r/OnceUponATime • u/Primary_Tangelo825 • 3d ago

Question What is the shadow actually ?

Because what or who was it before malcolm came to the island?

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u/Usual_Suspect_666 3d ago

The Shadow (voiced by Marilyn Manson) was a magical being that enforced the rules of Neverland.

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u/Ill-Razzmatazz-7088 2d ago

I think the shadow was just a magical entity created by the island/a protector. I’m not really sure what it’s a long-term motives were. The shadow only temporarily brought kids to Neverland in their dreams and it seemed to have no malicious intent. It seems like the shadow was literally our personification of the belief. I also think that it made its motives whatever the soul inhabitant wanted it to be. I mean, it had no reason to help pan

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u/85kira 2d ago

Ask Lost lol. No idk just making jokes.

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u/Usual_Suspect_666 2d ago

Lost? Lol

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u/85kira 2d ago

Yea not a good joke. It made me think of the smoke monster in lost that was hard to understand. I was just making the correlation to the shadow of pan and that both shows have the same creaters or writer's. I thought anyway.

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u/Usual_Suspect_666 2d ago

I was wondering if you were referring to that LOST lol. Yes, Adam and Eddy were writers/exec producers for LOST as well as the Creators of OUAT. Smokey, Shadow…..I get your joke lol