| abstract | - The Boy Who Never Grew Up and titular character. Peter Pan is a mischeivous, unaging boy who lives in Neverland and can fly thanks to a combo of fairy dust and happy thoughts. While often an egotistical, arrogant and childish person, Peter is very considerate and loyal to his friends.
* Anti-Hero: Type V
* Type IV in the Disney version.
* Ambiguous Innocence: Peter is quite cruel for being a child, laughing as John and Michael Darling nearly fell to their deaths, told Wendy her mother abandoned her, and not to mention what he did to Captain Hook.
* Children Are Innocent: And this is explored rather thoroughly in the book, both the positive and negative sides to never losing your childish innocence.
* Crosscast Role: Often in theatre, Peter is portrayed by a woman. However, in the Disney film, 2003 film and Hook among others, he is played by a boy or a man.
* Growing Up Sucks: Peter vowed to never grow up when he just a baby after overhearing his parents discussing his already planned out future despite only being born, and fled to Kensington Garden where he met Tinker Bell, learnt how to fly and went to Neverland.
* He actually grows up in Hook and forgets his past life until later.
* Fiery Redhead: In the Disney film.
* Fisher King: To Neverland. The island reflects his mood and sleeps when he does or when he leaves.
* Jerk with a Heart of Gold
* I Believe I Can Fly
* Kid Hero
* Kids Are Cruel: Though in Peter's case it's (mostly) not intentional.
* Living Shadow: Averted in the original novel and play, where Peter's detatched shadow is never mentioned to be alive or moving on its own accord. Most of the visual adaptations, though, do portray Peter's shadow as alive and able to live sepaeately from Peter -- probably because this is much more visually exciting than a shadow that just hangs in someone's grip like a piece of laundry.
* Lonely At the Top
* Never Grew Up: The Trope Namers.
* Oblivious to Love: In the novel and play, but averted in several of the films.
* The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Has made all the Lost Boys promise to leave Hook to him.
* Parental Abandonment: Implied in one take, but may have been actually accidental.
* Pointy Ears
* Public Domain Character: Aside from the United Kingdom.
* Small Name, Big Ego: Subverted since he's so popular.
* The Trickster
* Vague Age: The only clue in the book is that he "still has all his baby teeth."
* Verbal Tic: His cockerel cry.
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