Peter Clarner

Peter Clarner, commonly known as Pete, was a Sunnydale High student and boyfriend of Debbie Foley. Scott Hope was one of his closest friends since childhood, but admitted he was never aware of what was actually going on with both Pete and Debbie.

Pete created a special potion with the intent of it making him stronger and more desirable to Debbie, so that she would like him more and not leave him, only for the potion to transform him into a superhumanly strong, seemingly partly disfigured version of himself with an extremely short temper. Already overly paranoid about his relationship with Debbie, the potion made the situation worse, causing him to brutally attack any man he saw Debbie spending too much time with, even mutilating the school councilor with such ferocity that many of the Scooby Gang initially assumed that Oz had escaped his cage while in werewolf form, and even Buffy theorised that the currently-feral Angel- driven insane after his return from Hell- was responsible.

Eventually the truth about Pete was revealed when he tried to attack Oz- who had just locked himself in his cage for the night- after attacking Debbie once again, subsequently being confronted by Buffy in a storage room. Although Buffy was unable to defeat him, Pete was defeated when Angel, who had escaped the chains Buffy was using to try and contain him in the mansion, confronted Pete and broke his neck, the brutality of the fight apparently restoring his mental state.

Personality & Abilities
Pete exhibited the typical personality of a problematic, high-tempered and physically abusive misogynist. He was highly jealous, controlling and manipulative with Debbie, and like most abusive relationships it remained hidden by the both of them (for their own individual, yet typical, reasons).

Many of his problems were metaphor's of real-life situations. For instance, his potion, like alcohol, proved to heighten his already temperamental attitude and bring about his abusive side, which in the show actually physically manifested itself as an ugly wretched version of himself. In this form Pete proved capable of holding his own against Buffy in a fight, and even managed to last for a brief while against Oz in werewolf form, although he was eventually killed when a currently-feral Angel used a chain to strangle him.

He was portrayed by John Patrick White.

Appearances

 * Beauty and the Beasts