The Lost Boys are a group of young boys, featured in the ABC fantasy-drama series, Once Upon a Time. They are the murderous inhabitants of Neverland and servants of Peter Pan.
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Peter Pan began forming them under his alias of the Pied Piper in the Enchanted Forest, in his quest to find the heart belonging to the "Truest Believer". Because time is frozen in Neverland, they do not age making them much older than their otherwise youthful outward appearance might suggest. As mentioned by Wendy, they cry at night because they miss their families. Captain Hook mentions to Emma Swan that while he was in Neverland, he spent time in the company of a group of orphans known as the Lost Boys.
Peter Pan came up with the term Lost Boys when he was mocking Rumplestiltskin about his father abandoning him and fear of his son doing the same. Pan insulted Rumple about being lonely and feeling unloved, naming him a lost boy, which he decided to give to his new friends. One of the members named Felix became the most loyal to Pan and would become his right hand man.
A couple of years later, Hook accidentally finds himself in another realm, trying to find his way back to his girlfriend Emma Swan and get home to Storybrooke. He agrees to trade his ship with Black Beard for a magic bean, but the ship is in another realm. Blackbeard and Hook use the bean to open a portal, but they find themselves in Neverland instead of Storybrooke. The screams of the Lost Boys can be heard which makes Hook and Black Beard run. Hook explains that while Pan is dead, some of the Lost Boys decided to stay behind rather than leave with Emma, Hook, Henry and the group when they left Neverland. Hook mentions that some of the Lost Boys wanted to stay loyal to Pan which is why they never left Neverland.
