Nibs

[close] Nibs is a Lost Boy who fell out of his pram and taken to Neverland by Peter Pan. He is described as “happy and debonair, possibly the bravest Lost Boy”. At the end of Peter Pan he makes a choice to become adopted by the Darling family and grows up to work in an office.

There are many different spin-off stories involving Nibs and his origins. In Peter Pan in Scarlet , as an adult, he has the opportunity to go back to Neverland but becomes the only Lost Boy not to return as he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving his children. Due to the nature of the novel Nibs misses out on finding his real mother and learning about what happened before becoming a Lost Boy.

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon , which takes place before Peter Pan, Nibs was a boy from St. Norbert’s orphanage who used to be a slave for King Zarboff. Along with the other well-known Lost Boys he ends up going to Neverland with Peter.

In film media Nibs has been played by Harry Eden in Peter Pan (2003) and Lewis MacDougall in Pan (2015). The 2015 retelling has Nibs in an orphanage alongside Peter but does not go with him to Neverland as he falls off the pirate ship and gets left behind. In Disney’s 1953 film Nibs wears a rabbit costume and does not return to London to grow up and decides to stay with Peter.