Stupid Rat

Template:BlockStupid Rats are characters and level assets in Pizza Tower.

Description

Stupid Rats are stupid, 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 can also be small.

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.

Appears in

Pizzascape, Ancient Cheese, Oregano Desert, Fun Farm, Fast Food Saloon, Deep-Dish 9, Peppibot Factory, Oh Shit!, WAR, The Crumbling Tower Of Pizza (Large)

Crust Cove, Peppibot Factory (Small)

Pizzascape, Golf, Pizzascare (Pin)

Golf, Pizzascare (Small Pin)

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.
• Stupid Rats emit a quiet sniffing sound.
• Gustavo is played as a duo with another Stupid Rat named Brick.
• Stupid Rats appear in some level titlecards and backgrounds.
• Stupid Rats have a similar function to Prince Froggy from Wario Land 3.
• In Don't Make A Sound, tiny Stupid Rats can be found, either moving or eating a slice of pizza. They only exist as a decoration, and don't interact with the player in any way.
• Pizzahead can throw a Stupid Rat during the 2nd phase of his bossfight.
• In The Pig City, there are Rat Balloons which look very similiar to Stupid Rat, but are round and blue.
• 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.
• In the Rework build, some levels have small Stupid Rats stacked on top of eachother.
• In the Rework build, one of the Flush cards was Stupid Rat's nose.

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.
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  The Stupid Rat thrown by Pizzahead after hitting 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.
• A small Stupid Rat smiling in Don't Make A Sound's titlecard.
  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 background 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.

Scrapped animations

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  Stupid Rat's moving animation. Shown 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.

Audio

Audio	Description	Additional notes
	The rat sniffing (for the normal rat AND the bowling pin rat)
	Normal Rat death sound	Apparently the game says it's RatDead.wav, but RatGrab1.wav plays???
	Bowling pin rat death