Black Pete

:For Black Pete(r)s, elf-like assistants of Saint Nicholas, see Zwarte Piet.

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Saint Nicholas - Zwarte Piet

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Black Pete (also known as Peg-Leg Pete and, simply, Pete) is a fictional character from the Walt Disney Company stables. He is an anthropomorphic cat (occasionally depicted with a pegleg), best known as the arch-nemesis of Mickey Mouse. Though he is usually associated with the Mickey Mouse universe, Pete actually appeared in cartoons long before Mickey, and is thus Disney's oldest continuing character.

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Fictional character - Walt Disney Company - Anthropomorphic - Cat - Pegleg - Nemesis - Mickey Mouse - Mickey Mouse universe - Cartoon

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Among younger fans, he was a relatively obscure character until appearing in the 1990s TV series Goof Troop. Oddly, Pete was portrayed as an anthropomorphic dog like the majority of other characters in that series, and later appearances in some Disney shows had some fans erroneously assume he was one. Pete made a couple of guest appearances, as a villain, in DuckTales.

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1990s - TV series - Goof Troop - Dog - DuckTales

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Pete has made much more frequent appearances over the decades, however, in the various Mickey Mouse comic books and strips that have been produced.

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Comic book - Strips

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Pete has used many aliases over the years. They include but are far from limited to Bootleg Pete, Louie the Leg, Mr. Sylvester Macaroni, Pegleg Pedro, Pierre the Trapper, Pistol Pete and Terrible Tom. Pete also boxed semi-professionally under the very misleading sobriquet of "Peewee Pete." His boxing career came to an end when he was knocked out cold by an opponent whom he outweighed at least twenty to one: Donald Duck. The problem was that Pete has a glass jaw.

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Bootleg - Sylvester - Macaroni - Trapper - Pistol - Tom - Boxed - Donald Duck - Glass jaw

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His real name was apparently revealed in the story "Mickey's Strange Mission" (first published in February, 1961) by Carl Fallberg and Paul Murry. There Mickey acquires a photo of Pete at age 10 which identifies him as Percy P. Percival and depicts him dressed in a school uniform of the early 20th century. Pete feels that both the name and the picture could ruin his tough-guy reputation. Consequently Mickey uses them as blackmail material against his old enemy.

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February - 1961 - Carl Fallberg - Paul Murry - Photo - Percival - School uniform - 20th century - Reputation - Blackmail

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In French, Pete is known as "Pat Hibulaire" ("Gallows Bird"). In Spanish, he is "Pedro el Malo" ("Peter the Bad One"). In Italian he is "Gambadilegno" ("Wood Leg"), although he is almost never represented with a wood leg.

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French - Spanish - Italian

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In the House of Mouse animated series, Pete is the landlord of that particular establishment and makes a few appearance in the cartoon itself, trying to find a way to get rid of Mickey Mouse.

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House of Mouse - Mickey Mouse

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