Forknight

Forknight
Information
Affiliation	Pizzaface
Gameplay
First Appearance	John Gutter
First Build Appearance	Halloween Demo

Description

Forknights are very nervous-looking cheese-made creatures in shiny silver knight armour, along with a small yellow-orange feather sticking out its helmet. It wields a large grey fork at all times.

Behaviour

"These guards are actually off duty, they are just trying to find their lunch to eat with their giant forks. Avoid running into those."
— SAGE 2019 Manual

A Forknight usually walks around, wielding its own large fork, and (accidentally) hurts the player if touched from the front at a speed less than Mach 2.

Appears in

• John Gutter
• Pizzascape
• Ancient Cheese
• Bloodsauce Dungeon
• Gnome Forest
• Pizzaface (Arena)

Trivia

• Despite its large weapon, the SAGE 2019 demo's manual states that Forknights are not trying to hurt the player. It's explained to wield its fork because all of them are simply trying to find their lunch.
• In Noise's Hardoween, Forknight is recoloured orange akin to red leicester cheese with a dark blue fork and armour.
• In the Early Test Build (where the enemy is present, though unused), if a Forknight were to walk into a destroyable object, like a Breakable Door, it wouldn't turn around, instead just going through into the object. This was due to a coding oversight where Forknight was never programmed to turn at destroyable objects.
• The hitbox of the fork is smaller than the Forknight's, leaving a small area in the front where the player can interact with the Forknight without taking damage.
• Forknight's Heat Meter attack was dashing towards the player using a jetpack. It was temporarily used for an Elite variant in PT_Eggplantv15.
• The Crumbling Tower of Pizza originally had Forknights and extra platforms at the end of the stage, right before the Tower Lobby hub area. The stage was nerfed in subsequent patches, removing both elements and replacing them with Dash Pads.
• Forknights are based-off the Pirate Goom and their other variants through the Wario Land series.
• In the April 2021 Patreon build, the TV text shows that there is one Forknight who is viral and was caught on video eating crackers on the job. He said, in paraphrasing, that he hopes that the pillar stays up so he will be able to eat the crackers for another day.

Gallery

Regular animations

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  Forknight's walking animation.

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  Forknight turning around.

• Forknight's scared animation.

  Forknight's scared animation.

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  Forknight's stunned animation.

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  Forknight's defeat sprite.

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  Forknight's fork projectile. Only seen in Phase 2 of Pizzahead's fight.

Scrapped animations

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  Forknight's idle animation.

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  Forknight's old stunned animation in Early Test Build.

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  Forknight getting ready to use a jetpack during their Heat Meter attack.

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  Forknight dashing forward with said jetpack.

Miscellaneous

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  Forknight and two Peppinos running from a large boulder.

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  Forknight as seen in Noise's Hardoween Demo.

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  Golden palette for Elite Forknight

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  Forknight as seen in Blue Block Land, where their hitbox is shown