Editing Pete (Disney) (section)

===Mickey Mouse and friends===
[[File:Earlypete.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Pete as he appeared in ''Steamboat Willie'']]
After leaving the Oswald series, Disney and his team created a cat villain for their new protagonist [[Mickey Mouse]]. Originally unnamed in the cartoons and called "Terrible Tom" in a January 1930 comic strip, the villain was called Pegleg Pete by April 1930, formalizing him as a new incarnation of the pre-Mickey bad guy.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bossert, David|year=2017|title=Oswald The Lucky Rabbit: The Search For The Disney Cartoons|publisher=Disney Books|page=62|isbn=978-1-4847-8037-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Gerstein |first1=David |last2=Kaufman |first2=J. B. |year=2018|title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History|publisher=Taschen|page=28|isbn=978-3836552844}}</ref> Animator [[Norm Ferguson (animator)|Norm Ferguson]], known for developing [[Pluto (Disney)|Pluto]], also developed Pete's character in several shorts and he was made to resemble actor [[Wallace Beery]].<ref name="danim" /><ref>Steve Watts, ''The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life'', University of Missouri Press, pp. 33, 132</ref>Pete appeared as Mickey's enemy beginning with the 1928 cartoons ''[[The Gallopin' Gaucho]]'' and ''[[Steamboat Willie]]''. While he was seen with two legs in those films, he first appeared with a peg-leg in 1930's ''[[The Cactus Kid (1930 film)|The Cactus Kid]]'' and would speak for the first time. He would first appear in color in ''[[Moving Day (1936 film)|Moving Day]]'' (1936), which would drop the peg-leg.<ref name="movies">{{cite book |last1=Grob |first1=Gijs |title=Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse |date=2018 |publisher=Theme Park Press |pages=40, 148|isbn=978-1683901235}}</ref> In the cartoons of the 1930s, Pete would be Mickey Mouse's nemesis, but would vary in professions, from an all-out outlaw (''Gallopin' Gaucho'', ''The Cactus Kid'', ''Two-Gun Mickey'') to a brutal law-enforcer (''Moving Day'', where Pete is a [[sheriff]] who serves Mickey and Donald Duck with an [[eviction]] notice).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rovin |first1=Jeff |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals |date=1991 |publisher=Prentice Hall Press |isbn=0-13-275561-0 |access-date=8 April 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc00rovi/page/202/mode/2up/ |pages=202–203}}</ref> In the 1942 cartoon ''[[Symphony Hour]]'', Pete is a sympathetic [[impresario]] who sponsors Mickey's orchestra in a concert, which goes terribly wrong but is a great success. As Mickey's popularity declined, Pete would serve as an antagonist for [[Donald Duck]] and to a lesser extent [[Goofy]] and [[Chip 'n' Dale]]. In the 1940s, Pete would play the role of Donald's drill sergeant in several war-themed shorts (eg. ''[[Donald Gets Drafted]]'', ''[[The Old Army Game]]'')