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“We need your help, Star Fox! Andross has declared war! He's invaded the Lylat System and is trying to take over Corneria! Our army alone can't do the job! Hurry Star Fox!”
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General Pepper, is the commander-in-chief of all Cornerian military forces stationed throughout Corneria's territories located in the Lylat System. A former associate of Andross, it was General Pepper who was responsible for the disgraced science officer's banishment and he has extensively worked had to protect Corneria and the entire Lylat System from the evil mad scientist's scheme. It was thanks to General Pepper having called for emergency aid from the Star Fox team, mercenaries-for-hire, that the Cornerian Military were able to repel and defeat the Venomian invasion of Lylat. Following this successful retaliation, General Pepper praised efforts of the Star Fox Team, even going as far as personally offering Fox McCloud an official commission in the end of the war against Andross's Empire, but Fox politely refused it, insisting that they prefer to do things their own way. General Pepper continued to serve the Cornerian federation and protect the planet in later years by overseeing the successful prevention of Sauria's destruction and make a commanding stance against the Aparoid Invasion, but after Pepper had a close encounter with the Aparoid kind, he had to leave command of the military to the research director Beltino Toad. Even after the defeat of the Aparoids, Pepper grew progressively ill and was confined to his sickbed, and requested that his old comrade and friend Peppy Hare should take up his role of general during the attack of the Anglars.

General Pepper typically appears in all Star Fox games, with only a small cameo in Command, as well as comics and a major role in the Star Fox Zero promotional anime, as a supporting protagonist. He also appears as a background character in all Super Smash Bros. games, starting with Melee.

Biography[]

Pepper served in the Cornerian army with his old friends James and Peppy, acting as their commanding officer and before the later two moved on to become founders of the Star Fox team. General Pepper had also been good colleagues with the Cornerian Army's chief science officer Dr. Andross before his ambitions turned his morals into evil and his regard for public safety diminished, due to his scientific areas of expertise of bio-engineering and space warps having no interest to Cornerian peace. Becoming like oil and water, their differences began to start infighting between them and he ordered the research to be terminated, but Andross ignored Pepper's orders. The breaking point was when this secret experiment, which involved a secret weapon he created, caused a massive explosion that destroyed most of Corneria City. This disaster was so bad that it caused damage to not just Corneria, but the rest of the Lylat System as well. Infuriated, General Pepper successfully placed Andross under arrest and tried him for high treason before having the maniacal former chief scientist finally banished to his new homeworld, Venom.

Five years after the ordeal, General Pepper received disturbing reports from Corneria's observation station of recently discovered, strange bioweaponry activity coming from Venom. He hired the Star Fox team for the first time, then comprising of founder James McCloud, Peppy Hare, and Pigma Dengar. He sent the Star Fox team on a special recon mission to investigate the situation on Venom. But the mission was a failure when only Peppy returned home, which struck Pepper with guilt over sending James to his doom, leading to his decision to take his old friend's son's career into his own hands.

Trivia[]

  • His name is a reference to the album and song "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles. His military uniform resembles that worn by the band in the cover of the record. In the Nintendo Power comics, there are references when Pepper was "just a Sergeant".
  • In "Assault", it is unknown how General Pepper and his flagship got infected by the Aparoids, as when the Star Fox team loses contact with General Pepper prior to the Corneria Campaign during the Aparoid Invasion, shortly after General Pepper says “Please, Fox, I'm already...”, his last visible action is him looking around. Given his comment before, as well as his next appearance, this may imply that General Pepper became an Aparoid at that moment. The most likely explanation is that Pepper was ambushed during his transmission to Star Fox about Corneria's condition and possibly injured by the creatures.
  • In concept artwork for General Pepper's appearance in "Assault", one of the artwork stills has him wearing sunglasses, a reference to his original appearance in "Star Fox" for the Super NES.
    • The turncoat Captain Shears appeared to have been based on the Cornerian commander who was set to appear in "Star Fox 2", but when the game was eventually released in 2017, the officer was confirmed to be General Pepper himself, but Captain Shears has a green color scheme for his uniform while Pepper's 2017 design is a red/blue one.
  • General Pepper's plea to Team Star Fox in Star Fox 64 is the longest quote in the game, (apart from the Lylat history narration, yet there is no character to represent the narrator).
  • In the Kirby Anime, Pepper makes a cameo appearance as a Dog General action figure in Episode 12 on a store shelf in Gengu's toy shop. It even has his standard saluting pose.
  • In the Mission File Printout, Pepper signs his name "Z. Z. Pepper," implying his first and middle name begin with Z. In the same vein as Sergeant Pepper, these initials may be a reference to the classic rock band ZZ Top, who have a penchant for sunglasses.
  • In Star Fox 64 3D and Star Fox Zero General Pepper's voice sounds similar to that to King Triton from the 1989 animated film Disney's The Little Mermaid. Contrary to several fan theories and beliefs the voice actor for King Triton did not provide the voice of General Pepper.

Names in Other Languages[]

Language Name
Japanese (ジェネラル・ペパー, Jeneraru Pepā ／ ペパー将軍, Pepā Shōgun)

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