Mort

"Baaaaawk? Bah-gawk? Bawk bawk bawk..."
— Mort the Chicken.

Mort the Chicken is the titular protagonist from the PlayStation game Mort the Chicken. He appears in Pizza Tower as a special guest character.

He first appears in Fun Farm and can be used as a transformation that can defeat Electric Potatoes and smack Mort Hooks, giving an extra jump boost.

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.

Trivia

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 Feburary 27, 2019 in the Pizza Tower Discord that Mort would officially appear in Pizza Tower.^[1]
The fact that Mort spawns from a well may be a 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.

Gallery

Mort

Mort jumping out of the Well.
Mort's falling animation.
Mort landing on the ground.
Mort's idle animation. He glances back, and pecks the ground.
Mort's walking animation during The Crumbling Tower of Pizza.

Mort transformation

Mort Peppino's idle animation.
Mort Peppino's jumping animation.
Mort Peppino's double jump animation.
Mort dragging Peppino forward.
Mort Peppino attacking forwards.
Mort Peppino attacking upwards.
Mort Peppino attacking downwards while airborne.
Mort Peppino’s HUD.
Mort's defeat sprite once the player takes damage while in his transformation. Also used when The Noise runs into Mort during The Crumbling Tower of Pizza.