Peppino Spaghetti

Peppino Spaghetti is the main protagonist of the 2023 indie platformer Pizza Tower. He is the owner of a failing pizzeria who is challenged by the game's main antagonist Pizzaface to climb and destroy the eponymous tower in order to save his restaurant from destruction at the hands of the former. Compared to his fake counterpart, his status as a sillyman is little less notable but still has a passionate following.
==Basic Information==
Peppino is an anxious and ill-tempered Italian owner of his failing pizza restaurant, Peppino's Pizza (or Peppino Pizza, as it's called in the game). He is on a quest to stop Pizzaface from blowing up his restaurant with a giant laser, and he won't hesitate to beat the sauce out of anyone or anything in his way.
He is a neurotic and overweight Italian chef who sports a black t-shirt, black pants, a white tank top, and a chef's hat. He also has black hair and a small mustache under his long nose. He always shows signs of both anger and anxiety, and frequently shifts between those two emotions.
One day, Peppino is visited by a giant floating pizza that goes by Pizzaface. Pizzaface informs him of the tower that has been built close to Peppino's restaurant. Unless Peppino can reach the top of the tower and defeat Pizzaface, his beloved pizzeria will be vaporized by a nuclear laser. Peppino does not hesitate to run into the tower and fight foes determined to hinder his quest. Gustavo, an adventurer, assists Peppino in his quest. After a long journey, he finally confronts Pizzaface, who is revealed to be a mech piloted by Pizzahead. After Peppino defeats him, he escapes the crumbling tower with his newfound allies. His journey through the Pizza Tower ends up getting him enough money and ingredients to keep his business afloat.
More information about Peppino can be found on the Pizza Tower wiki.
==Archetypes==
===4th Wall Blurring===
One of Peppino's many idle animations has him giving the player an annoyed glare. The game also chastises the player for getting Peppino hurt, and a Pizza Granny (an NPC) threatens to send the player to hell if you hurt him too much. (You don't, hurt him as much as you want!) As well, at the end of the game, Peppino judges the player based on their completion percentage of the game.
===Distinctive Voice===
YOOOOOOOOWWWWWW-
===:Category:Big Ol' Eyes===
Has large eyes that grow even larger when he's frightened, similar to the artstyle of cartoons like Ren & Stimpy.
===Retro===
Peppino, as well the gameplay itself and its sheer chaos and cartoony mayhem, takes heavy inspiration from entertainment during the 1990s, namely the fourth generation of video game consoles, and the Wario Land, Jazz Jackrabbit, and Earthworm Jim series, with elements from Sonic the Hedgehog and Metroid. Graphically, Pizza Tower takes from cartoons from the 90s and early 2000s, such as Ren and Stimpy and Courage the Cowardly Dog, with Peppino himself being the most noticeable example of this.
===Theme Song===
GUYS WAKE UP IT'S PIZZA TIME!
===Neurodivergent Coded===
Peppino was stated to be a veteran during the game's production and suffers from PTSD so severe he stresses out when playing Team Fortress 2. This is even implied in-game via the "WAR" stage and Peppino's prowess with a shotgun, but then McPig retracted his statements on the matter post-release, claiming Peppino at most deluded himself into thinking he's one. Peppino Spaghetti is very expressive with his emotions. That said, the two emotions he displays most often are extreme anxiety and when he's running at top speed, full-on rage as he barrels through enemies.
=== Perpetual Frowner ===
A lot of his idle animations/sprites are him either being scared or annoyed at the player.
===Unkempt===
He has some exaggerated ugly features such as crooked teeth, a long nose, and a balding head. He overall has a pretty grubby look to him. In all honesty, he looks like Bob from Bob's Burgers if he were in the world of Courage the Cowardly Dog, but again, he was based off of 90's cartoons like Ren and Stimpy.
==Fanon Tropes==
===LGBTQ+ Coded===
His aforementioned relationship with the Noise, in addition to the fact that he's headcannoned as being trans by some fans as he's depicted as being friends with fellow indie protagonist Madeline (from Celeste, which has a similar kind of platforming gameplay and difficulty) who is canonically a trans woman. 
==Fanon==
Peppino has become somewhat of a "Tumblr sillyman" in a similar vein to Spamton. In various fanarts, he's either depicted as a very broad-built middle-aged dad or just his typical wacky self. There is no in-between.
==External Links==
*Peppino Spaghetti on the Sexypedia Wiki.
Category:Characters
Category:Sillyman
Category:Euclid
Category:2023
Category:Angst
Category:Distinctive Voice
Category:Big Ol' Eyes
Category:Neurodivergent Coded
Category:Quotable Catchphrase(s)
Category:Retro
Category:Theme Song
Category:Unkempt
Category:Chaoslord
Category:LGBTQ+ Coded
Category:Smol
Category:Pizza Tower
Category:Perpetual Frowner
Category:Sexypedia Overlap
Category:Butt-Monkey
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