Pepperman || The Artist of the Pizza Tower

🫑 Full Name: ("Phil Pepperman.")

🫑 First Appearance: ("Pizza Tower [Demo 1].")

🫑 English Voice: ("Comic Book Guy.")

🫑 Age: ("Unknown.")

🫑 Birthplace: ("Probably in a garden.")

🫑 Nicknames: ("Pepperguy" + "Pepper" + "Phil" + "Artist" + "Painter" + "Egotistical Pepper")

🫑 Species: ("Bell pepper.")

🫑 Gender: ("Male.")

🫑 Height and Weight: ("Pretty tall.") + ("Somewhat heavy.")

🫑 Affiliations: ("Pizzaface.")

🫑 Likes: ("Art.")

🫑 Dislikes: ("Pizzaface.")

🫑 Type of Hero: ("Anti-Hero.")

🫑 Appearance: ("Pepperman is a giant, anthropomorphic red bell pepper with limbs, and wears white gloves and sneakers. Pepperman has big, blue eyes and is frequently seen sporting a great, confident grin, showing his teeth. His green stem sometimes turns into a beret when he is focused on his artwork or admiring others' work.")

🫑 Concept and Creation: ("Pepperman seems to take more inspiration from Wario's first ever appearance as a boss in Super Mario Land 2, explicitly by its heavy usage of ground-pounds, taking place inside a castle filled with statues, and his transformation into a smaller version of himself upon defeat.")

🫑 Personality: ("Egotistical, critical, and sometimes angry.")

🫑 Weapons: ("Paintbrush" + "Statue" + "Lance".)

🫑 Weakness: ("Having his art being called bad.")

🫑 Relatives: ("Grandpa Pepper.")

🫑 Friends: ("Vigilante")

🫑 Neutrals: ("Peppino" + "Fake Peppino" + "The Noise" + "Gustavo" + "Brick")

🫑 Enemies: ("Pizzaface")

🫑 Trivia: (Pepperman's main attack seems to be inspired by Wario's Shoulder Bash, his signature move throughout the Wario Land series, which was the main inspiration for Pizza Tower's gameplay. However, the boss itself seems to take more inspiration from his first ever apparence as a boss in Super Mario Land 2, explicitly by its heavy usage of ground-pounds, taking place inside a castle filled with statues, and his transformation into a smaller version of himself upon defeat.

Pepperman was likely a nod to Spoiled Rotten, the first boss from Wario Land 4. Both are the first bosses of their respective games, are anthropomorphic fruits (a pepper and an eggplant, respectively), have obstacles that appear during their boss fights and charge at the player character (Pepperman's knight statues and the Eggplant Warriors, respectively), and have angrier second phases.

In comic #4.5 of The Bad, The Ugly, and The Even Uglier, Pepperman is shown with green pupils, despite the fact that his eyes have always appeared blue. It has been suggested that his eyes turn green when he's scared, but that isn't the case in his in-game animations despite looking terrified when stunned, so it's most likely that this was just a continuity error.

McPig stated that Pepperman would sound similar to Comic Book Guy, from The Simpsons.

McPig has shared a concrete idea for a Pepperman spinoff game, titled American Pepperman. The gameplay would've centered around Pepperman travelling through the different states of America to spread his artistic influence, with enemies based off American iconography trying to stop him. McPig's referred to the gameplay style as a mix of Viewtiful Joe and Warioware, taking place in single screen challenges that move on to the next one when the player beats it under a strict time limit, with the intensity and difficulty of each screen continually ramping up.

Despite being the first boss of the game, he has the most hit points of any boss.

When playing as The Noise, the player can hit Pepperman in Western District. He respawns when re-entering the room.

One of Pepperman's drawing attacks is referenced in the upcoming indie game GIMMIKO.)