History Main / ThePigPen

* Gunner Jurgen from the ''CiaphasCain'' novels fits this to a tee. He is exempt from normal Imperial Guard peacetime cleanliness regulations due to a variety of skin conditions. Other than Cain himself, nobody wants to be around him. [[spoiler: Of course that has more to do with Jurgen being a soulless AntiMagic pariah, but his filthiness tends to be what people fixate on when they feel repelled by him.]]

* Followers of Nurgle in ''{{Warhammer}}'' take pride in being physically filthy and disease-ridden (morally filthy to boot).
** Also Pariahs, most notably [[CiaphasCain Gunner Jurgen]]. They usually aren't really filthy, but this is a common way people instinctively perceive them due to their lack of souls.
** In Jurgen's case, though, he really ''is'' that filthy physically as well. Watching him eat is described as "not for the faint of heart".

* Smudge (Cascão) from the Brazilian comic ''MonicasGang'' (''Turma da Mônica'') had as his personal gimmick the fact he ''never'' took a shower. ''Ever'', since he was born. An early comic strip implies Smudge took a bath as a Mother's Day gift, a cover of his comic book once shown him washing his hands... and in the [[SpinoffBabies spinoff teenagers]] series, he [[CharacterDerailment bathes once in a while]]. Though he's still not quite into it, as he himself once said:

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Fun fact: Louis XIV only bathed twice in his entire life. ''Twice''. And he hated both of them. [[HorribleHistories The story goes]] that he once had his socks removed and he was so mouldy that one of his toes dropped off.

Krillin also [[spoiler: had to ''fart in Bacterian's face'', meaning that Bacterian could handle only his ''own'' stench.]] But the other ways Bacterian fought...[[{{TearJerker}} poor]], [[{{NauseaFuel}} poor]] [[{{TheWoobie}} Krillin]]...

* Murdoc of {{Gorillaz}} is notoriously [[CleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness unhygienic]].

* Baldrick, the increasingly BumblingSidekick from ''BlackAdder'', who got progressively filthier as each season went by -- to the point where you can barely find a clean patch of skin on his face in the fourth season.\\
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His Georgian ancestor is so disgusting that the ancient Greeks simply mistook Pandora's Box for his trousers, which he has never changed. He admits that, "They can get a bit whiffy!" In ''Blackadder Back and Forth'' his underwear is responible for wiping out the dinosaurs.

->"''You call it Dirt. I call it a Healthy Coating Of Earth.''"
-->--'''Toph''', '''''AvatarTheLastAirbender'''''

* In the first tournament arc of ''{{Dragonball}}'', Krillin faces off against Bacterian, a huge fat guy whose main superpower is the unbearable stench emanating from his person due to the fact that he supposedly has never bathed once in his entire life. [[spoiler: Krillin eventually manages to beat him when he's reminded by Goku that ''he doesn't have a nose'', and thus can't smell him.]]
** Mind you that Krillin also [[spoiler: had to ''fart in Bacterian's face'', meaning that Bacterian could handle only his OWN stench.]] But the other ways Bacterian fought...[[{{TearJerker}} poor]], [[{{NauseaFuel}} poor]] [[{{TheWoobie}} Krillin]]...

* [[http://www.toonhound.com/pongalongapongo.htm Pongo Snodgrass]], a 70's-80's British comics character who loved filth and all things putrid, and was also something of a schemer.

* Beldin from ''TheBelgariad'', although that was a side effect of his main trait (ugliness), rather than his main trait itself: He just didn't care about his appearance, and he rejected civilized behavior to the extent that he'd pour food out of a bowl onto the ground to eat it.

* The Utods in Brian Aldiss's satirical science fiction novel ''The Dark Light Years'' are a highly intelligent race whose biology requires that they spend most of the time wallowing in their own excrement. This makes their first encounter with humans... interesting.

* Harry King from the ''{{Discworld}}'' series. Said to need three baths just to get dirty. It's what happens when you made your fortune in garbage. He dotes on his daughters, which is usually considered to be his way of apologizing for being their father.

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* In early Middle Ages, the people surprisingly ''weren't'' this at least to the extent seen today, as public baths were an important social function to all classes of the society. After a while the church found out that prostitution was practiced in them, and some doctors connected (partially correctly) some of the epidemics to communal bathing. As result, washing yourself came considered to be both immoral and unhealthy well into the 18th, or even 19th century.
** I beg you to tell me they connected bathing and cleanliness to venereal disease.
** Just epidemics in general, not specifically venereal disease (though the aforementioned prostitution plus the introduction of syphilis from the New World was likely an oblique vector that also occurred in bathhouses...at least as long as the victim didn't yet have the body-covering pustules and severe psychosis that characterized the disease in that era). If you get significant populations of people clustered about in the same room bathing with the same water, though, it's only natural to expect pathogens to spread from the perspective of our modern understanding of germ theory.
** Fun fact: Louis XIV only bathed twice in his entire life. ''Twice''. And he hated both of them. [[HorribleHistories The story goes]] that he once had his socks removed and he was so mouldy that one of his toes dropped off.
* Crust punks. They justify their refusal to bathe for a number of reasons, the government controls the water supply, hair products tested on animals, being downright broke.
* {{Kesha}}'s [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-4433-ke24ha/ public image]]. SheCleansUpNicely, though.

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* Phil and Lil from ''{{Rugrats}}'' loved to play in mud and garbage, and ate worms.
** They really ate anything they could get their hands on. Lil eventually grew out of her habits but as of ''AllGrownUp'' Phil is the same.

* One episode of ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' had Buttercup refusing to take a bath. She got so filthy that the townsfolk chased her with TorchesAndPitchforks.
** Even the MonsterOfTheWeek refused to fight her. ''That's'' what forced her to clean up.
* ''MuchaLucha'' had The Flea, whose special wrestling move was really bad odor.
** His outfit is actually white, but his lifestyle is so dirty it's become consistently brown all over.
** I thought his signature wrestling move was ''The Blazing Turkey of Glory!''

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* ''GegegeNoKitaro'' - Nezumi Otoko is stated to have never taken a bath in three hundred years, and the older Manga specifically states that he has [[NauseaFuel hookworms and other lovely diseases]] from this filth. His stench has been known to make humans pass out, and once an entire TV News Studio had to wear gas masks in order to interview him. it's not his only character trait, but one of his most noticeable.

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* ''{{Watchmen}}'' - Rorschach. Other characters frequently complain about it, but his only concession is to pour cologne over the grime.

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* Scores of peasants in ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. "He must be a king...[[TheDungAges he hasn't got shit all over him]]."

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* In early Middle Ages, the people surprisingly ''weren't'' this at least to the extent seen today, as public baths were an important social function to all classes of the society. After a while the church found out that prostitution was practiced in them, and some doctors connected (partially correctly) some of the epidemics to communal bathing. As result, washing yourself came considered to be both immoral and unhealthy well into the 18th, or even 19th century.

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* Phlegm of the WhateleyUniverse, whose main characteristic seems to be that he's always covered in a couple inches of, well, mucus. And it oozes out of his clothing.

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** They really ate anything they could get their hands on. Lil eventually grew out of her habits but as of ''AllGrownUp'' Phil is the same.

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[[caption-width:250:[[BlatantLies Nah, he won't have health issues later in life...]]]]

-->--Toph, '''''AvatarTheLastAirbender'''''

Simply put, a character whose overwhelming trait is that he or she is absolutely filthy. Not filthy in morals, behaviors or ethics, but someone whose body is actually covered in filth. The person might have other qualities as well, but their filthiness has to be bad in relation to the rest of the cast, or at least the setting. There is a good chance that they are not pleasant to look at.

Named after the ''{{Peanuts}}'' character Pig-Pen (pictured left), who was always surrounded by a cloud of dust and has been seen going from "perfectly clean" to "covered in dust" while walking down the road or (most absurdly) ''in a rainstorm''.

Also see [[{{ptitley72npfsy}} Men Can't Keep House]]. Not to be confused with this [[MindScrew disturbingly brilliant]] {{Newgrounds}} [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/524064 animation]].

* [[GegegeNoKitaro Nezumi Otoko]] is stated to have never taken a bath in three hundred years, and the older Manga specifically states that he has [[NauseaFuel hookworms and other lovely diseases]] from this filth. His stench has been known to make humans pass out, and once an entire TV News Studio had to wear gas masks in order to interview him. it's not his only character trait, but one of his most noticeable.

* Smudge (Cascão) from the Brazilian comic ''MonicasGang'' (''Turma da Mônica'') had as his personal gimmick the fact he ''never'' took a shower. ''Ever'', since he was born.
** Although a ''really'' early comic strip implies Smudge took a bath as a Mother's Day gift, a cover of his comic book once shown him washing his hands... and in the [[SpinoffBabies spinoff teenagers]] series, he [[CharacterDerailment bathes once in a while]]. Though he's still not quite into it, as he himself once said:

** From the same series, villain Captain Fray (Capitão Feio) (who has a barely remembered origin as Smudge's uncle).

* [[{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]], though that's not his only characteristic. Other characters frequently complain about it, but his only concession is to pour cologne over the grime.
* The French (Spanish? It's made by Spaniards for a French market...) comic ''{{Blacksad}}'' features a rather whiffy weasel journalist named Weekly. His nickname derives from a joke circulating the office, that this is how often he bathes.

* The Utods in BrianAldiss's satirical science fiction novel ''The Dark Light Years'' are a highly intelligent race whose biology requires that they spend most of the time wallowing in their own excrement. This makes their first encounter with humans... interesting.

* ''{{Callan}}'' had Lonely, so called because he never took a bath. As well as being the best informer in London, he made great coffee.
* [[TheBaldrick Baldrick]] from ''BlackAdder'', who got progressively filthier as each season went by (to the point where you can barely find a clean patch of skin on his face in the fourth season.
** In fairness, he was a squaddie in the trenches of the First World War, so it's not surprising that he's filthy. His Georgian ancestor, however, is so disgusting that the ancient Greeks simply mistook Pandora's Box for his trousers, which he has never changed. He admits that, "{{Understatement They can get a bit whiffy!}}"
*** Not to mention, ''Blackadder Back and Forth'', where his ''underwear is responible for wiping out the dinosaurs''.

* In DickTracy, B. O. Plenty was a recurring character who wore hideously shabby clothes and had a noticeable stench about him. Must not have been so bad, though, since he married Gravel Gertie and had a daughter, Sparkle Plenty, by her.
* HagarTheHorrible has multiple examples: Hagar himself, of course, and also a character [[CharactersAsDevice based on this trope]] called Dirty Dirk who is even dirtier. Of course, the strip is set in TheDungAges, so this kind of bad hygiene is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] on anyone's part.

** Fun fact: Louis XIV only bathed twice in his entire life. ''Twice''. And he hated both of them.

** In fairness, he was a squaddie in the trenches of the First World War, so it's not surprising that he's filthy. His Georgian ancestor, however, is so disgusting that the ancient Greeks simply mistook Pandora's Box for his trousers.

Also see [[{{ptitley72npfsy}} Men Can't Keep House]].

* ''{{Moyashimon}}'' - Aoi Mutō

* In the ''[[SayonaraZetsubouSensei Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' {{OVA}} we're introduced to [[NeatFreak Kitsu]] [[ControlFreak Chiri's]] older sister, Kitsu Tane, who became ThePigPen and godess over the TrashOfTheTitans trope by choice in order to save the life of their gold fish, which Chiri had decided to clean (using shampoo). Unfortunally for Tane, she had to maintain this behavior for so many years, it eventually got stuck (litterarily, trash seems to follow her around) and now she can't even take proper care of herself... She once appeared on TV in a ''How Clean Is Your House'' like show.

[[caption-width:250:Nah, he won't have health issues later in life...]]

* HagarTheHorrible has multiple examples: Hagar himself, of course, and also a character [[CharactersAsDevice based on this trope]] called Dirty Dirk who is even dirtier. Of course, the strip is set in TheDungAges, so this kind of bad hygiene is [[Justified justified]] on anyone's part.

* HagarTheHorrible has multiple examples: Hagar himself, of course, and also a character [[CharacterAsDevice based on this trope]] called Dirty Dirk who is even dirtier. Of course, the strip is set in TheDungAges, so this kind of bad hygiene is [[Justified justified]] on anyone's part.