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@batclaw wrote:
I don,t think PP will be bad I think it,s his shadow captureing boys and he needs to find his shadow and retached himself with it.Also Disney would not let PP be bad it would not look good with mom,s and dad,s knowing that Disney is letting this show turning everyone childhood hero into a villain they would not want there kids watching that if PP was bad I been wondeing why PP was not with the LB when they was looking for Bae then it hit me PP was with Wendy and her brothers after the shadow got Bae PP came and told Wendy that he needs help that his shadow is going crazy captureing boys and does not know how to retached himself with the shadow and then I think he said to Wendy is if she help him with his shadow then they could find Bae and bring him home so while LB was looking for Bae PP was showing Wendy and her brothers NL.
Why is it so hard for you to believe Peter Pan can be a villain? This is how Wikipedia describes him:
Peter is mainly an exaggerated stereotype of a boastful and careless boy. He is quick to point out how great he is, even when such claims are questionable (such as when he congratulates himself for Wendy’s successful re-attachment of his shadow). In the book and play, as well as both film adaptations, Peter either symbolises or personifies the selfishness of childhood, shown in Barrie’s work through constant forgetfulness and self-centred behaviour.
Peter has a nonchalant, devil-may-care attitude, and is fearlessly cocky when it comes to putting himself in danger. Barrie writes that when Peter thought he was going to die on Marooners’ Rock, he felt scared, yet he felt only one shudder run through him when any other person would have felt scared up until death. With his blithe attitude towards death, he says, “To die will be an awfully big adventure”. He repeats this line as an adult in the film Hook (1991), during the battle with Hook near the film’s climax. He then inverts the phrase at the film’s very end claiming, “To live will be an awfully big adventure”. This line was actually taken from the end of the last scene in the play, when the unseen and unnamed narrator ponders what might have been if Peter had stayed with Wendy, so that his cry might have become, “To live would be an awfully big adventure!”, “but he can never quite get the hang of it”.[3]
In some variations of the story and some spin-offs, Peter can also be quite selfish and arrogant. In the Disney adaptation (1953), Peter appears very judgemental and pompous (for instance, he calls the Lost Boys “blockheads”, and when the Darling children say they should leave for home at once, he misunderstands their wish and angrily assumes they want to grow up). Nonetheless, he has a strong sense of justice and is always quick to assist those in danger.
Bolded the most interesting excerpts. I see far more negative personality traits to the character here than positive ones. It’s very within the realm of possibility to have Peter Pan be a villain if they so wish, it wouldn’t be that much a stretch at all!
Trivia: according to Disney wiki, “even though his film was a success, Peter Pan was not one of Walt Disney’s favorite characters because he felt Pan was too immature and cold.”