Stupid Rat
Stupid Rats are characters in Pizza Tower.
Description
Stupid Rats are stupid-looking, rotund, giant ceil-colored rats, with eyes looking at different directions. Its small version is the same, except for being square-shaped.
Pin Stupid Rats are similiar, but shaped like bowling pins with two pink stripes. These also have a small variant.
Behaviour
Stupid Rats block the way at certain parts in a level, and can only be defeated using transformations and projectiles (though not all of them work). Despite being more of a level asset, it adds to combos, similarly to enemies. Pin stupid rats can be destroyed with the ball transformation (unlike regular ones). Bumping into a Stupid Rat while grabbing or running will make the player slightly bounce off. All Stupid Rats also make a quiet sniffing sound.
Appears in
- (Large) Pizzascape, Ancient Cheese, Oregano Desert, Fun Farm, Fast Food Saloon, Crust Cove, Deep-Dish 9, Peppibot Factory, Oh Shit!, WAR, The Crumbling Tower Of Pizza, Secrets Of The World.
- (Small) Crust Cove, Peppibot Factory, Secrets Of The World.
- (Pin) Pizzascape, GOLF, Pizzascare, Secrets Of The World.
- (Small Pin) GOLF, Pizzascape, Tricky Treat, Secrets Of The World.
Chef Tasks
This character is tied with the following Chef Task:
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Volleybomb Kill a rat using a bomb dropped by an enemy in Ancient Cheese. |
Trivia
- Before the Rework Build, Stupid Rat had a different function. It would block the path until the player delivers pizza to a gnome.
- Stupid Rats replaced all of the transformation specific blocks in the Rework Build.
- In the Rework build, there were still some Stupid Rats which would function that way. These were removed in the Eggplant Build.
- There were supposed to be more counterparts corresponding to specific transformations, but they go unused.
- Bowling Pin Rats are called "obj_rattumble_big" In the files.
- Before the final game, Stupid Rats did not have a bumping anmation and would act as a solid block instead of making the player bounce off.
- Stupid Rats have a similar function to Prince Froggy from Wario Land 3.
- Stupid Rat appears playable in a DOOM mod called "Bring Your Own Class", spitting up projectiles and using various objects like cheese and Rat Balloons to fight demons.
- When getting caught by Pizzaface as Gustavo & Brick, Brick's defeat animation has Stupid rat's defeat sprite used.
- Despite Pin Stupid Rats being designed only for ball transformation, they can be killed with a few other transformations such as Mort Transformation, Barrel Transformation (only on contact), and Boxed Transformation.
- This is the only enemy/level asset to have an official plush on Fangamer.
Gallery
Regular animations
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Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Stupid rat's bumping animation.
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Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
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Small Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Small Stupid rat's bumping animation.
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Small Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
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Pin Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Pin Stupid Rat's bumping animation.
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Pin Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
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Small Pin Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Small Pin Stupid Rat's bumping animation.
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Small Pin Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
Pizzahead's attack
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Pizzahead pulling up a Stupid Rat before changing into his baseball pitcher uniform.
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Stupid Rat being thrown by Pizzahead, also seen when double jumping as Gustavo and Brick
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The Stupid Rat thrown by Pizzahead after hitting a wall, also seen when kicking Brick into a wall
In-game Miscellaneous
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A Stupid Rat in an astronaut suit with an air tank filled with "cheesium". Appears as a decoration in Deep-Dish 9.
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Tiny Stupid Rat moving in Don't Make A Sound.
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Tiny Stupid Rat eating a pizza slice in Don't Make A Sound.
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"Whack The Rat", appears as a decoration in Don't Make A Sound.
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A Stupid Rat with its tongue stuck to a pizza slice and tears coming from the eyes, in one of Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator's backgrounds.
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A Stupid Rat in the air in Crust Cove's titlecard.
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A small Stupid Rat smiling in Don't Make A Sound's titlecard.
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A Stupid Rat sitting next to cheese and eating a pizza slice in one of the backgrounds in Don't Make A Sound.
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A Stupid Rat sitting next to a box of "Rat Poison Pizza", with a pizza slice (presumably from the box) in front of the rat. Appears in one of Don't Make A Sound's backgrounds.
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A Stupid Rat sitting on a pipe, sometimes looking to the right, in one of Oh Shit!'s backgrounds.
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The Vigilante riding rats with Peppino and Gustavo. Appears in the end credits.
Miscellaneous
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Stupid Rat on Steam User Background.
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Art from the Ancient Aliens stream.
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Unused version of the previous art.
Scrapped animations
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Stupid Rat chasing a sentient piece of cheese after delivering pizza to a gnome.
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Cardboard Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Cardboard Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
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Cap Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Cap Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
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Glasses Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Glasses Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
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Cowboy Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Cowboy Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
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Medieval Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Medieval Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
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Marshmallow Stupid Rat's idle animation.
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Marshmallow Stupid Rat's defeat sprite.
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Unused sprite of a Stupid Rat holding a sign, intended to be used during boss fights.
Miscellaneous
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Stupid Rats as included in concept art for a Lemmings and Pikmin inspired game staring Bigfoots. Was shared by McPig on the Discord.
Audio
| Audio | Description | Additional notes |
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| The rat sniffing (for the normal rat AND the bowling pin rat) | ||
| Normal Rat death sound | This sound plays multiple times. | |
| This sound plays at the same time as the above sound. | ||
| Bowling pin rat death |
