Mary Margaret Blanchard
| Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard | |
|---|---|
| Once Upon a Time character | |
 Promotional photograph of Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret. | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" |
| Created by | Adam Horowitz & Eddy Kitsis |
| Portrayed by |
Ginnifer Goodwin (adult) Bailee Madison (young) |
| Information | |
| Occupation |
Teacher Mayor (formerly) Queen (formerly)[1] Bandit (formerly) Princess (formerly) |
| Title | The Fairest One of All |
| Family |
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| Spouse(s) | Prince Charming/David Nolan |
| Significant other(s) |
Hercules Victor Frankenstein/Dr. Whale |
| Children |
Emma Swan (daughter) Neal Nolan (son) |
| Relatives |
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| Abilities |
Expert archer Dark magic (in alternate reality) |
| Status | Alive |
| Born |
7 March 1956[2] The Enchanted Forest |
| Type | Enchanted Forest character |
| Centric episodes | |
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Snow White, formerly[3] known as Mary Margaret Blanchard in Storybrooke, is a fictional character in ABC's television series Once Upon a Time. She is portrayed by Ginnifer Goodwin and by Bailee Madison as a child. She is the true love of Prince Charming/David Nolan, mother of Emma Swan and son Neal, and grandmother of Emma's son Henry. The character(s) have been one of Goodwin's best roles and loves playing on the show.[4]
Before accepting the role, Goodwin stated in interviews that she'd always wanted to play Snow White and called her acceptance of the role "a no-brainer.[5] Kitsis and Horowitz are self-described big fans of Goodwin's previous series, Big Love, and wrote the part of Snow with Goodwin in mind.[6]
Character background
Season 1 & 2
In the Enchanted Forest, Mary Margaret was actually born Snow White, the daughter of King Leopold and Queen Eva. As a young girl, Snow White's mother dies when Cora poisons her, in an attempt to make Cora's daughter Regina the new Queen. Snow is later rescued from a runaway horse by Regina, which leads to her having a loveless marriage with Snow's father. After Regina assumes the throne by killing the King, she recruits the Huntsman to kill Snow, but he ends up sparing her for her selflessness.[7] Snow then lives in the forest, meeting Prince David while robbing him who she nicknames Charming. The pair fall in love, but he returns to his fiancée Princess Abigail,[8] though the Evil Queen holds him captive.[9] In exchange for Charming's life, Snow eats an apple from the Queen containing a sleeping curse.[10] Charming breaks free of his imprisonment and awakens her with true love's kiss. The two are later married. During the wedding the Evil Queen announces her curse to destroy their happiness. Snow gives birth to Emma and she is placed in a magical wardrobe and transported to the real world as the curse takes hold.
In Storybrooke, she appears as Mary Margaret Blanchard, Henry Mills' teacher at Storybrooke Elementary School. As a part-time volunteer at the General Hospital, she awakens David Nolan (Prince Charming) from his coma, and the pair gradually fall in love, despite David's marriage to Kathryn Nolan (Princess Abigail). Beginning a secret relationship, the affair becomes public and David's marriage breaks down. Mary Margaret becomes an outcast in the town,[11][12][13] and is arrested for Kathryn's "murder" after fake evidence is discovered.[14] Kathryn is later found alive, though Mary Margaret's relationship with David becomes strained as he did not believe her innocence.[15] He decides to leave Storybrooke, but the two are reunited when the curse is broken, and they regain their memories.[16] The two find Emma, only for Mary Margaret to be transported with her back to the remaining Enchanted Forest through a portal, though they manage to return to Storybrooke.[17] After Regina and her mother Cora attempt to gain power by killing Mr. Gold, Mary Margaret curses Cora's heart with the same candle that Cora used to kill her mother Eva and tricks Regina into killing her. She pleads for Regina to kill her when she cannot deal with what she has done, but she instead tearfully taunts her.
Season 3 & 4
When Henry is kidnapped and taken to Neverland, she travels with Emma, David, Regina, Mr. Gold, and Captain Hook to rescue him. Upon returning to the town with Henry, Peter Pan enacts Regina's curse again,[18] leading Mary Margaret to be returned to the Enchanted Forest with the other inhabitants, while Emma and Henry escape to New York City.[19] Back in the Enchanted Forest, Snow learns she is pregnant but discovers that Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West wants her baby. Snow and Charming realize they must enact a new curse to return to Emma and stop Zelena. A reassuring David lets Snow crush his heart, though she later requests Regina split Snow's heart to give to both of them. A year later, Emma returns to Storybrooke, learning her mother is pregnant. Zelena plots to steal the baby by becoming her mid-wife,[20] though she is ultimately defeated and Mary Margaret gives birth to a son, whom she names after Henry's father and Rumplestiltkin's son, Neal. Mary Margaret later becomes Mayor of Storybrooke. Following the Queen's of Darkness's arrival in Storybrooke, Mary Margaret and David battle to keep their secret (being the reason Maleficent lost her child) from Emma. However, they eventually tell Emma the truth, who finds it hard to forgive them. After Mary Margaret is almost killed by Maleficent's daughter Lily, Emma reunites with her parents, although this is short lived when Emma sacrifices herself to become the new Dark One.
Season 5
With the other residents, Mary Margaret, is transported to the Enchanted Forest, taking Emma to Camelot in order to find Merlin and remove her darkness. However, weeks later, they return to Storybrooke with missing memories as to how they failed. She would later have her memories restored after Emma transfers her powers of the Dark One to Hook, who then sacrifice himself. Mary Margaret later joined Emma in the quest to rescue Hook in the Underworld, where she encountered Hercules, who helped her back in the Enchanted Forest to become a archer. When she realizes that he needs to complete his unfinished business, she returns the favor by helping him defeat the three-headed hellhound Cerberus, and in the process allows him to move on to Mount Olympus. Her actions would result in Hades picking her as one of three souls he wants to keep behind. Following this, she discovers that she no longer wants to be known as Mary Margaret and returns to being Snow White. She and David later learn that her brother-in-law James is in the Underworld, bitter about the way his and David's parents traded him away to King George. Later, Snow and David find a way to contact their son Neal from the Underworld, only to have Cruella De Vil and her henchman Claude tear out the phones after they succeed. As a sacrifice to keep one soul in the Underworld, David trades places with Snow and Snow returns to Storybrooke.
Character Development and Reception
Goodwinn's portrayal of Snow/Mary Margaret has met with positive reviews. Prior to accepting the role, Goodwin had stated in interviews that she'd always wanted to play Snow White and called her acceptance of the role "a no-brainer.[5] Kitsis and Horowitz are self-described big fans of Goodwin's previous series, Big Love, and wrote the part of Snow with Goodwin in mind.
References
- ↑ The Blue Fairy referred to Snow White as the queen in the first season episode "The Stranger."
- ↑ "Once Upon a Time timeline". ONCE - Once Upon a Time podcast.
Note that the page clearly admits that it is guessing. Says the page, "Snow's age at the time of the curse isn't known, so we're assuming she was 28, which is Emma's age when Emma came to Storybrooke. It's been said that Emma is the same age as her parents. March 3rd as the initial date estimate because 215 aired that day--which is in winter--and the air date for the pilot also correlates to the Curse. However, timeline math suggests her birthday may actually be a few days later--current estimate is March 7th."
All that is truly known about Snow's birthtime is that she was born during a particularly harsh winter ("The Queen Is Dead").
- ↑ In "Labor of Love," Snow stated she no longer wished to use the name Mary Margaret.
- ↑ Ratcliffe, Amy (July 11, 2015). "COMIC-CON: ONCE UPON A TIME TALKS DARK SWAN AND MERIDA FOR SEASON 5". IGN. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
- 1 2 Halterman, Jim (October 21, 2011). "Interview: "Once Upon a Time" Co-Stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas & Lana Parrilla". The Futon Critic. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ↑
- ↑ Ratcliffe, Amy (December 12, 2011). "Once Upon a Time: "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" Review". IGN. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ↑ Murphy, Shaunna (November 7, 2011). "'Once Upon a Time' recap: The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, And Deep". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
- ↑ ""Once Upon a Time" Heart of Darkness (2012)". IMDB.
- ↑ "'Once Upon a Time' recap: Dark Shadows" from Entertainment Weekly (April 28, 2013)
- ↑ Busis, Hilary (January 23, 2012). "'Once Upon a Time' recap: When Doves Fly". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
- ↑ ""Once Upon a Time" What Happened to Frederick (2012)". IMDB.
- ↑ Busis, Hillary (March 5, 2012). "Once Upon a Time' recap: A Fairy Tale – Literally". Retrieved March 2, 2014.
- ↑ ""Once Upon a Time" Red-Handed (2012)". IMDB.
- ↑ Sava, Oliver (April 22, 2012). "The Return". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
- ↑ "'Once Upon a Time' season finale recap: Now I'm a Believer" by Hilary Busis, from Entertainment Weekly (May 13, 2012)
- ↑ 'Once Upon A Time' Recap: Mother Knows Best And Charming Steps Up In 'We Are Both' by Laura Prudom The Huffington Post (October 7, 2012)
- ↑ Busis, Hillary (December 8, 2013). "'Once Upon a Time' recap: Pain and Pan-ic". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 8, 2013.
- ↑ Busis, Hilary (December 15, 2013). "'Once Upon a Time' recap: The End Is the Beginning Is the End". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
- ↑ Hillary, Busis (March 9, 2014). "'Once Upon a Time' recap: Monkey Business". Entertainment Weekly.
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