Trivia / Pico

• Colbert Bump: With the inclusion of him as a Guest Fighter, Friday Night Funkin' has brought some new fans for Pico.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Nene's voice clips in Nene Interactive Suicide were provided by Tom Fulp himself and his friend Sean.
• Development Hell: Pico 2 has been this for nearly two decades at this point, though Tom Fulp has said that he still wants to finish it. It became a recurring joke on Newgrounds, with a few joke-submissions by the fans and being included as one of the few joke stretch goals for Friday Night Funkin': The Full-Ass Game.
• Disowned Adaptation: Piconjo hates the version of himself created by Mindchamber for Newgrounds Rumble, calling it closer to an original character with his name^note for various reasons, including the character's alignment as evil when he always championed Piconjo as a force of good than the character he initially created and generally mocking the design in over-the-top fashions as per his persona as an internet Troll. Of course, this is mainly in kayfabe; the actual user accepts all versions of Piconjo as valid, even if Mindchamber's version is vastly different to the original.
• Fandom Life Cycle: Stage X. After Pico made an appearance as a Guest Fighter in Friday Night Funkin', many people have become quite curious about where his origins came from. This brought new fans to the series... at the cost of a Broken Base.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: With the "secrets" system being removed, the original version of Pico vs. Bear (Bloodshed in the Big House that Blew) is no longer officially accessible.
• Newbie Boom: Pico appearing in Friday Night Funkin' caused a resurgence in popularity to both his series and Newgrounds in general after remaining dormant for more than a decade.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: After Disney and The Jim Henson Company found out about Pico vs. Bear, it had to be taken down and edited to replace the characters from Bear in the Big Blue House with Captain Ersatzes. The original version was made available as an Easter Egg to veteran users as part of the "secrets" system, but with the redesign of the site, the "secrets" system no longer works.
• Shrug of God: While Tom Fulp said the Pico cast were based off of his experiences in high school, he also said the cast were not designed with any specific ages in mind.◊ Word of Saint Paul from Mindchamber is that the cast was 13 during Pico's School.
• Trolling Creator: Piconjo, the creator of, well, Piconjo, returned to his account after 15 years of absence (with the explanation of having "pwned Death"), declared June 9th "Piconjo Day" in his typical Intentional Engrish for Funny and said Piconjo's true name is "Oliver Longwood the 69th". He also made a few comics expressing exaggerated revulsion at his character's redesign for Newgrounds Rumble while at the same time favoriting art of said design, and since his return rather than signing off with "Piconjo pwns j00" now signs off with "Piconjo luvs j00".^note Piconjo has made a post somewhat explaining that several of his over-the-top antics and revulsion at the Mindchamber depiction of Piconjo is a form of Kayfabe, and that all interpretations of Piconjo are valid ones as long as the audience embraces them.
• What Could Have Been:
  • There is an old demo (available for Newgrounds supporters) for what was supposed to be Pico 2 as a sequel taking place months after the events of the original game with the alien Ghettobots as the antagonists. A few of Pico's schoolmates survived the shooting, including Nene (a character the player can spare in the first game), Darnell (who was absent during the incident), and another kid, named Timmy, that was a classmate of Alucard's that Pico had never interacted with before. Darnell serves as the Exposition Fairy who explains in the intro that he and his buddies outside of school shot a spaceship containing aliens that look like earth ghetto boys. In gameplay, Pico can use Good Old Fisticuffs aside from his gun, interact with various characters outside the school setting with different optional dialogue that still allows different interpretation of Pico, go from location to location outside of school, compete as a DJ akin to Friday Night Funkin', and even have cutscenes. The project seems to have been Quietly Cancelled, though, due to it being rather very ambitious at the time and the creator needing to work.
  • Pico 2 was meant to have an RPG-like leveling system, and the Goth Punks would have had proteges who would serve as boss battles alongside the Ghettobots. Cyclops was meant to reappear as a decomposing zombie, confirming that canonically, Pico killed Cyclops and (maybe) Alucard during Pico's School.
  • The description for Resident Pico mentions that it was made for a WarioWare-esque collab, that never took off. Tom decided to release it separately for Pico Day 2006.
  • Pico was originally going to be called "Pogo", but Fulp changed the name after discovering the URL "Pogo.com" was taken.
• Word of God: Despite the interpretative nature of Pico and crew, Tom Fulp has revealed some information about them in private message◊ interviews◊.
  • The correct spelling of "Cassandra" is with two Ss.
  • All Penilians can take on human forms.
  • Hanzo's gender is "unknown". Their name is also spelled without a U◊.
  • The name "Alucard" is an alias. His real name is unknown.
  • Nene's name is pronounced, "Nay-Nay".
  • The sequel to Pico's School was always going to be titled Pico 2.
  • Despite how some of the fandom portrays her, Nene isn't homophobic.
  • Cyclops isn't a neo-Nazi, just a poser edgelord.
  • According to this blog post from Fulp, Pico's School was inspired by his senior year in high school.
  • According to this post◊, the part where Nene was stated in her bio to enjoy necrophilia and bestiality are "nasty internet rumors".
  • When asked what the main trio would major in college, Fulp responded with Pico majoring in computer science, Darnell majoring in chemistry, and Nene majoring in psychology (she wants to sort out her own issues and potentially help others).
• Word of Saint Paul: In the absence of official Word of God from Tom Fulp, the fandom generally accepts Mindchamber's posts on the characters, such as him saying the Pico's School cast was 13 during the events of the game.

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