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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]].

 

{{examples|Some of the Pigmen of our time:}}

* 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.

 

* 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.

* Zampano the chimera from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', who looks human most of the time but can transform into a Pig Man at will.

 

* ''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.

* 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 Pig Man. There's also [[Zatoichi|Zato-Ino,]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the Blind Swordspig.]]

 

* 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]].

* In ''[[Legend]]'', Pox was a (humanoid) [[Our Goblins Are Wickeder|goblin]] with a pig's head.

 

* ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]'' had some pigmen.

* 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.

** 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 Pig Man ''god'' who turns up later in the novel, possibly as the primary antagonist. (It's a '''long''' story.)

* [[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.

** And, in Paul Kidby's illustrations, a ring through his nose.

* 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.

 

* ''[[The Chronicle]]'' had a heroic hacker pigman. He was the consequence of government genetic manipulation.

* In ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Kramer theorizes there's a Pig Man inhabiting a hospital, but it's just a man with pig-like features. Jerry specifically mentions the possible [[Fetish]] consequences.

* One of the evil henchmen in ''[[Ace Lightning]]''.

 

* 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".

 

* [[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

 

* 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.

* GURPS Aliens leads off with the An Phar, who are a Pig Man race with significant quirks (such as the social habit of bathing, individually and in groups, several times a day).

 

* 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.]]

* 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).

 

* 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.

 

* ''[[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.

* 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.

 

* 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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