Pizzano

* Sprite
* Illustration

> *"It's-a me! Pizzano the Paisano!"*
> **— Pizzano**
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## Description

The Pizzano is essentially Peppino Spaghetti with The Noise's personality and fashion sense with a dose of Wario mixed in. He is a portly Italian man with a small mustache. He wears a white superhero mask/blindfold as well as a blue chef's hat with red pepperoni-esque details on top. He also wears a blue jumpsuit with white gloves and boots. Since his moves also resemble those of a superhero, his design could be a reference to Wario-Man.

Keeping true to the personality of The Noise, Pizzano seems to be an immature, eccentric, and occasionally rather violent TV network host with all sorts of gadgets and tricks up his sleeves. Unlike The Noise, however, Pizzano seems less malicious and more genuinely strange and unwell (as seen in Pizzelle's first blog post).

## Scrapped gameplay styles

Construct Pizzano: This moveset felt like a clunky version of pogo noise being able to bounce around on a pogo ball and activate flight. he could destroy metal blocks in flight but not normal blocks and vise versa for his pogo state. This was scrapped during the revival of ss due to the game moving engines so no code could be carried over.

Handstand Pizzano: Seen in the steamyproto build Handstand pizzano appears to be an unfinished version of a pizzano moveset. He had a broken grab that didn't work but went in an arch instead of the straight line like pizzelles. If he held shift and jumped he would proceed to do handstands and was able to bounce around at high speeds and bounce off enemies. If he built up enough speed from handstanding he could destroy metal blocks. This moveset was scrapped for unknown reasons.

Wario Pizzano: At one point in development Pizzano played similarly to Wario. He had a dash that had a speed build up similar to that of Wario in WL4 along with a super jump and a slide. This was scrapped for feeling like an iteration/downgrade of Pizzelle's moveset.

Pogo Pizzano: Pizzano would bounce around on a pogo ball, and once he was moving fast enough on the pogo ball he could transition into flight. This was scrapped as well possibly due to him not working with the level design.

Fusion Pizzano: This iteration of Pizzano worked like a mix between Peppino and Pogo Noise. He had a somewhat clunky double jump and was able to run up to Mach 2 to build up a charge. If Pizzano built up a charge, he could either press Grab to go into flight while running or stop and then press Shift while standing still or walking.

When in the flight state, Pizzano could accelerate and decelerate his speed but was unable to drift. He could move up and down in the air and also jump out of his flight state as long as he was touching the ground, and he was also able to destroy metal blocks if he flew into them. Pizzano could not wall run in this iteration and instead could wall jump, sticking to a wall for a second before slowly sliding down until he either touched the ground or jumped off the wall.

Pizzano had a spin jump when running at Mach 2 or performing a walljump (a possible reference to King Knight) and had a shoulderbash (an obvious reference to Wario). He could also roll at Mach 2 and 3, and when rolling, he could destroy metal blocks even if he initiated the roll at Mach 2, and oddly enough, he was able to perform a spinjump out of his roll. This moveset was scrapped due to it being very messy and disorganized, feeling like a mix of ideas, and all around not being that fun.

## Trivia

* He was originally called Cream Puff. Former nicknames include "the Chef", "Big blue marble", "Cream Pie", and ”Fatty".
	+ He used to have his own campaign, where you would have played as him setting up traps for Pizzelle, but the whole different campaign idea for the game has since been scrapped.
* His name is a pun on paisano.
	+ Pizzelle was originally planned to have the name Pizzano, but it was scrapped and reused for THE Pizzano.
* Pizzano's online username is vigvigorousPizza.
	+ Pizzano has been stated by Soda (the main dev) to be an enigma.
* There was a Pizzano boss theme called "Pizza Friday" shown off in a stream but it's most likely lost to time until the game releases or it gets dropped in a teaser.
* Pizzano actually makes a cameo in the demo in Sugarshack Mines, where if you watch the debris of the Applejim Train when it's destroyed you can see Pizzano falling with the debris.

* Pizzano was one of the characters in the poll for the secondary playable character and won by an actual landslide.
	+ The fact Pizzano was winning and *won* the poll caused Marioket (one of the main devs for Sugary Spire) to absolutely lose his shit over the fact people wanted Pizzano to be playable over Coneboy.
* It has also been speculated that the reason Pizzano won by a massive amount was due to the many members on the server who were never active whatsoever, and with the amount of votes Pizzano got being near impossible with the amount of normally active users on the server, it is believed many inactive users decided to participate in this vote and mostly voted for Pizzano.
	+ Pizzano's face is on the moon in the Entryway (AKA Crunchy Construction) level in one of the backgrounds in the beginning of the stage.

## Gallery (WIP)

### Stand/Walk

Pizzanos idle animation which is found in the files of the demo.Pizzano's walking animation.
### Other/Misc.

Joke sprite of pizzano posted by the devs.Drawing of Pizzano by PizzelleOld Pizzano Sprite (Seen in the Official Twitter)the hyper realistic jumpscare of Pizzano from the maze game from the 4th blog on The Website.Pizzano in Sugarshack Mines.