| “ | ENOUGH ABOUT THIS DOG MAN! IT'S TIME TO STOP THIS SUPA COP! He's not going to ruin my evil plans to DESTROY ALL DO-GOODERS! | „ |
| ~ Petey in the film's trailer. |
| “ | All right, stop, stop calling me a do-gooder! I'm not, see? I'm mean, I'm selfish, and I just want everything for myself... which includes Li'l Petey. Come on, Li’l Petey... | „ |
| ~ Petey revealing that he hasn't fully redeemed himself. |
| “ | Sarah: HOW EVIL CAN ONE CAT BE?! Petey: Pretty evil! HA-HA-HA! |
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| ~ Petey and Sarah Hatoff on the former's personality. |
Petey TheCat is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Li'l Petey) of DreamWorks' 48th full-length animated feature film, Dog Man, based off of Dav Pilkey's book series of the same name.
He is the world's most evilest cat who brought Ohkay City into fear for years prior to the film's events. After firing his old butler, Petey realizes he needs a new partner and crime and clones himself. The clone ends up being a kitten clone nicknamed Li'l Petey, who is abandoned on the streets by Petey. After reading a handwritten comic made by Li'l Petey, Petey starts to feel remorse for betraying Li'l Petey and attempts to give the kitten a good life in contrast to his own tragic past where his abusive father abandoning him and his mother, leaving them with little to no belongings.
He is voiced by Pete Davidson.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- It's heavily implied throughout the film that Petey had terrorized Ohkay City for multiple years prior to the film's events.
- He fires his butler for seemingly no reason other than the fact she would rather celebrate her mother's birthday rather than work one day.
- He recklessly drives his car during his debut.
- He plants a bomb just behind Officer Knight and Greg the Dog, which blew them up and ultimately killed Officer Knight and, to an extent, Greg the Dog.
- While this indirectly caused Dog Man to be created, this was entirely unintentional, plus, after Dog Man was created, he was left alone and terrible after Officer Knight had died.
- He creates a giant vacuum cleaner that sucks up everything in its path in an attempt to destroy Dog Man.
- He is rude to Big Jim every time he lands in jail.
- He manipulates Big Jim into thinking that he felt remorse for being rude to him, allowing him to escape from jail with the unintentional help of Big Jim.
- He goes on a rampage, creating numerous gadgets and inventions that would destroy and/or imprison Dog Man.
- He purposely fails to pay his presumably hard-working butler correctly.
- He carefully goes through security to steal the deceased body of Flippy the Fish.
- He goes into his lab and reprograms Flippy to destroy all do-gooders in the world. While the term "do-gooders" isn't explicitly defined in the film, judging by the fact that Flippy would go on to attempt to destroy Ohkay City, the term included numerous of innocent individuals.
- He attempts to revive Flippy after reprogramming him.
- After growing fed up with Li'l Petey, he attempts to sell the kitten before he leaves to go to the bathroom. While Li'l Petey is in the bathroom, Petey sneaks off and leaves Li'l Petey unattended with little-to-no resources despite the latter being an infant, which would've resulted in him being hit by a truck if it weren't for Dog Man. This is fairly hypocritical, considering Petey’s own childhood abandonment by his father and is ultimately what motivates him to do the evil things he’s done.
- While he did collect Li'l Petey after he had abandoned the latter, it wasn't out of genuine remorse for doing so and he only did it to spite Dog Man.
- He creates a destructive tank that would destroy anything hit with it and attempts to shoot it at Dog Man.
- He has Dog Man hold onto the tank for his life as Petey begins to, once again, recklessly drive.
- Even after his redemption, Petey still retains some selfishness, arrogance, and lethality, which he himself admits in the film.
Why Doesn’t He Stand Out?[]
- While abandoning his infant son which endangered him in the process, terrorizing an entire city for years, and weaponizing a normal fish to kill several people allow him to pass the general baseline, he suffers from Fridge Horror. It's unknown if his goal to “destroy all do-gooders" is referring to just Dog Man and his allies or every good person in the world. Additionally he didn't intend for Flippy for destroy the city making him unintentionally heinous, means he fails the Heinous Standard to Flippy.
- He has a tragic and sympathetic past, having been abandoned by his abusive father at a young age, which is played for sympathy.
- He is extremely comedic, having many moments where he is played for laughs, such as being repetitively annoyed by Li'l Petey and his own butler, telling Li'l Petey that he was "leaving to go get milk" in a tank, and yelling out in pain when a window falls on top of his tail in a Tom & Jerry style.
- While not fully redeemed yet, he reforms himself by attempting to sacrificing his life to save Li'l Petey and his friends from Flippy's wrath.
- He did come around to genuinely care about Li'l Petey, feeling remorse for abandoning him on the streets and attempting to give the kitten a happy and cheerful life.
Trivia[]
- For a while, Petey was originally proposed and approved as Inconsistently Heinous due to the term "do-gooders" being interpreted as "good-moralled people", which would give him an attempted kill count of billions. However, it was later discussed that the term "do-gooders" was too vague and he therefore failed the heinous standard to Flippy, resulting in him being put here.
- While he is a Villainous Benchmark now, there's a possibility, though unlikely, chance this could change (maybe going back to being Inconsistently Heinous) in the film's planned upcoming sequel.
External Links[]
- Petey on the Villains Wiki
- Petey on the Heroes Wiki
- Petey on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Petey on the Dog Man Wiki
- Petey on the Captain Underpants Wiki
- Petey on the DreamWorks Animation Wiki
- Petey on the Universal Studios Wiki
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