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Need to make piggies much more badass? Simple, add tusks.
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* In George R.R. Martin's ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', {{spoiler|King Robert}} gets killed by a giant boar. {{spoiler|Though it's also possible he was poisoned, or at least over-inebriated so he was an incompetent hunter}}
* In Meredith Ann Pierce's book ''Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood'', {{spoiler|the wizard}} turns into a giant gold boar and tries to kill Hannah.
* The [[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]], [[Discworld]]'s [[You Mean "Xmas"|equivalent]] of [[Santa Claus]], rides in a sleigh pulled by four enormous, fierce-looking boars. In in-series [[Disneyfication]], we're told that most modern portrayals have four cute, pink piggies instead.
* In [[Belgariad|Pawn of Prophecy]] by David Eddings, Garion kills a boar and almost gets himself killed in the process.
* Though tuskless, domesticated, and female, Raz Buchanon's pet pig Marjorie (from the Maggody mysteries) once bit the leg off a mule, and {{spoiler|chased a man out an upstairs window, causing his death}}. This troper thinks she qualifies for Full Sow Action!
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*** And, unfortunately, they're found all over the United States now, not just the South, because pigs are pretty good at escaping farms everywhere. Furthermore, because feral hogs are usually regulated as pests rather than game animals restrictions on hunting them range from "very generous" to "nonexistent", and a few less-than-ethical hunting enthusiasts have intentionally introduced them to the wild as a result. The entire feral hog population of Kansas is probably a product of intentional release. Feral hogs are a potential threat to both the environment and agriculture.
* Pigs and boars, particularly when cornered, can be very vicious.
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** Peccaries are small and don't have external tusks, so they don't look menacing. Until [http://www.exzooberance.com/virtual%20zoo/they%20walk/peccary/Peccary%20471054.jpg they open their mouths], and you realise that there are around 20 of them together. They can drive jaguars off, and jaguars are strong animals that wrestle caimans and bite through skulls.
* Tourists who enjoy hiking in Germany, in deep woods rather than the Volksmarch trails, are advised on hearing the distinctly loud snort of a wild boar to immediately run up the nearest tree. If you value your life, there's really nothing else you can do. Make sure it's a sturdy one, because a persistent boar can uproot a leaner tree.
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* Boar hunting ("pigsticking") on horseback used to be a favorite sport for aristocrats and while it died out in Europe for lack of prey it hung on in India until comparatively recently.
** At one time during [[The Raj]] the Prince of Wales was riding out with an Indian Noble on a pigsticking expedition. The inexperienced prince got too close, whereupon the Indian (who was an old hand) said "I know you are prince of wales, and you know you are prince of wales, but ''that boar doesn't know you are prince of wales''."
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* Orcs in ''[[Warhammer]]'' often ride boars. Orks in ''[[Warhammer 40000|40k]]'' sometimes ride [[Recycled in Space|cyboars.]]
* ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game)|Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' had Boar as a possible spirit for a pack totem. He was designed for packs of war.
** There were also wereboars, the Grondr, once upon a time. Notably, as every Changing Breed has a role in [[
* ''[[Exalted]]'' gives us Isidoros, The Black Boar That Twists The Skies. Probably the least malevolent of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Yozis]], he acts as [[World's Strongest Man|the universe's upper limit of physical strength]], and spends most of his time absentmindedly wandering around [[Hell|Malfeas]] trampling things and leaving hoofprints the size of city blocks.
* [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orcs]] were frequently depicted in older editions of [[Dungeons and Dragons]] as being humanoid boars, when they weren't depicted as [[Pig Men]]. Wereboars are a straighter example, in that they're short-tempered and very violent, albeit not truly evil.
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* In the German ''[[Gothic]]'' community, the sentence "Lass uns Wildschweine jagen!" (Let's go hunt some boars) has become some kind of a meme, because in the earlier patch versions of ''Gothic 3'', boars were among the most deadly enemies one could face because of a broken game balance.
** Although the dreaded stunlock pretty much sums up why boars can be extremely dangerous when provoked.
* Some enemies (primarily the Bulbins) in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' have boars as mounts. If you don't know what you're doing, you could get boared to death. (The sister trope [[Pig Man]] is also quite popular in that series.)
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has the small Swinub, its evolution Piloswine, and its final evolution Mamoswine, which more closely resembles a small mammoth than a swine.
** ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]'' introduces Tepig and its evolutions Pignite and Emboar, the last one being a burly bipedal boar.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Averted and played straight by Pumbaa in ''[[The Lion King]]''. Except when you hit his [[Berserk Button]], he's really only [[Gasshole|dangerous after dinner]]. (Pumba with his [[Berserk Button]] pressed is very much an example of this trope, as an unfortunate group of hyenas found out.)
* The [[Mix
* Played with on an episode of [[Tiny Toon Adventures]]. When normally timid Hampton is challenged by some school bullies, who then start picking on Hampton's friends, this seems to hit Hampton's [[Berserk Button]]. Hampton then angrily tells the bullies(while breaking through walls and boards to get his point across), "In humiliating my friends, you have incurred the wrath of my piggy ancestors! The Wild Boar! The Razorback Boar! The Crashing Boar!" It's later revealed that Hampton had demolished some breakaway props to scare the bullies off, but his friends congratulate him on his quick thinking and on his [[An Aesop|standing up to the bullies]].
* The Thembrians from the Soviet Union stand-in Thembria in ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]''.
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