List of fictional pigs

This page contains a list of pigs in various categories of fiction, including pigs and warthogs.

Advertising mascots and Animatronics

• 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
• Moo and Oink, a grocery store chain
• 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 showtapes from the late 1970s and early 1980s.[1]

In literature

Name	Origin	Author(s)	Notes
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		P. G. Wodehouse
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 choose 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
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
Toot and Puddle	Toot & Puddle	Holly Hobbie
The Transcendent Pig	Young Wizards	Diane Duane
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

Name	Origin	Creator	Notes
Bertie and Billie Boar	Jungle Jinks	Arthur White [3] and Mabel F. Taylor.[4]	A pair of twins and part of the main cast.
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] William St. John Glenn [8]	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 valt 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]
Porkchop	Chuck Billy	Mauricio de Sousa
Porkyboy Pig	The Bruin Boys, aka Tiger Tim	Julius Stafford Baker,[13] Herbert Sidney Foxwell,[9] Bert Wymer [14] 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.[15]
Rasher	Dennis the Menace	David Sutherland.	Dennis' pet pig, who received his own spin-off comic.
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.[16]
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.[17]
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

• 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

• 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

Animation

Name	Origin	Notes
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 – Das muß kesseln!!!	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
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.
Mandu	Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts	A blue mutant pig with four eyes and six legs. He's adopted by the main protagonist, Kipo.
Mayor Percy	Dot and the Koala
McMug and McDull
Mervis	CatDog
Mr. Porky	The Simpsons
Mr. Squeal	Merrie Melodies	Appears in At Your Service Madam 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
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.
Olivia	Olivia (TV series)
P-Chan	Ranma 1/2	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.
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 pig.
Pumbaa	The Lion King and The Lion King (2019 film)	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'.
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
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.
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

Name	Origin	Notes
Albert	College Road Trip
Chaw	Chaw (film)
Borsti	Werner – Das muß kesseln!!!	Werner and Andi's "house pig"
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

Name	Song or composition	Creator	Notes
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

• The Archers, BBC Radio 4's soap opera features Eddie Grundy's pig Barbarella, named after a film

Television

Name	Origin	Notes
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".
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
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

Name	Origin	System(s)	Notes
Bad Piggies	Angry Birds	Mobile	A group of pigs who want to eat the Birds' eggs.
Bilgemuck	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dragonborn	PC, 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.
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.
Hogzilla	Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2		A huge wild boar and boss villain.
Link the Pig	The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker	Nintendo 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	PC	A futuristic, sentient pig that can use advanced weaponry to massacre its enemies.
Pey'j	Beyond Good & Evil
Pig	Minecraft	PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3	When struck by lightning, becomes a humanoid zombified version known as a Zombie Pigman.
Pigma Dengar	Star Fox	SNES
Professor Chops	Donkey Kong Country Returns	Wii, Nintendo 3DS	Serves as the level's checkpoint.
Reuben	Minecraft: Story Mode	PC, 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.
Troff	Donkey Kong 64	N64	A pig that can unlock boss doors. In order to do so, the player has to feed his hippo friend Scoff.
Snorty	Cabela's Big Game Hunter (2007 video game)		A huge male Wild Boar in the New Zealand level.
Tutty	Aion: The Tower of Eternity
Chris P. Bacon	Banjo Tooie	N64	A pig from Jolly Rodgers Lagoon

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
• 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

• Pigs in culture
• List of individual pigs

References

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