History Main / FullBoarAction

** [[Recap/OnePieceAmazonLilyArc Amazon Lily arc]]: as Luffy regain consciousness after his landing, he's spotted and stalked by a giant hungry boar who plans to eat him. However, it gets an OhCrap upon seeing Luffy breaking a hole in a cliff with a punch. Unfortunately for the pig, Luffy ends up eating it to quell his hunger.
** In the [[Recap/OnePieceLandOfWanoArc Land of Wano arc]], huge boars are part of Wano's fauna, alongside tigers, [[MixAndMatchCritters Crocosharks]] and other animals. A flashback shows the existance of the "Mountain God", a white, {{Kaiju}}-sized boar with sharp teeth who rampages through the Flower Capital swallowing people and buildings whole while looking [[PapaWolf for his kidnapped son]]. [[TheWorfEffect A young Kozuki Oden takes the heat and bisects the beast]] in order to save everyone, though it gets him banned from the capital. Surprisingly, a later chapter reveals that the Mountain God somehow survived, having its two halves stitched together. The SBS of volume 100 explains that Oden cut the beast so clean that it could be stitched together without issue.

** [[Recap/OnePieceAmazonLilyArc Amazon Lily arc]]: as Luffy regain consciousness after his landing, he's spotted and stalked by a giant hungry boar who plans to eat him. However, he gets an OhCrap upon seeing Luffy breaking a hole in a cliff with a punch. Unfortunately for the pig, Luffy ends up eating him to quell his hunger.
** In the [[Recap/OnePieceLandOfWanoArc Land of Wano arc]], huge boars are part of Wano's fauna, alongside tigers, [[MixAndMatchCritters Crocosharks]] and other animals. A flashback shows the existance of the "Mountain God", a {{Kaiju}} sized board with sharp teeth who rampages through the Flower Capital swallowing people and buildings whole while looking [[PapaWolf for his kidnapped son]]. [[TheWorfEffect A young Kozuki Oden takes the heat and bisects the beast]] in order to save everyone, though it gets him banned from the capital.

Basically, pigs with tusks and a personality to match. While non-tusked swine are generally shown as [[GluttonousPig gluttonous]] and [[MessyPig somewhat messy]], boars are generally seen as their AxCrazy cousins. This is TruthInTelevision, as wild boars are quite a bit larger than most people imagine, can be aggressive if startled or provoked, and are quite capable of killing a man. Boar-spears were designed with specially shaped spear-heads to keep the animal at arms' length because otherwise a boar could still kill you even after you'd stuck a spear through it, even if doing so involved it [[PullYourselfDownTheSpear charging down the spear and goring itself in the process]]. Even then, those spears were more commonly used by hunting nobility who were in it for sport, as traps were still much safer.

It's true, however, that sows might charge if they see their young menaced; but again, this is a common thing among wild mammals. Try to menace elk or deer fawns and you'll probably get a similar response. And nobody in Fictionland seems ever to consider that baby boars are among the cutest young mammals, with their brightly colored stripes. Never mind boars are among the most intelligent ungulates in RealLife, they are easily tamed if raised young and can be used in the same way as their domestic tusk-less descendants (like searching for truffles).

* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': The boar gods, brave but impetuous and impatient, who end up dying or succumbing to TheCorruption.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ryoga has faced wild boars on at least two occasions. His preferred tactic is stopping the rampaging pig in his tracks with the tip of his umbrella, then flip him up and away. Bystanders are always impressed. As well they should be: that boar was [[FoeTossingCharge tossing plow trucks]] like they were pillows, and neither Ryouga nor his umbrella budged one inch.
* ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'': While stuck in Purgatory, Meliodas and Ban meet a large, long-tusked boar named "Wild", who claims to be on a quest to find his lost little brother Mild. To showcase how stubborn he is, he reveals that he has been challenging the [[GodOfEvil Demon King]] to get out of Purgatory countless times, and yet, despite fighting a PhysicalGod, he hasn't give up hope yet. [[spoiler: His brother Mild is actually Hawk and the two are reunited after the death of the Demon King.]]

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has boar creatures, which like other powerful beasts tend to be Green (the color of nature), Red (the color of chaos and emotion) or both, a combination that usually results in fierce and powerful, but often simple-minded and easily riled, creatures. As a general rule, Green boars are focused around strength and vitality, while Red boars are themed around aggression and crushing power. They're usually characterized as powerful, short-tempered and fierce, and tend to be quite strong. Also, since they're essentially walking pork, many can also be sacrificed in order to gain a bit of life. ''"Loyal in battle, hearty in stew."''
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/bng/116/archetype-of-endurance Archetype of Endurance]] is a magical boar embodying strength and survival, and is described in its flavor text as an elusive survivor that hunts those who think they are hunting it.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/jou/90/bladetusk-boar Bladetusk Boar]] has massively overgrown tusks and shares a taste for human meat with the minotaurs that live in its territory.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/war/133/ilharg-the-raze-boar Illharg, the Raze-Boar]], is a giant boar god worshipped by the Gruul Clans of Ravnica, who believe that he will come one day to herald the End-Raze a great rampage that will level the world-city and replace it with a global wilderness.
** Innistrad is home to immense and truculent boars in its vast, trackless forests. [[https://scryfall.com/card/avr/186/nettle-swine Some of them]] grow so large that they can eat entire cottages whole.
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* The Boar in Rod Espinosa's classic ''ComicBook/TheCourageousPrincess''. He's an aversion in that he's actually quite a nice guy. Gives muddy kisses though.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} discovered in the ''Suicide Kings'' arc that Tombstone keeps a pack of giant, hyper-aggressive boars. Normally, they're used for disposing of bodies, but they'll happily eat live prey as well.
* The comics continuation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' introduced Coco, a gargoyle from the London clan who resembled a wild sow and was a pretty tough fighter.
* The monstrous, child-eating boar that haunted the town of Doglick in ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''.

* ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'': a series of strip has two soldiers, in a cold and snowy night, trying to find refuge in a pigsty... entirely occupied by a huge, menacing boar which won't let them through. After trying to get rid of him by burning his tail, they end up [[ExitPursuedByABear running away, chased by the ferocious hog]] who has uprooted the pigsty and is running after them.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' have [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Snarler Snarler]], a Pretender Beast Decepticon whose Pretender shell and alternate mode are boars (with the alternate mode having [[ThisIsaDrill drills for the snout and tusks]]). In the [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Beast Era]] we have [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Razorbeast Razorbeast]], a noble Maximal with a warthog alternate mode who was sadly infected by evil [[PsychoSerum Angolmois]] by the Blendtron Rartorata and became a feral berserker before being {{MercyKill}}ed by his teammate Optimus Minor. Even his longtime foe Magmatron was [[WorthyOpponent saddened by his death]].
* Gilbert Shelton's early superhero parody "Wonder Wart-Hog" - do not get on his bad side.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Queen Clea tries to have ComicBook/SteveTrevor killed by putting him in the arena with a group of large boars with unnaturally long tusks armed with only a sword. Luckily for Steve the beasts prove exceptionally unintelligent and he's able to kill all of them with nary a scratch.

* Subverted in ''ComicBook/{{Valhalla}}'', where Gullinbursti resemble a massive, golden pig rather than a feral boar, to compliment Freyr's status as a God of Farmers and Agriculture above all else.

* ''Fanfic/BreathOfTheWild'': As a fanmade novelization of the titular game, it of course plays this straight with Calamity Ganon, but this story gives an explanation for why Ganon/Ganondorf has a boar motif. [[spoiler: Calamity Ganon is really the enslaved soul of Ganondorf, the reincarnation of Groose from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''. He was meant to wield the power of darkness for good through the creation of the Boar Spirit of Power which would grow stronger with each reincarnation of Ganondorf, but Demise's curse corrupted him for thousands of years.]]
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': in the sequel's side-story, ''Unfinished Business'', [[spoiler: Nimue]] uses [[{{ComicBook/Venom}} symbiotes]] and dark magic on a number of her [[TheDragon Dragon's]] minions to turn them into adequate distractions for anyone who follows. One becomes an enormous reddish boar-like creature that's eight feet tall, four feet wide, and fifteen feet long with 'tusks like broadswords'. It also grows clawed tentacles. However, it's no match for [[spoiler: Carol wearing her now unlocked shield-armour, charged up by Gambit's powers]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/The3LittlePigsTheMovie'', some of the rowdy dinner guests are boars. Like the others, they aren’t amused after waiting over an hour for food, only to have Big Boss ''not'' give them [[spoiler: Wally & Beemo]], or at the very least a refund.
-->'''Boar Dinner Guest''': "So you take us for fools?!"

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': Snakebite Scruggs' hunting pig, Mojo, fits this trope to a "T," without question; at one point, he chases Shaggy and Scooby into a pit.
** Really, just the fact that he's used as a hunting animal should let you know that he's not a swine to be trifled with.

* ''Av: The Hunt:'' Part of this Turkish film takes place in a forest full of wild boar, which are never seen but are often heard. Different characters have different ideas of their threat level.

* Film/{{Boar}} is a 2017 Australian horror film about a young family that find themselves in the Australian countryside, being hunted by a bloodthirsty wild boar. It is generally regarded as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' (see below).

* In ''Film/{{The Chronicles Of Narnia}}'' films, wild boars briefly appear as fighters in Aslan's army.

* ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' has some of her soldiers in the moors ride on rhinoceros-sized warthogs during the battle scene.
* The direct-to-video American horror film ''Film/PigHunt'' likewise features a huge, man-eating boar. This time, it's the mascot of a sicko cult.
* The '80s Australian horror B-movie ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' features a giant boar which can literally run through houses and flip over cars.

* While not technically boars (or even Earth lifeforms), [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gammorean Gamorreans]] from ''Franchise/StarWars''. They're pig-like enough and are very mean.

* ''Literature/ArlyKanks'': Though tuskless, domesticated, and female, Raz Buchanon's pet pig Marjorie once bit the leg off a mule, and [[spoiler: chased a man out an upstairs window, causing his death]].

* In Creator/TeresaEdgerton's fantasies set in ''Literature/{{Celydonn}}'', talking pigs are frequently alluded to as a possible marvel; one two-headed and enormous boar does appear, and may even have spoken a few words (though they may have been grunts).

* Zhu Bajie (or just [[PigMan Pig]] in many English translations) from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''. Despite the popular name and many late depictions, in truer-to-the-text pictures he's definitively boar-like with hairs and tusks. Enforced when he uses his snout to uproot some demonic trees and when he transforms into an elephant-sized boar to eat his way through a hill worth of rotten fruit.

* In Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', the mythical Beast of London is said to have once been an ordinary pig that escaped from a butcher into the sewers, but has since grown to enormous size after centuries of gorging itself on sewage, its hide bristling with broken weapons from countless hunters who tried and failed to kill it. In the TV miniseries, it's a giant ox instead -- they wanted a boar, but as it turned out, modern-day British boars are just too damn...
-->'''Neil Gaiman:''' (disgusted) ...''cute''.

* In ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad Pawn of Prophecy]]'' by Creator/DavidEddings, Garion kills a boar and almost gets himself killed in the process.
* Creator/CliveBarker's "Literature/PigBloodBlues" features a huge man-eating sow that's [[spoiler: possessed by the ghost of a young criminal she'd half eaten after he'd hanged himself in her pen]].
* ''{{Literature/Redwall}}'': While actual boars don't appear in the series, one of the most famous Badger Lords was Boar the Fighter, who, as his name suggests, was quite the warrior, dying in a MutualKill against his nemesis (and as badgers are both berserkers and blacksmiths, it was Boar the Fighter who reforged Martin's sword from ThunderboltIron).

* In ''Literature/RobinHoodAndTheBeastsOfSherwood'' by Clayton Emery, Myth/RobinHood and his Merry Men have to contend with a gigantic wild boar - which they believe to be demonic - which is terrorising Sherwood and the surrounding countryside.

* In Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', [[spoiler: King Robert]] gets killed by a giant boar. [[spoiler:Though it turns out he was so over-inebriated that he missed the strike. Even then, he got pissed and stabbed the boar in the eye, killing it with a single strike of his dagger. Pretty predictable, considering he was once TheAce of knights and hunters.]]
** In ''Dances with Dragons'', Ser Barristan observes a gladiator fight between a "Pit Fighter" and a boar. The sword-wielding pit fighter manages a to give the boar a single wound before being killed by it, and Ser Barristan inwardly notes one can only kill a boar with a spear or arrows.

* In Meredith Ann Pierce's book ''Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood'', [[spoiler: the wizard]] turns into a giant gold boar and tries to kill Hannah.
* ''Literature/{{Tuskers}}'' by Duncan [=McGeary=] is a horror novel about mutated, [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever highly-aggressive]], [[ItCanThink highly-intelligent]] wild boars.

* At least one episode of A&E's ''Series/BillyTheExterminator'' involved the protagonists dealing with feral hogs damaging peoples' property.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - Sunnydale High's athletic team name was the Razorbacks (a common name with real life teams) - subverted in an early episode where the mascot was a cute piglet in a fierce costume.
* An episode of ''Series/CallOfTheWildman'' had the protagonists travel to New Orleans to help capture wild hogs that were running loose in the suburbs, their tactic of live-animal capture being particularly effective over traditional pig-hunting methods which don't work within city limits.

** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': A boar attacks Rhaenyra Targaryen during TheGrandHunt that was organized by her father. She's able to kill it with some help from Ser Criston Cole.
* In the episode [[Recap/HouseOfTheDragonS1E3SecondOfHisName "Second Of His Name"]] of ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', a boar attacks [[spoiler:Rhaenyra and Ser Criston Cole]] when the pair spend the night in the woods. It takes both of them to put the beast down.

* An episode of Creator/DiscoveryChannel's ''Series/SonsOfGuns'' had the Red Jacket crew design a rifle specifically for taking down feral hogs; the thing fires a .458 SOCOM round that's almost half an inch across in order to penetrate the boar's armor-like bone structure.

* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has Boar as a possible spirit for a pack totem. He's designed for packs of war.

* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'': Pey'J is a PigMan, a badass fighter and also [[spoiler: the head of LaResistance]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fate}}'', starting from the third game of the series the player can choose as a pet a miniature wild boar in lieu of a dog or a cat. It's sturdier than other pets. Wereboars are also common medium-level enemies in all games and ''The Cursed King'' even has giant armored boars as enemies.

* ''VideoGame/{{Nier}}'':

* ''VideoGame/Nioh2'': A new Guardian Spirit takes the form of a massive white boar with large tusks and red stripes over his eyes. It belongs to the boisterous Shibata Katsuie. [[spoiler: Who you later fight as a giant boar man with huge flaming tusks.]]

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' has Orthuses as the "zombie dog" of choice, though despite the name, niche and barking sounds more closely resemble horribly mutated wild pigs whose jaws hide massive barbed bear traps.

* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' has wild boars that appear in almost every map in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (see RealLife section below). Appearance-wise, they're the least scary-looking of all the mutants, but they're still GoddamnedBats because they will happily attack anybody and anything that aren't boar or Flesh-related or aren't zombies. They are always aggressive and their charge attack is quite damaging to even moderately armored players; additionally, they have a ton of health and tend to be found in packs. However, their large size makes it easy for players to get a clean shot, especially since their head allows players to try for a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] to deal [[CriticalHit critical damage]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesOf'': Boars' signature move is to lift you up with their tusks like a forklift and then throw you over their backs. (A real-world boar would run between your legs, slashing them with his tusks as he went.) A large boar was also featured in the beginning of ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', where hunting one caused the heroes not to be in town when it was [[DoomedHometown burned down]]. When you return to the future, you can hunt them freely, and they usually come with several children that, if you can catch them before they flee, drop large amounts of Pork.
* ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'': Act I features wild boars as commonly-encountered enemies, including large feral boars, even larger Dusk Boars and the grotesque Monstrous Boars, all equipped with humongous tusks. Usually, they're calm and only rush to attack when you kill a enemy near them. It's implied that Centaurs and Satyrs tend to sounders of boars. Act V, being set in the Norselands, has Hildnsvini as a major boss, appearing as a giant boar covered in golden armor plates.

* ''{{VideoGame/Valheim}}'': Boar are found in the Meadows biome, and unlike deer who flee on seeing an enemy, will actively charge them. They can be a threat to a naked and weaponless player, but they lack the HP to last more than a single hit from an axe. Fortunately they can be tamed since their meat and skin are in high demand.
* ''VideoGame/TheWindRoad'' has a gigantic boar alongside its handler as one half of a DualBoss.
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' has both summonable boars and anthropomorphized versions.
** ''VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft'' has ''tons'' of boars; it's actually possible to level from 1 to 70 killing nothing but [[UndergroundMonkey various forms of wild swine]], lampshaded in [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark "Make Love, Not Warcraft"]]. They also make good Hunter pets, if not the most stylish, with their high health and stun ability. The most extensive use of boars is in the Barrens, where the Quillboars, the anthropomorphic variant, train armored traditional boars and guard the body of their fallen boar god.
** [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Early]] ConceptArt of the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Worgen]] race before the Cataclysm expansion had their racial mount as massive boar...somethings. Proper boar mounts would later appear in the ''Warlords of Draenor'' expansion.

* ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus'': Wild boars can be found in certain areas and can be hunted for food (although they kill a hunter every now and then). However in certain missions (usually if you got on Artemis' bad side) you'd be plagued by the terrible Calydonian Boar, which is bigger, spits fireballs and can only be defeated by Theseus.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Boarbatusks are monstrous boars, both in terms of size and attitude. Like all Creatures of Grimm, they are exceptionally well-designed for killing humans. They are heavily furred and armour-plated on the top with huge tusks that would look more at home on elephants than pigs. They also have extremely powerful and long canine fangs, and a unique ability to attack by spinning their bodies like a Catherine Wheel. Their only weakness is a soft, unarmoured spot on their underbellies - which entails getting within goring range to actually hit.

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* In ''Webcomic/GhostOfTheGulag'', the main antagonists are a tribe of Russian wild boars at war with the Wolf clan. They are depicted being utterly massive, with their leader nearly twice the size of the Shadow Walker, who is a ''tiger.''
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive's'' "Death Sentence" arc has a magically grown boar rampaging in a forest near Moperville.
* In ''WebComic/HeroOhHero'', the bandit leaders [[CoolHorse ride]] acid spitting boars. [[spoiler: They're less impressive when defeated.]]

* [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the earth demonesse Sahne in Webcomic/SlightlyDamned who despite resembling a 12ft humanoid boar with horns is actually a [[GentleGiant friendly individual]] and (alongside her friend Lakritz) [[spoiler: [[DefectingForLove defect from hell]] to start a [[{{Polyamory}} polygamist family]] with the angel Kinako and her son.]]

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* One of the main Blog/{{Sandsverse}} entities is [[http://boarofthenorth100.tumblr.com/ Horace]], the Boar of the North, a [[ReligiousBruiser Catholic]] (apparently) [[AnimalisticAbomination boar entity]] that [[http://boarofthenorth100.tumblr.com/post/147220835009/boarofthenorth100-yes-goblins-and-baba-yaga-are defends the world from goblins, Baba Yaga, and the wendigo]] when not getting into arguments with Elmer the proboscis monkey.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' has an unusually-massive wild boar as the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Problem of the Week]] in one episode. [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething It takes the King himself to fight (and ride) the beast off of a cliff to save the day.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The boar-q-pine that attacked Appa in "Appa's Lost Days". It was only a third of his size, yet managed not only to hold its own, but actually wounded him (keep in mind that sky bison are stated to weigh ''ten tons''). Keep in mind, though, it was [[MixAndMatchCritters a hybrid of a porcupine and a collared peccary]], both of which are known to give a nasty surprise to anyone who dares disturb them. Even ''hitting it with a tree'' was not enough to dissuade it, and Appa only got it to back off when he threw it several hundred yards. The incident left him severely rattled, not to mention injured, and it took Suki and the rest of the Kyoshi Warriors to get him to trust people again.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Fire From Olympus", Maxie Zeus sends a boar after Batman. Given Maxie's obsession with Greek Mythology, it is likely his version of the Erymanthian Boar. Batman tries to lasso it, but it is too strong and ends up swinging him through a window.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bernard}}'': In one episode, Bernard was throwing fruit at monkeys who stole his food. One of the fruits hits a boar, angering it and sending it to attack Bernard.

* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': At the end of Season Three, Mandu is shown fully-grown — being the same size as the two Mute pigs who work for the Chevre Sisters and sporting an impressive set of tusks.
* [[ADogNamedDog Boar]], the main antagonist of the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' short "Secret of the Scroll" is an unstoppable warrior. He likes to remind the audience of this fact.
--> I am Boar! I am unstoppable! I am invis... incif... I AM BOAR!

* On ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Rocko is mistaken for a theater usher by a [[FunnyAnimal pig-woman]] named Tammy, who complains about a warthog dude smoking a cigar. Rocko (a small wallaby) has to tell the huge, grumpy warthog to put out his cigar.
--> "Pummel him! Smack him with your flashlight!"
** Somewhat subverted when the pig-woman throws both of them out of the theater, the warthog for smoking and Rocko for being useless.

* And there is the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' take on ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', after which tedious repetitive grind in [=MMOs=] is often referred to as Boar-killing amongst the community.

Need to make piggies much more badass? Simple, add tusks, fangs, more speed, and a bad attitude.

* Micro pigs have a similar problem. They are bred to be pets and are incredibly cute as piglets, but as they reach adulthood they become bloated hogs that weigh a couple hundred pounds, like a medium-sized dog. While they are considerably easier to raise than their livestock cousins, many owners are still unprepared to deal with their size and needs.

** During the war in Ukraine, a team of Russian saboteurs tried to cross the border with Belarus in the Chernobyl region, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/17v3rfo/boars_joined_beavers_in_defending_the_northern/ but they stumbled upon a heard of wild boars.]] On of them was pushed down by a boar and hits his head, leaving him dead.

* Boar hunting ("pigsticking") on horseback used to be a favorite sport for aristocrats and while it died out in Europe for lack of prey it hung on in India until comparatively recently.

** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrewsarchus Andrewsarchus]]'' may have looked the part as well, given it's been recently discovered it was a close relative of the entelodonts. However, given that it's only known from one skull and literally nothing else, to what extent is still under debate.
** Giant pigs form appeared in the fossil record several times, like ''Metridiochoerus'', an enormous warthog that lived in Africa during the Ice Age, and ''Kubanochoerus'', which was the largest pig to have ever existed, with males possessing a single horn on their foreheads for jousting each other.

* Feral pigs are one of the most dangerous and destructive invasive species in the world. Pigs are very hardy animals, can eat almost anything, and are restricted in environments only by the availability of water for drinking and bathing. They have no fear of humans, either. They also multiply like very large rabbits: a sow can have as many of three litters per year, of 8-16 piglets each. According to some estimates, just ''controlling'' a feral pig colony's population requires culling 90% of the pigs each year. In many places, pigs have become serious threats to both native animals and livestock: in Texas, for instance, feral pigs are responsible for the deaths of more lambs on sheep ranches than anything else. There's a damn good reason why many states have declared open season, no bag limit on feral hogs.
** However, in some places, like in the Pantanal, feral pigs are actually [[http://news.mongabay.com/2013/05/unconventional-swine-how-invasive-pigs-are-helping-preserve-biodiversity-in-the-pantanal/ good for both wildlife and humans]].
** Boar (and sow hunting) is a pretty dangerous sport, to the point that semi automatics are usually recommended wherever they are legal.[[note]]There are two parts to this though. One is that hogs are dangerous enough that a high capacity semi auto is necessary to stop a charging one. The other is that since there are so many pigs and they are so destructive that people prefer to be able to get as many shots of as possible on a sounder.[[/note]]

* In a different manner, some fighter-bombers by Republic Aviation have traditionally taken on a porcine nickname, such as the F-84 Thunderjet (known by some pilots as 'The Hog') and the F-105 Thunderchief (better known as the 'Ultra-Hog').
** This culminates to TheDreaded [[MightyGlacier A-10]] [[ImplacableMan Thunderbolt II]], which is also known as the 'Warthog.'

** During the [[Recap/OnePieceSkypieaArc Skypiea Arc]], the [[PestController South Bird hinders the Straw Hats by sending swarms, giant bugs and even a stampede of wild hogs in their way]], the last of which [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers is lampshaded by Nami]].

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The "wolves/wargs" that attack the Harfoot camp aren't canine creatures like their cousin from the Southlands, but they resemble more Entelodont, possessing tusks and hoofed feet.

** Wild boar are also native to large swathes of the Japanese countryside, and in the wake of the Fukushima accident, many wild boar emerged from the hills and forests to roam towns and cities temporarily evacuated to allow cleanup efforts to occur. Once they arrived, the boar population encountered and interbred with stray domestic pigs ([[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57655720 giving scientists an excellent chance to study how hybrid animal populations gradually breed out domestic genes]]) and getting up to other forms of mischief, smashing windows of houses and shops in search for food and generally being a bit of a nuisance towards construction workers and people trying to make the area safe to live in again. Contrary to some news reports, these boar are ''not'' radioactive; they're merely trying to take advantage of an abundant amount of space, relatively large amounts of food and less humans around to hunt them.
* Swine in general, particularly when cornered, can be very vicious.
** Peccaries -- not pigs themselves, but close relatives thereof -- are small and don't have external tusks, so they don't look menacing. Until [[http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000vMQSy9HqO8I/s/800/800/Collared-Peccary-Larry-Ditto-70K1979.jpg they open their mouths]], and you realise that there are around 20 of them together. They can drive away [[PantheraAwesome jaguars]], and jaguars are strong animals that wrestle caimans and bite through skulls.

** Micro pigs have a similar problem. They are bred to be pets and are incredibly cute as piglets, but as they reach adulthood they become bloated hogs that weigh a couple hundred pounds, like a medium-sized dog. While they are considerably easier to raise than their livestock cousins, many owners are still unprepared to deal with their size and needs.

** Once upon a time boar hunting was considered good training for British military officers because (quoting from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica) "a startled or angry wild boar is ... a desperate fighter [and therefore] the pig-sticker must possess a good eye, a steady hand, a firm seat, a cool head and a courageous heart."
** In the Middle Ages, back when boars were still relatively common in Europe, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_spear a specialized type of spear]] was developed to hunt them; its salient feature was a stout crossbar behind the head, meant to prevent the speared boar from [[TakingYouWithMe pushing itself down the shaft to attack the wielder]]. (A similar but longer and heavier type of spear was used to hunt [[BearsAreBadNews bears]], for much the same reason.)

** Giant pigs from appeared in the fossil record several times, like ''Metridiochoerus'', an enormous warthog that lived in Africa during the Ice Age, and ''Kubanochoerus'', which was the largest pig to have ever existed, with males possessing a single horn on their foreheads for jousting each other.

* ''VideoGame/TheWindRoad'' has a gigantic boar alongside it's handler as one half of a DualBoss.

The name [[http://www.yourdictionary.com/full-bore is]] JustForPun.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Queen Clea tries to have ComicBook/SteveTrevor killed by putting him in the arena with a group of large boars with unnaturally long tusks armed with only a sword. Luckily for Steve the beasts prove exceptionally unintelligent and he's able to kill all of them with nary a scratch.

* ''Fanfic/HuntersOfJustice'': RWBY and JNPR begin chapter 51 by fighting a giant, radioactive, mutated feral pig that they call Hogzilla alongside ComicBook/CaptainAtom, the Franchise/TeenTitans, and a small army of civilian hunters.

* In ''Literature/RobinHoodAndTheBeastsOfSherwood'' by Clayton Emery, RobinHood and his Merry Men have to contend with a gigantic wild boar - which they believe to be demonic - which is terrorising Sherwood and the surrounding countryside.

* Botan from ''Anime/{{Clannad}}'' averts the usual depiction of boars in media by proving that [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Everything's boar piglets can be quite cute]]. [[spoiler:Even when fully grown in ''After Story'', she's still an adorable kindergarten pet, letting small children ride around on her back.]]
* Inosuke Hashibira from ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' is human, but he's still [[AnimalMotifs heavily associated with boars]]. He wears a mask shaped like a boar's head almost constantly, he was [[RaisedByWolves raised by a wild sow]], and Tanjiro notes that he tends to aim low when striking an enemy much like a real wild boar would. His name is also a pun, since the first two kanji in his name (伊之) is pronounced the same as the Japanese word for boar (猪, "ino/inoshishi"). Personality-wise, he's very hot-headed and eager to challenge people to fights.
* There's a small handful of pig ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', but the most noteworthy is Vikaralamon, a {{kaiju}}-sized boar who stomped all over Shinjuku in ''Anime/DigimonTamers''.
** Continuing on that, there's also Boarmon, which appears to be a tank-sized boar... ''[[IncendiaryExponent that's on fire]]''. A horde of them attack the human world in ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' (along with some mecha pterodactyl Digimon), and served as a staple of the beast army in the ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' movie.
** Cho*Hakkaimon of ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' is a {{gender flip}}ped {{expy}} of [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Zhu Bajie]], a CuteMonsterGirl dressed in pig-shaped armour.
* Kagura Sohma of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' represents the Boar of the EasternZodiac, and [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting can turn into one when hugged by someone of the opposite sex]]. True to the trope, she's prone to violent outbursts, especially when it comes to her overbearing affection for Kyo.
* Zigzagged in ''Manga/KillingBites'' with a [[HalfHumanHybrid Brute]] named [[PunnyName Ino Shinji]], who can transform into a [[PigMan half-human half-Japanese Boar]] hybrid: while he is pretty hard-hitting, the narration helpfully points out that the Japanese Boars are actually extremely careful and timid beasts, capable of perceiving threats with their superior sense of smell, and thus Shinji is a rather careful and watchful fighter who does charge recklessly if he thinks he's lucky. Still suffers TheWorfEffect as Heiji, a Brute Ibex, can tank his charge with her horns while Gecko Brute Kaede brutally offs him with a NeckSnap.

* The boar gods in ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', brave but impetuous and impatient, who end up dying or succumbing to TheCorruption.
* Ryoga of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has faced wild boars on at least two occasions. His preferred tactic is stopping the rampaging pig in his tracks with the tip of his umbrella, then flip him up and away. Bystanders are always impressed.
** As well they should be: that boar was [[FoeTossingCharge tossing plow trucks]] like they were pillows, and neither Ryouga nor his umbrella budged one inch.
* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', while stuck in Purgatory, Meliodas and Ban meet a large, long-tusked boar named "Wild", who claims to be on a quest to find his lost little brother Mild. To showcase how stubborn he is, he reveals that he has been challenging the [[GodOfEvil Demon King]] to get out of Purgatory countless times, and yet, despite fighting a PhysicalGod, he hasn't give up hope yet. [[spoiler: His brother Mild is actually Hawk and the two are reunited after the death of the Demon King.]]
* A minor [[OurMonstersAreDifferent "Metamorphose"]] by the name of Fea appears in ''Manga/UshioAndTora'' during the H.A.M.M.R. arc as one of the monsters captured for study by the H.A.M.M.R. scientists and absorbed by the revived fragment of Hakumen. Fea resembles a feral boar monster with pointy teeth who can extend his tusks to humongous lenghts and apparently native of Greece.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has boar creatures, which like other powerful beasts tend to be Green (the color of nature), Red (the color of chaos and emotion) or both, a combination that usually results in fierce and powerful, but often simple-minded and easily riled, creatures. They're usually characterized as powerful, short-tempered and fierce, and tend to be quite strong. Also, since they're essentially walking pork, many can also be sacrificed in order to gain a bit of life. ''"Loyal in battle, hearty in stew."''

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Basically, pigs with tusks and a personality to match. While non-tusked swine are generally shown as [[GluttonousPig gluttonous]] and [[MessyPig somewhat messy]], boars are generally seen as their AxCrazy cousins. Why? Basically, pig noses are awesome and adding SpikesOfVillainy should only make them even more awesome!

This is TruthInTelevision, as wild boars can be dangerous and are quite capable of killing a man. Boar-spears were designed with specially shaped spear-heads to keep the animal at arms' length because otherwise a boar could still kill you even after you'd stuck a spear through it, even if doing so involved it [[PullYourselfDownTheSpear charging down the spear and goring itself in the process.]] Even then, those spears were more commonly used by hunting nobility who were in it for sport, as traps were still much safer.

* One of the main WebOriginal/{{Sandsverse}} entities is [[http://boarofthenorth100.tumblr.com/ Horace]], the Boar of the North, a [[ReligiousBruiser Catholic]] (apparently) [[AnimalisticAbomination boar entity]] that [[http://boarofthenorth100.tumblr.com/post/147220835009/boarofthenorth100-yes-goblins-and-baba-yaga-are defends the world from goblins, Baba Yaga, and the wendigo]] when not getting into arguments with Elmer the proboscis monkey.

* In Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', the Beast of London resembles an enormous boar.
** Only in the book, though; in the TV miniseries, it's a giant ox. They wanted a boar, but as it turned out, modern-day British boars are just too damn...

Need to make piggies much more badass? Simple, add tusks.