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In fantasy settings they may be a rare kind of were-animal, or just a pig-faced monster. Sometimes the work will call the
In science-fiction settings, it makes a certain amount of sense that the pig is the preferred species for this type of gene splicing: pigs and humans are anatomically similar enough on the inside that pigs may soon be grown as human organ donors. The similarities even extend to behavior, pigs being omnivores with furless skin and similar behavior in the wild, enjoying beer as much as the next guy.
Tragic is the story of the
As the trope name implies, a character of this type will almost always be a Pig ''Man'', similar to how cats are usually [[Catgirl|female.]] There are a number of reasons for this, the most prominent being that both pigs and men are stereotypically [[Men Are Uncultured|boorish and]] [[Guys Are Slobs|disgusting]], and of course pigs are not considered the most attractive animal; [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]] after all! If there is a whole race of Pig People you might see some Pig Women in the background but don't expect them to play an especially big role.
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Compare [[Half-Human Hybrid]], [[Petting Zoo People]], [[Full Boar Action]], [[Government Conspiracy]] and [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]. Oh, also [[Beauty Equals Goodness]], [[Mooks]] and [[Hollywood Evolution]]. See [[Full Boar Action]] for swine that aren't part human and are crazy anyway. See also [[Messy Pig]].
=== Some of the Pigmen of our time: ===▼
== Advertising ==▼
* Those "Feed The Pig" PSAs that run on [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* The Burger King advertisement for their limited time offer Ribs features a winged pigman as a spoof of the expression "when pigs fly". Of note is that he was actually driving a pickup truck, not flying; he explains that he's moving out of [[Basement Dweller|his mom's basement]] and needs the truck to carry his stuff.
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* The Swine Apostle from ''[[Berserk]]''.
* ''[[Porco Rosso]]''. He used to be human, but he became half-pig through some unexplained event. He essentially wants to quit humanity.
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** He comes from a village populated solely by pig people... and they're all just as perverted as he is.
* Pig-men are part of the Black King's troops in ''[[Drifters]]'', among other non-humans.
* Zampano the chimera from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', who looks human most of the time but can transform into a
== Comic Books ==▼
* ''Pig'' is an Italian comic series about a man who has undergone some genetic experiment and as a consequence, turns into a pig-man with [[Super Strength]] whenever he is sexually excited. The only way for him to turn back into a human is to have sex with a different woman every time.
* ''Spider-Ham''. He's a spider who was bitten by a radioactive pig.
** A borderline case at best, since the entire ''Spider-Ham'' universe is populated by [[Funny Animal
* Pig-Iron, of ''Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew'', used to be just a cute little anthromorphic pig until a magic meteorite knocked him into a vat of molten iron - now he's the hulking Pig of Steel.
* Jim Woodring's often-unsettling comic ''[[Frank]]'' has Manhog (described by his creator as a "lamentable father figure").
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* [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|Duckburg]] has quite a few pigmen, which seem to fall into two stereotypes: the sneaky villain and the gentle [[Big Eater]]. Both are usually rich. [[Carl Barks]] revealed that, for the most part, pigmen were used when he wanted a generic villain. That didn't stop him from making them memorable...Porkman De Lardo, anyone? Interestingly enough, if the Mayor of Duckburg makes an appearance, he'd usually be a pig.
* While not an actual pigman, [[Grant Morrison]] introduced Professor Pyg to [[Batman]]'s [[Rogues Gallery]], who wears an incredibly disturbing pig mask. Of course, given his creator, the mask is the least disturbing aspect of [[Complete Monster|the character]]...
* Pigs occasionally turn up as characters in ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]''. Gunichi, the mentor who originally sponsored Usagi to Lord Mifume, who deserted them at the Battle of Aichi Plain and whom Usagi later tracked down and killed, was a
== Film ==▼
* While not an actual Pig Man, Jigsaw from the ''[[Saw]]'' films does have a rather disturbing pig's head mask that he is sometimes shown wearing along with his sinister longcoat.
* ''[[Time Bandits]]'': Evil turns Og into a half-pig half-man. Later [[Baleful Polymorph|he turns him entirely into a pig]].
* The movie ''[[Penelope]]'' is about a girl who is cursed with a pig's nose until she can find one who will love her as she is.
* Gammorreans in ''[[Star Wars]]'' are green-skinned pigmen who serve as [[Mooks]] for Jabba the Hutt. In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], they're a violent, primitive people that gravitates towards being Mooks or guards (in other terms, [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orcs]] [[Recycled in Space|in SPAAAACE!]]). The [[X Wing Series]] introduces the pilot Voort "Piggy" saBinring, whose brain chemistry was tampered with, making him a calm [[Genius Bruiser]].
* In ''[[Legend]]'', Pox was a (humanoid) [[Our Goblins Are
== Literature ==▼
* ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]'' had some pigmen.
* In a way, ''[[Animal Farm]]'' - but those were more like Manpigs (pigs who slowly became similar to men, walking on two
* The hyperpigs in [[Alastair Reynolds]]' ''Revelation Space'' universe (including Sparver in ''The Prefect'', who's [[Stealth Pun|a cop]]).
* In ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', a baby is so ugly he turns into a piglet. For such an ugly baby, he did make a rather handsome pig.
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** Similarly, ''The Pig-Man'' in a short story This Troper studied at school defied the juvenile narrator's horrified expectations by turning out to be a man who ''raised'' pigs.
* William Hope Hodgson's novel ''[[The House on the Borderland]]'' features an underground-dwelling tribe of monstrous pigmen as one of the sources of horror.
** For those who haven't read the novel: we don't actually ''know'' that they're a tribe, and it's hinted (for that horror-filled touch) that they're the lesser/younger versions of an evil
* [[Harry Potter]] had a greedy, chubby cousin whom Hagrid attempted to curse into one of these. However, Hagrid was too incompetent for that and only managed a tail.
* The [[
** And, in Paul Kidby's illustrations, a ring through his nose.
* Quite literary in ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', where pigs are spliced with human DNA in order to create ultra-large pigs who grow multiple human organs that are used for transplants. Some of them even have some human brain tissue, which makes them viciously intelligent. Of course, [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time]].
* A pig-man adventurer converses with Pookie and Spider in one of the short stories from ''[[Myth Adventures|Myth-Told Tales]]''. Presumably he's from a dimension where everyone is a pig-person, although his species and origin are never specified.
* In ''[[Nightside|Paths Not Taken]]'', one member of Herne the Hunter's bestial entourage is a boar-headed ogre called Hob In Chains. Not only is Hob an example of this trope, but he's attended by a mob of dimwitted lesser pig-men, who are implied to have once been human.
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* ''[[The Chronicle]]'' had a heroic hacker pigman. He was the consequence of government genetic manipulation.
* In ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Kramer theorizes there's a
* Three times for ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** "The Talons of Weng-Chiang"
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* One of the evil henchmen in ''[[Ace Lightning]]''.
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* One of the title characters in the Tonio K song ''Willy and the Pig Man'': "Champion of the luckless, lunchless, faceless little folk. You and me, know what I mean?"
* Paul Gray of [[Slipknot]] used this image with his early mask. His nickname was "The Pig".
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* [[The Rutles]] video for "Piggy In the Middle".
* [[Primus]]' video for "Mr. Krinkle" features frontman Les Claypool playing the cello in a pig mask.
== Sculpture ==
* A sculpture by Patricia Piccinini. Snopes has a pic of the sculpture, which is pure [[Nightmare Fuel]]. http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/family.asp
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* Before [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orcs were different]], the old-school ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' Orcs had piglike features and tusks.
** Wereboars have been part of D&D's monster roster for decades. Devil swine, from CD&D, are more obscure but have almost as long a history.
* The Farrow in [[Iron Kingdoms|the Iron Kingdoms setting]] are boar-men.
* GURPS Aliens leads off with the An Phar, who are a
== Video Games ==▼
* In ''[[Duke Nukem]]'', the LAPD is "mutated" into pigmen by the alien invaders, and renamed [[Fun with Acronyms|LARD]]. [[Take That|Subtle]].
* ''[[Manhunt]]''. The final boss is 'Piggsy', a psychopathic killer wearing a severed pig's head. [[Squick|And nothing else.]]
* Jade's "uncle" Pey'j (pictured above) in ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' is not only a heroic pigman, but a [[Large Ham]].
* The main enemies from the first ''[[Rocket Knight Adventures]]'' game are all pig-people.
* Both [[The Legend of Zelda|Ganon]] and the [[Our Goblins Are
** [[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|Do you know what it means when you lose your last
* The quillboars in ''[[Warcraft]]'' are a race of boar men. They also worship a gigantic boar.
* The Seeq of ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]''.
* The first level of ''Ghouls n' Ghosts'' has pigmen armed with pitchforks among the various enemies. If you stand directly below them, they will vomit on you.
* The Pigmasks of ''[[Mother 3]]''. They even grunt and squeal just like pigs! Used to [[Nightmare Fuel|unnerving effect]] in the Chimera Lab.
** Porky/Pokey in general, though he's a pig ''boy'' and is clearly more boy than pig. It's obvious, though, that the developers tried to make him as piggish as possible ''without'' making him a full-on
* ''[[Vagrant Story]]'' has [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Orcs]] that are absolutely pigmen, floppy ears and all. [http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/psx/vs/enemy/orc.gif See here.]
* ''Cyberswine'', which was about cop who was a machine-pig-human hybrid. It was based on a short-lived Australian comic book of the same name.
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* [[Akira Toriyama]]'s [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orc]] monster design from the ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series looks like an anthopomorphic, spear-wielding boar. It also bucks the "lowly minion" convention by usually being first encountered in mid-to-late game [[Random Encounters]], meaning just one could very easily mop the floor with starting or low-level characters.
* The Tom-Tom Gang from the ''Blinx'' series.
* The Swinefolk in ''[[Darkest Dungeon]]'', results of the Ancestor's failed experiments to summon entites from beyond and bind them to pig flesh, that formed a primitive civilization in the Warrens. Most of them are bipedal pigs with prehensile hands, except the Swine Wretch (very deformed with elongated arms it walks on) and the Swinetaur (centaurian form).
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Ellen meets one in her [http://egscomics.com/?date=2004-09-06 alternate universe dream.]
* Squigley, a [[The Stoner|stoner]] pig, is the only intelligent being so far shown in ''[[Sinfest]]'' who isn't human, isn't a spiritual being like God or Death, and (so far as we know) didn't become intelligent from being exposed to demonic power. His precise origins are uncertain, but it's worth noting that he becomes a true pig in the "[[Anti-Magic|reality zone]]."
* ''Future Pig'': The protagonist is this.
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* ''[[South Park]]'': ManBearPig.
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Chief Wiggum is pig-like in appearance, and was shown as a pig in two episodes: A ''Treehouse of Horror'' and a ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' parody. He complains that Sideshow Bob actually called him 'Chief Piggum' at one point.
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* Porky Pig of ''[[Looney Tunes]]''. Notably, Porky is the only long-running [[Looney Tunes]] animal character who doesn't ever 'play' an animal - if he's in a barnyard setting, he owns the farm. He often interacts in a world of humans as a peer.
** Same with Hamton from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''.
* Circe from ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' is an evil pig witch, whom, like her [[Classical Mythology]] counterpart, likes to turn her enemies into pigs. At the end of the episode she was in, {{spoiler|she is tricked into [[Furry Confusion|becoming a pig herself.]]}}
* ''[[Archer]]'' - Krieger created a pig-man hybrid. We never saw it; just saw Krieger gunning him down.
* The [[
* Sometimes appear on ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''. A recurring character is a pig-woman named Tammy, with a Southern accent.
** Another episode featured Rocko complaining about how his house has gotten to [[Trash of the Titans]] levels, comparing his house to a pigsty. A blue pig angrily asks (in a New Jersey accent) "You got a problem with that?!" before being kicked out of the house by Rocko.
** In the grocery-shopping episode, [[Carnivore Confusion|a pig butcher]] named [[Shout-Out|Marty]] is lamenting how lonely he is.
* Tibbles from ''[[The Owl House]]'', diminutive pig demon and recurring villain. Much like Eda, he is a [[Snake Oil Salesman]], but unlike Eda, not the [[Lovable Rogue]] type. He is [[Not Hyperbole| literally a capitalist pig]] in every way.
▲== Real Life ==
* There is a place called The Devil's Washbowl in Vermont, that, not only has bizarre weather (it's warm year round), but is also the supposed habitat of the Pig Man.
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