List of fictional pigs
From Academic Kids
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Pigs in Literature
- Babe in The Sheep-pig by Dick King-Smith (filmed as Babe)
- The "Dickery, dickery, dare" pig who flew up in the air in the nursery rhyme
- The Empress of Blandings, created by P. G. Wodehouse
- The fat pig, the buying of which was the reason for going to market in the nursery rhyme
- Freddy the Pig, in 26 different books by Walter R. Brooks
- Gaston and Joséphine, the young traveling pigs of Georges Duplaix's children's books of the same name, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky
- Gub-Gub, from Hugh Lofting's Dr Dolittle book series
- Habeas Corpus, Monk's pet in the Doc Savage adventures
- Hen-Wen (the fortune-telling pig) in the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
- Jodie, the phantom black pig with red eyes in The Amityville Horror
- The market-going little pig and his brethren in the nursery rhyme, who variously had roast beef or didn't, etc.
- Napoleon in Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Old Major in Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Snowball in Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Squealer in Animal Farm by George Orwell - also a copyrighted name of a Ty Inc, beanie baby
- Orson from the Jim Davis comic strip U.S. Acres
- Pig from the comic strip Pearls Before Swine
- Pig is the eponymous subject of a poem by Roald Dahl. Pig is also the title of a grisly short story by the same author.
- The pigs and swine of the "Birds of a feather" nursery rhyme
- Piglet in A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories.
- Pigling Bland of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Pigling Bland; also his mother Aunt Pettitoes; his brothers Alexander, Chin-chin and Stumpy; his sisters Cross-patch, Suck-suck, Yock-yock and Spot; and his girl friend Pig-wig
- Precocious Piggy, of Thomas Hood's poem by that name
- Preston the Pig, a GMA Accessories, Inc. bean-bag toy, which resembled Squealer
- Rasher, from the British comic strip Dennis the Menace
- Little Pig Robinson of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Little Pig Robinson; also his aunts Miss Dorcas and Miss Porcas, and his cousin Tom Pigg
- The Three Little Pigs
- Wilbur in Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
- Zhu Bajie, from Journey to the West
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Pigs in Film
- Babe in Babe and Babe: Pig in the City, both directed by George Miller
- Hampton J. Pig from Tiny Toon Adventures
- Petunia Pig, Porky Pig's girlfriend
- Piggy, Merrie Melodies character
- Piglet, from the Disney animated version of Winnie the Pooh
- Porky Pig
- The Three Little Pigs Silly Symphonies characters
- Porco Rosso, the title character from Hayao Miyazaki's anime film 紅の豚, or Kurenai no buta
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Pigs on Television
- Arnold Ziffel in the 1965 - 1971 sitcom Green Acres.
- Miss Piggy (and many others) in Jim Henson's The Muppet Show.
- Oolong in the Dragon Ball series.
- Pigsy in the TV Series Monkey
- Pinky and Perky (puppet pigs) who spoke like The Chipmunks, created by Czech immigrants Jan and Vlasta Dalibor (BBC television, from 1968)
- The mascot of Springfield A&M in The Simpsons.
- Abner from Hey Arnold!
- Huxley Pig. A daydreaming pig, who is friends with a seagull and a hampster.
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Pigs in Music
- "Piggy Pig Pig" from Procol Harum's album Home
- "Pigs on the Wing" and "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (only metaphorically pigs) in Pink Floyd's album Animals
- The "Pink Floyd pig"
- The metaphorical "War Pigs" in Black Sabbath's protest song
- "Pig" from Steve Vai's album Sex and Religion
- Still more metaphorical pigs in The Beatles' song "Piggies"
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Pigs in Video Games
- Pigma Dengar from the Nintendo game Star Fox
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