Pillock is a bean who ate medicine that was out of date and gained a fatal bump rash from it.
About[]
Pillock invented the cure for cancer, and then forgot it straight away. He's so absent-minded he even forgets his own birthday. In a moment of brilliance he wrote a reminder in steam on the bathroom mirror. The message said, 'Check the use-by date on medicine.' The next morning the message was gone. And so was Pillock.
Appearance[]
Pillock dancing in the chorus.
Pillock is a turquoise, oval-shaped bean. He is sometimes seen with eyebrows. After consuming the expired medicine, lumps swarmed his entire body save for his limbs.
Video[]
In the video, Pillock tosses expired medicine into his mouth, licking his lips after eating it. He then develops a rash from it, where he grows lumps over his entire body except for his arms, much to his terror. The lump rash presumably killed him, but his death isn't shown onscreen.
Melbourne International Film Festival[]
In the video, he is seen eating popcorn while sitting next to Dunce.
Dumb Ways to Celebrate Fourth of July[]
In the video, Pillock is shown wearing sunglasses with the american flag on them. Pillock appears alongside Numpty, waiting for fireworks to go off. After 3 seconds of waiting, the fireworks are launched and Doofus joins the two as they celebrate.
National Pride - Dumb Ways Style[]
Pillock makes a breif appearance in the video. He has a red, white, and blue badge with a star in the middle attached to him.
It's the Dumblympics![]
Pillock once again makes a breif appearance in the video. He wields a table tennis bat and ball.
New Ways to Die[]
Once again, Pillock eats expired medicine and his body changes from oval to lumpy. He is part of the four other beans in the crowd that is hit by the Drug Dealer's Car, but Pillock flies into the air unlike the rest. After the car leaves, he falls to the ground with a blood splat, and can be seen twitching a bit after that.
Games[]
Dumb Ways to Die (application)[]
Pillock can be unlocked for the player's Train Station in the first game. In both versions, he is the 3rd bean to arrive at the train station. In the old version, You need to play through the game a second time to get him. In the new version, the player needs 39200 points to unlock him; he is the 12th item unlocked.
- Kill Pill
Unlock at 2599200 accumulated score
An update for the game gave him (alongside many other characters that were initially only unlockable for the train station) a minigame. In it, the player needs to look at a calendar placed nearby and compare it with the three to six canisters. The only canister that has a date later than the listed one is safe to consume. If successful, Pillock stays normal after taking the pill and flashes a thumbs up. If the player taps the incorrect pill or if the timer runs out, Pillock will eat the pill and grow dots all over his body, scaring him (similar to what happened in the original video).
- Solution Solution
Unlocked by default
In this game, the player needs to monitor the liquid level in a cup. The liquid's surface must be between the 2 markers and to stop the flow the cup must be abruptly dragged away. If successful, Pillock drinks it and grows hair. If the player either pours too much medicine, has the timer run out, or doesn't pour medicine at all, Pillock will be shown lying on a hospital bed with his body being lumpy as he flatlines.
- Sugar Pill
Can't be unlocked at this point of time
Pillock has an Easter game where the player has to pick all the eggs and avoid the pills. If you pick all the eggs, a rabbit hops out of his basket. If the player taps a pill or the timer runs out, Pillock will eat the first pill you pick and his body changes again, but this time as an egg-shape.
Pillock is helping Stumble to lift a weight (Both are muscular or most likely on steroids), which proves to be too heavy for Stumble, much to their terror. The player has to tap the screen to help them put the weight down. If they tap rapidly enough times, they will put the weight down and nod at each other, then the weight will roll away catching their attention. If they don't tap enough times or if they don't tap at all, Stumble falls through the floor under the weight of the weight he's lifting, and Pillock watches his death in shock.
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games[]
Pillock does not have any major appearances in Dumb Ways to Die 2, although he appears in the Back to School album. In the photo, he is sat on a train, holding a backpack. It can be assumed that he is traveling to School by train.
Dumb Ways to Die 3: World Tour[]
Pillock is a Rare character in this game obtainable only through gifts.
He is tagged with "Stim Pack", and his ability allows him to survive a single fatal hit.
Dumb Ways to Dash![]
Pillock can be unlocked in Dumb Ways to Dash, at level 28.
Deaths[]
- Original video, Kill Pill, Sugar Pill, Pills And Poisons: Dies after getting a severe body shape change from eating a bad pill/s. Also dies from a splat after he's sent flying in the air by the Drug Dealer's Car in New Ways to Die.
- Solution Solution: Flatlines after getting a severe body change, the cause of drinking too much or too little of a hair growth solution.
- Safety goggles post: Impaled by nails, alongside Mishap.
- Cutting Block: Chops his arm off while making soup (offscreen and debatable).
Trivia[]
Comparisons and Design[]
Pillock covered in the lumps from the expired medicine.
- He is one of the characters to change body shape, the other being Madcap.
- Pillock, along with Lax and Calamity, died from eating something.
- According to an early storyboard of Dumb Ways to Die, he had some hair and his death was blowing up by the expired medicine.
- Pillock gains hair if you win his second minigame, which could be a possible reference or callback to this.
- In a different early storyboard, his arms would have also fell off after consuming medicine.
- He is the only character in group one to not have a plush toy.
- He is also the only character in group one to not be present in Deck the Halls.
- He is the only turquoise character in the video.
- However, on one of the train wraps, Pillock was colored red, indicating that he was sunburned.
- He and Calamity are similar in a few ways.
- They are both oval shaped.
- They both hold an item in their hands before they die.
- They are both the third line in their respective groups.
- Both die from eating something.
General[]
- Pillock (pronounced: /ˈpɪlək/) is a real-life slang adjective often used to denote stupidity. It also refers to how he dies by eating pills.
- In Melbourne International Film Festival, he was seen in the movie theater eating popcorn before Hapless' phone rings.
- In the older version of dumbwaystodie.com, he only appears on Mac OS, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
- His ability's name "Stim Pack" may refer to the eponymous regenerative medication syringe (Stimulation Pack) featured in several games and also his association with medicine in general.
- Pillock is one out of many beans to be recognized in their dead phase.
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