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2	* In most performances of ''Peter Pan'', the actor who plays the children's father [[AndYouWereThere also plays]] Captain Hook. In this story, the children's father ''is'' Peter Pan.
3	* Similarly, like how the father and Captain Hook are played by the same actor, Dustin Hoffman is also the voice of the pilot on the plane Peter is terrified on, since like the father the airplane (representing Peter's fear of flying) is the real world nemesis.
4	* When grown-up Peter first meets Hook, he tries to show them his passport as proof of his identity. Smee grabs it away and tosses it aside. So how does he get back home? When he gets back to England, ''he is home.''
5	* Tinker Bell speaks English instead of her traditional ringing bell "fairy language". I always figured that the writers were ignoring the fairy language for the sake of the audience understanding her dialogue. Then it occurred to me that the only characters she talks to are Peter, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys, all of whom could understand fairy speak in the original story. So Tinker Bell really is speaking Fairy and [[TranslationConvention Translation Convention]] is at work.
6	** Which adds another layer to adult Peter's first meeting with Tink: for all he's "grown up" he can still understand fairies, probably without realizing he was doing it. This could also explain why Tink's faith in him remained so strong in spite of everything; she knew that if he could still speak to her he couldn't be completely hopeless. (As well as a sort of proof that he was Peter Pan: just how many grown-ups would be able to understand her?)
7	* On a similar note, when Hook first shows up at Wendy's house, Nana the dog begins to bark; Tootles, dozing in his chair, hears her and is able to translate her barks to the word "Hook" (the sound of the barks even morphs into a human voice growling "HOOK!"). Tinkerbell says that you can remember Neverland in the place between being awake and being asleep; Tootles understands Nana in that state because he's remembering Neverland, and as a Lost Boy, he could talk to animals! Given that old people nap a ''lot'', it makes perfect sense that Tootles is beginning to remember his former life.
8	** For some additional fridge brilliance, senility in old age is often referred to as '''''second childhood'''''.
9	* Jack's drawing implies that he hopes his dad falls out of the plane with no parachute. The Drawing takes on a double meaning when he finds out his father is Peter Pan.
10	* The Pirates and Hook somehow manage to get to the real world to steal Pan's children. The reason for this is that in original adventure, Peter shanghaied Hook's ship to take Wendy, John and Michael home. To do this, Tink Fairy dusted the ship and everyone used their happy thoughts to fly it back to England. Obviously, Pan took the ship back and somewhere along the line Hook gets it back. The dust is still on it. His happy thought: One day meeting Pan again to finish the war they started.
11	* Tinkerbell seems much nicer than her book counterpart. Then again, the book was based on Wendy's recollections, and we know they didn't get along. Of course, the person she ''was'' jealous of is an old woman and is no longer a threat.
12	* One for the party scene too. A gust of wind blows open the window behind her and Wendy stumbles. Why? The magic that blew open the window would have been under ''Hook's orders''. The orders? Steal the thing Peter loved most. At one point that was ''Wendy'' - if not romantically on his part, then certainly as a sister. Then, after checking her, it bypasses her as there's ''something more important now''; Peter's kids. Cue window blowing open in the nursery, followed by screaming children.
13	* Peter saw Wendy as his mother. In the book, when asked by Wendy to describe his exact feelings towards her, his reply is "those of devoted son".
14	* Why did Tinkerbell fly right to Wendy's house to find Peter? ''Because it's the last place she saw him'' (when he and Moira first met!) and, if she couldn't find him, ''Wendy'' would know where Peter is, so she could help anyway.
15	* What would a pirate do if someone tried to steal from him? To him, shooting the player who's "stealing" second base is the obvious reaction.
16	* When Peter and the children return from Neverland, Elderly Tootles sadly asks, "I've missed the adventure again, haven't I, Peter?" In the original story, Tootles the Lost Boy had the terrible luck of always missing out on Peter's adventures.
17	** Tootles is also the only one of the Lost Boys who returned to London with Peter and grew up. This is another reference to the original play, where Tootles ''did'' return to London and grew up to become a judge. (He's even referred to as Wendy's "first orphan" in the movie.)
18	* How was the dead crocodile able to come back to life? Peter shoved Hook's hook hand into the croc's belly -- ''right after Tinkerbell blocked it and presumably got fairy dust on it.'' And what was the croc's last happy thought? ''Eating the Captain.''
19	* The few Lost Boys who believed it's Peter, they're SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitutes of the original Lost Boys.
20	* Near the end of the film, we see Jack and Maggie fly back into the room, but with Peter, we see him asleep on the ground as if it was AllJustADream. It may be some age difference with people coming back from Neverland, and shows that Peter really has grown up.
21	* One criticism of the film is the TotallyRadical Lost Boys playing basketball and skateboarding. However, it's evident from the clothing of the Boys that they come from a wide range of time periods. The twins are wearing Boy Scout uniforms from TheRoaringTwenties. Another Boy is wearing the uniform and insignia of a Union artilleryman from the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar. So there's absolutely no reason to believe that there may not have been a Lost Boy who arrived from TheEighties or TheNineties, and brought skateboarding and basketball with them. This might also explain why they made Rufio their new leader: the Lost Boys' existence ''revolves'' around playing games -- even fighting pirates is seen a game to them; if a (slightly) older, tougher, streetwise boy showed up with some great new games they'd never seen before, why ''wouldn't'' they make him their leader?
22	* Rufio's costume is a perfect representation of his role in Neverland. His fringed clothing, boots, and feather-like red Mohawk make him [[https://moviemorgue.fandom.com/wiki/Rufio look]] vaguely like [[https://pin.it/5E1nFLa the illustration of Peter]] in Wendy's book, while also bringing to mind Peter's costume in the movie -- with just a little bit of punk sensibility. In essence, he's a darker, edgier, more modern take on Peter Pan.
23	* During the dinner scene, where all the food is imagined by the Lost Boys, Peter is totally flummoxed by this. However, he did see the steam pouring out of the serving dishes, so he still had the power to imagine, he simply needed the assurance that he did. This is evident once he wins the insult battle against Rufio, Peter not only sees the full banquet, but judging by the reactions of the Lost Boys, his imagination overrides theirs.
24	* Once Peter flies back to London and wakes up under the statue, he encounters a street sweeper who bears a striking resemblance to Smee, but is left ambiguous to whether it is actually him or not. However in the scene on Hook's ship it's shown that Smee has Peter's medical records. How did he get those? Assuming that the street sweeper at the end ''is'' Smee, it makes sense now how he got ahold of Peter's records despite being a resident of Neverland; he had a way to get into the real world, where he somehow got ahold of Peter's medical records, and again used that way to get back after Hook's demise.
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26	[[AC:FridgeHorror]]
27	* A small one in ''Film/{{Hook}}'': On her way to Neverland, Tinker Bell sprinkles a kissing couple with fairy dust, causing them to float — above a bridge. The question is: Will they float just as gently back ''down''?
28	* Hook tries to invoke this on Peter to psych him in battle.
29	--> '''Hook:''' You know you're not really Peter Pan, this is all a dream. When you wake up you'll be Peter Banning: a cold, selfish man, who drinks too much, is obsessed with success, and runs and hides from his wife and children.
30	* More of a {{Squick}} comical sense, but in the beginning Maggie plays Wendy in a kid's play of Peter Pan. During which much like the actual Wendy she expects a kiss from Peter instead of a thimble. It seems cute at first, but then she find's out that the person Play Pan is based on is her father....
31	** After he saves her from the pirate, and she realises her dad is Peter Pan, Maggie does give Peter a kiss on the cheek. It's very sweet.
32	* It's become clear that the Lost Boys will kill any adult (Save for Pan since he won them over.) Under the assumption that all adults are pirates. What do you think is gonna happen once the nice Elderly Tootles arrives to try to reconnect with his fellow Lost Boys?
33	** Under Rufio's leadership, the Lost Boys will kill any adult. Furthermore, Rufio's appearance suggests that he is a relative newcomer to Neverland, compared to the boys whose clothing suggests that they are from the Civil War or 1920's era. Thudbutt, the new leader, actually knows who Tootles is; he had Tootles' marbles. He probably knew him and, even after all this time, could recognize him again.
34	* Rufio's line that he wished he had a dad like Peter makes you wonder: just what kind of life did Rufio have before he met the Lost Boys? Especially when it left him so streetwise, and gave him such a cynical view towards adults?
35	* It's heavily implied that those who die in Neverland are forgotten. In fact, the Lost Boys (with the exception of Peter) seem to forget Rufio, their former leader, mere ''minutes'' after his death. During an earlier scene, Hook grumbles, "I'm tired of killing Lost Boys and Indians. I've spent most of my life killing them." How many Lost Boys have been murdered over the years and aren't missed because they ''can't be remembered''? Or Indians, for that matter? True, we never meet any, they're no less a community of living, breathing people than the Lost Boys. Worse, ''[[InferredHolocaust is]]'' [[InferredHolocaust there a community of Indians left]]?
36	* Of a rather "squick" nature, imagine that there may be boys in Neverland who end up growing up anyway. What do you think happens to them? They probably become pirates (which would justify why there are so many of them even if the Lost Boys keep killing them). Now, Peter probably brought other girls after Wendy to Neverland (like in the books, where he brings her daughter). What would happen to those girls who do end up growing up? And there you have the origin story of the prostitutes that appear in the film.
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38	[[AC:FridgeLogic]]
39	* At the start of the film, Jack is playing a Little League game, despite it being nearly Christmas. What?
40	** The banner visible when Peter finally arrives reveals it to be a "winter league" game. This is totally a thing in Little League in the mainland US and not an attempt by the film to shoehorn in baseball and Christmas at the same time.
41	* As pointed out by the Nostalgia Critic, infant Peter "runs away" when he hears that his mother already has his life trajectory planned out, and remarks that it would mean he would have to grow up and eventually die. As a baby, how would he acknowledge and understand any of these concepts?
42	* Peter's bronze sword is never explained in the movie. It's just a special TechnicolorBlade. However, the blade appears to be a Greek Xiphos from the bronze age. The sword must have been thousands of years old. Could the original Lost Boys, before even Peter, have been orphans from the ancient world? Perhaps from Troy? That might explain why their leader is named after a Greek god.

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