@hjbau wrote:
I think you can always expect the worst of Rumpel. I certainly always expect the worst out of the Evil Queen. Though i think it is possible to feel sorry for him, what made him what he is, but we haven’t seen that yet. We have seen what the made Regina the Evil Queen and i do feel sorry for her bad childhood, but i still think that she is always going to do the worst. I expect the same thing from Rumpel.
We already know what caused Rumpel to be evil. It was explicitly stated in “Desperate Souls.” He became evil when he became the Dark One.
And we’ve already seen numerous examples of Rumpel having the capacity to love in “Skin Deep” and “Desperate Souls.” Once Regina became evil, that was it. All of the moments we thought she was actually good turned out to be a red herring. And I don’t count blaming a innocent little girl for the death of your fiance as a decent enough answer as to why she became evil. Rumpel on the other hand was transformed into another being. He was no longer human. Regina was human, so her reasoning for becoming evil are actually pretty weak.