Season 7 finally has him learn the error of his ways all he wants is to be reunited with his now deceased wife and true love, Belle.
ONCE UPON A TIME RUMPELSTILTSKIN FREE
After that, he's willing to let the Snow Queen kill everyone in Storybrooke if it enables him to gain the hat's power, free himself of the dagger, and leave Storybrooke with Belle without anyone (including her) finding out what he's up to. But then he sees a small circular box, which turns out to be the iconic Sorcerer's Hat from Fantasia, at which point he switches the daggers. Season 4, he vows on Bae's grave to start a new leaf, and he does by secretly giving Belle the real dagger.But then he's brought back to life at the expense of Bae's life and becomes a slave to Zelena, which clearly does a number on him. Season 3 has him finally learn his lesson by sacrificing himself to save everyone from Pan.Season 2 has him admit as much to Belle, in that he at least openly says that his reliance of magic as a crutch has hindered.By the end of the Season 1, he seems to have completely forgotten why he lost his son, i.e.Aesop Amnesia: Or not so much 'amnesia' as recognizing an addiction (to magical power) and being unable to kick it.Cue his evil estranged mother kidnapping the child instead. Once again living it in season 5, where his pregnant wife places herself in the equivalent of a coma to ensure Hades doesn't steal the baby.
But because of this addiction and refusal to let the power go when there was a viable means without killing him, he has lost what he cared for most. After his years of weakness and his wife running off with another man he clung to the power of the Dark One like an addict to his fix.
Adaptational Species Change: His many Fairy Tale counterparts include a Leprechaun, a Beast who Was Once a Man, a Crocodile and a fairy, but he's just a human with and intence amount of magic power. Once Upon a Time makes him an immortal nigh-omnipotent sorcerer, Magnificent Bastard and Chessmaster who plays everyone else - with varying degrees of success that, usually, come out on top for him - like a fiddle Adaptational Badass: In the original Grimm's Fairytales, Rumplestiltskin was little more than an evil gnome that engages in trading children for favors. Action Dad: He acquired magic and put an end to a war just to protect his son. Subverted with his mother, who Rumple thought hated him, but who actually loved him so much she turned to dark magic to keep him safe. Pan: How old are you now, couple of centuries? Will I never be rid of you? And as an adult his father is definitely abusive to him, outright stating that he considered Rumple to be a burden from the moment he was born, not to mention happily throwing him through the room with magic and intending to kill Rumple's child and wife. Then, he outright abandoned him when Rumple couldn't have been much older than eight or nine, leaving the poor kid to find his way back to the spinsters on his own. He happily left his son with a couple of spinsters so he could go out and swindle people. His own father was, if not abusive, at the very least neglectful. Sure, everyone called him that but his own son. Particularly after hearing Bae calling him a coward before going into the portal. Lastly, he ends up unwilling to listen to Bae and uphold the deal made with him to go to a new world, choosing to drop Bae into the portal rather than let go of his power a decision he immediately regrets and never stops regretting. Bae also seems to have become afraid of his father. He has massive overreactions to any injury done to Bae, best shown when he turns a man into a slug and stomps on him for hitting Bae with a cart. Like Regina, he's emotionally ( not physically) abusive to his son.
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