you should be careful about making assumptions re: things you have no idea about.iI am the lead designer on facebreaker. i put Peter into the game via photogameface as part of an internal presentation to him (he is my boss). i thought it would be a cool way to show him the feature. i proceeded to put his head on a female, giving him a big set of knockers, i put him on a big fat guy and then finally put his head on a monkey. he thought it was hilarious and took it all in stride. not something i would say is true of a person with an 'out of control' ego, would you?
the reason Peter is still in the game is that i asked him to be. after the presentation i had a number of focus sessions and happened to leave peter's head in the game. to my surprise, when asked 'who is your favorite character and why', i had a couple of kids say 'Peter Moore. because, well, he's Peter Moore!'. like it or not, Peter has a huge fan base out there. he interacts better with real gamers than any executive i have ever met.
so, i thought it would be funny to leave him in the game. when i asked him what he thought he replied that he would be honored if anyone wanted to fight as him, and if not, he was pretty sure there were some people out there who always wanted to break his face. haha.
this led us to kim, and there are others we are shipping with in the game as well. we decided to compile a cast of created characters that we thought many people in the world might like to beat the crap out of. this also includes a couple of NFL players btw. facebreaker is not a serious game, its meant to be fun. period.
if you're interested in learning more, feel free to ask me some questions in the facebreaker designer q+a thread.
cheers,
todd