Origin

Captain Hook is a Pirate Captain with a mindset of Captain Ahab. He is obsessed with making Peter Pan pay. He had got into a battle with Peter Pan who had cut off his hand and fed it to a saltwater crocodile. The crocodile has followed Hook ever since to get another taste of the Captain.

Creation

Captain Hook did not appear in the first Peter Pan novel called The Little White Bird in 1902 by J. M. Barrie. His first appearence was in the play Peter Pan in 1904. Hook is a Public Domain Character and has many different versions. Due to a complicated set of copyright laws the status of Hook is different depending on the publication and county that is is being produced. Mainly works are either public domain or they are owned by Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Character Evolution

The character evolution of Captain Hook changes a lot after the character enters public domain. In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen he is one of many literary characters who are present in the same world together. He has been in many plays, books, movies and television.

Other Versions

Disney's Peter Pan

Captain Hook is the main villain of the Disney animated feature from 1953, having hatred for Peter Pan and The Lost Boys from Neverland, since they always get in the way of his plans. Captain Hook has a fear of crocodiles due to an insistent long ago where one ate his hand, followed by an alarm clock.

Captain Hook tries his best to kill the Darling children, and The Lost Boys, but fails at every turn. Until he managed to kidnap Tinker Bell, forcing her to tell him where they are, under the promise he wouldn't harm Peter Pan. This was of course a lie, the movie ended with Captain Hook being chased by the crocodile again, where it implies he was eaten by the reptile.

However in The Return To Neverland from 2002 film, it was shown that Captain Hook had survived his encounter with the crocodile, and was once again hunting Peter Pan. However this time he lost to Wendy's daughter, Jane. Captain Hook was voiced by Hans Conried and later Corey Burton in the sequel.

This version of Captain Hook was used in plenty of promotional martial, which includes comics, and Disney crossovers, such as Mickey's House of Mouse.

Hook

In 1991's one sequel to the original Peter Pan film, Peter Pan left Neverland, became an adult and had children, he also lost the memories of who he once was. However Captain Hook was still angered by Peter Pan's constant wins back in the day, and decided to travel to the real world in order to kidnap Pan's children, in order to get his final revenge. Peter Pan saved his children, and defeated the pirate. Captain Hook was played by Dustin Hoffman.

Peter Pan

In the 2003 live action Peter Pan remake, Captain Hook is once again a villain, however his hatred for Pan comes from a harsher past between the two. Captain Hook instead of using Tinker Bell this time used Wendy by attempting to convince her to join the pirates to which she briefly did. Captain Hook eventually lost the final battle between Pan and himself, when Wendy chose Peter over Hook. Although in this version Captain Hook is shown to not be fully wrong. Peter Pan is holding the Lost Boys on the island, convincing them it is the for the best, however at the end they're brought back to the mainland, where Captain Hook was able to show to Wendy that Peter wasn't as flawless, as he likes to pretend and was a selfish hero. Captain Hook was played by Jason Isaacs.

Tinker Bell Movies

In the prequel Tinker Bell movies to the original Peter Pan movies, Captain Hook appears in Tinker Bell: And The Pirate Fairy. Captain Hook tricked a fairy by the name of Zarina to help his crew create pixie dust. Hook lost to the group of fairies and is set up at the end of the movie to lose his hand to the crocodile.

Once Upon A Time

Captain Hook, or better known as Killian Jones on the series, was a main character in season two to seven, played by Colin O'Donoghue. Captain Hook was introduced when he was recruited by the Evil Queen to kill the Queen of Hearts, only to quickly switch sides. In the second season Hook was the Queen of Hearts' right hand man with a hook for a hand.

Flashbacks revealed that he was once a well known pirate, who fell in love with a woman named Milah, who turned out to be the ex-wife, of Rumpelstiltskin. Rumpelstiltskin murdered her in front of Hook, before taking his hand. Starting a long rivalry between the two of them, even after both were redeemed, Hook continued to carry hatred for Rumpelstiltskin, and called him the "crocodile".

Hook eventually formed a romantic bond with Emma Swan, during their trip to Neverland where they kissed. Their relationship afterwards became rocky, however by season three's end it become a stable romance. Hook ends up sacrificing his own life for her, ending up in the underworld where Emma traveled, refusing to let him die.

In season six, it was revealed that Hook in his villain days had murdered David's father, however despite David's anger towards what happened, forgave his friend. Hook and Emma got married by the season finale, ending in a happily ever after for the couple.

In season seven, a new version of Hook was introduced from another realm, still played by Colin O'Donoghue. This version was not interested in killing Rumpelstiltskin, but to save his daughter, Alice. Another curse brought him to the real world, under the belief that he was a cop named Officers Rodgers. He ended up being reunited with Alice, and walked her down the aisle at her wedding. The real Hook from the previous seasons returns for a few episodes, where he interacts with the new Hook, and is shown to have a daughter of his own with Emma, named Hope.

Descendants Franchise

In the Descendants franchise movies and cartoons, Hook is the father of Harry, Harriet and CJ. However he wouldn't appear until the fourth movie, when The Red Queen's daughter and Cinderella's daughter travel back in time, meeting younger versions of iconic Disney villains.

Captain Hook is shown to have attended a villain academy, and was friends with villains such as Maleficent, Hades and Uliana (Ursula's sister), who formed a gang under Uliana's leadership. Young Captain Hook is played by Joshua Colley.