Fake Peppino

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## Boss Room

To access the boss room, the player needs to pay mr Crabs $200 (20 Toppins).

The room is a gritty, trash-filled, and dilapidated pizza place, seemingly called "Peppino's Pizza 2" based on the inverted window, which has a Peppino-like face making an Italian expression on it. The other thing to note is the giant wall mural of an amusing caricature of Peppino in a proper chef's suit holding a pizza and saying, "Nothing Compares!". As Peppino enters the boss fight, Fake Peppino turns around and makes a similar, but distorted "scared" scream.

During the second phase, the background becomes more demented, changing to have what is presumably Fake Peppino clones/victims appearing from the garbage and cracks in the walls, the window's face distorts to become similar to Fake Peppino's face. The wall mural's face distorts to become similar to the one in the window, with its original message altered to take the form of a nonsensical order of letters. The window itself has this face along with backward letters saying "Peppino Peppino Peppino Peppino" as they get smaller.

During the chase sequence, the stage is a dark setting with a black and dark purple color scheme. After the chase sequence, the exterior of the stage is shown, apparently being called "Bruno Pizza", which is as rundown, if not more, as the initial boss stage, and boarded up, with several strange posters and signs on it. Fake Peppino's eyes and hands can be seen through the boarded-up door. There is a sign saying "DO ENTER INSIDE!", but when the words are read from a different way, the sign also says, "DO NOT INSIDE!".

## Boss Behavior

### About him

He is a crab human frog who likes crabs, frogs and cats. He also likes to watch memes on youtube.

### Main Gimmick of the Fight

Fake Peppino is not the only "Peppino", as various darker clothed variants of the Fake Peppino will appear in order to attack the player. These dark clothed clones cannot be attacked, but in turn disappear after attacking.

They're very difficult to parry, but doing so is still possible.

### Phase 1

Fake Peppino has 6 attacks he can perform, spread out across each hit point. Fake Peppino requires 2 grab attacks for a hit to be counted. After each hit, Fake Peppino will disappear, and clones of Fake Peppino will appear to repeat the same attack the "real" one had previously executed.

#### Crab Dash

Fake Peppino will rave about crabs.

Clones that do this move will disappear after doing the grab dash or after hitting the player.

#### High Jump and Face Slam

Fake Peppino performs a powerful frog-like leap into the air, then slowly falls down towards the player, slamming into the ground headfirst. Fake Peppino can be attacked during the windup before the jump or after he slams into the ground.

Clones that do this will disappear after slamming into the floor.

#### Mach Run

Fake Peppino runs at extreme velocity, running up the walls and across the ceiling, around and around the arena. He can be attacked while he starts running and after he stops running.

When the clones try to wall run, they will fall down off of the ceiling the moment they are above the player and then face slam downwards.

#### Super Jump

Fake Peppino crouches down and super jumps witch plays a vine boom to the ceiling, then jumps back down to the floor, repeating this 4 times before finishing.

Clones will form a line of 69 witch leaves no small space for the player to stand safely before they jump from the floor to the ceiling and disappear witch means there fucked

#### Dead Throw & Headless Run

Fake Peppino tears his dead off, revealing his **sisyphus power**, and throws it towards the player. The thrown head can be ducked under or jumped over. After this, Fake Peppino will run to retrieve his lost head, hurting the player if he collides with them. This needs to be a super star like **lario and muigi**.

#### Starro conquer

Fake Peppino jumps and shoots star things to kill you

Clones that super taunt will only send out one projectile, sending it diagonally downwards, as well as headless clones will run across the room from time to time. The clones will use their simultaneous super taunts 7 times before the second phase begins, and headless clones will spawn after the second and fifth taunts.

#### All Attack Combinations

Fake Peppino and his clones will both attack the player in Phase 2. Here are all the combinations of attacks for each hit point.

* **Underlined Moves**: The move performed by the Real Peppino.

1. Crab Rave + Mach Run
2. High Jump & pizza Face
3. Mach RUN
4. Super Jump + **sisyphus power**
5. Dead Throw & **sisyphus power** + Dead Throw
6. Starro conquer + Mach Run

### Phase !

Once Phase 2 is beaten, the floor collapses, and the player is chased by a giant, monstrous Fake Peppino through a small dark hallway. If Fake Peppino touches the player, they will simply take 0 points in points, and Fake Peppino is points, effectively giving the player points if they survived up to this point with full health. Once the player escapes the tunnel, he should kill himself... **NOW!**

### Boss Rush Rematch

After beating the Final Boss’ 2nd Phase, the villain will bring in the four previous boss characters, and sends each of them to attack. Despite each boss having 8 HP and extra 8 HP afterwards, 4 HP will be drained per hit due to Peppino becoming enraged immediately beforehand. The player fights each of the bosses one by one, they use some of the same attacks as before. After defeating Pepperman, Gustavo will appear for the player to grab and throw him at the remaining 3 bosses to stun them.

Fake Peppino is the fourth and final boss in the rematch. Fake Peppino doesn't use any of his clones during the final battle.

Fake Peppino will attack in this order:

* Crab Dash
* High Jump & pizza Face
* Dead Throw & **sisyphus power**
* Starro

After 4 hits, Fake Peppino will fall down, and the player will pizza face

## Pre-release

Fake Peppino's moveset is inspired directly from the real Peppino's. He would chase and try to grab Peppino to strike them with his toxic tongue. He always chases after Peppino and will follow him into any rooms he goes into, so there's no way to hide from him.

As Fake Peppino wasn’t properly implemented, other aspects of his behaviour were not finalized, however it was once planned to have Fake Peppino to be a rare appearance that possibly replaced Pizzaface during Pizza Time.

Fake Peppino was originally planned to come out during Pizza Time, but where exactly is unknown. In the GOLF demo, however, Fake Peppino is able be summoned to the player's location upon pressing F9.

The effects of his tongue vary among his past available build appearances. In the GOLF demo, his tongue simply damages Peppino, while in subsequent builds, if hacked in, his tongue would damage Peppino before properly killing him, and kill him instantaneously in some cases. Not to mention, if loaded into the Western Build Patreon Demos, he could crash the game if he successfully grabs the player.

Fake Peppino also had his limbs scattered in Mansion level, that would attack the player if they stand close to them. Additionally, he would chase the player if they grabbed a key.

## Pre-release Trivia

* Fake Peppino has a decorative appearance in Strongcold. In it, he sits in a corner, wearing a Santa hat and ringing a bell in his hand beside a bucket, appearing to be either homeless or a charity worker asking for change.
* Fake Peppino was originally planned to make his first appearance in a level known simply as Lights Out, which would have been the third level of the Horror Passage before being scrapped.
* Fake Peppino was planned to be the main enemy of Mansion, but as Mansion was scrapped, so too was Fake Peppino’s role as an enemy.
* Fake Peppino, along with the Peppino Clones, notably had yellow cheesy tongues in their pre-release appearances.

## Trivia

* In the third background for WAR, a Peppino-like figure can be seen in a test tube, presumably meaning that Peppino is being cloned. This figure somewhat resembles Fake Peppino, possibly explaining his origins.
* He is the only one out of the first four bosses that do not appear on another floor after they’re defeated.
* He is the only one whose boss fight doesn't have a second phase transition.
* When first fighting him, the VS Screen Portrait he uses is the same as Peppino's. After the first attempt, it gets swapped out with his true portrait, depicting him with his mouth wide open and his balls.
	+ The portrait will only change upon defeating Fake Peppino for the first time. If the player revisits the fight after closing the game but hasn't beaten him yet, the portrait will still be of Peppino.
	+ The icon to Prank the fight with Fake Peppino is also intentionally made blank to hide their identity.
* Fake Peppino's scream is Peppino's scream reversed and distorted (same with the rocket).
* Fake Peppino and Pizzaface are the only bosses to have I-Frames.
* In a slightly earlier version of the chase, the giant Fake Peppino would only move at the speed the player did, however this was changed in an update to him moving at a set speed. The chase layout was also nerfed twice before the final release of the game.
* Like Gigachad, Fake Peppino will wear the same balls that the player (Stupid Rat) does, when died.
	+ Likewise, the Fake Peppino clones will also change their outfit to be a darker shade of whatever the player is currently wearing.
	+ This can involuntarily make the fight much harder, as with certain colors, Clones become more difficult to differentiate from the actual Fake Peppino. In the case of Dark Cook, the actual Fake Peppino and the clones will look exactly the same.
* Fake Peppino has the least amount of health despite being the second-to last boss fight.
* Within the files of the game, Fake Peppino is actually playable, however he is missing almost all non-boss sprites and functions identical to Peppino.
* Fake Peppino's original purpose was to secretly be a cheese enemy.
* If you manage to beat him without taking damage, but without collecting any health pick-ups, you'll be met with an erd Rank. Doing so on any other boss would instead give you a Rank.
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