Baleful Peeper

Description
The Baleful Peeper is a peeper enemy with gray pupils, protected by a metal shield, 4 gray zirconium plauqes, and a forcefield around its "body". It also has a small, metallic protuberance that can the Baleful peeper can use to fire a laser with its mind.

Background
The Baleful Peeper is a special enemy, an evolved form of the basic Lil' Peeper enemy, created in the subworld of Plunderland by Sploot, in his lab, located on the small Paper-Skull Island. This enemy is one of Sploot's many failed attempts at creating a stronger version of Plunderland's native fauna, a version that could resist more damage, speak, make plans, prepare ambushes, and even fight with its mind.

During an experiment on a normal Peeper, Sploot places the creature in a Hypertube and gives it several mechanical augmentations, along with a forcefield and its name. Unfortnutely, Sploot wasn't able to contain the augmented peeper, who escaped before Scrungus could get back to the lab.  (Context: Scrungus was gathering special fruits for Sploot's research) . Scrungus barely catches a glimpse of the Baleful peeper before it creates a portal and leaves the sub-world.

Unlike most non-robotic enemy creatures, it has the ability to make several different sounds, and even form coherent sentences. Its high intelligence is also an important thing to keep in mind when fighting it.

It's also the only enemy in the game that has the ability to ambush the player and trap them in a fight they can't win.

Story
After fleeing from Sploot's lab, the Warplord found it, wandering the wilds, and decided to train it. It eventually became one of his most valuable assets, and it was eventually assigned as the only royal guard.

Just as Scrungus and his team are about to get to the Warplord, they are stopped by the Baleful Peeper, who claims to have missed Scrungus, seemingly remembering the time when they first met in Plunderland, but also mentioning that he's grown too attatched to the Warplord, who has been like a father to him. He ultimately turns aggressive and attacks Scrungus.

He is defeated shortly after, but before Pastaronny can land a final hit, the Baleful Peeper runs away, seemingly bleeding. A short cutscene plays at this point. The enemy can be seen flying towards a large marble tower, before crashing into it and falling into a portal.

State of crustiness
The Baleful Peeper can be found in Warproam: State of Crustiness, although at this point it's at least 120 years old (Considering the average lifespan of regular Peeper enemies [36 years], and the many augmentations it recieved, which caused it to age faster.). The player can engage in a short conversation with it, where the creature claims to be in an extreme tranquility, it has seen the beauty of nature and has gotten used to the local Snakeman Jr. robots that take care of it almost every day.

The player can't recruit, attack, defend, heal, or damage the Baleful Peeper in this state, although taking a look at the game's files reveals a battle sprite for both the regular Peeper enemy (Absent from W:SoC) and the original Baleful Peeper sprite from the first game (Refered to simply as BP.

Warproam 1
Some early versions of the enemy can be seen in the files of Warproam (1)

As a Boss

 * Note: This boss is completely absent from the New Game+ playthrough, although an unfinished version of him can be fought in this mode.

The Baleful Peeper will try to stare X2 (24% Chance, lowers defence)

The Baleful Peeper will fire a laser X4

The Baleful Peeper will try to bump into a party member X1 (35% Chance, stuns a party member, but never Scrungus)

The Baleful Peeper will try to call for backup X1 (46% Chance)

If it succeeded, Peepers will spawn, if it failed nothing will spawn.

The Baleful Peeper will try to summon a Skello-te-lo X2. (68% Chance, enemy casts a Scared effect on a random playable character)

The Baleful Peeper will telekinetically throw items at the player (25 damage, ignores defenses, it also only targets Scrungus)