Peter Pan (Once Upon a Time)

Peter Pan (not to be confused with the main character in the 1953 Disney film), also known as the Pied Piper, previously known as Malcolm is the main antagonist of the third season of Once Upon A Time. Unlike his Disney fairytale counterpart who is slightly-pompous but fun loving, this version of Peter Pan is nasty,and heartless (relating to a role thought by J.M. Barrie in the early drafts of the original book).

He was portrayed by Robbie Kay (as Peter Pan/Pied Piper) and Stephen Lord (as Malcolm).

History
His life started hard, his own father sold him to the blacksmith. Malcom lived a life of cheating in order to support himself and his son Rumpelstiltskin. He leaves Rumple with two elderly spinsters in order to find a proper job and gives him a straw doll to keep him company. Unable to find work he goes back to his old ways of tricking people only to be found by his son. Rumple gives him a magic bean that he got from the spinsters, while Malcom wishes to sell it he is later convinced to use it to take them somewhere where the two of them can be happy together. Malcom decides to use it to take them to a place he visited in his dreams as a boy tha's supposed to be perfect- Neverland.

Upon arriving in Neverland, Malcom is overjoyed but is horrified to discover he can nolonger fly. He then travels up a tree to retrieve pixie dust only to be encountered by the Shadow that the reason he cannot fly is because he is nolonger a boy. They make a deal for him to regain his youth by abandoning Rumple, so as Rumple is taken back to the Enchanted forest by the Shadow, Malcom transforms into an adolecent boy. He then takes on the name that Rumple gave his straw doll- Peter Pan, and the shadow leads him to Skull Rock where he is shown a hour glass representing his youth, and that when it runs out he will die.

Years later he encounters the pre-pirate Captain Hook and his brother Liam in search to retrieve dream shade for the king under the belief that it is poison. Pan informs them that it is actually a deadly poison, while Hook takes this to consideration Liam assures that he is trying to trick them. He comes back to see Liam dying of dreamshade and Hook begs for help. Pan reveals a spring that has waters that will cure the dreamshade but warns that it comes at a price. Liam is cured but because the water is connected to the island Liam dies when the connection is broken from leaving the island.

Sometime later when Rumple has become the dark one, Pan has become lonely in Neverland and comes to the town of Hamelin and uses a magic pipe that only lonely abandoned children can hear and dubs them the "Lost Boys"  earning him the name "Pied Piper". This also lurs Rumples son Bealfire, when Rumple returns to get Bea back Pan proposes a deal that if Rumple askes Bea if he wants to go back with him he will let him, but Rumple (afraid of being abandoned) instead teleports Bea out much to Pans ire.

Years later he discovers that the only way to save himself is to have the heart of the truest believer and aquires a picture of the boy (who is his great-grandson Henry). He sends the shadow to kidnap children and bring them back to Neverland for inspection. On one of these instances the shadow brings back Bealfire (who had just traveled to London via a magic bean), and takes Wendy Darling as prisoner when she comes back to rescue him, forcing her brothers John and Micheal to do his bidding over the century.

At some point he lets Bealfire escape so that he can father the truest believer, and creates a fake organization called the Home Office under the false pretense of destroying magic enlisting Greg Mendell and Tamara. When they finally bring Henry to Neverland they are killed and Pan "befriends Henry" while masquerading as an Ex-Lost Boy. When Henry proves himself of having the heart of the truest believer he reveals his true self and calls forth the lost boys.

Personality
The main area's of Pans personality are: Nasty, Ruthless, Dissatisfied, Self-centered, Heartless, Mischievious, Devious, and truly evil. So evil that Captain Hook and his pirates, and pretty much everyone in Storybrook fears him. He is also a very intelligent schemer and manipulator.

So far Peter Pan seems to be the most evil of the Once Upon a Time villains. While most other villains show capability to love for either a spouse or family, Pan showed no hesitation about sacrificing his great-grandson Henry so he could live. While he seemed to care for Rumple when he was Malcom, he later revealed to the lost boy Felix that he never loved him, and later told Rumple face to face all he could think about with him was a parasite sucking his dreams and money. While he did offer Rumple a chance to join him in neverland when he came to save Henry, this only led to him imprisoning Rumple in pandora's box.

Along with his lack of love for family, he also showed little to no care for the lost boys, whom he forcefully brought to Neverland and punishes cruelly if they so much think of. While he considered them his friends he had no problem convincing Henry to show no mercy while attacking Devin, and even crushed the heart of his right-hand man Felix to activate a curse.

He put on a charming facade to manipulate Henry and earn his trust. He also seems to enjoy playing mind games with his victims such as offering Hook a way off the island with Emma if he killed charming before the poison did, causing a breif fight to occur between them until hook saved charmings life. He also was shown to be very cruel to Wendy and keeping her in a cage, threatening her life as leverage over her brothers, and only letting her out to manipulate Henry.

He aso seems to be aware of everything that happens in Neverland such as when he was able to sence Ariel leaving neverland. He was also able to know a large amount about the other characters seemingly just from being on the island. This is shown when he reveals information never spoken such as the profossy that Henry would be Rumples undoing, the name of Rumples girlfriend Belle, among other things.

He officially crosses the Moral Event Horizon when he comes to storybroke and reactivates the curse that Regina originally enacted. First by killing his "friend" Felix, then by striping Rumple of his powers and taunting him and planning to kill his loved ones (including Belle and his own grandson Bealfire). Though in spite of his apparent lack of care for anyone else, it is shown that he did fear death, and in times of danger by his son. He would feign acceptence asking to start over with him. Though this would be fruitless as Rumple had already been hurt enough as to where he could never forgive him.