Peppermint: The Movie

The final official poster of the film.

"*Heroes aren't born. They're made.*"

~*Peppermint: The Movie*'s tagline.

***Peppermint: The Movie*** is a animated fantasy superhero feature film distributed by both Imaginate Entertainment and Komic Features and animated by Round 1 Animations.

The movie is a sequel and a prequel (commonly known as a pre-sequel) to the 2019 adventure game *Peppermint*, developed by TT Games and published by Imaginate. The movie tells the pre-tales of how Peppermint became a hero and goes on a long journey to find the person who killed her mother.

The movie was released in May 14th, 2021 in the United Kingdom and the United States, succeeding after the previous movie, *Heroes The Movie: Rise of Rachael*. This film marks the first ever animated film by Imaginate, as well as Round 1 Animations and Komic Features. Planned movies after *Peppermint: The Movie* are *Superheroes*, *Heroes Unmasked: The Movie* and a untitled monster film.

Upon release, it received mixed to positive reviews from fans, including the *Gacha Life* fanbase. They praised *Peppermint: The Movie* of Peppermint's evolution from a ordinary human to a superhuman, the writing, the music, the battle scenes, Amelia's character development, the 'TRIGGERED' meme and Dr. Mystery's creepiness but criticizes about the voice acting (while decent), the new character Wolf and the little use of Oasis during combat. The film got several Bs and As, making it the best (*Gacha Life*) web movie ever on YouTube next to *A Bee's Adventure* by Bearpuff4. The film attended to The Best Web Movie Ever Awards and won first place (despite not being that recognizable within the *Gacha Life* community) next to another web film, a live action one: *Korona*. The second place winner was *The SMG4 Movie* by SMG4 and the third place winner was *A Bee's Adventure* by Bearpuff4.

## Plot

Getting sleepy, Peppermint prepares to take a nap and hugs her mother before doing so. Once asleep, Peppermint dreamt of flying high in the sky during the night until something sudden happens; She went to investigate until she sees her mother's corpse lying in the bed with blood appearing in her head, shocked. Hearing his dad screaming, Peppermint rushes, only to stumble upon the murderer who killed her mother and is attempting to kill her father. Peppermint helds onto him to make him stop but the murderer escaped.

Peppermint's father graved up her mother's body and went to go somewhere. A sadden Peppermint thinks of memories about her and her mother. A shiny, magical blue orb crashes into the Barrie's backyard, in which Peppermint went to investigate. She touches it, which grants her superhuman powers of Aura. Nothing special, Peppermint walks away until she begins to float in the air. She begins to worry which lead to her losing her flight. Suddenly, a mysterious figure, resembling the murderer who killed her mother, pops up in her head within a millisecond. Able to gain control of her flight, Peppermint flies away from London in searching of her prey.

Upon daylight, Peppermint cannot seem to find the mysterious murderer so she stop by at the Ramen Hotel to get something to eat, to which in surprise has met Amelia. Peppermint and Amelia talks over the latter's jealousy of the former being the winner at their school's show and tell. A person in orange with two swords, named Oasis, came into the table both Peppermint and Amelia were in and eats ramen until the Red Chomper arrives. Amelia hid everyone in the backroom except for a brave Peppermint. The silver-haired hero fights with the Red Chomper by using her fists and feet and shoots projectiles. The Red Chomper then repels her attack and slams her into the floor until Amelia and Oasis came for the rescue, saves Peppermint and defeated the Red Chomper. Oasis introduce Peppermint her hero costume, which was Amelia's favorite, and wears it to begin her first entry as a hero and continue to search the murderer.

The trio jumps onto a train and wanted to go to Scotland. At night, Oasis sits down next to Peppermint and has a talk over her personal problem about the murderer who "hunted" her mother. Oasis calms and talks to her gently that she wouldn't have to hunt him but rather arrest him...or any other motive. Afterwards, the two kisses each other after getting to know each other with Oasis getting rest. Shortly after, Wolf, a 'bishop' of the mysterious murderer, came to kill Peppermint with his flame powers, to which is Peppermint's sole weakness. Before Wolf permanently kill the silver-haired hero, Oasis throws water at Peppermint's face, which makes Peppermint get stronger and unlock her first and powerful super form known as Aura, named after her powers. With blue to aqua hair, Peppermint defeats Wolf with her Auraja at Wolf, defeating him.

In the next daylight, The main trio drops by at Scotland and continues to search for the murderer until they went inside a abandon building and found a computer displaying a picture of Peppermint and her brother Brian. Peppermint does not seem to understand why the murderer has the picture until she notices that the glasses on Brian's face were the ones that the murderer used. In conclusion, the murderer is Brian, which drove Peppermint weak and, strangely, vengeful. She then finds Brian, who renames himself as Dr. Mystery, at the building's lobby and attempts to kill him. Dr. Mystery tells Peppermint that he feels desperate of his former magic powers to where everyone finds it boring, lame and rather uninteresting. After the many times he tries to impress his peers, he found the Power Cube and wishes that he can have new magic powers that is more better and incredible. His wish can be granted only if he kills someone he truly loves. With no other choice, he kills his mother and his newfound powers were granted, which makes him illusional and rather evil. Peppermint continues to fight him as she slowly weakens from the fire and shoots a projectile at Mystery but he shoots it back at her, temporarily killing her and setting the fire to burn down the building.

Amelia and Oasis rushes to the back of the building and finds Peppermint's corpse laying down. Oasis tries to spill water on her body but it did not work. The 2 sets up Peppermint's 'funeral' since she's no longer functioning, but as the rain appears, it brings Peppermint back to life, now completed with new abilities and a new upgrade for her outfit. Being alive, Peppermint grants Oasis and Amelia her flight power and flew off to London to where Dr. Mystery begins to act. At London, Dr. Mystery begins to make a big fiery energy ball that widely resembles the sun and plans on dropping it on London to destroy the city. While doing this, he sees Peppermint in the distance. Peppermint tells Mystery that she know how he feels of wanting to get better but killing off their mother was a bad thing to do in order to get the Power Cube's powers. He tricks Peppermint with a mechanized version of her named Rose Gold Peppermint and the two Peppermints fight. When hit into the ground, Rose Gold Peppermint flies to her real version in attempt to kill her but Peppermint shoots out Aura Lasers out of her eyes and hits her robotic clone. When Oasis and Amelia aids her, the former protects them and uses his swords to block Rose Gold Peppermint's attack, only to repel his defense. Peppermint rushes to Oasis while Amelia finally destroys Rose Gold Peppermint for her friend.

Upon seeing Oasis unconscious, Peppermint cries and lays on him. Dr. Mystery then tells that Oasis is Peppermint's boyfriend, which strikes Peppermint for the last time and flies into the coast's ocean, increasing her abilities, strength, speed and defense. She rises out of the water, enter the fiery energy ball and uses its blazing energy, combined with her Aura form, to transform into Blaze Peppermint, complete with yellow and orange blazing hair. Blaze Peppermint clashes out with her brother and takes the upper hand against his abilities and minions. Surprisingly, she was caught by a shadow minion by Mystery to send her into oblivion. This, however, does not work as Blaze Peppermint now transforms into Perfect Aura Peppermint. She grabs Mystery, removes his mask and throws him into the sky to make a portal by banishing him into a dangerous dimension. Mystery tries to fly away until Perfect Aura Peppermint shoots a Auraja at him, making him finally enter his own dimension as his own punishment.

Peppermint reverts back to her base form and lands on the ground, only to meet celebration from her teammates. They soon went to another world which looks heavenly and the 3 meets Peppermint's mother Jean, who appears for a limited time. Peppermint questions as to why she was granted with her current superpower Aura. She respond by saying that it is a fortune to use it against his brother and many forces of evil when the time has come. Peppermint hugs her mother one last time until they bid farewell to each other.

4 years later in April 2019, Katherine (the girl from the first game) is beginning to have a stage fright as soon as she's placed in the school stage. Toby consoles her by trying to be brave, much like Queen Elizabeth when she claims the crown. Katherine then tells Toby that somebody is approaching in their way, which is Peppermint, still in her teenage form and greets the two. She also knows that both Toby and Katherine are having a hard time with their lives and wants to bring them to a place filled with fun and imaginations. Toby is down for it with Katherine accepting her request. The 3 begins to fly up in the sky, through the clouds far away and enters a dimension filled with fun and play, ending the movie.

## Description

*"Based on the 2019 videogame and homemade comic book, Peppermint was granted with the power of Aura to set out on a odyssey to find the mysterious person who murdered her mother. While on a important quest, she has made new teammates along the way.*

## Production

Production began in Late 2019. Months before interest of making a *Peppermint* movie and after wrapping up production of the *Peppermint* video game, Imaginate are having no plans on doing anything else with the new series. In December 2019, they've started to gain interest of wanting the *Peppermint* series to have more representation, so they have ideas on making a full on sequel or a prequel. 2 weeks past and they decided to make the movie a pre-sequel, telling the epic but very serious tale of Peppermint's past of how she became a hero and fought against Dr. Mystery.

*Peppermint: The Movie* will be more of a "fresh and (hopefully) well-written" film where it is targeted for all ages such as kids, teenagers and adults, much like the first installment of how it was rated E10+ for everyone 10 and up.

## Soundtrack

The music will be composed by various music composers. Harry Smith will mostly compose the music for the film. The soundtrack will feature orchestrated music tracks while some feature pop culture songs from popular musicians and one from a game.

## Gallery

The official logo of the film.The PAL version of the logo in PAL regions.The first, teaser poster of the film.The second poster of the film, with the tagline "Heroes aren't born. They're made."The third and final official poster of the film to promote its day-one release.
## Full Movie

***Peppermint: The Movie*** **by Imaginate Entertainment, with the associations of Round 1 Animations and Komic Features. All rights reserved. ©Imaginate, ©Round 1 Animations, ©Komic Features**

## Trivia

* *Peppermint: The Movie* is the 3rd ever Imaginate feature film, succeeding *Heroes The Movie: Rise of Rachael*.
* This is the first Imaginate film to be a prequel, despite also being a sequel to the game.
	+ This is also the first Imaginate film to be animated.
* The movie takes place in August 2015.
* *Peppermint: The Movie* was inspired by movies and game *Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie*, *NiGHTS Into Dreams* and *Pan (2015)*.
* The film will be more fantasy-based and less superhero-based because the character Peppermint is more energetic, adventurous, vigilant and a juvenile, similar to Jason from *Heroes*, Hannah from *Adventures* and Peter Pan from the J.M. Barrie novel (play)/Disney movie of the same name.
* Production began right after *Heroes Unmasked: The Animation* took its first break.
* The term "pre-sequel" was taken from the action role-playing shooter *Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!*.
* It took Round 1 Animations **5-6 months** to make the film. Starting from December 17th, 2020 to May, 5th, 2021.
* The reason why Peppermint still looks like a teen in April 2019 was because that her fortune wants her to stay as a young teen forever.
* It is unknown if a sequel is being planned as a continuation of the *Peppermint* storyline, possibly after the events of *Peppermint: Journey of Fantasies*.