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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The surgeons in the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E6TheEyeOfTheBeholder The Eye of the Beholder]]". [[spoiler:The heroine is considered deformed because she doesn't look like this.]]

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The surgeons in the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E42TheEyeOfTheBeholder The Eye of the Beholder]]". [[spoiler:The hero is considered deformed because she doesn't look like this.]]

* The Kanamit are described as looking like bipedal pigs in Creator/DamonKnight's short story "To Serve Man". ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' dropped this aspect in [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan its adaptation]] because the crew couldn't find a non-silly way to show alien pigs.

* This was the appearance of Those We Do Not Speak Of in M. Night. Shyamalin's ''Film/TheVillage'', which were really costumes created most likely with wild boar skins and other items.

* In ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' episode "Squeal of Fortune", Jessica turns into a Pig Girl as KarmicTransformation for scamming lemonade customers by making them pay hefty prices before she tried auctioning off the "last" glass of lemonade (which had a very addictive mix made by Carl, the man responsible for Jessica's transformation).

* Sir Porga, an uplifted pig, is a member of the Knights of Wundagore in the MarvelUniverse.

In fantasy settings they may be a rare kind of were-animal, or just a pig-faced monster. Sometimes the work will call the Pig Man an [[OurOrcsAreDifferent "orc"]] -- this probably stems from the fact that orcs are often depicted as pug-nosed, tusked creatures and because of ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'', an RPG series that was and is extremely popular in Japan depicting them as Pigmen based off an illustration in 1st edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. There's also the similarity between the words "orc" and "pork", strengthening the connection (even though the two words are etymologically unrelated). In more futuristic settings, they'll be the product of genetic manipulation; these are usually human with "pig" added to them, but it could be the other way around. Either way, they're used as [[JustForPun grunts]], they have little intelligence, and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman they can be slaughtered by the hundreds with no moral implications]].

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest:''

* Tellarites in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe. Not evil (in fact, along with the humans, Andorians and Vulcans they founded the Federation), but incredibly arrogant and argumentative. Thanks to their BlueAndOrangeMorality, they consider insults and blustering arrogance good manners, and find excessively "polite" behaviour somewhat offensive. The Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse expands on this to prove that pride is a virtue to them, not a vice. In the Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers novels, Fabian Stevens insists he finds racist jokes about the Tellarite-pig resemblance tasteless, yet he seems to have an awfully enormous collection of them stored away in his mind. He would never accuse Tellarite team-member Tev of [[IncrediblyLamePun "hogging the glory"]], oh no...

* One recruitable ally in ''VideoGame/TokyoAfterschoolSummoners'' is a boar man named Gouryou/[[DubNameChange Ganglie]], who takes direct inspiration from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'''s character Pigsy. Though he's not as bad as his inspiration - unlike Pigsy he was never evil - he's still a [[BigBeautifulMan chubby]], [[LazyBum lazy]], [[UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness slobbish]], [[NunTooHoly corrupt]] [[TheAlcoholic drunkard]] CasanovaWannabe who spends his time trying to flirt it up with [[AnythingThatMoves pretty much anyone available]] rather than fulfilling his duties as a monk.

* ''Manga/HoshinEngi'': one of [[spoiler:Joka's]] Yokai Sennin minions is a pig monster who becomes absurdly powerful when exposed to a power boost. He still is burnt to ashes by Nento Dojin.

* ''Manga/HoshinEngi'', one of [[spoiler:Joka's]] Yokai Sennin minions is a pig monster who becomes absurdly powerful when exposed to a power boost. He still is burnt to ashes by Nento Dojin.

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'', one of [[spoiler: Jouka's]] Youkai Sennin minions is a pig monster who becomes absurdly powerful when exposed to a power boost. He still is burnt to ashes by Nento Dojin.

** Hayao Miyazaki often drew people as pigs, [[https://i.imgur.com/ZZipBfe.jpg including the historical German tank commander Otto Carius]].

** Gamorreans are green-skinned pigmen who serve as {{Mooks}} for Jabba the Hutt. In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, they're a violent, primitive people that gravitates towards being Mooks or guards. The ''Literature/XWingSeries'' introduces the pilot Voort "Piggy" saBinring, whose brain chemistry was tampered with, making him a calm GeniusBruiser (although he will revert to his basic instincts if critically wounded and/or someone tries to assassinate a higher officer during a briefing, as an unlucky brainwashed Twi'lek officer discovered). Also, according to WordOfGod, they are so primitive that even bribing them will not work in getting them to betray their boss, explaining why they are so popular to have as guards. The depiction of Gamorreans is somewhat inconsistent, with a few individuals being civilized enough to work in modern society, while most Gamorreans (especially on their homeworld Gamor) are completely tribal. Female Gamorreans are depicted as somewhat smarter and less innately aggressive than males, but still less intelligent than the average human.

* Website/TheOtherWiki tells us of the legends of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig-faced_women pig-faced women]], whose existence was believed as late as the early 19th century. In the typical versions of the story, a pig-faced woman is depicted as an otherwise fair, gentle and intelligent lady who happens to have been born with the head and voice of a pig, and thus can find no suitor.

** Rashers, half of an early-game DualBoss in ''DragonQuestVII'', as well as his PalleteSwap clones that appear later as normal enemies.

* Pigma Dengar from the ''VideoGame/StarFox'' series.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Chief Wiggum is pig-like in appearance, and was shown as a pig in two episodes: A ''Treehouse of Horror'' and a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' parody. He complains that Sideshow Bob actually called him 'Chief Piggum' at one point. When [[LateToThePunchline he finally gets the joke]], he [[ActuallyPrettyFunny actually found it funny]] and when sprayed with mace in another episode, he actually screams "Ow, my snout! My beautiful snout!".

* Kichikujima:Kaoru who wears a pig Mask all the time and later Ami Murata who is a Pig woman that Kaoru marries.

* Kichikujima:Kaoru who wears a pig Mask all the time and lady Ami Murata who is a Pig woman that Kaoru marries.

** Rashers, half of an early-game DualBoss, as well as his PalleteSwap clones that appear later as normal enemies.

* Creator/AkiraToriyama's [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orc]] monster design from the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series looks like an anthopomorphic, spear-wielding boar. It also bucks the "lowly minion" convention by usually being first met in mid-to-late game RandomEncounters, meaning just one could very easily mop the floor with starting or low-level characters.

** ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' features recurring villain Meat Sweats, a former TV chef who [[I'mAHumanitarian cooks and eats other mutants in order to gain their powers.]]

Subtrope of BeastMan. Compare HalfHumanHybrid, FullBoarAction, GovernmentConspiracy and CorruptCorporateExecutive. Oh, also BeautyEqualsGoodness, {{Mooks}} and HollywoodEvolution.

* PervertedPig, for more lecherous and creepy portrayals of porcines.

Subtrope of BeastMan. Compare HalfHumanHybrid, FullBoarAction, GovernmentConspiracy and CorruptCorporateExecutive. Oh, also BeautyEqualsGoodness, {{Mooks}} and HollywoodEvolution. See FullBoarAction for swine that aren't part human and are crazy anyway. See also MessyPig and PolicePig.

* The surgeons in the "Eye of the Beholder" episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. [[spoiler: The hero is considered deformed because she doesn't look like this.]]

* The Orcs in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' are pig-men with red skin. In one episode of NEXT, they were even cooked and served in a restaurant! Not that they taste good, mind you...

* Orcs in ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'' are a race of muscular pig [[OneGenderRace women]] with tusks and [[BlackComedyRape absurdly high libidos]].

* In LightNovel/{{Sword Art Online}}'s Alicization arc, due to the fact that Underworld is based pretty heavily on Tabletop RPG and Dragon Quest type games there are, of course, Orcs. Much like the common Japanese depiction, these Orcs appear as anthropomorphic pigs.

* The Kanamit are described as looking like bipedal pigs in Creator/DamonKnight's short story "To Serve Man". ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' dropped this aspect in its adaptation because the crew couldn't find a non-silly way to show alien pigs.
* The Iberian Orcs of ''LightNovel/TheWeaknessOfBeatriceTheLevelCapHolySwordswoman''. They're three to four metres tall and nearly as wide, and are incredibly strong. Unlike many depictions, they are peaceful in nature, only killing in self-defense or to eat.
* Orcs in ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon?'', on the other hand, are also piglike, about as big, and aggressive and powerful enough to serve as a BeefGate for adventurers trying to go from the upper levels of the Dungeon to the middle ones.

In fantasy settings they may be a rare kind of were-animal, or just a pig-faced monster. Sometimes the work will call the Pig Man an [[OurOrcsAreDifferent "orc"]] -- this probably stems from the fact that orcs are often depicted as pug-nosed, tusked creatures and because of ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'', a RPG series that was and is very popular in Japan depicting them as Pigmen based off an illustration in 1st edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. There's also the similarity between the words "orc" and "pork", strengthening the connection (even though the two words are etymologically unrelated). In more futuristic settings, they'll be the product of genetic manipulation; these are usually human with "pig" added to them, but it could be the other way around. Either way, they're used as [[JustForPun grunts]], they have little intelligence, and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman they can be slaughtered by the hundreds with no moral implications]].

Due to their association with Orcs and to negative cultural associations of their animal nature, [[SinisterSwine pig men are often cast as villains]]. Heroic pig men also exist, although they typically have somewhat slovenly characteristics and act as antiheroes. Heroic pig men typically represent men in their late forties, and as such tend to have jaded or hard boiled personalities. They may also have positive characteristics which are typically associated with this demographic, such as jolliness and caring parental traits. The villains in these cases will typically also be cruel, vain, narcissists; Uncle Pey'j from ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' who went up against trumped up military officials (among others), and Anime/PorcoRosso who went up against a cocky fascist fighter pilot are examples of anti-heroic pigs with awful adversaries.

If the character is young then they will represent a chubby child, and may be subject to bullying if they are sympathetic characters, or be bullies if they are non-sympathetic. In fantasy stories heroic pig men will typically be turncoats who have defected from an evil force. For this reason they may go through ostracization or racial stigmatization. Tragic is the story of the Pig Man [[DefectorFromDecadence who escapes his evil masters]] and tries to live a human life; they'll usually be [[TheGrotesque outcasts who will never know what it's like to be loved]].

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 [[MenAreUncultured boorish and]] [[GuysAreSlobs disgusting]], and of course pigs are not considered the most attractive animal; BeautyIsNeverTarnished 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. If there are any,

** Hayao Miyazaki frequently drew people as pigs, [[https://i.imgur.com/ZZipBfe.jpg including the historical German tank commander Otto Carius]].

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' had Ryouga, who turns into a pig at comically appropriate times.

* There's a few pig minks (minks are basically animal people) on Totto Land's WCI 31 in ''Manga/OnePiece''.

* King Ton of ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}''; When Kin was a baby, a pig got aboard his family's spaceship, and in the confusion Kin was stranded on Earth. That pig grew up to become a powerhouse that defeated Kin's father King Kinniku and took over the Kinniku Planet. Kin's first duty was defeat Ton and win back the throne...failing miserably. Luckily, the butcher the pig escaped from all those years ago showed up and chased him away, allowing King Kinniku to retake his title. King Ton was briefly mentioned in ''Manga/KinnikumanNisei'' as a student of the Hercules Factory alongside the other Justice Choujin.

* ''Anime/Ulysses31'': Much like in ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', Circe turns the crew of Ulysses into pigs creatures. In this case, it's zombified humanoid pigs. She uses all the people she turns into humanoid pigs as slaves to build her ever expanding tower.

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* ComicBook/GreenLantern has a heroic and villainous example in Kilowog and Larfleeze, respectively. Although neither of them explicitly look like a pig, the porcine appearance is there; Kilowog looking more like a domestic pig and Larfleeze looking more like a warthog. Though [[DependingOnTheArtist some artists]] make Larfleeze look more like a horse or a rat.

* Porker Lewis from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' who, interestingly enough, started off as a cute non-anthro pig and gained more human traits as the comic went on. Also of note, even after becoming taller and gaining clothes, he kept his pig trotter hands before the writers realized that, being the secondary tech genius of the group, he needed fingers.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Diana visits an allegorical possible future in which Paradise Island is invaded by aliens who are humanoid with pig-like heads.
* In the ''[[Magazine/RedDwarf Red Dwarf Smegazine]]'' comic strip "Evolution", a DevolutionDevice turns Lister's bacon sandwich into a pig, and reversing the effect turns the pig into an attractive woman with pink skin and pig ears. When Lister attempts to flirt with her, she points out that he was about to eat her, and puts herself in a [[HumanPopsicle stasis booth]] until other pigs have evolved as far as her.

* The movie ''Film/Penelope2006'' is about a girl who is cursed with a pig's nose until she can find one who will love her as she is.

** Gamorreans are green-skinned pigmen who serve as {{Mooks}} for Jabba the Hutt. In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, they're a violent, primitive people that gravitates towards being Mooks or guards. The ''Literature/XWingSeries'' introduces the pilot Voort "Piggy" saBinring, whose brain chemistry was tampered with, making him a calm GeniusBruiser (although he will revert to his basic instincts if critically wounded and/or someone tries to assassinate a higher officer during a briefing, as an unlucky brainwashed Twi'lek officer discovered). Also, according to WordOfGod, they are so primitive that even bribing them will not work in getting them to betray their boss, explaining why they are so popular to have as guards. The depiction of Gamorreans is somewhat inconsistent, with a few individuals being civilized enough to operate in modern society, while most Gamorreans (especially on their homeworld Gamor) are completely tribal. Female Gamorreans are depicted as somewhat smarter and less innately aggressive than males, but still less intelligent than the average human.

* ''Film/ArtOfTheDead'': While attempting to escape from the {{Portal Painting}}s, Kim and the kids have to get past the porcine embodiment of gluttony.

* A pig-man adventurer converses with Pookie and Spider in one of the short stories from ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth-Told Tales]]''. Presumably he's from a dimension where everyone is a pig-person, although his species and origin are never specified.

** The ''Hawkmoon'' series of novels by Moorcock has the armies of [=GranBretan=], a sort of chaotic fascist version of Britain, seeking to conquer the world. Its legions and regiments wear stylised helmets in animal likenesses and the most brutal and cruel of all is the Legion of the Boar, in stylised full-face pig-helmets.

* The Pudgy Pig was one of the earliest [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Week]] to oppose the ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. (He looked like a large pigs head with arms and legs, wearing a Spartan helmet. And he [[VillainousGlutton had an unlimited appetite.]])

* Tellarites in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe. Not evil (in fact, along with the humans, Andorians and Vulcans they founded the Federation), but incredibly arrogant and argumentative. Thanks to their BlueAndOrangeMorality, they consider insults and blustering arrogance good manners, and find excessively "polite" behaviour somewhat offensive. The Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse expands on this to demonstrate that pride is a virtue to them, not a vice. In the Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers novels, Fabian Stevens insists he finds racist jokes about the Tellarite-pig resemblance tasteless, yet he seems to have an awfully large collection of them stored away in his mind. He would never accuse Tellarite team-member Tev of [[IncrediblyLamePun "hogging the glory"]], oh no...
* The surgeons in the "Eye of the Beholder" episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. [[spoiler:The heroine is considered deformed because she doesn't look like this.]]

* Music/{{Primus}}' video for "Mr. Krinkle" features frontman Les Claypool playing the double bass in a pig mask.

* In the legends describing Alexander the Great's India campaigns he and his men encounter a creature that is described as a hulking humanoid boar creature. They attempt to trap it by [[DistractedByTheSexy having a beautiful woman lure it into an ambush.]] However that plan goes pear-shaped when the boar-man takes off with the woman and starts eating her alive, forcing Alexander and his troops to chase it down and kill it with spears.

* In ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'', the LAPD is "mutated" into pigmen by the alien invaders, and renamed [[FunWithAcronyms LARD]]. [[TakeThat Subtle]].
* Boris the pig from ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'', a porcine-man boss who uses [[BladeOnARope meat cleavers on chains]] as a weapon and can use his oversized guts to perform a BellyFlopCrushing. He returns in the prequel game, ''VideoGame/DustyRagingFist'', but {{degraded|boss}} into a one-shot enemy.

** Ganon(dorf)'s minions have also tended to become more and more porcine over the series' history. The Moblins started out as humanoid ''bulldogs'', but gained piglike designs in ''A Link to the Past'' that they retained in most later games. The smaller Bokoblins debuted in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' as pretty standard fantasy goblins with porcine noses, dropped this trait in later appearances, and then went to being full-on Pig Men in ''Breath of the Wild''. Hinoxes, which in all previous games had just been cyclopes, are also redesigned in ''Breath of the Wild'' to be supersized Bokoblins with one eye and small tusks.

** Regular Piglins are also residents of the Nether, and unlike Zombified Piglins, they will attack you on sight, making it an interesting case where the zombie variant is actually ''less'' hostile. Thankfully, they have a [[GoldFever massive fondness for gold]], and wearing any gold armor will make them neutral towards you -- as long as you don't open any chests or mine gold around them. Once neutral, the player can barter items with them using gold ingots.
** Oddly, the zombie versions have existed since the Nether was added (in 2010) but the living piglins took until the Nether got overhauled an entire decade later, in 2019-2020. This is because "Pigmen" were originally planned to inhabit the Overworld villages, but were tabled in favor of the more humanoid Villagers, and it took years for the concept to come up again.

* Creator/AkiraToriyama's [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orc]] monster design from the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' 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 RandomEncounters, meaning just one could very easily mop the floor with starting or low-level characters.

* Giant pigmen with boar heads called Orks are encountered in the Windward Forest halfway through ''Quest 64''. Their offspring, Ork Jrs., are encountered somewhat earlier.

** Ogrim are a [[GiantMook massive]] form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] that are as [[DumbMuscle dim-witted as they are strong]], and possess [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent generally reptilian traits]] including scales, horns, spikes. ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]'' adds some pig-like facial features to their mix.

* Boarmen appears as rare, EliteMooks in ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'' as part of the army of monsters marching on Athens. They're both tall and broad, come in different colors (reddish, black and white) and are all considered champion monsters, attacking with GroundPound and sometimes [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]]. The first you encounter, Cepharis, is a boss you must kill to complete a quest in Delphi.

* ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend'', a duology of games based on ''Journey to the West'', has Zhu Bajie as one of the playable characters. He's surprisingly {{acrofatic}} and can kick plenty of ass with his trusty rake, and serves as TheBigGuy among the bunch of playable heroes.

* In ''Videogame/WeirdWest'', Pigmen are the result of a profane ritual in which corpses are mutilated with pig parts stitched onto them and are reanimated into monstrous humanoids. One of the protagonists is a Pigman who has somehow managed to retain his ability to think but cannot remember who he was.

* Squigley, a [[TheStoner stoner]] pig, is the only intelligent being so far shown in ''Webcomic/{{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 "[[AntiMagic reality zone]]."

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': [=ManBearPig=] is half this and half bear. Or he might be half man and half bear-pig; or half man, half bear and half pig.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Chief Wiggum is pig-like in appearance, and was shown as a pig in two episodes: A ''Treehouse of Horror'' and a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' parody. He complains that Sideshow Bob actually called him 'Chief Piggum' at one point. When [[LateToThePunchline he finally get the joke]], he [[ActuallyPrettyFunny actually found it funny]] and when sprayed with mace in another episode, he actually screams "Ow, my snout! My beautiful snout!".

** In the episode "No Pain No Gain," [[CelebrityStar Richard Simmons]] is [[InksuitActor animated as one of these]], and teaches an aerobics class at the health club Rocko and Heffer are trying to get into.

* Odd variation in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' with Pigleg, a quasi-villainous man with a fully-formed pig as a leg. He has a big collection of pig figurines because he once said he liked pigs, and friends and associates stared buying them as gifts - it just kind of snowballed.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has [[PunnyName Jean]] [[BilingualBonus Bon]], a good-natured pig man who owns a diner. Courage spends most of the episode wrongly (for once) believing that Jean Bon is dangerous. [[spoiler:His wife on the other hand is a different story, if her saying she wants to "sink [her] teeth into that cute little dog" is any clue.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/SuperMansion'' episode "Home is Where the Shart Is" starts with a flashback where Titanium Rex and the 1940's roster of the League of Freedom were chained above a pit of lava as Hitler planned to kill them with a porcine supervillain called Schwein Kampf. Instead, Schwein Kampf turns on Hitler due to growing sick of Hitler repeatedly insulting him for being a humanoid pig and throws Hitler into the lava in response to Titanium Rex confirming that Schwein Kampf is far from the only person who hates Hitler. Because of Schwein Kampf killing Hitler, Titanium Rex encourages the government to establish a law that villains are absolved of their criminal charges after doing heroic deeds, which in the present time causes Titanium Rex frustration when the law he started has made it so that he is obligated to share his mansion with the Injustice Club because of their hand in thwarting the Subtopian invasion. This leads to Titanium Rex asking Robobot to spy on Schwein Kampf in hopes of finding proof that the pig-man has committed felonies since his exoneration and therefore give clout to repeal the law.