelands in order to bring back Boy Blue, tracking his sent along with the Huntsman. A mysterious windlike Creature is seen entering a dungeon protected by a giant Spider, which it kills, seemingly by sucking out its breath. The Spider is revealed to have been guarding Grimhilde, who is a prisoner there. Also present in a cell with a wooden head from one of the wooden soldiers, which is still alive. The Wooden head does not need to breathe and so survives. While enchanted spells prevent Grimhilde from being killed, forcing the Zephyr to leave. Several main characters enter the dungeon. A woman runs to the dead giant spider, calling it "Mr.Webb" and begins to cry while holding it. She is revealed to be Miss Muffet, the dead giant spider presumably being the Spider from the nursery rhyme, who was acting as a guard.
A scene is shown in which a creature travels to an arctic wasteland and speaking to a mysterious entity, who travels to Fabletown. He identifies the culprit of the murders as a creature known as a Zephyr, and reveals himself to be the North Wind, Bigby's father. A Zephyr was summoned to target one person, Grimhilde. Grimhilde is questioned as to who would want to kill her. She points out that she has many enemies, inclduing the Adversay trying to silence her, Rumplestiltskin, and her own mother.
Bigby's backstory is revealed(and is Animated, which appears to be the case for most of the flashbacks to the Homelands, helping to convey the idea that the original Fairy Tales and life in the Homelands was much more pleasant and lighthearted due to it being done in the tradition Disney style).
The North Wind shapeshifted into the form of a wolf and fell in love with a female wolf but then departed. Bigby was born among a litter of cubs. He was the runt of the litter and bullied. Then his mother became sick and his siblings abandoned her, but Bigby stayed behind with his mother until she died and then defended her body from predators and scavengers, failing. As a result he vowed to eat bigger and bigger animals, growing overtime. He would travel to and confront his father, who he blamed for his mother's death, who simply swatted him away, using the wind to carry him a great distance away, only for Bigby to try again and again with the same result.
In Fabletown, a plan is hatched to exile Grimhilde into another land where the Zephyr can kill her without endangering others. The Homelands are not chosen as Grimhilde could reach the Adversary's forces which could kill the Zephyr or the Zephyr could endanger innocents including Boy Blue or Bigby Wolf. Grimhilde is instead sent through an enchanted mirror to the land of Oz, where death is impossible, by the Witch Ozma. The Zephyr follows and nearly kills Grimhilde but she is rescued by the Good Witch Glinda, who kills the Zephyr by trapping it in a bubble, where because there is no air, the creature cannot suck out any air and is made of air, it essentially cannibalizes itself. Glinda tells Grimhilde that she is there for reformation.
Episode 2 begins with two Orcs talking as they walk and haggle a woman for taxes. They then begin to discuss the stories of a Black Knight killing "Innocent tax collectors" in the woods but one of the Orcs dismisses that as just a myth. They are then confronted by a mysterious figure. One Orc believes him to be the Black Knight, but the other insists he's wearing Blue, causing an argument before the two are killed by the figure, who is revealed to be Blue when he removes his hood. "Actually it's Blue." The episode then continues to follow Boy Blue, who reaches a land known as the Rus, full of Russian Fairy Tales, this includes battling three knights who work for Baba Yaga, and spotting a group of mice carrying a sleeping cat. The residents of Fabletown, meanwhile investigate Boy Blue's trail, finding that he went to Wonderland first before traversing through the homelands and a group goes there. This leads into a battle with the Queen of Hearts, though they are able to escape after learning that Boy Blue stole the Vorpal Blade, the weapon Blue has been using in his scenes(the sword can at times be heard going "Snicker Snack" as a referenced to the poem).
Episode 3 is a breather episode following Bigby Wolf during World War II, where he is part of a squad to stop the Nazis from reviving the Frankenstein Monster, leading to a battle between the two. The Episode is entirely in Black and White with the exception of the scenes in the end set in the present day. Another crossover occurs here as since Disney was hesitant to depict Nazis, the Nazi Agents were made agents of Hydra instead.
Episode 4, is another breather episode, at least seemingly, Jack Horner leaves Fabletown with a Lilliputtian named Jill and moves to Hollywood, where he purchases Jim Henson Studios(with Kermit the Frog making an appearance selling the Studio). Jack then begins to make a movie about himself, making him out to be the hero of the series. Jill is forgotten about and calls the Fabletown authorities, a call intercepted by investigator Nick Burkhardt, who meets a disgruntled Jack after all his wealth has been confiscated and Jack decides to reveal everything to him.
Episode 5 begins with a meeting between the Queen of Hearts and Captain Hook, who is hired by the Queen as his Ship has the ability to travel between universes. In Oz, Grimhilde decides to reveal that she has information that can help reach the Adversary, which is the knowledge of where a portal resides. Emma Swan,Bigby and the Huntsman track Boy Blue and all four along with Grimhilde leading the way, discover Maleficent. Who has been trapped in Dragon form. Grimhilde is able to escape, leaving the rest to die. Bigby transforms into his giant wolf form and battles Maleficent but is defeated. It is ultimately, Emma, wielding the Vorpal Blade, that kills Maleficent in her dragon form after Boy Blue ties up the enchanted Witching Cloak around the Dragon's mouth. It is revealed that portal was hidden inside the dragon when its body disappears, leaving a skeleton and a floating orb of light serving as the portal. The four then head inside.
Episode 6 follows the four as they find themselves in the Capitol of the Empire, revealed to be in Homelands version of Italy known Tuscane, with the capitol being called Calabri Anagni. The Four make a plan to assassinate the Adversary. Unfortunately, there plan to assassinate the Emperor is troubled by two things. One is neither have actually seen the Emperor and he is revealed to be a massive giant in a black suit of armor. It is mentioned that he is believed to be related to the Dark Lords Morgoth and Sauron and his visual appearance seems to support this. The othe one is the arrival of Jadis, the Snow Queen. The four attempt the assassination anyway. We are also following a newly arrived soldier who is asking a lot of questions about the Adversary that makes his superior suspicious. We are also told that Boy Blue is in disguise. When the word gets out of a spy in the room, the superior points out the soldier and he is murdered. Only for it to be revealed to have not been him. Boy Blue instead disguised himself as a cleaning lady. Boy Blue is able to decapitate the Emperor only to be frozen and captured by the Snow Queen, forcing the other three heroes to abandon him.
Episode 7, has Bigby, the Huntsman and Emma breach the Snow Queen's castle to rescue the frozen Boy Blue after he was taken there. The three battle the Snow Queen's forces and are nearly successful until Grimhilde arrives and begins to help the Snow Queen. Not only does this give enought time for Boy Blue to be moved to an unknown location, but the Huntsman is killed by Grimhilde and dies in Emma's arms.The episode ends with Boy Blue finding himself in a wooden cabin and meeting Geppetto, who reveals himself to be the Adversary.
Episode 8 dives into the backstory of how Geppetto became the Adversary. Essentially, after becoming human, Pinnochio kept leaving home to go on adventures and left Geppetto alone. He therefore created more children. The Blue Fairy brought them to life and usd her magic to make them more loyal, due to also being hurt by Pinnochio abandoning Geppetto. Some of them would go onto become human. Then on day, a group of townspeople requested a double of the King be created to replace him as he was starting to slip into insanity. Geppetto created a wooden double of the King which replaced him and the King suddenly became a more respected figure and good King until it came time for him to die naturally. His son was a corrupt spoiled brat and so the process was repeated.
Eventually overtime several rulers were replaced and due to the enchantments of the Blue Fairy, all were loyal to Geppetto. So by complete accident, Geppetto had become a ruler. However several problems arose. The Blue Fairy began to visit less and less. Geppetto kidnapped her and has been extracting the Blue Fairy Magic from her blood. He has used it to create a grove of enchanted wood, though because of the reach of the Empire, there is now a reliance on mortal allies with the Emperor being used as a figurehead and everyone who saw him beheaded was executed. Boy Blue revelas he hid the body of Pinnocchio in the Witching cloak, hoping Geppetto could revive him and bargains for the release of the real Red Riding Hood, not an imposter. Red Riding Hood is brought to the cabin only to not recognize Boy Blue, revealing that the Red Riding Hood, Boy Blue met and fell in love with was an imposter. Keeping his end of the bargain, Geppetto revives Pinnocchio, who is caught up. The Cabin is attacked by Bigby Wolf, who was able to sneak into its location following Blue's scent. However, Geppetto is revealed to be completely protected by magic spells and so cannot be harmed. Bigby settles for rescuing Boy Blue and uses C4 to blow up the sacred Grove, starting a fire. Boy Blue tries to convince Pinnocchio to go with him but he is conflicted between going with him and staying with his father despite the horrible things he's done and Boy Blue and Bigby flee the scene. Emma Swan is revealed to have planted enchanted Beanstalks, which grows and the group climbs up into the cloud kingdom of the Giant, detonating C4 and destroying the Beanstalk to mark their escape. It is explained the Cloud Kingdom has gateways to all universes and they are able to pass throught back to Earth by parachuting out of the clouds.
Episode 9 as Emma Swan be approached by Nick Burkhardt. Burkhardt implies that he knows about Fabletown. Emma then talks to the rest of Fabletown which gathers. It is decided to arrange meetings with the Fable residents of other lands still opposing the Adversary. This includes Mulan as the ambassador from China(Ming Na Wen), Sinbad of the Arabian Fables, and an adult Mowgli. Mowgli visits Bagheera on the farm and discovers that he is imprsoned for his role in the Coup on the Farm. Bagheera vows to release him and is pleased to learn Shere Kahn is dead. Mowgli expressed a desire to dance on his grave. Bagheera reveals that Baloo dances on Shere Kahn's grave every night, puts on a show and a Sunday Matinee where he charges tickets. Mowgli and Baloo are seen relaxing comfortably.
The conflict of the episode emerges due to the failure to understand the Arabian Fables and the disgust over the Arabian Fables posessing slaves, which are illegal in Fabletown. Mayor Charming is forced to bring in King Cole as an ambassador since he speaks Arabic. Thanks to subtitles, it is shown that Cole is actually intentionally lying about what the other is saying during translations to create a positive impact. Sinbad learns english and he and Charming become friends. Sinbad decides to free his slave, angering his vizier, Yusuf, who released a Djinn in Jaffar's posession. Something Frau Totenkinder secretly witnesses. Yusuf orders the Genie to travel to Agrabah and kill all of Sinbad's allies there and then return to kill all of Fabletown. The third wish being to make Yusuf a powerful ruler. Frau Totenkinder reveals what she saw to Sinbad and Charming. Sinbad explains to Charming that long ago the Wise King Solomon sealed the Djinn away because he saw them as too powerful to run free(in the animation, Genies resembling that from Aladdin and Jeanie from I dream of Jeanie). The Djinn travels to Baghdad, encountering several American soldiers there who the Djinn in a human female form flirts with, insulting them in Arabic, while they call the language beautiful. The Djinn then heads through a portal and kills several people before returning to Fabletown as they are confronting Yusuf. However, Frau Totenkinder reveals that while she could not alter a Djinn's magic, she used her magic to make Hakim make different wishes then he thought he heard himself say. The wishes were to kill Yusuf's allies, then kill him, and then return to the bottle, which the Djinn does, ending the threat.
Episode Ten appears to be a side story until the very end. The story follows two wooden soldiers named Rodney and June, who fall in love. Rodney is a soldier and June is a nurse. They fall in love and send a letter to Geppetto to be turned into humans. They choose to go on a journey together to meet Geppetto personally. Geppetto offers them the chance to become human in exchange for a deal. The deal turns out to spy on Fabletown and the two pose as humans, spying on the residence.
In Episode 11, the meeting within Fabletown is underway. This is parralleled by the forces of the Empire in the Homelands having a similar round table discussion. Both sides discussing the inevitable war that will occur between them. The Empire table is filled with cameos with the Queen of Hearts, Grimhilde, Captain Hook, The Nome King, Baba Yaga, witchhunter Hansel, and the Snow Queen being in attendance. The Snow Queen proposes a genocidal plan of releasing several deadly plagues. The scene of Humanity being wiped out by disease, winter, nuclear war and fires is animated. Pinnocchio is horrified and brings up what he thinks would happen. His hypothetical scenario is animated and voice. In it, the residents of Fabletown, decide to reveal their existence to the world and do so, Bigby transforming in front of the UN. The armies of the Earth then use Beanstalks to invade the Homelands. Leading to several "Heavy Metal album cover-esque" scenes of a midieval fantasy land being blown apart by modern technology. This includes controversial scenes of Fighter Jets devastating the city of Agrabah and gunning down people on flying carpets. The Aftermath of the war having the nations of Earth return to colonization and taking the Homelands for themselves. This stuns the members of the Empire council. When the possibility of Pinnocchio lying is brought up. He points out that he wouldn't be able to lie without them knowing about it as his nose still grows. After the meeting, Geppetto tells the Snow Queen to make plans to attack Fabletown first before attacking the rest of the world. Captain Hook corners Pinnocchio and begins to question him, realizing that Pinnocchio's lies can allow him to learn information that is truthful even if he doesn't know it. Hook abducts him and begins to interrogate him about the location of Peter Pan, which Pinnocchio can reveal. Hook curiously asks if Geppetto truly is the adversary and Pinnocchio is shocked when he answers that he isn't. Hook asks who is but the answer is not seen by the viewer.
Episode 12 and 13 are a two parter titled "Second Star on the Right" and "And Straight on Till Morning". Frau Totenkinder summons the dark one Rumplestiltskin and asks him for help in combatting the forces of the Empire due to his power. Rumplestiltksin is said to have ended the Ogre wars. Rumpelstiltskin agrees to help if they find the son he lost. Flashbacks reveal his origin, including how he got his powers by killing the Previous Dark One. His son wishes a normal life and maes him promise that if he found a way to be normal, he would take it. His son Baelfire, finds a way to open a portal to the human world where they can live normal lives and does so, but Rumplestiltskin refuses to be pulled in, leading to Baelfire being pulled in alone.
In the present, the cast searches for Baelfire, who is discovered to be Nick Burkhardt. Burkhardt is revealed to be immortal and is Henry's father. After this revelation, Captain Hook appears with Pinnocchio and reveals to the Fabletown group that Peter Pan is the true adversary. After this is revealed, Henry is abducted by what is implied to be Peter Pan. A team is formed that will board Captain Hook's ship and travel to Neverland to retreive him and discover the validity of the claim he is the Adversary. The group includes Emma Swan, Prince Charming, Snow White, Rumplestiltskin(who is oddly insistent in coming), Hook, Nick Burkhardt and Bigby. As the group leaves, The Empire is seen preparing for war on Fabletown.
The movie still exists but has a different production crew. Made by Warner Bros(who dropped it when the film became more expensive). Directed by Patrick Reade Johnson. Hughes’s original choice(Chris Columbus directs National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation instead, which he dropped out of OTL). The character of Old Man Marley is butterflied away since he was a Columbus addition. He appears in Christmas Vacation instead due to the film having a different tone. John Mulaney(known OTL for Saturday Night Live and playing Spider-Ham) plays Kevin(OTL he agreed but his parents said no). The wet bandits are Robert De Niro and Jon Lovitz. Kelsey Grammar plays Uncle Frank. John Candy still cameos(doing so as a favor to John Hughes) and Chris Farley plays the fake Santa(OTL Columbus disliked his performance while Johnson is more of a screwball comedy director).
the film is more of a cult classic and as a result no sequels follow. Made harder due to the difficulty in getting the more star studded cast to return. It does inspire a video game in the 2020’s that’s like a kid friendly dead by daylight. Bandits enter a house and kids can use traps to subdue or injure them while the bandits usually tie up the kids while they steal from the house. The game has a style like Hello Neighbor with some silliness like being able to plant a shark in a pool or bathtub.
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Honestly, IDC what anybody else says, I love Home Alone 2 just as much as I love the first one.
He still worked with John Hughes and John Candy on Uncle Buck, and appeared in several of their films. However he never really became as big as OTL and therefore never experiences the fall he had in OTL, never becoming the "What happened to this former child star?" poster boy. By the late 2010s and early 2020's he's making a come back but as an online persona. Like in OTL he's a frequent guest on AVGN and Red Letter Media and has basically joined the latter full time. So overall while he never had the big rise and fall. His mental health is a lot better.
I think that's the problem. It's too much like the first one. People in general don't want a sequel to be exactly the same as the first one. Which is usually what a studio wants because they think if it worked before it will work again. Home Alone 2 is the same plot. People prefer to continue the story or see something new but its hard to really do that with a set up like Home Alone. They tried with a different kid but the same problem of it being a similar premise comes up.
Once Upon a Time: Season Three(2013-2014)
Once Upon a Time: Season Three
Episode 1 begins when the group of Bigby, Emma, Snow, Charming, Nick, Hook, and Rumplestiltskin arrive in Neverland. Rumplestiltksin goes off on his own. Henry is revealed to have been abducted by Peter Pan's shadow, who explains that Neverland's magic is dying without a Peter Pan living there, since the original Peter Pan grew up. As this is happening Hook explains that an entity on the Island needs a host to exist, and was left vacant when Peter Pan left. Flashbacks imply the film Hook occurred in this continuity. Some of Hook's backstory is shown, including him cutting his way out of the crocodile's stomach. The Fabletown group find and rescue Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys. The Lost Boys are swayed by the arrival of Henry as the new Peter Pan, and the fact that they distrust adults, including Hook for killing Rufio. Tinkerbell can tell something's off and joins the Fabletown group. Rumpestiltskin confronts Peter Pan, expecting to defeat him but Pan imprisons him within Pandora's Box, which is revealed to have been obtained by the Empire. Henry allows himself to be posessed by the Shadow and becomes the new Peter Pan, fleeing Neverland.
Episode 2 begins more somber. With their mission considered a failure the Fabletown group attempts to plant Beanstalk seeds in Neverland and reach the cloud Kingdom. Where they resume making plans for the war, hoping to rescue Henry. The Posessed Henry returns to Geppetto, revealed to have been guiding Geppetto towards conquest and now acts as a surrogate son to him, leading to a rift between Geppetto and Pinnocchio, who is trying to redeem his father, with the posessed Henry steering Geppetto the other way. Fabletown begins to pull all its allies together for war. This involves Bgiby traveling to the Kingdom of the North Wind, which was left alone as the forces of the Adversary feared the North Wind's power. Bigby is forced to bury the Hatchet with his father, which is heightened by the other characters being attacking by fearsome beasts which are revealed to by Bigby's feral siblings, which he is forced to kill. The North Wind offers the aid of invisible Zephyrs to help and also reveals another kingdom of Ice untouched by Adversary, Arendelle.
Episode 3 begins with a backstory of the events following the Snow Queen Disney film. A magical mirror is created by devils to show only the ugliness of things reflected on it. They then try to show it in the face of God, who responds by shattering the mirror. Pieces of the shards fall down from the sky and become lodged in the eyes of a boy named Kay, causing him to abandon his friend Gerda due to only seeing the ugliness in things. He wanders into the snow and meets the Snow Queen. Gerda saves him and after the story concludes, the Snow Queen wanted to live among normal humans and lived with Kay and Gerda. Distrustful of the Snow Queen, Gerda obtains an Urn that could be used to seal her away. The Snow Queen uses her ice powers to stop an assault from the visiting Duke of Weselton, and when Gerda arrives, her own fear and hatred of the Snow Queen lead her to trap the Snow Queen in the Urn. The Urn is revealed to have then been sent into a gateway to another land, on that land she is adopted by the royal family of Charn. Back in Arendelle, Kay and Gerda are revealed to have had two children. One with red hair and one with Blonde. The implication being that Kay had an affair with the Snow Queen.
In the present, the Fabletown group meets Elsa and Anna. Elsa demonstrates Ice Powers and te two sisters help discover their origins. It is speculated that The Snow Queen joined the Adversary to protect Arendelle from his wrath. They also discover where Kay and Gerda kept the pieces of the broken mirror. The Fabletown group believe they could take the mirror back with them, but an attack by one of Bigby's brothers, causes the Mirror to shatter, pieces being lodged into Nick Burkhardt's eyes.
Episode 4, realizing that his siblings will continue to track him down,Bigby leaves the group, intending to kill the last of his siblings in battle and not telling the others to not put them in danger. The episode follows the battle with the giant Wolf Beasts.
Episode 5, Upon returning to Fabletown, Charming sends Mowgli to find and bring back Bigby due to his ability to talk to wolves. Mowgli is forced to fight the leader of a tribe of Wolves in order to learn where Bigby is and eventually finds him and helps him kill the last of his feral brothers.
Episode 6, In Fabletown, Kay discovers that he can see Fables disguised as humans(in a type of human with animal head form). He ends up uncovering that Honest John(a supporting character), is a traitor. to the Adversary. Honest John's backstory is revealed. He swore loyalty to his king and remained loyal. John was told by his king to flee and did so due to his loyalty and being made to promise by his King. When he was in Fabletown, he was contacted by his King, who he was pleased to find was alive, only to become horrified when his King ordered him to spy on Fabletown as he was loyal to the Adversary. Because of his previous allegiance trumping the later Fabletown allegiance, he was forced to act as a spy. Honest John willingly goes into the Witching Well while alive due to the conditions of his betrayal.
Episode 7, Cinderella attempts to form an alliance with the Giants of the Cloud Kingdom due to the beanstalks being used in the War effort. The King of the Giant is sick. To find a cure, Cinderella transforms into a mouse and enters a Lilliputtian town to find a cure. Due to the magic wearing off a Midnight, she has a time limit. The Fairy Godmother is summoned and casts the spell on a clock as poof, but two of Cinderella's Mice named Hickory and Dickory manually stop the clock in Fairy Godmother's presence, which gives the spell some more time. By the time she reaches the Giant, she regrows and is able to enter into his body and cure him. Though both his son, who wanted to be King and the advisor who's medical knowledge was humiliated, are not happy with her. Cinderella returns only to be confronted by an angry Fairy godmother, who attempts to punish Cinderella with a spell. The Janitor, Flycatcher leaps into the way with a shield, allowing Cinderella to slay the Fairy Godmother by throwing her glass shoe as a weaponm causing the Fairy Godmother to vanish into bubbles when injured by the shattering glass. Flycatcher is revealed to have been turned into a frog, remarking "Oh god. Not again."
Episode 8, A Christmas Special, The Fables celebrate the holidays in different ways, while also preparing for a war. Santa Claus is revealed to indeed be real. In the Homelands, Pinnocchio makes a wooden toy for his father only to be scolded for wasting the magical wood that could be used to create soldiers. Seeing, Geppetto's anger in Pinnocchio, Pan in Henry's body, offers to posess Pinnocchio instead and turn him into "a good son." Geppetto agrees and Pan's shadow posessess Pinnocchio, allowing Henry to escape in the process. Pan's shadow realizes he's been tricked as Geppetto put enchantments on Pinnocchio's body making him loyal to Geppetto. These enchantments now mean that Pan's shadow is loyal to Geppetto and is commanded not to leave that body. Henry is guided by a mysterious wooden owl to a passage to the human world and escapes. He makes it home a few days before Chistmas and wakes up to meet Santa Claus. He asks Santa how he can deliver all the presents in one night and Santa reveals that he is granted the power for one night only to be able to appear in any house in the world at once. One Santa. approaches Flycatcher while he is a frog and grants him the gift of seeing his dead wife again. This causes Flycatcher to remember his past as the Frog Prince and how he was magically turned into a frog at time of nervousness at which only his wife could turn him back. He accidentally turned into a Frog during an attack by the forces of the Adversary and in Frog form was forced to watch as the Soldiers murdered his family. He crawled to his dying wife,who was able to kiss him, turning him back for a final time. The ghost of his late wife fades away. Flycatcher screams at Santa about being given a cruel gift. Santa claims that Flycatcher has a long road ahead of him but that he and his wife will soon be reunited. Flycatcher, confused, looks at the Witching Well, becomes stern and suddenly jumps in.
Episode 9 begins with Flycatcher meeting the ghosts of several deceased characters from the series, who's souls were kept inside after their bodies were dumped. Here he meets Gretel. Gretel reveals that her and her brother survvied an encounter with Frau Totenkinder and she was left to burn in her own oven. The two then moved to the Human world where Hansel became involved in the Salem Witch trials. Gretel joined Fabletown and began to train to use magic under Frau Totenkinder. When Hansel reunited with his sister and learned this, he killed her in anger and then fled. Flycatcher is motivated to help Gretel and is able to escape the Well. Flycatcher asks Boy Blue for the Witching Cloak and to be trained. Blue refuses because he sees Flycatcher as innocent, not having ever killed anyone and he doesn't want to ruin that. When Flycatcher returns to the Well, and the main office, the Suit of Armor hanging from the large tree begins to speak to him. Flycatcher panics and hurls a tray at the suit of armor, causing it to fall and shatter. From the armor, a ghost emerges, which reveals itself to be the spirit of Lancelot.
Episode 10 is narrated by Lancelot and follows the events of the Arthurian myth and the events following the fall of Camelot, ending with Lancelot hanging himself in his suit of armor, despite Arthur forgiving him. Flycatcher and Lancelot then head back into the Witching Well.
Episode 11 has Flycatcher gathering the spirits of all the dead souls within the Witching Well and guiding them in search of a way out of there. The souls incldue Gretel, Mr.Webb, Baby bear, Honest John, Weyland Smith, The Huntsman, Shere Khan and Bluebeard among others. The latter two begin to conspire agaisnt Flycatcher. The Episode is intentionally slow as the group make their way through the seemingly endless world. It is similar to episodes such as Breaking Bad's Fly, and Doctor Who's Heaven Sent, where the slowness is intentional to make the audience feel the character's frustration. The spirits of birds are sent out and finally return with a leaf. grass begins to appear and they finally reach Flycatcher's old kingdom of Haven in the Homelands.
There is an extra final scene where Henson Creature shop versions of Pain and Panic approaching Hades(played by James Woods) and informing him that several souls have gone missing from the underworld through the connection to the Witching Well. Leading Hades to swear with a "What the Fu-" before being cut off."
Episode 12 begins with the spirit of Lancelot appearing before the figure of the Emperor, ignoring all attempts to kill him. Lancelot reveals the existence of the Kingdom of Haven. In Haven, Bluebeard and Shere Khan continue plotting. Bluebeard has a planned gradual takeover winnning everyone's trust. Shere Khan is impatient and called Bluebeard a paper tiger while he is a real one onf the man eating variety. Shere Khan then kills and eats Bluebeard. Flycatcher arrives and Shere Khan sees this only to revert Shere Khan back to a ghost and he disappears. The two ghosts are then banished and end up bringing the Empire there. An Empire Army arrives but Flycatcher reveals that his army is ghosts when one is killed and revived. Flycatche ralso took several enchanted items included armor and excalibur. Since the army realizes they cannot win, they agree to a trial by combat where their strongest champion with fight Flycatcher. Flycatcher himself fights the champion at a waterfall. The Champion turns out to be a giant troll. Flycatcher nearly dies and loses Excalibu as he is refuses to kill, only lightly hitting the Troll. He is stil lable to win. Since the giant Troll reveals that he will be killed for his failure, Flycatcher offers the troll amnesty. Lancelot talks to Flycatcher afterwards and explains that Excalibur only works if you actually kill with it and Flycatcher refuses to kill. The Empire army chooses to attack but are defeated and scared off by the army of ghosts loyal to Flycatcher, the rest of the army ends up joining Flycatcher out of their own fear of being killed.
In response to Haven's existence, Geppetto forms an army made entirely out of wooden soldiers and sends it to attack Haven, due to the wooden soldiers not being afraid. Hades, trying to figure out where all the souls he lost went, finds out from the Adversary and as a result the ghosts with Flycatcher disappear, leaving Flycatcher alone. Just as Flycatcher is about to accept death. A seed that he brought with him, end up fusing all of the Woodens soldiers together into one massive tree(that resembles the tree at Animal Kingdom), which becomes a new sacred grove. Since only one sacred grove can exist it now means that Geppetto's sacred grove tree will no longer heal. Geppetto is broken by this and falls into depression. Flycatcher is asked by arriving Fables if he will build his own wooden army. Flycatcher has an (animated) nightmarish vision of Wooden soldiers in his image slaughtering countless and refuses.
Episode 13 is largely preparation for the war. Which includes training Fables to use modern weaponry. Rose Red and Boy Blue break up their relationship, which began since Blue returned from the Homerlands. More Fables begin coming to Haven to repopulate it and turn it into a base to battle the Adversary. In Fabletown and the Farm, speeches are given to all Fables to travel to Haven. The Fables are mixed, some are more than happy to return home. others consider the human world their home now, especially generations that were born in the human world or are too young to remember the old world. Others don't want to part with human world conveniences such as several animal fables who have human friends online that aren't aware of their true identity. Finally, a group led by Captain Hook attacks Neverland as it was discovered that Mermaids can travel to neverland, which includes Ariel. The Fabletown group evacuates the native tribe, plants and detonates bombs, destorying most of the Island and the source of Pan's shadow. Pan's shadow senses the destuction of the island and leaves Pinnocchio's body, revealing that he was only feigning Geppetto's control over him. While the Islandi s destroyed(after all inhabitants). The now freed Pinnocchio flees through the gate and into the Mundy world, guided by the wooden owl. It is revealed that Frau Totenkinder had Boy Blue plant an enchanted Paint brush among Geppetto's supplies when he was captured. Anything that Geppetto painted, Totenkinder could see through the eyes of and used this to guide Henry and Pinnocchio through the portal. Totenkinder tells Cinderella who goes to rescue Pinnocchio. The Empire agent Hansel intercepts Cinderella and takes her and Pinnocchio hostage. When interrogated about when the attack on the Empire would begin Cinderella reveals that the War has already begun. We briefly see a shot of several characters fighting through an army of various monsters, ending with a shot panning up of a giant Airship named "The Glory of Agrabah" fighting Dragons in mid air. The camera pans in to reveal Prince Charming piloting it with Sinbad and Aladdin by his side.
Episode 1 begins when the group of Bigby, Emma, Snow, Charming, Nick, Hook, and Rumplestiltskin arrive in Neverland. Rumplestiltksin goes off on his own. Henry is revealed to have been abducted by Peter Pan's shadow, who explains that Neverland's magic is dying without a Peter Pan living there, since the original Peter Pan grew up. As this is happening Hook explains that an entity on the Island needs a host to exist, and was left vacant when Peter Pan left. Flashbacks imply the film Hook occurred in this continuity. Some of Hook's backstory is shown, including him cutting his way out of the crocodile's stomach. The Fabletown group find and rescue Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys. The Lost Boys are swayed by the arrival of Henry as the new Peter Pan, and the fact that they distrust adults, including Hook for killing Rufio. Tinkerbell can tell something's off and joins the Fabletown group. Rumpestiltskin confronts Peter Pan, expecting to defeat him but Pan imprisons him within Pandora's Box, which is revealed to have been obtained by the Empire. Henry allows himself to be posessed by the Shadow and becomes the new Peter Pan, fleeing Neverland.
Episode 2 begins more somber. With their mission considered a failure the Fabletown group attempts to plant Beanstalk seeds in Neverland and reach the cloud Kingdom. Where they resume making plans for the war, hoping to rescue Henry. The Posessed Henry returns to Geppetto, revealed to have been guiding Geppetto towards conquest and now acts as a surrogate son to him, leading to a rift between Geppetto and Pinnocchio, who is trying to redeem his father, with the posessed Henry steering Geppetto the other way. Fabletown begins to pull all its allies together for war. This involves Bgiby traveling to the Kingdom of the North Wind, which was left alone as the forces of the Adversary feared the North Wind's power. Bigby is forced to bury the Hatchet with his father, which is heightened by the other characters being attacking by fearsome beasts which are revealed to by Bigby's feral siblings, which he is forced to kill. The North Wind offers the aid of invisible Zephyrs to help and also reveals another kingdom of Ice untouched by Adversary, Arendelle.
Episode 3 begins with a backstory of the events following the Snow Queen Disney film. A magical mirror is created by devils to show only the ugliness of things reflected on it. They then try to show it in the face of God, who responds by shattering the mirror. Pieces of the shards fall down from the sky and become lodged in the eyes of a boy named Kay, causing him to abandon his friend Gerda due to only seeing the ugliness in things. He wanders into the snow and meets the Snow Queen. Gerda saves him and after the story concludes, the Snow Queen wanted to live among normal humans and lived with Kay and Gerda. Distrustful of the Snow Queen, Gerda obtains an Urn that could be used to seal her away. The Snow Queen uses her ice powers to stop an assault from the visiting Duke of Weselton, and when Gerda arrives, her own fear and hatred of the Snow Queen lead her to trap the Snow Queen in the Urn. The Urn is revealed to have then been sent into a gateway to another land, on that land she is adopted by the royal family of Charn. Back in Arendelle, Kay and Gerda are revealed to have had two children. One with red hair and one with Blonde. The implication being that Kay had an affair with the Snow Queen.
In the present, the Fabletown group meets Elsa and Anna. Elsa demonstrates Ice Powers and te two sisters help discover their origins. It is speculated that The Snow Queen joined the Adversary to protect Arendelle from his wrath. They also discover where Kay and Gerda kept the pieces of the broken mirror. The Fabletown group believe they could take the mirror back with them, but an attack by one of Bigby's brothers, causes the Mirror to shatter, pieces being lodged into Nick Burkhardt's eyes.
Episode 4, realizing that his siblings will continue to track him down,Bigby leaves the group, intending to kill the last of his siblings in battle and not telling the others to not put them in danger. The episode follows the battle with the giant Wolf Beasts.
Episode 5, Upon returning to Fabletown, Charming sends Mowgli to find and bring back Bigby due to his ability to talk to wolves. Mowgli is forced to fight the leader of a tribe of Wolves in order to learn where Bigby is and eventually finds him and helps him kill the last of his feral brothers.
Episode 6, In Fabletown, Kay discovers that he can see Fables disguised as humans(in a type of human with animal head form). He ends up uncovering that Honest John(a supporting character), is a traitor. to the Adversary. Honest John's backstory is revealed. He swore loyalty to his king and remained loyal. John was told by his king to flee and did so due to his loyalty and being made to promise by his King. When he was in Fabletown, he was contacted by his King, who he was pleased to find was alive, only to become horrified when his King ordered him to spy on Fabletown as he was loyal to the Adversary. Because of his previous allegiance trumping the later Fabletown allegiance, he was forced to act as a spy. Honest John willingly goes into the Witching Well while alive due to the conditions of his betrayal.
Episode 7, Cinderella attempts to form an alliance with the Giants of the Cloud Kingdom due to the beanstalks being used in the War effort. The King of the Giant is sick. To find a cure, Cinderella transforms into a mouse and enters a Lilliputtian town to find a cure. Due to the magic wearing off a Midnight, she has a time limit. The Fairy Godmother is summoned and casts the spell on a clock as poof, but two of Cinderella's Mice named Hickory and Dickory manually stop the clock in Fairy Godmother's presence, which gives the spell some more time. By the time she reaches the Giant, she regrows and is able to enter into his body and cure him. Though both his son, who wanted to be King and the advisor who's medical knowledge was humiliated, are not happy with her. Cinderella returns only to be confronted by an angry Fairy godmother, who attempts to punish Cinderella with a spell. The Janitor, Flycatcher leaps into the way with a shield, allowing Cinderella to slay the Fairy Godmother by throwing her glass shoe as a weaponm causing the Fairy Godmother to vanish into bubbles when injured by the shattering glass. Flycatcher is revealed to have been turned into a frog, remarking "Oh god. Not again."
Episode 8, A Christmas Special, The Fables celebrate the holidays in different ways, while also preparing for a war. Santa Claus is revealed to indeed be real. In the Homelands, Pinnocchio makes a wooden toy for his father only to be scolded for wasting the magical wood that could be used to create soldiers. Seeing, Geppetto's anger in Pinnocchio, Pan in Henry's body, offers to posess Pinnocchio instead and turn him into "a good son." Geppetto agrees and Pan's shadow posessess Pinnocchio, allowing Henry to escape in the process. Pan's shadow realizes he's been tricked as Geppetto put enchantments on Pinnocchio's body making him loyal to Geppetto. These enchantments now mean that Pan's shadow is loyal to Geppetto and is commanded not to leave that body. Henry is guided by a mysterious wooden owl to a passage to the human world and escapes. He makes it home a few days before Chistmas and wakes up to meet Santa Claus. He asks Santa how he can deliver all the presents in one night and Santa reveals that he is granted the power for one night only to be able to appear in any house in the world at once. One Santa. approaches Flycatcher while he is a frog and grants him the gift of seeing his dead wife again. This causes Flycatcher to remember his past as the Frog Prince and how he was magically turned into a frog at time of nervousness at which only his wife could turn him back. He accidentally turned into a Frog during an attack by the forces of the Adversary and in Frog form was forced to watch as the Soldiers murdered his family. He crawled to his dying wife,who was able to kiss him, turning him back for a final time. The ghost of his late wife fades away. Flycatcher screams at Santa about being given a cruel gift. Santa claims that Flycatcher has a long road ahead of him but that he and his wife will soon be reunited. Flycatcher, confused, looks at the Witching Well, becomes stern and suddenly jumps in.
Episode 9 begins with Flycatcher meeting the ghosts of several deceased characters from the series, who's souls were kept inside after their bodies were dumped. Here he meets Gretel. Gretel reveals that her and her brother survvied an encounter with Frau Totenkinder and she was left to burn in her own oven. The two then moved to the Human world where Hansel became involved in the Salem Witch trials. Gretel joined Fabletown and began to train to use magic under Frau Totenkinder. When Hansel reunited with his sister and learned this, he killed her in anger and then fled. Flycatcher is motivated to help Gretel and is able to escape the Well. Flycatcher asks Boy Blue for the Witching Cloak and to be trained. Blue refuses because he sees Flycatcher as innocent, not having ever killed anyone and he doesn't want to ruin that. When Flycatcher returns to the Well, and the main office, the Suit of Armor hanging from the large tree begins to speak to him. Flycatcher panics and hurls a tray at the suit of armor, causing it to fall and shatter. From the armor, a ghost emerges, which reveals itself to be the spirit of Lancelot.
Episode 10 is narrated by Lancelot and follows the events of the Arthurian myth and the events following the fall of Camelot, ending with Lancelot hanging himself in his suit of armor, despite Arthur forgiving him. Flycatcher and Lancelot then head back into the Witching Well.
Episode 11 has Flycatcher gathering the spirits of all the dead souls within the Witching Well and guiding them in search of a way out of there. The souls incldue Gretel, Mr.Webb, Baby bear, Honest John, Weyland Smith, The Huntsman, Shere Khan and Bluebeard among others. The latter two begin to conspire agaisnt Flycatcher. The Episode is intentionally slow as the group make their way through the seemingly endless world. It is similar to episodes such as Breaking Bad's Fly, and Doctor Who's Heaven Sent, where the slowness is intentional to make the audience feel the character's frustration. The spirits of birds are sent out and finally return with a leaf. grass begins to appear and they finally reach Flycatcher's old kingdom of Haven in the Homelands.
There is an extra final scene where Henson Creature shop versions of Pain and Panic approaching Hades(played by James Woods) and informing him that several souls have gone missing from the underworld through the connection to the Witching Well. Leading Hades to swear with a "What the Fu-" before being cut off."
Episode 12 begins with the spirit of Lancelot appearing before the figure of the Emperor, ignoring all attempts to kill him. Lancelot reveals the existence of the Kingdom of Haven. In Haven, Bluebeard and Shere Khan continue plotting. Bluebeard has a planned gradual takeover winnning everyone's trust. Shere Khan is impatient and called Bluebeard a paper tiger while he is a real one onf the man eating variety. Shere Khan then kills and eats Bluebeard. Flycatcher arrives and Shere Khan sees this only to revert Shere Khan back to a ghost and he disappears. The two ghosts are then banished and end up bringing the Empire there. An Empire Army arrives but Flycatcher reveals that his army is ghosts when one is killed and revived. Flycatche ralso took several enchanted items included armor and excalibur. Since the army realizes they cannot win, they agree to a trial by combat where their strongest champion with fight Flycatcher. Flycatcher himself fights the champion at a waterfall. The Champion turns out to be a giant troll. Flycatcher nearly dies and loses Excalibu as he is refuses to kill, only lightly hitting the Troll. He is stil lable to win. Since the giant Troll reveals that he will be killed for his failure, Flycatcher offers the troll amnesty. Lancelot talks to Flycatcher afterwards and explains that Excalibur only works if you actually kill with it and Flycatcher refuses to kill. The Empire army chooses to attack but are defeated and scared off by the army of ghosts loyal to Flycatcher, the rest of the army ends up joining Flycatcher out of their own fear of being killed.
In response to Haven's existence, Geppetto forms an army made entirely out of wooden soldiers and sends it to attack Haven, due to the wooden soldiers not being afraid. Hades, trying to figure out where all the souls he lost went, finds out from the Adversary and as a result the ghosts with Flycatcher disappear, leaving Flycatcher alone. Just as Flycatcher is about to accept death. A seed that he brought with him, end up fusing all of the Woodens soldiers together into one massive tree(that resembles the tree at Animal Kingdom), which becomes a new sacred grove. Since only one sacred grove can exist it now means that Geppetto's sacred grove tree will no longer heal. Geppetto is broken by this and falls into depression. Flycatcher is asked by arriving Fables if he will build his own wooden army. Flycatcher has an (animated) nightmarish vision of Wooden soldiers in his image slaughtering countless and refuses.
Episode 13 is largely preparation for the war. Which includes training Fables to use modern weaponry. Rose Red and Boy Blue break up their relationship, which began since Blue returned from the Homerlands. More Fables begin coming to Haven to repopulate it and turn it into a base to battle the Adversary. In Fabletown and the Farm, speeches are given to all Fables to travel to Haven. The Fables are mixed, some are more than happy to return home. others consider the human world their home now, especially generations that were born in the human world or are too young to remember the old world. Others don't want to part with human world conveniences such as several animal fables who have human friends online that aren't aware of their true identity. Finally, a group led by Captain Hook attacks Neverland as it was discovered that Mermaids can travel to neverland, which includes Ariel. The Fabletown group evacuates the native tribe, plants and detonates bombs, destorying most of the Island and the source of Pan's shadow. Pan's shadow senses the destuction of the island and leaves Pinnocchio's body, revealing that he was only feigning Geppetto's control over him. While the Islandi s destroyed(after all inhabitants). The now freed Pinnocchio flees through the gate and into the Mundy world, guided by the wooden owl. It is revealed that Frau Totenkinder had Boy Blue plant an enchanted Paint brush among Geppetto's supplies when he was captured. Anything that Geppetto painted, Totenkinder could see through the eyes of and used this to guide Henry and Pinnocchio through the portal. Totenkinder tells Cinderella who goes to rescue Pinnocchio. The Empire agent Hansel intercepts Cinderella and takes her and Pinnocchio hostage. When interrogated about when the attack on the Empire would begin Cinderella reveals that the War has already begun. We briefly see a shot of several characters fighting through an army of various monsters, ending with a shot panning up of a giant Airship named "The Glory of Agrabah" fighting Dragons in mid air. The camera pans in to reveal Prince Charming piloting it with Sinbad and Aladdin by his side.
Once Upon a Time: Season Four(2014-2015)
Once Upon a Time: Season Four
Episode 1 begins with the Airship, the Glory of Agrabah, flying through the air and gunning down Dragons. Charming explains to Aladdin and the nature of the ship, which is supported by several flying carpets inside the skeleton of thes ship with a mostly western crew including sharpshooters. The two are using a stolen map of gateways between the various worlds the Empire controls and are bombing them, hoping to decapitate the Empire by cutting off their easy transport. Another group enters the Homelands through a beanstalk. However, security around the Empire capitol is much more, leading to an intense battle when the beanstalk is discovered. In the real world, Cinderella escapes from Hansel and rescues Geppetto, shooting Hansel's kneecaps out in the process. In the Empire's capitol, the Fabletown to smuggle Aurora(Sleeping Beauty) into the city, where she pricks her finger and her curse activates, causing everyone in the castle to fall asleep except for the wooden beings, the Emperor among them, however fast growing vines envelop many of them. Everything seems to be going well. Then things start to go wrong.
Just as Cinderella and Pinnocchio prepare to return to Fabletown, the Empire Agents Rodney and June intercept them, and nearly kill Cinderella, forcing Pinnocchio to run away. The Emperor bursts out of the vines and leads an army on the Beanstalk. The Empire forces assaulting it bring out a single enchanted arrow in their posession that will kill any specific target given to it. The arrow is fired. Boy Blue sees it heading towards Bigby and leaps in the way, the arrow goes through Blue's witching cloak, through Blue and hits Bigby. Both collapse and are possibly dead.
At the orders of the Emperor, a single Dragon is hidden under some trees and flies above the Airship, the Glory of Agrabah. Because it's an airship made partly of wood, the Dragon's fire devastates it, forcing everyone to evacuate on flying carpets and killing the Zephyrs they were using since they were made of wind. As the Airship crashed, Sinbad found Charming, horribly injured. There is one gate and one bomb left. Charming carried a bomb, pulling it with flying carpets strapped around it. Charming says goodbye to Sinbad and tells him "Tell every woman I ever loved I was thinking of them in the end. That should keep you busy for a few years." and then carries the bomb into the gate, literally walking through a dark tunnel to a light. Shortly afterwards an explosion occurs and travels through the tunnel, Sinbad narrowly avoiding the burst of fire. Charming is dead.
Bigby Wolf wakes up in a tent being treated. Thanks to bringing guns, the Fables are doing well aginst the Empire. Bigby transforms into a massive wold and battles the Emperor, though since both are massive, Bigby is about the size of a regular wolf to the Emperor. Bigby is horribly injured and forced to retreat, returning in human form and this time able to beat the Emperor, using weapons and tactics, allowing Blue to decapitate the Emperor before he collapses from his injuries.
In the human world, Pinnocchio is able stop Rodney and June from killing Cinderella and use the logic that since he has loyalty spells on him that make him act in Geppetto's best interest, what he must be doing is therefore in Geppetto's best interest and that Geppetto is in more danger running an Empire than if he was not. This ends up working and Rodney and June surrender. Pinnocchio then goes to the Beanstalk and enters the Homelands and is there along with Bigby and the others to confront Geppetto, who is brought over and forced to sign the Fabletown Contract, which turns him into a resident of Fabletown and grants him amnesty provided he does not commit anymore crimes. Geppetto warns that since the head of the government has basically been decapitated, that all the different members of the Empire Council will either continue fighting or become serious threats without the Empire to keep them in line. Despite the warning he still signs the contract. Boy Blue is brought to the farm and on his deathbed, says goodbye to Rose Red. The doctors find that a piece of the Witching Cloak was stuck inside Boy Blue and is preventing him from healing. Boy Blue dies and is buried, being given a statue along with Prince Charming. The idea that the most popular characters can be revived is brought up, making it possible that Prince Charming could return, but Boy Blue cannot since he was only in a lesser known nursery rhyme. Some of the Animal Fables spread the belief that Boy Blue will return.
Episode 2. In the Homelands, Hades approaches the Queen of Hearts, Grimhilde, Madame Mim and Baba Yaga and forges an alliance with them, out of his anger for Flycatcher's actions. Hades resurrects Maleficient, Ursula, and Cruella De Ville(it is questioned why she was brought back since she lacks magical abilties but Hades explains that she has important knowledge that will be revealed to the group after they succeed in their task. Hades also teases other videos by having their souls appear(which are animated). This results in many cameos including Amos Slade, Charles F.Muntz, Clayton and Sabor, Edgar Balthazar, Claude Frollo, Gaston, The Horned King, Long John Silver(specifically from Disney's live action adaptation of Treasure Island, not Treasure Planet due to its future setting), Lady Tremaine, Lyle Tiberius Rourke, Mor'dru(as a Bear, presumably due to his curse in Hell), Mother Gothel, Oogie Boogie, Percival C.McLeach, Governor Ratcliffe, Ratigan, Shan Yu, Shere Khan, Stromboli, and Yzma. Hades promises to unleash all these souls at the group's disposal.
While this is going on, life resumes with the rest of the Fables, Geppetto being given a tour around town. Many in the town refusing to service him and showing hatred for him while Geppetto refuses to apologize, still believing he did the right thing. Its as uncomfortable as Hitler touring a jewish community. Nick Burkfield, still having glass in his eyes that allow him to see only the evil inside a person's souls, sees Geppetto and gouges out his own eyes, being unable to bare the sight of all the people Geppetto killed. In the Homelands, an unknown figure releases Rumplestiltskin, holding the Dark One's Dagger to control him. Geppetto senses this and wanrs Frau Totenkinder but cryptically and insists on being put in charge to stop it. The controlled Rumplestiltskin attacks Fabletown, causing an earthquake and everyone inside the buildings to flee outside. The entire area is destroyed as the episode ends. The one responsible, and the one controlling Rumplestiltskin is revealed to be the Wicked Witch of the West, of Oz infamy.
Episode 3 shifts the perspective to Jack Horner, who was released and has made it big in Hollywood. Jack Horner hears about the destruction of Fabletown and decides to head over there. On the way he is abducted and brought to an area known as the Golden Boughs Retirement Home. He is brought to meet Mister Revise. Revise reveals that he is not a Fable, but a literal, a personification of a literary concept, in his case, a story being revised. He demonstrates his powers on Jack by splitting him into several people, revealing that Jack is actually a Composite of several characters from different stories and nursery rhymes such as Jack and the Bean Stalk, Jack the giant Killer, Jack from Jack and Jill, little Jack Horner, Jack be Nimble and so on. He then returns Jack to normal, letting him off with a warning. Revise apparently has the power to change stories and his powers impact how people remember those stories. Jack decides to plan to escape, something never done before. He is sent to his house while there, only to find someone has eaten his porridge and is sleeping in his bed. It is revealed to be Goldilocks, who Mr.Revise found near death and rescued. Jack begins working with her to escape along with a group of fables including Sam the Janitor, an older african american caretaker who can't remember his own name. He tries to tell Humpty Dumpty and Mother Goose, they have to stay since they can't pass off as human. Humpty Dumpty reveals he knows where a treasure is, so Jack keeps him on while rejects Mother Goose(who comments that she was originally human but Mr.Revise turned her into a giant Goose over time). Jack also starts to attempt to seduce Mr.Revise's three daughters, the Paige Sisters, who all work there.
The details of the Prison are explained to Jack by Sam and Gary, who is revealed to be another literal called the Pathetic Fallacy(the personification of giving inhuman objects human traits, which also extends to his power. He can animate Inanimate objects). The security at the Golden Boughs consist of creatures called Bagmen. Human guards. Tigers and if anything takes to the air, then birdlike creatures called Rooks. Jack also meets a group of fairies(from A Midsummer Night's Dream and also the original Cottingley Fairies), who consider Jack a hero. It is revealed Jack saved them by stepping on a monster that was about to eat them. Not even noticing he'd done so. Jack devises his plan to escape. The Paige Sisters learns of this but Mr.Revise reveals he already knows as there is a spy among Jack's ranks, they just don't know when and how he'll try to break out.
Jack has the Fairies be released and distract the Rooks. They also summon outside birds, which distract the Rooks. The rest of the Fables breach the gate and begin to flee. Sam the Janitor reveals that he posesses superspeed. The Tigers chase him and are next seen having been turned into butter, to a confused Jack. The group escape but Humpty is shattered, with Jack collecting all his pieces so he can know where the treasure is. The rest of the Fables take the time to escape. This includes the Tortoise and the Hare, who mention being captured after returning to the Homelands.
Mr.Revise finds the Tigers turned into butter and explains that Sam is Black Sambo, a story seen as Racist by the Humans, so Mr.Revise hid him away and censored him but the story was about Sambo outrunning tigers until they turned to butter. The African American Older man from before is seen walking away humming "Zippity-Doo Dah Zippity Doo Dah. My oh my. What a wonderful Day."
On the outskirts and in front of a well, Jack reveals that he found out Goldilocks is a spy because she has glasses and all of Mr.Revise's people have glasses, which Goldilocks finds stupid. A fight ensues, ending with Jack punching Goldilocks down the well and fleeing. Mr.Revise pulls her out. Jack meets up with the other Fables who escaped and tells them that they are heading to the Farm as he guesses that's where they'll go. Mr.Revise is shown to be guessing the same thing.
Episode 4 has the Fables from the Golden Boughs arrive at the Farm, where it is revealed that the Tortoise and the Hare were captured and replaced by Mr.Revise imposters during the battle at the Beanstalk. It is then revealed that the Tortoise is still back at the Golden Boughs, still walking and the fake Tortoise and Hare are captured. After Boy Blue's death, some of the animals have started a religion believing he will come back. Jack goes and meets Rose Red, who is still mourning the death of Boy Blue. Jack is unaware he is dead and ends up sleeping with Rose Red in her grief. Because the animals hear her cying out Blue's name, they come to believe that Jack is Boy Blue in another form, this combined with the Fables who followed Jack being loyal to him, leads Jack to gain a cult following. Jack is visited by a mysterious teen who reveals himself to be Jack's son. It is revealed in flashback that Jack once wooed the Snow Queen into giving him her powers for a time, wherein he acted out as Jack Frost, only to have to take those powers away when he refused to give them back. Unknown to Jack, the Snow Queen was pregnant with his son, which became Jack Frost(technically Jack Frost Two). Not wanting to put his new son in danger, Jack sends his son to meet with Elsa and Anna, who intend to retreive the unconscious Snow Queen from the Empire's Capitol and talk to her as she may be Elsa's mother. They find that both Aurora(Sleeping Beauty) and the Snow Queen have been taken away somewhere.
Episode 5 begins with with Jack Horner doing the impossible and successfully putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. This allow Humpty to guide Jack to the treasure, which he reveals is in Americana, the Homelands version of America. Jack and Humpty sneak into the Homelands, following by Hillary Page, who was tracking down escaped Fables and just captured Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. While Mr.Revise had used magic to shrunk Paul Bunyan. He starts to get gradually bigger once they enter Americana as the magic is fading. Followng Humpty Dumpty's map, which was on part of his shell. The two groups end up joining together to get the treasure and travel through Americana in a montage. Among the lands included seen are a Wild West land, Gangsterland(a gangster themed land), Antebellum(The South) and finally they reached a 60's style town that is filled with Zombies. The group fight their way through to a library where they are aided by a mysterious man. Inside the man is shown to be burning all the books in the library. He then reveals himself to be named Bookburner. Hillary reveals she went along because she believes Book Burner is her father, but he denies this. Hillary recalls growing up and not fitting in with her family. She began reading stories about how Book Burner was once a nice made that was a lot like her and wanted to confirm her belief. Book Burner turns out to want to destroy all stories. Unfortunately Jack lets it slip that the Golden Boughs has weakened defenses. Page explains to Jack that Mr.Revise keeps the original copies of most of the original books under the Golden Boughs and that if they are destroyed the fable will die. The group is forced to make a retreat while Booker Burner sends Zombies after them. Humpty Dumpty is killed and Paul Bunyan sacrifices himself as the Zombies overwhelm him, and he is turned into a giant zombie while the rest of the group escapes. Book Burner is revealed to be able to revive beings as Zombies and has been building army of forgotten Fairy tale characters that he intends to also kill once they are the only things left. The group heads back to the Golden Boughs while sending messages to ask for help from anyone to aid in defending the Boughs. On the way there, they realize that none of them can remember who Paul Bunyan is.
Episode 6 consists almost entirely of a battle between the Fables protecting the Golden Boughs, including several Fabletown and Farm residents, fighting the forces of Bookburner. Bookburner's forces are lampshaded in universe as characters you've never heard of due to Bookburner wiping them from human memory, such as Little Lindsay Lairet, Meltzinger Moose and his magnificent Juice, the Comanche Skeleton, Omar the Camel, the Knife Johns(soldier siwth knives for hands) and so on. Of these Meltzinger Moose became a meme as he appears to be carring a barrel of alcohol and a bottle of moonshine, though his name is often shortened to "Moose with the Juice" in a similar fashion to "You've heard of Elf on a Shelf. Now get ready for..."
Before the battle, with most of the Fables gathered, Jack Horner makes a speech before a giant American flag dressed as George S. Patton and delivering a speech parodying the film Patton. Goldilocks gathers her own team to stage a revolution, believing that Bookburner is actually liberating those Mr.Revise has been keeping hostage, quoting 'The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend". Mad Hatter and the March Hate contemplate if this means that "the Friend of my Friend is my Enemy" and come to believe that this means the sleeping Dourmouse is their enemy and decide they should kill him while he's unaware. The Dourmouse is not seen again, making it unsure if they actually went through with it.
The battle then begins, during which the group is attacked by an undead Demonic Humpty Dumpty who has been transformed by Bookburner into what Jack refers to as a "Deviled Egg". The group is nearly killed but is rescued by another literal called Deus, a large machine man, the personification of the concept of the Deus Ex Machina concept. Deus arrived to save Gary the Pathetic Fallacy but refuses to help as if he continued to help he would get old and rust, however he reveals that under the Golden Boughs is something that could help them. The group asks Mr.Revise and opens a vault to reveal the original stories, which are handed out to the various characters. The Cowardly Lion reads the original copy of the Wizard of Oz, and remembers that he was actually a large savage lion. He was looking for courage because he was ashamed that he felt fear deep inside. The Cowardly Lion therefore transforms from his humanoid scared MGM based depiction to a giant realistic Lion that leaps into battle. A similar effect begins to happen to the other Fables such as Cu Chulain, Kiviuq, and others. Jack even writes in the original manuscript of the Wizard of Oz script(to Revise's anger as he compares it to drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa), causing the Tin Man to gain buzz saw arms and cannons. Other transformations are less impressive but serve as nods for example Little Black Sambo turns into an indian boy(since the character was originally Indian before becoming Black in later versions), and Aladdin turns into a Chinese man(since the original story is Chinese), though Aladdin requests to be changed back due to feeling weird. Another minor. change is the appearance of a pif, who claims to be the Fourth Little Pig who built his house out of cloth. Snow White recognizes him, saying he was her favorite but then realizing she had forgotten about him. The Fourth Pig is excited to reunite with his brothers, only for Snow and Red to nervously hesitate saying anything. Goldilocks's attempt to aid Bookburner falls apart very quickly as Bookburner's forces shoot them down. Goldilocks sees Snow and attempts one more time to kill her, but the Fourth Pig jumps in the way of the bullet, before Bookburner's forces kill Goldilocks.
The Battle continues for sometime and BookBurner offers the Golden Boughs forces a chance to surrender. Jack ruins the negotations by repeatedly shooting Bookburner, causing the amount of time they have left before the second attack comes to shorten each time by half an hour with every bullet. Mr.Revise is prepared to accept defeat and the end to all the stories inside, but lets it slip that he has one final fable contained, a dark and ancient entity named Chernabog. This gives the Fables an idea. BookBurner's forces enter the Golden Boughs but find nothing, only for Chernabog to burst through the Golden Boughs, destroying the building with Bookburner's forces inside while the Golden Boughs Fables have already fled. Chernagob bursts out from what appears to be a Volcanic eruption he causes when he emerges. Bookburner is burned alive in a homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Bookburner's fedora is seen on fire, slowly floating down. Chernabog then battles Paul Bunyan in a massive battle. The loss of the magic of the Golden Boughs causes Babe the Blue Ox, who had been shrunk to dog size by Mr.Revise and travelled with the group, to grow to its full size, and be forced to kill the undead Paul Bunyan with its horns(Babe the Blue Ox has a closeup of the eye revealing it is crying). Chernabog then disappears, evidently escaping. The Fables then begin to head back to the Farm while carrying the rescues original versions of their stories. The Tortoise from the Tortoise and the Hare is seen fleeing, evidently from his perspective, still escaping the Golden Boughs retirement home from a few episodes earlier.
Episode 7 reveals that the Farm now has a newly built town around it to house the human Fables and is now known as Storybrooke. The characters now go about their lives. However in the Homelands,the Wicked Witch, who has refuses to join the group of villains known as the Queens of Darkness is commanding Rumplestiltskin, revealing that the Dark One's power is needed to confront Pan's Shadow. Under the Wicked Witch of the West's command, Rumplestiltskin arrives at the ruins of Fabletown in New York. The Wicked Witch discovers Nick Burkhardt in the ruins. He was present inside and was unaware of what had happened around him due to gouging his own eyes out previously. The Wicked Witch has Rumplestiltskin kill Nick, something which he attempts to struggle against doing as Nick is his son, but is unable to and Nick is killed. A Dark One ability is revealed when Rumpelstilskin takes Nick's skull and eats the teeth, revealing that he can summon Nick's spirit a total of 32 times depending on the number of teeth the victim has. Through Nick's spirit, The Wicked Witch of the West learns of the enchantments hiding Fables from humans and the mirror that shows only ugliness. In Response, she has Rumplestiltskin create a massive dark castle in the middle of the New York, clearly visible to all.
The Wicked Witch of the West is approached by Hades, who reveals that a recent death has led to access to new information. Hades has the soul of Bookburner and a memory is shown of a being known as the author named Isaac thorn, being thrown down a well by younger versions of Mr.Revise and Bookburner. His crime is evidently for abusing his power in trying to destroy the universe and all stories so he could start over. The Author is thrown down the well, which Revise explains is a memory hole. Anyone thrown down it will lose their memories. After the Author is thrown, Bookburner comments that maybe the Author was onto something. Hades reveals that he already knows this and shows another memory. This one belonging to Cruella De Ville, who is seen briefly meeting a man who drunkenly reveals that he was chosen as an author, one of several being entrusted with the power to create worlds. Hades finally reveals that this was the information he traded with the Queens of Darkness and that he's giving it to the Wicked Witch because he "Kinda has the Hots for her." The Wicked Witch then vows to find the Author before the Queens of Darkness do. Bookburner will neither talk nor will his memories show as Revise hid the Author from him.
Episode 8 is the famous Tron Episode, directed by James Rolfe(Get it because Tron is from the Eighties). Hades is talking to Bookburner and comes and comments that no matter how many books you burn a story will continue to exist on the Internet and convinces Bookburner to go after that. He reveals that through a deceased employee of ENCOM, Hades knows of a way to enter the digital world and through it the Internet where Book Burner can destroy it, jokingly calling Book Burner "Facebook Burner" or "Data Purger". The Main cast is investigating the large Castle when they see Book Burner travelling to the old Flynn's Arcade and follow him. Book Burner entered the digital world with several of the main cast. At this point the plot becomes much more simple, stop Book Burner in the digital world with the aid of Tron(Guest star Bruce Boxleitner) and Flynn(guest star Jeff Bridges). The effects were highly praised. The Episode ultimately ends with Book Burner being destroyed with Tron's assistance. Hades reveals that he actually planned for Bookburner to die since he was already too powerful to be completely controlled and by entering the digital world he was reduced in power to a form that the program could process, and thus make him easier to kill.
Episode 9 dived into the origin of Grimhilde, Cora(the Queen of Hearts) and Elphaba(The Wicket Witch of the West) as they all sit and talk. Cora, who is revealed to also be the Miller's daughter from the original tale of Rumpelstiltskin. However prior to that Cora had a daughter which she was abandoned. The daughter was taken to Oz by a cyclone. Cora thwarted Rumpletstilskin and gave birth to Grimhilde. When Grimhilde was young she was forced to marry the father of Snow White, however she actually loved a stable boy. The young Snow White revealed the relationship and Cora had the Stable Boy killed, beginning the long hatred between Snow White and Grimhilde. Elphaba then tells what happened to her, which is largely baed on the musical Wicked(Oz the Great and Powerful not existing ITTL). Elphaba faked her death and decided to go on and live a life elsewhere, eventually finding her mother. Cora accepts Elphaba fairly quickly and turns against Grimhilde. Grimhilde in anger, departs and is going to the heroes.
Episode 10 begins with the Fables asking Mr.Revise about where he put the author so that they could find him before the Queens of Darkness or Rumpelstiltskin. It turns out Isaac Thorn's last request before having his memory erased was to be near his creations. He has actually lived as a normal human(and has actually appeared in the background of several scenes since the first episode, always writing when he did appear). At the same time, Rumplestiltskin finally finds him and restores his memories. However, he doesn't have his pen, which Mr.Revise is revealed to posess. In the present, Rumpletstilskin immediately travels to the Storybrooke and to everyone's surprise, despite efforts to stop him, injures Mr.Revise(causing him to need a wheelchair) and takes the Pen, before teleporting away.
Episode 11 is a Rose Red centered episode. Rose Red has sunken into depression following Boy Blue's death when a spirit visits her. The Spirit talsk to Rose Red and this leads to a flashback, revealing the source of her depression. Snow and Red's mother is caring for a group of white and red roses. She pricks her finger and sees the blood touch the snow. She then wishes for children. The end result is two daughters named Snow White and Rose Red. Then their mother dies, after the funeral it is revealed that Cora poisoned her, which she brags to her corpse. The Roses evidently having been a gift from Cora. When Grimhilde becomes Queen, Frau Totenkinder takes Snow White and Rose Red and hides them in a cabin. The two grow up in the Black Forest in Germany.
The two sisters end up giving shelter to a talking bear, which continues to visit. One day the sisters find a Dwarf with its beard stuck in a tree and help it. The Dwarf is not thankful but angry at them for cutting off his beard. it is revealed each time the Dwarf was actually trying to steal Gold from each of them. The Children save the Dwarf from different situations wher ehis beard is stuck(being pulled into the water by a giant fish or being pulled by an eagle) and continue to cut the Dwarf's beard, which the Dwarf is angry about due to the beard being the source of his magic power. The third time the Bear suddenly emerges and reveals the Dwarf cursed him and has been stealing his treasure. The Bear kills the Dwarf now that the Dwarf's beard has been cut and he is powerless. After which the Dwarf turns into a Prince named James. James promises to marry Snow White and that he has a brother that can marry Rose Red. However, James's father King George disapproves of the marriage and King George explains that James's brother is living on a farm unaware of his true origin. King George lets it slip during a meeting with Grimhilde that Snow White is the name of his would be bride and Grimhilde launches an attack on Totenkinder's cabin. She tells Snow and Red to run. Frau seemingly vanishes and Red is taken hostage. Red remembers being imprisoned by Grimhilde, who one day tells her that she will be executed. Red in the present realizes she can't remember how she got out of that one. The next thing she remembers is being found by Snow White and her husband Prince Charming. She then ended up seducing Prince Charming, causing the two to divorce.
Episode 12 kicks off with the Fable group(with Grimhilde and Rose Red included) running to confront The Wicked Witch of the West and the Author. Before leaving, Grimhilde is given by Frau Totenkinder an enchanted spell capable of cleaning evil. Cora is also present and helps to fight the Fable Group. Cora boasts about having killed Snow White and Rose Red's mother. Grimhilde is shown in flashback to have discovered Cora's involvement and that motivated her to switch sides. Grimhilde uses the evil purging spell on Cora(as she lacks powers ITTL) and she appears to smile, only to then be decapitated by Rose Red to Grimhilde’s horror. Rose Red delivers the one liner of “Of with her head” and doing so out of anger for Cora's killing of her mother. The Wicked Witch retreats in shock and sadness.
The Wicked Witch of the West, in exchange for giving the pen to the author, asks to be sent back in time. The Author uses his pen to open a portal that will take whoever steps in to anytime they choose. Emma and Captain Hook end up falling into the portal. Grimhilde ends up disrupting the spell and causing Elphaba to be lost in the time stream, gleefully proclaiming “Over the Rainbow Bitch!” before she seemingly falls into some unknown place in time. Emma and Hook are in the past and realize they need to find a way to get back to their own time. They end up guiding Prince Charming to Snow White, however they are also briefly captured by Grimhilde of the past and escape, rescuing a captive which turns out to be Rose Red in the process. The group then begin to return to their own time but Rose Red hangs on as Grimihilde's forces are advancing on them. She ends up letting go and as a result ends up appearing a few years later, with amnesia of the time travel event. This leads her to reuniting with Snow White and Prince Charming years into their marriage. Emma and Hook successfully return to the present.
Episode 13 shows Issac using his author powers abusively. It is also shown that a wizard known as Yen Sid was searching for an Author and Isaac lied about being his mentor to receive the enchanted Pen. In the present he is shown to be abusing his power. He has a man who looked at him funny be torn apart by raptors. A neighbor he finds annoying he decides to write that his wife cheats on him with his best friend. He then begins walking in the park and causes horrbile deaths to everyone around him before creating a house for him. He decides he's going to destroy the universe and start over. Searching for inspiration he summons personifications of the Genres. This includes Action(Played by Arnold Shwarzenagger dressed as Rambo), Western(who resembles John Wayne), Science Fiction(wearing a space suit and a space gun), Fantasy(resembling an old wizard), Mystery(a cloaked figute), Horror( a dark hooded figure with red eyes and sharp teeth), and Comedy(who resembles Groucho Marx and frequently makes puns).
The Main cast(now joined by Jack Frost) launch an attack at Isaac's mansion, where the personifications attack them. Isaac attempts to use his power to kill them by dropping a car on them, but is confused when he writes the word "Nearly". Isaac is able to use his powers to turn Bigby into a little girl, which ironically ends up helping in the battle with the Genres, a girl Bigby maintains their wolflike abilities and begins killing the genres, especially since Western and Action refuse to hurt a child, though Action can accept is as collateral damage.
Unable to write successfully, Isaac summons Mr.Revise and Sam, who is pushing the wheelchair bound Mr.Revise. Isaac then discovers what is happening, using his ability to reveal who is stopping him. It turns out to be another Literal named Writer's Block, who was invisible to Isaac before. Mr.Revise is all for Isaac's plan to destroy the universe and recreate it. He even begins to kill Writer's block, but Sam uses his superspeed to take Mr.Revise in his wheelchair to the top of a cliff and drop him off. When he returns he makes an impassioned and touching speech about what stories are and what they mean. A speech intended to get Isaac to stop. Isaac seems swayed only to then immediately murder Writer's Block and prepare to destroy the universe. Sam delays the process by commenting that if Isaac wants to destroy the world he should change clothes and use a new page since he's covered in Writer's Block's blood. While he is away Sam tries to use the pen but it somehow overloads his mind, leading Isaac to gloat and promise to punish Sam further for the attempt.
After the Fables finally defeat the Genres(Comedy leaves of his own accord in a parody of Michigan J Frog's "Helloy my Baby" as he leaves offscreen with a top hat and cane). The Fables confront Isaac. Just as he writers "And then the World Ende" he is frozen by Jack Frost. In the aftermath, the Fables move the frozen Isaac to the land of the North Wind, hoping he never unfreezes.
Episode 1 begins with the Airship, the Glory of Agrabah, flying through the air and gunning down Dragons. Charming explains to Aladdin and the nature of the ship, which is supported by several flying carpets inside the skeleton of thes ship with a mostly western crew including sharpshooters. The two are using a stolen map of gateways between the various worlds the Empire controls and are bombing them, hoping to decapitate the Empire by cutting off their easy transport. Another group enters the Homelands through a beanstalk. However, security around the Empire capitol is much more, leading to an intense battle when the beanstalk is discovered. In the real world, Cinderella escapes from Hansel and rescues Geppetto, shooting Hansel's kneecaps out in the process. In the Empire's capitol, the Fabletown to smuggle Aurora(Sleeping Beauty) into the city, where she pricks her finger and her curse activates, causing everyone in the castle to fall asleep except for the wooden beings, the Emperor among them, however fast growing vines envelop many of them. Everything seems to be going well. Then things start to go wrong.
Just as Cinderella and Pinnocchio prepare to return to Fabletown, the Empire Agents Rodney and June intercept them, and nearly kill Cinderella, forcing Pinnocchio to run away. The Emperor bursts out of the vines and leads an army on the Beanstalk. The Empire forces assaulting it bring out a single enchanted arrow in their posession that will kill any specific target given to it. The arrow is fired. Boy Blue sees it heading towards Bigby and leaps in the way, the arrow goes through Blue's witching cloak, through Blue and hits Bigby. Both collapse and are possibly dead.
At the orders of the Emperor, a single Dragon is hidden under some trees and flies above the Airship, the Glory of Agrabah. Because it's an airship made partly of wood, the Dragon's fire devastates it, forcing everyone to evacuate on flying carpets and killing the Zephyrs they were using since they were made of wind. As the Airship crashed, Sinbad found Charming, horribly injured. There is one gate and one bomb left. Charming carried a bomb, pulling it with flying carpets strapped around it. Charming says goodbye to Sinbad and tells him "Tell every woman I ever loved I was thinking of them in the end. That should keep you busy for a few years." and then carries the bomb into the gate, literally walking through a dark tunnel to a light. Shortly afterwards an explosion occurs and travels through the tunnel, Sinbad narrowly avoiding the burst of fire. Charming is dead.
Bigby Wolf wakes up in a tent being treated. Thanks to bringing guns, the Fables are doing well aginst the Empire. Bigby transforms into a massive wold and battles the Emperor, though since both are massive, Bigby is about the size of a regular wolf to the Emperor. Bigby is horribly injured and forced to retreat, returning in human form and this time able to beat the Emperor, using weapons and tactics, allowing Blue to decapitate the Emperor before he collapses from his injuries.
In the human world, Pinnocchio is able stop Rodney and June from killing Cinderella and use the logic that since he has loyalty spells on him that make him act in Geppetto's best interest, what he must be doing is therefore in Geppetto's best interest and that Geppetto is in more danger running an Empire than if he was not. This ends up working and Rodney and June surrender. Pinnocchio then goes to the Beanstalk and enters the Homelands and is there along with Bigby and the others to confront Geppetto, who is brought over and forced to sign the Fabletown Contract, which turns him into a resident of Fabletown and grants him amnesty provided he does not commit anymore crimes. Geppetto warns that since the head of the government has basically been decapitated, that all the different members of the Empire Council will either continue fighting or become serious threats without the Empire to keep them in line. Despite the warning he still signs the contract. Boy Blue is brought to the farm and on his deathbed, says goodbye to Rose Red. The doctors find that a piece of the Witching Cloak was stuck inside Boy Blue and is preventing him from healing. Boy Blue dies and is buried, being given a statue along with Prince Charming. The idea that the most popular characters can be revived is brought up, making it possible that Prince Charming could return, but Boy Blue cannot since he was only in a lesser known nursery rhyme. Some of the Animal Fables spread the belief that Boy Blue will return.
Episode 2. In the Homelands, Hades approaches the Queen of Hearts, Grimhilde, Madame Mim and Baba Yaga and forges an alliance with them, out of his anger for Flycatcher's actions. Hades resurrects Maleficient, Ursula, and Cruella De Ville(it is questioned why she was brought back since she lacks magical abilties but Hades explains that she has important knowledge that will be revealed to the group after they succeed in their task. Hades also teases other videos by having their souls appear(which are animated). This results in many cameos including Amos Slade, Charles F.Muntz, Clayton and Sabor, Edgar Balthazar, Claude Frollo, Gaston, The Horned King, Long John Silver(specifically from Disney's live action adaptation of Treasure Island, not Treasure Planet due to its future setting), Lady Tremaine, Lyle Tiberius Rourke, Mor'dru(as a Bear, presumably due to his curse in Hell), Mother Gothel, Oogie Boogie, Percival C.McLeach, Governor Ratcliffe, Ratigan, Shan Yu, Shere Khan, Stromboli, and Yzma. Hades promises to unleash all these souls at the group's disposal.
While this is going on, life resumes with the rest of the Fables, Geppetto being given a tour around town. Many in the town refusing to service him and showing hatred for him while Geppetto refuses to apologize, still believing he did the right thing. Its as uncomfortable as Hitler touring a jewish community. Nick Burkfield, still having glass in his eyes that allow him to see only the evil inside a person's souls, sees Geppetto and gouges out his own eyes, being unable to bare the sight of all the people Geppetto killed. In the Homelands, an unknown figure releases Rumplestiltskin, holding the Dark One's Dagger to control him. Geppetto senses this and wanrs Frau Totenkinder but cryptically and insists on being put in charge to stop it. The controlled Rumplestiltskin attacks Fabletown, causing an earthquake and everyone inside the buildings to flee outside. The entire area is destroyed as the episode ends. The one responsible, and the one controlling Rumplestiltskin is revealed to be the Wicked Witch of the West, of Oz infamy.
Episode 3 shifts the perspective to Jack Horner, who was released and has made it big in Hollywood. Jack Horner hears about the destruction of Fabletown and decides to head over there. On the way he is abducted and brought to an area known as the Golden Boughs Retirement Home. He is brought to meet Mister Revise. Revise reveals that he is not a Fable, but a literal, a personification of a literary concept, in his case, a story being revised. He demonstrates his powers on Jack by splitting him into several people, revealing that Jack is actually a Composite of several characters from different stories and nursery rhymes such as Jack and the Bean Stalk, Jack the giant Killer, Jack from Jack and Jill, little Jack Horner, Jack be Nimble and so on. He then returns Jack to normal, letting him off with a warning. Revise apparently has the power to change stories and his powers impact how people remember those stories. Jack decides to plan to escape, something never done before. He is sent to his house while there, only to find someone has eaten his porridge and is sleeping in his bed. It is revealed to be Goldilocks, who Mr.Revise found near death and rescued. Jack begins working with her to escape along with a group of fables including Sam the Janitor, an older african american caretaker who can't remember his own name. He tries to tell Humpty Dumpty and Mother Goose, they have to stay since they can't pass off as human. Humpty Dumpty reveals he knows where a treasure is, so Jack keeps him on while rejects Mother Goose(who comments that she was originally human but Mr.Revise turned her into a giant Goose over time). Jack also starts to attempt to seduce Mr.Revise's three daughters, the Paige Sisters, who all work there.
The details of the Prison are explained to Jack by Sam and Gary, who is revealed to be another literal called the Pathetic Fallacy(the personification of giving inhuman objects human traits, which also extends to his power. He can animate Inanimate objects). The security at the Golden Boughs consist of creatures called Bagmen. Human guards. Tigers and if anything takes to the air, then birdlike creatures called Rooks. Jack also meets a group of fairies(from A Midsummer Night's Dream and also the original Cottingley Fairies), who consider Jack a hero. It is revealed Jack saved them by stepping on a monster that was about to eat them. Not even noticing he'd done so. Jack devises his plan to escape. The Paige Sisters learns of this but Mr.Revise reveals he already knows as there is a spy among Jack's ranks, they just don't know when and how he'll try to break out.
Jack has the Fairies be released and distract the Rooks. They also summon outside birds, which distract the Rooks. The rest of the Fables breach the gate and begin to flee. Sam the Janitor reveals that he posesses superspeed. The Tigers chase him and are next seen having been turned into butter, to a confused Jack. The group escape but Humpty is shattered, with Jack collecting all his pieces so he can know where the treasure is. The rest of the Fables take the time to escape. This includes the Tortoise and the Hare, who mention being captured after returning to the Homelands.
Mr.Revise finds the Tigers turned into butter and explains that Sam is Black Sambo, a story seen as Racist by the Humans, so Mr.Revise hid him away and censored him but the story was about Sambo outrunning tigers until they turned to butter. The African American Older man from before is seen walking away humming "Zippity-Doo Dah Zippity Doo Dah. My oh my. What a wonderful Day."
On the outskirts and in front of a well, Jack reveals that he found out Goldilocks is a spy because she has glasses and all of Mr.Revise's people have glasses, which Goldilocks finds stupid. A fight ensues, ending with Jack punching Goldilocks down the well and fleeing. Mr.Revise pulls her out. Jack meets up with the other Fables who escaped and tells them that they are heading to the Farm as he guesses that's where they'll go. Mr.Revise is shown to be guessing the same thing.
Episode 4 has the Fables from the Golden Boughs arrive at the Farm, where it is revealed that the Tortoise and the Hare were captured and replaced by Mr.Revise imposters during the battle at the Beanstalk. It is then revealed that the Tortoise is still back at the Golden Boughs, still walking and the fake Tortoise and Hare are captured. After Boy Blue's death, some of the animals have started a religion believing he will come back. Jack goes and meets Rose Red, who is still mourning the death of Boy Blue. Jack is unaware he is dead and ends up sleeping with Rose Red in her grief. Because the animals hear her cying out Blue's name, they come to believe that Jack is Boy Blue in another form, this combined with the Fables who followed Jack being loyal to him, leads Jack to gain a cult following. Jack is visited by a mysterious teen who reveals himself to be Jack's son. It is revealed in flashback that Jack once wooed the Snow Queen into giving him her powers for a time, wherein he acted out as Jack Frost, only to have to take those powers away when he refused to give them back. Unknown to Jack, the Snow Queen was pregnant with his son, which became Jack Frost(technically Jack Frost Two). Not wanting to put his new son in danger, Jack sends his son to meet with Elsa and Anna, who intend to retreive the unconscious Snow Queen from the Empire's Capitol and talk to her as she may be Elsa's mother. They find that both Aurora(Sleeping Beauty) and the Snow Queen have been taken away somewhere.
Episode 5 begins with with Jack Horner doing the impossible and successfully putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. This allow Humpty to guide Jack to the treasure, which he reveals is in Americana, the Homelands version of America. Jack and Humpty sneak into the Homelands, following by Hillary Page, who was tracking down escaped Fables and just captured Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. While Mr.Revise had used magic to shrunk Paul Bunyan. He starts to get gradually bigger once they enter Americana as the magic is fading. Followng Humpty Dumpty's map, which was on part of his shell. The two groups end up joining together to get the treasure and travel through Americana in a montage. Among the lands included seen are a Wild West land, Gangsterland(a gangster themed land), Antebellum(The South) and finally they reached a 60's style town that is filled with Zombies. The group fight their way through to a library where they are aided by a mysterious man. Inside the man is shown to be burning all the books in the library. He then reveals himself to be named Bookburner. Hillary reveals she went along because she believes Book Burner is her father, but he denies this. Hillary recalls growing up and not fitting in with her family. She began reading stories about how Book Burner was once a nice made that was a lot like her and wanted to confirm her belief. Book Burner turns out to want to destroy all stories. Unfortunately Jack lets it slip that the Golden Boughs has weakened defenses. Page explains to Jack that Mr.Revise keeps the original copies of most of the original books under the Golden Boughs and that if they are destroyed the fable will die. The group is forced to make a retreat while Booker Burner sends Zombies after them. Humpty Dumpty is killed and Paul Bunyan sacrifices himself as the Zombies overwhelm him, and he is turned into a giant zombie while the rest of the group escapes. Book Burner is revealed to be able to revive beings as Zombies and has been building army of forgotten Fairy tale characters that he intends to also kill once they are the only things left. The group heads back to the Golden Boughs while sending messages to ask for help from anyone to aid in defending the Boughs. On the way there, they realize that none of them can remember who Paul Bunyan is.
Episode 6 consists almost entirely of a battle between the Fables protecting the Golden Boughs, including several Fabletown and Farm residents, fighting the forces of Bookburner. Bookburner's forces are lampshaded in universe as characters you've never heard of due to Bookburner wiping them from human memory, such as Little Lindsay Lairet, Meltzinger Moose and his magnificent Juice, the Comanche Skeleton, Omar the Camel, the Knife Johns(soldier siwth knives for hands) and so on. Of these Meltzinger Moose became a meme as he appears to be carring a barrel of alcohol and a bottle of moonshine, though his name is often shortened to "Moose with the Juice" in a similar fashion to "You've heard of Elf on a Shelf. Now get ready for..."
Before the battle, with most of the Fables gathered, Jack Horner makes a speech before a giant American flag dressed as George S. Patton and delivering a speech parodying the film Patton. Goldilocks gathers her own team to stage a revolution, believing that Bookburner is actually liberating those Mr.Revise has been keeping hostage, quoting 'The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend". Mad Hatter and the March Hate contemplate if this means that "the Friend of my Friend is my Enemy" and come to believe that this means the sleeping Dourmouse is their enemy and decide they should kill him while he's unaware. The Dourmouse is not seen again, making it unsure if they actually went through with it.
The battle then begins, during which the group is attacked by an undead Demonic Humpty Dumpty who has been transformed by Bookburner into what Jack refers to as a "Deviled Egg". The group is nearly killed but is rescued by another literal called Deus, a large machine man, the personification of the concept of the Deus Ex Machina concept. Deus arrived to save Gary the Pathetic Fallacy but refuses to help as if he continued to help he would get old and rust, however he reveals that under the Golden Boughs is something that could help them. The group asks Mr.Revise and opens a vault to reveal the original stories, which are handed out to the various characters. The Cowardly Lion reads the original copy of the Wizard of Oz, and remembers that he was actually a large savage lion. He was looking for courage because he was ashamed that he felt fear deep inside. The Cowardly Lion therefore transforms from his humanoid scared MGM based depiction to a giant realistic Lion that leaps into battle. A similar effect begins to happen to the other Fables such as Cu Chulain, Kiviuq, and others. Jack even writes in the original manuscript of the Wizard of Oz script(to Revise's anger as he compares it to drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa), causing the Tin Man to gain buzz saw arms and cannons. Other transformations are less impressive but serve as nods for example Little Black Sambo turns into an indian boy(since the character was originally Indian before becoming Black in later versions), and Aladdin turns into a Chinese man(since the original story is Chinese), though Aladdin requests to be changed back due to feeling weird. Another minor. change is the appearance of a pif, who claims to be the Fourth Little Pig who built his house out of cloth. Snow White recognizes him, saying he was her favorite but then realizing she had forgotten about him. The Fourth Pig is excited to reunite with his brothers, only for Snow and Red to nervously hesitate saying anything. Goldilocks's attempt to aid Bookburner falls apart very quickly as Bookburner's forces shoot them down. Goldilocks sees Snow and attempts one more time to kill her, but the Fourth Pig jumps in the way of the bullet, before Bookburner's forces kill Goldilocks.
The Battle continues for sometime and BookBurner offers the Golden Boughs forces a chance to surrender. Jack ruins the negotations by repeatedly shooting Bookburner, causing the amount of time they have left before the second attack comes to shorten each time by half an hour with every bullet. Mr.Revise is prepared to accept defeat and the end to all the stories inside, but lets it slip that he has one final fable contained, a dark and ancient entity named Chernabog. This gives the Fables an idea. BookBurner's forces enter the Golden Boughs but find nothing, only for Chernabog to burst through the Golden Boughs, destroying the building with Bookburner's forces inside while the Golden Boughs Fables have already fled. Chernagob bursts out from what appears to be a Volcanic eruption he causes when he emerges. Bookburner is burned alive in a homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Bookburner's fedora is seen on fire, slowly floating down. Chernabog then battles Paul Bunyan in a massive battle. The loss of the magic of the Golden Boughs causes Babe the Blue Ox, who had been shrunk to dog size by Mr.Revise and travelled with the group, to grow to its full size, and be forced to kill the undead Paul Bunyan with its horns(Babe the Blue Ox has a closeup of the eye revealing it is crying). Chernabog then disappears, evidently escaping. The Fables then begin to head back to the Farm while carrying the rescues original versions of their stories. The Tortoise from the Tortoise and the Hare is seen fleeing, evidently from his perspective, still escaping the Golden Boughs retirement home from a few episodes earlier.
Episode 7 reveals that the Farm now has a newly built town around it to house the human Fables and is now known as Storybrooke. The characters now go about their lives. However in the Homelands,the Wicked Witch, who has refuses to join the group of villains known as the Queens of Darkness is commanding Rumplestiltskin, revealing that the Dark One's power is needed to confront Pan's Shadow. Under the Wicked Witch of the West's command, Rumplestiltskin arrives at the ruins of Fabletown in New York. The Wicked Witch discovers Nick Burkhardt in the ruins. He was present inside and was unaware of what had happened around him due to gouging his own eyes out previously. The Wicked Witch has Rumplestiltskin kill Nick, something which he attempts to struggle against doing as Nick is his son, but is unable to and Nick is killed. A Dark One ability is revealed when Rumpelstilskin takes Nick's skull and eats the teeth, revealing that he can summon Nick's spirit a total of 32 times depending on the number of teeth the victim has. Through Nick's spirit, The Wicked Witch of the West learns of the enchantments hiding Fables from humans and the mirror that shows only ugliness. In Response, she has Rumplestiltskin create a massive dark castle in the middle of the New York, clearly visible to all.
The Wicked Witch of the West is approached by Hades, who reveals that a recent death has led to access to new information. Hades has the soul of Bookburner and a memory is shown of a being known as the author named Isaac thorn, being thrown down a well by younger versions of Mr.Revise and Bookburner. His crime is evidently for abusing his power in trying to destroy the universe and all stories so he could start over. The Author is thrown down the well, which Revise explains is a memory hole. Anyone thrown down it will lose their memories. After the Author is thrown, Bookburner comments that maybe the Author was onto something. Hades reveals that he already knows this and shows another memory. This one belonging to Cruella De Ville, who is seen briefly meeting a man who drunkenly reveals that he was chosen as an author, one of several being entrusted with the power to create worlds. Hades finally reveals that this was the information he traded with the Queens of Darkness and that he's giving it to the Wicked Witch because he "Kinda has the Hots for her." The Wicked Witch then vows to find the Author before the Queens of Darkness do. Bookburner will neither talk nor will his memories show as Revise hid the Author from him.
Episode 8 is the famous Tron Episode, directed by James Rolfe(Get it because Tron is from the Eighties). Hades is talking to Bookburner and comes and comments that no matter how many books you burn a story will continue to exist on the Internet and convinces Bookburner to go after that. He reveals that through a deceased employee of ENCOM, Hades knows of a way to enter the digital world and through it the Internet where Book Burner can destroy it, jokingly calling Book Burner "Facebook Burner" or "Data Purger". The Main cast is investigating the large Castle when they see Book Burner travelling to the old Flynn's Arcade and follow him. Book Burner entered the digital world with several of the main cast. At this point the plot becomes much more simple, stop Book Burner in the digital world with the aid of Tron(Guest star Bruce Boxleitner) and Flynn(guest star Jeff Bridges). The effects were highly praised. The Episode ultimately ends with Book Burner being destroyed with Tron's assistance. Hades reveals that he actually planned for Bookburner to die since he was already too powerful to be completely controlled and by entering the digital world he was reduced in power to a form that the program could process, and thus make him easier to kill.
Episode 9 dived into the origin of Grimhilde, Cora(the Queen of Hearts) and Elphaba(The Wicket Witch of the West) as they all sit and talk. Cora, who is revealed to also be the Miller's daughter from the original tale of Rumpelstiltskin. However prior to that Cora had a daughter which she was abandoned. The daughter was taken to Oz by a cyclone. Cora thwarted Rumpletstilskin and gave birth to Grimhilde. When Grimhilde was young she was forced to marry the father of Snow White, however she actually loved a stable boy. The young Snow White revealed the relationship and Cora had the Stable Boy killed, beginning the long hatred between Snow White and Grimhilde. Elphaba then tells what happened to her, which is largely baed on the musical Wicked(Oz the Great and Powerful not existing ITTL). Elphaba faked her death and decided to go on and live a life elsewhere, eventually finding her mother. Cora accepts Elphaba fairly quickly and turns against Grimhilde. Grimhilde in anger, departs and is going to the heroes.
Episode 10 begins with the Fables asking Mr.Revise about where he put the author so that they could find him before the Queens of Darkness or Rumpelstiltskin. It turns out Isaac Thorn's last request before having his memory erased was to be near his creations. He has actually lived as a normal human(and has actually appeared in the background of several scenes since the first episode, always writing when he did appear). At the same time, Rumplestiltskin finally finds him and restores his memories. However, he doesn't have his pen, which Mr.Revise is revealed to posess. In the present, Rumpletstilskin immediately travels to the Storybrooke and to everyone's surprise, despite efforts to stop him, injures Mr.Revise(causing him to need a wheelchair) and takes the Pen, before teleporting away.
Episode 11 is a Rose Red centered episode. Rose Red has sunken into depression following Boy Blue's death when a spirit visits her. The Spirit talsk to Rose Red and this leads to a flashback, revealing the source of her depression. Snow and Red's mother is caring for a group of white and red roses. She pricks her finger and sees the blood touch the snow. She then wishes for children. The end result is two daughters named Snow White and Rose Red. Then their mother dies, after the funeral it is revealed that Cora poisoned her, which she brags to her corpse. The Roses evidently having been a gift from Cora. When Grimhilde becomes Queen, Frau Totenkinder takes Snow White and Rose Red and hides them in a cabin. The two grow up in the Black Forest in Germany.
The two sisters end up giving shelter to a talking bear, which continues to visit. One day the sisters find a Dwarf with its beard stuck in a tree and help it. The Dwarf is not thankful but angry at them for cutting off his beard. it is revealed each time the Dwarf was actually trying to steal Gold from each of them. The Children save the Dwarf from different situations wher ehis beard is stuck(being pulled into the water by a giant fish or being pulled by an eagle) and continue to cut the Dwarf's beard, which the Dwarf is angry about due to the beard being the source of his magic power. The third time the Bear suddenly emerges and reveals the Dwarf cursed him and has been stealing his treasure. The Bear kills the Dwarf now that the Dwarf's beard has been cut and he is powerless. After which the Dwarf turns into a Prince named James. James promises to marry Snow White and that he has a brother that can marry Rose Red. However, James's father King George disapproves of the marriage and King George explains that James's brother is living on a farm unaware of his true origin. King George lets it slip during a meeting with Grimhilde that Snow White is the name of his would be bride and Grimhilde launches an attack on Totenkinder's cabin. She tells Snow and Red to run. Frau seemingly vanishes and Red is taken hostage. Red remembers being imprisoned by Grimhilde, who one day tells her that she will be executed. Red in the present realizes she can't remember how she got out of that one. The next thing she remembers is being found by Snow White and her husband Prince Charming. She then ended up seducing Prince Charming, causing the two to divorce.
Episode 12 kicks off with the Fable group(with Grimhilde and Rose Red included) running to confront The Wicked Witch of the West and the Author. Before leaving, Grimhilde is given by Frau Totenkinder an enchanted spell capable of cleaning evil. Cora is also present and helps to fight the Fable Group. Cora boasts about having killed Snow White and Rose Red's mother. Grimhilde is shown in flashback to have discovered Cora's involvement and that motivated her to switch sides. Grimhilde uses the evil purging spell on Cora(as she lacks powers ITTL) and she appears to smile, only to then be decapitated by Rose Red to Grimhilde’s horror. Rose Red delivers the one liner of “Of with her head” and doing so out of anger for Cora's killing of her mother. The Wicked Witch retreats in shock and sadness.
The Wicked Witch of the West, in exchange for giving the pen to the author, asks to be sent back in time. The Author uses his pen to open a portal that will take whoever steps in to anytime they choose. Emma and Captain Hook end up falling into the portal. Grimhilde ends up disrupting the spell and causing Elphaba to be lost in the time stream, gleefully proclaiming “Over the Rainbow Bitch!” before she seemingly falls into some unknown place in time. Emma and Hook are in the past and realize they need to find a way to get back to their own time. They end up guiding Prince Charming to Snow White, however they are also briefly captured by Grimhilde of the past and escape, rescuing a captive which turns out to be Rose Red in the process. The group then begin to return to their own time but Rose Red hangs on as Grimihilde's forces are advancing on them. She ends up letting go and as a result ends up appearing a few years later, with amnesia of the time travel event. This leads her to reuniting with Snow White and Prince Charming years into their marriage. Emma and Hook successfully return to the present.
Episode 13 shows Issac using his author powers abusively. It is also shown that a wizard known as Yen Sid was searching for an Author and Isaac lied about being his mentor to receive the enchanted Pen. In the present he is shown to be abusing his power. He has a man who looked at him funny be torn apart by raptors. A neighbor he finds annoying he decides to write that his wife cheats on him with his best friend. He then begins walking in the park and causes horrbile deaths to everyone around him before creating a house for him. He decides he's going to destroy the universe and start over. Searching for inspiration he summons personifications of the Genres. This includes Action(Played by Arnold Shwarzenagger dressed as Rambo), Western(who resembles John Wayne), Science Fiction(wearing a space suit and a space gun), Fantasy(resembling an old wizard), Mystery(a cloaked figute), Horror( a dark hooded figure with red eyes and sharp teeth), and Comedy(who resembles Groucho Marx and frequently makes puns).
The Main cast(now joined by Jack Frost) launch an attack at Isaac's mansion, where the personifications attack them. Isaac attempts to use his power to kill them by dropping a car on them, but is confused when he writes the word "Nearly". Isaac is able to use his powers to turn Bigby into a little girl, which ironically ends up helping in the battle with the Genres, a girl Bigby maintains their wolflike abilities and begins killing the genres, especially since Western and Action refuse to hurt a child, though Action can accept is as collateral damage.
Unable to write successfully, Isaac summons Mr.Revise and Sam, who is pushing the wheelchair bound Mr.Revise. Isaac then discovers what is happening, using his ability to reveal who is stopping him. It turns out to be another Literal named Writer's Block, who was invisible to Isaac before. Mr.Revise is all for Isaac's plan to destroy the universe and recreate it. He even begins to kill Writer's block, but Sam uses his superspeed to take Mr.Revise in his wheelchair to the top of a cliff and drop him off. When he returns he makes an impassioned and touching speech about what stories are and what they mean. A speech intended to get Isaac to stop. Isaac seems swayed only to then immediately murder Writer's Block and prepare to destroy the universe. Sam delays the process by commenting that if Isaac wants to destroy the world he should change clothes and use a new page since he's covered in Writer's Block's blood. While he is away Sam tries to use the pen but it somehow overloads his mind, leading Isaac to gloat and promise to punish Sam further for the attempt.
After the Fables finally defeat the Genres(Comedy leaves of his own accord in a parody of Michigan J Frog's "Helloy my Baby" as he leaves offscreen with a top hat and cane). The Fables confront Isaac. Just as he writers "And then the World Ende" he is frozen by Jack Frost. In the aftermath, the Fables move the frozen Isaac to the land of the North Wind, hoping he never unfreezes.
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Simply put the entire incident your thinking about is butterflied away. Arbuckle does live a little longer than OTL but still dies at around the same time with the same last words.