Dr. Whale

[dorothy]

Ok, lets play a guessing game. Who do you think Dr. Whale really is?

I vote for Capatain Ahab from Moby Dick.

[obisgirl]

I’d like it if Dr. Whale were a new fairytale character and not someone we’re already familiar with. If he does turn out to be a villain, I think it would only be fitting if he has a British accent because the past two roles David Anders has played a bad guy, he had an accent. 😆

[PriceofMagic]

I think he could be either Ursula from the little mermaid or her pet eels.

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[crimson angel]

I think he is Monstro from Pinocchio. Thus the name Dr. Whale.
Just like Mr. Gold spun gold, Granny well she’s Granny, Dr. Hopper is the Cricket and Ruby is Red Riding Hood. The interesting part for me though is finding out if he is Good or Bad now. He could turn out to be a Bad @$$ villain.

[arjay369]

Dr. Whale thread in progress

[theladybelle]

http://www.onceuponatimefans.co.uk/apps/blog/show/15928329-the-origins-of-dr-whale-by-jennifer-brouillard

I don’t know if this has been shared here before, but it’s a nice theory, which I kind of hope is true.

[lilred]

For some reason I keep coming back to his story being the ‘Little Mermaid’….merman. He was a merman, fell in love with a human (princess?), and then made a deal with Regina to become a human for X amount of time. In the end, it went closer to the Hans Christian Anderson route: girl fell in love with someone else, not a bad person in disguise just someone else turned out to be her love. In the end, he returned to Regina brokenhearted, having to pay his end of the deal: being turned into a Whale (Monstro?) to serve her at her every whim. I am aware that Regina mentioned a ‘mermaid’ in skin deep. And that both producers and creators have acknowledged wanting to work the ‘Little Mermaid’ storyline in, noting specifically Ariel and liking her character – making a gender swap really unlikely.
I’ve always felt that the relationship Whale has with Regina is to begrudgingly serve her in Storybrooke, probably because of a deal he made in FL. Maybe it’s time for me to go back to the drawing board and think of characters that made deals with witches…At least he dealt with Regina and not Rumple, so there has to be some type of loophole in the contract.

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