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Tcweh wrote: Spincha wrote: The thing with Peter Pan was that he never mentally became an adult. He did some of the most heinous actions in the series, was willing to go as far sacrificing his most loyal henchman, and that, based on utter lack of remorse, puts him possibly ahead of even Jafar and just below Midas. I just have a hard time faulting him for those actions. (I've known way too many people with kids just like that.) He was a child in an adult's body who traded his child for a child's body. It's a little unfair, but the most socially forward perspective on evil admits that children just can't be expected if they don't reach a certain developmental stage, and some people actually never go formal operational. If the body matters, then he became a child and that's that. If the body doesn't matter, he was never an adult at any time.

Pan was not a child mentally. He was the smartest on the show, manipulating and playing mind games with everyone including Rumpel freaking stilskin (the master of manipulators). And most children are not sociopathic killers, you are excusing him wayy too much here. It was also obvious that Pan was not a child because Rumple feared him greatly.