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* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]]
** [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV]] in the Disney version.
* [[Ambiguous Innocence]]: Peter is quite cruel for being a child, laughing as John and Michael Darling nearly fell to their deaths, told Wendy her mother abandoned her, and not to mention what he did to Captain Hook.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: And this is explored rather thoroughly in the book, both the positive and negative sides to never losing your childish innocence.
* [[Crosscast Role]]: Often in theatre, Peter is portrayed by a woman. However, in the Disney film, 2003 film and [[Hook]] among others, he is played by a boy or a [[Robin Williams|man]].
* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: Peter vowed to never grow up when he just a baby after overhearing his parents discussing his already planned out future despite only being born, and fled to Kensington Garden where he met Tinker Bell, learnt how to fly and went to Neverland.
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* [[Kid Hero]]
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Though in Peter's case it's (mostly) not intentional.
* [[Living Shadow]]: Averted in the original novel and play, where Peter's detatched shadow is never mentioned to be alive or moving on its own accord. Most of the visual adaptations, though, do portray Peter's shadow as alive and able to live sepaeately from Peter -- probably because this is much more visually exciting than a shadow that just hangs in someone's grip like a piece of laundry.
* [[Lonely
* [[Never Grew Up]]: The [[Trope Namers]].
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: In the novel and play, but averted in several of the films.
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* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[The Storyteller]]: The reason Peter takes her to Neverland in the first place.
* [[Team Mom]]: Takes on the role partly by choice and partly because she is begged to.
=== Captain James Hook ===
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** We also know Hook once served as boatswain to Blackbeard, and was the ''only'' pirate that [[Treasure Island|Long John Silver]] ever feared.
** The novel ''Peter and the Starcatchers'' (currently being adapted to film by Disney) posits that Hook was originally known as Captain Black Stache, after his black mustache.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: An evil, bloodthirsty pirate he may be, but he's also a refined, well-schooled gentleman who places a huge value on "good form."
=== Mr. Smee ===
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: He's either Hook's boatswain (like in the novel) or first mate (like many Disney adaptations).
* [[I Call It Vera]]:
{{quote|''Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny Corkscrew, because he wiggled it in the wound.''}}
* [[Lovable Coward]]: Often scene fleeing the Jolly Roger in a longboat.
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* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: [[Trope Namers]].
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]
* [[Cute Mute]]: Not literally mute, just speaks in a voice that to human ears sounds like tinkling bells. The audience generally does not understand her, but Peter does. In the book, the Lost Boys do as well, and towards the end, Wendy has at least learned enough of the language to recognize the insults Tink hurls at her.
** How adaptations treat this varies a lot: Several adaptations, including the Disney movie, make Peter the ''only'' one who can understand her perfectly, and with everyone else she has to resort to miming to get her point across. In other adaptations, such as the [[World Masterpiece Theater]] version, [[Peter Pan and The Pirates]], and of course ''[[Hook]]'', she speaks normally.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Drank poison to save Peter. Resurrected by clapping hands.}}
** In the [[World Masterpiece Theater]] version {{spoiler|she uses almost all of her [[Life Energy]] to save Peter from a [[Death Trap]] instead. She gets better thanks to Tiger Lily}}.
** And in the Disney Animated version {{spoiler|she gets terribly damaged trying to remove the exploding time bomb that was intended for Peter. Though his hideout is ruined by the explosion, both survive as he searches for the frail, weak Tinker Bell}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Turns out she died sometime before Peter came to take Wendy back for "spring cleaning" a year after their first adventure, and Peter does not even remember her.}}
** {{spoiler|In ''Peter Pan in Scarlet,'' which takes place twenty years later, she is [[Back
* [[Our Fairies Are Different]]
* [[We Are as Mayflies]]: Fairies have very short lifespans, probably about a year or so.
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=== The Lost Boys ===
Peter's trusty gang; boys who were lost or abandoned by their parents and eventually ended up in Never Land. There are a lot of them over the years, and different adaptations and sequels have different Lost Boys -- but the original, and most commonly-used ones, are Tootles, Slightly, Curly, Nibs and the Twins.
* [[Band of Brothers]]: They bicker and fight a lot, but they're always there for each other. At least until Peter says something else.
* [[Born Unlucky]]: Tootles. He misses out on more adventures than anyone else because they have a tendency to happen when he's just left the scene, and if something bad happens it generally happens to him.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Again, Tootles, though Slightly also has traces of this.
* [[The Dividual]]: The Twins are the Twindividual variety; they don't even have individual names <ref>excluding ''Peter Pan in Scarlet,'' where their names are eventually revealed to be [[Embarassing First Name|Marmaduke and Binky]]</ref> and are never seen apart. Some adaptations has them as [[Single-Minded Twins]].
** To a lesser extent, the Lost Boys as a group can be said to have a Syndividual thing going on; they have their individual personalities, but it's as a ''group'' they're important, and most often they only appear as a group.
** Interestingly, the "[[Single-Minded Twins]]" trope is [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] a few times in the play and the novel; "First Twin" is said to be prouder than his brother, "intellectually the superior of the two", and the best dancer of the group. The truth is that the twins ''intentionally'' act as much alike as possible because Peter, who doesn't have a realistic view of what twins are, thinks that they should.
{{quote|'''Second Twin:''' Slightly, I dreamt last night that the prince found Cinderella.
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* [[Fearless Fool]]: Nibs has traces of this.
* [[The Fool]]: Tootles, something Tinker Bell tries to take advantage of. There's a bit of [[Dumb Is Good]] there as well, as Tootles is very clearly the [[Nice Guy|kindest and most selfless]] of the Lost Boys.
* [[Gender Bender]]: Tootles in ''Peter Pan in Scarlet,'' as a part of the books recurring and exaggerated "clothes make the man" theme -- when the now adult Lost Boys become children again by dressing in their children's clothes, Tootles (who only has daughters) is forced to dress as a girl, and so he physically ''becomes'' a girl, [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body|and starts acting like]] a wannabe [[Princess Classic]] -- and like Wendy, Tinker Bell and Tiger Lily before him/her, develops a crush on Peter and begins displaying traces of [[Hopeless Suitor]].
* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: Unlike Peter, they ''do'' eventually grow up (if we exclude the Disney version), and quickly discover it's not as much fun as they'd thought. Not played completely straight, though, as several of them actually turn out to have rather nice (if less adventurous) lives as adults.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Tootles, not surprisingly. He even grows up to be a judge.
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* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Tootles and Slightly share this role, which is probably why they tend to get the most individual attention.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: In some adaptations, they can have traces of this.
* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: Slightly in ''Peter Pan in Scarlet'' -- very notably so.
* [[The Voiceless]]: Tootles in the Disney movie.
* [[Yes-Man]]: ''All'' of them are this to Peter.
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=== John and Michael Darling ===
Wendy's younger brothers, and her regular audience for stories about Peter Pan. They accompany her to Neverland and become part of the Lost Boys for a while, but eventually return home.
* [[Age Lift]]: Most notably with Michael in the 2003 movie; in the book he's around three or four, but in the movie he's eight. John is eight in the book, ten in the musical and around eleven or twelve in the movie. Averted in the Disney movie, which has them roughly the same age as in the book.
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* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Michael in ''Peter Pan in Scarlet.'' He's revealed to have died in World War I.}}
* [[Nice Hat]]: John wears a top hat, which in the book is eventually used as a chimney for Wendy's house.
* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: An in-universe variant with Michael in the book, who is designated (by Wendy) to be the "baby" and is made to be younger than he really is.
* [[Pajama-Clad Hero|Pajama Clad Heroes]]: Along with Wendy, they spend their entire time in Neverland in their sleepwear (apart from John's top hat, which he grabbed at the last moment before flying off to Neverland).
* [[Stuffy Brit]]: John. It's especially noticeable in the Disney movie, but it's definitely present in the book and play as well.
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