Peter is a supporting character in the film Arthur Christmas. He is an elf who serves as the assistant to Steve Claus. It is hinted in the film that Peter is homosexual and has feelings for Steve as he sends him a lot of emails messages complimenting him (but through the entire dinner Steve is actually been deleting the messages). During the conversation about the missing gift, Peter is seen holding Steve's fingers, however Steve did noticed this and pulls his hand from Peter's fingers. Later in the film following a blackout at The North Pole, Steve is heard telling Peter to let go of his hand, As soon as Steve turn on his HOHO's light revealing both characters expressions, Peter can be seen smiling, while Steve is not pleased at all and felt very uncomfortable of what just happened.
Like most of the elves, Peter originally saw Steve's younger brother Arthur as an outcast. However after Arthur manages to deliver the last present left to deliver and succeeds his father Malcolm as Santa Claus, Peter and the other elves come to respect him.
At the end of the film, Peter is shown to continue assisting Steve after the latter becomes Chief Operating Officer.
Trivia
- Peter shares the same name with the lead character of the 2003 film The Elf.
- Peter shares many similarities with Mr Smithers from "The Simpsons".
Peter shares a similar personality with Mort a mouse lemur character from DreamWorks franchise "Madagascar":
- both are infatuated with his boss.
- Both seem to be obsessed with a particular body part of his boss: Peter touching Steve's hands and Mort touching King Julian's feet.
- Both are shown to be the buttkisser.
- Both are viewed by fans as perverts.
- Both Steve and King Julian do find him useful sometimes but at the same time they find him creepy and annoying.
- Both Steve and King Julian do notice that his "assistant" has feelings for him but both don't feel the same way infact they find it really annoying and embarrassing.
- Both would try to flirt his boss.
- Both will do whatever it takes to win his boss's love (though in reality it's never gonna happen)