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Peter Porker
Peter Porker
The Spectacular Spider-Ham
First Appearance: Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham #1 (August, 1983)
Peter Porker was a regular anthropomorphic spider whom, after being bitten by accidentally irradiated May Porker, transformed into an anthropomorphic pig, while still retaining the abilities of a spider.
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: In his new mini at the end of 2019, he's developed a very swelled head from working to save the multiverse in Web-Warriors. It's long since gotten on every other hero's last nerve and they can barely tolerate his company, to his total obliviousness.
- Alternate Species Counterpart: Spider-Ham is Spider-Man as a cartoon pig.
- Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Aside from the fact that he's a Funny Animal variant of the Trope Namer, Peter Porker actually used to be a spider. He just got bitten by an irradiated May Porker.
- Interspecies Romance: Peter Porker, a spider mutated into an anthropomorphic pig, has fallen for a bat named Batty Brant, a water buffalo named Mary Jane Waterbuffalo, a catfish named Black Catfish, and a crane named Mary Crane Watsow.
- Pig Man: He's an anthropomorphic pig.
- A Pig Named "Porkchop": Peter Porker is obviously named after pork, the food product from a pig.
Pork Grind
Pork Grind
First Appearance: Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham #1 (August, 1983)
Debut: What The—?! #20
An Austrian Hog who traveled "all the way from Austria" to destroy Spider-Ham
- The Ahnold: Pork Grind is an Affectionate Parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger, being extremely muscular and speaking in a thick Austrian accent.
- Full-Boar Action: He's an anthropomorphic boar with spider-powers, although whether he's bonded to Earth-8311's version of the Venom symbiote is unclear.
- Funny Animal: Like the other inhabitants of Earth-8311, he's an anthropomorphic animal.
- Pig Man: Like Spider-Ham, he's an anthropomorphic pig... except Pork Grind is massively bigger and has tusks.
- Toon Physics: Pork Grind studied at Toon U in order to learn how to fight using cartoon physics.
