History Main / GluttonousPig

* An early PorkyPig cartoon has him being punished in an IronicHell for stealing a pie by being force fed. Another one shows him going to a hospital, claiming to have eaten too much at a birthday party and gotten a stomach ache; an x-ray of his stomach shows a birthday cake [[RuleOfFunny with candles still lit.]]

* Chihiro's parents in ''SpiritedAway'' turn into pigs after gorging themselves on the spirits' food.

* Averted in ''MrsPiggleWiggle''. She has a pig named "Lester," whose sole purpose is to teach children to use their best table manners by setting a good example.

* PinkFloyd's "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" follows the gluttonous for power variant from ''Animal Farm''. (the real life targets are thinly veiled, except the third one, which goes straight "Hey you [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse Whitehouse]]!")

Interestingly, in Judaism pigs are actually a symbol of ''[[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]]'': they are said in Literature/TheTalmud to be the only animals with cloven hooves that don’t ruminate[[note]]Not true: okapis fit this description as well[[/note]], so a pig displays its hooves and claim to be pure while not so[[note]]Mammals need to have cloven hooves and ruminate to be kosher; you can read more about it [[UsefulNotes/Judaism here]][[/note]]. However, due to a more global version of EaglelandOsmosis, this trope is very well-known among Jews, to the point that ''khazirút''[[note]]חזירות[[/note]] (lit. ‘swinery’) is essentially Modern Hebrew for ‘avarice’.

Interestingly, in Judaism pigs are actually a symbol of ''[[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]]'': they are said in Literature/TheTalmud to be the only animals with cloven hooves that don’t ruminate[[note]]Not true: okapis fit this description as well]], so a pig displays its hooves and claim to be pure while not so. However, due to a more global version of EaglelandOsmosis, this trope is very well-known among Jews, to the point that ''khazirút''[[note]]חזירות[[/note]] (lit. ‘swinery’) is essentially Modern Hebrew for ‘avarice’.

* ''JourneyToTheWest''. Zhu Bajie is a [[PigMan half man/half pig]] who, among other things, is quite gluttonous.
* In George Orwell's ''AnimalFarm'' the first thing the pigs do when they seize power is keep the milk and apples for themselves. They are also prone to alcoholism and Squealer becomes enormously fat by the end of the book.

* Hawk from Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai prides himself as this as he is the one in charge of cleaning leftovers.

* The pigs in ''AngryBirds'', particularly in the spin-off holiday comics. The 2011 Christmas comic has the pig king thinking that the meaning of Christmas is for him to eat all day long. In the games, if they'd just give up on eating the eggs and run for it, they'd save themselves a world of hurt.

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* Squigley from ''{{Sinfest}}''. One of his main flaws is eating a lot of junk food.

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* In the U.S. Acres shorts on GarfieldAndFriends, Orson defies this trope, but his brothers play it straight by stealing food whenever they can.
* Hoggish Greedly from ''CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' is a very piggish human rather than an anthro pig, but otherwise fits the trope with both greed, gluttony and table manners.
* A pig-woman in the ''RockosModernLife'' episode "Popcorn Pandemonium" pulled the AndADietCoke routine after ordering a large amount of snacks for herself at the movie theater.

* An early PorkyPig cartoon has him being punished in an IronicHell for stealing a pie by being force fed.

Subtrope to BigEater and, in some cases, ExtremeOmnivore. Supertrope to FedToPigs, where the pigs' gluttonous nature is used [[EatTheEvidence as a means]] [[DisposingOfABody to dispose of bodies]]. For another common porcine AnimalStereotype, see MessyPig. For a trope related to boars, see FullBoarAction.

* The film adaptation of ''DoctorDolittle'' has the titular character openly hating this Trope as it holds to a negative stereotype about an entire species and reduces them to a simple insult (along with other animal-based insults like "Stubborn as a mule" or "Stupid as an ox"). When his ability to talk to animals lands him in court for being accused of insanity, he complains to the judge (Who's a BigEater) that the term should be changed to "eating like a man."

* In George Orwell's ''AnimalFarm'' the first thing the pigs do when they seize power is keep the milk and apples for themselves. They are also prone to alcoholism and Squealer becomes enormously fat by the end of the book.

* In George Orwell's AnimalFarm the first thing the pigs do when they seize power is keep the milk and apples for themselves. They are also prone to alcoholism and Squealer becomes enormously fat by the end of the book.

* Horkos of ''ShinMegamiTensei'' fame is a demon pig/dragon hybrid wearing a crown and cape and wielding a staff. Oh, and he [[VillainousGlutton loves to]] [[ExtremeOmnivore eat]].

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If a pig is anthropomorphic, expect them to eat a lot of junk food, in a [[{{Anvilicious}} poignant]] [[TakeThat commentary]] on the low quality of mass-produced food, or on modern consumer society, or something like that. In a crossover with MessyPig, such anthropomorphic swine usually have JabbaTableManners, burping, snorting and farting all the time.

* A pig-woman in the ''RockosModernLife'' episode "Popcorn Pandemonium" pulled the AndADietCola routine after ordering a large amount of snacks for herself at the movie theater.

If a pig is anthropomorphic, expect them to eat a lot of junk food, in a [[{{Anvilicious}} poignant]] [[TakeThat commentary]] on the low quality of mass-produced food, or on modern consumer society, or something like that. In a crossover with MessyPig, such anthropomorphic swine usually have disgusting table manners, burping, snorting and farting all the time.

* An early PorkyPig cartoon has him being punished in Hell for stealing a pie.

* Squigley from ''{{Sinfest}}''. One of his main flaws is eating a lot of junk food.

* In George Orwell's Animalfarm the first thing the pigs do when they seize powere is keep the milk and apples for themselves. They are also prone to alcoholism and Squealer becomes enormously fat by the end of the book.

* ''JourneyToTheWest''. Zhu Bajie is a [[PigMan half man/half pig]] who, among other things, is quite gluttonous.