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Tinker Bell is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie 's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy . She has appeared in a variety of film and television adaptations of the Peter Pan stories, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture Peter Pan . She also appears in the official 2006 sequel Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital as well as the "Peter and the Starcatchers" book series by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry. At first only a supporting character described by her creator as "a common fairy ", her animated incarnation was a hit and has since become a widely recognized unofficial mascot of The Walt Disney Company , next to the Walt Disney company's official mascot Mickey Mouse , and the centrepiece of its Disney Fairies media franchise including the direct-to-DVD film series Tinker Bell and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated adventure fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie . Directed by Clyde Geronimi , Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson , it is the 14th Disney animated feature film . Starring the voices of Bobby Driscoll , Kathryn Beaumont , Hans Conried , Paul Collins , Heather Angel , and Bill Thompson , the film's plot involves a group of kids who meet Peter Pan and travel to the island of Never Land to stay young, where Peter also attempts to evade Captain Hook . The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival , and was originally released on February 5, 1953 by RKO Radio Pictures . Peter Pan was the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney founded his own distribution company , as well as the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators. A sequel t...

Captain James Hook is a fictional character, the antagonist of J. M. Barrie 's play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan 's archenemy . The character is a pirate captain of the brig Jolly Roger; Barrie identifies him as Blackbeard 's former bo'sun . His two principal fears are the sight of his own blood (supposedly an unnatural colour) and the crocodile who pursues him after eating the hand cut off by Pan. An iron hook replaced his severed hand, which gave the pirate his name. After getting a taste of Hook, the crocodile pursues him relentlessly, but the ticking clock it has swallowed warns Hook of its presence. In the animated film Peter Pan , Hook is a far more comical villain than the original character: he is seen as a vain coward with a childish, infantile temper who is prone to crying out in terror. During the film's early development, the story department analysed Hook's character...