Peter is a character who appears in the Once Upon a Time episode "Red-Handed", based on the character of the same name from Peter and the Wolf. In the show's version of the story, he was the son of a blacksmith, and grows up in the same village with the Red Riding Hood. They are close childhood friends, and their friendship eventually blossoms into romance. Both have plans to one day leave the village and see the world together. At a certain point, in the canonical novel Red's Untold Tale, he becomes the new owner of Copper after Amos Slade's death. When a wolf attack on the village is coming, Peter is volunteered to hunt the beast. However, the wolf is Red who kills him. Years later, after gaining control of the wolf inside through the help of her villainous mother Anita, Red mentioned what happened to Peter to later love interests Victor Frankenstein and Dorothy Gale, as well as Mulan and Merida.
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