John Darling is a character who appears in the ABC fantasy-drama series Once Upon a Time.
He 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[]
John and the rest of the Darling family appear in the Season 2 episode "Second Star to the Right". After a boy named Baelfire was welcomed into their family, John and Michael overhear him one night warning Wendy to stay away from a shadow that looms outside the window. She ignores his advice and travels to Neverland with the Shadow. When she returns, she reveals it wants to take one of her brothers away to Neverland forever. During the next night, Baelfire helps to hide everyone when it comes, but Michael is nearly caught 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 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 tit, 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.
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