Peter Pan (Once Upon a Time)

Malcom (better known as Peter Pan) is a major character in the first half of the third season of the ABC fairy tale drama series Once Upon a Time, as the main antagonist of the first half of the season.
==Background==
===Powers and abilities===
====Powers====
*Magic: Peter Pan was the most powerful magic user from Neverland, which is where his power originates from. While on the island, Pan was stronger than the Dark One and the Evil Queen. He has great knowledge about dark and forbidden magic and has a large arsenal of spells, curses and magical traps.
**Longevity: While on Neverland, Pan was able to live far beyond a normal human lifespan, having been alive since the "middle age" in the Enchanted Forest. He was not subject to disease or old age.
**Flight: Pan was able to use pixie dust combined with the heart of the truest believer to levitate himself above the ground and fly in the air.
**Telekinesis: Pan was capable of manipulating objects or people without physically touching them.
**Teleportation: Pan could move from one place to another at will.
**Omniscience: Pan could sense when people enter and exit the Neverland.
**Chlorokinesis: Pan could manipulate plant life from Neverland. He was able to summon vines that are strong enough to immobilize both Emma, Regina and Mary.
**Transfiguration: Pan had the ability to change his appearance and transform any object into something else.
**Regeneration: Pan could automatically regenerate from any injuries.
**Heart Extraction: Pan could remove the hearts of other living beings without killing them and use them to control the owner or kill them by crushing the heart.
**Magical Immobilization: Pan could freeze people with just a thought.
**Protection Charm: Pan could protect a place or an object by creating a magic barrier.
====Weaknesses====
*Laws of Magic: Like any magician or sorceress, Pan was subject to the laws of magic, as a result he was unable to raise the dead, create love and time travel.
*Enchanted Cuffs: As shown (on-screen) cuffs that are enchanted to block magic have the same effect on him as anyone else.
==In the series==
===Before the First Curse===
Peter Pan's real identity was Malcolm, the father of Rumplestiltskin, separated spouse of the Black Fairy (formerly Fiona), the grandfather of Baelfire and Gideon, and the paternal great-grandfather of Henry Mills and one of the great-great-grandfathers of Lucy. Malcolm originally left his son in the care of two spinners, who gave Rumplestiltskin a magical bean to create a portal to leave his careless father. Using the magic bean, Malcolm and Rumplestiltskin travelled to Neverland, a place which Malcolm envisioned in his dreams. Upon arrival, Malcolm discovered he could not fly like in his dreams, and the Shadow told him this is because he did not belong on the island as it was only for children. Realizing that he could not be a child as he was a father, Malcolm forced Rumplestiltskin to be taken home by the Shadow. Malcolm transformed into his younger self, adopting the name of Peter Pan (which he named himself after Rumplestiltskin's doll). The Shadow informed Pan that his youth is limited, and he will die when the hourglass of Skull Rock is complete.
Sometime later, Pan visits Hamelin in the Enchanted Forest to expand what would later become the Lost Boys, a band of fearful followers who listen to Pan's every command and is in search for Henry, the son of Emma Swan and his great-grandson.
The Shadow arrives with a boy named Baelfire (who, unbeknownst to him, is his grandson). Wendy Darling then arrives in order to save him, but Pan decides to keep her prisoner and blackmails John and Michael Darling to help him with his tasks, in exchange for their sister Wendy's life.
===During the First Curse===
At some point during the first curse, Pan is able to locate the "truest believer" in the Land Without Magic. He tries to get the newborn child adopted by his minions, John and Michael Darling. However, the plan fails when Regina decides to keep the child, after she originally planned to give the baby to John and Michael when she originally thought she couldn't be a mother.
===After the First Curse===
When the heroes arrive on Neverland in search of Henry, Pan appears to him as a fugitive boy pretending to escape from the Lost Boys. He "befriends" Henry who is also attempting to escape upon arriving in Neverland, following his kidnap from Storybrooke. He later reveals his true identity and tells Henry he possesses "the heart of the truest believer," which he now owns. Pan plots to sacrifice Henry to gain his youth as his time as a young boy begins to fade away. However, Emma, along with a team of heroes (being Snow White, Prince Charming, Rumplestiltskin, Queen Regina, and Captain Hook) comes to retrieve the boy.
The battle between the parties last for days, and eventually, they retrieve Henry and return to their home in the real world, known as Storybrooke, with Pan imprisoned. Pan, however, managed to switch his body with Henry's. Once they arrive in Storybrooke, Pan (in Henry's body) orders the Shadow to kill Mother Superior after reading Henry's book. He then steals the original curse from Regina that created Storybrooke, planning to enact it to turn the town into "The New Neverland". Emma soon finds out Henry is not who he seems, and the heroes are able to find out the truth, eventually returning Pan and Henry to their own bodies. His plot is successful. However, before it takes place, Gold manages to find a way to defeat his father by sacrificing himself with the Dark One's dagger, thus ending his reign. As Pan died, he was transformed back into his real form and identity by Rumple after the latter stabbed the former in the back.
===After the Third Curse===
He returned in the second half of the fifth season when the heroes (led by his son) arrived in the Underworld to rescue Hook. Upon their arrival, Pan immediately approaches Gold and offers him a deal - one of Gold's current allies would stay behind, and Pan would return in his place. At this point, Gold refuses, and Pan hands over the Ale of Seonaidh, the means Emma later uses to contact Hook.
However, after Hades backs Gold into corner, Gold forms a partnership with Pan, and the two sorcerers kidnap Hades's true love Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West. Then the malevolent father-and-son pair offer Hades a counterproposal - he tears up the contract (which stated that Gold owed Hades his second-born child, Gideon) and then he would get the witch. But after Hades tears up the contract that gives him claim of his second grandson, Pan attempts to rip out Zelena's heart, hoping to use it to return to life. This attempt is prevented by the timely arrival of Emma, who rescues Zelena. Pan questioned why his illegitimate granddaughter-in-law would be helping the king of death, and Emma pointed out that Hades promised to help them get them home. Gold then warned her that she had picked the wrong side, but Emma then questions why the Dark One was still there since he had already gotten what he wanted. Seeing her point, Gold responded by abandoning his father. Outnumbered, Pan is also forced to retreat.
Later, Pan tracks his son down and hands him Pandora's box, which he says Gold could use to more easily transport his wife Belle (who is under a sleeping curse, provided by Zelena) to Storybrooke. As a price of this gift, Gold was to steal a heart and give it to Pan, allowing the deceased man-child to return to life. However, the Dark One betrayed his father and instead inserted him with not the heart of Robin Hood, but a wineskin filled with water from the River of Lost Souls and damned him for eternity. As Pan faded, Gold reiterated the statement he gave his father the first time he killed him: "Villains don't get happy endings." Peter Pan was obliterated while his pleased son bid him a cold farewell.
In the final season, an alternate version of the character appears near the finale, having been trapped by his son.
==Trivia==
*Unlike the animated character, this version of Peter Pan is much more sinister and evil. He is also a villain instead of a hero. He is currently the only variant of the character to be evil.
** Ironically, this more sinister and evil version of Peter Pan seems to be much closer to his original counterpart from the original J.M. Barrie play when compared to Disney's other iterations of the character.
*Its revealed later in the season that Peter Pan is actually Rumplestiltskin's father and his real name is Malcom.
**Pan chose the name Peter Pan because of a toy Rumple had when Malcolm sent his son away.
*Pan is one of 3 people, along with Liam Jones and Neal Cassidy, who refers to Hook by his real name, Killian Jones. The other characters only occasionally call him Killian.
==Gallery==
===Photography===
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===Screenshots===
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Once Upon a Time - 5x12 - Souls of the Departed - Peter Pan.png|Pan in the Underworld
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Once Upon a Time - 5x20 - Firebird - Pan Vanishes 2.jpg|Peter Pan vanishes to his doom.
Once Upon a Time - 7x21 - Homecoming - Wish Realm Pan.png|Pan's Wish Realm counterpart
==See also==
*Peter Pan (character)
*Peter Pan (Peter Pan & Wendy)
==External links==
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