List of fictional pigs
Appearance
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This article contains a list of pigs in various categories of fiction, including pigs and warthogs.
Advertising mascots and Animatronics
[edit]- Madame Oink, an early guest star at Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre. She spoke in a thick French accent and often sang traditional French songs. She appeared in several earlier show tapes from the late 1970s and early 1980s.[1]
- Moo and Oink, a grocery store chain.
- Percy Pig, sugary treat that can be purchased from Marks & Spencer.
- Piggly Wiggly, supermarket chain which features a pig as its mascot.
- Pig 'n Whistle restaurants.
In literature
[edit]Name | Origin | Author(s) | Notes | |
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Ace | Ace, the Very Important Pig | Dick King-Smith | Great-grandson of Babe. | |
Agnes | Pig | Andrew Cowan | Named after the narrators recently deceased grandmother who owned the pig. | |
Babe | The Sheep-Pig | Dick King-Smith | ||
Chester | Chester the Worldly Pig | Bill Peet | ||
Daggie Dogfoot | Pigs Might Fly | Dick King-Smith | ||
Empress of Blandings | Blandings Castle novels | P. G. Wodehouse | Enormous prize winning Berkshire sow, the subject of many kidnapping plots | |
Fener the Boar of Summer | The Malazan Book of the Fallen | Steven Erikson | A god of war. | |
Freddy the Pig | Walter R. Brooks | |||
Gaston and Joséphine | Gaston and Joséphine | Georges Duplaix | ||
Gouger, Snouter, Rooter and Tusker | Discworld | Sir Terry Pratchett | They pull the Hogfather's sleigh (a parody of Santa Claus's reindeer). | |
Gryllus | The Pig Scrolls | Paul Shipton | One of Odysseus's men who chose not be turned back into a human by the witch Circe | |
Gub-Gub | Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting | ||
Habeas Corpus | Doc Savage | Lester Dent | Monk's pet. | |
Hamilton | Maggie and the Ferocious Beast | Michael Paraskevas | ||
Henry the Pig | Blackberry Farm | Jane Pilgrim | ||
Hen-Wen | The Chronicles of Prydain | Lloyd Alexander | A fortune-telling pig. | |
Hercules | Mrs. Roberto: Or the Widowy Worries of The Moosepath League | Van Reid | A depressed pig. | |
Jodie | The Amityville Horror | Jay Anson | A phantom black pig with red eye. | |
Julius | Julius | Angela Johnson (writer) and Dav Pilkey | A little girl is gifted a large pet pig from her grandfather in Alaska. | |
Karnac | Thunder Oak | Garry Kilworth | The villainous wild boar. | |
Lester | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic | Betty MacDonald | A well-mannered pig. | |
Little Pig Robinson | The Tale of Little Pig Robinson | Beatrix Potter | ||
Mercy Watson | Mercy Watson series | Kate DiCamillo | ||
Misery | Misery | Stephen King | Annie Wilkes' pet pig, named after the (fictional) protagonist of her favorite novel series. | |
Napoleon | Animal Farm | George Orwell | The pig who leads the animal revolution on the farm and establishes a dictatorship. | |
Old Major | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Old pig who dies at the start of the story and tells the other animals an inspiring tale, which caused them to revolt against the farmer. | |
Olivia | Ian Falconer | |||
Pequeninos | Ender's Game series | Orson Scott Card | ||
The pig | The Ass and the Pig | Aesop | ||
Toby | The Learned Pig | William Cowper, Thomas Hood, and others. | ||
Piglet | Winnie-the-Pooh | A. A. Milne | The best friend of Winnie. A tiny and timid character. | |
Pigling Bland | The Tale of Pigling Bland | Beatrix Potter | ||
Pigoons | Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | A hyper-intelligent species of pigs, genetically modified to grow human organs. | |
Pig Pig | David M. McPhail | |||
Plantagenet | The Pig Plantagenet | Allen Andrews | A domesticated pig, Plantagenet, cannot decide whether he likes the free but frightening life of his cousin, the wild boar, better than his own simple farmyard existence until a plan emerges to destroy the forest and its inhabitants.[2] | |
Poppleton | Cynthia Rylant | |||
Positive Pig | Sweet Pickles | Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach and Richard Hefter | ||
Precocious Piggy | Precocious Piggy | Thomas Hood | ||
Pride of Matchingham | P. G. Wodehouse | Chief rival to the Empress of Blandings; owned by Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe | ||
Sam Pig | Sam Pig | Alison Uttley | ||
Snowball | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Accomplice of Napoleon. | |
Squealer | Animal Farm | George Orwell | ||
Tiger-pig | The Store of Tiger-pig, Tiger-pig at the circus | John Ryan | Apparently a normal pig, but with tiger stripes. | |
Toot and Puddle | Toot & Puddle | Holly Hobbie | ||
The Transcendent Pig | Young Wizards | Diane Duane | ||
Unnamed | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul | Jeff Kinney | A piglet from the country fair. Manny won it for correctly guessing the weight of a hog. After it causes trouble for the Heffleys, Susan sends the pig to a petting zoo before it reunites with Manny at the end of the book. | |
Unnamed pig | "The Pig", a short story in Dirty Beasts | Roald Dahl | A pig who educates himself and then finds out why he is being bred at a farm. As a result, he decides to eat the farmer first. | |
Wilbur | Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | ||
Zhu Bajie | Journey to the West |
Comics
[edit]Name | Origin | Creator | Notes |
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Bebop | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | David Wise and Peter Laird | Mutated human/warthog. Rocksteady's sidekick and one of Shredder's henchmen. |
Bertie and Billie Boar | Jungle Jinks | Arthur White [3] and Mabel F. Taylor.[4] | A pair of twins and part of the main cast. |
Beverly D'Oinkeau | The Adventures of Sly Cooper | Various Sucker Punch Productions employees (most notably Travis Kotzebue and Augie Pagan) | Dimitri Lousteau's ex-fiancée whom he engaged with in order to steal her wealth. She only appears in the first issue of the comics, which in particular was promotional material for the video game Sly 2: Band of Thieves. |
Captain Goodvibes | Tracks | Tony Edwards | Inspired by Gilbert Shelton's Wonder Wart-Hog. |
Cerdotado | Cerdotado | Leopoldo Jasso | A superhero character. |
Chauvy | Monica's Gang | Mauricio de Sousa | |
Cicero | Dell Comics | Porky Pig's nephew. | |
Hamhock | Ink Pen | Phil Dunlap | A pig who tries to get famous. |
Solid MacHogany | Pogo | Pig | A clarinet-playing pig in a jazz band. |
McMug | Ming Pao | Alice Mak. | One of the most popular cartoon figures in Hong Kong, popular with children and adults. The comics often address serious social issues, such as death, poverty, and single-parent families. |
Orson Pig | U.S. Acres | Jim Davis. | |
Pig | Pearls Before Swine | Stephan Pastis | A dim-witted pig whose stupidity is frequently exploited by Rat. |
Piggy the pig | Teddy Tail | Charles Folkard,[5] Harry Folkard,[6] Herbert Sidney Foxwell Arthur Potts,[7] | One of Teddy Tail's friends, created by Herbert Sidney Foxwell.[9] |
The pigs from La Foire aux Cochons | La Foire aux Cochons | Ptiluc | Nameless pigs who serve as a satirical metaphor for human society.[10] |
Percy Porker | Bobby Bear | Kitsie Bridges, Dora McLaren, Meg, Wilfred Haughton | Good friend of Bobby Bear. |
Peter Porker | Billy Bimbo and Peter Porker [11] | Harry Folkard [6] | Anthropomorphic pig and best friend of the human Billy Bimbo. This 1910s, 1920s comic appeared in the London Evening Post. The duo was also very popular in Dutch translations as Jopie Slim en Dikkie Bigmans.[11] and inspired the 1938 film De Guitenstreken van Jopie Slim en Dickie Bigmans.[6] |
Peter Porker/Spider-Ham | Marvel Comics | A parody of the Peter Parker/Spider-Man character | |
Peter Porkchops/Pig Iron | Leading Comics (as Pig Iron, Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!) | Otto Fauer (as Pig Iron, Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw.) | A pig whose body became complete steel after falling into a vat of molten metal. |
Piggles | Hoot | Barrie Appleby | A pig who wants to be a fighter pilot. Parody of Biggles. |
Piggy and Wiggy | Piggy and Wiggy - The Porker Twins | British gag-a-day comic strip from the 1930, published in the magazine Bubble. It starred two identical twins.[12] | |
Podgy Pig | Rupert Bear | Mary Tourtel | A good friend of Rupert.[13] |
Porkchop | Chuck Billy | Mauricio de Sousa | |
Porkyboy Pig | The Bruin Boys, aka Tiger Tim | Julius Stafford Baker,[14] Herbert Sidney Foxwell,[9] Bert Wymer [15] and Julius Stafford Baker Jr. | One of Tiger Tim's friends. |
Priscilla | Boner's Ark | Mort Walker | One of the recurring passengers on board of Boner's ark.[16] |
Rasher | Dennis the Menace | David Sutherland. | Dennis' pet pig, who received his own spin-off comic. |
Rosalie Pig | Rupert Bear | Alfred Bestall | Cousin of Podgy Pig.[17] |
Salomey | Li'l Abner | Al Capp | The Yokum family's pet pig. |
Squigley Fatwater | Sinfest | Tatsuya Ishida | An anthropomorphic pig who enjoys smoking marijuana, eats junkfood and watches porn. |
Spekkie Big | Spekkie Big | Marc van der Holst | Protagonist in a Dutch gag-a-day comic.[18] |
Toots | Tim, Toots & Teeny | Main cast member in a 1929-1937 British comic strip. | |
Uncle Pigg | Oink! | Patrick Gallagher, Tony Husband and Mark Rodgers | The fictional editor of the comic. |
Verk | Olle Kapoen | Phiny Dick, Coen van Hunnik, Richard Klokkers | An anthropomorphic pig who is the best friend of Olle Kapoen the gnome.[19] |
Wagner | Viivi & Wagner | Jussi Tuomola | An anthropomorphic pig who lives with a human female. |
Wonder Wart-Hog | Wonder Wart-Hog | Gilbert Shelton | A superhero parody. |
Nursery rhymes and fairy tales
[edit]- The pigs in "Birds of a feather" nursery rhyme
- The Three Little Pigs
- The market-going little pig and his brethren in the counting rhyme, used to name toes, who variously had roast beef or didn't, etc.
- The fat pig, the buying of which was the reason for going to market in the nursery rhyme
- A pig who eats up the pancake in the fairy tale "The Runaway Pancake"
Folklore and mythology
[edit]- Beast of Dean, an abnormally large wild boar said to live, or have lived, in the Forest of Dean, England
- Calydonian Boar, another boar which features strongly in Greek mythology
- Erymanthian Boar, a boar that was to be captured as one of the Twelve Labours of Hercules
- Gullinbursti, a boar in Norse mythology
- The men transformed into pigs by Circe in the story of Homer's Odyssey
- Pigs, of Chinese zodiac year
- Twrch Trwyth, of Welsh mythology, features prominently in the tale of Culhwch and Olwen
In media
[edit]Animation
[edit]Name | Origin | Notes | |
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Abner | Hey Arnold! | Arnold Shortman's pet pig who behaves like a dog. | |
Akio Ogino | Spirited Away | Chihiro's father who is transformed into a pig as punishment for eating the food of the spirits alongside his wife. | |
Alpha Pig | Super Why! | ||
Archille | Forest Friends | A wild boar. | |
Bebop | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | An anthropomorphic, mutant warthog. | |
Bo, Portley and Pighead Bacon | Piggsburg Pigs | 3 pig brothers who live in a city of anthropomorphic pigs and battle monstrous creatures from the Forbidden Zone. | |
Borsti | Werner: Eat My Dust!!! | Werner and Andi's "house pig" | |
Chuck | Camp Lazlo | ||
Cornfed | Duckman | A detective's assistant, that solves crimes | |
Dobson | Ice Age: Continental Drift | A Metridiochoerus who is one of Captain Gutt's minions. | |
Dumpling | 101 Dalmatians: The Series | Mayor Ed Pig's Daughter | |
Fat Nuggets | Hazbin Hotel | Anthony "Angel Dust"'s pet pig | |
Fluffy | South Park | Eric Cartman's pet pig. She only appeared in two episodes, An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig and Cherokee Hair Tampons. | |
Grunt and Punt | Grunt and Punt | ||
Hamm | Toy Story | A piggy bank. | |
Hamton J. Pig | Tiny Toon Adventures | A neat freak who is a junior version of Porky Pig. | |
Hawk | The Seven Deadly Sins | A talking pig and Meliodas's pet/companion. He is introduced as the cleaner of the Boar Hat bar. | |
Hen Wen | The Black Cauldron | ||
Huxley | Huxley Pig | A pig who is always dreaming of adventure, exciting professions and encounters. | |
Leonard | The Angry Birds Movie | Also known as "King Mudbeard" and the main antagonist. | |
Manbearpig | South Park | An animal who is a hybrid of a man, bear and a pig, but doesn't actually exist. In the series Al Gore is always trying to warn people for it. | |
Max | HouseBroken | George Clooney's pet Berkshire pig. Voiced by Tony Hale | |
Mayor Percy | Dot and the Koala | ||
McMug and McDull | |||
Mervis | CatDog | ||
Miss Piggy | The Muppets | A pig who is known for her temperamental diva superstar personality, has a tendency to use French phrases in her speech, and practicing karate. | |
Mr. Pig | Adventure Time | An anthropomorphic pig who is one of Tree Trunks’ husbands. | |
Mr. Porky | The Simpsons | ||
Mr. W. C. Squeals | Merrie Melodies | Appears in At Your Service Madame and Cracked Ice. | |
Mrs. Warthog | My Gym Partner's a Monkey | ||
Nago | Princess Mononoke | The boar god, corrupted by an iron ball lodged in his body. | |
Okkoto | Princess Mononoke | Leader of the boars | |
Olivia | Olivia | A pig who is the main character. | |
Oolong | Dragon Ball | An anthropomorphic pig that has the ability to shapeshift, although he is only limited to transforming for five minutes at a time. | |
P-Chan | Ranma ½ | Ryoga Hibiki's Cursed form. | |
Pansy Pig | Henry's Cat | One of the friends of Henry's Cat. | |
Peppa Pig | Peppa Pig | A pig who is the main character. She enjoys jumping in muddy puddles, her teddy bear, playing fairy, and dress up. She is 5 years old | |
Petal | Big Barn Farm | ||
Peter Pig | Disney Toons | ||
Petunia Pig | Merrie Melodies | Porky Pig's girlfriend. | |
Pig and his cousin Arnold | Kipper the Dog | Friends of Kipper. | |
Pig | WordWorld | A pig who is made up of the word "P" "I" and "G", and he loves to cook food that is made up of letters. | |
Piglet | Winnie the Pooh (franchise) | A timid stuffed pig who is Winnie the Pooh's best friend. | |
Piggy | Merrie Melodies | ||
Piggies | Home on the Range | A Trio of Three young Piglets | |
Plopper/Spider-Pig/Harry Plopper | The Simpsons Movie | A pig whom Homer Simpson adopts. | |
Porco Rosso | Kurenai no buta | ||
Porky Pig | Looney Tunes | A stuttering pig. | |
Pua | Moana | Moana's pet Kunekune pig. | |
Pumbaa | The Lion King | A flatulent warthog, Timon's best friend and Simba's adoptive uncle. Voiced by Ernie Sabella in most appearances and Seth Rogen in the 2019 remake. | |
Red | Angry Birds Toons | A cardinal who is the leader of the flock that got turned into a pig by Chef Pig in the episode 'Pig Plot Potion'. | |
Renée | Kiff | A warthog that is one of Kiff's classmates | |
Rosita | Sing | A pig who dreams of singing and is a mother of 25 children. | |
Runt of the Litter | Chicken Little | ||
Ryl | Jewelpet | A miniature pig who is based on the red beryl gemstone and symbolizes Mind and Body Purification. She wears a red heart necklace. | |
Sir Oinksalot | The Simpsons | The mascot of Springfield A&M university. First introduced in Homer Goes to College. | |
Spanky Ham | Drawn Together | ||
Sputnik | Astroblast! | A pig that works for the Frosty Star | |
Tattoo | The Secret Life of Pets | A pig who is one of the Flushed Pets | |
The Three Little Pigs | Silly Symphonies | ||
The Three Little Pigs | The Raccoons | Three little pigs who are the bumbling henchmen of Cyril Sneer. | |
Truffles | Happy Tree Friends | Truffles is a bluish-gray pig who wears a sailor's hat and outfit. | |
Tonrariano the 3rd | Tonde Burin | ||
Tonton | Naruto | ||
Treat Heart Pig | Care Bears | Cousin to the care bear. | |
Urii | Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger | 12th member of the team | |
Wibbly | Wibbly Pig | A cheerful pig. | |
Waddles | Gravity Falls | Mabel's pet pig. | |
Various pigs | Adventure Time | ||
Yūko Ogino | Spirited Away | Chihiro's mother who is transformed into a pig as punishment for eating the food of the spirits alongside her husband. |
Film
[edit]Name | Origin | Notes |
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Albert | College Road Trip | |
Blue Boy | State Fair (1933) / State Fair (1945) / State Fair (1962) | |
Borsti | Werner: Eat My Dust!!! | Werner and Andi's "House pig" |
Chaw | Chaw (film) | |
Gordy | Gordy | |
Killer Hog | Razorback | A monster swine from an Australian Ozploitation movie. |
Plopper | The Simpsons Movie | Also known as "Harry Plopper" and "Spider-pig" |
Zhu Bajie | The Cave of the Silken Web (1927) | aka Zhu Wuneng, from the original novel Journey to the West, (Zhu is Chinese for Pig) |
Music
[edit]Name | Song or composition | Creator | Notes |
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Cincinnati Dancing Pig | Cincinnati Dancing Pig | Red Foley | A 1950 hit song about a pig from Cincinnati who is able to dance. |
Greggery Peccary | The Adventures of Greggery Peccary | Frank Zappa | Greggery is a peccary swine who invents the calendar and gets involved in a wild adventure. Zappa recorded this satirical musical piece in 1978 and its available on Studio Tan and Läther. |
Guyute | Guyute | Phish | |
March of the Pigs | March of the Pigs | Nine Inch Nails | |
Pig | Pig | Dave Matthews Band | |
Pig | Pig | Seether | A track from the band's albums Fragile and Disclaimer (& Disclaimer II). |
Pig | Pig | Steve Vai | |
Piggies | Piggies | The Beatles | A 1968 Beatles song written by George Harrison where the little pigs are whacked down and eaten by bigger pigs. It has been interpreted as a metaphor for human nature, though throughout the songs actual pig sounds are heard as well. |
Pigs in Zen | Pigs in Zen | Jane's Addiction | A song from their debut album. |
Pink Floyd pigs | Pink Floyd | A huge inflatable pig the band Pink Floyd used during several of their concerts from the mid-1970s on. It was inspired by their songs Pigs on the Wing and Pigs (Three Different Ones) where the pigs in question were only metaphorically pigs and inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm. | |
Piggy Pig Pig | Piggy Pig Pig | Procol Harum | |
This Little Piggy | This Little Piggy | Traditional nursery rhyme. | A song about five little pigs who respectively went to market, stayed home, had roast beef, one who received nothing at all and another who cried over the circumstances. The song is used for fingerplay. |
War Pigs | War Pigs | Black Sabbath | A protest song from the band's debut album Paranoid (1970), where the pigs in question out to be understood metaphorically as people who send people off to war. |
Radio
[edit]- The Archers, BBC Radio 4's soap opera features Eddie Grundy's pig Barbarella, named after a film
Television
[edit]Name | Origin | Notes |
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Annie Sue | The Muppet Show | |
Arnold Ziffel | Green Acres. | |
Big | Big & Betsy. | A puppet character in a Belgian children's TV show. |
Capt. Link Hogthrob | The Muppet Show | |
Cybernetically augmented pig | Doctor Who | In the episode "Aliens of London". |
Doc Hogg | Bear in the Big Blue House | A friendly pig doctor of the Woodland Valley community |
Doris | A Country Practice | A beer drinking pig. |
Flying Pig | The Kids in the Hall | He is shown entertaining people in lineups, later he is accidentally killed during said entertaining (he was caught in 350° telephone wires for three and a half hours, soon to be in a free food lineup) [1]. |
Grunty | .hack | |
Hamletta | Nexo Knights | Lance Richmond's pig |
Hamhock | Power Rangers: Jungle Fury | A pig monster. |
Little Cory | Boy Meets World | He was introduced in a high school episode as a little piglet and reappeared as a huge full-grown boar in a college episode, years later. He was Shawn's animal companion. |
Maxwell | GEICO | Frequent appearances in television and radio advertisements. |
Miggy | Migros | A sponsor pig for the supermarket Migros in Switzerland, Germany, France. |
Miss Piggy | The Muppet Show | A self-important diva and one of the most iconic puppets on this show. |
The Oinker Sisters | Sesame Street | The trio of singing female pigs who appear on Sesame Street. They are best known for their hit song, The New Way To Walk. |
Peking Homunculus | Doctor Who | A vicious robot from the future in the story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". Though humanoid, the Homunculus contained the cerebral cortex of a pig, and was driven by its "swinish instincts". |
Pig | Pipkins | One of the main characters of this children's show, Pig had a Black Country accent. |
Pigby | Pushing Daisies | Olive Snook's pet pig. |
Piggley Winks | Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks | |
Pigsy | Monkey | |
Pinky and Perky | Puppet pigs who spoke in speeded up voices, created by Czech immigrants Jan and Vlasta Dalibor (BBC television, from 1968). | |
Pinky and Perky | The Good Life (1975 TV series) | Two pigs who belong to Tom and Barbera Good. |
Professor Strangepork | The Muppet Show | |
Purk | Sesamstraat | A baby puppet from the Dutch version of Sesame Street. |
Scruffy the pig | Full House |
Video games
[edit]Name | Origin | System(s) | Notes | |
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Bad Piggies | Angry Birds | Mobile | A group of green, spherical pigs who want to capture the Birds' eggs in order to eat them. | |
Bilgemuck | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dragonborn | Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 | Bilgemuck is a unique bristleback found on Solstheim. He can be encountered during the quest The Chief of Thirsk Hall, when the chief asks you to bring Bilgemuck back to his pen. Bilgemuck drops boar tusks and boar meat if he is killed. | |
Chris P. Bacon | Banjo Tooie | Nintendo 64 | A pig from Jolly Rodgers Lagoon | |
Ganon | The Legend of Zelda | Although he originated as a humanoid being known as a Gerudo (and has been seen in that form numerous times), Ganon is also known for his bestial piglike form. | ||
Hoglin | Minecraft | Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 | A wild boar species native to the Nether underworld. Piglins like red fungi but are avoidant of blue fungi, as well as Nether portals. Adult Hoglins are hunted by adult Piglins, but the child variants will play with each other. Regular Hoglins will always attack player characters, but their undead variant, Zoglins, will attack as a horde if one is attacked. | |
Hogzilla | Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 | A huge wild boar and boss villain. | ||
Jambon | RuneScape | Windows, Mac, Mobile | A pig wandering around the mainland of the game, based on one of the game's developers. Its name is French for "ham". | |
Link the Pig | The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker | GameCube | A large pig found on Outset Island. The pig's name is the same as the name selected by the player for Link in a save file. | |
Padpork | Warsow | Windows | A futuristic, sentient pig that can use advanced weaponry to massacre its enemies. | |
Pey'j | Beyond Good & Evil | |||
Pig | Minecraft | Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 | When struck by lightning, becomes an undead humanoid version known as a Zombified Piglin. | |
Piglin | Minecraft | Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 | An anthropomorphic pig species native to the Nether underworld that hunt in packs using axes and crossbows. Piglins have a strong fascination for gold, have an aversion to blue fire and Nether portals, and hate wither skeletons. Unless player characters wears or drops gold, their packs will be hostile, but even then are easily provoked. An undead variant, Zombified Piglins, are more docile and only attack when attacked themselves. | |
Pigpatch | Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator | Windows, iOS, Android, | A pink pig animatronic with mismatched eyes who serves in the Mediocre Melodies act. Pigpatch plays the banjo and speaks using a countryman accent. In Ultimate Custom Night, he recites ancient Japanese proverbs if he kills the player. | |
Pigma Dengar | Star Fox | SNES | ||
Professor Chops | Donkey Kong Country Returns | Wii, Nintendo 3DS | Serves as the level's checkpoint. | |
Reuben | Minecraft: Story Mode | Windows, Mac, Mobile, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch | A domesticated pig who acts as the pet of the game's main protagonist Jesse. | |
Snorty | Cabela's Big Game Hunter (2007 video game) | PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360 | A huge male wild boar in the New Zealand level. | |
Troff | Donkey Kong 64 | Nintendo 64 | A pig that can unlock boss doors. In order to do so, the player has to feed his hippo friend Scoff. | |
Tutty | Aion: The Tower of Eternity | Windows | ||
Wilbur the Warthog | Madagascar (video game) | ??? | A warthog from the Madagascar video game. |
Other
[edit]Name | Origin | System(s) | Notes |
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Technoblade | N/A | YouTube | A former popular Minecraft YouTuber whose in-game skin was based on a Minecraft pig's texture. |
LazerPig | N/A | YouTube | A popular edutainment history/political YouTuber who is represented by a large pig from China.[20] |
In toys
[edit]- Monokuro Boo, a pair of monochrome pigs developed by the Japanese company San-X.
- Pass the Pigs, variation of a dice game, using two small plastic pigs
- Pippo, a Sanrio character created in 1993
- Razor Beast, a primal which takes the form of a warthog, from the Transformers line Beast Wars
- Squealer Knuckle "Beanie Babies"
- Truffles from the Me to You Bears range
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Madame Oink - Chuck E. Cheese's Characters". www.showbizpizza.com.
- ^ Andrews, Allen (1984). The Pig Plantagenet. New York: Tom Doherty Associates. ISBN 978-0812530940.
- ^ "Arthur White". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Mabel F. Taylor". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Charles James Folkard". lambiek.net.
- ^ a b c "Harry Folkard". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Arthur Potts". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Bill Glenn". lambiek.net.
- ^ a b "Herbert Sydney Foxwell". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Ptiluc". lambiek.net.
- ^ a b "1920-1930 Krantenstrips". www.lambiek.net.
- ^ Stringer, Lew (4 November 2016). "Firework comics: BUBBLES (1936)". lewstringer.blogspot.com. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ "Mary Tourtel".
- ^ "Julius Stafford Baker (II)". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Bert Wymer". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Mort Walker". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Alfred Bestall".
- ^ "Marc van der Holst". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Phiny Dick". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Image used for titular pig of YouTuber "LazerPig"".