Tinker Bell, is a character featured in the ABC fantasy-drama series, Once Upon a Time.
Tinker Bell was a fairy, working under the guidance of the Blue Fairy. After disobeying the rules, and using her magic to serve the Evil Queen, Regina in order to guide her to the right path, she is stripped of her fairy status. She eventually ends up in Neverland, where she remains for several decades. She later makes contact with Regina, again, and leaves for Storybrooke. After deafeating the villainous Shadow, Tinker Bell's wings are restored and she becomes a fairy, once again.
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Tinker Bell in Once Upon a Time.
Tinker Bell appears in Season 3, played by Rose McIver. Her first appearance is in "Quite a Common Fairy", where Tinker Bell is portrayed as a fairy among the ranks of the Blue Fairy. When the young Regina fell from her balcony, Tink saves her life by using her pixie dust to allow Regina flight. Afterward, the two form a friendship of sorts. However, the Blue Fairy detested the relationship and forbids Tinker Bell to continue to see Regina. This induced Tink to prove to the Blue Fairy that Regina can find good despite her background. To mend Regina's broken heart, Tinker Bell decides to guide Regina to a tavern that would offer a man with a lion tattoo that would bring a better life for Regina, unfortunately, Regina's fear of moving on from her past love prevents her from meeting the person. When Tink returns, Regina lies about her fear and states that she would never move on from the past and blames her incident on Tink, and coldly rejects her as a friend as well. Tink, heartbroken over this, flies off. In the sky, Tink is stopped by the Blue Fairy, who is disappointed that Tinker Bell disobeyed her order to stay away from Regina, and despite Tinker Bell's apology, strips Tinker Bell of her wings, and leaves Tinker Bell to her fate.
After losing her status as a fairy in the Enchanted Forest, Tinker Bell, in an unknown manner, ends up living in Neverland. She becomes an ally of Peter Pan, although she is aware of his malefic nature. It infers that she is for his service possibly to be able to survive on the island. But she always waited for the opportunity to escape from Peter Pan and Neverland. She developed a kind of hostility with Hook, although they remain courteous from one to the other one. During the period when David, Emma, Hook, Mary Margaret, and Regina are walking through the Dark Jungle, Tinker Bell secretly spies on them. Exhausted from the long journey, Regina wipes herself with a handkerchief and unknowingly drops it onto the ground, which Tinker Bell picks up. Emma notices Regina lagging behind, and they talk for a moment. Though Emma is curious about what is her relationship with Tinker Bell, Regina would rather not go into details about the complicated history. Regina urges Emma to go ahead with the group while she rests. Once she is alone, Tinker Bell emerges from the brush to confront Regina about their "complicated history". The ex-fairy states she has waited a long time for this. Taunted by Regina, Tinker Bell counters by blowing poppy dust to knock her out.
At a cave, Tinker Bell binds Regina's wrists together while she is still unconscious. When Regina awakens, Tinker Bell demands answers about why she did it. Ignoring the question, Regina responds she was just a terrible fairy, but Tinker Bell pulls out a knife dipped in dream shade and presses it against her nemesis's neck. She threatens to end Regina's life, but the latter gives an even more tempting prospect by pulling out her own heart and handing it over to Tinker Bell. Regina pushes her to crush it, but an angered Tinker Bell asks why she didn't go to the inn and meet her true love. Tearfully, Regina admits to being afraid, and because of uncertainty about what she might've been without all the anger in her heart. She points out her heart is the product of not having chosen love as it is almost completely blackened, so Regina asks Tinker Bell to pick between vengeance and hope. Tinker Bell believes it's too late to backtrack, but Regina promises it won't be if she doesn't crush the heart. Wavering in her decision, she asks if Regina loves her son, Henry. After receiving an affirmative response, Tinker Bell returns the heart unscathed but warns Regina she won't be helping her find Henry, and it's possible Pan already got to him.
Tinker Bell in her fairy form
Outside the cavern, Tinker Bell is cornered by David, Emma, Hook, and Mary Margaret, who believe she has harmed Regina. However, Regina comes out and reassures them Tinker Bell does not have bad intentions. Through much discussion, Mary Margaret convinces Tinker Bell to help them in exchange for passage to Storybrooke. She agrees to the deal and is welcomed into their campsite. Approaching Regina, Tinker Bell wants to know if she ever went back to look for the man with the lion tattoo. Regina replies she never did, which prompts Tinker Bell to say her actions were selfish. Confused, Regina doesn't understand how, so Tinker Bell makes known that her actions not only ruined her own life, but her true love's as well.
As promised, Tink later returns to Storybrooke with the other heroes and stays at Granny's bed and breakfast, where she finds Hook, who starts with her, to which Tinkerbell thinks his flirting with her isn't genuine but just to make Emma jealous and to try and move on from his feelings for Emma with Tink. Tinkerbell and Hook are later spotted by Emma, who asks if there is something going on between the two, which Tinkerbell denies, but Hook tries to make make her jealous by saying there might be something happening.
Sometime later at the local church, Tink, Hook, Regina and David are early attacked by a shadow that Pan has sent to Storybrooke and Tink is encouraged to believe in herself to be able to save everyone, now that Blue has died. With the help of the heroes, Tinkerbell is able to believe in herself and regains her magic when saving everyone. Tinkerbell's actions revive Blue, who gives back Tinkerbell's wings, congratulating her and referring to her as Green. After this, Tinkerbell speaks to Hook and realises he didn't just distract the shadow for his own benefit, but for Emma, realising he is stating to change for the better and that his feelings for the Savior are indeed real.
While Tinker Bell does not make proper appearances beyond this, she does attend Neal Cassidy's funeral before returning to her fairytale land. However, she is eventually brought back to Storybrooke after Snow White and Prince Charming create a new curse in hopes to bring Emma back to them. A couple of years later, Tinker Bell is seen flying by Skull Rock in Neverland after Emma fights in the final battle, which prevents the realms beyond Storybrooke to be destroyed. Then years after this, after Roni casts a curse to unite the realms, Tinker Bell, in her fairy form, flies past the Storybrooke clock tower.
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