11 Awesome "Once Upon A Time" Characters Before They Came To Storybrooke

Storybrooke is a strange place.

Snow White/Mary Margaret is...

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...Cathy Feely, the BFFL in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton.

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"And by the Route 73 cloverleaf, I will have given myself to you in ways you've only read about in the drugstore!" But they took a wrong turn and ended up in Storybrooke.

King Leopold, Snow White's dad, is...

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...Toby from The West Wing.

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OUaT is actually just the alternate reality Toby makes up for himself after his inevitable mental breakdown.

Greg Mendell is...

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...Preston, everyone's high school dream crush from Can't Hardly Wait.

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Clearly, Amanda dumped him after college and he went insane.

Grumpy the Dwarf is...

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...Pintel, the stringy-haired pirate who says "poppet" a lot in Pirates of the Caribbean.

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If any of the Black Pearl crew ever found out he was one of the Seven Dwarves, his street/boat cred would be totes ruined.

Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold is...

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...Begbie, the psycho murderer from Trainspotting.

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But let's be honest, Robert Carlyle is always just a badass no matter what.

Cora, Regina's scary mom, is...

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...Erica Sayers, Nina's scary mom in Black Swan.

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Fun fact: She's playing a scary grandma in Insidious 2 right now.

Pinocchio/August is...

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...Private David Kenyon Webster, the sexy intellectual soldier in Band of Brothers.

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OUaT is just one big allegory for his severe PTSD.

Prince Charming/David is...

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...Fandral the Dashing, the guy everyone forgets about in Thor.

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But at least he had that righteous hipster goatee and didn't cry every other scene.

The Huntsman/Graham is...

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...Count Axel Fersen, the smokin' hot soldier from Marie Antoinette.

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He was banished to Storybrooke for boning the Queen of France. #worthit

Baelfire/Neal is...

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...Rene Lenier, the (SPOILER) psychotic serial killer from True Blood.

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After your dad shoves you down a portal into a different world, you're bound to be a little damaged.

And of course, Magic Mirror/Sidney is...

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...GUSTAVO F**KING FRING FROM BREAKING BAD!!

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MAGIC MIRROR WILL KILL YOUR WIFE.

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MAGIC MIRROR WILL KILL YOUR SON.

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MAGIC MIRROR WILL KILL YOUR INFANT DAUGHTER.

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And then Magic Mirror will go back to being a reporter for The Daily Mirror, Storybrooke's only newspaper.