Villains Wiki

Hi. This is Thesecret1070. I am an admin of this site. Edit as much as you wish, but one little thing... If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!!

READ MORE

Villains Wiki
Register
Advertisement

You're mine now, rabbit!!
~ Thomas threatening Peter Rabbit.

Thomas McGregor is the main antagonist of the Sony Pictures Animation's 15th feature film Peter Rabbit, and returned in its sequel as one of the main protagonists.

He's the great nephew of Mr. McGregor and Mrs. McGregor, and much like his great uncle and great aunt, he develops a hatred for Peter Rabbit for constantly stealing fruit and vegetables from his garden.

He was portrayed by Domhnall Gleeson, who also played Clan Techie in Dredd, General Hux in the Star Wars franchise and the Older Brother in Mother!.

Biography[]

Thomas first appeared working at a Harrods toy shop in London, even when his great-uncle died from unknown causes. When his boss called him in to tell the shocking news of his great uncle's death (due to a heart attack after consuming too much junk food for 78 years), Thomas cared little about his great-uncle's death as he had never heard about or known about him and also had been waiting for a promotion and played by the rules to get it. However, his boss tells him that someone else got it, which resulted in Thomas losing his temper by knocking down the toy displays and punching a big teddy bear which resulted in getting himself fired.

Without a job, Thomas moved into his late great-uncle and great-aunt's estate, deciding to fix up the place to open up a new toy store there to rival that of his former boss's. Upon seeing Peter Rabbit and his animal friends taking refuge inside the house, Thomas throws them out before walling up the garden. He later meets his new next-door neighbor Bea (a close friend of Peter and his family), who he develops a crush on, therefore he needed to manipulate her into thinking the he has the same view towards rabbits as her.

The two begin dating while Thomas and Peter are constantly attacking each other behind her back. He eventually gets so sick and tired of the animals constantly bothering him with traps and vandalism that he confides in Bea, though she seems confused, telling him that a rabbit would never hurt anyone. Thomas gets an electric fence set up around his garden to stop the animals from entering, though this backfire when they sabotage the electric fences. To add insult to injury, Thomas gets shocked by several doorknobs whenever he touches them.

Fed up with Peter's antics, Thomas puts several dynamite sticks in Peter’s burrow, hoping to destroy it while implanting several more dynamite sticks in the garden to kill Peter and his family. When a suspicious Bea asked what was going on, Thomas attempts to tell her that he loves rabbits, but Peter accidentally taps a button on the detonator, which not only destroys the burrow, but also blew up Bea's art studio and her paintings. Realizing now that Thomas has been fighting against the rabbits and tried to murder them behind her back, Bea angrily ends her relationship with Thomas and refuses to speak with him again (despite Thomas' insistence that Peter was the one who pushed the detonator).

Upset by this turn of events, a depressed Thomas decides to move back to London and gets his job at the toy store back, while a guilty Peter follows him attempting to make amends. The two eventually make up with each other and return to the countryside to reconcile with Bea to stop her from leaving the country. To ensure this, Peter confesses to having activated the detonator by accident, so Bea forgives them both. However, a snobbish couple arrives on the property after buying Thomas' house, and despite Thomas' intents to cancel the sale, the snobbish couple demanded him and Bea to leave. Fortunately, Peter gets his friends to use their tricks to force the snobby couple out from the house, which incited an impressed Thomas to compliment Peter for a job well done.

Bea and Thomas then move into his great-uncle and great-aunt's home, Thomas allows Peter and his family to take all the fruits and vegetables in the garden within reason, and Thomas finally open his own toy shop in London. Bea then starts writing and illustrating children's books based on Peter and his family.

Personality[]

Much like his great uncle and great aunt, Thomas is a man with a severe hatred for animals for breaking into his garden and in particular, this makes him very short tempered and easy to annoy. He is also very deceptive as he's able to convince his neighbor Bea that he in fact loves animals and winds up dating her while attacking the animals behind her back to due to his mutual hatred with them.

Despite his deceit, Thomas does genuinely love Bea while only hating the animals - going as far as to even feel guilty when Bea decided to break up with him after learning of his intention to blow up Peter's burrow. After making amends with Peter and his friends in the end, Thomas changes his views on animals by the end and now respects them.

Thomas is a perfectionist as we see in several instances where he cleans, ensuring that everything is perfect. He hates the country although being a talented gardener. Thomas is a very professional man, often wearing fancy clothes and carrying him in a way that expresses confidence. He also suffers from OCD, which is seen when he knocks over displays of toys in a fit of rage at Harrods.

Appearance[]

Thomas is a tall, slim man in his early thirties with short, thick brown hair and green-hazel eyes. He usually dresses very formally, often wearing dress shirts, neckties and jumpers while wearing other clothes on some occasions.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Thomas is allergic to blackberries.
  • Thomas plays the violin.
  • Thomas is good at gardening.
  • Thomas likes classical and opera music.
  • Mr. McGregor is his paternal great-uncle because they both share the same last name. That also means he's his paternal grandfather's brother and his father's paternal uncle.
  • Thomas was placed in a group home after his parents died.
  • Colin Firth and Leonardo DiCaprio both were considered for the role of Thomas McGregor before Domhnall Gleason were cast.

Navigation[]

Advertisement