Petey the Cat

Petey the Cat is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside his son Li’l Petey) of Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man franchise.
He is an evil anthropomorphic cat with a tragic past and childhood. Before becoming good in Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas, he was Dog Man's arch-nemesis, and the villain that Dog Man went up against the most frequently in the comics and the novel series, making him the main antagonist of the Dog Man franchise up until Dog Man and Cat Kid.
== Personality==
When Petey was first introduced, he comes off as a one-dimensional villain who loves causing trouble just for his own amusement. He shows no care for others and only treats his clone Lil' Petey as disposable and tried to turn him into the same evil cat as himself. He is extremely intelligent and cunning, being able to build many large and complicated robots such as 80-HD. Petey also gets very easily annoyed when others such as his inmate Big Jim and his clone try to get into a friendly conversation with him.
He is also shown to be nasty and teasing. Often in his debut, Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, he teased Dr. Dilbert and made fun of his plans (and breath). He then betrayed him because of how badly Dilbert treated him and tried to destroy the world using Dilbert's robot Mecha-Kitty. He also disliked Dog Man, a reference to the cat-dog rivalry. When Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog take him to jail, he's excited at first (due to the cat litter craze), but whenever he's arrested thanks to Dog Man, he almost always ends up saying “Rats! "
However, as Book 5 would reveal, a part of Petey's turn to evil stemmed from the fact that he was betrayed by his friends and fellow Critter Scouts when they were little. After Petey accidentally broke Piggy's glasses and started a fire, the scouts blamed him when the scout teacher caught them. After this, Petey's scout badges and goods deeds were removed and he was kicked out of the scout group. This made Petey believe that doing good was for nothing and nobody would care if he did good. 
In the same book, Li'l Petey would reach out to his father and encourage him to do good by helping Dog Man defeat the FLEAS (Petey's former childhood scout friends). From that book onwards, Petey would become a better cat due the living representation of his mother's love (his son) believing, forgiving and never giving up on in Petey. Despite his redemption, he still gets easily annoyed and irritated when his son and Molly the Tadpole disturb him, and is still somewhat nihilistic about the world. But he still believes in good virtues such as love and forgiveness, such as when he forgives his abusive father. 
==Appearance==
Petey is an orange cat with horizontal black stripes across his body. In his first appearance, he was significantly short. He also has a flat tail.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Despite only appearing in the Dog Man comics, Petey is considered one of the most popular and recurring antagonists in the Captain Underpants universe.
*Despite being generally considered as the deuteragonist of the Dog Man books, in recent ones he is shown to have more page time and character development than Dog Man.
* It is implied in Dog Man: The Bark Knight Cometh that he was murdered by an evil robot doppelgänger of his, as when Chief sees Petey's robotic doppelgänger, he mistakes it for Petey and exclaims that he believed that Petey died.
==Gallery==
===Books===
====Past====
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====Present====
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===Promotional Pics===
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