Mort

"Baaaaawk? Bah-gawk? Bawk bawk bawk..."
— Mort the Chicken. (via Toppinbot)

Mort the Chicken is the titular protagonist from the PlayStation game Mort the Chicken. He appears in Pizza Tower for the levels Fun Farm, Secrets Of The World and The Crumbling Tower of Pizza as a special guest character.

Description

Mort is a chicken with white feathers, a long neck and a brown head with large, round eyes. His most defining feature is his comb, which is uniquely shaped and has a hand-like leaf-shaped part at the top. Mort can ball this comb into a fist to punch enemies, giving him a way to attack foes.

Mort, like any other chicken, is mindless and doesn't really care too much about what goes on around him, often looking very bored and uninterested. However, despite this, he is surprisingly brave and is able to fend for himself even though most others of his kind wouldn't.

Abilities and behavior

Mort has many abilities when controlling Peppino, he has the ability to double jump, and to attack by swinging his head and using his beak as a weapon to attack Electric Potatoes or the Mort Cube, and to also launch himself upwards with Mort Hooks.

Mort can be found by going near a Well, once doing so he will jump out of it. He can be also removed if the player takes any damage or if the Player interacts with a Priest.

If playing as Peppino, the player is given the ability to play somewhat as Mort and his abilities, dragging Peppino along the process.

If playing as The Noise, he strangles Mort by the neck and uses him as a weapon. The player can still double jump like normally, but instead of Mort attacking for Noise, The Noise uses him as a boomerang, throwing him and going back after a few seconds.

Pre-release

Western Build

Mort in this build makes it slower to fall down. Because of this he was mostly used for sections that required the player to get into a gap so they can progress through the level, or to get Mort to eat a huge stack of dried Corn kernel, or to break Mort Blocks, which would block the way of the Player. Audio in any of these builds are also absent.

In this build, Mort has two appearances in levels, being Fun Farm and Space Pinball.

Beach and Forest

Mort is surprisingly absent in this build. He makes no appearances at all, not even in Fun Farm.

April Build (2021)

Mort returns in this build, He works similarly to the Western Build except a few differences.

• Mort would follow the player around like a Toppin instead constantly controlling Peppino, making it so the Player can do other actions like using ladders and such.
• The fall speed was made to be more fast.
• Instead of Mort using himself to use and break obstacles, the Player would throw Mort as a attack and to attach to Mort Hooks.
• Would still be with the player if they got hurt or turn into a Ghost.

Eggplant

This version is a lot more similar to the final version of the game. The only differences are that a animation would stop the player if they used a Mort Hook.

Trivia

This section is dedicated to trivia and miscellaneous information about Mort.
Remember to read the wiki's trivia guidelines before adding trivia or making changes.

• McPig had personally asked Mort's creator, Ed Annunziata, for permission to use Mort in Pizza Tower. This allowed Mort to appear without any copyright issues.
  • McPig announced on February 27, 2019 in the Pizza Tower Discord that Mort would officially appear in Pizza Tower.
• Mort spawning from a well is reference to the wells at the beginning of all levels in Mort the Chicken.
• Originally, Mort was also going to be the boss of World 2, controlling a U.F.O. His appearance as a boss was dropped upon reworking the boss lineup.
• Mort, despite being collected during The Crumbling Tower Of Pizza, does not show up in the ending. The same goes for Snotty, even if he is left alive.

Audio

Audio	Description
	Mort making chicken sounds after the Player interacts with him.
	Mort and the Player double jumping.
	Sound when Mort attacking. Mortthrow.wav
	Mort being thrown by The Noise.
	Mort flying after being thrown.
	Mort's sound after being damaged.

Gallery

Mort

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  Mort's idle animation. He glances back, and pecks the ground.
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  Mort's walking animation during The Crumbling Tower of Pizza.
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  Mort jumping.
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  Mort's falling animation.
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  Mort landing on the ground.
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  Mort after The Noise throws him forward.
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  Mort's defeat sprite once the player takes damage while in his transformation.

Peppino and Mort

Seen when using the transformation as Peppino.

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  Mort Peppino's idle animation. Depicting Mort ontop of his head while Peppino tries to grab him.
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  Mort Peppino's forward. Depicting Mort dragging him.
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  Mort Peppino's jumping animation.
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  Mort Peppino's double jump animation.
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  Mort Peppino attacking forwards.
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  Mort Peppino attacking upwards.
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  Mort Peppino attacking downwards while airborne.

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  Mort Peppino’s HUD. Depicting Mort happily while Peppino is confused.

The Noise and Mort

Seen when using the transformation as The Noise.

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  The Noise holding Mort.
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  The Noise walking with Mort in his hand.
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  The Noise jumping with Mort in his hands.
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  The Noise double jumping with Mort in his hand.
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  The Noise falling with Mort in his hand.
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  The Noise landing with Mort in his hand.
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  The Noise throwing Mort.

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  Mort Noise's HUD, depicting him chasing after Mort.

Scrapped animations

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  Mort eating corn.
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  Mort flying forwards after being thrown.
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  Animation for Peppino when he would throw Mort in the April 2021 Build.
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  Mort and Peppino grabbing onto a Mort Hook.
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  Mort Peppino running.

Ingame Misc.

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  Mort Hook.
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  The Mort Cube.

Miscellaneous

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  The Box art from Mort's original videogame.
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  A cover image of a strategy guide for Mort's game.
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  Mort's announcement image as a boss.