Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-38810236-20200216054013/@comment-995426-20200221020130

You know, it's funny comparing Pete (2012 TV series) with Pete (IDW). The latter character was inspired by the former character, one of perhaps the only ways 2K12 influenced IDW. And yet how their respective productions ended up treating their version of Pete is polar opposite.
 * 2K12 Pete is good-natured, but annoying. Then the show not only dropped him without fate or explanation but had the audacity to trample on him in his absence by making his friends appear to resent him.
 * IDW Pete is annoying, but good-natured. The comic never fails to have Pete showing random acts of kindness and caring, even when he can otherwise annoy his friends.  But both they and the writers consistently keep him around.

The two versions never seem so different from each other, personality-wise, that their overall treatment by other characters should realistically be all that different. In fact, if anything, Slash (2012 TV series) is an even kinder boss than Old Hob (IDW). But audiences and writers are people, too, and where IDW embraced and loved Pete, 2K12 cursed and disposed of him. Pete seems like a useful gauge for measuring other people's value for and compassion towards people with developmental delays. If this is the case, 2K12 ultimately failed this test, while IDW passed it.