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• Creepy Awesome: Fake Peppino's personality has been praised for being an original combination of a dorky goofball and a relentless monster, two common Alternative Character Interpretations of his original version from Pizza Tower.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Juno Songs, who became friends with him after seeing some of his videos. The two of them collaborate often.
• Magnificent Bastard: "Baking The Wondertart": Tired of being mistreated and overworked by the island's denizens, Chef Saltbaker forms a plan to obtain the legendary Wondertart and use its power to take over the Inkwell Isles. Saltbaker has Mugman and Ms. Chalice get the ingredients to bake it under the false pretense that he'll let them use it to bring the latter to life. Stealing Cuphead's soul while they were gone, he reveals that he intends to use it as the final ingredient to bake the Wondertart for himself before fighting the duo. Seemingly killing Mugman after a lengthy battle, Saltbaker sings him a brief eulogy before getting taken out by a surprise charged-shot. Accepting defeat, Saltbaker sincerely offers to give Mugman and Ms. Chalice the Wondertart after he's done baking it before they demand Cuphead's soul back.
• Nightmare Fuel: "Pizza Time Never Ends" plays Fake Peppino for all the horror the character is worth: The lyrics are mainly about Fake Peppino baking the increasingly freaked-out Peppino into a pizza or straight-up assimilating Peppino and taking his place (thinking this will make him a real chef and allow him to leave the tower), with Fake Peppino's lyrics starting off as a Dark Reprise of the "It's Pizza Time" cover before becoming more and more unhinged as the song goes on until they are reduced to mostly repeating "PIZZA TIME NEVER ENDS!" by the time of the ending chase sequence.
  Fake Peppino: I thought my pizza squeezing days were under... until noooow~
  Peppino: (nervously) Y-You want me to teach you to cook-a the pizza?
  Fake Peppino: Don't be so serious, Mr. Delirious! I W A N T Y O U O N I T.

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