History WesternAnimation / PeterPanAndThePirates

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Peter Pan is quite cocky, mischievous, boyish, and impulsive, he is clearly the good guy. You would think that Captain Hook and his crew are typical baddies but episodes that focus directly on them give them more depth.

** Peter Pan has dark brown hair unlike the red hair of the more famous Disney incarnation, or the usually light hair of most other incarnations.

--->'''Peter''': "You are the cruelest, most heartless, irredeemably villainous pirate who ever walked a deck and truly the most evil man to set foot in Neverland!"
--->'''Hook''': "Why, you flatter me, boy!"

---> '''Hook:''' Well, not ''quite'' bottomless... but I'm sure you get the point.

-->'''Peter''': "You are the cruelest, most heartless, irredeemably villainous pirate who ever walked a deck and truly the most evil man to set foot in Neverland!"
-->'''Hook''': "Why, you flatter me, boy!"

--> '''Hook:''' Well, not ''quite'' bottomless... but I'm sure you get the point.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The crocodile, of course - [[NightmareFuel this time there isn't anything the least bit funny about her.]] She still serves an important purpose in Neverland, though.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: At the beginning of "Ages of Pan, Part 1", Peter and the Lost Boys decided to do away with Hook for good, while Hook gives them a ThousandYardStare as the spears draw closer.

'''Peter''': "You are the cruelest, most heartless, irredeemably villainous pirate who ever walked a deck and truly the most evil man to set foot in Neverland!"
'''Hook''': "Why, you flatter me, boy!"

* TheFaceless: The show makes a big point of Captain Hook having a portrait of his mother in his cabin. It makes just as big a point of never letting the viewer see it[[note]]Given the show's sense of humor, it would probably be Hook in drag, and let's face it - that's a sight [[BrainBleach better left unseen]].

* OffModel: Due to being animated by several animation studios [[note]] The aforementioned TMS, Creator/WangFilmProductions, Creator/{{AKOM}}, Creator/DaiWon, Creator/PacificRimAnimation, Pion Animation, Take One Productions, Studio Signal, Tae Sung & Island Animation in Asia, Hinton Animation; better known for ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'' in Canada and a studio in Ukrane.[[/note]], the show has this:

* AnIcePerson: The Ice King, from the first episode. Peter steals him crystals to offer to Wendy and Tinkerbell, which triggers his wrath, turning Peter and the gang into ice statues. Tinkerbell manages to thaw herself and Peter, then Peter thaws everyone, but Peter, being his proud self, still feels like provoking the Ice King. The latter ends up creating an EvilDoppelganger of Peter who's made of ice and freezes the entirety of Neverland (pirates included). It all stops and comes back to normal when Peter eventually accepts to give the last crystal back.

* GreenEyedMonster : The Mermaids are ''collectively'' this. They show their most vicious streak when after Peter calls Wendy more beautiful than they are,they decide to kidnap her and make her mermaid... without the ability to breath underwater, basically wanting to see her slowly suffocate as the air bubble she has runs out of oxygen. Even Crooked Tail, the nicest one, got in her current ugly state out of jealousy.

* TheFaceless: The show makes a big point of Captain Hook having a portrait of his mother in his cabin. It makes just as big a point of never letting the viewer see it.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Only Creator/TimCurry can say "Damnation" on children's television. And due to Hook's habit of speaking in [[AntiquatedLinguistics Archaic Language]], he gets plenty of other things past the radar. Such as his line about "''molesting'' clouds".
** Although "molesting" isn't necessarily always in the sense of what one may be thinking, but rather molesting as in bothering or pestering.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: In one episode Wendy is turned into a mermaid.

* JokerJury: In one episode, Peter Pan is put on trial by Captain Hook, with his pirates as the jury and Wendy as a defense lawyer. Surprisingly, she wins the case.
** Though not without having to filch the keys to his cage.

** In another episode where Hook is tricked into thinking he's found the fountain of youth, and gets into his long underwear, Peter remarks of Hook being in his birthday suit, then reminds Hook that "birthdays are not allowed in Neverland."

** The two episodes animated by Red Apple Group "The Plucking Of Short Tom" and "Evicted" have the most off model moments including bulging eyeballs, FishEyes, stretchy and rubbery limbs and necks, and generally looking very primitive compared to the other studios.

* StealthInsult: In "A Day At The Fair" Hook's men have all gone ashore and he has to resort to having Cookson row him there. Cookson takes so long that when they finally ''do'' reach the shores of Neverland, Hook quips they must have landed in Australia. Hook is English and England is at the opposite side of the Earth to Australia. He just implied his cook was so slow it would take them an equal amount of time to row ''round the world.''

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Inverted, despite a good section of the script being lifted verbatim from the original story. [[spoiler:When the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come shows Hook that, after his death, he dies alone and forgotten even by Peter Pan, he gets the pirate crew together for a Christmas raid on the Lost Boys' hideout, swearing that he'll be ten times worse from now on so that Peter will never forget what a terrible pirate he was.]]

* LargeHam: As in many other versions of ''Peter Pan'', Captain Hook is a large, loud, and domineering presence ready to [[ChewingTheScenery chew the scenery]] at the drop of his magnificent hat.

* MoustacheOfVillainy: Inverted, Crooked Tail is stuck with a moustache, but she's actually the most benevolent of the mermaids and was originally a VainSorceress before it happened.

%%%* FiveBadBand: Once again, there were more than five Pirates, but they still fit the pattern:
%%** BigBad -- Captain Hook (with Mr. Smee as his NumberTwo)
%%** TheDragon -- Robert Mullins, who is incidentally also TheStarscream
%%** TheBrute -- Mason and Cookson
%%** EvilGenius -- Billy Jukes
%%** DarkChick -- Gentleman Starkey

* TheTeam: The Lost Boys all have their roles and Peter rarely adventured with them all at once [[RealLifeWritesThePlot (most likely to save on animation costs due to how expensive TMS is)]]. Usually he hangs out with a few at a time, mixing and matching them to form . Still, each Lost Boy had a role to play:

* FiveManBand: While the Lost Boys had more than five members, Peter rarely adventured with them all at once [[RealLifeWritesThePlot (most likely to save on animation costs due to how expensive TMS is)]]. Usually he hangs out with a few at a time, mixing and matching them to form either a FiveManBand or a PowerTrio. Still, each Lost Boy had a role to play:
** TheLeader -- Peter Pan
** TheLancer -- Slightly
** TheBigGuy -- Nibs
** TheSmartGuy -- John, the Twins, or Curly. They each had their own brand of "smart":
*** John is TheProfessor
*** The Twins are the [[GadgeteerGenius Gadgeteer Geniuses]]
*** Curly's the [[SmartGuy Smartass Guy]]
** TheHeart -- Tootles
** TagalongKid -- Michael
** TheChick -- Tinker Bell, Wendy
*** Tinker Bell is a FairyCompanion
*** Wendy is a TeamMom
* FiveBadBand: Once again, there were more than five Pirates, but they still fit the pattern:
** BigBad -- Captain Hook (with Mr. Smee as his NumberTwo)
** TheDragon -- Robert Mullins, who is incidentally also TheStarscream
** TheBrute -- Mason and Cookson
** EvilGenius -- Billy Jukes
** DarkChick -- Gentleman Starkey
** TeamPet -- Short Tom

* IWasQuiteALooker: Old Crooked-Tail, a particularly ugly mermaid, used to be extremely beautiful, but conceited and haughty until a potion to enhance her beauty went horribly awry turning her into a green-skinned hag.

* OffModel: Due to being animated by several animation studios [[note]] The aforementioned TMS, Creator/WangFilmProductions, Creator/{{AKOM}}, Creator/DaiWon, Creator/PacificRimAnimation, Pion Animation, Take One Productions, Studio Signal, Tae Sung & Island Animation in Asia, Hinton Animation; better known for ''TheRaccoons'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'' in Canada and a studio in Ukrane.[[/note]], the show has this:
** At one point in one episode, Tall Twin is identical to Short Twin, having light skin and red hair instead of his usual black hair and darker complexion.
** In "River of Night", when Tiger Lily and Hard-To-Hit are in the canoe looking for Peter after he goes missing and Tiger Lily points out Peter's cape lain in the water to Hard-To-Hit, she isn't wearing pants.
** The two episodes animated by Red Apple Group "The Plucking Of Short Tom" and "Evicted" have the most off model moments including bulging eyeballs, FishEyes, stretchy and rubbery limbs and necks, and generally looking very primitive compared to the other studios.
* NoahsStoryArc: Fittingly enough, the episode "The Never Ark", in which the children believe that Neverland is going to be destroyed by the volcano and try to evacuate the island, including taking over the Jolly Roger to carry away all of the animals.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: The series is like if HayaoMiyazaki did a tv show. Its heavily on the idealistic side and has a strong sense of magic and wonder while also having its own sense of reality.

* GirlsWithMoustaches: Upon first meeting Crooked Tail, Peter notes that he had never seen a mermaid with a mustache before. Crooked Tail replies with [[DeadpanSnarker "You should have seen me before I shaved the beard off."]]

* LotusEaterMachine: The 'siren song' of the mermaids can act like this to those underwater, being left in an illusion while their air slowly runs out... this fails on Peter simply because his desires are so whimsical he can't decides on what to wish for.

* MustacheOfVillainy: Inverted, Crooked Tail is stuck with a mustache, but she's actually the most benevolent of the mermaids and was originally a VainSorceress before it happened.

* GreenEyesMonster : The Mermaids are ''collectively'' this. They show their most vicious streak when after Peter calls Wendy more beautiful than they are,they decide to kidnap her and make her mermaid... without the ability to breath underwater, basically wanting to see her slowly suffocate as the air bubble she has runs out of oxygen. Even Crooked Tail, the nicest one, got in her current ugly state out of jealousy.

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* FisherKing: "Ages of Pan", wherein Peter magically grows up and begins to stop believing in Neverland, shows that as Peter's belief in the land fades, the land itself turns drab, dreary, and unlivable.