Line #308 Characters/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete


1	Characters from ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete''.
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3	!The Wrigley Family
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5	!!Big Pete Wrigley (Creator/MichaelMaronna)
6	->[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs She's a girl, and she's a friend]], but [[SheisNOTmygirlfriend she's not my girlfriend]].
7
8	The elder Pete is more stoic, as well as the one who tends to face the most "normal" challenges and moral quandaries of the two. He's somewhat insecure to boot.
9
10	* {{Bears Are\|BadNews}} [[InvertedTrope Good News]]: Big Pete dresses up as one while working at his dad's golf course to avoid being embarrassed by his job. It results in a hunting tournament.
11	* DeadpanSnarker: Not so much in-series, but certainly in his episodic narrations.
12	* DrivesLikeCrazy
13	-->'''Mr. Slurm:''' (''after getting out of the driving simulator with Pete'') Congratulations, Mr. Wrigley. You're dead.
14	* GirlOfTheWeek: He had a lot in season three.
15	* InteractiveNarrator: It helped that he was a character in the show, but he also served as the narrator without being a FourthWallObserver.
16	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A lot.
17	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: As mentioned above, many of his stories are about navigating normal teenage situations.
18	* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Most of his mistakes stem from trying to avoid ridicule or trying to curry favor with bad influences like Endless Mike.
19	* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Little Pete's red.
20	* SupportingProtagonist: Despite the fact that Big Pete was the viewpoint character and the narrator, he was mostly secondary to his younger brother. Big Pete certainly had his share of focus episodes, but the lion's share of them were focused on Little Pete.
21
22	!!Little Pete Wrigley (Creator/DannyTamberelli)
23	->Bite my nose hair!
24
25	One of the greatest military minds of the twentieth century, Pete the Younger is brash, rude, and headstrong. He also tends to have the more "epic" adventures.
26
27	* BuccaneerBroadcaster: Operates a pirate radio station out of his garage, using a walkie-talkie as both microphone and transmitter.
28	* TheChessmaster: When dealing with Papercut in a game of rock-paper-scissors, he [[TakeAThirdOption took a fourth option]] and used a suborbital meteor, which destroyed all three. Little Pete did this, knowing it would get under Papercut's skin and inspire everyone else to stand up to him.
29	* {{Determinator}}: When faced with things like bullies, life's challenges, or adults who were trying to keep him down, Little Pete would sometimes need a pick-me-up from Artie or his other friends, but he always came back swinging.
30	* EmbarrassingTattoo: Only ''he's'' not the one embarrassed by Petunia; Mom is.
31	* TheHero: As mentioned above, many of his stories are about epic adventures.
32	* IconicItem: His flannel hat.
33	* InformedObscenity: He is constantly calling people words that aren't exactly swearwords, but certainly sound like they should be.
34	-->'''Teacher:''' I mean, I know it's just a muscular flap on a nautical mammal, but...
35	* TheKirk: A charismatic and impulsive leader.
36	* NeverBareHeaded: He's almost never seen without his signature hat.
37	* OneManArmy: Well, with Artie's help.
38	* RebelLeader\|VoiceOfTheResistance: Quite a few episodes revolve around him leading his friends into a rebellion, usually against some kind of adult tyranny.
39	* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Big Pete's blue.
40
41	!!Don Wrigley (aka "Dad", Creator/HardyRawls)
42	->C'mon, Pete, we gotta kill Bob while he's still alive!
43
44	He's a well-meaning man who loves his family, his car, and his job (he owns a driving range). Dad is sometimes torn between his devotion to his sons and pressure from his neighbors.
45
46	* BumblingDad: But not to the Homer Simpson degree; Don is right ''some''times.
47	** Moreover, he usually realizes when he's messed something up with minimal prompting. It just takes him awhile.
48	* VanityLicensePlate: "KING O FROD", later replaced when he finds and defeats the holder of "KING OF ROAD"
49
50	!!Joyce Wrigley (aka "Mom", Creator/JudyGrafe)
51
52	She's usually more sensible than Dad, but she has her loopier moments, usually when somebody is attacking her remotely via the metal plate in her head.
53
54	* BecauseISaidSo: Subscribes to this element of the International Adult Conspiracy's philosophy.
55	* OnlySaneMan: The most level-headed of the Wrigleys.
56	* SuperDrowningSkills: The plate is too heavy for her to swim without floatation aids.
57	* WeaksauceWeakness: Her plate renders her vulnerable to radio signals, sympathetic vibrations, magnetism, and lightning.
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60	!Friends
61
62	!!Ellen Hickle (Creator/AllisonFanelli)
63
64	Big Pete's best friend besides his brother. She has a type-A personality and can easily lose herself in a new project or cause. Ellen is also both the most likely to support Big Pete and the most likely to [[WhatTheHellHero call him out when he's being a jerk]].
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66	* TheBGrade: She freaks out when she earns a C on a homework assignment.
67	* EverybodyHatesMathematics: Until she gets her teacher to include practical applications.
68	* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Varies from episode to episode, be it woodshop, vending machine repair, or playing in the school band. And extra emphasis on the ''passionate'' part.
69	* HiddenDepths: Her extensive knowledge of wrestling tactics, learned from her champion uncle.
70	* HotBlooded: She's very quick to strong emotional responses.
71	* PlatonicLifePartners: ostensibly with Big Pete. They did go on a date once and have kissed
72	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: No matter how many times her OpeningNarration to the shorts said otherwise.
73	* TeachersPet: Or so she thinks.
74
75	!!Artie, the [[WorldsStrongestMan Strongest Man...in the World]]! (Creator/TobyHuss)
76	->Soon you will be like cheese, boy: Melty, melty, melty!
77
78	Little Pete's personal superhero. He's imaginative, impulsive, creative, crazy, supportive, and subversive. In general, Artie is loved by kids and hated by adults.
79
80	* AffectionateNickname: He refers to Little Pete as "my little Viking."
81	* TheBigGuy: Literally. He's clearly older than most of the kids in the neighborhood, but always hung out with them.
82	* BreakoutCharacter: He was the most popular character in the show's run by a long shot. The actors even acknowledged this, saying in an anniversary special that "you can't have ''Pete & Pete'' without Artie."
83	* ButNowIMustGo: When Little Pete learns to stand up for himself, Artie realizes he's no longer needed in Wellsville. After saying his goodbyes, Artie leaves for a new town, in search of another kid in need of a personal superhero.
84	* CloudCuckooLander: This is a man who claimed that he would destroy the "foul green pipe" when battling with a hose, rode a canoe through someone's backyard, and "beat up the Atlantic Ocean" by repeatedly punching the incoming tide. For whatever reason, the guy lives in his own world, and no one could break him out of it.
85	* FriendToAllChildren: The reason he hung out with the Petes as much as he did was because they needed a personal hero and someone to look up to. When Little Pete learned to stand up for himself, Artie left town to find some other kid who needed a hero.
86	* FunPersonified: He was always smiling, always full of energy, and very hard to put down.
87	* InexplicablyAwesome: While WordOfGod has confirmed that Artie was a real person in-universe and not a figment of Little Pete's imagination, it was never explained how Artie could do the things he does. Or how he's the strongest man in the world. He just is. And that's all that mattered.
88	* IntergenerationalFriendship: He's a FriendToAllChildren.
89	* LimitedWardrobe: A striped shirt and red pants seem to be his only items of clothing.
90	* LargeHam: From his booming voice to his insanely showy mannerisms, he steals literally every scene he's in.
91	* OneOfTheKids: Despite clearly being an adult, he was always hanging out with the kids, especially Little Pete.
92	* SuperStrength: Well, he ''is'' the strongest man in the world.
93	** He could paddle an entire canoe by himself across dry land and make it look effortless.
94	** His on-camera feats include hitting a golf ball 300,003 yards, pushing a house to the left an inch (he wanted to knock it over, but he had strained a muscle earlier while lifting a brassiere emporium), rolling a bowling ball from Wellsville to Canada, skipping a stone on Neptune, leaving the Wrigley family's gutters clean and spotless by blowing through the drainage pipe (albeit at the cost of said gunk going flying all over the neighborhood), and leaping across the city in a single jump.
95	* WalkingTheEarth: Literally, he hates riding in cars.
96	* WeaksauceWeakness: Playing a guitar's whammy bar within his hearing strips him of all his powers.
97	* WorldsStrongestMan: He keeps referring to himself as the strongest man in the world.
98
99	!!Nona F. Mecklenberg (Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg)
100	->Love bites!
101
102	A newcomer to Wellsville, Little Pete is the first friend she makes. Nona has a lot of strange habits, including wearing a cast on her arm at all times because she likes how it feels.
103
104	* CatchPhrase: "Holy Moley!"
105	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Despite being added to the opening in season 3, Nona disappears without explanation partway through the season.
106	* IconicItem: Her cast
107	* TheMccoy: Cares the most about other people out of Little Pete's posse.
108	* MysteriousMiddleInitial: She makes up a new middle name every time she says it.
109	* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 3, taking Artie's place. She was the only opening-credits character never to appear in the shorts.
110	%%* {{Sidekick}}
111
112	!!Teddy Foresman (Creator/DaveMartel)
113
114	One of Big Pete's friends. He's book-smart, but street-dumb, which makes him kind of irritating. Teddy's a nice guy, though.
115
116	* CaptainOblivious: Misses a lot of nonverbal social cues, including not being able to tell when people are mad at him.
117	* CatchPhrase: It's "Excellente!" ...What, you didn't know that?
118	* PickyEater: Avoids beans out of fear of flatulence, picks pepperoni off of pizza instead of just ordering plain cheese pizza.
119	* SpitTake: Milk out his nose [[spoiler:and eventually his ears]] when Bill tells jokes.
120
121	!!Bill Korn (Creator/RickBarbarette)
122
123	Another of Big Pete's friends in seasons one and two. He's street-smart, but book-dumb, and kind of a prankster.
124
125	* BookDumb: In contrast with Teddy, Bill doesn't take his schoolwork seriously at all.
126	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Absent without explanation in season 3.
127
128	!!Clem Linnell (Creator/AaronSchwartz)
129
130	One of Little Pete's most loyal friends from the specials through season two.
131
132	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrrome: Absent without explanation in season 3.
133	* ExpressiveHair: If he doesn't sleep, he begins growing a beard.
134	* IconicItem: His huge fur trapper hat.
135	* TheLancer
136	* {{Sidekick}}
137
138	!!Mort Mortenson (Aaron Beener)
139
140	Another early recurring friend of Little Pete's.
141
142	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappears without explanation after the shorts and specials.
143
144	!!Monica Perling (Maris Hudson)
145	->In Kreb Scouts, we have a word for this.
146
147	Kreb Scout Monica has a variety of skills learned from her merit badges earned, and usually proves herself helpful in a pinch.
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149	* HighlyVisibleNinja: Jumps around without cover in broad daylight while attempting ninjitsu.
150	* LimitedWardrobe: Except when swimming, she's always in uniform.
151	* ScoutOut: As mentioned above, a member of the Kreb Scouts.
152	* TheSmartGuy
153	* TheSpock: She's usually the most cold-hearted and logical of Little Pete's friends.
154
155	!!Wayne Pardue (Justin Restivo)
156	->They tried to ditch me, but I caught up!
157
158	"The Main Brain" in his own mind, "The Pain" to everyone else.
159
160	* CatchPhrase: "Supergenius!"
161	* FailureKnight: Not actually good at anything.
162	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's called "Wayne the Pain" for a reason. He constantly whines, tags along with Little Pete and his friends, and will sometimes chicken out when the chips are down. That said, he does sometimes prove useful, and if Pete and the others need an alibi when they're out overnight, they can just tell their mothers they're at Wayne's house.
163	* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Narrates a lot of his actions diagetically, describing himself like a movie star.
164	* TheLoad: His mere ''presence'' in a situation makes everything more difficult for his friends.
165	* SpannerInTheWorks: Particularly in "Last Laugh", where he would have sunk the plan if not for a secret EnemyMine.
166	* TagalongKid: His friends never actually want him to come, yet there he is anyway.
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169	!Villains
170
171	!!"Endless Mike" Hellstrom (Rick Gomez)
172	->I am the Doctor of Death, and I have come to cure you of your life.
173
174	He's older than the bully villains and thus better at subtlety, deception, sabotage, etc., but younger than the IAC (see below) and thus still willing to be openly violent.
175
176	* ArchEnemy: To Big Pete
177	* BookDumb: One of the theories for the source of his nickname is that he can't manage to graduate.
178	* MeaningfulName: Hellstrom
179	** Subverted by "Endless", though, because--in direct contrast to every other kid bad guy--the nickname has no apparent meaning and it's never explained why he has it. Fans have theorized that it's because he's endlessly repeating high school or because his hatred of Big Pete is endless (Magazine/NickelodeonMagazine [[WordOfDante posited the latter]]).
180	* TeachersPet: To shop teacher Mr. Slurm.
181	* UsedToBeASweetKid: Little Pete shows cute home movies of him as a baby in order to embarrass him in "Time Tunnel"
182
183	!!Pit Stain (aka Fran Jones, Eric Kushnick)
184	->We've all got our problems, Wrigley. Mine happens to be glandular; yours happens to be my fist!
185
186	* ArchEnemy: To Little Pete
187	* TheBully: Traditional big-kid-picking-on-little-kid kind of guy.
188	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Though he actually prefers it to the OnlyKnownByTheirNickname fate forced on him by Little Pete.
189	* StalkerWithACrush: For Nona
190
191	!!Hathead
192
193	A recurring bully from the original shorts.
194
195	* TheBully: Traditional big-kid-picking-on-little-kid kind of guy.
196	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Artie eventually turns him into a jack-o-lantern.
197	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
198
199	!!Open Face
200
201	A bully who tries to turn Ellen against Big Pete in the Valentine's Day special.
202
203	* TheBully: Traditional kid-picking-on-classmates kind of guy.
204	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Big Pete laughs upon discovering Open Face's real name is Eugene.
205	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
206	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Open-face sandwiches
207
208	!!Paper Cut
209
210	A bully with masterful origami skills, capable of creating deadly weapons from paper. Loves RockPaperScissors. Hates losing.
211
212	* TheBully: Traditional kid-picking-on-classmates kind of guy.
213	* DeathDealer: Throws paper weapons.
214	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
215	* PaperMaster: Can craft complex origami designs in mere seconds.
216	* [[PoorPredictableRock Poor Predictable Paper]]: Subverted: He severely punishes anyone who throws scissors.
217
218	!!International Adult Conspiracy
219
220	* AncientConspiracy: As the name suggests, global network of parents conspiring to control children.
221	* BecauseISaidSo: Their central philosophy.
222	* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: According to them.
223	* MoralGuardians: They're very concerned about people like Artie influencing their children to be silly.
224	* ObstructiveBureaucrat\|RulesLawyer: All about manipulating the rules to maintain control.
225
226	!!Kent Schwinger (Creator/AdamWest)
227
228	Little Pete's junior-high principal.
229
230	* AdamWesting: A notable aversion. Creator/AdamWest is actually playing a character instead of lampooning himself.
231	* LargeHam: This is Adam West after all...
232	* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Or so he believes, at least.
233
234	!!Mr. Markle
235
236	The high school marching band director.
237
238	* ControlFreak: As a result of...
239	* MyGreatestFailure: He's obsessed with recovering from a mistake he made in a past tournament that cost his band the championship (when the marching band formed the word, “squid”, they neglected to dot the “I”).
240	* {{Nepotism}}: His nephew is his [[TheDragon Dragon]].
241	* SeriousBusiness: He based a band formation on a ''Crimean War battle''.
242
243	!!Garbage Man (Joseph [=McKenna=])
244
245	A city employee whose favorite activity is crushing Christmas trees.
246
247	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He's essentially beaten by a CareBearStare.
248	* TheGrinch: Hates Christmas, wants to destroy trees.
249	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
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252	!Other
253
254	!!Stu Benedict (Damian Young)
255	->Passengers will refrain from KILLING MY SOUL!!!
256
257	Bus driver, friend, basket case.
258
259	* BerserkButton: The song "If You're Happy and You Know It"
260	* ChewToy: The most emotionally-crushing event possible will almost always be what happens to Stu on any given occasion.
261	* LargeHam
262	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: His lowest moments stem from arguments with his girlfriend.
263	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Relative to the norm in Wellsville, that is.
264
265	!!Mr. Tastee
266
267	Wellsville's most popular ice cream man, who never ever removes his big plastic head.
268
269	* BadHumorTruck: He's a NiceGuy, but rumored to have a shady past. It's also implied he's secretly [[spoiler: Mrs. van de Vere's long-lost ex-husband Leonard]].
270	* ButNowIMustGo: When the summer ends, Mr. Tastee has to leave.
271	* TheFaceless: And we mean ''never'' removes his big plastic head.
272	* FriendToAllChildren
273
274	!!Phil Hickle (Creator/SteveBuscemi)
275
276	Ellen's father, a school counselor.
277
278	* DotingParent: Sweet and kind to his daughter.
279	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Makes decisions based on wanting Ellen and his students to be emotionally fulfilled.
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281	!!James Mecklenberg (Music/IggyPop)
282
283	Nona's pop.
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285
286	!!Miss Fingerwood (Syd Straw)
287
288	The Petes' math teacher.
289
290	* HeroicBSOD: Ellen triggers one.
291	* MadMathematician: She's a math teacher, and she's kinda loopy.
292
293	!!Mr. Slurm
294
295	A mysterious, possibly-crazy professor with a prosthetic hand. Big Pete and Ellen's shop (and later, driving) instructor.
296
297	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Is curt, mysterious, and harsh, especially toward Pete. [[spoiler: When Pete is in his office, he sees a birthday card from his wife, and discovers that his disgust for Pete is because of the lack of respect he has toward shop class. Slurm's secret project was just a way to get him to build something and not have to stick him with the F he would've gotten otherwise.]]
298	* ShroudedInMyth: Both how he lost his hand and what his "secret project" that he makes Big Pete work is. By the end of his first episode it's implied he lost his hand in a childhood accident, and his secret project is [[spoiler: an air conditioner for his office]]
299	* SternTeacher and ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Particularly noteworthy, since his first appearance makes him out to be yet another lunatic [[AdultsAreUseless useless]] Wellsville grown-up, but he turns out to be a dedicated and effective (though definitely eccentric) teacher fond of [[SecretTestOfCharacter Secret Tests Of Character]].
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301	!!Sally Knorp (Creator/EllenCleghorne)
302
303	Another bus driver, and Stu's on-again-off-again girlfriend.
304
305	* TheUnfairSex: Frequently breaks up with Stu for no apparent reason.
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