Hoggish Greedly
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Hoggish Greedly is a fictional character, a villain in the animation series Captain Planet and the Planeteers. His name is likely derived from the notable Republican Horace Greeley.[original research?]
Greedly is an obese man with a pig-like nose and ears and the mannerisms to go with them. Despite these pig-like appearances, Greedly is actually a normal human.
Greedly is a rather crude and careless pit of greed, going to whatever lengths are necessary to please himself, usually involving some illegal means of getting money. Greedly was the first to come to blows with Captain Planet, discovering his vulnerability to toxics, only to have his robot oil tanker (called the "Land Blaster") destroyed after Captain Planet's recovery.
While Greedly is greedy, exploitative and sometimes cruel, he is not devoid of human feelings. He shares close bonds with his family, and places their wellbeing above profit (although by and large, he sees no difference between the two). In the episode “Smog Hogs,” he marketed a massively polluting car whose prototype was a birthday gift for his son, Junior. However, when the smog caused Junior to collapse from respiratory distress, a shocked and desperate Greedly effectively surrendered to the Planeteers, begging them to undo the damage, sacrificing his profits for his son’s safety.
After all of his failed efforts at gaining money behind the Planeteers' backs, Greedly received word of his Grandpappy's death. Although Greedly thus inherited a fortune, his reaction revealed that he did care for his relative. Greedly eventually discovered that his Grandfather, Hoggish Greenly, formerly known as "Don Porkoloin" in his younger polluting days, faked his death to determine Greedly's nature (who by the way has a very strong physical resemblance to his grandson, to the verge of being an older version of him), revealing that he came to know the need to protect the environment and hoped that Hoggish would learn the same (which he didn't). At this point, Greenly seemed to have gentlemanly manners, a sharp contrast to his grandson. Consequently, Greenly/Porkoloin first "appeared" in an earlier episode in which Gaia told the Planeteers a story of five planeteers being chosen in the 1940s to stop Porkoloin - though the story was evidently made up in the end (and contradicted Gaia's earlier statements that she had been asleep at the time).
Greedly is also something of a gourmet, despite eating nearly anything and large quantities of it. His most famous meals have been his hunger for sea turtle eggs and the one occasion in which he killed and ate a horse just to see what it would taste like.
Greedly's sidekick is Rigger, a scrawny, pointy-faced coward. Though he loyally assists Greedly, Rigger is rather polite and often brings up the environmental damage that Greedly is causing. When Greedly used his Grandpappy's fortune, Rigger became somewhat environmentally aware, showing that his reasons for working with Greedly were deeper than a need for evil. As Rigger once explained, despite his often disagreement with Greedly, he worked for Greedly as he felt no one else would hire him.
Rigger was later dropped from the show, taking a job with the more environmentally conscious Greenly, and replaced by Greedly's nephew, who became an honorary Planeteer, much to his uncle's shock.
Greedly was voiced by actor Ed Asner, and Rigger by John Ratzenberger.
[edit] Toys
Hoggish Greedly received an action figure in the Captain Planet toy line released by Tiger Toys. He came packaged with a water squirting backpack/gun combination. His vehicle in the line was the Toxic Cannon, a large rolling vehicle which held a large water reservoir and fired a stream of water through the large cannon. Rigger never received a toy.
