General Pepper | STAR FOX

Pepper served in the Cornerian army with his old friends James and Peppy, acting as their commanding officer and before the later two moved on to become founders of the Star Fox team. General Pepper had also been good colleagues with the Cornerian Army's chief science officer Dr. Andross before his ambitions turned his morals into evil and his regard for public safety diminished, due to his scientific areas of expertise of bio-engineering and space warps having no interest to Cornerian peace. Becoming like oil and water, their differences began to start infighting between them and he ordered the research to be terminated, but Andross ignored Pepper's orders. The breaking point was when this secret experiment, which involved a secret weapon he created, caused a massive explosion that destroyed most of Corneria City. This disaster was so bad that it caused damage to not just Corneria, but the rest of the Lylat System as well. Infuriated, General Pepper successfully placed Andross under arrest and tried him for high treason before having the maniacal former chief scientist finally banished to his new homeworld, Venom.

Five years after the ordeal, General Pepper received disturbing reports from Corneria's observation station of recently discovered, strange bioweaponry activity coming from Venom. He hired the Star Fox team for the first time, then comprising of founder James McCloud, Peppy Hare, and Pigma Dengar. He sent the Star Fox team on a special recon mission to investigate the situation on Venom. But the mission was a failure when only Peppy returned home, which struck Pepper with guilt over sending James to his doom, leading to his decision to take his old friend's son's career into his own hands.

While not officially confirmed, Pepper is clearly a hound dog, with golden brown fur. He stands taller than the other Star Fox team members except for ROB 64. As general, he wears a distinctive red, gold, black military attire and officer's peaked cap in contrast to the green/white and blue/white uniforms of the Cornerian Army soldiers. His uniform is also decorated with multiple rank badges and medals of valour, including a pin of the Cornerian Army logo.

As seen in Assault as a military leader, Pepper has a strong sense of honour and justice, preferring to die in battle at his own free will rather than submit to Aparoidedation. Being able to willfully resist mind control is attributed to a previous speech about "those without strong wills" made by Peppy earlier.

With his great command record and warm personality, Pepper is well liked and respected by his men. Over the years, he has built a close, trusting relationship with Fox and company. Pepper's sense of duty also prompts him to take Fox's career into his hands considering the guilt he feels for sending his old friend James McCloud to his doom. The general's apparent gentle nature, cute and cuddly demeanour may have been the reason that Andross's Empire slipped by his watch and invaded Corneria, hence the peaceful nature of most Cornerians and Pepper choosing to banish Andross as execution would not make Pepper any better than the evil mad scientist.