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"Society sucks, but you don't have to kill your classmates to stand out."

- Pico Pico is the antagonist of Week 3. His tracks include Pico, Philly and Blammed.

He was teased alongside Tankman, Cassette Girl and Hank J. Wimbleton on the 15th of November, 2020. He was added to the game with the release of Week 3 on the 11th of December, 2020.

He is the second guest character introduced to Friday Night Funkin'.

Appearance
Pico is a young, light-skinned man with rounded ginger hair and distinctive white eyes with no pupils. He wears a green shirt, beige pants and a pair of maroon sneakers with orange laces. He wields a gun in one hand and holds a microphone in the other with his thumb pointing out.

During the last track of Week 7, he is seen crouched on top of the speakers that Girlfriend normally sits on. He now wields a pair of guns which he twirls them around in a flashy manner.

Origin
Pico originates from Pico's School, a point-and-click Flash game created by Newgrounds' founder Tom Fulp in 1999. Due to the game's popularity at the time, Pico quickly became a fan favorite around Newgrounds.

Since then, Pico has been appointed the site's first mascot and has made other cameo appearances in many Newgrounds Flash films and games, and continues to remain a popular character on the site to this day.

Newgrounds also has a Holiday named after him known as "Pico Day," a day centered around celebrating not only him but other popular figures in the Newgrounds community. It's typically celebrated on the 30th of April, which also happens to be Tom Fulp's birthday.

Personality
Before the events of Pico's School, Pico was described as popular, curious, confident and friendly by his peers, being the first one to raise his hand in class and often speaking up whenever possible. During the destruction of his school, he is shown to act quite reckless and takes action immediately despite the danger he could be running into.

After the events of Pico's School, Pico has developed an aggressive and homicidal side to him, rarely showing any fear and ruthlessly fighting anyone standing in his way. He is an exceptional gunman and is usually seen dual wielding his weaponry with great proficiency. His weapons of choice are automatic weapons such as the MAC-10, UZI or the M16 Assault Rifle. He also has tremendous skill in unarmed combat, seen in media such as Newgrounds Rumble and Pico's Unloaded. He is also shown to be quite paranoid as he isn't too trusting of others and is always armed.

Story
Set many years after Pico's School, Pico is hired by Daddy Dearest to kill Boyfriend for humiliating him after their sing-off in Week 1. Unbeknownst to him at the time, Boyfriend is actually somebody Pico once knew, and once Pico finds him, he decides to spare him and instead challenges him to a rap battle.

Trivia

 * It is possible that Pico may become a playable character in the future, judging by the unused miss animations in his asset folder and the code in his .XML file. He can also be played if you select him from the Debug Menu.
 * Pico was added into the game as a collaboration with Tom Fulp, creator of popular Flash animation and game portal Newgrounds.
 * This may be in response to the game being promoted on Newgrounds' official YouTube channel and that the game's programmer, ninjamuffin99, and Pico's creator, Tom Fulp, are good friends.
 * Pico has untreated schizophrenia. This causes him to keep his weapons on him at all times due to his fear of being attacked.
 * It is very likely he developed it after the events of Pico's School as it would have traumatized him severely.
 * There is a possibility that Pico's voice may have been based off of a line from ENDLESS HANDBAG, Newgrounds' old background music, around the 1:50 mark.
 * Pico makes a small cameo appearance in the background of Week 5.
 * Pico returns for Week 7's final track Stress. During the cutscene, he leaps down from the sky, killing the 2 Tankmen that were holding Girlfriend at gunpoint. For the rest of the song, he guns down many other approaching Tankmen on top of the speakers while Boyfriend holds Girlfriend.
 * He is described by Tankman during the cutscene as Boyfriend's "sexually ambiguous, angry little friend."
 * Confirmed in a livestream by PhantomArcade, Pico was hired by Daddy Dearest as a mercenary to kill Boyfriend after the events of Week 1, but he doesn't go through with it.
 * Pico used to be the mascot of multimedia site Newgrounds, but was slowly phased out of the role by Tankman in 2006.
 * A popular headcanon within the FNF community was that Pico is Boyfriend's ex. This headcanon gathered so much traction that Tom Fulp, the creator of Pico, tweeted jokingly that "this is official Pico 2 canon," leading people to believe that it was true. ninjamuffin99 has stated that this was a joke, but later changed his mind and claimed it was canon.
 * ninjamuffin99 has confirmed that Pico and Boyfriend are exes on Reddit, Twitter and Twitch several times.
 * It is debated if Pico is bisexual or gay as he has no relationship history within his canon.
 * On the 1st of April, 2021, Tom Fulp updated the original Pico's School game for April Fool's day, ending with Pico revealing to Casandra that he and Boyfriend are a couple and everyone at his school accepts them. The day after, this version would be released as separate game set in an alternate timeline called "Pico's School: Love Conquers All".

Gallery
View Pico's full gallery here.