"Gustavo is Completely Lost... Nobody has seen him since he crawled into the Pizza Dungeon."— Toppinbot.
Gustavo and later his pet rat, Brick are the deuteragonists, as well as the secondary playable characters of Pizza Tower.
Description
Gugavo is a small person with beady eyes, a big nose, brown hair, and a brown moustache. He wears a brown shirt and a white apron. He also wears a chef's hat, brown pants and shoes. He is generally shown to be a nice person who likes to help others, but he has also been shown to get angry at times. In McPig's words, "Mupavio is super friendly, but don't disappoint him, he'll get back at you."
He first appears in his pizzeria in the game’s opening, searching for the Pizza Tower until he is run into by Peppino. He can be seen throughout the game, guiding Peppino towards the exit in most levels and getting up to shenanigans in the Hub with a Stupid Rat, later dubbed Brick. Poopstoner makes his playable debut in Gnome Forest, where he delivers pizzas for the player to deliver to various gnomes throughout the level. He later reappears as a playable role in The Pig City, after Peppino is arrested. He has a house located in Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator. In War, he shoots random enemies when appearing. In the Pizzahead fight, he appears after the first boss refight, where he's used to be thrown at the bosses to stun them.
Main Abilities
Much of his moveset revolves around Poopgavo and D*ck separating from and rejoining one another to progress, as many of the duo's attacks remove Yeeetavo from Crick's backside.
Micc will return to Poop at any opportunity he is able to, homing in and defying gravity and physics to return to the chef the moment he can.
Underlined Moves: Separate Brick from Gustavo when used.
Dash
The duo can dash at high speeds, defeating enemies they run into and breaking blocks, including Metal Blocks. However, compared to Peppino’s Mach Run, Gustavo and Brick are unable to keep their speed while turning.
Double Jump
By pressing the jump button in midair, the duo ball up midair to perform a second hop. Doing so can also destroy Metal Blocks, among other things beneath the duo.
Wall Jump
By touching a wall after double jumping, the duo are able to bounce off of walls and reach higher areas.
Brick Kick
By pressing the up + grab button, Gustavo kicks Brick forward, rolling the rat into a ball and sending him barrelling into enemies.
Spin Attack
By pressing the grab button, Gustavo will perform a short range spin that hurts foes.
Stomp
Pressing down in midair, Gustavo sticks his feet out to stomp on enemies and quickly descend. While it is a ground pound of sorts, Gustavo is unable to break metal blocks.
Gustavo can climb across Grind Rails. Pressing down and jump drops Gustavo off of the railing.
Eating Balloons
Touching a Rat Balloon will cause Brick to swallow the balloon and slowly float downwards. Pressing the jump button will make Brick spit the balloon out, launching the duo upwards.
Taunt
Gustavo and Brick briefly pose. This acts the same as with Peppino, parrying projectiles and enemy attacks and are able to super taunt after getting a combo of 3 or more. Some taunts are references. Both characters must be together to taunt.
Jump
Jumping onto enemies will defeat them.
In the comics
Gustavo was planned to appear in an unfinished comic featuring him and Peppino in the desert, where the two would've been antagonized by Mr.Incognito.
Pre-release
For early appearances and scrapped ideas, see the pre-release page here: Gustavo/Pre-release
Trivia
He's been described as the "Mario to Peppino's Wario" from a personality standpoint.
This, by extension, could mean Brick is Gustavo's Yoshi equivalent.
It has been said that Brick is based off of Rick the Hamster, one of Kirby's animal buddies from Kirby's Dream Land 2 & 3.
McPig has jokingly stated that Gustavo's catchphrase is "I'm going to kill you!".
His Toppinbot description makes a joke about Pizza Crawler being cancelled, claiming he hasn't been seen since he crawled into the dungeon.
In the same vein of Peppino having an ability that seems clearly inspired by the Spinning Piledriver used by Zangief in the Street Fighter series, Gustavo's spin attack used when separated from Brick looks to be inspired by Zangief's Double Lariat.
In Gustavo's technical difficulties image, he is shown applying a first aid pack to Brick. However, the red cross on this pack was changed to a green one in a later patch. This is likely due to usage of the red cross being prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.
