Fairies can enable others to fly by sprinkling them with fairy dust (sometimes called "pixie dust" by Disney, and presented as "starstuff" in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's novel series). The extremes in her personality are explained in-story by the fact that a fairy's size prevents her from holding more than one feeling at a time, so when she is angry she has no counterbalancing compassion. Though sometimes ill-tempered and vindictive (getting the Lost Boys to shoot arrows at Wendy), at other times she is helpful and kind to Peter. Disney (who changed one of the Lost Boys from Curly to Cubby, and moved Hook's hook to the other arm) stuck with this spelling, and in the Tinker Bell films, they've referred to her as "Miss Bell", recognizing that it's a separate word. Bell was presumably chosen as her surname because her voice sounds like a tinkling bell, which is understandable only to those familiar with the language of the fairies. The expression "a tinker's damn" means something pretty much worthless, reflecting tinkers' reputation for casual profanity, and this was also part of Tinker Bell's original characterization. The word tinker is an archaic work for a metalsmith who mends kettles, pots, pans, etc, and this was her occupation, suggesting that she was a lower-class fairy. Although the name has come to be written Tinkerbell in common usage, Barrie's original spelling was Tinker Bell. In an early draft of the play, her name was Tippytoe (or Tippy for short). In her animated form she leaves a trail of twinkling pixie dust. At first only a supporting character described by her creator as "a common fairy", her animated incarnation was a hit and has since become a widely recognized unofficial mascot of The Walt Disney Company, and the centerpiece of its Disney Fairies media franchise, especially a series of direct-to-DVD Tinker Bell films. She also appears in the official sequel Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean and commissioned by Great Ormond St Hospital as well as the "Peter and the Starcatchers" book series by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry.
She has also appeared in multiple film and television adaptations of the story, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture Peter Pan. Barrie's 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy.
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