Peter Pan NOT funny

I hate how Disney's bastardised cuddle bear let's-make-those-5-years-old-kids-laugh version has become the face of Peter Pan when it has UTTERLY missed the entire point of the real story and character.

Although the book does not lack humour. I found the novel very childlikely humourous (but MUCH more intelligently/uniquely so than the Disney cartoon, might I add!) all the way up to the moment when Peter, Wendy, John and Michael fly out of the Darling house window.

BUT from that moment on it suddenly turns much darker in atmosphere and tone, slowly digging into its basic theme of motherless children (and adults) in violent life and how it affects them, not to mention the way Neverland erases memories and could utterly seperate loved ones from each other forever.

The real character of Peter Pan is a mental, brutal and dangerous 7-years old human child who yearns for a mother-figure although doesn't really want to admit it.

As in the real story is made of deep and dark psychology and its lesson is supposed to be how it is NOT so great to be a child forever and how FAMILY is crucial to a human being's happiness and a mother/child relationship a fundimental right. Hence, Peter Pan was bloody hurt and traumatized by his mother forgetting all about him after he had believed in her eternal love with all his little heart and tried to return home to her in means to grow up and make her proud...

Captain Hook is not a bloody screaming clown but a cruel and sinister pirate with dignity!

Here, let me put it in audiovisual way:</u>

WRONG: [link]

ALMOST CORRECT: [link]
(Almost in the sense that unlike in that movie version, in the novel Peter's about 6-8-years old, he does not have that exact discussion with Wendy, Hook bites Peter, Peter literally drives his sword through pirates, whips Slightly, and forgets about the pirates after killing them. And likely would've had bruises in his face if Hook had kicked him in the face like that...Damn PG rated movies!)

WRONG: (from the Disney cartoon)
Peter Pan: "Mother? What’s a mother?"
Wendy: "Why, Peter, a mother’s someone…who loves and cares for you and tells you stories--"

CORRECT: [link]
(Peter is utterly aware of what a mother is!!!! Mrs. Darling isn't his in canon, she's just filling in for her in this video, in the actual character's absence in the first movie adaptation that actually had all the reasons to include her...)

SUMMARY: Peter Pan is NOT supposed to be a FUNNY story.

PETER PAN ORIGIN FORUMS: [link]
A discussion forum for all Peter Pan fans about everything Peter Pan. You can also share and enjoy fanfiction and fan art. (Also fans of Disney's Peter Pan are welcome. I do not bite. I just personally don't appreciate that version.)