Micheal Darling is a character in Once Upon a Time, who first appears in the second season episode "Second Star to the Right" and returns in the first half of the third season.
He is based on the character with the same name from Peter Pan.
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Michael and the rest of the Darling family appear in the Season 2 episode "Second Star to the Right". He is portrayed by child actor Benjamin Cook. After a boy named Baelfire was welcomed into their family, he and John overhear him one night warning Wendy to stay away from a Shadow that looms outside the window. Wendy ignores his advice and travels to Neverland with it. She brings bad news on her arrival back; the Shadow wants to take one of her brothers away to Neverland forever. During the next night, Baelfire helps to hide everyone when the Shadow comes. However, Michael doesn't follow the plan and risks of being kidnapped by it. To avoid the splitting up of a family, Baelfire asks to be taken to Neverland instead.
In "Dark Hollow", John and Michael became employed by Peter Pan after he kidnapped Wendy sometime after the events of "Second Star to the Right". Now adults, they arrive in Storybrooke to destroy Pandora's Box, the only thing capable of defeating him. While they succeed in capturing it, they are thwarted by Belle and Ariel in the mines. They reveal Pan is holding Wendy captive in Neverland, so Belle promises she will do what is necessary to save Wendy if they do not destroy the box.
Rumplestiltskin manages to trap Pan in the box while on the trip home from Neverland and John and Michael are reunited with Wendy in Storybrooke. The Darling's eventually travel home to London shortly after their reunion.
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