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CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote:

Splash245 wrote: All I want to know is how Peter Pan became evil because let`s face it, he was evil even before he abandoned Rumple. He probably became evil when he was a child or teen, but that`s just my theory. We didn`t get to see the 'evil isn't born, it's made' episode with Peter Pan, which I still hope we can in a future season. I do too. I actually understood Malcolm and liked him in his twisted parent way, but they showed no transition from Malcolm to Pan (I mean the emotional/ character). Malcolm seemed like a parent who didn't want responsibility and set it aside in what he deemed a suitable place. Not much horribly wrong with that. He gives him up for his lost childhood and pretty much immortality and power. Understandable given his character. Sorrow filled his eyes as he saw Rumple leave with the shadow. Then, bam, he plays mind games, is super smart, and extremely manipulative. He was no longer the con man, but some child genius or something. I would say OOC, but we don't see that evil be born; we just stumble upon it. The Shadow seems smart, maybe he was tutoring Pan. Or Malcolm was always that smart, but he didn't seem like it because he was always drinking to avoid thinking about how he was a father that didn't want to be a father. Once Rumple was out of the way, his mind was clear to plot. I don't know if we need to see to see the why Malcolm is a bad person, it seems implyed he had a hard life that only got harder when he was stuck with Rumple. And at some point we have to stop. Because if you see Malcolm as a child was abused by his father or mother, for instance, then you'll want to see why they are abusive, which will probably be something that happened to them, and we will just keep going further and further back in family trees that do nothing for our plot. Malcolm actually had little backstory in this regard. He seems to be the most unsympathetic character because we never saw it. What we saw was Rumple's backstory, starring his father. We saw Cora in Regina's backstory, but we also got Cora's backstory. We got Zelena's, Ingrid's, Maleficent's, Ursula's, and soon Cruella's. The only one we don't see why they are angry or doing what they are doing is Peter Pan.

From Peter Pan being "why do you think I call myself Peter Pan" and how he actually seemed to care about little Rumple seems to disconnect to most of the Neverland plot until 3x08 and 3x11. The rest of Pan's interactions don't relate to the past. I'm sure if Pan didn't want Henry's heart, but Pinocchio's, no one would have stopped him.