Talk:Pistol Pete/@comment-35623099-20180518194842/@comment-390936-20180518202236

What good does it serve, exactly? There's already the fan theory of Pete and Peg having divorced to explain hers and Pistol's absences from the movies on both of Peg's and Pistol's articles. What good does adding another theory about them dying in a car crash do?

In fact, why would one even want to consider that theory a possibility at all when there is no basis for it in anything official? While the divorce theory isn't that much better (and is rather implausible when one takes a serious look at Pete's and Peg's relationship in Goof Troop), it's at least conceivable what with how much Peg has had to put up with Pete's behavior.

Having Peg and Pistol killed off, however, just makes Pete's situation needlessly morbid, and frankly would make his behavior in the movie even more messed up since he's genuinely nicer and happier in that movie than he ever was in Goof Troop. That would imply that the deaths of his wife and daughter made him a better man, as though he was relieved by their deaths, which has much more horrible implications than anyone would have ever intended for Pete's appearance in A Goofy Movie.

Not to mention how, if they did die, their deaths didn't seem to effect P.J. either, since he's as normal as ever in that movie, which would make him look just as bad if he didn't care about losing his mom and sister.

The divorce theory, while not as awful, doesn't hold much weight either since there were several episodes that showed Pete and Peg to genuinely love and care for each other. Those moments weren't as common as the moments in which they'd have conflict because the conflict situations were funnier and Goof Troop was a situation comedy. Yet, those moments of genuine love and care were still there. If Pete and Peg could be broken apart so easily after Goof Troop (a show whose events would strengthen their bond time and again, no less), then why would they have put up with each other for so long? In fact, they were married for at least twenty years. If Peg had wanted to leave Pete, she would have done so long before Goof Troop even began. And if she were to have taken Pistol with her, she darn well would have wanted to take P.J. with her too, rather than leave him with Pete. And Pete if Pete were to have tried to fight for the custody of any of his kids, it would have been for Pistol more likely than P.J. since he doted on her way more than he did his son. In the episode "Goofs of a Feather", Peg actually did leave her home and took both P.J. and Pistol with her to a hotel after one of Pete's plans went awry for everyone including him. And when both his wife and kids left him, Pete went crazy trying to get them all back since he sincerely did not want to lose his family, meaning that he did care for them, all of them.

Honestly, why is it so hard for people to imagine Pete's family as still being together during the movies, and that the girls didn't feature in the movies simply because they didn't have any real reason to? I mean, not every main character from Goof Troop appeared in every episode. Why, there were even some in which Goofy and/or Pete didn't appear, and they were arguably the two most important characters in the show.