References to the original fairy tale:
- Sylph from Black Clover is one to Tinker Bell. She's nicknamed "Bell", has a sassy personality, is a small fairy with insect wings who wears a green minidress, and is the companion of a teenage boy.
- In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Peter Pan is seen flying next to the plane Ungalo is on while Bohemian Rhapsody's ability is active.note
- In Smile PreCure!, Miyuki admits she has a crush on Peter himself.
- Zombie Land Saga: The title of Episode 8 is "Go Go Neverland SAGA".
- Dylan Dog offers a Darker and Edgier follow-up to Peter Pan in issue #154, Il Battito Del Tempo (Time's Beat). In it, it's revealed that Peter, Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys decided to settle down on Earth, but whereas Tinker Bell used her magic to keep herself and Peter (who is put under a spell as a manchild she can take care of) adult, the Lost Boys were left to get old. When one of the Lost Boys dies of age, the others decide to rape Tinker Bell in order to regain their youth. In response, Tinker Bell murders them and Dylan is also hit to death when he gets in the way. However, Peter's shadow helps him snap out of Tinker Bell's spell and he calls her out for what she has done. In the end, Tinker Bell uses all of her magic to rewind time, bring Dylan and the elder Lost Boys back to life and finally age peacefully as a mortal with Peter.
- Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: In issue 4, Ash Williams jokingly says he will send Freddy Krueger back to "Neverland".
- In issue 2 of the Judge Dredd VS Alien comic crossover, one character jokingly says the xenomorph they are against is nothing like Tinkerbell.
- Sonic the Comic: In "Robotnik Reigns Supreme, Part 3", during the montage where Dr. Robotnik alters reality, Sonic can be seen dressed like Peter Pan as he swordfights Robotnik, who is dressed like Captain Hook.
- Superboy happens across an odd little disappearing atoll that prevents its inhabitants from aging and is home to a group of carefree lost children from different periods in time.
- Young Justice also references it in regard to Superboy, when the rest of the team learn he'll Never Grow Up, and he claims Angst? What Angst?:Superboy: Not only am I Superboy, I'm Peter frickin' Pan! You guys gotta grow, but I gotta crow! Cock-a-doodle-doo!Robin: In denial.Wonder Girl: Big time.
- The Teen Titans (Rebirth) storyline "It Ain't Easy Being Green" features a teenage hacker collective of "outsider" kids, who call their base Nevrland and their Augmented Reality technology Pixie.
- In Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, Arkham guard Aaron Cash has a prosthetic hand, having lost it to Killer Croc during a riot. Croc taunts him by saying "Tick tock".
- Wendy is one of the three main characters of Alan Moore's infamous Lost Girls, now in her thirties and marrying a dull older man. As you'd imagine, the re-telling of the original story in a sexual manner royally pissed off Great Ormond Street Hospital, who own the rights to the original story.
- Captain Britain and MI13 features a warrior faerie named Tinkabelinos.
- Family Guy Fanon: Season 13's "Peter Pan
" is a reference to the movie and character. But also is a Double-Meaning Title with a plot point in the episode being that Peter becomes a pansexual.
Film — Animated
- Shrek:
- Shrek: Peter Pan appears to stand in line to sell Tinkerbell to Farquaad's knights, soon before Tinkerbell is accidentally dropped on Donkey, with her fairy dust making him fly and escape from the knights.
- Shrek 2: Captain Hook appears to play a piano in the "Poison Apple" bar.
- Shrek the Third: Captain Hook appears again to attack the kingdom Far Far Away along with all the other villains. During the attack he mistakes two random kids as Peter Pan and Wendy.
Film — Live Action
- In Artemis Fowl, Mulch Diggums tells the MI6 interrogator "Clap your hands if you believe in fairies" just before he is broken out.
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: In one scene, Mary is reading the novel to daughter Gertie; it's the part where Tinker Bell dies and is revived, foreshadowing what's going to happen to E.T.
- In Eternals, Kingo compares the Eternals to Peter Pan, with Ikaris as Peter, Sersi as Wendy, Sprite as Tinker Bell, and the others as Lost Boys. With his point being that again Tinker Bell has an unrequited crush on Peter.
- The Fugitive: After Kimble jumps from a sewer tunnel into the river, Gerard tells one of his deputies Kimble "did a Peter Pan right into the water."
- Girlfriends (1978): Susan Weinblatt tells Jeffrey a joke to make him smile in his photo. "What is green and flies over Poland? Peter Panski."
- The title of The Lost Boys is a Peter Pan reference, with a particularly dark version of "kids who never grow up".
- In The Daisy Chain, Martha reads Peter Pan to Daisy.
- An old kung-fu film, My Young Auntie, spoofs the final battle of Peter Pan during a banquet duel between Charlie, the protagonist and a challenger dressed like a pirate. When the challenger pulls out a saber, Charlie responds by pulling out a short, dinky little knife.
- One Fine Day: When Melanie accuses Jack of having a Peter Pan complex, Jack retorts that she has a "Captain Hook" complex.
- Silent Night, Deadly Night: After the police gets a report to arrest a criminal dressed as Santa Claus, they joke about arresting Peter Pan next.
- The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: Abby's fifth grade class puts on the play in "Reach for the Stars". Abby tries out for Wendy, but is cast as the narrator instead, and at her teachers' suggestions, makes a few rewrites to the play, which go over well.
- Big Nate: Nate, Francis and Teddy attend their middle school's production of the play in Big Nate on a Roll. Nate also reminisces about when he, Ellen and their dad saw the play a few years before.
- Late into Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria, the queen commands Peter Pan to pick up books off the floor.
- Shtum: As a toddler, Tom would say "Peter Pan!" when he wanted to be swung around by his father. Jonah's last word before he went completely mute was "Peeeder."
- In I Think I Love You, Bill remembers an ex-girlfriend who had a haircut that made her look like Peter Pan.
- Clarice from Blue Iguana used to read Peter Pan to her little brother Joe. His favorite part was the alligator with the clock in his stomach. Clarice brings the book with her when she goes to Grand Cayman Island.
- Draz from Kea's Flight wears a Peter Pan outfit in the VR sim.
- Planet Earth Is Blue: Bridget used to read Peter Pan to Nova.
- One of the plausible scenarios in the gamebook, Scream of the Evil Genie, sees you stranded on a deserted island, meeting a tribe of kids from different eras who claims "they never grew up" before meeting Peter Pan himself (though not referred by name).
- My Brother is a Superhero: In the third book, it's noted that the protagonist's mother loves Peter Pan, and dresses up like him for a superhero-themed costume party, arguing that his Flight, Immortality and world-hopping powers make him qualify. There's also a chapter near the end called "The Boy Who Never Grew Up." Getting meta, the antagonist's motive mimics J.M. Barrie's own life and inspiration for the character: having an older brother who died at fourteen.
- The second Rain of the Ghosts features siblings named Wendy, John and Michael, which actually leads to a part where the protagonists Lampshade the Shout-Out Theme Naming. (If they had been all girls, would John and Michael have been named Tinkerbell and Tiger Lily?) Their arc fits thematically as well, as they run off with a magical being but choose to return when they realize how much their parents miss them.
- The Connor plot arc of Angel is full of complicated and subtle allusions to Peter Pan. Connor usually represents Peter, but Angel and Holtz at different times represent Hook, and Angel ends up representing Peter at the end of the fourth season.
- In The Big Bang Theory episode ''The Middle-Earth Paradigm" Howard dresses up as Robin Hood for Penny's Halloween party and Raj thinks he's dressed as Peter Pan.
- In the Fate: The Winx Saga episode "To the Waters and the Wild", Ms.Dowling and Bloom make a reference to Tinker Bell.
- In the Impractical Jokers episode "The Lost Boy", Q dressed up as Peter Pan for the punishment of the episode. He is then tricked into facing Tommy Dreamer at a professional wrestling event under the original impression that he would be participating in a musical.
- In Once Upon a Time, Peter Pan is the Big Bad in the first half of the third season. He is depicted as a manipulative sociopath who is actually a grown man who regressed himself to a boy to get magic power, and is plotting to kill one of the show's main characters to renew himself.
Music
- "Storytime" by Nightwish features comparisons to Neverland and other Peter Pan references:I am the voice of Never-Never Land
The innocence and dreams of every man
I am the empty crib of Peter Pan
A silent kite against the blue, blue sky
Every chimney, every moonlit sight
I am the story that could read you real
Every memory that you hold dear - "Bangarang" by Skrillex. Both the song and music video is a reference to Peter Pan. In the music video the leader of the boys accidentally causes the ice-cream truck driver to lose his hand by forcefully slamming a door onto his wrist and the ice-cream van driver's lost hand is replaced with a hook, the gang leader's shadow seems to manifest his guilt, much like Pan's shadow having a personality of its own, the ice-cream van driver has a tattoo of an alligator on the back of his right hand, the boys appear to be homeless at the start of the video, alluding to Pan's Lost Boys and one of the boys imitates his own childish behaviour after they complete the second heist, which may be an allusion to Neverland and not growing up. The phrase 'Bangarang' is also the battle cry of the Lost Boys in the film Hook:Shout to all my lost boys
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shout to all my lost boys
We rowdy
Shout to all my lost boys
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shout to all my lost boys
We rowdy
Shout to all my lost boys
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shout to all my lost boys
We rowdy
Shout to all my lost boys
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shout to all my lost boys
Bangarang! - Tom Lehrer's "Smut", from That Was the Year That Was includes the verse:All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder
For filth (I'm glad to say) is in
the mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed
Everything is lewd.
(I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a Dirty Old Man!) - Mazde's song "Neverland" is named after Neverland. Its chorus also contains the lyrics "You should think happy thoughts".
- Ruth B's "Lost Boy" compares her life to the story of Peter Pan.
- Cryland's "Neverland" refers to Neverland in its chorus and premise.
- The S. J. Tucker album Sirens includes three songs called "The Wendy Trilogy". The Wendy Trilogy is a retelling of the Peter and Wendy story, diverting from the original at the point where Captain Hook offers Wendy Darling the chance to become a pirate. In this version, Wendy accepts the offer and starts an adventure of her own.
- The second verse of Julian Smith's "I'm Reading a Book" has the reading-obsessed narrator steal a copy of Peter Pan from a boy who got the book for his birthday.Now I'm 'bout to find out what happens to Captain Hook
'Cause I'm reading your book, kid; I'm reading your book
- Big Nate: Nate gets cast as a lost boy in his class's production of Peter Pan, while Francis plays the leading role.
- One of Kenneth Hite's "Clio's Nightmares" horror-AU settings for GURPS is an Age of Napoleon/Faeries crossover in which The Fair Folk have conquered Napoleonic Europe under the command of Pan — the Greek god — and are opposed by an Admiral Nelson who first realised the problem when he lost a hand and the ship chronometer to a kraken.
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons:
- The Green Sprite Costume features a light green shirt and dark green pants, a V-neck, a brown belt, and a scalloped bottom, not unlike the clothes that Peter Pan wears.
- The Green Fairy Dress features the same pointed edges and sleeveless top of Tinker Bell's actual dress, although it is a little longer and has a few more layers.
- In Grimms Notes, Peter Man's world is mentioned by Chaos Archteller as one of the many Story Zones which Revol and his friends have yet to visit.
- In RWBY, minor character Scarlet David is inspired by Peter Pan, in particular the version from Peter Pan in Scarlet. In addition, minor villain Tock is based on the Crocodile, down to taking a body part from a major character.
- SCP Foundation:
- During his inteview, SCP-2094 asks one of the doctors if he ever seen Peter Pan.
- SCP-5022 is a group of living, human children heads swimming in water tanks, that was found in Dale Crawton's garage. One of the heads once expelled a large bubble from its mouth, rising upwards through the water, while forming a message "never ever grow up." Also a copy of Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens was found in Dale Crawton's pocket after his death.
- SCP-7981 is a group of living shadows who feel oppressed by their attached physical subjects. There is a mention of Peter Pan in one interview.Howell: Whatever. If Peter Pan could catch his own shadow and subdue it, I don't think we're going to have a problem doing it ourselves.
SCP-7981-Prime: The story of Peter Pan's shadow is one of oppression!
- During his inteview, SCP-2094
- Merry Madagascar: After accidentally causing Santa Claus having amnesia, the protagonists take it upon themselves to deliver all the gifts for Christmas, with the help of sparkling, magic dust found in his sled. Skipper tells them to think happy thoughts to make the dust helping them to fly.
- Jumanji: The Animated Series: In "El Pollo Jumanji", Rock insults Peter as "Tinkerbell".
- The Simpsons
- In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", a drunk Homer is being carried around in his underwear and shouts "Look at me, I'm Peter Pantsless!".
- In the segment Four Beheadings and a Funeral from "Treehouse of Horror XV", Inspector Wiggum has his men bring in Peter Pan (played by the Squeaky Voiced Teen) as a kidnapping suspect.Pan: I shall never grow up!Wiggum: In jail, you will.
- At the end of "All About Lisa", Krusty wars a dog costume resembling Nana.
- Skillit from The Mask is basically Peter Pan's Evil Counterpart; a demonic looking child in green who sends his shadow out to steal youth from others. The name is a pun (skillet = pan).
References to the Disney movie adaptation:
- Boogie, an R-Rated animated flick, has the titular character hallucinating a Mushroom Samba sequence where he visits a Disneyland parody, complete with a Tinkerbell Expy who blows up children with a Grenade Launcher. Yes, it's Played for Laughs.
- At the end of The Lion King 1 ½, Peter, Tinker Bell, and the Lost Boys are among the many Disney characters who enter the theater to see the titular movie after Timon's mother rewinds it.
- A later Disney film, Mulan, has a rather direct reference in its final battle, when Li Shang tries fighting Shan Yu, armed with a gigantic sword, with his sidearm - a tiny dagger, not unlike Hook's cutlass against Peter's small knife.
- Ralph Breaks the Internet: Peter and Tinker Bell appear in Oh My Disney.
- In Shrek, Donkey gets hit by Tinker Bell and temporarily gains the ability to fly, leading to this exchange paraphrasing the You Can Fly! song;Donkey: Hey, I can fly!
Peter Pan: He can fly!
Three Little Pigs: He can fly!
Captain of the Guards: He can talk!
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Emily, who has the leading role in her's school's production of Peter Pan, sings "You Can Fly!" as part of her rehearsal in the family car.
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022): Peter appears as the film's main antagonist, a middle-aged criminal called Sweet Pete, whose acting career was dashed the moment he hit puberty. Cubby also makes a cameo as an attendee at FanCon.Cubby: Peter, is that really you? (beat) You got old.Sweet Pete: Yeah, death is comin' for us all, kid.
Literature
- Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland is a 2023 middle-grade novel commissioned by Disney, written (in a more politically-correct standpoint) from Tiger Lily's perspective. The book was written by a Canadian First Nations author and was marketed to help promote the Peter Pan & Wendy remake.
- In the book Pet Trouble: Oh No, Newf! Heidi finds a stray Newfoundland and mentions Nana in Peter Pan was a Newfoundland. Avery corrects her saying she was a St. Bernard, referring to the Disney film.
- Kate Bush: "In Search of Peter Pan" is about a boy who laments growing up, but fantasizes about becoming an astronaut and seeking out Neverland in outer space. The choruses of the song additionally quote "The Second Star to the Right".
- The Muppet Show: In "Episode 114: Sandy Duncan", Mary Louise rides through the swamp, singing "Never Smile at a Crocodile", a song that only appears in instrumental form in the final draft of the 1953 Disney film, as frogs are eaten by her crocodile.
Toys
- The Lalaloopsy Mini doll Pete R. Canfly bears a strong resemblance to Disney's Peter, and comes with a pet crocodile.
- In Beauty and the Beast: A Board Game Adventure, in the "Cogsworth's Trivia" mini-game, one of the incorrect answers to the "Who placed a spell on the castle and its inhabitants?" question is "Tinker Bell".
- In the Japanese version of Mickey Mousecapade, Captain Hook appears as the boss of the fourth level. In the North American version, The Crocodile appears as the boss of the second level.
- Peter Pan and Tinker Bell appear in Mickey's Memory Challenge as two of the characters who can be matched.
- The Nostalgia Critic:
- In his review of Fox Kids, while covering Peter Pan & the Pirates, the Critic brings up the Disney film adaptation, and compares the episode, "Lost Memories of Pirate Pan" to the ending of Return To Never Land, where Peter meets Adult Wendy.
- In his review of Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, the Critic is perturbed by the scene of Anastasia holding her huge foot up to the camera, and he wonders if it's a highly-searched image along with Kaa and Tinker Bell's butt.
- In his review of Baby's Day Out, the Critic describes Eddy, Norby, and Veeko's van as if the Indians from Peter Pan designed Homer Simpson's Car of the Future.
- Amphibia: In "The First Temple", one scene shows Anne and Sasha in a play as Peter Pan and Captain Hook.
- The Crocodile makes guest appearances as a villain in three episodes of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers; "Kiwi's Big Adventure", "An Elephant Never Suspects" (where he appears as a vicious zoo animal), and "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing".
- The Crocodile appears in the Disney animated short, Goliath II, where he is seen attempting to devour the titular character, as well as Raja and a mouse.
- Mickey Mouse (2013): In "You, Me, and Fifi", Nana is among the Disney dogs that Goofy plays poker with when Mickey calls him.
- Captain Hook appears in the Raw Toonage episode with Don Karnage, where he wins a swordfight against the titular character.
- Robot Chicken:
- A sketch from "Metal Militia" has the Darling children attempt to fly out the window, only to hit the ground. It is at this moment that Peter realizes he forgot to tell them to think happy thoughts.
- A sketch from "Stone Cold Steve Cold Stone" features a war between the "traditional" Disney Princesses and the more "progressive" ones. Tinker Bell is seen shooting Merida at the end of the sketch.
- In a sketch from "Victoria's Secret of NIMH", the Darling parents bring in Bryan Mills to retrieve their missing children.
- A sketch from "Batman Forever 21" has Michael sprinkle Nana with pixie dust, causing her to fly. Nana ends up getting hung by the leash tied to her dog house.
- A sketch from "Cheese Puff Mountain" has Peter meet two pixies named Pinker Bell and Stinker Bell.
- A sketch from "Mr. Mozzerella's Hamburger Skateboard Depot" has Captain Hook fake a peanut allergy to kill Peter Pan.
- In the Roger Rabbit short, "Trail Mix-Up", one of the bees that Roger spits out has Tinker Bell's face.
- TaleSpin:
- The Crocodile appears as the secondary antagonist of "The Sound and the Furry" under the name of Al. He serves as the henchman and pet of Crazy Edie.
- Nana makes a cameo appearance in "Flying Dupes", where she delivers the package that Baloo was tasked to deliver to the Thembrian High Marshall, unaware that the package contains a bomb.
