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For other uses, see Captain Hook (disambiguation).

Fictional character

Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M.

Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy.

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The character is a piratecaptain of the brigJolly Roger. His two principal fears are the sight of his own blood (supposedly an unnatural colour) and the crocodile who pursues him after having previously eaten Captain Hook's hand cut off by Pan.

An iron hook that replaced his severed hand has given the pirate his name.

Creation of the character

Hook did not appear in early drafts of the play, wherein the capricious and coercive Peter Pan was closest to a "villain", but was created for a front-cloth scene (a cloth flown well downstage in front of which short scenes are played while big scene changes are "silently" carried out upstage^[1]) depicting the children's journey home.

Later, Barrie expanded