This article is about Captain Hook. For his Wish Realm counterpart, see Rogers. For other characters with the same name, see Killian.
- “When we met, there was just one thing that mattered to me... Getting my revenge. And you did something that no one else ever could. You showed me that a heart full of love was the most precious treasure of all, and one that I don't intend to lose. They say that a captain's heart belongs to his ship. And with this ring, it now belongs to you.”
- ―Killian to Emma Swan[src]
Captain Killian Jones (better known as Hook) is a character who appears in ABC's fantasy series Once Upon a Time. He is one of the main characters in the series and the son of Brennan Jones and the younger brother to Liam Jones. He is also the husband to protagonist Emma Swan, and the father to both Henry Mills (step-father to the latter) and Hope.
Background[]
Captain Hook appears in the ABC fantasy/drama and is portrayed by Colin O'Donoghue. Before becoming Captain Hook, he was known as Killian Jones. Originally a guest, Hook soon became one of the show's primary characters, becoming Emma Swan's main love interest. Colin O'Donoghue portrayed Hook from Season 2-6. In Season 7, he portrayed the Wish Realm version of Hook and his cursed counterpart, Rogers.
Powers and Abilities[]
Former Powers[]
- Magic of the Dark One: After his fight with King Arthur in Camelot, Hook's neck gets a minor cut from Excalibur, which can never be fully healed, causing Hook to begin to eventually die. Unwilling to let this happen, Emma uses her dark magic to tether Hook to the sword instead of Merlin. The Darkness inside Merlin flies out of him and Hook is teleported away and emerged from the Vault of the Dark One as its new host. As the Dark One, Hook was given dark magical powers by the knowledge of the Holy Grail and the Darkness itself, so he don't need to learn the magical arts as other practitioners of magic do.
Former Weaknesses[]
- Dark One's Dagger: Anyone who owns his dagger will be able to kill Hook, causing him to lose its status as the Dark One and the chance to rise again. In addition, anyone who owns the dagger also has full control over the his actions, who is unable to disobey orders if not for a very short time.
- Laws of Magic: Like any magician or sorcerer, Hook was subject to the laws of magic, as a result he was unable to raise the dead, create love and time travel.
- Squid Ink: Like all magical beings, Hook could be immobilized with squid ink.
Role in the series[]
Before the First Curse[]
- “With all this talk of authors and the book, we've never discussed one fact... I was a villain.
But you're not anymore.” - ―Hook and Emma discuss his past.[src]
Killian becomes known as Hook.
Killian Jones is a pirate who formerly worked for a King with his brother Liam. The two were sent to Neverland to retrieve the plant Dreamshade. Killian is reluctant to follow orders after Peter Pan informs them it is poisonous. A stubborn Liam is ultimately killed by the plant, leading Killian to become his own captain of the Jolly Roger. Some time after, he seduces away Rumplestiltskin's wife, Milah. Milah, who was tired of the then cowardly Rumple's persona, gladly left both the feeble peasant and her son behind in order to live a life with Jones. After becoming the master of black magic, Rumple confronts Killian and Milah, killing the latter and removing the hand of Jones as revenge. He replaces his hand with a hook, thus receiving his alias as Captain Hook. He once again travels to Neverland, where he finds and takes care of Rumplestiltskin's son, Baelfire, after he is separated from his father Rumplestiltskin. He forms an unlikely friendship with him, until Bae learns that Hook took Milah from his father. He hands Bae over to the Lost Boys who take him to Peter Pan. Returning from Neverland, Hook is enlisted by the Evil Queen Regina to dispose of her mother Cora in Wonderland, though Hook and Cora form an alliance.
Hook also stole Ursula's siren call at some point in the past.
During the First Curse[]
When the Dark Curse is activated, Cora protects them both and part of the Enchanted Forest with a barrier spell, frozen in time for 28 years.
After the First Curse[]
After this time period, Hook follows Emma and Mary Margaret to Storybrooke with Cora, through a magic bean obtained by Hook. When Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin) finds a way to leave Storybrooke without losing his memories, Hook shoots his love Belle, causing her to fall across the town's border and lose her memory again. After Gold travels to Manhattan to locate Baelfire, Hook poisons him, but is captured by Neal Cassidy (Baelfire)'s fiancé Tamara, to be used in her and Greg Mendell's plot to destroy magic in Storybrooke. He originally leaves Storybrooke with a stolen magic bean for himself, but returns to help Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Regina, and Mr. Gold travel to Neverland with his ship, after Henry Mills is transported there. In Neverland, Hook becomes the group's guide for directions as he knows both Neverland and Peter Pan better than anyone. Eventually, they are able to retrieve Henry from the sinister Peter Pan and journey back to Storybrooke, where Pan enacts the original curse again.
Before the Second Curse[]
Hook, along with the other inhabitants, are taken to their original worlds, while Emma and Henry escape to New York City with new memories.
During this time, Hook was approached by Ariel, who thought he had kidnapped her beloved Prince Eric. However, Hook was innocent and helped her find the culprit, Black Beard, who had stolen the Jolly Roger. In order to get his ship back, Hook betrayed Ariel's trust and chose not to save Eric. At some point, Hook received a message telling him to find Emma in New York after Zelena's curse. He thought Snow White had sent the message, but it was actually Neal.
During the Second Curse[]
A year later, Hook arrives in the city and eventually restores Emma's memories with a potion, returning to Storybrooke with both Emma and Henry to break the new curse by Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Hook and Emma start a relationship
During the second and third season, he grows a liking towards the main heroine, Emma Swan, whose strong, feisty, and independent personality catches the captain's eye. This liking eventually becomes a deep, passionate love, and throughout the first few seasons, he is showcased going through great lengths to protect and proclaim his love for Emma, though he was constantly rejected.
After the Second Curse[]
However, after Hook and Emma are dragged into Zelena's time portal, Emma and Hook officially started a relationship with each other after learning he sacrificed his most valuable possession (The Jolly Roger) in order to save her, thus Emma finally accepted Hook's affections, and a relationship officially blossomed.
Hook carries Emma home
During the start of Season 4, Hook's love for Emma would be put to the test after discovering that Gold was still in control of the dagger and has not changed. When he threatened to tell Belle and later Emma about using the knife, Gold in turn threatened Hook into doing his bidding by vowing to reveal Hook's dark side again, and later on while attempting to save Emma from Gold's plan to strip her of her powers, loses his heart to Gold, making Hook his puppet to use him to get what he wants. Soon afterwards, Gold tasks Hook with using the Sorcerer's Hat to drain the Fairies' magic, in order to kill the cure for the Spell of Shattered Sight, and to obtain enough power to free himself from the Dagger of Kris. Hook reluctantly agrees to the task, since Gold has his heart, and traps the fairies in the hat after Gold convinces Belle to leave Granny's Diner.
When Emma and Elsa later arrive with Anna and Kristoff, Hook hides behind the counter, leading them to believe that the Fairies had been dealt with by the Snow Queen. With his job complete, Hook gives the hat to Gold, who tells him to enjoy the last day of his life wherever he wants, because when Gold completes his final preparations by the next morning, he will kill Hook. When the Spell of Shattered Sight was close to engulfing Storybrooke, Hook visits Emma one last time to say goodbye to her, before leaving to chain himself to a dock at the marina. When the Spell of Shattered Sight finally hits, Hook looks on as thunder rumbles and mirror shards rain from the sky. After the Spell of Shattered Sight was ended, Gold tried to kill Hook to free himself from his dagger, only to be stopped by Belle. Emma later restores Hook's heart to his body.
Before the Third Curse[]
Hook and Emma in Camelot.
In Season 5, Emma willingly becomes the Dark One to spare Regina from the burden. Hook is among those who travel to Camelot to find Merlin so that he can save her. During a fight against King Arthur, Hook is fatally wounded. In order to save his life, Emma uses Dark magic to make him immortal but transforms him into a second Dark One. Hook became furious with what Emma did to him and embraced the Darkness and desired to have his revenge on Gold once again. Hook knew that in order to seek his revenge, he needed to return to Storybrooke and enacted the Dark Curse and in the process killed Merlin. To set things right, Emma erased everyone's memories of what happened in Camelot, including Hook's memories of being turned into a Dark One. She, along with everyone else return to Storybrooke, where Emma tries to cleanse herself and Hook from the Darkness forever, but in secret, as she didn't want to endanger anyone else.
During the Third Curse[]
With his memories erased, Hook desperately tries to get through to Emma and find out exactly what happened in Camelot. However, Emma refused to give answers but instead tried to restart their relationship, stating they could still be together even if she is the Dark One. Hook refused to give into Emma's desires and broke off their relationship as he couldn't be with Emma when she is not herself. Sometime later, Hook, David, and Robin Hood went to confront King Arthur over his lies, Hook was nearly attacked by was saved by Emma's sudden appearance. Hook apologized to Emma for breaking off their relationship, stating he does still love her, but again wanted answers and finally Emma revealed to him that the reason why she was doing everything was for him. Taking action, Hook decided it was finally time to know the full story of what happened between them.
Killian as a Dark One
Hook went off searching for Emma but was unable to find her. It wasn't until he put himself in danger, by jumping off the roof of the Storybrooke Library, did Emma finally reappear to him. Hook assured Emma that whatever she did in Camelot he already forgave her and finally seemed to have convinced her to tell him the truth. However, he was taken prisoner along with Zelena, where Emma finally revealed parts of her plan to destroy Dark magic, by putting it all into Zelena and destroy her along with the Darkness. Hook and Zelena worked together to escape, but Hook stayed behind to search for the squid ink to stop Emma for good. He eventually found the ink and used it on Emma and demanded that she finally tell him the truth. Zelena then reappeared to them, where she agreed with Hook about wanting answers and found a way to get them. Zelena attacked Hook with a knife, but much to his surprised, he was not killed. Zelena then finally gave Hook what he desired, by revealing she had acquired the dreamcatcher that contained his memories from Camelot. Although Emma tried to convince him otherwise, Hook regained his memories.
After the Third Curse[]
Having finally learned the truth and feeling utterly betrayed that Emma did that to him, Hook once again embraced the Darkness.
Seeking revenge in everything that had happened, Hook had resurrected Nimue and all the previous Dark Ones and attempted to send Emma and her family to the Underworld. However, at the last second Hook changed his mind and instead absorbs all the previous Dark Ones into Excalibur and told Emma to kill him, thus destroying the Darkness for good. Although Emma didn't want to go through with it, both herself and Hook saw there was no other way and after sharing one last kiss and declaring their love, Emma did as Hook requested and killed him. With the Darkness gone, Emma was restored to normal and Hook's wound from Excalibur returned, where Hook died in Emma's arms. However soon after Hook's death, Emma learns that Mr. Gold had once again betrayed them as secretly he transferred all the previous Dark One's powers into him, making him the Dark One again. Seeing that Hook's death was unfair, Emma decided to go into the Underworld, along with her family, friends, and Gold to resurrect Hook.
Hook in the Underworld
In the Underworld, Hook somehow became a prisoner to the Ruler of the Underworld, Hades. Hook became trapped in an underground prison where he along with another prisoner, Megara were being guarded by Cerberus. Through unexplained events, Hook became badly injured, possibly trying to escape from the prison. Eventually, Hook and Megara made an attempt to escape together, although Megara informed Hook they wouldn't make it, Hook replied they wouldn't, but Megara could. Hook told Megara to leave and find Emma and while she made her escape, Hook stayed behind to distract Cerberus. Eventually, Hook was brought to Hades to be guarded. Later, Hades informed Hook that Megara was able to move on from the Underworld and while Hook was glad for her, Hades was angered. He decided that as a way to replace the dead souls that had left the Underworld, Hades told Hook that three of his friends had to be chosen to stay in the Underworld and told Hook that he had to make the decision of who would stay.
Killian marries Emma.
Following Killian's return Emma finally tells him she loves him. Just as the couple are about to have a passionate time, they are interrupted by a blimp owned by Mr. Hyde. Emma and Killian face some challenges with their relationship but he decides he wants to propose to her. Killian first proposes to Emma after she finds the ring in episode 13 of the 6th season. Emma returns the ring in the following episode due to a misunderstanding. Emma ends up having to go through a portal when she realizes Killian is in trouble in another realm. Emma saves Killian and he finally proposes to her the right way. Emma accepts Killian's proposal. Emma's parents help plan the couple's wedding and they marry in the episode "The Song in Your Heart". However, Emma loses her memory due to a dark spell until her son Henry helps her remember. Emma and Killian reveal years later they are expecting a child. Emma later gives birth to her and Killian's daughter named Hope. Killian and Emma later turn up at Regina's coronation late with their daughter and they are shown to be living happily ever after.
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Trivia[]
- Hook's marriage to Emma, who is a princess, makes Killian a prince through marriage, much like all variants of Aladdin.
- In the episode "Rocky Road", Hook mentions he is around 200 years old, meaning he was born around 1814-1815 (if the season is set in the year it was released).
- This version of Captain Hook is loosely based off of Jack Sparrow, the protagonist of the Pirates of the Carabbean franchise. They are both womensizers, who love rum and treasure.
- When Killian first arrives in Storybrooke, he is shown from behind, standing on a yard while holding on to it with his left appendage, and looking at the town while the camera zooms in on him. The camera then zooms in on his face as his hair is blowing in the wind. Hook then grabs a rope that was next to the mast, hangs on to it and jumps to the deck below. This is exactly the same as Captain Jack Sparrow's introduction in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
- Hook has a tattoo with Milah's name on his right wrist. It shows the Dark One Dagger going through a heart, as shown "Tallahassee"
- Hook understands Greek, which he learned in the Royal Navy. When he and Emma find the true love scale, he translates the Greek inscription with ease, as seen in "Firebird".
- Hook has managed to outrun a curse more than once:
- He avoided the first curse due to Cora's protection spell and was frozen in time for twenty-eight years, seen in "Queen of Hearts".
- When the second curse was cast, he immediately drove his ship out of the curse’s reach, which is shown in "There's No Place Like Home".
- He himself cast the third curse, but due to his intentions, the curse did not give anyone new memories, hairstyle or wardrobe changes based on our world, as seen in The Dark Swan," and "Broken Heart"
- Due to the Black Fairy's intentions, Hook, along with the heroes except Emma Swan, did not get cursed but was only transported back to the Enchanted Forest, seen in "The Final Battle Part 1"
- Many years before the fifth curse, Hook decided to get back to Storybrooke with Emma. Wish Hook got cursed instead.
- Like Regina Mills as the Evil Queen, Killian Jones is the first incarnation of Captain Hook to eventually turn good after previously being shown as a villain in other media.
- The child who plays the young Killian is named Oliver Wood, which is the same name as a Harry Potter character, who is in the Griffyndor house.
- When Killian and Emma travelled back in time, he used the alias Prince Charles, which was a reference to the member of the British royal family, King Charles, who was a prince and the next in line for the throne when the episode and series aired.
- Killian referred to almost everyone as either mate or love, depending on the genders of the characters, just like how Rumple called almost everyone dearie.
- Not counting his wish realm counterpart, who shares the name Killian, this variant of Captain Hook is the only one whose first name is not James. Hook's name was likely changed in order not to confuse people with Prince Charming's twin brother, who is named James.
- This variation of Captain Hook is the first to have formerly been a villain, but later became a hero.
- "Good Form" reveals that Killian was very much against drinking rum while being part of the royal navy as he described it as being "bad form". He changed drastically after the death of his brother, taking his position as captain, and became known as a pirate.
- The episode "Poor Unfortunate Soul" implies that Killian was the one who killed Ursula's mother (mirroring the death of Ariel's mother in The Little Mermaid).
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