It was used to a limited extent as the familiar form of the Welsh name Gwendolyn , but wasn't considered a proper name itself.
Barrie got the name from a phrase used by Margaret Henley , a six-year-old girl whom he befriended in the s, the daughter of friend William Ernest Henley. She called her "friend" Barrie "fwendy-wendy". It was from the appearance of Wendy Darling in Peter Pan and as one of the title characters of the novel Peter and Wendy that the name came into use as a popular name for girls. In the anime series Peter Pan no Boken Adventures of Peter Pan , which is a part of the World Masterpiece Theater, a rather tomboyish Wendy has a pivotal role in the second part of the series, which depicts a completely original story where Peter Pan, the Lost Kids and the Darling siblings must save a young witch named Luna from the clutches of her evil grandmother, the witch Sinistra, and Wendy is the one who truly saves her.
She's also shown directly antagonizing Captain Hook when he kidnaps her in the first part, yelling at him and even impersonating his mother at some point to manipulate his fears against him. She was portrayed without a British accent and wore a crown of flowers in her short hair. Wendy herself is voiced by veteran voice actress Naoko Matsui , who provides her voice in the Japanese version of the Disney film. The Disney version of Wendy was featured as one of the guests in House of Mouse; however, despite the fact that Kathryn Beaumont was credited as providing Alice's voice, Wendy said nothing.
Jump to: navigation , search. Uses some licensed material by Wikipedia editors. Category : Darling family. Views Page Discussion View source History. Personal tools Log in. Wendy Darling is the deuteragonist of Disney 's animated feature film, Peter Pan. She is a young girl from London with a lifelong appreciation for the stories of Peter Pan , a flying boy from the isle of Neverland.
Her veneration for these tales manifested in a desire to stay young forever—a dream that was nearly realized when she and her younger brothers, John and Michael , embarked on a fantastical adventure with Peter Pan himself. Wendy is an English girl living in London during the Edwardian era. While her age isn't specified, she is usually portrayed as a preteen on the brink of adolescence. Throughout her childhood, she lived with her parents, George and Mary , her younger brothers, John and Michael, and their dog, Nana , who doubled as their nursemaid.
Being the eldest child of a middle-class family of the era, Wendy served as a heavy influence on John and Michael, specifically in regards to their love of Peter Pan and his lore. She would regularly tell them stories of his various adventures in the supposedly fictitious island of Neverland, most notably the stories of his battles with the villainous Captain Hook.
To most people George, for instance , he and the stories surrounding him were nothing more than a childish fantasy. To Wendy, John, and Michael, however, the legends of him were all too true, and his stories were used to maintain the fun and whimsy of their childhood, despite George and Mary encouraging the act of practical behavior.
When she retired from voicing Wendy in , Hynden Walch took over the role and has been Wendy's current voice actress ever since. Kat Cressida the voice of the similarly-aged Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory briefly voiced Wendy for a short period of time.
Wendy is an imaginative, mature, and very maternal young lady. She loves to care for John and Michael and often tells the story of Peter Pan. Though her imagination is vivid and praised by them, her storytelling was initially looked down upon by their cantankerous and serious father, George, who found her stories and childlike nature to be immature and ridiculous and voiced his desire to have her abandon her childhood as soon as possible to prepare herself for eventual adulthood.
Because of this, she grew a fear of growing up and found comfort in the stories of Peter Pan and Neverland. Nevertheless, upon visiting Neverland for the first time, Wendy ironically found her maturity and motherly instincts surfacing and growing.
During her brief time, yet life-changing experience on the island, it became a more prominent part of her character as all the adventurous events unfolded. This led her to finally accepting the fact that she will inevitably become an adult one day. Even so, she didn't allow this revelation to destroy her wondrous imagination. As an adult seen in Return to Neverland , Wendy hasn't lost her belief in Peter Pan and tells stories about him to her two children, Jane and Danny.
She has grown into a caring, smart, kind, and beautiful woman. Wendy is a pretty young girl with fair skin, pink lips, light brown hair styled into a ringlet ponytail, and blue eyes.
In Peter Pan , she wears a blue short-sleeved nightgown with a matching blue ribbon tied into a bow that holds her ponytail and black flats. This attire is kept in her few appearances in Jake and the Never Land Pirates as well. In Return to Neverland , as an adult, she wears a blue dress with a white apron and blue robe as sleepwear.
Wendy is introduced as the eldest child of George and Mary Darling. According to the narrator, she is an expert on Peter Pan and the source of stories about him. However, when the practical George learns that she is once again telling stories to her two brothers John and Michael, he disciplines her, angrily telling her that it's time for her to grow up, and that night will be her last one in the nursery ; the next, she will be forced to have a separate room.
Dialogue between them strongly suggests that this has been going on for a while now, and him punishing her is an indication that he is fed up with her childish stories. As Mary is tucking her into bed, Wendy tells her that she does not want to grow up. As Mary goes to close the window, Wendy warns her not to lock it. According to Wendy, she has Peter Pan's shadow , and she is certain that he will come back for it. Later that night, Wendy is awakened and startled when Peter is trying to get his shadow on.
Wendy offers to sew it on for him as he is trying to reattach it with a bar of soap. Through conversation, she learns that he likes to hear her stories. However, when he learns that she is to "grow up" and leave the nursery for good, Peter offers to take her to Never Land where she would never have to grow up.
There, she could be the mother of the Lost Boys who live there and tell them many stories. She tries to kiss Peter out of gratitude, but Tinker Bell , who is jealous, pulls her hair causing Peter to chase her around the room trying to shove her with his hat.
By this time, John and Michael awaken and are allowed to go with them. Peter sprinkles them with pixie dust , and after a few false tries, they are able to fly by thinking happy thoughts. They then fly to Neverland. When they arrive, they are attacked by Captain Hook.
Tinker Bell is asked to lead Wendy, John, and Michael to safety but soon leaves them behind. By the time Wendy catches up, she is shot at by the Lost Boys, mistaking her for a bird also called a Wendy-Bird by them.
Though she is not hit, she falls towards the ground before being saved by Peter. After scolding the Lost Boys, he introduces her as their new mother and banishes Tinker Bell from Neverland forever as a punishment, but at Wendy's urging, changes it to a week. Later, Peter announces that Wendy should be the leader of the Lost Boys as she would know best how to capture Indians. Although, she declines the offer as she believes that she'd get captured first. Therefore, Peter takes her to go meet the mermaids , who take a jealous dislike for her and attempt to pull her into the water with them and splash her with their tails.
Angered she picks up a seashell and is about to hit them in defense but she is stopped by Peter who assures her that they were only playing. Suddenly, the lagoon darkens and Peter spots that Captain Hook is close by. Terrified, the mermaids dive into the water and hide. There are always more children to play with, and always more mothers.
Peter Pan became an icon, but the Llewelyn Davies children lived short and tragic lives. George died at 21 as a soldier during World War I in Michael was just shy of his 21st birthday when he drowned in , in what is widely believed to have been a suicide.
John died of lung disease in , at age Barrie himself died of pneumonia at age 77, in He had come to think of Peter Pan less as a celebration of the childhood innocence of his young friends and more as a referendum on himself. In both book and play, Peter murders pirates easily, without a care. The Lost Boys and the Darlings face profound danger throughout both book and play, but Peter tends to find the danger entertaining rather than frightening.
He always saves them, but less because he wants to help them and more because it will give him another opportunity to celebrate his own cleverness. He is their only protector.
He created them to be objects in a game. The ability to think of other people as people , and not just as objects in the game of your life, is a characteristic of adulthood. It seems that when Barrie first conceived of Peter Pan , he found the fantasy of living as heartlessly as Peter to be immensely appealing, which is why he was able to turn it into a sentimental fairy tale.
Later, he found it appalling: He wanted to grow up, to develop true empathy, but felt that he could not. But both sides of the ideal of the selfish child — the fantasy and the nightmare — live on in Peter Pan.
Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding.
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