1/25/2024 0 Comments Mickey mouse by cactus music boxIn their youth, the two played Little League Baseball together (and were kicked off the team for losing a championship game) and attended the local high school, where Pete played on the football team. In the Goof Troop continuity, Pete grew up in Spoonerville as a childhood acquaintance of Goofy. In the comics, he has traditionally been paired with his childhood friend, Trudy Van Tubb. He is always foiled by the gallant Mickey. As his feelings are always unrequited, Pete has repeatedly kidnapped Minnie in attempts to force a courtship. Pete has harbored romantic feelings for Minnie Mouse from as early as 1928’s The Gallopin' Gaucho, and has vied for her affections on numerous occasions. Even when donning a lawful profession (such as a drill sergeant in Donald Gets Drafted), his practices are typically thuggish. Most often, he is depicted as a local thug or brute. He has also donned many professions, such as a steamboat captain and construction site foreman-in both cases, serving as the employer of Mickey Mouse. Been to all the foreign lands-Brooklyn, included.” True to this, Pete has appeared under various alter-egos internationally. In Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, Pete hints at a history of globe-trotting, stating, “I’ve been around, see. This inconsistency was addressed by Mickey Mouse comic writer Floyd Gottfredson, in the 1941 story The Mystery at Hidden River in one panel, Pete tells Mickey that he had his peg-leg replaced with a more realistic prosthetic. In many stories, however, Pete appears without his peg-leg. Interestingly, some media portrays Pete’s ancestors as having also sported pegged-legs, such as Gram-Gram Peg-Leg in House of Mouse. He would go on to adopt the moniker “Peg-Leg Pete”. In Mickey's Cabin, Pete’s partner-in-crime was his own cousin, Zeke.Īt some point in his life, Pete lost one of his legs by unknown means, and had it replaced with a wooden peg. Similarly, such media as DuckTales and Mickey Mouse Works suggest that Pete descended from a long line of criminals and scoundrels from all over the world. In many stories, Pete’s mother is portrayed as a criminal, herself, and sought to pass down the trade to her children-including Pete. In Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, it is said that Pete was instantly rejected by his mother, “at that stork delivery”, and pursued his evil goals as a means of earning her approval. His relationship with his mother is sometimes depicted as a contributing factor to his villainy. 4.8 The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouseīy Pete’s own admission, he was, “born to cheat and lie”.3.4 Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers.In modern media, Pete remains one of Disney's most active characters and the quintessential antagonist to Mickey Mouse and his friends. 1992’s Goof Troop and 1995's A Goofy Movie redefined Pete as a suburban husband and father, with a personality that was less villainous and more domineering. A versatile villain, Pete has donned numerous aliases and professions portraying everything from a western outlaw, to a disgruntled train conductor. His characterization took after the thuggish hoodlums that often opposed such silent film underdogs as Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, as well as screen actor Wallace Beery. Whereas Mickey was small and weak, Pete was large and powerful. Under the supervision of animator Norman Ferguson, Pete was developed to directly contrast Mickey. Having appeared three years prior to the advent of Mickey, Pete is the oldest recurring Disney character and the first villain to be conceived by the studio. Following his recurring roles in both the Alice, and later Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series of cartoons, Pete was permanently solidified as the arch-rival of Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928. He was designed as a bullish strongman with a wooden leg, which animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston speculate to have been inspired by pirate iconography. Pete made his debut in Alice Solves the Puzzle on February 15, 1925, as part of Walt Disney’s Alice Comedies. Pete’s most frequent scheme involves kidnapping Minnie Mouse for lecherous purposes, but his crimes and victims have varied over the years. He is the arch-nemesis of Mickey Mouse, normally characterized as a cigar-smoking thug with a ruthless and tyrannical personality. Pete (commonly known as Peg-Leg Pete) is a villainous, anthropomorphic cat created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. “ Just wait! No one-and I do mean no one-messes with the mighty Pete!” ―Pete
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