List of fictional pigs
A list of pigs in various categories of fiction, including boars and warthogs.
In literature
Name |
Origin |
Author(s) |
Notes |
Ben Bowker |
Ben, the little piggy in dungarees |
Sasha Buonasorte |
Ace |
Ace, the Very Important Pig |
Dick King-Smith |
Great-grandson of Babe. |
Babe |
The Sheep-Pig |
Dick King-Smith |
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Empress of Blandings |
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P. G. Wodehouse |
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Fener the Boar of Summer |
The Malazan Book of the Fallen |
Steven Erikson |
A god of war. |
Freddy the Pig |
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Walter R. Brooks |
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Gaston and Joséphine |
Gaston and Joséphine |
Georges Duplaix |
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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 choose not be turned back into a human by the witch Circe |
Gub-Gub |
Doctor Dolittle |
Hugh Lofting |
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Habeas Corpus |
Doc Savage |
Lester Dent |
Monk's pet. |
Hamilton |
Maggie and the Ferocious Beast |
Michael Paraskevas |
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Henry the Pig |
Blackberry Farm |
Jane Pilgrim |
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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. |
Johnny, Jimmy, Jaimie, Jared, Jason, and Justin Curlytail |
Fern Valley' |
Aileen Stewart |
Kimmy's siblings. |
Karnac |
Thunder Oak |
Garry Kilworth |
The villainous wild boar. |
Kimmy Curlytail |
Fern Valley |
Aileen Stewart |
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Lester |
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic |
Betty MacDonald |
A well-mannered pig. |
Little Pig Robinson |
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson |
Beatrix Potter |
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Mercy Watson |
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Kate DiCamillo |
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Napoleon |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
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Old Major |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
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Olivia |
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Ian Falconer |
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Pequeninos |
Ender's Game series |
Orson Scott Card |
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Piglet |
Winnie-the-Pooh |
A. A. Milne |
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Pigling Bland |
The Tale of Pigling Bland |
Beatrix Potter |
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Paul Pig |
The Masonic Sty |
Oliver Nicoll |
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Pigoons |
Oryx and Crake |
Margaret Atwood |
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Pig Pig |
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David M. McPhail |
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Poppleton |
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Cynthia Rylant |
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Positive Pig |
Sweet Pickles |
Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach and Richard Hefter |
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Precocious Piggy |
Precocious Piggy |
Thomas Hood |
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Rumbl |
The Ckoob |
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He was banished by Hollar after breaking her calculators. |
Rwoar |
The Rwaar |
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He ate Noilar and watched all the films. |
Sam Pig |
Sam Pig |
Alison Uttley |
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Snowball and Squealer |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
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The pig |
The Ass and the Pig |
Aesop |
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Toby the Learned Pig |
PYG: The Memoirs of a Learned Pig |
Russell Potter |
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Toot and Puddle |
Toot & Puddle |
Holly Hobbie |
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The Transcendent Pig |
Young Wizards |
Diane Duane |
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Unnamed pig |
"The Pig" |
Roald Dahl |
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Wilbur |
Charlotte's Web |
E. B. White |
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Zhu Bajie |
Journey to the West |
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Comics
Nursery rhymes and fairy tales
- 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/mythology
- Beast of Dean, 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, one of the Twelve Labours of Heracles was to capture this boar.
- 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
Film
Animation
Television
Name |
Origin |
Notes |
Annie Sue |
The Muppet Show |
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Arnold Ziffel |
Green Acres. |
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Capt. Link Hogthrob |
The Muppet Show |
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Cybernetically augmented pig |
Doctor Who |
In the episode "Aliens of London". |
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) . |
Grunty |
.hack |
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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 |
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Mr. Wu's pigs |
Deadwood |
Used mainly for disposing of dead bodies. |
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 |
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Pigsy |
Monkey |
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Pinky and Perky |
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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 |
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Purk |
Sesamstraat |
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Scruffy the pig |
Full House |
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Radio
Music
In video games
In toys
- 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 [1]
- 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"
Advertising mascots
- Piggly Wiggly, supermarket chain which features a pig as its mascot
- The Pig and Whistle restaurants
- Pig is food in Moo and Oink
- Percy Pig, delicious sugar filled treat that can be purchased from Marks & Spencer
See also
References