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Peter is the central antagonist in Divergent. He was born in Candor but chooses Dauntless as his faction. He is described as having an angelic face, dark green eyes and dark hair. His nose is long with a narrow bridge.
In Divergent, he first appears in the train with Christina and Tris and mocks Tris by calling her "Stiff". During the sparring in training, he beats Tris until she falls unconscious, but loses to Edward. Eric chooses him as his team member in the game of Capture the Flag. At the last day of their initiation's stage one, he along with Molly, Drew, and some others make fun of Tris's physique, when she heads back to the dorm to fetch her dress as her pants do not fit her anymore because of her new muscles. Peter yanks off her towel and they laugh and make fun of her. When stage one's results come out and Edward comes first followed by Peter, Peter in his jealousy stabs Edward in the eye with a knife that night. But Tris and Christina decide not to report him as they know that Dauntless will not do anything to Peter. When Tris comes first for the second stage of initiation, he does not take it well at all and turns Tris's friends against her by accusing her of manipulating others to seem weak and achieving better results. He then kidnaps Tris along with Al and Drew, gropes her and hangs her over the chasm until Four comes to her rescue, supposedly in a mere attempt to scare her rather than kill her. He is one of the few people who is not under simulation controlled by Erudite because of his already violent nature and encounters Tris, Andrew, Caleb and others when they return to stop the simulation where Tris shoot him in the arm. He agrees to help them stop the simulation if the party will take him with them to Amity due to his fear that he will get killed because of his knowledge of computers controlling the simulations.
In Insurgent, he appears at Amity with the others, still suffering from the bullet wound. Later he steals the Erudite disk from Tris's room but later gets caught and beaten up by Tris. During the Erudite and Dauntless traitors attack on Amity, Tris saves his life. When Tris surrenders herself to Erudite, she find out that after the attack on Amity, Peter has joined the Erudite and he is assigned as her guard. He fakes her death and later helps her and Four escape from Erudite. He arrives at Abnegation where factionless and Dauntless are staying and Edward confronts him. He later declines to join the others in their invasion at Erudite.
In Allegiant, Tobias gives him the memory serum to reset his memory as he no longer wants to be mean and cruel and wants to change.
Peter is portrayed by Miles Teller.