Here we are, years later and I don't get it. I don't get rumple's cowardice (at list how it's depicted)

1)not wanting to die and be a dead in a pointless war (especially since we know it's still on hundreds years later) not a coward... Smart. It's like, closest real example I can think of, people who didn't want to fight in the Vietnam War would be depicted as cowards... Mmm no

2)a guy with a limp, medieval time, doesn't sword fight with a pirate for a woman who left him... How is that cowardice?

3)not wanting to sword fighting... Is not cowardice... And neither is using your brain out of situations...

4)runole was a coward when he took the short cut, when he used regina to get what he wanted, he was definetely a coward when he didn't follow Bae through the bean hole (it can be argued its because of his previous experience with beans, but still)

5)im still on S5, but I remember him being pretty cowardly in 6a (and not because he became the dark one again, but because he looked for short cuts)

He wasn't a coward when : he tried to take Belle out of town in 5x06 (what am I here for, people who hate me?), when he killed himself (how convenient everyone forgets that), anytime before 1st curse (bad, yes, coward, no). I just think it's very screwed up to keep telling us "rumple is a coward" when he is not most of the time. He's an addict, and if I were Belle I'd have dump his ass at the townline in s4. But he is not a coward. Or we'll see all of us "not cowards" at the Afghanistan border fighting back"