List of references in Once Upon a Time

This is a list of references and allusions in Once Upon a Time.
With ABC Studios being a division of the Disney-ABC Television Group, the producers of Once Upon a Time had exclusive permission to use and reinterpret Disney properties.
==References to Disney==
===Disney Animated Films Featured===
*Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
*Pinocchio
*Fantasia
*Bambi (mentioned)
*Make Mine Music
*Fun and Fancy Free
*Cinderella
*Alice in Wonderland
*Peter Pan
*Lady and the Tramp
*Sleeping Beauty
*One Hundred and One Dalmatians
*The Sword in the Stone
*Robin Hood
*The Fox and the Hound (only in novel)
*The Little Mermaid
*Beauty and the Beast
*Aladdin
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame (somebody resembling Esmeralda makes an appearance)
*Hercules
*Mulan
*Atlantis: The Lost Empire (mentioned)
*Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (a villainous stepsister finds love)
*Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (a villainous stepsister repents her wicked behavior)
*Tinker Bell (Silvermist and Tinker Bell appeared)
*The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (Ursula's mother passed away at some point and she was a former mermaid who sang)
*Up
*The Princess and the Frog
*Tangled
*Brave (featured an original storyline set after the film's events)
*Frankenweenie
*Frozen (featured an original storyline set before and after the film's events)
*Moana (Maui's fishhook made an appearance)
*Coco (A memorial is shown)
===Disney Cartoons Featured===
*Little Red Riding Hood
*Mother Goose Melodies
*King Neptune
*Babes in the Woods
*Old King Cole
*The Pied Piper
*Gulliver Mickey
*The Goddess of Spring
*The Golden Touch
*The Big Bad Wolf
*The Ugly Duckling
*The Sorcerer's Apprentice
*Peter and the Wolf
*Mickey and the Beanstalk (referenced to Anton, James, & Jacqueline)
*Paul Bunyan
*The Prince and the Pauper
===Disney Live-Action Films Featured===
*Treasure Island
*The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
*20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
*Return to Oz
*The Three Musketeers
*Tom and Huck
*101 Dalmatians
*The Count of Monte Cristo
*The Haunted Mansion
*Alice in Wonderland
*Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
*Oz the Great and Powerful
*Maleficent
*Cinderella (2015)
*The Prince and the Pauper (1962) (Referenced to David & James)
*Princess of Thieves (Referenced to Robin, Robin Hood's Daughter, because of Gwyn)
*The BFG
==Disney Allusions==
*Steamboat Willie: There is a plush of Minnie Mouse in Emma Swan's baby room at the castle. Later, a plush of Mickey Mouse was given to an adopted little girl when a teen Emma was at a foster home.
*The Three Little Pigs: When secretly visiting Red, Peter cites 'I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow the...' like the Big Bad Wolf. Regina did the same thing while she and the Charmings go rescue Jiminy Cricket from the Serum Queen and Zelena.
*The Grasshopper and the Ants: When Emma drink a glass at the bar Aesop's Tables, the story's tittle was used like the name for an cocktail.
*Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: Prince James, as a boy, was wearing a kid sized prince clothing replica from the animated film, while in Pleasure Island.
*Fantasia: In the castle, there is a hat which resembles that of Master Yen Sid, in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" scene.
*Bambi: A small Bambi statue is seen in Mary Margaret's apartment.
*Song of the South: Snow White, enchanted by Ingrid's curse, cynically mentions the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", when mocking Anna.
*Cinderella: When Madeline locking her daughter Cruella in the attic like her new bedroom (for good intentions), it is an allusion to Lady Tremaine and Cinderella. Similarly, Isaac acted like the Grand Duke.
*The Shaggy Dog: In his flashbacks and in the present day in the s6 finale, Charming has a pet dog named Wilby.
*Mary Poppins: When she presented herself to Mary Margaret like a nurse, Zelena is dressed very similarly to Mary Poppins.
*The Jungle Book: The Huntsman's past, adopted by wolves, is a allusion to Mowgli.
*The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: There is a honey neon sign for a pub called "Winnie's".
*The Rescuers: In her teenage flashbacks, Emma was depicted like Penny, searching desperately to be adopted by a family. It was also in Cruella's child flashback when purchased by her mother with two trained dogs, similar to Madame Medusa with her two alligator pets.
*The Empire Strikes Back: Henry mentioned this movie as one of best sequels.
*Unidentified Flying Oddball: Violet reveals that her father is from Connecticut.
*Tron: Regina gives Henry "Space Paranoids"; a game created by Kevin Flynn, the protagonist of the film. Emma eludes to Flynn by quoting his advice to Henry while he is playing the game; "It's all in the wrists". Henry has a Tron lunchbox. Kurt and Greg Mendell/Owen's last name is Flynn. A bench which features an ad for computers with the Encom logo.
*Return of the Jedi: The Caterpillar had a similar personality to Jabba the Hutt.
*Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Henry mentioned this movie as one of best sequels.
*The Black Cauldron: A Gnome who appeared as The Evil Queen's ally before she instantly turns him into a stone statue after he finds amusement in the fact the curse did not work, has a similar characteristic and behavior to Creeper.
*Splash: Grumpy mentions this movie when fearing that normal humans who come to Storybrooke made experiments on Fairy tale characters. Ariel walks into Storybrooke from the bay like Madison.
*Oliver & Company: When Cruella De Vil comes to Forbidden Mountain for the first time with two feral dogs that she magically control and surprise Maleficent and Ursula, the sequence is reminiscent to Bill Sykes's introduction and his two dogs Roscoe and DeSoto terrorizing Fagin in his barge.
*The Little Mermaid: When Zelena disguised like Marian, amused to destruct Regina's happiness with Robin, smile at a mirror, it is a reference to Ursula disguised like Vanessa.
*The Rescuers Down Under: The hole trap, prepared by Regina, where Snow falls before to be rescued by Hercules, is similar to the scene where Cody is captured by McLeach.
*The Lion King: In Mr. Gold's shop there is an African mask, alluding to the film. Emma mentioned this movie when her father prepared commemoration for his newborn son. Like Simba, Charming's father was murdered by Hook, just like Mufasa was murdered by Scar, and Hook left the boy under a lie about his father's death his whole life (and he still did that in the present). But of course that drama was left unfinished.
*A Kid in King Arthur's Court: Violet reveals that her father is from Connecticut.
*Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge: Amara, Jafar's mentor and lover, bears a resemblance and same clothes to Nasira, when she appears during her meeting with Jafar, then a child.
*Fantasia 2000: A jester employed by the Evil Queen had a similar characteristic to Jack-in-the-box. Henry name Operation Firebird, Hook's rescue in Hades' world.
*Treasure Planet: In her flashbacks, Snow tell to Blue that she wants to go in Longbourne, a marine port, for to to escape to the Evil Queen. Longbourne is also the name of one of the alien pirates working for John Silver.
*Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Emma Swan shares her family name with Elizabeth Swann. Hook references the song "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)". Hook is also often jokingly nicknamed eye-liner pirate, a reference to Jack Sparrow.
*The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The door and the world where Glinda the Good Witch of the South was located are similar to Narnia during the reign of Queen Jadis the White Witch. Also, Glinda is similar to Jadis by her dress-style. The Snow Queen's repair at Storybrooke is similar to her own repair. When Cinderella tried to left her world for the Land of Untold Stories with the magical key, she open a similar closet used by the children from the movie. Like Aslan, Snow White and Charming march to the Serum Queen to sacrifice themselves in order to save the residents of Storybrooke (as the true saviors they are by heart, with or without magic), just like how Aslan went to sacrifice himself to Jadis to ensure Edmund's life.
*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Ursula is similar to Tia Dalma, in her cross stories with Hook. The two women are also established like sea witch goddess.
*Enchanted: When the Snow Queen comes to New York for the first time, her impressions, reactions, and the curiosity that she was for citizen are reminiscent to Princess Giselle's coming in the city. It also reminiscent to Prince Edward's coming when Robin Hood use a white horse in the city for to purchase a pickpocket who steal Maid Marian's bag.
*The Princess and the Frog: The 20's London world is impregnated in jazz music like in New Orleans and the young Cruella (sociopathic behavior hidden) is somewhat similar to Charlotte La Bouff. When she dances and flirts with Isaac in a Jazz club, her dress and the club are reminiscent to Tiana's fantasies where, dressed like Josephine Baker, she imagine to hold her own restaurant. Charlotte, Edmond Dantès' lover share her name with Charlotte La Bouff. The Captain Hook from the Wish Realm is similar to Lawrence due to the fact that he was also a plump old man who had a villain use the blood of someone else to magically transform him into a handsome young man.
*Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Ariel had a personality and a story similar to Syrena in her cross stories with Hook, Blackbeard, and Snow White. Also, Prince Eric replaces Philip Swift.
*Thor: David Nolan mentions Asgard in Season 4.
*Disneyland: Camelot's appearance looks a lot like the Sleeping Beauty Castle, at Disneyland California and Madame Medusa's appearance in the series is a reference to The Haunted Mansion.
*Tron: Legacy: Henry has a Tron: Legacy lunchbox.
*Oz the Great and Powerful: The Evil Queen mentions the evil munchkins' dirt road.
*Thor: The Dark World: The mystical Hammer was featured on an episode.
*Mulan: Neal referenced the movie to Mulan, before Mulan questioned what is a movie.
*Princess of Thieves: Like Gwyn, Robin becomes an archer and Merry Man like her father. Maid Marian did die in the movie too, but not by murder.
*Brave: Like Merida, Snow White is a Warrior Princess who knows how to fight with a sword and fire an arrow.
*The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men: Snow White was like a female Robin Hood, robbing the rich (like she did with Prince Charming), running and hiding from evil rulers, ducking the guards, and everyone was awed and inspired by her and refuses to turn her in to the Evil Queen.
*Davy Crocket, King of the Wild Frontier: Like Davy, Snow White is famous to many characters, all who befriended her and all who knew her by reputation before they officially meet her, like Jasmine and Robin Hood. She knows the woods as well as Davy Crockett knows his frontier.
==Others Stories featured:==
*A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
*Arthurian Legend
*Aesop's Fables
*Beauty and the Beast
*Beowulf
*Celtic Mythology
*Cinderella
*David and Goliath (referenced when David Nolan fights the giant Anton)
*Don Quixote
*Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
*Frederick and Catherine (referenced to Abigail & Frederick)
*Germanic Mythology
*Goldilocks and the Three Bears
*Gulliver's Island
*Greek Mythology
*Hansel and Gretel
*Jack and the Beanstalk
*Little Red Riding Hood
*Moby Dick
*Nursury Rhymes
*One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (referenced with Nurse Ratched)
*One Thousand and One Nights/Aladdin
*Paul Bunyan
*Peter and the Wolf
*Peter and Wendy
*Polynesian Mythology
*Pride and Prejudice (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland only)
*Rapunzel
*Rip Van Winkle (mentioned)
*Robin Hood
*Roman Mythology
*Rumpelstiltskin or The Miller's Daughter
*Sleeping Beauty
*Snow-White and Rose-Red (referenced with Snow White and Ruby's friendship)
*Snow White
*Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
*Swan Lake (referenced to Dark Swan)
*The Adventures of Pinocchio
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
*The BFG
*The Count of Monte Cristo
*The Curse of Capistrano
*The Emerald City of Oz
*The Frog Prince
*The Hound of Florence (referenced to Wilby the Dog)
*The Hundred and One Dalmatians
*The Legend of Mulan
*The Little Mermaid
*The Marvelous Land of Oz
*The Pied Piper of Hamelin
*The Prince and the Pauper
*The Scarlet Letter
*The Snow Queen
*The Sorcerer's Apprentice
*The Three Musketeers
*The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (referenced with David, his father, Robert, King George, and Hook as the murderer)
*The Ugly Duckling
*The Water Babies
*The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
*Three Billy Goats Gruff (referenced when Snow White and Prince Charming encounter trolls)
*Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
*Treasure Island
*Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
===Allusions===
*While based on traditional stories, some characters were specifically named after their Disney counterparts, including the dwarfs from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Jiminy Cricket and the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio, Maleficent, Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty, and Gaston and Maurice from Beauty and the Beast.
*Emma Swan wishes on a blue star-shaped candle, referencing the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio.
*Archie Hopper's dalmatian is named after Pongo, the protagonist from One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
*The melody of song "Cruella De Vil" is diffused by radio and jazz club music into 20's London where come Cruella.
*King Leopold finds a genie lamp and is granted with three wishes. One of the things wishes for is to set the genie free, making him an allusion to Aladdin.
*The Genie's hometown was named after Agrabah, the central location from Aladdin.
*August Booth's past shares some similarities with Pinocchio, including his abandonment of Emma Swan at another boy's request, just as Pinocchio leaves Geppetto to travel with Lampwick, and his return from holidaying in Phuket, alluding to Pinocchio's stay at Pleasure Island.
*The melodies of songs from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs have been whistled or hummed by characters, including Leroy whistling "Whistle While You Work", Grumpy whistling "Heigh Ho", and Snow White humming "With a Smile and a Song".
*Many Disney-related objects reside in Mr. Gold's pawnshop, including a Mickey Mouse phone, Mickey and Minnie Mouse plush toys, and the lamp from Aladdin.
*Rumplestiltskin assumes the role of the Beast, leading to many connections with Beauty and the Beast, including his mentioning of Belle's "little town" from the lyrics of "Belle", and the transformation of Gaston into a red rose, who Rumplestiltskin later refers to as "just an old woman selling flowers," referencing the Enchantress.
*Several references exist in Rumplestiltskin's castle, including Yen Sid's hat from Fantasia, the lamp from Aladdin, the hammer from Thor and a candelabra, clock, teapot, and chipped teacup representing Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Chip from Beauty and the Beast respectively.
*A spinning fairy ornament resembling Tinker Bell from Peter Pan is seen in a front garden.
*Henry Mills owns a Tron lunchbox. Later, he receives a handheld edition of Space Paranoids.
*Snow White's collapse after biting a poisoned apple is a visual reenactment of the scene from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
*Emma Swan slays the dragon Maleficent with an overhead sword throw, the same method used by Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty. Earlier, the Prince attempts to kill the Evil Queen in the same manner.
*The Ugly Duckling is alluded by Emma Swan's name and her dramatic teenage past when searching desperately a family who wants her.
*In "Devil's Due", Cruella wears a doe fur. She jokes that it is Bambi's mother, but she neither confirms nor denies if it really is.
*In "The Brothers Jones", there is a room with lots of toys. Amongst these toys is a stuffed bear and tiger next to each other.
*In "Wish You Were Here", Charming was the one who fights and gets the lamp back from the Serum Queen and Calls her a snake, just like what Aladdin did to Jafar in Aladdin.
*Jafar was a genie like in Aladdin.
===Non-Disney allusions===
*Dracula: Henry mention him when searching Edmond Dantès' real identity.
*The Invisible Man: Henry mention him when searching Edmond Dantès' real identity.
*The Great Gatsby: When residing in Mr. Gold's cabane, Isaac read the novel, written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
*Errol Flynn: Emma compare Edmond Dantès to the actor Errol Flynn.
*Colours: The song performed by Donovan is the romantic theme between Snow and Charming when trying to support the new sleep curse caused by the Evil Regina.
*Sympathy for the Devil: The song performed by the Rolling Stones is used as tittle for Cruella's centered episode.
*I'll Be Your Mirror: The song performed by the Velvet Underground is used as tittle for an episode.
*The Cat in the Hat: Robin Hood find this book in Belle's library.
*Harold and Maud: Henri mentions this movie when sharing a romantic dinner with Violet.
*David Bowie: Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum's make-up is a reference to Ziggy Stardust.
*Annie Hall: Lily mentions this movie when comparing her mother, Maleficent's modern dress style, similar to Diane Keaton, at Storybrooke.
*The Godfather Part II: Henry mention this film as one of best sequels.
*E.T.: Grumpy mentions this movie when fearing that normal humans who come to Storybrooke made experiments on Fairy tale characters.
*Only You: The song performed by Yazoo is the romantic theme to Emma and Neal.
*Sixteen Candles: Henry mentions this movie when trying to invite Violet at cinema.
*The Breakfast Club: Henry mentions this movie when trying to invite Violet at cinema.
*Commando: Henri mentions this movie when sharing a romantic dinner with Violet.
*Back to the Future: Emma mentions this movie to Hook when they travel in the Enchanted Forest's past.
*Hook: During a fight with Peter Pan and the lost boys Captain Hook mentions the character Rufio.
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The scythe from Season 7 appeared in a episode at Mr. Gold's shop.
*Harry Potter: In her teenage flashback, Emma mentioned the novel when Ingrid tried to persuade her that she had magical powers.
*Wicked: In the episode "Our Decay", Zelena turns a munchkin name Boq into ash. The character is a reference to a munchkin of the same name in the Broadway musical "Wicked".
*My Dreams: The song performed by Ruth B. Is the romantic theme to Henry and Violet when dancing at the diner.
*Interestingly, the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" that is already adapted in the show, was at one point going to be adapted as an animated movie called Gigantic.
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