Tiger Lily (Peter Pan) Tiger Lily (Peter Pan) Tiger Lily is a fictional character in J. M. Barrie's play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up", his novel based on it, and the various adaptations of them. She is the princess of the ""Piccaninny"-tribe" (Native Americans) living on the island of Neverland. She is apparently old enough to be married, but she refuses any suitors because she desires Peter Pan overall. She is jealous of Wendy and Tinker Bell. Tiger Lily is nearly killed by Captain Hook when she is seen boarding the "Jolly Roger" with a knife in her mouth, but
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show to be the new band's keyboardist. When told by a club owner that they needed a name to put on a poster in the window of his establishment, Cummings made a sign: "Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Tonic for the Soul." The "Hook" name was inspired by Sawyer's eyepatch and a reference to Captain Hook of the Peter Pan fairy tale, although, humorously, because Captain Hook was neither a doctor nor wore an eyepatch. Ray Sawyer had lost his right eye in a near-fatal car crash in Oregon in 1967, and thereafter always wore an eyepatch. The eyepatch would