Pete (Shaun of the Dead)

"No its not, its fucking Sunday. And I have to go to work in four fucking hours and everybody in my apartment is fucking ill. NOW CAN YOU SEE WHY I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY?"

- Pete's final rant to Shaun and Ed

Pete is the secondary antagonist of Shaun of the Dead. He is an arrogant, obnoxious, pompous, unsympathetic, verbally-abusive flat-mate of Shaun and Ed.

He keeps yelling at them about trivial things such as the door being left open at night. He is a businessman and he thinks himself much better and superior than Ed and even Shaun, who has a computer salesman job.

Pete tries to be polite to Ed, despite hating him, but finally he snaps, during his infection by the virus after being bitten by a zombie, he yells at Ed that he is a complete loser, and to "go and live in the shed like an animal." He tells Shaun to stop defending Ed and, "I assume it was Liz who did the dumping. SORT YOUR FUCKING LIFE OUT MATE!"

In a great scene, when Shaun and Ed come in drunk (a spoof on how zombies act) to their apartment at two in the morning and begin dancing and partying Pete comes stomping in, breaks the record, and yells at them both for disturbing his night. He tells them that he has work in four hours and it is Sunday, when they mistake it for Friday.

The next morning, Pete is nowhere to be seen. Shaun and Ed look for him but fear going up to him because a) he might be a zombie and b) he might still be angry. Unfortunately, a) turns out to be true, and a shocked Shaun sees a completely naked, zombie Pete in the shower, who moans and stumbles out to kill him when he sees him. Shaun, in a spoof of Evil Dead, tells Pete he is welcome to "join us" at the pub later.

Pete does break in to the Winchester pub, joining them, at the head of a zombie horde, but after biting Ed and abusing him once more, Shaun has enough and yells "I SAID LEAVE HIM ALONE!" He shoots Pete in the head with his gun, killing him.