Wendy Darling is a character who appears in the ABC fantasy-drama series Once Upon a Time.
She is based on both the character from the play by J.M. Barrie and the character of the same name from Disney's 1951 film Peter Pan.
History[]
One day a boy named Baelfire comes to the Darlings' house to steal some bread. Wendy catches him but lets him eat as much as he likes. They soon become very good friends. She lets him stay in her house in secret, but George and Mary soon discover him. However, they decided to let him live with them after Wendy convinces George to let him stay. During this time, a shadow comes to the nursery window and takes her away to Neverland. The following morning she returns home after realizing how Neverland was not such a happy place after all. The Shadow also let her return home because it wanted to take a boy instead of a girl. She worries through tears that it will take John or Michael away and she will never see them again. That night, after Mary tucks them in for the night and leaves, they try to prevent it from coming but they are unsuccessful. It is about to kidnap Michael but Baelfire tells it to take him instead. It agrees and Wendy, John, and Michael then see him leave their home forever.
Some time later, despite Wendy's previous escape from Neverland, she had somehow become Peter's prisoner when she, John, and Michael had returned to Neverland. In exchange for her safety, John and Michael agreed to become Peter's servants. Due to imprisonment on Neverland, Wendy never aged while John and Michael returned home and grew older throughout the years. In the present day, she is used by Peter to cement Henry Mills' loyalty to him by posing as an ill member of the Lost Boys in order to make his goals appear benevolent by trying to help her and Neverland. While this does motivate him, Wendy dislikes lying to him, but he states it is necessary for the truest believer to believe in a goal, his goals. He quickly places her back in prison after she plays her part, indicating that this version cruelly mistreats her unlike the original story or the Disney version.
Wendy is eventually freed from Neverland and reunited with John and Michael in Storybrooke.
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Variants[]
- Wendy Darling
- Wendy Darling (Peter Pan & Wendy)
