The Vigilante

"Vigilante is Above the Law. When you're a sharpshooter, nobody gets out of your crosshairs."
— Toppinbot.

The Vigilante is the second boss in Pizza Tower.

Description

The Vigilante is a Cheeseslime wearing a cowboy hat. He is the grandson of John E. Cheese, the former owner of Fun Farm, which he now owns. While usually a softie who cares about his family and his farm, during the events of the main story, The Noise wrecks his farm and takes over it, and later Peppino accidentally burns down the farm while trying to stop him, leaving his family to be homeless, which led him to become very angry and grudgeful. This then leads him to go on a quest to get revenge and repair his farm by finding various farm materials.

Boss Room

To access the boss room, the player needs to pay Mr. Stick 150$, or 15 Toppins.

The room is a stageplay-like arena, made out of painted wood with desert-themed cutouts, with background being painted wall of Tower. As Peppino enters the boss fight, The Vigilante looks at "Wanted" poster with Peppino on it.

During second phase, background changes to sunset and everything else goes dark.

Boss Fight

Main Gimmick of the Fight

The Vigilante hands Peppino a pistol to use for the whole fight. This replaces the grab and can rapidly fire bullets or be charged for a giant stronger bullet. However, stronger bullet get shot immediately after being charged, so the player needs to get the right moment to use it. The pistol is the player’s only means of damaging The Vigilante, as he does not leave him self open for many other attacks.

Regular shots can take The Vigilante's one HP in 8 shots. Stronger shot deals 6 damage out of 8 required.

Phase 1

After each hit, he changes his attack pattern:

• Cheese Bullets; Dash and Dive Kick
• Dynamite Toss; Cheese Bullets; Dash and Dive Kick
• Bullet Spray; Dynamite Toss
• Bullet Spray; Cheese Bullets
• Dash and Dive Kick
• Bazooka; Dynamite Toss; Cheese Bullets; Dash and Dive Kick
• Flamethrower; Dynamite Toss
• Flamethrower
• Herd Call; Dynamite Toss; Cheese Bullets

After each hit and some of the attacks, The Vigilante slides away from the player, making him temporarily invincible.

Cheese Bullets

The southern swiss slime fires his revolver at the player, firing cheesy bullets that the player needs to quickly jump over. As the fight progress, the bullets will come out faster and more will be fired.

Dash and Dive Kick

The Vigilante runs with his high cowboy boots then dive kicks low to the ground with the boots in front of him.

Cardboard Target

Occasionally a large cardboard cutout of a cowboy will fall from the sky, creating a target for Peppino’s bullets to hit. It also can act as a shield for The Vigilante, as the bullets only hit the cutout. It will be destroyed after a few shots.

Dynamite Toss

The Vigilante throws dynamite high into the air, exploding on contact with the ground or the player. The amount of dynamite The Vigilante throws is random.

Bullet Spray

The Vigilante jumps high into the sky, firing a cheese uzi towards the ground as he flies by.

Dead Grandpa

At 4 HP, The Vigilante’s dead farmer grandfather, John E. Cheese will start appearing through out the fight. John will slowly fly towards the player with a pitchfork, but can be dispatched by a single bullet.

Bazooka

The Vigilante jumps high into the air, and fires a bazooka towards the middle of the arena, creating an explosion on impact and a shockwave travelling outwards.

Flamethrower

The Vigilante slowly moves around the arena with a fire spitting flamethrower.

Herd Call

The Vigilante calls up to drop a crate onto the stage. After the box drops, Cow spawns, that will bounce around the arena for a while, but can be taken down with bullets.

Phase 2

After getting hit 9 times, The Vigilante regenerates his HP back and his attacks become faster. Pattern of attacks is also different, relying mostly on singular attacks, rather than multiple:

• Dynamite Toss
• Dash and Dive Kick
• Cheese Bullets
• Dynamite Toss; Bazooka
• Herd Call (only once); Flamethrower
• Herd Call; Bullet Spray
• Herd Call; Dash and Dive Kick
• Cheese Bullets

Quick Draw Finale

After finishing the second phase, Quick Draw duel starts. Once the word “DRAW” appears, the player needs to shoot The Vigilante for the final hit. The timer is not very strict, however if the player fails to do so, The Vigilante shoots Peppino first, and last attack repeats.

In the comics

The Vigilante appears in The Bad, The Ugly, and The Even Uglier comics.

In The Bad, The Ugly, and The Even Uglier, he is the sheriff of a western town and is first seen while Pepperman was attacking the town. After barges into his building and asks if he was the sheriff of the town, he quickly surrenders. Afterwards, he is seen tied up alongside the banker of the town while Pepperman and his troops were robbing the bank. However, soon after, while Pepperman was plotting to set up camp at the town, he escapes and attacks him. It is unknown what he does after attacking Pepperman, as the comics haven't been completed yet.

Pre-release

For early appearances and scrapped ideas, see the pre-release page here: The Vigilante/Pre-release

Trivia

• The Vigilante, then known as Cowboy Cheeseslime, was originally created as a mod for Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch. PTG was feeling tired of drawing Peppino, so he opted to do a Cheeseslime with a cowboy hat instead. He ended up liking him enough to make him an important character in the main game.

The teaser picture showing the 4 possible characters.

• Before it was revealed that The Vigilante would be a playable character, Pizza Tower Guy had been teasing a third playable character for around a week in the Discord server with a picture showing 4 possible characters it could be, those being Gustavo, Pepperman, Snick, or The Vigilante, then known as Cowboy Cheeseslime, and gave various hints to who it could be. These hints included:
  • Already exists in Pizza Tower lore
  • Angry
  • Inspired by an old actor
  • A band that's relevant still has a popular song relating to the actor and/or character
    • The "inspired by an old actor" hint refers to Clint Eastwood, while the "band that's still relevant" in question is Gorillaz.
  • Doesn't play video games
  • One interesting thing of note about this image, is that all of these characters ended up becoming playable at some point, but Snick ended up being SAGE 2019 Demo exclusive, and Pepperman's appearance in Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator was scrapped.
• An MM8DM mod called Grand Classes, both add Peppino and Vigilante as playable characters, though Vigilante uses the same sprites as the original skin mod, he has a move revamp, making his moves the same ones as from Pizza Tower, that being his revolver and a stick of dynamite which can be used to get height or a slight speed boost.
• It has been said that Vigi's full name is Vigert Ebenezer Lantte, shortened to Vigilante.
• When entering the stage for The Vigilante, the fight does not start until Peppino picks up the revolver from the box thrown at him. This is likely a reference to the fight against Meta-Knight in Kirby Super Star, where in both the enemy offers you a weapon to make the fight fair.
  • If the player does not pick up the gun for some time, The Vigilante will look towards the screen annoyed.

Gallery

Regular animations

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  The Vigilante's standing while looking at "Wanted" poster.
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  The Vigilante's turning around and pointing animation.
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  The Vigilante's idle animation.
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  The Vigilante's looking at the player animation.
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  The Vigilante's pulling out his revolver animation.
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  The Vigilante's holding his revolver sprite.
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  The Vigilante's shooting from his revolver animation.
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  The Vigilante's preparing to dash animation.
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  The Vigilante's dashing animation.
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  The Vigilante's preparing to dive kick animation.
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  The Vigilante's dive kicking animation.
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  The Vigilante's throwing his dynamite animation.
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  The Vigilante's preparing to Bullet Spray animation.
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  The Vigilante's shooting with uzi animation.
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  The Vigilante's shooting with bazooka animation.
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  The Vigilante's preparing flamethrower animation.
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  The Vigilante's using flamethrower animation.
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  The Vigilante's turning around with flamethrower animation.
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  The Vigilante's ending flamethrower attack animation.
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  The Vigilante's calling up animation.
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  The Vigilante's hurt animation.
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  The Vigilante's sliding animation.
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  The Vigilante's preparing for Quick Draw duel animation.
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  The Vigilante's idle animation during The Crumbling Tower of Pizza.
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  The Vigilante's walking animation during The Crumbling Tower of Pizza.

Boss Fight projectiles

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  John E. Cheese's flying animation.
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  John E. Cheese's defeat sprite.
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  The Vigilante's dynamite.
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  Cow crate.
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  Cow crate alert.
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  Cow.
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  Target picture 1.
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  Target picture 2.
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  Bazooka missile.
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  Cheese bullet forming.
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  Cheese bullet disintegrating.

Arena

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  The Vigilante arena gate.
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  The Vigilante arena gate background.
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  Arena's ground sprite.
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  Phase 1 background. Blue wall with painted desert, clouds and sun.
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  Background decoration. Clouds.
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  Phase 2 background.
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  Sign from final phase's quick draw.
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  Second sign from final phase's quickdraw.

In-game miscellanous

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  The Vigilante's VS screen portrait.
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  The Vigilante's name on VS screen.
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  The Vigilante's HP icon.
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  The Vigilante boss fight icon on Granny Pizza sign.
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  The Vigilante's thinking in Staff Only animation.
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  The Vigilante's looking towards Peppino in Staff Only animation.
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  The Vigilante holding a cup in Noisette's Cafe.
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  The Vigilante drinking from a cup in Noisette's Cafe.
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  The Vigilante in the game's intro.
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  The Vigilante in the game's ending.
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  The Vigilante riding on a Stupid Rat. Appears in the ending.
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  The Vigilante on a target practice with Toppins. Appears in the ending.
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  The Vigilante looking at a "Wanted" poster. Appears in the ending.

Miscellaneous

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  The Vigilante sprites for the MM8BDM mod.
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  The mod in-game.
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  Toppinbot's Description of The Vigilante on the Pizza Tower Discord.
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  Non-canon artwork of The Vigilante and Pepperman at Noisette's Cafe.
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  Non-canon artwork of The Vigilante and Noisette.
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  The Vigilante holding a barrel weapon that shoots big cheese projectiles.
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  The Vigilante holding a cheese grater weapon.
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  Concept art for The Vigilante's Dynamite stick.
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  Animation of a shotgun shot from Pizza Tower Versus.