Pico

**Pico** (also known as **Punk**) is a bandit in *Bandit RIP*. He is the first guest character added to the game and classified as a melee character.

## Description

### Background

Pico goes to the same school as a little mage fella called **Olif**. Unfortunately for Olif and to some extent Pico, Olif has an opinion about **Zetoman** drastically different from Pico's. Olif is a big fan of Zetoman and Pico regularly wears a mask and performs vigilante supervillainy in order to fight him using Uzis and just generally kicking the crap out of him (no information regarding the success of such ventures has been released). It so happened one school lunch time that when Olif was discussing his admiration for Zetoman's vigilante justice and feats of strength that Pico was round the corner speaking to his friends about how much he despised Zetoman as he sees Zetoman's actions as fake and arrogant. When they overheard each other they got into a heated debate and it is presumed that the bullies mentioned in some parts of Olif's in game background may in fact be Pico and his friends.

If we take the idea that Pico and his friends bully Olif then we can assume they have gone head to head with **Emy** at one point or another as she defends Olif from said bullies. Though no information has been released about Pico's opinions and affiliations with Emy so there can only be assumptions.

As for Pico's after school activities, he likes to dress up as a supervillain and call himself Punk. Unfortunately his budget does not seem to be as high as Zetoman or Freak or any of the other villains. So his "disguise" or costume is simply a devil mask of some kind that he puts on his face. His clothes remain entirely the same judging from the in game Punk skin. Luckily nobody has noticed.

   Pico's alignment with either good or evil is unknown. However thanks to the title screen we can see he appears to be generally on the side of good as he is placed with the rest of what is unofficially known as "Team Zetoman" (this is a role on the discord server) rather than "Team Nero" (this is another role on the same discord server). This means that whatever Freak is doing, Pico probably would rather Zetoman stop him than not.

### Trivia

* Pico's friends if they are ever introduced would likely consist of two characters usually associated with Pico, Darnell and Nene. (One could argue that since this game is more kid friendly than Pico's school the other characters could make some appearance as they would not be responsible for the acts of violence against Pico's other classmates. (this would include Cassandra, Cyclops ect *members of the goth team in that game*)
* Pico was at one point the most hated character in ***Bandit RIP***. - Stardust Mr. Blue. (potentially reliable source)
* Just check the Pico's School wiki if you are really that interested this is pretty much all Mr Trivia can say without directly quoting it.

## Origins

Pico is a character from Newgrounds, and is the first guest character to appear in Bandit RIP. He was popular for appearing in the famous Flash game "Pico's School" by Tom Fulp (the creator of Newgrounds). The game has disturbing and edgy themes so be warned before you search it up if you do not like such things. Pico is also notable for being a sort of mascot for Newgrounds and appearing in various other Newgrounds games since then as a cameo or even playable character. Notable appearances are in the Newgrounds Rumble series, Rushdown Rivals and Friday Night Funkin'.

## Relationships

### Zetoman

Zetoman is a superhero that Pico seems to have a strong dislike for. Pico even goes so far as to dress up as a supervillain, called Punk, in order to fight Zetoman under the cover of darkness.

### Olif

Olif and Pico first met during lunchtime at school. Olif was bragging to his friends about his encounter with Zetoman, expressing admiration for the superhero. Pico, however, vehemently disagreed and argued that Zetoman was not real and was instead fake and conceited. It seems that their differing opinions about Zetoman may have led to conflict between them.