History Characters / PizzaTower

** To a certain extent he is a CorruptedCharacterCopy of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]] as well. He vaguely resembles a rodent, has the personality of a MascotWithAttitude, is bitter rivals with the Mario/Wario-like Peppino, and (most tellingly) his boss theme is a [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD Sonic CD]]-inspired 90's pop song.

Initially just the third boss, he was PromotedToPlayable in a post launch update with his own seperate campaign as Peppino that hits all the same major beats, while changing up various transformations and level gimmicks to set it apart from Peppino's.

%%ZCE * WheelOFeet: His running animation for Mach 3 makes use of this trope.

!Supporting Characters

[[folder:Mr. Stick]]
!!Mr. Stick
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->''"Mr. Stick is All Business"''\\
''"I don't care about this fortune nonsense. Just tell me if we can patent this bot thingamajig."''

A neutral party who aligns with Peppino and Gustavo than with Pizzaface and his goons. Regardless, he stops Peppino from accessing boss fights, only allowing him after he pays him a toll.

[[folder:The Noise]]
!!The Noise
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[[caption-width-right:100:''"Woag!"'']]
->''"The Noise is Completely Insane"''\\
''"Hey-a! Howsabout a nice ride in this washing machine here? Admission is freeeee!"''

A mischievous gremlin who hates pizza and tries to hinder Peppino's quest, seemingly for his amusement. [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Theodore Noise]], better known as The Noise, serves both as Peppino's foe and as the second playable character. Originally aiming to destroy the tower, he joined Pizzaface when he built him a TV Studio to hang out in.

* AIRoulette: Compared to Pepperman and the Vigilante, this guy doesn't have a consistent attack pattern and would just use the 4 moves he has at random. A bit downplayed given that he uses those 4 moves at least twice, just in a random order.
* AxCrazy: He seems to be a bit unhinged, enjoying Peppino's suffering and stabbing his enemies to death as a finishing move.
* BaitAndSwitch: Attempts to pull a Gatling gun as a third phase similar to The Vigilante's, but gets dragged away by Noisette and is left as the only boss in the game without such a gimmick.
* BeautifulAllAlong:
** PlayedForLaughs with one of his idle animations, where he pulls off his mask to break a sweat, revealing a handsome face before he puts it back on, reverting to his usual gremlin look.
** Subverted in some conceptual sketches and the cover art for the official soundtrack which seem to suggest that aside from the hair, he doesn't look all that different without his usual mask. Perhaps [[MultilayerFacade he's still wearing a mask]].
* BewareTheSillyOnes: The Noise may be a wacky, childish fellow, but he becomes frighteningly ''demonic'' when angered, gaining sharp claws, {{red eyes|TakeWarning}}, and a mouth lined with ScaryTeeth. His current ways of dealing with enemies show his AxCrazy side, too; one of his finishing blows involves ''stabbing them with a knife''.
* BossBattle: He'll fight Peppino on the third floor.
** In the ''Peppino's Xmas Break'' public demo, he acts as the boss fight of the Strongcold level.
** Scrapped plans for The Noise involved him being a RecurringBoss. One example [[https://youtu.be/m5jRDBxqI8k which you can see here]] features such a fight with The Noise.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Started as a childish, Noid-like rival of Peppino who hated pizza and was supposedly born out of the pizzeria's unfulfilled promises, then after ''Noise's Hardoween'' he was retooled into a more psychopathic character due to the inclusion of scary Halloween-related animations. He also switched to primarily being a TV and film personality at some point.
* CheatedAngle: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with his mask, as it's [[https://twitter.com/PizzaTowergame/status/1773080263561507277 deliberately designed]] so that his DastardlyWhiplash moustache always appears on the sides of his head.
* CompanionCube: Early in Peppibot Factory, there is a ceiling with electric blocks that The Noise can't avoid with his tricky moveset, so he brings a seemingly sentient bucket of water and it short-circuits the blocks for him. This is treated as a HeroicSacrifice of sorts, [[spoiler:with The Noise even taking the time to retrieve the bucket in the final escape sequence]].
* ConfusionFu: The Noise only has four attacks in his boss fight, but he will never do them in the same order, unlike the other bosses.
* TheCorruptor: [[spoiler:His method of reviving Pillar John with the Tower Secret Treasures also turns him into a lunatic wearing a Noise costume.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: He's [[UglyCute a weird-looking but energetic little gremlin man]] who loves playing pranks on Peppino, but he's also an unhinged lunatic at heart with plenty a NightmareFace to show for it, and whose pranks border on lethal.
* CuttingTheKnot: As a playable character, he doesn't even bother playing along with most of the time and score challenges, as he can just beat the prize out of the Horsie, refuses to partake in a fair gunfight with the Vigilante before shooting him before the command to draw is given, smashes through the homes of Gnome Forest to get the Toppins there, raises the par score for getting a "Primo Burg" in Golf, and [[spoiler:scares off Fake Peppino if the latter touches him in the final phase of the boss fight]]. Put simply, The Noise can and will cheat his way to victory if given half a chance.
* DastardlyWhiplash: Played with. He has the long, curly moustache (which doesn't even connect to his nose), the various cartoonish tricks, and the love for causing trouble seemingly just ForTheEvulz of the trope. However, he's less of a sneaky, cunning adult, and more of a silly, childish, and rampaging gremlin.
* DemotedToExtra: Downplayed. The Noise had a major role in the game's plot when he was introduced, being a recurring enemy of Peppino, but eventually, his role as the main villain was taken up by Pizzaface, and his relevance in the plot was heavily reduced to just being the boss of the third area. He would later become the first alternate character.
* DifficultButAwesome: As a playable character, his skateboarding skills can be tricky to adapt to, especially when it comes to climbing up tall walls, but it is also fun to play when you get used to it. The awesome part is that he can cancel out of his skateboard into his steamer jump and back ''repeatedly'', allowing him to get infinite air while mixing it up with his skateboard spin, making him into a fast tornado of death and speed.
* DissonantSerenity:
** As a playable character, The Noise's idle and walking animations while high on a combo show him calmly drinking tea with a top hat on. This clashes with his psycho animations while the combo counter is at average values, as well as with how Peppino scowls and dances angrily under the same circumstances.
** During the final escape sequence, he's still just as delusionally cheerful as ever compared to his fellow boss fight characters who are [[OhCrap appropriately panicked]] over [[spoiler:the impending destruction of the Pizza Tower]].
* DoesNotLikeSpam: The Noise is noted to dislike pizza, though he and the other bosses do accept Peppino's peace offering of a free pizza in the ending.
* EdibleAmmunition: When equipping his minigun, he loads a sausage into it.
* EnemyPosturing: While some of his vulnerability states are understandable, like when his explosives backfire or he exhausts himself from jumping too much, sometimes he just pauses to flip off or shake his ass at Peppino, ripe for a beating.
* EveryoneHasStandards: During the ''DOOM: Ancient Aliens'' stream, when Maurice gets a bit too politically incorrect, The Noise drops his typical goofy act to express his disgust:
--> '''Maurice''': This is America
--> '''Maurice''': Speak American
--> '''The Noise''': [[DudeNotFunny Dude]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Advertising/TheNoid, a fellow mischievous, pizza-hating, pogo-riding, diminutive man in a bodysuit with rabbit ears (as opposed to Noise's pizza crust-shaped hat). Originally, he was even supposed to work for a similarly named pizza chain, except this one is named [[BlandNameProduct The Dominion]], though it got replaced by a TV network called NTV in the final game. [[spoiler:During a Halloween party in the game's ending, the Noise even dresses up in a costume that looks suspiciously like the Noid's.]] He also utilizes a pogo stick and a skateboard, just like the Noid did in ''VideoGame/YoNoid''.
** To a certain extent he is a CorruptedCharacterCopy of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]] as well. He vaguely resembles a rodent, has the personality of a MascotWithAttitude, is bitter rivals with the Mario/Wario-like Peppino, and (most tellingly) his boss theme is a [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD Sonic CD]]-inspired 90's pop song.
* FlippingTheBird: One of his vulnerable poses is giving Peppino the finger.
* GatlingGood: His purchasable weapon is a ''minigun''. It lacks the diagonal coverage of Peppino's shotgun but can shoot much faster. He tries to pull it out on Peppino in the final game, but his girlfriend Noisette drags him away before he can finish the fight. He gets to use it as a playable character.
* TheGlovesComeOff: He holds back in his fight with Peppino for the sake of the cameras. Once Phase Two hits, the Noise balloon in the background crashes onto the field and knocks away the cameramen, while also blocking the view of every other active camera in the distance. At this point, the Noise stops fooling around, adding more dastardly tricks to his attacks.
* GoldenSuperMode: [[spoiler:If you play as him when you fight Pizzaface, when you reach the BossRush, he takes an "artistic liberty" in adaptation and has one of these where his outfit turns white and sparkling in a fashion reminiscent of Super Sonic as he proceeds to throw more bombs than usual. For the final blow on Pizzahead, he summons a ginormous bomb which visibly terrifies the former mascot. You can also unlock this color palette in normal gameplay if you defeat the boss without wasting a single bomb, minus the [[PowerGlows glow]].]]
* GoofyBuckteeth: He has a prominent bucktooth, and is a childish, mischievous gremlin man with lots of cartoonish pranks up his sleeve.
* HenpeckedHusband: His girlfriend Noisette drags him away before he can strike back at Peppino again after his defeat. From the Noise's scream, whatever he's in for won't be pleasant.
* HighClassGlass: [[spoiler:The ending shows him wearing a monocle while he gets rich from various merchandising deals.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Noise always stops to taunt Peppino after each attack, leaving him wide open for Peppino to strike.

** The final phase of the fourth boss, [[spoiler:the grotesque Fake Peppino]], has restored rubberbanding while playing as The Noise, making it appear to be more difficult. However, if you get caught, then The Noise just angrily screams with a giant face to drive the monster away. You're then allowed to move on to the goal [[ZeroEffortBoss at your own pace]].
** During the FinalBoss, The Noise manages to terrify [[spoiler:Pizzahead]], leaving the boss staring at [[spoiler:The Noise's [[BigBulkyBomb finishing move]] as it explodes]] in sheer shock.
* HypocriticalHumor: Claims to hate pizza, but [[spoiler:pretends to have a pizza restuarant for the sake of his movie adaptation]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses a giant thumbtack to stab enemies.
* IShallTauntYou: He's very prone to taunting Peppino mid-fight, doing things such as shaking his butt, sticking his tongue out, or pulling the middle finger. [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard These give you the perfect opening to strike.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: The Noise's scenario emphasizes how much of a petty and underhanded scumbag he is. You can cheat the quick draw match against The Vigilante, skip the wooden horse and pizza delivery challenges by whacking everyone out of the way, and likewise just run over almost everyone in [[spoiler:the final escape sequence]]. He only appreciates Noisette and his WaddlingHead minions.
* JetPack: He has a jetpack that he uses when Super Jumping as well as to presumably propel himself when running at Mach 4.
* KickTheDog: As a playable character, there are some slight differences in both gameplay and animation to emphasize that he's not as pleasant as Peppino:
** When using Mort, he grabs him by the neck and flings him like a boomerang. The TV in the corner also shows him chasing down Mort.
** During Gnome Forest, instead of delivering pizzas to the Gnomes for Toppins, he knocks the houses away and collects them himself.
** [[spoiler:During his variation of "The Crumbling Tower of Pizza", he explicitly only saves Noisette, a Noisey, and a bucket from Peppibot Factory. The other bosses, Snotty (if kept alive), Mort, and Gerome get mowed down like all other enemies.]]
* LaughingMad: [[spoiler:He lets out a bout of maniacal cackling as he pulls out his stupidly huge bomb to finish off Pizzahead]].
* {{Leitmotif}}:
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21czfDAiiA The Noise]]'' and ''[[https://soundcloud.com/mr-sauceman/pizza-tower-ost-the-noises-jam-packed-radical-anthem The Noise's Jam-Packed Radical Anthem]]''. The theme gets a BossRemix in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovju1aNan54 Pumpin' Hot Stuff]]" when he is fought as a boss.
** As a playable character, his escape theme is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNgybuZltAU Distasteful Anchovi]]'', his Lap 2 theme is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTiM1MJ1o7c World Wide Noise]]" and [[spoiler:he gets a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc6CHI9f6cM unique remix of Unexpectancy Part 3]]]].
** In previous demos, the Noise's escape theme was the track ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAMjXyuY4mI Pesto Anchovi]]'', though it was scrapped in favor of the current one. Pesto Anchovi is still used in the World 2 Patreon demo as The Vigilante's escape theme, although most likely as a placeholder.
* MesACrowd: His campaign establishes that there are multiple identical duplicates of him. His technical difficulty screen shows a Noise corpse being watched by another Noise, Gustavo has been replaced with yet another Noise, his animatronic transformation has been replaced with a Noise duplicate replacing the now dead original Noise, and the credits show an army of Noises running towards the sunset. This isn't even considering [[spoiler: [[PaletteSwap The Doise]]]]'s existence. Possibly justified, though, as [[spoiler:the entire campaign was a movie made by The Noise, who is an extreme {{Narcissist}}]].
* MirrorMatch: [[spoiler:As a playable character, his Third Boss is "The Doise", a PaletteSwap version of himself that has all of his moves. The main difference is that rather than being dragged off by Noisette, The Doise's own Peppino-like counterpart, Peddito, outright ''murders'' Doise, meaning that during subsequent rematches and the BossRush, he shows up as a rotting corpse.]]
* {{Narcissist}}:
** Like Pepperman, the Noise is obsessed with his image. Pretty much everything in his arena is Noise-themed. His bombs, his cameramen, the TV Studio, the giant balloon that comes crashing down in the middle of the battle.
** Since his scenario as a playable character is [[spoiler:a movie he made based on Peppino's adventure with himself in the main role]], there's a lot of parts that foreshadow this reveal. All the pre-level icons are largely the same but with drawings of his face slapped over the characters' faces, the Gustavo segments are replaced with another copy of him who still plays as usual.
* NightmareFace: [[https://youtu.be/08gOgu7c0eo Get a D rank as him]], and he will jump at the player with a downright terrifying face with red eyes and sharp teeth, and the message "DIE." He also gives one when he gets hit and when he gets caught by Pizzaface. [[spoiler:He can also conjures up a particularly ghoulish face to terrify Fake Peppino into submission during the chase sequence.]]
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Noise will cheat if it gets him the upper hand. The only time he doesn't do this is when the cameras are rolling during his boss fight while playing as Peppino. As a playable character, everything not related to the core gameplay becomes rigged in The Noise's favor, whether it be small things like fudging the par for Golf to bigger things like outright beating the prize out of his race opponent should he lose.
* PetTheDog: Although The Noise is quite the jackass to most characters in his scenario, he saves Noisette from [[spoiler:the collapsing tower]] and pats her head during the ending cutscene. The final screen also shows [[spoiler:he paid the other bosses to participate in his film]].
* PowerGlows: [[spoiler:During his version of the FinalBoss, he glows and sparkles for phase 3.]]
* PromotedToPlayable: The Noise was added as a free playable character in an update more than a year after release after being just one of the bosses for Peppino to fight.
* PsychopathicManchild: Looks goofy and silly on the outside, but is vicious and enjoys tormenting Peppino.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Close-up shots of his eyes reveal his natural eye color is red, and most close-up shots tend to also be [[NightmareFace Nightmare Faces]].
* RewindGag: Sometimes his "woag" sound will reverse midway through, coming out as "woaow" instead.
* TheRival: While not as apparent in the final game as the demos, Peppino and The Noise have it out for each other, with Peppino brawling with The Noise in the final phase of his boss fight. Makes sense given one's a pizza chef and the other is based on the famous destroyer of pizzas.
* {{Sadist}}: The Noise enjoys the suffering Peppino is going through, and when the titular Pizza Tower collapses at the end of the game, he has the biggest smile in the world on his face.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: If you get an A-rank with him, you'll get a screen with the Noise saying he'd prefer an S or a P while looking at the player with a discontent expression. He also won't be impressed with any final completion percentage below 95%, with his reactions ranging from anger to indifference.
* SequenceBreaking: An intentional example. At the start of "Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator" he chugs a keg that gives him the abilities of the Satan's Choice pizza (flight and the ability to break ice blocks) without the invincibility. Since you only get Satan's Choice right before [[EscapeSequence Pizza Time]], having it from the start lets you completely break the level's sequence by breaking blocks only meant to be broken during Pizza Time.
* ShakingTheRump: One of his methods of taunting Peppino in his boss fight is shaking his rear from side to side.
* SlasherSmile: The intro shows him flashing a deranged grin with his eyes wide open and his tongue hanging out. He also pulls a nervous one in the intro to the second phase of his boss fight after his balloon crashes into the ground, moments after sharing a simultaneous scream of terror with Peppino.
* SoreLoser:
** He ''abhors'' D-ranks, donning a NightmareFace and straight-up ordering the player to "'''DIE'''" on the results screen if he earns one. His reactions to the succeeding ranks are calmer, but he's never fully impressed unless you get an S-rank or P-rank.
** If you finish his campaign with a low enough completion percentage, you're treated to a close-up of him staring angrily at the screen, with the words "'''I'M GOING TO KILL YOU'''" plastered on top. At even lower percentages, he instead [[NeverMyFault deflects blame to Noisette]].
** When he's down to his final hit point, he pulls a gun on Peppino.
** If you lose to a Horsie in Fast Food Saloon, Noise can just straight up attack them, kicking them offscreen and opening up the blocked off cages.
** After his defeat, a frustrated Noise can be found smoking in a corner of the Slum hub. He'll glare at Peppino if the player moves close to him.
* SpectacularSpinning: One of his moves as a playable character is a tornado spin. He can defeat enemies by running into them like this, as well as crawl under small gaps. Its greatest utility, however, is the fact he instantly descends downward when using the move, compared to the startup Peppino has on his ground pounds, allowing him to hit the ground far faster.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: It's not Noise, it's The Noise. Though apparently "The" is short for "Theodore".
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: His full name is '''The'''odore '''Noise'''.
* StylisticSuck: A heavily compressed cry of "''Woag!''" is used as the basis for the vast majority of the Noise's voice lines.
* SweetTooth: His Pizza Points originally consisted of non-pizza-related items[[labelnote:*]]The Noise hates pizza.[[/labelnote]] that include chocolate chips, marshmallows, jelly beans, and candy corn. His playable appearance in the final game ditches this idea, however.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: His special attack is throwing Noise Bombs which bounce for a bit before exploding. It's also his main attack as a playable character during boss fights. [[spoiler:In the final phase of the Pizzaface fight, he flings a ludicrous salvo of bombs as his variation of Peppino's beatdown, with his FinishingMove being to pull out a cartoonishly massive CartoonBomb.]]
* UnfortunateNames: The Pizza Grannies seem to think so at least, likely due to his full name's shortened form being "The Noise"[[note]]'''The'''odore Noise[[/note]].
-->'''Pizza Granny''': Did you know that your full name is Theodore Noise? That's unfortunate.
* VillainProtagonist: Despite serving as Peppino's most constant foe, he's playable later on in a free update and can form an EnemyMine with Peppino in Swap Mode, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork albeit a heated one]].
* WallJump: One the main things that sets him apart from Peppino as a playable character. Unlike Peppino, who can WallRun once he's built up enough speed, The Noise can only bounce of walls, gaining a decent amount of vertical height, though with increasing diminishing returns the more you use it. Use it more than five times, and he'll actually start bouncing downward!
* WouldHarmASenior: Unlike Peppino, he is fully capable of defeating Grandpa Pepper in The Pig City.

[[folder:The Noise's Third Boss '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
!!The Doise
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A PaletteSwap of the Noise himself who takes his place as the third boss when playing as the Noise. Originally a fan character by Youtuber [=Robby1scool=] that made it with Peddito into ''Bring Your Own Class'', a GameMod for ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: The Doise and Peddito originate [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTaZ-0C3e7s from a fan video]] that featured the two as seemingly harmless and friendly PaletteSwap fan characters. They are canonized in ''Bring Your Own Class'' and ''Pizza Tower'' in a rather mean-spirited way as The Doise is implied to have killed Peddito, who is portrayed as a vengeful spirit out to kill him for revenge.
* BlackComedy: All of his appearances after his defeat, as he is a corpse. Rematching him on the third hub will be an instant win as The Noise dances over his corpse. During the BossRush, his section is a {{Beat}} before the next boss swoops in.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Before this guy was added in as the third boss replacement for the Noise (if you decide to play as the Noid knockoff), he shows up as a mask in Pizzascare in one of the rooms.
* EasterEgg: A couple.
** If you feel like actually rematching his boss fight instead of staring at his dead body, you can simply taunt three times in front of his gate before entering and he'll be brought back to life. This is welcome if you want to replay the fight for any reason.
** Regardless of doing the above, he will still be dead in his phase of the ending BossRush. However, breakdancing (by holding the taunt button) during said phase will unlock the "Real Doise" costume for The Noise to wear.
* FinalBossNewDimension: A rare non-final boss example. His boss arena takes place in a trippy EldritchLocation filled with [[VideoGame/Earthbound1994 Giygas]]-esque stretched-out copies of him in front of a purple background.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''Bring Your Own Class'', The Doise carries several weapons that can backfire on him like a bouncing rock, a powerful rifle that knocks himself out and Peddito, a vengeful spirit that mows down everything in his way to slaughter The Doise. In ''Pizza Tower'', this isn't replicated with the rocks but The Doise does get killed off when he summons Peddito at the end of the fight.
* KilledOffForReal: After being defeated once, Peddito swoops in and outright ''murders'' him. Every subsequent appearance, even rematches, will have him as a rotting corpse, even during the BossRush Pizzahead forces on you. He can be revived for a proper rematch by taunting three times in front of his boss gate, but after that, Peddito kills him again every single time.
* KilledOffscreen: It can be quite a shock to find that The Doise is outright killed when Peddito drags him offscreen. For the record, [[https://youtu.be/iCzdMMBXp94?si=rK-8rVKeXwYUIuba&t=369 what Peddito does in his source game]] is [[EyeScream crush The Doise's eyes]] from behind before implicity possessing him to [[NeckSnap break his neck]].
* MirrorBoss: He more or less plays exactly like the original version of The Noise's boss fight, with some tweaks here and there, such as his bombs being replaced by bouncing rocks.
* MoodWhiplash: His entire fight is a confusing mess, taking place in a confusing alternate dimension compared to Noise's fight being near his TV studio, and it ends off with Peddito swooping in and killing offscreen him in an implicitly very gruesome manner. After that? He, or rather his corpse, is played for BlackComedy, as rematches are brief pauses before the Noise gets an automatic P-rank, and his appearance in the boss rush is a comical breather.
* PaletteSwap: He looks just like the Noise but with brown skin, a blue outfit, and a magenta cape.
* TooDumbToLive: In ''Bring Your Own Class'', Peddito is an AwesomeButImpractical summon that tramples over everyone in pursuit of The Doise and will kill him on contact. The player can escape by clearing a level or avoiding him for long enough. In ''Pizza Tower'', The Doise summons Peddito for the final phase of the fight and then just stands there like an idiot.
* TheUnfought: Because he only serves as the third boss when playing as The Noise, Peppino can't fight him outside of Swap Mode.
* VocalDissonance: His appearance in ''Bring Your Own Class'' has him speak in the voice of ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''. This is reflected in his ''Pizza Tower'' appearance with his voice clips being pitched down versions of The Noise's voice clips.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to discuss him without revealing the fact that he dies at the end of his boss fight, and only appears afterwards as a corpse.
* ZeroEffortBoss: His rematches, if you can call it that. After all, he's already a rotting corpse. As icing on the cake, since you ''technically'' just achieved a NoDamageRun by doing this, you get the P Rank for it.
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[[folder:The Fourth Boss '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
!!Fake Peppino
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A creature resembling a lanky and twitching copy of Peppino. Originally an enemy that was seemingly scrapped late into development, Fake Peppino (whose name may be Bruno, if the arena's outside is anything to go by) serves as the fourth boss.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Fake Peppino is implicitly tied to the Peppino Clones in the "WAR" level due to their shared frog-like traits and could somehow be the Bruno person who owned the parlor he's lurking in. The game never elaborates on any of this.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[TheSpook Due to highly ambiguous nature]], determining how evil this guy is a mystery. Is Fake Peppino merely just [[SincerestFormOfFlattery imitating Peppino out of admiration]], or does he genuinely want to perform a KillAndReplace on him? Is he an UnwittingPawn in Pizzaface's scheme, a mere PunchClockVillain, or rather loyal to the floating pizza? No one knows for certain, but at the very least, he's civil enough after his defeat that, if the end slides are any indication, he can peacefully (if uneasily) co-exist with Peppino and is not menacing anyone during said slides.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: His twitching body and the fact [[GlamourFailure his eye seems to be falling off his face]] makes him come off as some sort of robot or animatronic, or someone wearing a bad costume. Whatever he is remains unknown. As a boss, he appears to be some kind of amorphous, doughy being, launching himself and numerous duplicates all over the place. On top of that, his health bar is represented by Peppino hats leaking some type of goo. Sometimes his head just falls off while running around, and other times he throws his head as an attack, leaving his brain exposed. The jury is out on whether or not that's just part of the form he takes or his real face. In earlier versions, his gooey parts appeared to be akin to that of a cheeseslime's, but they were altered to be more flesh-colored for the final game.
* AnimalMotifs: A strangely recurring frog motif. His distorted features regularly make him look very frog-like, his grab attack consists of him jabbing his tongue at Peppino in a manner not unlike a real frog, and he takes on a disturbingly frog-like stance when pulling off jumping attacks. It continues with the failed Peppino clones from the War stage, who make croaking sounds with almost every move.
* ArmoredButFrail: He only has 6 hit points per phase, less than every other boss in the game. He compensates for this by taking 3 hits to lose a hit point (2 to make him vulnerable and one to deal damage).
* AdvancingBossOfDoom: After his health is depleted, the floor caves in, and Peppino must flee from an enormous version of him that is almost all head, crawling on all fours, to get to the barricaded front door of the fake pizzeria.
* BaitAndSwitch: Fake Peppino's boss gate portrays the creature with his actual trait of being unable to [[EyePop deform and expand his eyes]], but with facial features and anger more akin to the actual Peppino. The following versus screen at first just shows a second Peppino as the boss seconds before you see... '''''this'''''.
* BattleThemeMusic: "[[https://youtu.be/VwN0CqFo4rY PIZZA TIME NEVER ENDS]]", a distorted mix of "It's Pizza Time!"
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Fake Peppino's boss gate portrays him with empty eye sockets and a furious scowl.
* BlobMonster: He's seemingly made out of dough and can transform, melt into the floor and reform at will. In pre-release versions, both Fake Peppino and the Peppino Clones seen later on had cheese-like yellow tongues, but this trait was removed in the published game.
* TheCameo: Appears in the Strongcold level, wearing a Christmas hat and lazily ringing a bell while sitting in a corner, asking for change.
* ClimaxBoss: The boss of the penultimate world, Fake Peppino's existence is hidden by the game until his boss battle proper -- and his arrival marks the point where the game shifts from a comedy to a HorrorComedy. In addition, Fake Peppino is the only boss fight to have a [[AdvancingBossOfDoom chase sequence]], and the music that plays during the fight is a warped version of "It's Pizza Time!", one of Peppino's {{Leitmotif}}s.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Has a high-pitched falsetto voice that's Peppino's but [[VoiceOfTheLegion distorted]] and [[SdrawkcabSpeech reversed.]] It's less endearing coming from him, to say the least.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Implied. After he's defeated, he's one of the bosses that follows you out of the tower in the final level. In the ending slides, anytime he's shown, Fake Peppino is not deliberately menacing Peppino or anyone else (besides being, y'know, [[HumanoidAbomination Fake Peppino]]). At worst, he seems to have merely become Peppino's weird neighbour.
* DegradedBoss: The Peppino Clones introduced later in the War level are quite similar to him, but have less health and only one real attack.
* EvilKnockoff: To Peppino, of course (although as discussed above, he may be ''neutral'' rather than "evil"). His arena is initially styled as a second Peppino's Pizza, but the front sign and mural go... crazy (the front just repeats "Peppino," and the mural is spouting gibberish) in the second phase.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Listen closely to "Okay Campers, Rise and Shine!", the OST that plays during the chase at the end of the fight, and you may hear '''"Peppino! Get over here NOW!"''' said in a deep, booming voice that sounded like it came fresh off the entrance to Hell. That is what Fake Peppino sounds like, at least in his final form.
* EyePop: A deliberate aversion. Despite the real Peppino being no stranger to the trope and his entire body being stretchy and freaky, Fake Peppino's eyes are seemingly completely unable to pop, staying the same even as the entire eye socket stretches around them. It only makes him even creepier. During the final chase, his head gets massive, but his eyes are still regular-sized, giving him a very BlackEyesOfCrazy look.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Very deliberately has ''no'' buildup or foreshadowing to his existence to make his reveal that much more shocking. And even after, thanks to ''Pizza Tower''[='=]s very minimalistic storytelling, there is exactly ''zero'' explanation offered as to where he came from, why he's there, how he came to be, whether he's artificial or was just ''born'' like that if he's loyal to Pizzaface or a PunchClockVillain, or what the hell he even ''is.'' He's just... ''Fake Peppino'', and he ''exists''.
* GlamourFailure: After he starts losing, his "Peppino Pizza 2" restaurant's advertisements will degenerate into nonsense.
* GlassCannon: Subverted. He can summon clones of himself and turn the arena into a BulletHell of Fake Peppinos, and he has 6 hit points per health bar, the same as Peppino but less than every other boss in the game. However, you must hit him two times to stun him for a damaging hit, unlike other bosses who have vulnerability windows, are more easily stunned, or give you a weapon, padding out his endurance; this trait carries into the BossRush where he has eight health like everyone else, although he can be stunned in one hit by flinging Gustavo into him, and Peppino's attacks are upgraded to deal 4 damage, making the extra health trivial.
* HorrifyingTheHorror:
** In Peppino's case, [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]]. He seems to scream in horror at the same time Peppino does upon seeing him, though his [[SdrawkcabSpeech backwards vocalization]] and [[TheUnsmile lack of real human expression]] makes it difficult to tell whether he's scared or trying to imitate -- [[RoarBeforeBeating or intimidate]] -- Peppino. At the very least, an ending credits slide shows the two running into one another while they just happen to be trying to take out the trash at the same time. They both seem [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises equally surprised to see each other]].
** Played Straight if you play as The Noise. The final stage [[spoiler:can be skipped if Fake Peppino "catches" the Noise, as the Noise will scream and make a NightmareFace that causes Fake Peppino to scamper away like a scolded puppy. Then again, given that the internal filename for the Noise's Nightmare Face is "watchitbub", the Noise may have ''actually'' scolded Fake Peppino into leaving in his own bizarre way.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: He looks like Peppino, but whatever he is, it's definitely ''not'' human.
* InstantWinCondition: Peppino escapes from Fake Peppino by simply jumping over a poorly barricaded door out of Bruno's Pizza, with the creature peeking from inside even though it can easily leave as well.
* TheJuggernaut: In the demos featuring him, and the last section of his fight, Fake Peppino is completely invincible, can't be damaged in any way, and will cross any obstacle in his path such as gaps or tight spaces. Your only option is to flee.
* KnightOfCerebus: With the fourth hub already being somewhat grimmer than previous locations, Fake Peppino presents a jarring shift in tone being like something out of a Horror game and fought in a suitably unsettling and abandoned, dimly lit pizzeria. The final batch of levels in "Staff Only" maintains a similar level of gloom and doom that never quite lets up until the finale.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwN0CqFo4rY Pizza Time Never Ends]]. His OneWingedAngel version has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4AbzU33Qw "Okay Campers, Rise and Shine!"]]
* LosingYourHead: One of his attacks is to take off his head and throw it at Peppino, exposing his brain in the process.
* MesACrowd: Fake Fake Peppinos will repeatedly spawn out of the floor during the boss fight and attack Peppino. They're very frail and only last a short while before crumbling apart, with a few dropping their heads just from running around. It is seen that Fake Peppino has to regularly dispose of their still-twitching body parts.
* MightyGlacier: Post-nerfing his RubberBandAI, during [[AdvancingBossOfDoom his chase scene]] once he runs out of HP, he turns into a gigantic monster that can deal two hit points of damage, the most out of any boss in the game (making him able to take down Peppino in three hits at most); unfortunately for him and fortunately for the player, this transformation causes him to be only slightly faster than Peppino's walking speed, meaning if you run fast enough, you can outrun him and reach the exit before he's even close to being there.
* MirrorBoss: In the "funhouse mirror" sense. As a knockoff of Peppino, all of his attacks are twisted and bizarre versions of Peppino's moveset. Fake Peppino can dash grab, jump high and dive down, run fast to climb up walls, and taunt to attack all over the screen. He even has the same max health as Peppino!
* MookPromotion: Fake Peppino was originally meant as a minor enemy who would chase Peppino during certain Pizza Time sequences. Another idea was for him to be the central enemy of a haunted mansion stage. Even though both of those concepts were scrapped, Fake Peppino still made it in as the penultimate boss.
* NightmareFace: While many of Fake Peppino's wild expressions count, special mention goes to his VersusCharacterSplash portrait in revisit fights, showing the clone's [[https://pizzatower.fandom.com/wiki/Fake_Peppino?file=Spr_vsfakepep.png distorted, hideous smile and popped-out eyes]].
* OddballDoppelganger: They don't get much odder than a HumanoidAbomination that can melt into the floor, remove its head to attack with, and morph itself into a giant monstrous head that can phase through walls.
* OneHitKill: In his demo appearances, if he grabbed the player and stabbed them with his tongue, they were killed instantly.
* OneWingedAngel: Fake Peppino transforms into a giant frog with a genuinely terrifying expression during the last phase and Peppino's only option against it is to flee.
* PreInsanityReveal: [[AmbiguousSituation Possibly]]. Escaping from him reveals that the building he resides in is called Bruno Pizza, implying that Bruno may have been his former identity before -- for whatever reason -- he donned the likeness of Peppino.
* RubberBandAI:
** The AdvancingBossOfDoom stage of his fight had extremely noticeable rubber-banding; no matter how fast Peppino went for how long, Fake Peppino would always reappear on the screen a second after slowing down a little, but would only be as fast as Peppino's crawl after that. This was {{nerf}}ed in a post-launch patch very quickly.
** In The Noise's scenario, Fake Peppino has even more aggressive rubberbanding than before... but The Noise [[ZeroEffortBoss angrily drives him away]] on contact by [[HorrifyingTheHorror making a huge creepy face]] of his own.
* SdrawkcabSpeech: Downplayed. Fake Peppino mimics all the screams and other noises Peppino makes in reverse, but doesn't speak at all, or at least isn't shown talking. Prominently at the start of the fight, Fake Peppino screams a reversed version of the introductory scream Peppino makes when he meets a boss.
-->'''Fake Peppino:''' '''WOWOWOWOWOWOWOEY!!!!!!!!!!!'''
* TheSpook: It is never clearly explained what Fake Peppino is, how he can self-replicate or cast an illusion over his arena, or even why he lurks in a pizza parlour once owned by someone named Bruno. The "War" stage contains Peppino clones that look exactly like the real deal but are much more frail and melt on death, which might suggest Fake Peppino is some kind of escaped SuperPrototype from the same cloning laboratory.
* SpotTheImpostor: Part of his fight is finding the ''real'' Fake Peppino among the waves of ''fake'' Fake Peppinos. Hint: The real one always wears the same color as Peppino while the fake ones have darker colors. This makes it the only time in the game where the difference between what costume Peppino is wearing changes the game's difficulty as darker clothes make it harder to discern the main Fake Peppino over the decoys. If Peppino is wearing the Dark Cook color during Fake Peppino's boss fight, this becomes impossible.
* StalkedByTheBell: Appeared during Pizza Time in non-boss levels in certain demos, chasing down the player and attempting to kill them before they can get to the exit.
* TheUnSmile: To contrast with Peppino's perpetually bipolar anxiety and anger, Fake Peppino nearly always has a dopey and kind of creepy smile on his face.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that Fake Peppino even ''exists'' is deliberately kept under lock and key to keep it a surprise.
* WasOnceAMan: Is implied to have been another pizza parlor owner named Bruno, who was turned into a doppelgänger by Pizzaface due to already looking similar to Peppino.
* WhamShot:
** Fake Peppino's boss intro is the first of three. The entire game has hidden his existence up to this point and even tries to trick the player into thinking that it will be a simple MirrorBoss fight when you enter the gate. So when you enter the arena, and you see this deformed, not-quite-human ''thing'' turn around and shriek at you, it comes as quite a shock.
** The halfway mark of the fight provides the second, where the facade of the Pizzeria you fight him in begins to slip. The mascot's face morphs into a grotesque grin, the text on the wall becomes a MadnessMantra of Peppino's name and a jumble of letters, and the garbage set in the background begins sprouting Peppino arms, legs, and faces, implying the whole place is a GeniusLoci.
** The third and final shot happens once you escape Fake Peppino's EscapeSequence, you find that the Pizzeria you've been fighting in has not only been condemned, but isn't even the "Peppino's 2" that was in the background. Rather, it's in fact ''Bruno's Pizza'' who, judging by the details, went missing and looked a little like Peppino.
* WordSaladHorror: As he transitions into his second phase, the Peppino cutout in the background's face contorts into the UncannyValley and its "Nothing compares!" speech bubble degenerates into a jumble of random letters, while the "Peppino Pizza 2" sign corrupts into the words "Peppino Peppino Peppino Peppino" over and over again.
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[[folder:The True Mastermind '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
!!Pizzahead
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After Peppino lays the smackdown on Pizzaface, he's surprised to see the face swing open, and even more surprised (enough to give his routine pre-boss scream) to see that the true mastermind, the one behind the dastardly plan to blow up his restaurant, is none other than...

Pizzahead. A cartoonish, all-powerful pizza slice with a humanoid, rubber hose-animation body who is incapable of taking anyone or anything seriously, but is more than capable in battle.
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** Played Straight if you play as The Noise. The final stage [[spoiler:can be skipped if Fake Peppino "catches" the Noise, as the Noise will scream and make a NightmareFace so terrifying that Fake Peppino will instantly be cowed and scamper away]].

* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Downplayed. His transformation and dash-and-bash-based gameplay are strongly inspired by VideoGame/{{Wario}}, but he replaces Wario's usual greed and arrogance with equal amounts of anxiety and stress. Unlike the impulse-based plots for Wario's games, Peppino's story is simply trying to stop the antagonist in Pizzaface from blowing up his pizzeria.

* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: To Noisette as pink-wearing {{Accidental Hero}}es who deliver the final blow on the third boss. The difference maker between these two is that Noisette has a positive relationship with the Noise (warts and all) and is alive and well while Peddito has a negative relationship with The Douse and is heavily implied to be dead.

* AIRoulette: Compared to Pepperman and the Vigilante, this guy doesn't have a consistent attack pattern and would just use the 4 moves he has at random. A bit downplayed given that he uses those 4 moves at least twice, just at random.

* YouAreAlreadyDead: If you let the clock run out during Pizza Time, you are completely screwed. It is possible to finish the level if you're skilled enough but his fast RubberBandAI essentially guarantees dying if you run out of time. It's still ultimately downplayed, as it is possible to outmaneuver him with fast and precise movement, though the margin for error is pretty much nonexistent, and even if you do gain ground on him, that might just cause him to cut you off by phasing through the level geometry. PlayedStraight in Wasteyard and Oh Shit!, which both have rooms where it is impossible to avoid getting caught so death is guaranteed if you aren't past them.

* YouAreAlreadyDead: If you let the clock run out during Pizza Time, you are completely screwed. It is possible to finish the level if you're skilled enough (and even then only in some of the earlier levels), but his fast RubberBandAI essentially guarantees dying if you run out of time. It's still ultimately downplayed, as it is possible to outmaneuver him with fast and precise movement, though the margin for error is pretty much nonexistent, and even if you do gain ground on him, that might just cause him to cut you off by phasing through the level geometry.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Before Peddito was added as an entity that kills The Doise, he showed up as a mask in Pizzascare in the background of one of the rooms.

* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:His true form is a much smaller pillar humanoid like Gerome with a straw hat, with his gigantic pillar form being the result of Pizzahead cursing him. He gets better if Peppino gets gets him the Tower Secret Treasures... but if ''the Noise'' gets him the treasures, he's instead transformed into a costumed bucktoothed weirdo like him.]]

* EvilSoundsDeep: His appearance in ''Bring Your Own Class'' has him speak in the voice of ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''. This is reflected in his ''Pizza Tower'' appearance with his voice clips being pitched down versions of The Noise's voice clips.

* VocalDissonance: His appearance in ''Bring Your Own Class'' has him speak in the voice of ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''.

* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:His true form is a much smaller pillar humanoid like Gerome with a straw hat, with his gigantic pillar form being the result of Pizzahead cursing him.]]

* SuperMode: [[spoiler:If you play as him when you fight Pizzaface, when you reach the BossRush, he takes an "artistic liberty" in adaptation and has one of these where his outfit turns white and he proceeds to throw more bombs than usual. For the final blow on Pizzahead, he summons a ginormous bomb which visibly terrifies the former mascot. You can also unlock this color palette in normal gameplay if you defeat the boss without wasting a single bomb, minus the [[PowerGlows glow]].]]

* JetPack: He has a jetpack that he uses when Super Jumping.

* {{Expy}}:
** Brick is one to Rick from the ''[[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Kirby]]'' series, being chubby rodent mounts with similar names and appearances, as well as their [[RollingAttack methods]] [[FastballSpecial of attack]].
** Gustavo himself is a pretty obvious one to [[Franchise/SuperMario Mario]]. Both being short, chubby Italian men with round noses and bushy mustaches, has a jumping animation similar to Mario's, and even his duo with Brick is very reminiscent of Mario and Yoshi.

** Gustavo is a pretty obvious one to [[Franchise/SuperMario Mario]]. Both being short, chubby Italian men with round noses and bushy mustaches, even Gustavo's duo with Brick is very reminiscent of Mario and Yoshi.

* {{Expy}}: Brick is one to Rick from the ''[[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Kirby]]'' series, being chubby rodent mounts with similar names and appearances, as well as their [[RollingAttack methods]] [[FastballSpecial of attack]].