History Characters / MickeyMouseComicUniverseAntagonists

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Italian stories usually depict him as not really dangerous... But also tend to point out that it's only because Mickey usually stops him before he can steal some funds for a larger plan, and have shown that with Mickey out of the picture for as little as a week he can become as bad as a threat as the ''Phantom Blot''.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Look-wise, the main tradition is to have the Phantom Blot in costume and avoid showing his face. Italian stories, on the other hand, regularly ditch the mask and at times even the entire outfit, so he is as recognizable to the readers as his costume. Personality-wise, his position in the SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat and the SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness can vary widely. From a PaperTiger to the EvilOverlord, and from a Personal Threat (to the heroes) to a Global Threat with TakeOverTheWorld as his final goal.

* BreakoutCharacter: Easily the most popular of Romano Scarpa's characters on the ''Mickey Mouse'' side of things. She fills a niche in her ability to expand on Pete. Coincidentally, she also is the second or third most high-profile female villain in the joint-Mouse/Duck universe, being upstaged only by [[DisneyDucksComicUniverse Magica De Spell]] and arguably by [[Characters/DuckTales Ma Beagle]].

-> Voiced by: Creator/FrankWelker (''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''), John O'Hurley (''Mickey [=MouseWorks=]'', ''House of Mouse'')

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: He appeared as a MonsterOfTheWeek in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' and also fought ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' during the final two story arcs of [[ComicBook/DarkwingDuck his comic book]].

* CompositeCharacter: Overlaps with AscendedExtra, DecompositeCharacter, SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, and SuddenNameChange with a dash of IHaveManyNames. Scuttle as he's known today is an invention of the 80s, but goes back several more decades. He has his origins in the Fallberg-Murry stories and those two believed in making standalone stories rather than creating continuity. As well, Murry limited himself to dogfaces when designing new characters and developed a few go-to models (with minor variations) easy for him to draw because of familiarity. The character today known as Scuttle was one of these go-to models. Although the model was regularly partnered with Pete and/or Dum-Dum, it could show up working with anyone, including itself like when it was doubled for use as the Terwilliger Twins in ''"The Secret of the Swamp"'', and didn't even have to take the role of a criminal, like when it was assigned the role of Dr. Quantum in ''"The Marvelous Magnet"''. Furthermore, the consistency of being Pete's and/or Dum-Dum's partner-in-crime is not a guarantee to same-characterness either, because the name given to the model never was the same between any two stories and Mickey never recognized him unlike he did Pete, sometimes explicitly. And even if one were to retroactively interpret this use of the model all Scuttle, then ambiguity emerges from the occasional model variation, like the fat version (Bushface) that shows up in ''"The Big Christmas Tree Mystery"'', the beardless version (Frenchy) of ''"The Return of the Phantom Blot"'', or the ''other'' beardless version (Slink) in ''"The Tortoise Shell Treasure"''. Some of Scuttle's better known names, on account of them appearing in high profile stories, are Ropey (''"Captures the Range Rustlers"''), Catfoot (''"The Legend of Loon Lake"''), Saltspray (title?), Slowdraw (''"Mickey's Strange Mission"''), and Yardarm (title?). "Yardarm" also has the honor of being the name he got when he appeared in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' episode ''"The Pearl of Wisdom"''. Other names the model has appeared under are Sourdough Sam/Skulk (''"Alaskan Adventure"''), Barney (''"Backwoods Bugaboo"''), Pickhandle (''"The Mystery of Misery Mesa"''), Snark (''"Arctic Roundup"''), Squinch (''"The Treasure of El Dorado"''), Lynx-Eye (''"Undercover Mountie"''), Chum (''"Strange Cargo to Pingoola"''), Smite (''"The Whale Chasers"''), Deadeye (''"Lair of the Zoomby"''), Slick (''"Moose Call"''), Dr. Gantry (''"Desert Dilemma"''), and Mulligan (''"Rainbow Runaround"''). The only Western Publishing era story to call him "Scuttle" is ''"The Missing Merchantman"'', but it's the name that's been settled on after the 70s and the one used for fresh translations.

* NoNameGiven: We probably don't know his real name. Some Italian stories have TheUntwist that he's actually called [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Mr Blot, Phantom]]. However, [[FanonDiscontinuity not every fan agrees]]. The ''Goofy Reporter'' series shows him ''before'' he became the Blot and reveals his name to be Basil Blackspot. However, this story might be an AlternateContinuity and have no bearing on the regular canon. The Phantom Blot has also shown an affinity for the name Bob as shown in the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' [[ComicBook/DarkwingDuck ''Campaign Carnage'' arc]] and ''"The Return of Phantom Bob"'', but "Bob" might as easily be based on "Blot" as "Blot" on "Bob".

** CharacterCheck: Once in a while, Italian writers remember that the only reason Pete isn't a threat is that he gets caught by Mickey early, and when he doesn't he ''at least'' turns Mouseton's criminals in his personal gang, depending on how much time he gets without Mickey butting in. In the 2018 story "All of This Will Happen Tomorrow" he managed to keep Mickey off his back for three years, and when he was stopped he had just plunged the world into chaos and was literally seconds away from ''TakingOverTheWorld''.

* ArchEnemy: In the comics, he is established as Mickey's most dangerous foe. Less so in animation, where he's only appeared as a MonsterOfTheWeek in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', appeared in one episode of ''Mickey Mouse Works'', two shorts and one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', and one of the 2013 ''Mickey Mouse'' shorts.

* DependingOnTheWriter: He's been depicted as anything from criminal mastermind with his own gang to a thug who wouldn't be able to design a way out of a cardboard box depending on what the story requires.

* TheDragon: When he's not the main villain of the story, he's usually the main henchman.
* EntitledBastard: When he's not making demands, Mickey's helping him on his own initiative anyway.

* MasterOfDisguise: Several stories, like ''"Perils of Mickey"'' and ''"A Phantom Blot Bedtime Story"'', have him utilize fake identities. Oftentimes, his disguise consists of LatexPerfection masks ''on top of his hood''.

* VillainExitStageLeft: One of the villains who does this most. Some stories go as far as to imply that [[RetCon he has ''never'' been captured properly]].

* RetCon: Some authors ignore the fact that the Blot was captured and unmasked at the end of his first story and imply that Mickey has never seen his true face or seen him brought to justice.

* SurroundedByIdiots: Mostly a Western Publishing trait as it's mostly those stories he has non-character henchmen in.

* TookALevelInBadass: In some stories he becomes an enormous danger even in combat and not just for his brains, most notably ''ComicBook/{{Ultraheroes}}'', where he's been given a device that allow him to [[MakingASplash turn himself liquid]].

* TheDividual: As Disney niblings are wont to be, Pierino and Pieretto are narratively inseparable.

* OnlyOneName: Whether his name comes with an adjective or not, Pete is Pete. His family is often named as if "Pete" is a surname, but it's not a clearcut case. In ''GoofTroop'', his full name is given as "Peter Pete", but he's only ever referred to as "Pete" (or "Petey"). In ''"Mickey's Strange Mission"'', his full name is given as "Percy P. Percival" and it's made clear that he [[EmbarrassingFirstName finds the name embarrassing]].

** Done ''repeatedly'' in the ''Darkenblot'' saga. The saga is named after PB's PowerArmor... That he improves and modifies in every story: the first model could easily thrash any of Robopolis' police robots, even the combat-oriented Panthers, and could fly extremely fast, but was crippled when Mickey got it in [[TurbineBlender a large moving turbine]]; the 2.0, obtained by improving the first, is tougher and better armed, and turned the Phantom Blot into a OneManArmy; the 2.1 seems identical to the 2.0, to the point [[GenreSavvy Mickey was immediately suspicious because of it]], and then noticed the one modification, a large button on the chest that [[spoiler:generates a powerful EMP pulse that, coupled with well-placed crates and an identical copy, allowed him to fake having [[TeleportersAndTransporters a teleportation device]] for a scam that netted him two billion dollars]]; and the 3.0 could casually smash ''four powered armor designed to take on the previous model '''without using the on-board weapons''''' (that had been upgraded to EnergyWeapons from the ballistics used with the original and the 2.0), but at the price of becoming too large to fly.

* AscendedExtra: Portis was created to give Pete access to fancy weaponry to expand the kind of stories he could star in. Portis was initially written as his lesser, but he's been increasingly written as an equal to Pete to the point they now qualify as ThoseTwoBadGuys.

* VillainExitStageLeft: One of the most villains who does this most. Some stories go as far as to imply that [[RetCon he's ''never'' been captured properly]].

! Allies of Pete

! Allies of the Phantom Blot

* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Kickstarted by Carl Fallberg and Paul Murry, although they did not care about being consistent. In ''"Double Trouble"'', Pete is given a twin brother named Zeke, while in ''"The River Pirates"'' a twin brother named L'il Pete is introduced alongside the men's [[EvilMatriarch mother and gang leader]], identified only as Maw Pete. However, ''"Mickey's Strange Mission"'' has a relative of Pete (here fully named Percy P. Percival), Blackstone P. Percival, claim that Pete is the BlackSheep of the family. In addition to the characters listed below under '''Pete's family''', various writers have introduced Pedro, Pete's brother, in ''"Enfim... Argh... Juntos!"'', Petula, Pete's protective CoolBigSis, in ''"Fattening Fudge"'', (Black) Petra, a cousin in ''"Terror Of The Territory"'', Pit, a nephew and would-be future tyrant of Mouseton, in ''"Topolino e lo strappo cronospaziale"'', Alfonso "Al" Gambone, a Sicilian cousin of Pete, and his mother Assunta Bonfiglio in ''"Babbo Ciccione"'', Pierette and Jo, a Parisian aunt and uncle, in ''"Minni e la zia di Gambadilegno"'', Maude, an aunt that's doing jailtime for counterfeiting goldfish, in "Gentleman Pete!", and Crowbar, an uncle in ''"Topolino e la maxi-minicoppa"''. The animated works also chip in, such as the ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'' short ''"Mickey's Cabin"'', which gives Pete a criminal CountryCousin named Zeke, who possibly was inspired by the aforementioned twin brother. In regards to pets, [[Characters/ClassicDisneyShorts two shorts]] feature Muncey, a dog owned by Pete who aids him in his schemes.

* AscendedExtra: Maw Pete's first mention occurs in 1942's ''"Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold"'', 26 years before she'd have a starring role. Pete requests his crew that if anything happens to him, his remains are sent to his "old mudder in Pittsboig". Which Pittsburg(h) he refers to isn's specified.

* HappilyMarried: It varies whether Trudy (when she appears in a story) is portrayed as his wife or his live-in girlfriend, but their relationship is a happy one.