High on a Hill in London, Lived the Darling Family, Wendy, John and Michael

2d to the right, and so straight on till morning.

— The original directions Peter gives to Neverland (although it turns out in that location isn't really a 'direction' equally such. He just gets at that place. He merely gives these directions to sound clever to Wendy.)

James M. Barrie was a prolific writer at the turn of the 20th century, but his most-honey works are his play and novels about Peter Pan. Otherwise known as "the male child who wouldn't abound upwardly", Peter Pan is the protector of the Magical Land of Neverland, an isle inhabited by fairies, mermaids, Indians, and pirates. He also has a Fairy Companion in Tinker Bong, a feisty girl with 1 heck of a temper.

One jump evening, Peter follows his wayward shadow into the sleeping accommodation of one Wendy Darling. When Wendy helps him sew together his shadow back onto him, Peter invites her to come up and look after his "Lost Boys", kids who (like him) are motherless and live in the forests of Neverland.

Wendy and her brothers, John and Michael, wing abroad with Peter to Neverland, where they all have many adventures while Wendy mothers them. They encounter jealous mermaids, meet up with a tribe of Indians, and disharmonism with the pirate crew of the scourge of Neverland: Helm Hook, who despises Peter for cut off his hand and feeding information technology to a crocodile, which has been pursuing Hook to devour the rest of him ever since.

Finally, after a climactic battle with Peter and Hook on Hook'due south pirate ship, Hook is defeated and falls into the jaws of the crocodile. Later on Peter commandeers Hook'due south ship, Wendy decides she's had plenty of Neverland. Peter agrees to let her become, and to permit her have her brothers and the Lost Boys with her. Twenty years later, Peter Pan returns for Wendy's daughter Jane, and the adventures begin afresh.

The original play is fairly Child-Friendly: Captain Claw is a blustering comic villain, the violence is usually a pratfall or similar form of Slapstick, and death is treated more like a time-out. In contrast, the volume version (Peter and Wendy) later written past Barrie is a sly Deconstruction of the Victorian notion of the sacred innocence of children, total of Parental Bonus dark humour and subtle Gallows Humour; Barrie was a master satirist for his time, though few of his satires are remembered today.

Peter Pan is a trickster, only nominally human being. In his first appearance, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (which was one of several stories included in the book The Piddling White Bird), Peter is alluded to equally being half bird; as all children, in fact, come from birds, but only Peter is close enough to his youth to think being a bird. In Neverland, he is more like a playful demigod, with aspects of Puck and Pan. The character has become something of a cultural symbol for youthful exuberance and innocence, particularly if it persists into adulthood; it also evokes the poignant flip side - never condign truly mature. Michael Jackson identified with the character so much he named his manor (with an amusement park, et. al. on the grounds) "Neverland Ranch". The darker implications of eternal youth and perpetual irresponsibility is probable why a well-remembered 1987 movie about teen vampires was called The Lost Boys.

An unusual quirk of most stagings of the play, going back to its original productions, is that Peter is traditionally played past a young woman instead of a preteen male person actor.

Between licensing past Neat Ormond Street Hospital (who still holds certain rights in the UK) and the expiration of copyright in nearly of the world, in that location are clashing Sequel and Prequel books and films. In addition to the 1953 Disney moving picture and a 2002 sequel, at that place was a 41 episode anime adaption every bit part of the World Masterpiece Theater series in 1989, the 1990 animated series on the first season of Play a joke on Kids, Steven Spielberg'south Claw (1991), a sequel that posits what would have happened had Peter somewhen decided to abound upwards, 2003 and 2015 alive-action adaptations and more. Come across also Finding Neverland (2004), a drama that's Very Loosely Based on a True Story, about Barrie's conception and initial product of the play.

For details most adaptations and sequels past other hands, see hither.

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Tropes mainly from the novel:

• Accidental Murder: Averted; the Lost Boys recollect Wendy is expressionless after Tootles shoots her, but she'due south really alive.
• Adult Fearfulness: George and Mary Darling sense that something is wrong while out for the dark, and make it dwelling to discover the plant nursery empty and their children gone! With the window wide open!
• Alas, Poor Villain: In-universe, the narrator calls the defeated Hook "non entirely unheroic" just before his death.
• Conflicting Heaven: Neverland has "ever so many more" suns and moons than the Mainland.
• All Myths Are Truthful: The furnishings in Tinker Bell's room are dated according to fairy tale character names - due east.g., the mirror is a Puss-in-Boots and the dresser is a Charming the Sixth.
• Alternate Continuity: From Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
• Aluminum Christmas Copse: The Darlings having a domestic dog as a nursemaid may seem like a quirky item in a children's story, merely dogs were indeed used to supervise children in Victorian London. JM Barrie modelled Nana off his own dog; a Landseer Newfoundland, a brood particularly good with children.
• Always Identical Twins: The Lost Boys include a pair of twins, "who cannot be described because we should be certain to be describing the wrong i." Presumably on the same ground, the narrator never gives them names either.
• Cryptic Innocence: The book demonstrates, in full general, that while innocence isn't bad, it too isn't necessarily skillful. The defining feature of children, according to the novel — and of Peter Pan in particular — is that they are "innocent and heartless." Peter Pan laughs equally Wendy's siblings nigh autumn to their deaths and in full general lives up to his final name. He even attempts to convince Wendy that her female parent abased her.
• An Aesop: The book has 2 morals: first, when we grow up, if nosotros forget our childhoods we'll forget of import qualities along with them (like awe and wonder at the world that Hook lacks, for example). But second, if we never abound up, we'll miss out on important adult pleasures, like the love between husband and married woman that Peter Pan will never enjoy.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Hook certainly feels this way. He carries poisonous substance around with him in case he'south taken alive.
• Bizarre Conflicting Psychology: "Tink was not all bad; or, rather, she was all bad merely now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all practiced. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being and so small-scale they, unfortunately, have room for one feeling simply at a time." Equally a result, Tinker Bell is consumed by whatever emotion she'south feeling at the time.
• Book Impaired: Peter is an extreme example—he's loaded with mysterious noesis of magical things but is absurdly "ignorant" of everything mortals regard as normal. Though this is typical of the Fair Folk.

  Not one of them could fly an inch, though even Michael was in words of ii syllables, and Peter did not know A from Z.

• Born Unlucky: Tootles, as described in the narration.
• Braids, Beads and Buckskins: The "redskins" wear feathers in their hair, say "How", and well...whatever racist stereotype of Native Americans you lot tin recall of. As Neverland is the world of imagination, Neverland'due south "Red Indians" are the kind imagined by small children who similar stories about Injun Land, complete with a Pocahontas-esque Indian Maiden named Princess Tiger Lily.
• Canine Companion: Wendy keeps a wolf cub equally a pet on Neverland.
• Can't Tie His Tie: Near the beginning, Mr and Mrs Darling are dressing to exit for dinner; Mr Darling tin can't become his tie to piece of work ("Non circular my neck! Round the bed-post! Oh yep, 20 times have I made information technology up circular the bed-postal service, only circular my cervix, no!") and has to get his wife to tie it for him.
• Catchphrase: Tinker Bell has a tendency to say to Peter, "You giddy donkey!" She does it so often that even Wendy, who doesn't understand Tink's fairy language, is able to recognize it.
• Handclapping Your Easily If You Believe: The Trope Namer, used to revive Tinker Bell of Captain Hook's poison.
• Clingy Jealous Daughter: Tinker Bell is jealous of the attention Peter gives to Wendy, to the point of making multiple attempts on Wendy's life.
• Clueless Chick Magnet: All the female person characters in the story except Mrs. Darling are in beloved with Peter. He never catches on.
• Coming-of-Age Story: For Wendy. She leaves Neverland because she realizes that her relationship with Peter can only be a shallow imitation of the developed life she really wants.
• Cool and Unusual Penalization: Mr. Darling gives 1 of these to himself afterwards the children fly away because he chained Nana in the yard. He vows to trade places with Nana and live in her kennel until the moment the children come back—even having the kennel loaded onto the cab every morning and riding it to work.
• Curse of the Ancients: Captain Hook and his crew use archaic swears. "Odds bods, hammer, and tongs!"
• Dawn Attack: In Neverland, all attacks take place at dawn. Helm Hook is considered a vile scoundrel when he has his pirates attack before dawn when nobody'south gear up.
• Defiant to the End: When Hook attempts to taunt Wendy with the imminent deaths of her brothers and the Lost Boys, her response is "a look of such frightful contempt that he nearly fainted".
• Disney Death:
  • Wendy lies seemingly dead after being mistaken for a bird and shot with an arrow by one of the Lost Boys. But the pointer turns out to have only pierced an acorn button she was wearing and presumably caused her to faint from fear.
  • Tinker Bell pulls ane of these off when she makes a Heroic Sacrifice to save Peter. Clap Your Hands If You Believe in fairies!
• Dressed to Plunder: Captain Hook even introduced the Hook Mitt as function of the standard pirate attire.
• Even the Canis familiaris Is Ashamed: Nana is merely as ashamed of Mr. Darling equally the children are when he tricks Michael into taking his medicine. That it's a domestic dog is probably the worst part about information technology for poor George.
• Confront Death with Nobility:
  • Wendy (until Peter saves her) and Hook (when he's eaten past the crocodile).
  • Peter, besides, when he's about to drown alone on Marooner's Rock.
• The Off-white Folk: Fairies in the books are notoriously fickle and love playing tricks on people. Peter Pan is the only one they don't mess with. Despite the mentioning of his groundwork (Which the author directly states may non his true origin), Peter Pan himself is heavily implied to exist a fellow member of the Fair Folk himself as he certainly bears a good resemblance to the folkloric descriptions of fairies.
• Fairy Companion: Tinker Bell.
• Fairy Sexy: Tinker Bell is described as "slightly inclined to embonpoint".
• Fisher King: Peter is this to Neverland. The state wakes up when he arrives, and reflects his mood.
• Friendly War: The Lost Boys and the Indians take turns attacking each other as a game.
• From Beyond the Fourth Wall: Why did the crocodile's clock stop ticking? The author says nosotros stopped it. So Barrie subsequently says that he might tell Mrs. Darling that the children are coming back, but that she would essentially be angry at us for spoiling the surprise.
• Garden Garment: Peter wears an outfit fabricated of leaves.
• Generation Xerox: Wendy's daughter, Jane, sees Peter weeping on the nursery floor and addresses him with the words, "Boy, why are yous crying?" They proceed to get through dialogue highly reminiscent of Wendy'due south with Peter. This might be justified in that Jane has often heard the stories of Peter Pan from her female parent. Note that she also shares some traits with her uncle Michael, complaining "I won't go to bed!" in the same fashion he complains nigh existence bathed at the beginning of the play and book.
• Genre Savvy: Everyone in Neverland knows how battles of Indians vs. white men are supposed to work — the white men campsite on high basis by a stream, the tribe attacks at dawn and the white men get wiped out. The rule is and then secure that Tiger Lily'due south tribe camps out past the only such spot in the area waiting for the pirates to arrive ... and Captain Hook deliberately avoids it, pulling the Indians out of position and setting them upwards for defeat.
• Skillful Smoking, Evil Smoking: Captain Hook uses a cigar holder, e'er a bad sign. Exaggerated: he uses a special cigar holder of his own design that allows him to smoke ii cigars at in one case.
• Growing Upwards Sucks: Peter is the proverbial boy who refused to grow upward. His Lost Boys remain immature and immortal equally long as they're with him. At the end of the story, Wendy returns to the real globe, grows upwards and has a family. When Peter Pan comes calling once more, he informs her that she is likewise old to go dorsum to Neverland and whisks her daughter away instead. Note that Peter Pan plays with the thought that, while growing up sucks, not growing up also sucks (your friends get out yous, and eventually dice; you have perpetual forgetfulness and no family). It's hinted, when the Lost Boys get out, that they would have left at some indicate anyway; to quote the opening judgement, "All children, except one, grow up." In other words, while Peter urges everyone to stay with him forever and forbids growing old, merely he is actually able to do this. Or if you look at information technology some other fashion, it's not that Peter is able to resist aging. It's that he's not able to abound up, something anybody just him is able to do.
• Take a Gay Old Time:
  • Ane of the narrator's favourite words for describing the children is "gay", in the sense of "lighthearted and carefree".
  • In one scene, Peter encounters a group of fairies coming habitation from an orgy, which at the time could still mean any kind of wild and indulgent party without necessarily having a sexual connotation.
• Heavy Sleeper: Later Wendy tells Peter about how her blood brother, John, despises girls, Peter goes over and kicks a sleeping John out of his blanket and so out of bed. She initially chastises Peter over it, simply then she looks over and notices that John's still asleep.
• Honor Before Reason: The Piccaninnies' codes of honour prevented them from taking strategic moves that would accept saved a fair number of them from existence slaughtered by the pirates.
• Hook Mitt: Captain Hook has a hook instead of a right hand, subsequently the hand was cut off in battle.
• Hypocritical Humor: When Michael is reluctant to take his medicine, Mr Darling tells him that he ever took medicine perfectly as a kid and he should exist a man..when he'south forced to take some as an example for Michael....
• I Phone call Information technology "Vera": The pirates seem to do this a lot. Smee's cutlass is named "Johnny Corkscrew", the send's cannon is called "Long Tom", and the plank is called "Johnny Plank".
• Firsthand Self-Contradiction: Wendy wakes up to find Peter crying on the floor. Before she tin can find out why he's crying, they have to introduce themselves, which leads to them getting sidetracked onto the field of study of parents and the fact that Peter hasn't got a mother. Wendy assumes that this is why he was crying, which gets an indignant response from Peter: "I wasn't crying almost mothers, I was crying considering I can't become my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying."
• Immortal Immaturity: Peter Pan, the boy who will never grow upward.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Bosun Smee is unhappy about the fact that unlike the other pirates, Peter and the other children adore him.
• Innocence Lost: Played with. It's noted that every fourth dimension Peter is exploited (e.g., by Helm Hook) or similar, he reacts with shock and the typical credible sting of the loss of innocence, but he continues to fall casualty to these tactics because he never volition really 'abound up' enough to lose this childish naïveté altogether. He also forgets traumatic events magically, so that he never matures via suffering.
• Irony: Wendy runs abroad to Neverland out of fear of growing upwards. When arriving in a fantasy world total of pirates, mermaids and fairies, all she ends upward wanting to do is roleplay that she and Peter are husband and wife. This helps her realise she is indeed growing upwardly already.
• Island of Mystery: Neverland, home of the title character and the Lost Boys. Uncharted and accessible only through magic, children never grow old and dice there and can fly with a little help. The geography of Neverland is shaped by the minds of the children residing at that place, and contains literally whatever adventure imaginable.
• But Desserts: Captain Hook's hand had been lost in a duel with Pan and eaten by a behemothic crocodile which becomes his Animal Nemesis every bit a result. At the climax, the croc returns to finish the meal.
• Kids Are Barbarous: It'southward a running theme that children, and Peter especially, are capable of doing selfish and brutal things because they lack understanding of the world and other people. The narrator never says "children are innocent" (which he says quite a bit) without calculation "and heartless".
• Killed Off for Real:
  • Claw is eaten by the Crocodile at the end.
  • In fact, all the other pirates die except Smee and Starkey.
  • Tinker Bell dies of old historic period about a twelvemonth later on the main storyline.
• Land of Faerie: Neverland is a place dissever from the everyday world, populated by fairies and full of enchantment and danger.
• The Leader: Peter is a headstrong leader amid the Lost Boys. Wendy is a levelheaded leader of her siblings.
• Lemony Narrator:
  • The novel is narrated in a very odd style, generally disaffected and dismissive of the amazing events he describes.
  • At one betoken he can't decide betwixt which of ii stories to chronicle, and flips a coin on them. He is bellyaching at the outcome, but holds to information technology anyway.
  • At another point, he chooses which of Hook's pirates volition dice to demonstrate their boss's ruthlessness.

    Let us now impale a pirate, to show Hook's method. Skylights volition do.

  • The narrator also really dislikes most of the characters, specially Tinker Bell and the Darlings. When he narrated the story of their mother staying upwards late waiting for them to render, he gets particularly vicious to the whole family.

    One thing I should similar to do immensely, and that is to tell her, in the manner authors have, that the children are coming back, that indeed they will be here on Thursday calendar week. This would spoil then completely the surprise to which Wendy and John and Michael are looking forward.
    We are start to know Mrs. Darling by this time, and may be sure that she would upbraid us for depriving the children of their piddling pleasure... The woman had no proper spirit. I had meant to say extraordinarily nice things almost her; only I despise her, and not one of them will I say at present.
    Thus Wendy and John and Michael found the window open for them later all, which of course was more than than they deserved.

• Literal Disarming: At some point prior to the events of the volume, Peter and Helm Hook dueled and Peter cutting off Hook'southward right manus, throwing it to a crocodile.
• Living Forever Is Crawly: Peter believes and then. It'southward specifically pointed out that the things that often put people off immortality — friends dying, accumulated mental trauma, etc. — aren't an consequence for him because his memory doesn't retain anything that would cause him to lose his innocent outlook.
• Living Shadow: Peter Pan has a living shadow that escaped, and he has to have Wendy sew it dorsum on.
• Made of Good: It's stated that all the fairies were born when the first child laughed for the commencement time.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Tiger Lily" is a pretty apt name for a tsundere - aside from beingness the proper noun of a existent flower, it combines a savage predator with a beautiful bloom.
  • Oddly plenty, this is averted with the Lost Boys—Peter named them (well, except for Slightly), but their names brand absolutely no sense, even in context. Information technology's possible that Curly might have curly hair, but this is never stated.
  • Peter Pan himself may authorize. Peter keeps the way to and from Neverland, just as the Biblical Peter is the keeper of the keys to Heaven. Pan, of course, was the wild, unpredictable god of nature in Greek mythology ... an apt pairing for a boy determined never to go an adult and submit to civilization.
• Meaningless Meaningful Words: Peter boasts, "I'm youth, I'm joy. I'yard a trivial bird that has broken out of the egg." The narrator immediately notes that Peter himself doesn't know what this means, he just thinks it sounds cool.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Smee.
• Moby Schtick: Word of God confirms that Captain Hook was inspired by Ahab, both in his vendetta against Peter and in having his ain Animate being Nemesis. This trope is inverted in some respects, as information technology's the crocodile that's obsessed with pursuing him instead of vice versa.
• Monster-Shaped Mountain: Skull Rock, where Captain Hook takes the kidnapped Princess Tiger Lily.
• Mood-Swinger: Tinker Bong has dramatic mood swings. The narrator explains that fairies are so small they tin can only hold one emotion at a fourth dimension, so whatsoever mood she's in is all-consuming.
• Multiple-Selection Past: Due to Neverland's nature, the book states that Peter's Freudian Alibi of Parental Abandonment may non have really happened how he remembers it, if at all.
• Name and Name: The book was originally published equally Peter and Wendy.
• Named After the Injury: This book has the notorious pirate Captain Claw, who is so-called because his left hand was replaced with a claw later Peter cut it off. Apparently, finding out his real name would exist dangerous.
• Namedworld and Namedland: Neverland.
• Never Grew Up: Peter, and temporarily the Lost Boys.
• Never Grin at a Crocodile: The large saltwater crocodile who ate Captain Hook'south hand (and a clock) and at present is looking for the residuum of the dish.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Slightly, being "madly fond to the drinking of water when he was hot," has swelled up and become the fattest of the Lost Boys — and then he has secretly expanded his archway to the undercover underground domicile so that he can fit through it. This ways his entrance is large plenty for Hook to get through and enter the clandestine home to poisonous substance Peter.
• Nobody Hither just Us Birds: Peter Pan's famous crow, often used every bit a indicate to alert the Lost Boys to his presence. Additionally, the Indians employ coyote cries as signals.
• Noodle Incident:

  [Peter] would come up downwardly laughing over something fearfully funny he had been proverb to a star, but he had already forgotten what information technology was, or he would come up up with mermaid scales withal sticking to him, and nonetheless not be able to say for certain what had been happening.

• Non Growing Up Sucks: Peter sometimes, ever-so-briefly, laments that he tin can never have a family or know love because he can't abound up, equally seen at the end of the story after he drops Wendy and the Lost Boys off at Wendy's home and watches them through the window. At the end of the book, Wendy learns that Peter has no concept of death, and has forgotten that Tinker Bell ever existed. He besides routinely forgets near her for long stretches. While Pan doesn't necessarily think Non Growing Up Sucks, it's clear that the author does.
• Oblivious to Honey: Wendy, Tiger Lily, and Tinker Bong all have a crush on Peter, simply Peter is so immature he can't see a female as anything other than a mother figure.
• Oedipus Complex: Despite Wendy and Tiger Lily's obvious sexual/presexual interest, Peter regards his relationship with Wendy as a mother/son one. Furthermore, Peter manages to get Mrs. Darling'due south "hidden kiss".
• Offing the Badgerer: At several points in the novel, Hook takes out his frustrations lethally on whichever fellow member of his crew makes the fault of getting on his last nerve (or merely standing within arm'due south accomplish of his hook at a bad moment).
• Open Shirt Taunt: Occurs later on Tootles shot Wendy down with an arrow:

  Tootles did not flinch. He bared his breast. "Strike, Peter," he said firmly, "strike true."

• Our Fairies Are Different: Fairies in this universe were born when the first baby laughed, and said laugh separate into a million pieces. They are Winged Humanoids who accept their own dissever language, and Tinker Bell's speech communication sounds like the tinkling of bells to humans. As they are and so pocket-sized, they only have room for one emotion at a time. Someone saying they don't believe in fairies will cause a fairy somewhere to drop expressionless. Tinker Bong of course dies when she drinks poison, but she is restored to life when Peter implores all the children effectually the globe to declare they believe in fairies.
• Our Mermaids Are Different: Mermaids live in Neverland, described as being incredibly beautiful and vain. They will just speak to Peter, and volition splash and swim away from anyone else who approaches them. When the moon is out however, they transform into darker creatures, and even Peter avoids their lagoon after sunset.
• Pajama-Clad Hero: The Darling children are yet in their nightclothes when they're whisked off to Neverland.
• Pet Babe Wild Animal: Wendy'due south not-and then-imaginary abased wolf cub. (The wolf is only mentioned twice, only it'due south obviously meant every bit an example of Wendy's penchant for nurturing lost wild things—including the Lost Boys and Peter.)
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The pirates don't become upwards to any actual piracy within the story; they just seem to spend all their time trying to kill the Lost Boys and the Indians. Neverland is formed from the collective imaginations of children, then the pirates (and Indians) are but a manifestation of children's playground games.
• Pocket Protector: The pointer the Lost Boys shoot at Wendy doesn't impale her because information technology hits an acorn button Wendy was wearing effectually her neck afterward Peter gave it to her as a present.
• Toxicant Is Evil: Helm Hook carries a canteen of toxicant everywhere with him (to be used every bit a suicide drug in instance he's taken alive), and employs it to kill Peter Pan.

• Psychopomp: Somewhat unsettling in hindsight, but Peter is said to be one: "At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking dorsum into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to alive with the fairies. In that location were odd stories near him; as that when children died he went part of the manner with them, then that they should not be frightened."
• Raised Paw of Survival: Wendy lies apparently dead, having been mistaken for a bird and shot out of the sky with an pointer by one of the Lost Boys, merely is revealed to be live when she raises her arm to end Peter from executing the male child who shot her.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Captain Hook has light blue eyes, but when he is angry, they flash red.
• Rump Roast: While talking to Smee in a forest clearing, Hook sits down on a large mushroom. Shortly afterward, he leaps upwardly, swearing: the mushroom is actually the concealed chimney of the Lost Boys' underground lair, and is quite hot.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Skylights the pirate, who is killed solely to prove Hook'southward method of dispatchment.
• Shout-Out: Hook describes himself as "the only man whom Barbecue feared, and Flint himself feared Barbecue". Captain Flint was the pirate captain in Treasure Island, and "Charcoal-broil" was the nickname of his cook — Long John Silver.
• Sirens Are Mermaids: The Neverland mermaids are known to sing hauntingly at the moon, and Hook compares them to the Lorelei - a German language water nymph with many similarities to the sirens.
• Small Proper name, Large Ego: Peter is very cocky. Wendy notes this very early on.

  Peter: [later Wendy has sewn his shadow back on] How clever I am! Oh, the cleverness of me!
  Wendy: You conceit! Of course I did nothing.
  Peter: You did a little.

• Sociopathic Hero: Peter spends an awful lot of his time killing off pirates, and often is willing to put his friends in danger simply because it would be interesting or even funny. This is because of the basic nature of his character; being a child forever, he'southward inherently selfish and often amoral. It is mentioned that during the fights between the Lost Boys and the pirates, if the pirates seem to be at a disadvantage, Peter will join their side to fifty-fifty things out. That's right, he will happily fight and kill his friends just considering information technology's more of a challenge. Obviously, Lost Boys come and go, and Peter doesn't have any real interest in keeping rail of them. During the climactic fight against Hook and his crew, Peter really attacks both sides in social club to keep things "interesting."
• Tattooed Crook: The pirate Bill Jukes is extensively tattooed.
• Squad Mom: Wendy acts every bit mother to the Lost Boys, advising them, offer comfort when needed, and telling bedtime stories.
• Territorial Smurfette: Tinker Bong was the but female person person in Peter'south social circumvolve before Wendy came along, and she goes to considerable lengths in her attempts to become Wendy gone.
• They Call Him "Sword": "Hook" is established to be a pseudonym.
• Time Dissonance: Fairies live very short lives merely it seems longer because they're so small.
• Translation Convention: During Peter'southward run into with the Neverbird, the bird's attempts to communicate (which fifty-fifty Peter doesn't sympathise) are translated into English for the reader.

• Tsundere:
  • Tiger Lily.
  • Tinker Bong, too. Equally a fairy, she literally only has room to feel one emotion at a time, but those emotions are strong.
• Unbuilt Trope: Information technology'southward practically a cliche for modern writers to draw a grapheme who Never Grew Up equally a sociopath, subverting the image of eternal childhood innocence. It'due south easy to forget that Peter, the character they're ostensibly deconstructing, was originally a thoughtless, selfish, amoral Jerkass, explicitly considering every bit an perpetual child he never learned right from wrong.
• The Unintelligible: Tinker Bong'due south fairy language sounds like a tinkling bell to most of the characters. Peter understands it, and the narrator sometimes translates.
• Vague Age: Intentionally done as J.G. Barrie never reveals what Peter'southward age is nor gives a physical description so that the readers are able to create their ain image of what the character looks like. The book states that Peter has all of his babe teeth, nonetheless all of the female person characters take (or develop) a crush on him. In before drafts, it's directly stated that Tiger Lily wanted to ally him.
  • It's generally accepted that Peter is between the ages of 12-14 years sometime, and, as strange as it may audio, information technology's entirely possible for a teenager and even an adult to nevertheless have their baby teeth. It by and large happens considering of a status called "dental ankylosis" that causes baby teeth to fuse to the jaw os and prevents them from falling out. Information technology is too possible that there is no permanent molar under the gums pushing on the baby tooth. Some teenagers retain baby teeth because of trauma, obstructions, pathology, or misaligned permanent teeth under them.
• Walk the Plank: The children are threatened with this later the pirates capture them.
• We Are as Mayflies:
  • Inverted in the novel - fairies have brusque lifespans, curt plenty that at the beginning of the volume Tinker Bong hasn't notwithstanding reached machismo, but a yr later she'south about likely reached the terminate of her natural life. Of course, none of the adaptations have the heart to kill her off and so presently.
  • Played directly with Peter's lifespan in comparison to those of mortals; he'll probably be befriending Wendy'southward descendants and taking them to Neverland until the globe ends.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In Wendy's personal imaginary world, she owns a wolf pup abased by its parents. Naturally, when she gets to Neverland the wolf appears and becomes her constant companion—or and then the narration claims, since it never gets mentioned once more. (At that place was at to the lowest degree one set of illustrations (Trina Schart Hyman's) which didn't neglect the wolf and showed it hanging around at Wendy's feet in the "Dwelling house Nether the Ground" scene.)
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: It is said of Captain Hook that the only thing that frightens him is the sight of his ain blood, "which was thick and of an unusual colour".
• Wicked Cultured: Captain Hook had a classical British public schoolhouse educational activity, and it's left its mark on him despite everything he's done since.
• Women Are Wiser: Wendy asks Peter why in that location aren't any Lost Girls. Peter responds her that is because girls are besides smart to fall out of their cradles. Wendy is delighted.
• Yandere: Sweet, sweet Tinker Bong....wants to impale Wendy for clinging to Peter Pan. Somewhat justified in that Tink is a fairy, and thus likewise small-scale to experience more than than i emotion at a time. She'south either a perfect angel or an utter demon, and when she's jealous, well...
• You No Take Candle: The Piccaninnies talk this mode.

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