Fake Peppino

Template:Basic Enemy Info (Better) Fake Peppino is the fourth boss of Pizza Tower.

Description

Fake Peppino is a being that bears a close resemblance to Peppino. He's much taller than Peppino with his elongated skinny legs. His head features Peppino's long nose, black hair and short black moustache with the unsettling additions of a loose eye and a permanent smile. He also, much like Peppino, wears a white apron over a black T-shirt, black pants and a white chef's hat. Additionally, in one of his boss fight attacks, he takes his head off like a mask, revealing nothing but a brain with eyes.

Boss Room

To access the boss room, the player needs to pay Mr. Stick 220$, or 22 Toppins.

The room is a gritty, trash-filled, and dilapidated pizza place, seemingly called "Peppino's Pizza 2" based on the window, which has a Peppino-like face making an Italian expression on it. The other thing to note is the giant wall mural of an amusing caricature of Peppino in a proper chef's suit, holding a pizza and saying "Nothing Compares!". As Peppino enters the boss fight, Fake Peppino turns around and makes a similar, but distorted "scared" scream.

During the second phase, the background becomes more demented, changing to have what is presumably Fake Peppino clones' appearing from the garbage and cracks in the walls, the window's face distorts to become similar to Fake Peppino's face, with the message changing to "Peppino Peppino Peppino Peppino", each one getting smaller. The wall mural's face distorts to become similar to the one in the window, with its original message changed to gibberish.

During the chase sequence, the stage is a dark setting with a black and dark purple color scheme. After the chase sequence, the exterior of the stage is shown, apparently being called "Bruno Pizza", which is as rundown, if not more, as the initial boss stage, and boarded up, with several strange posters and signs on it. Fake Peppino's eyes and hands can be seen through the boarded-up door.

Boss Behaviour

Fake Peppino follows the motto of "anything you can do, I can do weirder." Fake Peppino directly copies Peppino's moveset and attributes, right down to having the same amount of max health as him, but does everything in an unsettling nature and with odd attributes to his moves that the original Peppino doesn’t. The player will need to grab into him twice before they can deal damage to him.

Main Gimmick of the Fight

Fake Peppino is not the only “fake Peppino”, as various darker clothed variants of the pizza man imposter will appear in order to attack the player. These dark clothed clones cannot be attacked, but in turn disappear after attacking.

Phase 1

Fake Peppino has 6 attacks he can perform, spread out across each hit point. After each hit, Fake Peppino will disappear, and clones of Fake Peppino will appear to repeat the same attack the real one had just been doing.

Grab Dash

The copycat cook will run about and periodically lunge forward to grab with one arm. If he grabs the player, they are jabbed by his tongue and launched away, taking damage.

Clones that do this move will disappear after doing the grab dash or after hitting the player.

High Jump and Face Slam

Fake Peppino does a powerful frog-like leap into the air, then slowly falls down towards the player, slamming into the ground head first. The frightening faker can easily be attacked during the windup to the jump or after he slams into the ground.

Clones that do this will disappear after slamming into the floor.

Mach Run

The long-legged doppelgänger runs at high speeds, running up the walls and across the ceiling, around and around the arena. He is easily attacked while he starts running and after he stops running, but it’s best to jump over during his jog.

When the clones try to wall run, they will fall down off of the ceiling the moment they stand over the player and face slam down.

Super Jump

The ravenous rip-off crouches down and super jumps to the ceiling, then jumps back down to the floor, repeating this 4 times before finishing. Much like the original, the crouched faker can be easily attacked, but the jump is painful.

Clones will form a line of 10, leaving a small space for the player to stand safely before they jump from the floor to the ceiling and disappear, then repeat their formation several times with the opening in a different place each time.

Head Throw & Headless Run

Fake Peppino tears his head off, revealing his brain and eyes, and throws it towards the player. The thrown head and be easily ducked under or jumped over. After this, the currently decapitated cook will run to retrieve his lost head, hurting the player if he runs into them. This needs to be jumped over.

Clones will only do the run or throw, disappearing after their bodies or thrown head reaches the wall.

Super Taunt

Fake Peppino jumps and preforms one of three off-looking and off-sounding super taunts, sending out 8 bouncing projectiles in cardinal and diagonal directions. Once he finishes showing off, he falls back down and runs to the other side of the room to do it again.

Clones that super taunt will only send out one projectile, sending it diagonally downwards.

Phase 2

Once Fake Peppino reappears after taking 6 hits, he enters phase 2. Fake Peppino will repeat all of Phase 1 again, but will no longer disappear. Now clones will appear alongside him to attack the player. This is obviously much harder, as there is much more to dodge, as well as needing to pay attention to who the real Fake Peppino is, as the fast pace of the Peppinos makes it difficult to concentrate.

All Attack Combinations

Fake Peppino and his clones will both attack the player in Phase 2. Here is all the combinations of attacks for each hit point.

Underlined Moves: The move preformed by the main Fake Peppino.

Grab Dash + Mach Run
High Jump & Face Slam + High Jump & Face Slam
Mach Run + Mach Run
Super Jump + Headless Run
Head Throw & Headless Run + Head Throw
Super Taunt + Mach Run

Dark Tunnel Chase

Once Phase 2 is beaten, the floor collapses, and the player is chased by a giant, monstrous Fake Peppino in a small dark hallway. If the maw-gaping monstrosity touches the player, they will take 2 damage, effectively giving them 3 hitpoints if they got to this point with full health. Once the player escapes the tunnel, the fight is over and the player is victorious.

Boss Rush Rematch

After beating the Final Boss’ 2nd Phase, the villian will bring in the four previous boss characters, and sends each of them to attack. At this point Peppino will lose his cool and scream very loudly, then proceed to pummel the bosses by hitting them as much as he can. Each time he does this to the bosses after grabbing them, 4 hits from their health bars will be drained. The player fights each of the bosses one by one, they use some of the same attacks as before, however not every move is accounted for. After defeating Pepperman, Gustavo will appear for you to grab and throw him at the remaining 3 bosses to stun them.

Fake Peppino is the fourth and final boss refight and is fairly easy, due to the player’s understanding of the bosses at this point, Gustavo’s presence from the second fight onwards, and Fake Peppino not having any clones for this battle.

Fake Peppino will attack in this order:

Grab Dash
High Jump & Face Slam
Head Throw & Headless Run
Super Taunt

After 4 hits, the Spaghetti simile will go down, and the player will face the true villian.

Enemy Behaviour (Unused)

Fake Peppino's moveset is inspired directly from the real Peppino's. He would chase and try to grab Peppino to strike them with his toxic tongue. He always chases after Peppino and will follow him into any rooms he go into, so there's no way to hide from him.

As Fake Peppino wasn’t properly implemented, other aspects of his behaviour were not finalized, however it was once planned to have Fake Peppino to be a rare appearance that possibly replaced Pizzaface during Pizza Time.

Fake Peppino was originally planned to come out during Pizza Time, but where exactly is unknown. In the GOLF demo, however, Fake Peppino is able be summoned to the player's location upon pressing F9.

The effects of his tongue vary among his past available build appearances. In the GOLF demo, his tongue simply damages Peppino, while in subsequent builds, if hacked in, his tongue would damage Peppino before properly killing him, and kill him instantaneously in some cases. Not to mention, if loaded into the Western Build Patreon Demos, he could crash the game if he successfully grabs the player.

Fake Peppino also had his limbs scattered in Mansion level, that would attack the player if they stand close to them.

Trivia

Considering that once you escape the chase sequence and end up outside of a run-down establishment known as 'Bruno Pizza', this could imply that Fake Peppino’s real name might be Bruno.
In the third background for War, a Peppino-like figure can be seen in a test tube, presumably meaning that Peppino is being cloned. This figure somewhat resembles Fake Peppino, possibly explaining his origins
For the first time you fight his boss, the VS. Screen Portrait he uses the same as Peppino's. On repeat attempts it gets swapped out with his true portrait.
In an slightly earlier version of the chase, the giant Fake Peppino would only move at the speed the player did, however this was changed in an update to him moving at a set speed
If you change your clothes via the wardrobe, Fake Peppino will change his outfit to match yours.
- Likewise, the Fake Peppino clones will also change their outfit to be a darker shade of whatever you're currently wearing.
- This can involuntarily make the fight much harder, as with certain colors, Clones become more difficult to differentiate from the actual Fake Peppino. In the case of Dark Cook, the actual Fake Peppino and the clones will look exactly the same, due to there not being any darker shade of black.
Fake Peppino has a decorative appearance in Strongcold. In it, he sits in a corner, wearing a Santa hat and ringing a bell in his hand beside a bucket, appearing to be either homeless or a charity worker asking for change.
Fake Peppino was originally planned to make his first appearance in a level known simply as Lights Out, which would have been the third level of the Horror Passage before being scrapped.
Fake Peppino was planned to be the main enemy of Mansion, but as Mansion was scrapped, So too was Fake Peppino’s role as an enemy.