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Pete a.k.a. Bad Pete, Big Pete, Big Bad Pete, Black Pete, Bootleg Pete, Dirty Pete, Mighty Pete, Pee Wee Pete, Peg-Leg Pete, Petey, Pistol Pete, Sneaky Pete, Piston Pete, Peter Pete Sr., Captain Blackheart, Louie the Leg, Pierre the Trapper, Peg-Leg Pedro, Percy P. Percival, Sylvester Macaroni, Terrible Tom, Tiny Tom, Tom Cat, is a cartoon character created in 1925 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. He is a character of The Walt Disney Company and often appears as a nemesis and the main antagonist in Mickey Mouse universe stories. He was originally an anthropomorphic bear but with the advent of Mickey Mouse in 1928, he was defined as a cat. Pete is the oldest continuing Disney character, having debuted three years before Mickey Mouse in the cartoon Alice Solves the Puzzle (1925) and appearing as an antagonist in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons. Pete was not named in the first year of Mickey Mouse cartoons but was given the name Peg-Leg Pete in 1930.

Pete has also made many appearances in Disney comics, and often appeared as Sylvester Shyster's dimwitted sidekick in the Mickey Mouse comic strip. In the Italian comic production he has come to be the central character in comics from time to time. Pete later made several appearances in television, most extensively in Goof Troop (1992–1993) where he was given more continuity, having a family and a regular job as a used car salesman and is a friend (albeit a poor one) to Goofy. He reprises this incarnation in 1999's Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas. Pete also appears in House of Mouse (2001–03) as the greedy property owner who is always trying to exploit devious ways and loopholes to get the club shut down.

Although Pete is often typecast as a villain, he has shown great versatility within the role, playing everything from a hardened criminal (The Dognapper, The Lone Chipmunks) to a legitimate authority figure (Moving Day, Donald Gets Drafted, Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip), and from a menacing trouble maker (Building a Building, Trombone Trouble) to a victim of mischief himself (Timber, The Vanishing Private). On some occasions, Pete has even played a sympathetic character, all the while maintaining his underlying menacing nature. (Symphony Hour, How to Be a Detective) He seems to have lost much of his antagonistic demeanor in his appearances in the animated TV series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, which is aimed at preschoolers, and is largely a friendly character in that series, although his antics can occasionally prove an annoyance.

In Goof Troop, he has a family that is named after some of Pete's more well known Nicknames and Epithets. His wife Peg Pete, Peter Pete Junior, and his youngest child/daughter Pistol Pete.

He has been voiced by the legendary veteran voice actor Jim Cummings since 1992 in Goof Troop.