| “ | I’m thinking it’s time for a Chip and Dale reboot. | „ |
| ~ Sweet Pete's most famous quote. |
| “ | Besides, I was always more of an Alvin and the Chipmunks person. | „ |
| ~ Sweet Pete's second most famous quote. |
| “ | Goodbye... Chip and Dale! | „ |
| ~ Sweet Pete when about to shoot at Chip and Dale during the final battle before Ugly Sonic and the FBI arrive. |
Peter Pan, currently known as Sweet Pete, is the main antagonist of the 2022 Disney+ hybrid adventure film Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, which serves as a "meta" continuation of the 1989-90 classic and original animated show of the same name.
He is the most ruthless crime boss in Los Angeles, leader of the Valley Gang and a former Disney child star who played Peter Pan in the eponymous 1953 animated feature film as a child. After being cast out from the industry, Pete starts a toon trafficking operation in which he transforms toons into bootleg characters to make overseas bootleg films.
He was voiced by Will Arnett, who also voiced Lone Gunslinger in Ice Age: The Meltdown, Vlad Vladikoff in Horton Hears a Who!, Mr. Perkins in Despicable Me, the titular character in BoJack Horseman, Slade in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies and Sweet Tooth in the Twisted Metal TV series.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
In his youth, Sweet Pete was originally know as Peter Pan, who was chosen for the title role in the 1953 Disney film, an event that he truly admired all his life as it brought him fame and fortune. Unfortunately, that all changed when The Walt Disney Company fires Peter as he grew older possibly shortly after the release of its movie sequel, Return to Never Land in 2002 and Peter ends up being forgotten and left alone for years.
Disgruntled and ashamed of how the media industry in the United States (especially the Disney company) treated him, Peter decides to get payback at them, so he turns over to do bootleg films. He starts off by bootlegging his own film (known as "Flying Bedroom Boy") before distributing it on the black market, allowing himself to earn lots of money. Changing his name from Peter Pan to Sweet Pete, he capitalizes his profit to create the Valley Gang (composed mostly of Jimmy the Polar Bear, Bob the Viking and Bjornson the Cheesemonger) and their own bootlegging studio named “Faux Studios” as seen on various discussion papers.
Using his own connections as a new powerful mob boss, Sweet Pete managed to put many retired toon stars (including many Disney characters) into debt, and in case any toons would fail to pay up, Sweet Pete would kidnap them before having them to work in creating bootlegs of their own works for the rest of their lives. To do so, he creates a machine that allows him to alter appearances of the toons he kidnapped to evade copyright law; he even stored the body parts of the toons he kidnapped as a means of using them as input for his machine to use. After changing the toons' appearances, Sweet Pete would store them in cargo holds until they are chosen to work on the bootlegs of their works inside a dock warehouse where Sweet Pete has his bootleg studio. To cover his bootlegging business, Sweet Pete creates a factory that builds portable toilets and hires many employees in creating portable toilets for profit.
Meeting Chip and Dale[]
Following the kidnapping of Monterey 'Monty' Jack after his failure to pay his debt to the Valley Gang (due to his addiction of stinky cheese), former toon stars Chip and Dale pay a visit to Bjornson in his cheese shop as they learned that Bjornson was Monty's cheese dealer. Upon learning who Chip and Dale really are, Bjornson delivers them to Sweet Pete in his portable toilet factory. At first, Chip and Dale try to peacefully convince Sweet Pete to give Monty a break by offering him money to pay off Monty's debt, to which Sweet Pete explains his backstory to them and that starring in the 1953 film was considered to be his 'big break' until his dismissal. However, rather than accepting the chipmunks' offer to pay off Monty's debt, Sweet Pete instead decides to plan a 'reboot' of their cancelled show by bootlegging them as a means of covering his tracks. However, Chip and Dale escape and explain their discoveries to Detective Ellie Steckler and her boss Captain Putty, who help them in obtaining Sweet Pete's fitness tracker without getting caught. Using the tracker, Chip, Dale and Steckler are able to find the warehouse, where they spot the machine and many of the toon body parts that have been stolen, including Monty's mustache. Despite this, Sweet Pete and his gang are nowhere to be found.
At the police station, Chip and Dale soon learned that Monty's cologne is inside the office where Steckler and Putty are discussing about the events. Deducing that either Steckler or Putty is corrupt and working for Sweet Pete, the chipmunks escape to the fan convention, where they convinced Dale's old friend Ugly Sonic to call in his FBI contacts for help. However, Sweet Pete tracks the chipmunks' location by using Dale's social media posts, and Chip ends up being kidnapped by Jimmy while Bob ends up being arrested for causing a disturbance in the convention, though Dale escapes away. Even Steckler herself ends up being kidnapped after being lured back into the warehouse by Putty, who turns out to be the corrupt cop working for Sweet Pete the entire time.
Sweet Pete then proceeds to use the machine in an attempt to alter Chip's appearance, but Dale arrives to the rescue by using a firecracker to fly himself into the warehouse, allowing himself to free Steckler and Dale and setting off a chain reaction that damages the machine. Due to the malfunction, the machine turns Jimmy into a tiny fairy and Sweet Pete into a giant amalgamation of various toons. While Steckler captures Putty in his tracks, Chip and Dale run off from the now-transformed Sweet Pete throughout the warehouse, eventually learning that the bootlegs were being filmed there the entire time. After reaching to the docks, the chipmunks use a ploy from one of their Rescue Rangers episodes to finally trap Sweet Pete in a big net.
Defeat[]
Several FBI agents (led by Ugly Sonic) arrive to arrest Sweet Pete for his crimes, but before Sweet Pete gets arrested, he spitefully attempts to kill Chip by firing a Banzai Bill at him with his Banzai Bill Blaster. However, Dale takes the hit, using a golden pog that Chip gave him to shield himself, much to Sweet Pete's anger. With nothing else to do, Sweet Pete reluctantly surrenders as the FBI agents restrain and arrest him. Chip and Dale then open up all the cargo holds, releasing all the bootlegged toons (including Monty) for good before having them restored to their original appearances and send back to their homes.
With Sweet Pete's crimes exposed, he and the Valley Gang (except for Bjornson) end up being arrested and sentenced to life in prison. During the end credits, Sweet Pete is last seen in a straitjacket inside a prison cell filled with erasers still in his bootleg form while a crime documentary (known as "The Boy Who Grew Up") has been made and streamlined detailing about his life, ironically giving him back the attention he wished to recover, though in the worst way possible as he is now infamous than famous. Whether he will eventually be restored to his pre-bootleg form is unclear, but either way, Sweet Pete isn't gonna cause problems for all toons anymore.
Appearance[]
Original[]
Pete is an overweight middle-aged man with black eyes and dark red hair. He has hair on his chest and arms and a shadow beard. He wears an old, torn Peter Pan costume.
Bootleg[]
After his transformation, he had the head of a cat with his arms and legs in different forms. He resembles a combination of animated characters
- Head: Combination of Fat Cat from Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers, Felicia the Cat from The Great Mouse Detective and Marie from The Aristocats.
- Left Leg: Optimus Prime from Bumblebee.
- Right Leg: Woody from Toy Story.
- Shorts: Mickey Mouse (despite the buttons instead of being round, they are now a diamond shape).
- Right Arm: Shredder from the 2003 incarnation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or GizmoDuck From 1987 DuckTales.
- Right Hand: a Banzai Bill Blaster from Super Mario.
- Right Shoulder: Utrom Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003).
- Left Arm: Wreck-It Ralph from the film of the same name of the title character.
- Torso: Peter Pan and Same as Sweet Pete's form.
- Coat/Jacket: John Silver from Treasure Planet, Yokai from Big Hero 6, and Maleficent from the film of the same name of the title character.
- Voice: Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians (laughter), Marie (meow), Wreck-It Ralph ("I'm gonna wreck stuff!" quote), Tyrannosaurus Rex from Jurassic Park (roar), Maleficent (voice clip line, “You fools!” Quote), 1987 Shredder from the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series (provided by Jim Cummings who is a cameo actor as "Shredder Arm") ("Two Words, Chipmunk Soup!" quote), and Fat Cat ("Birds" quote).
Personality[]
Originally, Sweet Pete was a good kid who was happy to have the chance to be part of one of the greatest Disney movies in history. However, that all changed as he became bitter at being dismissed for growing up. Due to his vendetta towards the media industry (mostly the Disney company) and their beliefs of creativity, Sweet Pete became greedy and selfish as he was determined to get back at the media industry by producing bootlegs of their greatest works and selling them on the black market for profit. He is also proven to be quite intelligent and strategic, as he was able to create and lead a powerful crime syndicate as a means of using his connections (either through extortion or blackmail) to cover his bootlegging business for decades, eventually becoming the opposite of what his heroic character used to be in the original Peter Pan film.
Due to his reputation as a feared crime boss, Sweet Pete is an individual who gets to decide who to star and who to toss out in the trash, and will not hesitate to have anyone who knows this silenced. Besides his sense of greed, he is unwilling to let go of the pain he felt in the past that shaped him into the cynical and nefarious person he became; even when Chip and Dale tried to peacefully reason with Sweet Pete by sympathizing over his tragic life and actually offering him money to pay off Monty's debt, Sweet Pete refuses by remaining defiant to the end; he even willingly tried to bootleg and/or murder Chip and Dale for the sake of it. However, Sweet Pete's unwillingness to let go of his pain proved to be his downfall as his refusal to negotiate with the chipmunks led them to exposing his business to the public and getting himself and his cohorts locked away for life.
Despite his villainous nature, Sweet Pete can be quite civil with his former co-star Cubby (one of the Lost Boys) at the fan convention; he even admitted to Cubby of how his transformation to a middle-aged man has spiraled him down a horrible path. He also knows better not to let his own pride sink himself further whenever he has been licked; this was shown when he reluctantly accepts his arrest following his failed attempt to murder the chipmunks.
Powers and Abilities[]
When Sweet Pete is transformed into a hybrid between multiple animated characters, he gains Wreck-It Ralph's strength (for his left arm), the speed of a motorcycle (Optimus Prime's left robot leg from Transformers), Mickey’s Shorts with Diamond Buttons, a cannon on his right arm for his right hand (Generic Banzai Bill cannon from Super Mario, albeit without a skull emblem. Cannon is on the 2003 Shredder.), Utrom Shredder’s Shoulder, Sweet Pete's torso, Woody's leg (Toy Story), the coat/jacket (Mixture combination of John Silver, Yokai & Maleficent), the hair of Mother in car and the head of a kitten (The fur and eyes of Fat Cat, tandem with the head of Felicia the Cat and Marie from The Aristocats.).
Quotes[]
| “ | Pete: Hello! Dale: Peter Pan? Pete: Yep. Star of stage and screen. But you can call me Sweet Pete. Dale: Oh. You look- Pete: Old? Bald? Sad like a zoo gorilla? Dale: What? No! Not like a zoo gorilla! Pete: Don't worry. You can't say nothing to me I haven't heard already. Jimmy please, untie our guests. Chip 'n Dale! Wow. Hey you mind if I walk while we talk? Not fitting into the old costume like I used to. Need to get my steps in. Dale: Hey, I got one of those! We should link the accounts and help motivate each other! Pete: Right. So I'm guessing you two are here to talk about Monterey Jack? Chip: Oh, yeah actually we are. Pete: You know, I always liked Monty. It's a shame what happened. Too much cheese. Not enough bread. Chip: Listen Mr. Sweet Pete- Mr. Pete. We'd be willing to pay whatever Monty owes you if you could give him a break? Just this once? Pete: Hmmm, give him a break? Y’know, I got my big break when I was just a kid. I got cast in the biggest movie in the world, as the boy who wouldn’t grow up, Peter Pan. I’d never been so happy in my entire life! Then I got older, and they threw me away like I was nothing. Chip: This business can be so tough. Pete: You said it. I was scared, desperate, and all alone. So, I decided to take the power back, and make my own bootleg movie! I called it: Flying Bedroom Boy. And guess what. It worked! I made lots of money. So, I “recruited” other toons to star in more movies. And bang-a-rang, now I run my own bootleg movie studio, where I get to decide who’s a star, and who gets thrown in the trash. And now you two come pokin' around where ya don't belong. Asking questions about your missing friend, and I can't have that. So how's this for a break? I'm thinking it's time for a Chip 'n Dale Reboot! |
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| ~ Pete explaining his motives. |
| “ | Jimmy: (grabs what it appears to be one of the chipmunks) GOTCHA! (the person is revealed to be Cubby, who gasps in shock) Sweet Pete: (annoyed) AHH, WHAT?! Cubby: (delighted) Peter! Is that really you? (gets disgusted by Pete's new appearance) You got old. Sweet Pete: (sullenly) Yeah, death is coming for us all, kid. |
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| ~ Sweet Pete reuniting with Cubby at the fan convention after Jimmy mistook him for one of the chipmunks. |
Wow. It's true. You two really are the worst actors in Hollywood.
| “ | Frankenpete: [he emerges as his new form Frankenpete with, Fat Cat, Felicia, and Marie’s Head, Maleficent, Long John Silver and Yokai's Coat Sweet Pete’s torso, Utrom Shredder’s Armor for his Right Shoulder, Shredder and GizmoDuck’s Right Arm, The Gun for his Right Hand: The Banzai Bill Blaster, Mickey’s shorts with Diamond Buttons, Optimus Prime’s Robot Leg and Woody’s Leg] Meow! Chip: Huh? Frankenpete: I'M GONNA WRECK STUFF! [he smashes his Wreck It Ralph fist towards Chip and Dale as they run off] Dale: RUN! [They run away from Frankenpete as he attacks them] |
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| ~ Frankenpete's first line while commanding his Wreck It Ralph arm to try crush Chip and Dale. |
| “ | Frankenpete: (in Maleficent's voice) You lose! | „ |
| “ | Frankenpete: (in Shredder's voice) Two words, Chipmunk Soup! | „ |
| “ | Frankenpete: There you are. Dale: Enough playing around, my turn! Here, gimme a good whack! Frankenpete: Okay, things are getting weird. [he uses his Optimus Prime robot leg to go towards Chip and Dale] Dale: Ah, this isn't good! Frankenpete: Huh? Birds! Come here! |
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| ~ Sweet Pete gets distracted by Chip's and Dale's birds |
| “ | FBI Agent: Down! Get down on the ground! Sweet Pete: Alright, alright, you got me! Calm down! |
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| ~ Pete's last words after shooting Dale with a Banzai Bill while getting restrained and arrest by FBI officers. |
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Trivia[]
- This incarnation of Peter Pan's backstory parallels the tragic story of the late Bobby Driscoll, the voice actor for the character from the original Peter Pan Disney film. Bobby's career was dashed when he started getting too old to voice Peter and both his career and life took a downward spiral afterwards.
- Consequently, despite the positive reviews Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers has received, some have criticized the parallels between Sweet Pete's backstory and Bobby Driscoll's, feeling that it distastefully satirizes Driscoll's tragedy.
- However this was just a coincidence as Charlie Brown was meant to fill Sweet Pete's role in earlier drafts meaning it was not meant to parallel Bobby's story.
- When Pete was chasing Chip and Dale, he was using the catchphrase Cuka-roo-ka-roo, a "bootleg" of his rooster crow from his original movie.
- Despite being called "Sweet Pete", he is ironically not "sweet" at all.
- It was confirmed in the official soundtrack that the bootlegged version of Sweet Pete was called Frankenpete, as the song plays when first seeing his transformation.
- In one "blink-and-you-miss" scene of the film, it can be seen that Peter has a bottle filled with the Dip, the chemical invention Judge Doom uses in the classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit hybrid film to dissolve toons. Coupled with Roger Rabbit's cameo at the beginning of the film, this Easter egg has led some fans to speculate if Rescue Rangers takes place in the same universe as Roger Rabbit.
- They considered the idea of using Charlie Brown from the Peanuts franchise as the film's villain, depicting him as a child actor who became washed up as an adult, just like Sweet Pete. However, they dropped the idea, mainly to avoid having to pay for licensing the character.
- Despite Sweet Pete's backstory depicting him as being fired following the release of Peter Pan, this would be a deviation from real world history, in which Peter Pan later appeared in the direct-to-video sequel Return to Never Land and in televisions shows like House of Mouse and Jake and the Never Land Pirates, still depicted as an ageless kid in all three. It can be assumed that either such productions didn't exist in this continuity or that those productions were still made but it was only just with another Peter Pan. As such, some fans speculate that he is the titular character's evil clone, twin brother, father, or the Pan from the 2022 live action film.
- Originally, Pluto was going to be the main villain due to his rivalry with Chip and Dale, but eventually was cut off.
- Sweet Pete can be seen as a dark counterpart to Chip. Both are toons who came from popular Disney franchises (Peter Pan to Pete, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers to Chip) and became angry about being cast off (Pete being cast off of Peter Pan due to hitting puberty, Chip being cast off of Rescue Rangers due to Dale leaving the show) but while Chip moved on from Rescue Rangers and would later reunite with Dale, Pete didn't move on from Peter Pan and let his anger get the best of him, even kidnapping other toons so he could selfishly create bootleg movies to cope with his loss. Sweet Pete can easily represent what Chip would've become if he didn't reconcile with Dale and if he let his anger consume him.
- While he stated he was alone, it is shown former co-stars missed him because one voiced joy seeing him.
External Links[]
- Sweet Pete on the Disney Wiki
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