Pepperman/Pre-release

## Appearances

Pepperman first appeared in Halloween Demo 2018 (Demo 1), in which he was the final boss.

He also appears to work in the Mansion if modded into the SAGE 2019 Demo where instead of battling the player directly, he chases them down in a chase segment. On the way, there are many Pepper Blocks that only he could break by charging into them. Once reaching the end of the chase segment, he slips on a banana peel that is placed at the end of the corridor, causing him to drop the key.

### Demo 1 Boss Fight

Pepperman will be waiting for Peppino atop of the tower's third floor. Once there, Pepperman will be preparing for the fight stomping the ground with his feet, until he starts attacking Peppino.

Pepperman's only attack is to charge towards Peppino. The player can stun him by charging into Pepperman or avoiding his attack by jumping over him, and then waiting until he stops after which he is vulnerable to be attacked. He can also be shortly stunned from stomping on him.

He changes color after getting hit a certain amount of times. If he gets hit four times, his color lightens, after another three hits, he turns yellow, yellow-white after an additional two hits, and one more hit after will defeat him.

## Playable Pepperman

Pepperman was made a playable character along with The Noise and The Vigilante before becoming a boss for the second time, but the playable part was scrapped due to the McPig thinking it was weird to have half the playable cast be "restricted" characters: Pepperman being way too big and Vigilante's health system. Pepperman's playable debut was originally going to be within Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator.

Pepperman would have only two main moves: Shoulder Bash and Ground Pound. As well as other characters, he could also Taunt.

## Trivia

* Pepperman's boss fight in the current game originally was supposed to reuse animations from Demo 1, but to make consistency between the new sprites, this was scrapped.
* In older versions of Mansion, Pepperman had a boss fight placed in the middle of the level. This was removed once Mansion had a complete do-over layout-wise.
* Pepperman's battle arena also originally had a different design.
* In the first demo, Pepperman's stage would appear on the top of the Pizza Tower along with a picture of a Pizza in the background.
* Originally, Pepperman would be much larger than Peppino Spaghetti, three-times his size.
* Because Playable Pepperman was cut during development very quickly, his idle sprites are all just 1 frame long.

## Gallery

### Original Pepperman boss fight

#### Full-health

Pepperman (Idle).gifPepperman's idle animation.Bum ba dum da da da dum.gifPepperman's charge animation.Spr pepperman hurt.gifPepperman's hurt animation.Spr pepperman stun.pngPepperman's stun sprite.
#### Mid-Health

Spr peppermanmid.gifMid-Health Pepperman's idle animation.Spr peppermanmid charge.gifMid-Health Pepperman's charge animation.Spr peppermanmid hurt.gifMid-Health Pepperman's hurt animation.Spr peppermanmid stun.pngMid-Health Pepperman's stun sprite.
#### Low-Health

Spr peppermanlow.gifLow-Health Pepperman's idle animation.Spr peppermanlow charge.gifLow-Health Pepperman's charge animation.Spr peppermanlow hurt.gifLow-Health Pepperman's hurt animation.Spr peppermanlow stun.pngLow-Health Pepperman's stun sprite.
#### Miscellaneous

Bg peppermanarena.pngPepperman's old arena sprite.Earlierpepper.pngPepperman as seen in earlier concepts of Pizza Tower.
### Playable Pepperman animations

Pepperfall.gifPepperman's falling animation.Peppermanexitgate.pngPepperman entering a levelPeppermanentergate.gifPepperman animation when entering a level.Peppermantaunt1.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he points at something while being surprised.Peppermantaunt2.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he shows his fists.Peppermantaunt3.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, showing him laughing.Peppermantaunt4.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he shows two thumbs up to the player while winking.Peppermantaunt6.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he looks at the player with a weird face.Peppermantaunt5.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he breaks the fourth wall and looks at the screen with an unsettling smile.Peppermantaunt7.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he does the movement idle from Demo 1.Peppermantaunt8.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he looks back scaredPeppermantaunt9.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he puts on a pair of glasses.Peppermantaunt10.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he eats a box of thin mints.Peppermantaunt11.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he flexes his arm, revealing in the process that he wears sleeves.Peppermantaunt12.pngOne of Pepperman's Taunts, where he rubs his hands together like a villain.