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Ktorg117 wrote: It was also obvious that Pan was not a child because Rumple feared him greatly.

I'd fear even a baby with those powers too! There's a whole Twilight Zone episode like that.

I see Pan as an adult who never grew up. When he got the option to make his body match that, he took it. Highly intelligent and manipulative, like a lot of kids I know. All he really wanted was to just be a kid forever. He didn't care about the cost, and he didn't seem to even know his actions were wrong on any level. When he took the heart of his most loyal henchman, there was no remorse. There was no second-guessing. It was a child ripping open a bug because the child has a total disconnect in its head between the suffering of the bug and its own suffering.

On the one hand, you can call that such a pure psychopath - not even the knowledge of right and wrong - that he can't be considered evil because he probably could never have understood the difference between right and wrong in the first place. On the other hand, it can be seen as the purest evil.

Even Jafar had to be taught one from the other to choose evil.

"But he did nothing!"

"Exactly."