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Jul 24, 2020 · Sticking strictly to the Disney version of events, we learn of Tinkerbell and Peter's first meeting in the Disney Fairies tie-in novel The Trouble with Tink. There's no specific timescale given other than that it happened after the events of the Fairies films, presumably to stop them painting themselves into a corner if they decide to continue ...
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“A fairy's work is much more than at first it might appear. Suppose your broken clock ticks, though it hasn't in a year. Perchance you find a toy you lost, or jingling bells you hear. It all means that one very special fairy might be near.”
―Narrator
(also nicknamed Tink or Miss Bell) is the tritagonist of Disney's 1953 animated feature film Peter Pan. She is a sassy fairy, who serves as Peter Pan's sidekick. Tink regularly joins Peter on his exploits throughout the magical isle of Neverland. She values their relationship so much, that the presence of other girls (particularly Wendy Darling), causes her to become insanely jealous and spiteful.
Tinker Bell is equipped with Pixie Dust, which grants herself and others the ability to fly, so long as they think "wonderful thoughts". She is a largely silent character, speaking a fairy language that is unintelligible to most humans. Her vocalizations are instead expressed in the form of a light jingling noise reminiscent of a bell.
When the film Peter Pan was in development, the filmmakers knew Tinker Bell couldn't have been a mere spot of light as she was portrayed in all previous Peter Pan incarnations. Tinker Bell was designed and animated by one of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, Marc Davis. Without the aid of vocal performance, Marc relied on Tinker Bell's expressions for th...
Peter Pan
One night in London, Tinker Bell and Peter Pan visit the home of the Darling family where he accidentally left his living shadow during one of his previous visits. Using her light, Tinker Bell scopes through the house. While searching, Tinker Bell finds and lands on a hand mirror and looks at herself. They eventually find the shadow, but accidentally trap Tink inside, and wake Wendy Darling, the oldest Darling child, in the process. Wendy helps put Peter's Shadow back on by sewing it. Tinker Bell, however, tries to get out of the drawer by climbing through a keyhole and gets stuck in the process due to her wide hips. She later gets unstuck when Wendy gets the sewing kit to help Peter free her. Wendy is heavily fascinated with the stories of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys and appears to have a crush on the boy as well. This angers Tinker Bell, making her red with jealousy and even calling Wendy a "big ugly girl". Soon enough, Wendy explains that she may never see Peter again as her father is forcing her to "grow up" and leave the Pan stories in the past. Because Peter enjoys Wendy's stories of his adventures, he offers her a chance to stay in Neverland, where she will never have to grow up. Tinker Bell is disgusted by the very idea and refuses to bestow her fairy dust upon Wendy and her younger brothers, John and Michael. However, Peter simply spanks the fairy dust out of Tink and onto the Darlings when she doesn't cooperate, giving them the ability to fly to Neverland. Once they've arrived, the group is attacked by Pan's nemesis, Captain Hook. Peter orders Tink to take the Darlings to the island for safety, but Tink leaves them in her dust. She heads to Hangman's Tree, where she, Peter, and the Lost Boys reside. She tells the boys that Pan has ordered them to shoot down the "Wendy Bird." The boys do as they thought they were told, and Peter saves Wendy's life which makes Tink so red with rage that she burns through a leaf as she flies away. When Peter finds out what they have done, he is furious. Lost Boy Cubby reveals that Tink gave them the order, and as punishment, Peter (at first) banishes the fairy forever but switches it to a week after Wendy convinces him otherwise and not be so hard on Tink. Later that night, Captain Hook's first mate, Mr. Smee, kidnaps Tink and takes her to Hook's ship, where the captain attempts to toy with Tink's emotions to get her to reveal Peter's hideout. He tells her the pirates are planning on shanghaiing Wendy, and the plot makes Tink more than happy as, with Wendy out of the way, she and Peter can be together again. She points the way to the hideout on the map, but she forces Hook to promise not to lay one single finger or a hook on Peter Pan before she completes this. Hook agrees, trapping her in a lantern once she reveals the location, revealing he had duped her and was still going to do away with Peter, but still within his promise not to lay a single finger or hook on Peter. The next morning, Wendy, her brothers, and the Lost Boys are captured and given the choice of becoming pirates or walking the plank. Wendy convinces the boys to refuse the offer in high hopes that Pan will save them. Meanwhile, Hook reveals his plot to plant a bomb in Peter's hideout, disguised as a gift from Wendy. When Tink hears this, she breaks free of her trap and heads for Hangman's Tree. There, she tries to warn Peter, but he brushes her claims off as nonsense. The bomb begins to ring rapidly, ready to explode, causing Peter to realize Tink was right, but Tink takes it away from Peter and sacrifices herself, with the bomb exploding with such force that it decimates Hangman's Tree and even nearly swamps the Jolly Roger away from its anchoring with the concussion from the blast. In the rubble of Hangman's Tree, Peter is safe, but Tink is fatally injured. Peter restores her life by telling her just how much she means to him. With Tink saved, Peter heads to the Jolly Roger to rescue his friends. A battle occurs, ending with Hook fleeing for his life from the crocodile who ate his left hand and now wants the rest of the captain. With Hook defeated, Peter decides to escort Wendy home, having Tink sprinkle fairy dust all over Hook's ship so it turns gold and flies, taking the Darling children back to London.
Return to Never Land
Tink and Peter are having a normal day in Neverland when they stop by the Jolly Roger to visit and annoy Captain Hook. When they arrive, Hook claims to have his dearest Wendy held captive. Peter battles the evil pirate, but Hook throws "Wendy" overboard to be eaten by an octopus. Peter rushes down to save her, and Tink follows close behind. When Pan seems to have finally met his end, he emerges from the water, and Tinker Bell uses her pixie dust to lift the octopus and land him on Hook's ship. Peter and Tink then leave the scene to free the prisoner. Instead of Wendy, however, they find her daughter Jane. Tinker Bell takes an immediate disliking toward her, similar to her initial disliking of Wendy in the first film. Peter decides to introduce her to the Lost Boys, but Jane quickly grows tired of their unruly behavior and attempts to build a raft to return home. The plan fails, and Peter tells Jane that the only way to leave Never Land is to fly. Tink reluctantly bestows pixie dust upon Jane, but the flight lessons end in failure. Jane loses her temper again when Peter and the boys unwittingly destroy her notebook, and snaps at them, before declaring she does not believe in fairies. Jane's disbelief causes Tink to grow ill. After Slightly gives Tink a check-up, Peter and the gang learn that she will die unless they can convince Jane to believe in fairies. To save the fairy, Peter and the Lost Boys then set out to find Jane and make her the very first Lost Girl. Meanwhile, back at Hangman's Tree, Tinker Bell is still struggling to stay alive as her light continues to flicker in and out over and over again, this time going a bit faster as her death draws near. After unintentionally causing herself to slip off a brown mushroom by kicking her left leg in frustration (due to her trying to use her pixie dust and only being able to shoot out bits of it), which she was on earlier, Tink finds a mirror next to her, and she's clearly devastated at being the person she was all these years. Tink then looks as if she's crying. Unfortunately, Jane makes a deal with Hook. If she helps him locate his treasure, he'll give her a ride home on his ship that now has the ability to fly after Tinker Bell sprinkled her pixie dust all over it. Jane tricks the boys into playing treasure hunt, but after bonding with them, she changes her mind and discards the whistle she was meant to use to summon Hook once she found the treasure. Tootles the Lost Boy finds the whistle and innocently blows it, summoning Hook and his crew. As Peter and the Lost Boys are captured by the pirates, an outraged Peter reveals to Jane that her disbelief in fairies is causing Tinker Bell to die. Jane rushes back to Hangman's Tree, only to find out that Tinker Bell's bright light of life has expired. Jane mourns the death of the tinker fairy in guilt and shame, and her belief in fairies begins to arise. Jane's newfound belief in fairies revives Tinker Bell. The two reconcile and head to the Jolly Roger to face Hook and save Peter and the Lost Boys. They arrive and find Peter tied to an anchor and about to be thrown overboard. Tink distracts Hook and Smee while Jane frees the Lost Boys and battles the pirates. Tink manages to knock Hook unconscious so Jane can try to retrieve the key. Hook awakens and attempts to kill Jane. Tink sprinkles pixie dust on her and she is able to escape through flight. Not only that, but she is also able to free Peter. Hook is defeated and Peter escorts Jane home. While there, Peter and Tink - who, after so many years, has finally put her jealousy and resentment of Wendy aside - have a brief but heartwarming reunion with the full-grown Wendy, whom Tink uses her fairy dust on to allow Wendy to magically levitate one last time with Peter's permission. Afterward, they head back home to Neverland.
Tinker Bell
“Hello...?” ―Tinker Bell's first word. The film Tinker Bell tells of Tink's history; long before she met Peter Pan. According to the film, Tinker Bell was born from a baby's first laugh and a white dandelion seed. She arrives in Pixie Hollow, located in Neverland. Upon her arrival, she was able to talk to her friends and her magical talent is found by showing her a number of objects related to each fairy talent which will react to her if that is her innate magical talent. Ironically, the only object she passes over when looking for her talent is the Tinker hammer, but her inner talent is so skillfully gifted and strong that the hammer goes to her. As a result, she is introduced to Clank and Bobble, who take her on a tour of Pixie Hollow before arriving at the Tinker Fairies workshop and providing Tink her new home, where she soon gets to work replacing the dandelion seed dress she was wearing at her birth with her trademark outfit and hairstyle, which amazes Clank and Bobble when they see her in it, before showing her around the workshop and meeting the Tinker Fairy Overseer, Fairy Mary. After hearing stories of the mainland, Tinker Bell becomes excited at the prospect of visiting in the springtime. She soon learns that only nature-talented fairies visit the mainland, and become determined to find a talent that would let her go. However, Tinker Bell's attempts at learning nature talents fail miserably. She alienates the other Tinkers in the workshop by saying she does not want to be a stupid tinker. However, after her friends see Tinker Bell successfully repair a music box, they tell her that going to the mainland shouldn't matter if tinkering is what she is good at. This does not make Tinker Bell feel better as she calls them out for breaking their promise, so she goes to Vidia for help. Vidia, who had been unintentionally humiliated by Tinker Bell earlier, tells Tink that capturing the pestering sprinting thistles would allow her to go to the mainland. In attempting to capture them, Tinker Bell ruins the preparations for spring after Vidia secretly interferes. After speaking with Terence, the fairy in charge of the pixie dust, she realizes the importance of a tinker's job. is able to redeem herself by inventing machines that speed up the spring preparations, allowing the other fairies to get back on schedule. This causes Vidia to out herself as the true culprit who unleashed the thistles to ruin the preparations when she gets into an argument with Tinker Bell, resulting in her being punished with rounding them up alone. As a reward, Queen Clarion allows Tinker Bell to go to the mainland with the nature fairies to return the music box Tinker Bell had fixed earlier to Wendy.
Disney Anthology Series
Tinker Bell serves as one of the company's mascots, representing The Magic of Disney, and serves as the lead character in many of Disney's anthology television shows (Disneyland, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, The Wonderful World of Disney, The Magical World of Disney, etc.) opening each program with pixie dust.
House of Mouse
Tinker Bell made numerous cameo appearances in the animated series House of Mouse. In "Goofy's Menu Magic", Mickey asks Tink to spy on Goofy in order to learn the secret to his delicious stew. Instead, Goofy accidentally uses Tink as an ingredient, creating a flying stew that flooded the club. In "Chip n' Dale", Tink helps the Lost Boys open a bag of nuts. Right after, Pete demands her to open his bag, but she sprays him with pixie dust, causing him to fly uncontrollably. In "Donald Wants to Fly", Tink and Peter Pan help Donald Duck fulfill his dream of flying. Tink can also be seen with Peter during Ludwig Von Drake's headcount of all the Disney character guests in "Ask Von Drake". In that same episode, Tink assists Mickey in his attempt to prove that Von Drake couldn't possibly know everything, only to fail in doing so. In Mickey's Magical Christmas, Tink appears at the very end to close out the film. In Mickey's House of Villains, Tink restores the House of Mouse's logo after Mickey successfully foils the Disney villains.
Jake and the Never Land Pirates
Tinker Bell makes her first appearance on Jake and the Neverland Pirates in the special Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Never Land Rescue. The Guardian of Never Land informs Jake and his crew that only the pirate who truly believes in himself can save Never Land from vanishing completely, Jake must break off from the rest of his crew and go alone to save the Forever Tree. Unknown to Jake at the time, the magical ball of light sent by The Guardian to guide him on his quest to save Never Land is Tinker Bell, and furthermore, the Guardian was none other than Peter Pan, as he and Tink were testing Jake, for one day, he'll become Never Land's guardian. Peter Pan gives Jake the power to fly without pixie dust and invites Jake to explore the worlds beyond Never Land but he'd have to part with his friends. While flying with Tinker Bell and Peter Pan, Jake cannot shake the feeling that his crew may need his help and quickly soars back to Pirate Island. Jake is right to worry; Captain Hook returns, trapping Izzy, Cubby, and Skully in a cage and attempting to smash the Team Treasure Chest open until Jake, Tinker Bell, and Peter Pan intervene. Forcing Captain Hook to retreat but not empty-handed, he manages to capture Tinker Bell and use her pixie dust on the Jolly Roger, granting the ship flight and allowing Hook the means to plunder the riches beyond the Never Sea. Peter and Jake soon chase after Captain Hook aboard Bucky. As a diversion, Hook imprisons Tinker Bell in a lantern and tosses her overboard, forcing Peter Pan to give up the chase to rescue and free Tinker Bell from the lantern, while Jake is left to deal with Hook. She also does her waving the screen with pixie dust to the screen as it went from the end of the episode to the song by Sharky and Bones in live-action form. Tinker Bell reappears in the special Battle for the Book, Peter Pan is summoned by Wendy and her brothers to stop Captain Hook from destroying her book of Never Land but Peter is unable to help because he's currently battling a vicious sea beast that has entered Mermaid Lagoon. So Peter asks Tinker Bell to accompany Jake and his crew as they journey to London to help Wendy and her brothers. Tinker Bell reappears in the episode "Jake's Awesome Surprise", she attends Jake's birthday celebration with Peter Pan and the rest of the pirate teams Never Land friends. Tinker Bell reappears in the episode "Peter Pan's 100 Treasures!", she and Peter Pan have Captain Jake and the other Never Land captains compete in a scavenger hunt. Tinker Bell makes a brief reappears in the episode"Captain Jake's Pirate Power Crew!", She is seen delivering the Pirate Power Bandanas and a note from Peter Pan to Jake and his crew while they sleep. Tinker Bell reappears in the series finale "Captain Hook's Last Stand!". She and Peter Pan have returned from their travels to the Lands beyond the Never Sea where they are greeted by Jake, his crew, and the Darling siblings hosting a welcome back party on the beach for them. Peter shows his friends the various treasures from his travels and warns his friends of the danger of one, the Doom Stone, which has the power to turn anyone into stone and gradually turn its user evil into stone. Tinker Bell accompanies Peter and his friends as they hide the Doom Stone within Hangman's Tree unaware that Captain Hook has overheard the power of the Doom Stone and manages to sneak into Hangman's Tree to steal the Doom Stone from underneath Peter's watch, turning the boy who never grew up to the stone. Tinker Bell aids Jake, his crew, and the Darling siblings to get the petrified Peter to the safety of Tiki Forest. Tinker Bell also knew of a way to restore Peter to normal by pointing to the acorn Wendy was given by Peter in their first meeting mistaking the fairy's words for growing the acorn. Tink later accompanies Michael, Cubby, and Skully to recover the magical mud of Green Grove Gulch. Unaware that they were being spied on by Sharky and Bones in hopes of locating the petrified Peter Pan for Captain Hook. Once Hook arrives he devised a plan to force the young heroes to reveal Peter's location by provoking a wild bear from his slumber to attack them. But much to the surprise of Cubby, Skully, and Tinker Bell when they are confronted by the bear that Michael was able to calm and befriend the bear allowing the group to safely retrieve the magical mud to help Peter. It was later revealed that Tink was referring to a kiss to restore Peter to normal. As she tries to kiss Peter, Jake comments Wendy should be the one to do it, much to the dismay of Tinker Bell. Wendy kisses Peter, and this breaks the spell cast over him. Meanwhile, Captain Hook's use of the Doom Stone petrifies him, as well, though Wendy is able to free him with a kiss just the same.
Tinker Bell has appeared in a numerous amount of video games. Some of the games she appears in include those from the Peter Pan franchise as well as the Disney Fairies franchise. She is also prominent in crossover games such as Disney Universe as a costume (which resembles her outfit from Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure). Tink appears in Epic Mic...
Prior to 2005, the only appearances for Tinker Bell at the Disney theme parks were in the nightly fireworks shows, in which she would fly from one side of the park to the other through the fireworks, started by Walt Disney himself. The original performer for Tinker Bell was 71-year-old circus performer Tiny Kline.
She is mentioned by Wendy and the rest of the Lost Boys to Fireflyer, a silly blue fairy, who when he reaches the top of Neverpeak, makes the wish to meet her. When they open Captain Hook's treasure chest, among other things, Tinker Bell is seen inside it to Fireflyer's joy.
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