Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4047879-20130517155027/@comment-6195464-20130517163813

Yep- I think people get the wrong impression of Peter Pan from the Disney film... He's not a smiley hero who enjoys adventures and laughter and fun. He's a severely disturbed, selfish boy who has no qualms about killing and kidnapping.

Think about it... Children, by nature, are inherantly self-centered and self-serving. If we were allowed to stay children forever, we would never grow to learn things like love, patience, morality... I mean - think back to when you were a kid. You had no qualms about hurting another kid because they took something that belonged to you, or even something you wanted to belong to you. You didn't worry about taking the last jelly bean, because you didn't concern yourself with the feelings of others... What is one of the first words a toddler learns? "Mine".

Essentially, Peter is trapped in this embodiment of immaturity. Everything to him is a game, because he doesn't have the capacity to see otherwise. Even death. What does he say when Hook is about to kill him? "To die would be an awfully big adventure." When faced with his own mortality, he still can't be made to behave in any way but with childish abandon.

It's not such a huge jump then, from the Peter of the story to Adam and Eddy's interpretation of his darker form.