High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peter "Tug" O`Neale is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Tristan Bancks. He was selected from 200 actors who had auditioned for the role and was contracted to appear for one month. Bancks soon joined the regular cast and Tug became a prominent character. Tug fills the role of the villain and is characterised by his "hardened, streetwise tough kid" image. The serial created a backstory consisting of a mother who abandoned him and an alcoholic father. Bancks has credited Tug`s troubled childhood as the reason viewers were able to relate to him.