!!The novel
* AdaptationDisplacement:
** It's often forgotten that it actually began life as [[Theatre/PeterPan1904 a play]], before being adapted into a novel (both by JM Barrie).
** And it's often forgotten that while the play was Peter Pan's first incarnation as a story, the ''character'' of Peter Pan goes back further still, to his debut in ''Literature/PeterPanInKensingtonGardens'', which wasn't even its own standalone story but part of Barrie's novel ''The Little White Bird''.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: One of the rare cases in which it hits on something, since most of the people who consider Pan evil have no idea that early drafts of the story had him as the villain, taking children away from their parents. The main debate is whether the character's more negative traits stem from his naiveté or are a hint that Peter is more manipulative than he seems.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Darlings having a dog as a nursemaid may seem like a quirky detail in a children's story, but dogs were indeed used to supervise children in Victorian London. JM Barrie modelled Nana off his own dog; a Landseer Newfoundland, a breed particularly good with children.
* AngstWhatAngst:
** In everyone who goes to Neverland.
** In Peter himself, so much it's scary. The one thing he ever briefly has angst over is the fact that he had no parents, and he'll never have a family or know true love because [[NotGrowingUpSucks he can't grow up]], which is a bit of a TearJerker. In ''Hook'' he gives in to this and leaves Neverland.
** In the novel it is mentioned that he has nightmares and cries a lot in his sleep. This implies that even if he has forgotten all the horrible things that have happened to him, he still remembers them subconsciously.
* CommonKnowledge:
** Tinker Bell is mute, right? Not necessarily - while the play relied on the actors to tell the audience what Tinker Bell is saying, and the Disney version made her speak through miming (as well as Peter & The Lost Boys), that's actually because the ''audience'' doesn't understand Tinker Bell. The characters InUniverse can.
** While commonly thought of as white, J. M. Barrie never described Peter's appearance in detail, leaving it to the reader's imagination and the interpretation of whoever is adapting him, making films such as ''Film/{{Wendy}}'' and ''Film/PeterPanAndWendy'' less of a RaceLift than most people would think.
** It's commonly believed that Wendy wore a nightgown during her entire stay in Neverland, but that is not necessarily the case in the play and novel. While it's true that Wendy did arrive in Neverland in her nightgown, the original play describes Wendy to be wearing "romantic woodland garments, sewn by herself" in Act IV, and the novel mentions that Wendy wore a frock "[[GardenGarment woven from leaves and berries in the Neverland]]" that was getting too small for her during her first return trip with Peter, suggesting it was something she made and wore during her first stay in Neverland. This is a detail that was retained in the first film adaptation of ''Film/{{Peter Pan|1924}}'' but was dropped in all future adaptations. [[note]]The likely explanation is that nightgown offers such a visual {{Foil}} of Wendy to Peter that nearly all the adaptations and retellings choose to keep it on her, which is helped by the fact [[CompressedAdaptation her stay in Neverland is often shorten to a day rather than weeks]].[[/note]]
* DracoInLeatherPants: Many people, particularly those among the ChildHater crowd, tend to insist online Captain Hook was the "true hero" of the story, and call Peter Pan the "true villain", often citing the book as the source of said claims. While the book itself recognizes Captain Hook has some good qualities, he never does anything remotely heroic in the story, and he was more than willing to kill a bunch of children in cold blood, and is also shown to be a BadBoss who mistreats his own henchmen. Also, in the book, the sole reason of why he hates Peter Pan is not because he cut his hand or anything like that: In the novel, he hates Peter Pan [[EvilIsPetty because he is annoyed at his disrespectful behavior.]]
* EvilIsCool: Captain Hook. [[LampshadeHanging The narrator is well aware of this]], and repeatedly goes out of his way to stress that, despite being "not wholly unheroic", he ''isn't'' a DracoInLeatherPants.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Tinker Bell's death of old age is ignored by almost every adaptation and fan work, to the point that the official sequel to the novel, ''Literature/PeterPanInScarlet'', brings her back to life.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** John mentions fantasizing about becoming a pirate and calling himself Red-handed Jack. In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', Peter's son Jack ''does'' become a pirate, and he dresses up like a miniature Captain Hook. Had he gone the whole nine yards, he would have been Jack with a RedRightHand.
** The late author Creator/PeterBenchley's widow is named Wendy.
* JerkassWoobie: Peter Pan himself is an arrogant and bloodthirsty delinquent, but every now and then the veneer slips and it's clear how desperately sad it is to never grow up. [[TearJerker Especially toward the end, when the narrator describes how Peter will never be able to know the joys and love of family.]]
* MoralEventHorizon:
** The pirates' massacre of the Indians is this for Hook.
** Given how much of a SociopathicHero he is, Peter himself might have crossed it when he cut off Hook's hand. He showed no remorse for it and this set up a huge feud between himself and Hook.
* NoYay: Wendy/Hook. Good god, Wendy/Hook. "For a moment she was entranced by him." See the 2003 film version as well.
* RootingForTheEmpire: Peter Pan is such a [[SociopathicHero sociopath]] it can be hard to cheer for him in the final battle on the pirate ship.
* RonTheDeathEater: In the book, Peter Pan is a SociopathicHero who due to his inability of growing up, constantly [[AesopAmnesia forgets every single lesson he learns]] and does (and says) many questionable things, but still has some good qualities and cares about Wendy and the other kids. Many modern interpretations completely demonize him, painting him as an outright villain who deliberately kidnaps children and murders them.
* ToyShip: Peter and Wendy. Also Wendy and Hook, depending on the handling of the adaptation.
* ValuesDissonance:
** The boys go out and have adventures, and Wendy is their 'mother' and does all of the cooking and mending. At the end of the story Peter returns to London to find Wendy grown up, and her daughter goes off with him for a month to do his spring-cleaning. The whole story is built around children's fantasies, so the fundamental premise is that it's boys' fantasies to have adventures with pirates and Indians and the like, and girls' fantasies to be mothers and keep house and that's ''all''. (Tiger Lily is an exception, being described as a formidable warrior, but the only scene we really see her in is when Peter saves her and she more or less disappears from the story after that, making her a FauxActionGirl).[[note]]There is however more context required to this plot point; as Neverland is a world created by children's stories and dreams, Wendy is initially going there to escape growing up. But when she gets there, all she wants to do is roleplay being a mother and wife, as a sign that she already is growing up. It's meant to show that because she doesn't take part in children's adventures and has a crush on Peter that she's already growing up.[[/note]]
** The questionable stereotypical depiction of the Indians, particularly after Peter saves Tiger Lily.
** The insinuation that all families have/need both a mother and father, which is blatant in the Disney adaptation.
** Not as much as the above, but the fact that the boys refuse to shout "Down with the King" is supposedly evidence that they are coming to their senses wouldn't occur to many families today, as Republicanism is much stronger.
* TheWoobie: Say it with us, everyone--"Poor Tootles!" Despite being the only Lost Boy who might accurately be called "nice", he's BornUnlucky and his self-esteem is virtually non-existent. He's always saying things like this:
-->''"I did it...When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her."''

!![[WesternAnimation/PeterPan The Disney animated film]]
* AccidentalAesop:
** If you’re in an environment where you’re constantly disrespected and mistreated for the pettiest of reasons, it is ''not'' worth staying there no matter how badly you want to. You have every right to abandon that place for one where you know people love and respect you.
** Don't mistreat somebody who idolizes you or they may abandon you.
* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie adds "star" to the book's quote "Second star to the right and straight on til morning", which is almost invariably how the phrase is quoted, often even with mistaken attribution to Barrie.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: By the time of her musical number "Your Mother and Mine" in Peter Pan's hideout, it's likely that Wendy doesn't want to return home simply because she misses her parents, but rather because of the ''horrible'' experiences that she's had ever since she came to Neverland. Said experiences include Tinker Bell trying to kill her via the Lost Boys, the Mermaids trying to kill her, the Indians treating her like a slave, and Peter laughing at and/or ignoring her through the whole thing.
* AngstWhatAngst: Hook and Smee both state that Peter cutting off Hook's hand was only a "childish prank". The true reason Hook hates Peter is for the fact that by feeding the hand to Tick-Toc, Peter made Hook the crocodile's target for the rest of his life.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** Tick-Tock the Crocodile's CutSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR2_N3zCXM8 Never Smile at a Crocodile]]".
** "You Can Fly" and "Follow The Leader" also count.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Peter's JerkWithAHeartOfGold personality either makes him one of the best or worst Disney characters, depending on who you ask. Doesn't help that Walt Disney himself [[CreatorBacklash agreed that Peter was too unlikable]].
* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Tinker Bell and the mermaids.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The crocodile looking at the camera and smiling while following Hook, Smee and a captive Tiger Lily in a rowboat. Even Peter looks confused.
* BrokenBase: The movie itself has entered this in the modern age. Some still view it as a Disney classic, while others feel it's a bad adaptation of the original play/novel. The racist portrayal of the Indians and the subsequent treatment of Peter's actor Creator/BobbyDriscoll doesn't help.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Hook is plotting how to torture Tiger Lily, and Smee is smiling at him while preparing a shaving cream. Then a pirate sitting above them is singing off-key, with an accordion. Hook sends a DeathGlare upward for the interruption, but his crewmate takes no notice. So Hook grabs a pistol, shoots without looking, and doesn't react to the sound of a broken accordion smashing into the water, with the wave crashing into Smee. Smee then chides Hook because the man was "in the middle of his cadenza", not that the killing was wrong, period.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Mr. Smee has a lot of funny moments for being a villain's sidekick and so has a lot of fans.
** Tick-Tock the Crocodile has become iconic for the tick-tock that announces his presence, and the hilarious fright it provokes in Hook.
** Tiger Lily is also the only Native American character that is somewhat well-liked, since she isn't a racist caricature like the rest of her people and is actually pretty cool as the [[TheVoiceless silent]] [[OnlySaneMan only sane character]] in Neverland.
** The Mermaids, who don't even have names, get a lot of fan love, especially on Tumblr. It helps that one is voiced by the legendary Creator/JuneForay.
* EthnicScrappy: The film's depiction of Native Americans is an OldShame for Disney. Besides having literal red skin (which their song "What Made the Red Man Red?" attributes to a white boy blushing after getting kissed by a girl he liked), they have [[TipisAndTotemPoles a mishmash of different tribes' cultures]], and most are drawn cartoonishly compared to the more normal-looking white characters. Only Tiger Lily is drawn differently, and unsurprisingly she's the most popular Indian character in the movie by far. The Indians notably don't appear in Return To Neverland, and the DVD does not give the option to skip to "What Made the Red Man Red?" They do appear in the 2002 game, though but without the stereotypical red skin color.
* EvilIsCool: Captain Hook. It was said that Hans Conried really had fun doing Hook's voice.
* FairForItsDay: The movie's embarrassing portrayal of the Indian tribe was actually one of the more ''positive'' representations of Native Americans at the time (and to the writers' credit, they do show things like Tiger Lily refusing to rat out Peter's hideout to Hook, John's claims about the group being unintelligent being InstantlyProvenWrong when the group successfully sneaks up on him, and the Indians utterly ''[[CurbStompBattle trouncing]]'' John, Michael, and the Lost Boys in combat). Supervising ''Peter Pan'' animator Marc Davis said in an interview decades after the movie's initial release: "[[CreatorBacklash I'm not sure we would have done the Indians if we were making this movie now. And if we had we wouldn't do them the way we did back then.]]" But still, Disney has done what it can short of censoring the film. For instance, the Blu-Ray has a feature that allows the viewer to jump to each of the film's musical numbers, but "What Made the Red Man Red?" is ''not'' one of the selections available. Creator/DisneyPlus puts a disclaimer at the beginning of the film telling people that they don’t condone some of the stuff in the film and that it should be viewed as a product of its era. The 2022 remake also cast a First Nation Actress to play Tiger Lily while "reimagining" the character.
* HarsherInHindsight: Peter Pan's line "Once you've grown up, you can never come back". Peter Pan's voice actor Bobby Driscoll, who had gone through puberty by the time of the film's release, was cast out of Disney and never came back to the glory he once had when he was a kid. He died at only 31, not really getting the chance to live a full life.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The first words in the film (by an unnamed narrator) are [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 "All this has happened before...and it will happen again."]]
** Captain Hook's tango may put younger viewers in mind of [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the Joker's]] more flamboyant moments.
* HoYay: Hook and Smee. Smee seems to live for nothing more than serving Hook, which he does quite cheerfully. He's also ''quite'' the bumbler, and yet Hook hasn't killed him yet, despite shooting a man for singing distractingly or hurling one overboard for an irksome comment. He also calls exclusively for Smee with insane gusto any time he needs saving, and during the 'life of a pirate' song there's the affectionate little feather tickle Hook gives Smee, and Smee seems quite smitten by it. In ''Return to Neverland'' the octopus gives Hook a kiss with one sucker, which Hook accepts with no problem because he thinks it's from Smee. Smee also gives the Captain a rough massage.
* JerkassWoobie:
** Tinker Bell, once you learn that Disney-omitted detail about how she's so small (being a fairy) that she only has room for one emotion at a time. She spends far more of the movie being broken-hearted than jealous.
** Captain Hook qualifies, too. He may be an evil pirate that most definitely WouldHurtAChild, but he's such a miserable, pathetic loser that suffers more than he deserves and, unlike most Disney Villains, has an understandable reason to want to kill his nemesis.
* MemeticMutation:
** '''"SMEEEEE!!!"'''
** Captain Hook shooting the accordion-playing pirate, whose song is usually replaced with a different song in {{YouTube Poop}}s.
** "We were only trying to drown her!"
** A GIF of Wendy smiling and blinking, with the subtitle "Internally screaming", is a minor meme on Tumblr.
** Think of [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Batman]] pooping snakes. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A case of mishearings during the "You Can Fly" number, heard during the line "Take the path that moonbeams make". It gets mentioned in the comments of nearly any video that features this song.[[/labelnote]]
*** If the moon is still awake, you'll see it when you die! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another case of mishearing[[/labelnote]]
** Thanks to ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'', the scene where Tinker Bell tries in vain to get out of a keyhole while appearing to be "twerking" has been getting a lot of traction.
* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Tiger Lily is a [[EnsembleDarkHorse popular character]], even amongst Native Americans who otherwise [[AmericansHateTingle dislike]] their [[ValuesDissonance portrayal]] in the film, thanks to her go-getter personality and her less stylized, more traditionally appealing design.
* MoralEventHorizon: Captain Hook crosses this when he kidnaps Wendy, John, Michael, and the Lost Boys, and [[JoinOrDie threatens to have them walk the plank unless they join his crew]]. He also places a gift-wrapped bomb in Peter Pan's house, [[LoopholeAbuse abusing his promise not to "lay a finger, or a hook on him"]].
** He may have crossed it much earlier when he shot one of his own men [[DisproportionateRetribution just for annoying him with his off-key singing while he was in the middle of planning]].
* NewerThanTheyThink: You know that iconic image of Tinker Bell creating magic with her magic wand? Yeah, she never actually does that in this film. That came later, with the ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'' TV series.
* NightmareRetardant: In most versions of the story, the ticking crocodile that pursues Captain Hook is portrayed as a fearsome creature. In this version, he's one of the funniest characters, with everything from his actions to his biology operating purely under ToonPhysics.
* OvershadowedByControversy: Despite them being minor characters, the [[ValuesDissonance problematic portrayal]] of the Indians is probably the single most infamous part of an otherwise well-regarded film.
* OneSceneWonder: The mermaids are in one scene, but are well remembered by many, particularly their MemeticMutation line.
* RootingForTheEmpire: A good number of people prefer Captain Hook over Peter Pan himself. This is probably because, unlike other Disney villains, Captain Hook has an understandable reason to want to destroy his nemesis. That and the abuses he continually suffers from seems more undeserved than anything, putting him straight into IneffectualSympatheticVillain territory. Where he crosses the line is by [[KickTheDog lashing out at perfectly innocent people]] in his quest to get at Peter, even if he thinks that's the only way he can succeed. Also, ''his own crew'' hates him because [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything they never (or at least no longer) get to do fun pirate stuff]], but have to constantly aid and abet a revenge quest they don't give a rat's ass about. Even the horror series ''Literature/DisneyChills'' goes with this interpretation, where Barrie agrees with Hook that the child that cut off his hand was a brat and sincerely apologizes for stealing the hook.
** Continued with the sequel, ''Return to Neverland''. While the captain was made more vicious and sinister, he ''still'' winds up being the most sympathetic character, as, even without the crocodile, his abuse continues (this time even more so). By the end of the film, the Jolly Roger even gets destroyed, leaving him and his crew without a home.
* SelfFanservice:
** Despite Tinker Bell being [[FunSize as small as a sewing needle]], many fans have found her sexy and have taken [[RuleThirtyFour necessary liberties]] accordingly.
** Tick-Tock Crocodile and the Octopus from the [[WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverLand sequel]] have proven popular with their [[ClothingDamage stripping]] of [[MrFanservice Captain Hook]] that fans also [[RuleThirtyFour take necessary liberties and matters into their own hands]] to strip various antagonists of [[ComedicUnderwearExposure their clothes]] and sometimes [[TheNudifier even more]].
* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Despite Kathryn Beaumont not really having great singing chops in [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland her previous Disney film]], her performance during "Your Mother And Mine" is so beautiful and [[TearJerker heartwrenching]] that many had to double-check and see if Disney brought in a singing double for her.
* SmurfetteBreakout: Tinker Bell has her own spinoff franchise. In a more meta sense, she's more recognizable as the Disney mascot (well, [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse the OTHER mascot]], anyway). When one thinks of the Disney version of Peter Pan, Tink is the first thing that comes to mind.
* SpiritualSuccessor:
** To Disney's earlier ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''. It's about a young girl in blue who wishes to escape from responsibility, and is spirited away to a magical world where she thinks she's going to have fun, but is instead treated cruelly by everyone and ends up wanting to go home. In the end, she goes back and explains her adventures to a bemused family member. Plus, both Alice and Wendy are voiced by Kathryn Beaumont.
** The scene in which Wendy sings "Your Mother and Mine" can be seen as this to the "Someday My Prince Will Come" scene in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', from the camera panning over the dazed Lost Boys to the shot of the sullen Peter isolated from the rest of the group, much like Grumpy in "Someday".
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "Following the Leader" sounds very similar to the folk song "Charlie is My Darling".
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
** The hardcore J.M. Barrie purists criticised the portrayal of Tinker Bell for her HotterAndSexier image and emphasizing her ClingyJealousGirl nature.[[note]]The book and play make it clear that fairies only have room for one emotion at a time -- and that Tinker Bell isn't normally so nasty and jealous. The movie doesn't mention that, just making Tink look like a {{Yandere}}.[[/note]]
** Removing the "I do believe in fairies" scene gets some criticism too. Especially since Tinker Bell inexplicably recovers from being nearly blown up.
* ToyShip: Peter/Wendy. Also Peter/Jane in the sequel.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: Captain Hook could be read as this to some. While whether or not we're intended to like him is debatable, the writers have made it very clear that, although he's, for the most part, LaughablyEvil, the viewer isn't supposed to root for Hook and the viewer is supposed to root for Peter, Wendy and (to a lesser extent) her siblings. However, many fans were rooting for Hook possibly due to how [[LaughablyEvil funny]] and [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] he is and the fact that, unlike most Disney villains, he has an understandable reason to want to destroy his nemesis. It doesn't help that, as stated in MoralEventHorizon above, after Hook crossed said horizon, he's still supposed to be in the wrong.
* ValuesDissonance:
** To a lesser extent, the mermaids are a lot racier than one would expect from Disney. One has GodivaHair and another is only covered by her flower necklace. The [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 next time]] Disney would do mermaids, they would all wear a SeashellBra.
** Most girls today would find getting their own room and no longer having to share with their younger brothers a ''far'' more attractive prospect than Wendy did. (The same would likely have been true at the time of the movie. Wendy's reluctance to have her own room is a sign of her unwillingness/unreadiness to grow up.)
** Nearly ''everything'' about the Indians nowadays. Between their ridiculously caricatured designs (Tiger Lily not withstanding), their broken speech, and the ''extremely'' uncomfortable lyrics of "What Made the Red Man Red?", it's not hard to tell why most have very few nice things to say about them.
** Tinker Bell's dismay at the size of her hips definitely seems outdated now that beauty standards have changed a lot.
* TheWoobie: Wendy, a sweet girl who was dreaming of Neverland stories since she was a child... and once she finally visits Neverland, she's treated like a ButtMonkey for almost the entire movie and all the female characters (except Tiger Lily) have it in for her just because she happens to be a woman. When the mermaids tried to drown her, even her childhood hero [[KidsAreCruel Peter]] was laughing at her.
* {{Woolseyism}}: In the 2007 reissue, the Latin American Spanish dub had a "cleanup" in which dialogues that were inappropriate for children had to be changed and re-recored. Here are some following examples:
** When Wendy asks Peter to let John and Michael come to Neverland as well, Michael says "Yo quiero matar piratas" ("I want to kill pirates"). This was changed to "Yo quiero ver piratas" ("I want to see pirates").
** In the same scene, Peter tells Wendy, John and Michael to think of happy thoughts, which leads to an exchange between John and Michael. John says "Yo con los piratas voy a acabar" ("I'm going to finish off the pirates") , while Michael says "Y yo muchos indios voy a matar" ("And I'm going to kill many Indians"). Instead, these phrases were replaced with "Yo con los piratas me voy a enfrentar" ("I'm going to face the pirates") and "Y yo como indio me voy a pintar" ("And as Indian I'm going to paint myself"). If you listen to it in Spanish, it is to keep the rhymes of the words.
** After the Lost Boys were tricked by Tinker Bell into harming Wendy, Michael asks her if they killed her while John in return says that she could've been killed. This is changed to Michael asking her if she's hurt and John replying that she could've been hurt.
** While Peter scolds the Lost Boys revealing he brought Wendy so she could tell them stories, he adds "¡Y tratan de matarla!" ("And you tried to kill her!"). He says "¡Y casi la lastiman!" ("And you almost harm her!").
** Shortly after that, Peter calls out Tinker Bell for her attempt on Wendy's life and he asks her if she doesn't know he might've killed her, which is exactly the same thing he says in Spanish. This is changed to Peter asking her "¿No te das cuenta de que pudiste haberla herido?" ("Don't you realize you could've harmed her?").
** In the scene where Tinker Bell tries to warn Peter about the bomb Hook placed on a present to kill him, he insults her saying "¿Qué te pasa, tonta?" ("What's wrong with you, silly?). It was simply changed to "¿Qué te pasa ahora?" ("What's wrong with you now"?).

!![[Film/PeterPan The live-action film]]
* AccidentalInnuendo:
** "Both hands." Probably doubles as {{Squick}} for many.
** "You'll never make a man out of me!"
* AdaptationDisplacement: Minor example, but since this one is known for being TruerToTheText, some viewers assume that Tiger Lily was a child in the book too, and this version of her is the most 'accurate'. Actually, the book states that she's old enough to be married, and Disney's version is actually closer.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: On a fictional level. Some viewers were upset that Hook could fly at the end, since he should have no happy thoughts, but in the book, happy thoughts are not actually required, that was just something Peter made up.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** Well, the music ''was'', after all, composed by Music/JamesNewtonHoward. So awesome that Disney stole it for use in their Disneyland commercials.
*** To offer a few specific examples:
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbg6g8xlbjo Flying]]
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQXaKw7dR3Y Fairy Dance]]
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0AFAVrhoo I Do Believe In Fairies]]
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehEQ7dCsu6w Peter Returns]]
** Just ''try'' and not get chills when the kids first fly to Neverland.
** [[Music/ARushOfBloodToTheHead "Clocks"]] by Music/{{Coldplay}}, which was beautifully used in the trailers. This was when Coldplay was first coming out, and did a lot to get them noticed.
* CompleteMonster: [[ManipulativeBastard Captain James Hook]] himself is a rapacious, murderous pirate who [[ArchEnemy holds a special enmity for Peter Pan]] after the boy chopped his hand off and fed it to a crocodile. [[BadBoss Hook]] treats the lives of his crew with utter nonchalance, murdering several of them just for speaking to him at the wrong time while throwing others' lives away on a whim. Having sworn vengeance on Peter, [[WouldHurtAChild Hook]] kidnaps young John, Michael, and Tiger Lily to use as bait, chaining them up alongside the corpses of other victims of Hook's so they will slowly drown. After realizing the relationship Peter has with Wendy, Hook preys on the girl's naivety and uses her to find the entire group of Lost Boys so that Hook can feed them one by one to the crocodile hunting him, casually murdering a fairy in the process for fun. Hook then hopes to force Peter into [[DespairEventHorizon utter despair]] by using Wendy as a hostage, before attempting to kill them both while he makes each watch the other die.
* CultClassic: Was a BoxOfficeBomb due to ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'' coming out a week before it, but is beloved by many who saw it for its TruerToTheText treatment of the original story (especially compared to the Disney version).
* DracoInLeatherPants: Captain Hook gets this treatment ''a lot'' in fanfics, usually just because he's played by Jason Isaacs. He's usually depicted as the [[Literature/HarryPotter Draco to Wendy's Hermione.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Slightly, the Lost Boy who arrives home late and gets adopted by Aunt Millicent instead. The actor who played him only did the one film but was surprised at his character being so remembered years later.
** Ludivine Sagnier is also considered a perfect Tinker Bell, for how excellently she captures the fairy's mischievous nature and also conveying that she's more than just a ClingyJealousGirl (a criticism that Barrie purists hurl at the Disney version).
* EstrogenBrigade:
** Many now grown 90s and 2000s children admit to crushing on Jeremy Sumpter in this film. Slightly has a pretty strong brigade as well.
** Years later, Jason Isaacs talked about going to conventions and being approached by female fans who were preteens when the film came out and admitted to being attracted to his portrayal of Hook.
* EvilIsCool: Creator/JasonIsaacs plays Captain Hook as a pretty badass villain in his own right.
* FanPreferredCutContent: The original ending would have confirmed Wendy to be the NarratorAllAlong (while it's only hinted in the final film), and adapted the scene where Peter visits her and she lets her daughter Jane go to Neverland.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** All the talk about Peter being afraid of love and of his own sexuality becomes funny if you know that Jeremy Sumpter went on to star in ''Film/CyberSeductionHisSecretLife'', a notoriously bad Lifetime movie about a teenager getting addicted to internet porn.
** This movie preceded Disney's live-action remake series by more than a decade, causing several snarky fans of this film[[note]]particularly those with an ItsTheSameNowItSucks reaction to the Disney remakes[[/note]] to call it the best of the remakes.
** The mermaid that tries to drown Wendy has a distinct resemblance to Eline Powell, who would play Rin in ''Series/Siren2018'' - also a darker take on mermaid mythology.
** The fact that this movie goes with the 'morally ambiguous trickster' portrayal of Peter Pan, while also giving Captain Hook some AdaptationalAttractiveness to imply that Wendy is somewhat attracted to him. The series ''Series/OnceUponATime'' would go even further, making Peter the villain and Hook a TroubledButCute character who becomes the love interest of the main heroine. Robbie Kaye, who plays Peter in ''Once Upon A Time'', even resembles Jeremy Sumpter.
** Another ''Once Upon a Time'' one; Wendy's "are mermaids not sweet?" question, followed by nearly getting drowned. ''Once Upon a Time'' would have it both ways - with the Neverland mermaids being shown as dark and vicious, but none other than [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ariel]] showing up as the TokenGoodTeammate. So Wendy wasn't completely off base.
* JerkassWoobie:
** Peter, whose immaturity and moments of {{Jerkass}} behavior are played very tragically; portraying him and Wendy as StarCrossedLovers entirely because he refuses to grow up.
** Hook clearly has [=PTSD=] from having his hand cut off, but this version constantly squanders whatever sympathy the audience might have for him.
* LesYay: When a mermaid tries to drown Wendy, she takes her hand gently and stares into her eyes like a siren. Wendy stares back in awe.
* MemeticMolester: Hook, mainly thanks to his [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace lack of personal space]], tendency to grab the protagonists whenever they're close enough, and the ''incredibly creepy'' way he first greets Wendy when she wakes up on his ship (stressing her surname into an endearment).
* NightmareFuel:
** The more monstrous portrayal of the mermaids, and the only one to date to actually show ''the stump of Hook's severed arm''.
** Hook's eyes actually do turn red as he attempts to murder an unarmed Peter Pan.
** The Crocodile is absolutely terrifying. Absolutely huge and apparently, in a departure from the book, highly intelligent. This particular beast seems based more on gigantic, prehistoric "super-crocs" like the forty-foot ''Deinosuchus'' than modern crocodiles.
* NoYay:
** Sometimes the response to the Hook/Wendy dynamic, including from several professional reviewers. WordOfGod says they didn't realize when they were shooting just how that was going to look on film. Never mind that it's a pretty accurate portrayal of Wendy's attraction to Hook in the novel. One reviewer didn't have a problem with that as much as with his perception of Hook's attraction to ''her''.
** The tension between Hook and Peter can fall into this category, too.
** One reviewer speculated that a lot of the creepiness could be attributed to the fact that Hook has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace with either of them, at all. Creator/JasonIsaacs has mentioned in interviews how incredibly uncomfortable some of that was to portray.
-->'''Jason:''' Never work with children, animals or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs animal-like children]].
* OlderThanTheyThink: A lot of viewers assumed that the 'Capt. Jas. Hook' sign on the door was a reference to Jason Isaacs. But 'Jas' is an abbreviation for the name James, and Hook is referred to as such in the book.
* OneSceneWonder:
** The mermaids! They have just two minutes of screen time, but their memorably creepy designs and the eeriness of the scene ensures one remembers them.
** Tiger Lily has three scenes, but not as much screen time, but her surprisingly different portrayal (she's usually a sexy young adult, as in the 1924 and Disney versions) and memorable moments of giving Hook TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and kissing John ensure one remembers her. Her actress Carsen Grey had no idea the character had such a popularity until years later.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Rachel Hurd-Wood makes her film debut as Wendy here, and would later be best known for ''Film/AnAmericanHaunting'' and the series ''{{Series/Clique}}''.
** Carsen Grey, who plays Tiger Lily, is better known as a singer nowadays.
** Creator/GeorgeMacKay gets his first acting credit as Curly the Lost Boy.
* SacredCow: Considered one of the best ''Peter Pan'' adaptations out there, even having a strong following to this day, so harshly criticizing it will naturally infuriate many fans.
* SignatureScene:
** The "I do believe in fairies" scene. Often considered one of the trickiest moments from the book and play to adapt, since it relies heavily on AudienceParticipation, many viewers were surprised that it was included. And that they managed to pull it off!
** A close second is Wendy's kiss to Peter, after which he gets his second wind.
* ToyShip:
** John with Princess Tiger Lily -- who share a kiss, and a HeldGaze in the tent later.
** Incorporated into the story with Peter and Wendy; implying that Peter does reciprocate Wendy's crush on him, but denies it due to his fears of growing up.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Many of the more vibrant sequences in Neverland look very stunning, the fairy dance scene in particular.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: While for the most part, it's a PG adventure with a child-friendly tone, the Freudian elements of Wendy's attraction to Hook, multiple pirates being killed on screen, the terrifying portrayal of the mermaids, Tinker Bell dying from the poison, and numerous other DarkerAndEdgier elements might shock those used to the Disney version.

!!The comic book:
* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Many people simply know it as "that Peter Pan comic where Tinker Bell is thicc as hell."
* NightmareFuel:
** If you die in Neverland, not only will people forget about you, they know they're going to forget about you and are powerless to stop it.
** The crocodile is a borderline EldritchAbomination in this version. Everyone's scared of it, and for good reason. It's NighInvulnerable (Hook tries to shoot it but bullets simply bounce off it) and maliciously hungry. It eats quite a few pirates over the course of the story... [[spoiler:and Rose.]]
* UnexpectedCharacter: What is [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper]] doing in a Peter Pan story?
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