Pepperman/Pre-release

Appearances

Pepperman first appeared in Halloween Demo 2018 (Demo 1), in which he was the final boss.

He also appears to work in the Mansion if modded into the SAGE 2019 Demo where instead of battling the player directly, he chases them down in a chase segment. On the way, there are many Pepper Blocks that only he could break by charging into them. Once reaching the end of the chase segment, he slips on a banana peel that is placed at the end of the corridor, causing him to drop the key.

Demo 1 Boss Fight

Pepperman will be waiting for Peppino atop of the tower's third floor. Once there, Pepperman will be preparing for the fight stomping the ground with his feet, until he starts attacking Peppino.

Pepperman's only attack is to charge towards Peppino. The player can stun him by charging into Pepperman or avoiding his attack by jumping over him, and then waiting until he stops after which he is vulnerable to be attacked. He can also be shortly stunned from stomping on him.

He changes color after getting hit a certain amount of times. If he gets hit four times, his color lightens, after another three hits, he turns yellow, yellow-white after an additional two and one more hit after will defeat him.

Playable Pepperman

Pepperman was made a playable character along with The Noise and The Vigilante before becoming a boss for the second time, but the playable part was scrapped due to McPig thinking it was weird to have half the playable cast be "restricted" characters. Pepperman's playable debut was originally going to be within Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator.

Pepperman would have only two main moves: Shoulder Bash and Ground Pound. As well as other characters, he could also Taunt.

Trivia

• Pepperman's boss fight originally was supposed to reuse animations from Demo 1, but to make consistency between the sprites, this was scrapped.
• In older versions of Mansion, Pepperman had a boss fight placed in the middle of the level. This was removed once Mansion had a complete do-over layout-wise.
• Pepperman's battle arena also originally had a different design.
• In the first demo, Pepperman's stage would appear on the top of the Pizza Tower along with a picture of a Pizza in the background.
• Originally, Pepperman would be much larger than Peppino.

Gallery

Original Pepperman boss fight

Full-health

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  Pepperman's idle animation.
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  Pepperman's charge animation.
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  Pepperman's hurt animation.
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  Pepperman's stun sprite.

Mid-Health

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  Mid-Health Pepperman's idle animation.
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  Mid-Health Pepperman's charge animation.
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  Mid-Health Pepperman's hurt animation.
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  Mid-Health Pepperman's stun sprite.

Low-Health

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  Low-Health Pepperman's idle animation.
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  Low-Health Pepperman's charge animation.
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  Low-Health Pepperman's hurt animation.
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  Low-Health Pepperman's stun sprite.

Miscellaneous

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  Pepperman's old arena sprite.
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  Pepperman as seen in earlier concepts of Pizza Tower.

Playable Pepperman animations

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  Pepperman's falling animation.
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  Pepperman entering a gate or door.
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  Pepperman exiting a gate. One of the frames in this animation is used in the "TIME'S UP" screen or when getting hit in older demos.
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  One of Pepperman's Taunts, where he points at something while shocked.
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  One of Pepperman's Taunts, where he does a pose, showing off his fists while looking angry.
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  One of Pepperman's Taunts, showing him laughing.
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  One of Pepperman's Taunts, where he shows two thumbs up to the player while winking.
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  One of Pepperman's Taunts, where he looks at the player with a weird face.
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  One of Pepperman's Taunts, where he looks at the player menacingly.
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  One of Pepperman's idle animations, where he does his idle animation from his old boss fight.
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  One of Pepperman's idle animations, where he looks back while scared or hoping nobody sees him.
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  One of Pepperman's idle animations, where he wears a pair of glasses.
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  One of Pepperman's idle animations, where he eats a mint.
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  One of Pepperman's idle animations, where he flexes his arm, revealing in the process that he wears sleeves.
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  One of Pepperman's idle animations, where he rubs his hands together like a villain.