Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-399102-20130504205715/@comment-4911992-20130513210945

GothicNarcissus wrote: 65.189.198.25 wrote:

Sphereone wrote: C'mon. Get real. Felix is definitely Peter Pan. And Peter Pan is the lostest boy of them ALL especially for holding the Lost Boys. Peter Pan is a tyrant, bully. Funny how the animated film downplayed the realism of character, but he isn't a nice person, so I see why the writers took a sinister approach with him. 1) He doesn't like grownups 2) Doesn't want to get old 3) Wants to fight pirates and have adventures. Yessss, definitely something off about a kid who does this. What? Are you being sarcastic? Most kids are exactly like that, and they're not all evil bullying tyrants. Well, kids are evil. Just intrinsically. If there's no adult around to tell them to behave and not to do bad things, most of them will mercilessly pick on anything weaker than themselves (other kids, pets and so on) in the meanest ways. If this is the twist the authors gave to Peter Pan, then they're geniuses.

Yeah, I kinda agree with Sphereone. In the book, Peter describes adventures as (and I'm paraphrasing here) killing stuff and preparing to kill stuff. One of the adventures JM Barrie mentions is when Peter and the Lost Boys go have a vicious fight with the Indians. Peter even convinces Michael to kill a Pirate during the climactic battle, which horrifies Wendy. He also mentions he's killed several pirates. While he is technically the "good guy" in the book, he often finds himself doing "bad guy" stuff, except for his HUGE obsession about being fair.