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Dead Man Walking AU

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This page contains unmarked spoilers for Pizza Tower.

Dead Man Walking AU is a Pizza Tower series of Fan Fics, Fan Arts and Fan Comics.

This AU comic is where Fake Peppino devours the real Peppino and takes his form.

The story can be viewed here, and the introductory comic can be viewed here.


Dead Man Walking AU provides examples of:

  • All Just a Dream:
    • The "DEAD MAN WALKING PART IV" comic starts with Pizzahead waking Fake Peppino up and showing him the key to his success: Peppino, which is what Fake Peppino's missing, according to Pizzahead. Then the scene fades to Fake Peppino eating the real Peppino, and then it's revealed that Fake Peppino/Peppi-no has already eaten his television, with blood dropping from it. Fake Peppino/Peppi-no tries to run away from the television, but then he gets caught by red blood lines. Then the scene cuts to Fake Peppino/Peppi-no (with red blood lines still on his arm) in a black void with a mirror. The reflection tells Fake Peppino/Peppi-no to tell the truth, but Fake Peppino/Peppi-no refuses, knowing that everything will fall apart if everyone got breaked by finding out the truth about him and they'll break him, but the reflection breaks out of the mirror and as it is about to get him, the clock rings and Fake Peppino/Peppi-no wakes up from his dream.
    • The QnA blog story "BOUND BY GUILT", turned out to be one of Fake Peppino/Peppi-no's nightmares. The story was based on someone showing the author of the blog the Pizza Tower Creepypasta video "The Rotten Slice".
  • Big "NO!": In the introductory comic, this is the real Peppino's last scream before he's devoured by Fake Peppino.
  • Dream Episode: In "Nightmare", Fake Peppino/Peppi-no has a dream of meeting a silhouette of Gustavo, Brick and the real Peppino, who says that he's the fake one. Fake Peppino tries to prove himself as the real Peppino, but then he sees that both of his hands (and them himself) are slowly melting.
  • Mental World: As revealed in this comic, Peppino's soul is seen floating in a black void with floating televisions and a yellow talking eye after getting eaten by Fake Peppino. According to the creator of the AU, "The dead man of this AU hangs out between the realm of dead and living in some sort of a mindscape. It's an interisting place." Peppino's soul also rants about Fake Peppino/Peppi-no's actions while watching them on television, as shown in the another comic.
  • My God, What Have I Done?:
    • After taking the real Peppino's form, Fake Peppino/Peppi-no goes through this.
    Fake Peppino/Peppi-no: I'm de- No- he's dead, I killed Peppino, I'm Peppino????? I killed me??! No, he's not me! I killed him and now his restaurant is going to get blown up! How do I know this?? I... he got so far, he got so close to saving his restaurant only to be killed by some vile monster?? No.. NO! It can't end like this! This is not what I wanted, I just wanted to real. His friend, Gustavo is going to be devastated. Who even is that?? I don't know him.
    • In the introductory comic:
    Fake Peppino/Peppi-no: Oh who am I fooling??? I'm nothing more than a dead man walking. It's only a matter of time before everyone finds out... Oh why did I- Why, just... GAH! Who the hell does that????! I am sorry. I didn't realize what I was doing back then...
    • In "DEAD MAN WALKING PART II", Fake Peppino/Peppi-no also goes through this after having a breakdown in front of Gustavo.
  • Past Experience Nightmare: In the introductory comic, Fake Peppino has a nightmare where he relives the real Peppino's death in the latter's POV. After waking up, Fake Peppino says that it was one of his memories.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: According to this QNA blog, Fake Peppino/Peppi-no is weak to lemons. This is how Pizzahead stopped Fake Peppino/Peppi-no from attacking him, as shown in the comic "DEAD MAN WALKING PART III".
  • Wouldn't Hurt a Child: When asked in an QnA post about whether Fake Peppino/Peppi-no could beat up Gian, Fake Peppino/Peppi-no says he could but he's not going to beat up a child for no other reason than someone telling him to. Gian dares Fake Peppino/Peppi-no to fight him, only for Fake Peppino/Peppi-no to scare him off.

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