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* [[Complete Monster]]: Some of Rat's atrocities include: biting the head off a gingerbread man, telling an ignorant man to drive off a cliff, poking fun at Pastis, and often beats up Pig.

** However, he ''does'' successfully straddle the line between this and a [[Comedic Sociopath]] [[Jerk ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold|with a Heart of Gold]]. Whenever, he ''is'' supposed to be a [[Complete Monster]], he's obviously a parody.

** However, he ''does'' successfully straddle the line between this and a [[Comedic Sociopath]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|with a Heart of Gold]]. Whenever, he ''is'' supposed to be a [[Complete Monster]], he's obviously a parody.

** Though, let us remember the storyline to where he literally locked his conscience in a trunk in the attic.

* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: The character of Alphonse the Porcupine revolves around pretending to attempt suicide to get attention.

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: "#$@&!* you, [[Take That|British Petroleum]]" - said by ''Pig''.

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: So much, [[Pearls Before Swine ~~(Comic Strip)~~/Funny|see here]].

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: So much, [[Pearls Before Swine/Funny|see here]].

* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Pastis has often said that Pig's sweetness is what keeps the strip from getting ''too'' dark:

** Pig is sitting at a desk with a sign saying "Hold Me. Make my probblims go away." Rat calls Pig dumb for thinking that being held will make his problems go away. Pig then alters the sign to read "Hold me anyways."

** Also, after Pig imagined that he was a butterfly and fell off the roof, Rat addresses him in the hospital and offers a rare [[Jerk ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold]] moment: "No, you dumb pig. You jumped out of the window and hit... (pause) ...the moon."

** Also, after Pig imagined that he was a butterfly and fell off the roof, Rat addresses him in the hospital and offers a rare [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] moment: "No, you dumb pig. You jumped out of the window and hit... (pause) ...the moon."

** The [http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2007-12-01/ December 1st, 2007] strip.

{{quote| '''Pig''': Aw, Andy. It's... It's because you're --<br />

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** In one arc, Rat wanted to kill a random guy because he was Farina's boyfriend. [[Scott Pilgrim|Sound familiar?]]

** One Sunday strip had [[Darwin Awards|a group of people that Rat thought were so stupid, they shouldn't be allowed to reproduce]].

** In a strip from an arc where [[Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|Pig had Newt Gingrich as a pet]], Rat said that Newt can never be president and John McCain is a lock for 2008. He was proven right about the former, considering Newt's dropout of the 2012 election, but wrong about the latter, considering [[Barack Obama|the other nominee]] won that election.

** In a strip from an arc where [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|Pig had Newt Gingrich as a pet]], Rat said that Newt can never be president and John McCain is a lock for 2008. He was proven right about the former, considering Newt's dropout of the 2012 election, but wrong about the latter, considering [[Barack Obama|the other nominee]] won that election.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Rat can be this at times.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Rat has crossed this once, when he killed a random guy, just to stop him from reproducing.