Wizard?

Something just struck me in rereading some interviews with similar word choice. We’ve heard somebody mention a wizard not once, but twice now in recent interviews, both from Josh and MRJ.

First up Josh (from an Oct 15th interview found here: http://www.buddytv.com/articles/once-upon-a-time/ouat-interview-josh-dallas-on-51536.aspx)

We have heroes, we have villains, we have a pirate, we have a savior, we have a wizard.

Just a few days prior, on Oct 11th, this MRJ interview was released & can be found here: http://www.examiner.com/article/michael-raymond-james-on-neal-s-journey-to-find-his-family-on-once-upon-a-time

I don’t know what the boys have in store but I would be surprised to see Neal turn into a wizard at some point!

As for the MRJ quote I feel like that has to be a typo (my inner editor is saying that it should say/mean “no idea what’s coming but I WOULDN’T be surprised if this thing happens”).

So if MRJ wouldn’t be surprised, it’s just a typo. If he would be surprised (and they were talking about Neal using magic right before that) then it was an interesting comment to have made randomly, jumping from “yeah I’m using magic” to “I’d be shocked if they made him a wizard” though we have no idea what may have been asked that filled in the gaps in between (I really hate interviews sometimes *shakes the writers of them*).

I didn’t think anything of it before when that interview first came out because he had just been talking about Neal using magic but it IS interesting to note that Josh, just 4 days later, mentioned that they have a wizard in their midst. Technically that could have referred to Rumple but then who else is a villain (it was plural)? We know now that Neal is on the island with Rumple which leaves us an extra spot to fill after taking the JR6+Neal and fitting it into those categories which leaves us with….*drum roll*

• Heroes (plural) – Snow, Charming
• Villains (plural) – Regina, Rumple
• Pirate – Hook
• Savior – Emma
• WIZARD – Neal

The only way this is entirely crackpot is if somebody else joins them because even though Tink is with them right now, I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be considered a “wizard” and I’m not entirely sure she will stay with the group / which side she’s actually on. Regardless of which category she might into of the plural options above, be it hero OR villain, I still don’t see them calling her a wizard, especially with her lack of powers from being a fairy and the fact that she’s female.

SO – could Neal be on his way to becoming a wizard? Or do you think he’ll be added to one of the existing categories and we’ll meet someone new along the way?

Josh USED to mention heroes, villains, pirate, savior…but more recently he’s  been using wizard and MRJ used that as well (and I swear he must have meant that he wouldn’t be surprised if Neal became a wizard after using magic because that just does not make sense to me any other way within that context.)