14 Things That Will Happen on the Second Half of Once Upon a Time

While Rumple may have achieved hero status this season, he quickly blew it all to flames in the show's Winter finale. Now that he is the Dark One again, people were worried that he was just repeating his same mistakes, but Kitsis assured fans that is not the case. "I think that if fans are like, 'Oh, are they going to do the same thing again?' — absolutely not," he said. "He's learned a lot."