Piglet is a fictional character from A. A. Milne's Winnie‑the‑Pooh
books. Piglet is Winnie‑the‑Pooh's closest friend amongst all the
toys/animals featured in the stories. Despite the fact that he is a
"Very Small Animal" of a generally timid disposition, he tries to be
brave and on occasion conquers his fears.
Piglet is introduced in the text from Chapter III of Winnie‑the‑Pooh,
although he is shown earlier in one of the illustrations for Chapter
II. He also appears in Chapters V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X, as well as
every chapter of The House at Pooh Corner. Piglet is best friends with Pooh and is also especially close to Christopher Robin and the rest of the main characters.
Like most of the characters, Piglet was based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals. In the original color versions of Ernest H. Shepard's
illustrations in the Winnie‑the‑Pooh books, Piglet has pale pink skin
and a green jumper. He is smaller than most animals, being only slightly
taller than Roo. His voice is described as "squeaky".
Piglet's adventures in the first book include hunting Woozles, attempting to capture Heffalumps, giving Eeyore
a birthday balloon (popped), impersonating Roo in an attempt to trick
Kanga, joining the Expotition to the North Pole, and being trapped by a
flood. In the second book, he helps build a house for Eeyore, meets Tigger, finds Small while trapped in a gravel pit, plays Poohsticks, gets lost in the mist, and helps rescue Pooh and Owl
after they are trapped in Owl's fallen house. For that last feat,
Piglet is the subject of a seven-verse "Respectful Pooh Song" that Pooh
composes for him.
Piglet himself can read and write, at least well enough for short notes. In the illustrations for The House at Pooh Corner,
it appears that Piglet spells his own name "Piglit", although it is
rendered as "Piglet" in the actual text even when describing his
signature. In one chapter, Piglet is referred to as "Henry Pootel" by
Christopher Robin, who claimed to not recognize Piglet after he was
thoroughly cleaned by Kanga. Eeyore likes to refer to him as "Little Piglet".
Piglet's favorite food is acorns
(or as the book often spells it, "haycorns"). At one point he plants
one just outside his house, in hopes of someday having a handy supply.
He lives in a house in a beech tree in the Hundred Acre Wood,
next to a sign which says "TRESPASSERS W". An illustration shows that
the sign is broken off after the "W." According to Piglet, that is
"short for Trespassers Will, which is short for Trespassers William,"
which was the name of his grandfather. Later in The House at Pooh Corner,
Eeyore mistakenly offers Piglet's house as a new home for Owl, after
Owl's house had blown down. Piglet nobly agrees to let Owl have the
house, at which point Pooh asks Piglet to live with him and Piglet
accepts.
Piglet was originally omitted by Disney in the first Pooh film, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966). According to the film's director, Wolfgang Reitherman, Piglet was replaced by Gopher, which was thought to have a more "folksy, all-American, grass-roots image".[2]
Many familiar with the classic Milne books protested Disney's decision
to exclude Piglet, and Disney relented. Piglet appeared in the next Pooh
film, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968). Disney's interpretation of Piglet has pink skin and a magenta jumper.
His fears and nervousness are played up more, as he runs and hides when
unnecessary and often stutters when nervous. He has a lot of hidden
courage and often faces danger to help others, even when afraid. Stories
about him tend to revolve around these traits as well as his small
size.
In the Disney cartoons, Piglet loves beautiful things like flowers,
is very kindhearted and is obsessed with keeping things neat and tidy.
He sometimes has an inferiority complex, although his friends think
highly of him. However, he is often left performing tasks better suited
to someone bigger and stronger, such as in several episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh or the 2011 film.
Piglet can be found at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
for meet and greets. He appears less frequently than Pooh, Tigger, and
Eeyore, but more than Rabbit. Piglet also made a brief cameo in the 1988
movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He was featured as one of the guests in House of Mouse.
A postage stamp showing Piglet and Winnie‑the‑Pooh as they appear in the Russian adaptation
In the Soviet Union, three Winnie‑the‑Pooh stories, (transcribed in Russian as "Vinni Pukh") (Russian language: Винни-Пух), were made into a celebrated trilogy[4] of short films by Soyuzmultfilm (directed by Fyodor Khitruk) from 1969 to 1972. In all three films Piglet, renamed Pyatachok (Пятачок) and voiced by Iya Savvina,
is Pooh's constant companion, even taking Christopher Robin's place in
the story adapted from Chapter I (concerning Pooh and the honey tree).
Unlike the Disney adaptations, the animators did not base their
depictions of the characters on Shepard's illustrations, creating a
different look.
Influence on popular culture
The Te of Piglet was written by Benjamin Hoff following the publication of The Tao of Pooh. Both books feature the original drawing of E. H. Shepard. The Te of Piglet details Piglet's exemplification of the Taoist concept of "virtue of the small." In 1982, whilst studying at Oxford University as an undergraduate, the columnist and commentator Andrew Sullivan adopted the persona of Piglet in holding office in the University Pooh Sticks Club as cited in the 1987 book "The Oxford Myth" [5] .
Piglet
may be small in size but he has the biggest heart in the Hundred Acre
Wood. This soft-spoken, s-s-steady friend’s generosity leads this timid
character to some large adventures.
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Piglet is a character from A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books and is featured in many Disney productions. He is a baby pig who is the best friend of Winnie-the-Pooh. John Fiedler provided the voice for Piglet from 1968 until his death. His last appearance as Piglet's voice was in Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie). Travis Oates has provided Piglet's voice since Fielder's death.
Background
Although featured in every Disney interpretation of Winnie-the-Pooh,
Piglet was originally omitted by Disney in the first Pooh film, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
(1966). According to the film's director, Wolfgang Reitherman, Piglet
was replaced by Gopher, which was thought to have a more "folksy,
all-American, grass-roots image."
In the series, he is shown to live in a large home in a beech
tree. According to Piglet, the home once belonged to his Grandfather,
who was named "Trespassers William". Though he apparently gives the home
to Owl in the first film, other media show that he still resides there.
Personality
Piglet's main characteristic is his timidity and his fearfulness. In
particular, Piglet dislikes dark woods and strong winds. Although Piglet
is extremely cowardly, he joins Pooh and friends on their many
adventures, and tries his best to conquer his fears. In many situations
Piglet is the only one that can save the day; he may hesitate at first
but will eventually come through.
Design
Piglet is pink all over, with darker pink ears. He is usually seen in
a pink, striped jumper. He is considered to be a "Very Small Animal"
due to him being the smallest (other than Roo) out of the friends.
Piglet first appears in the short Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. Piglet is seen sweeping his lawn until a strong wind blows him away. Piglet is rescued by Pooh,
who holds him by the thread of Piglet's scarf. Piglet later appears
during the flood. He is trapped in his home due to the flood, and so he
sends out a message for help. Meanwhile, he begins floating away on the
chair he is on. Christopher Robin
receives the message, and sends Owl to find Piglet. Piglet is almost
killed by a massive waterfall, but luckily falls into Pooh's honey pot.
Piglet and Pooh finally arrive at Christopher Robin's home, where Pooh
is credited with Piglet's rescue.
After the flood, Eeyore mistakenly believes Piglet's home to be Owl's new home, as Owl
had lost his due to the strong winds. Instead of correcting Eeyore,
Piglet gives up his home for Owl. Christopher then throws a hero party
in honor of Pooh who saved Piglet using his honey pot and Piglet for
giving Owl a new home. Piglet then goes on to live with Pooh.
Piglet later appears in the segment Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!. He goes with Pooh, and Rabbit during the plan to lose Tigger.
Piglet, Pooh, and Rabbit become lost themselves. When Rabbit wanders
off, Piglet follows Pooh home. Later on, Piglet and Pooh are out
walking, when they discover Tigger and Roo
stuck in a tree. Piglet and Pooh get Christopher Robin's help in
getting them down. Later, Piglet is seen bouncing alongside the others.
Piglet is one of the main characters in the TV series, appearing in
almost every episode. He has several episodes that revolve around him.
Most revolve around his timidity or his small size. In the episode Piglet who would be king, a family portrait of Piglet with his parents can be seen.
Piglet goes with the other friends to find Christopher Robin who is
believed to be held captive by a vicious dinosaur-like monster. In the
film, Piglet realizes through the adventure that he is braver than he
thinks.
Piglet is first seen at home attempting to warm up his home for the
harsh winter heading his way. Piglet later joins Rabbit's pulley system
to remove an over sized boulder off Eeyore's home. The plan is destroyed
accidentally by Tigger and when the gang try to explain why it's so
difficult to bounce with Tigger, Piglet stutters constantly afraid to
reveal his thoughts. Piglet follows Pooh and Eeyore to search for
Tigger's real family.
Owl's note leads Tigger to think it's from actual Tiggers and
Piglet disguises himself as a Tigger and visits Tigger along with his
friends. The group are exposed and Tigger leaves. Piglet convinces
Rabbit to lead the group to search for Tigger. After an avalanche Piglet
and his friends reveal themselves to be Tigger's actual family.
Piglet made a few cameos, voiced by John Fielder. In the episode
"Suddenly Hades" Piglet is briefly seen being blown away by wind from
"Blustery Day" unleashed by Pete.
In "Turkey Day", Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore had just finished their
evening meal having Piglet comment that he's stuff. Right after a turkey
is seen running away from Gus Goose having Eeyore reply "Not as stuff as he's gonna be."
Little Piglet watches his friends set up a big plan to gather some
honey. Piglet tries to join but his friends don't need him. Their plan
becomes a disaster as the bees begin to attack. Using a fake hive,
Piglet bottles up the bees but gets no credit as his friends didn't see
anything happen. Sadden, Piglet goes off wishing he was more
appreciated. After gaining enough confidence to see his friends again he
finds that they are gone. Piglet's friends has gone out thinking Piglet
ran away and uses his scrapbook to find him.
They learn Piglet is responsible for most of the great things
that occurred in the woods. He saved Roo who was nearly swept away by a
river. Piglet was also the first one to meet and greet the newly moved
in Kanga and Roo as well as create a beautiful home for his friend
Eeyore. Despite all his work he never gained any credit and no one ever
noticed it was all his doings. Pooh Bear tries to receive Piglet's
scrapbook for a log over a waterfall and nearly falls to his death but
rescued by Piglet. Piglet is given a party and so honored that he tears
up finally seeing his friends realize his great accomplishments.
Piglet panics after a loud and unfamiliar noise awakens him and the
other residents of the Hundred Acre Woods. He's horrified to learn that
noise was from a longtime enemy, Heffalumps. Piglet reluctantly joins
the friends on a quest to capture the creature and even says He wishes
to be Roo who cannot join the quest being to dangerous. To make sure he
doesn't get lost, Piglet leaves a trail of jellybeans but they are eaten
by Pooh Bear. After rejoining Rabbit and Tigger, Piglet claims to see a
Heffalump and rushes to safety with his friends.
The gang find evidence that a Heffalump has been in their own
homes and begins to panic until Rabbit advises the idea to create traps.
Piglet assists and is rather calm to find out a mother Heffalump was
searching for her baby. Piglet is finally relaxed and becomes friends
with the gang's former enemies.
Piglet appears in the sequel to Pooh's Heffalump Movie, where he tries to help Lumpy understand the fact that Halloween is a fun adventurous holiday. In the middle of the film, the story of "Winnie the Pooh Boo to You Too" is retold by Roo to Lumpy to help him find braveness in his heart, believing if Piglet can conquer his fears so can Lumpy.
Piglet played a supporting role in the computer animated series. He
was shown to be the Super Sleuth's closest ally, and had many mysterious
and problems for them to solve. The series marks the first time
Piglet's voice was provided by Travis Oates.
While placing a picture of him and Pooh on the wall, Piglet receives a
message informing him of a meeting to take place. At the meeting,
Piglet and his friends learn that poor Eeyore has lost his tail again
and that a reward (honey) shall be given for its recovery. Piglet
suggests using their balloon "friend" but Eeyore's weight is unable to
keep the balloon from floating up and carrying him along with it. Later
on, Piglet and his friends are seen at Owl's house, presenting the
latter with the honey reward for using a chalkboard as Eeyore's new
tail. Just then, Pooh arrives with an alert message from Christopher
Robin. According to Owl, the boy has been captured by a creature known
as The Backson. To save their friend, the gang sets out on a hunt for
the beast. While Rabbit, Kango, Owl, and Roo set bait trails, Pooh and
Piglet begin to set traps.
Later on, Pooh falls into a pit trap. In a rescue attempt,
Rabbit, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga, and Roo become trapped as well. Piglet is
left above ground and is told by Rabbit to find something to free them.
Piglet finds a rope but when Rabbit tells him to save them all, Piglet
cuts the rope into individual pieces. With a now useless rope, Piglet is
told to go over to Christopher Robin's house to find some more rope.
Reluctantly, Piglet sets off and runs into what he believes to be a
Backson. However, it was merely Tigger in a Backson costume but Piglet
was too afraid to notice.
Piglet accidentally falls into the pit as well, with Tigger
falling behind. Inside, Pooh uses the textbook letters Piglet
accidentally knocked down to form a latter. After their freed,
Christopher Robin arrives and explains that he was only at school for
the day. While at Owl's house, Pooh finally finds Eeyore's tail and a
massive jar of honey is rewarded by Piglet in the others.
Piglet can be found at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
for meet and greets. He appears less frequently than Pooh, Tigger, and
Eeyore, but he is more common than the rarely-seen Rabbit.
Piglet appears in the dark ride as an audio animatronic. Piglet is
seen being blown away by the wind, like the film and Tigger attempting
to rescue him. Piglet is seen again attending Pooh's birthday party.
Piglet appears in Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts II.
In the English version of Kingdom Hearts, Piglet was
voiced by his original voice actor, John Fiedler. Fiedler, up to that
point, had done Piglet's voice ever since Piglet's first appearance in
"Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" (1968). However, Fiedler died
before Kingdom Hearts II was dubbed into English, and so Travis
Oates (Piglet's current official voice) took over the role for the
second game. Coincidentally, Tigger's original voice actor, Paul
Winchell, who unlike Fiedler, didn't reprise his role due to having long
retired from acting by then, passed away the day before Fiedler himself
died.
Kingdom Hearts
When Sora
entered Winnie the Pooh's storybook, a world inside a world, he found
that all of Pooh's friends had disappeared from the story, leaving Pooh
all alone. To help his new friend, Sora ventured to other worlds and
collected pages of Pooh's story. Piglet was on the first page Sora
found; he, like Pooh, was very confused about being suddenly separated
from his friends and home. As Sora approached Piglet to talk with him,
Piglet ran away in shock, having been intimidated by Sora's stature.
However, Sora mentioned that he was friends with Pooh, which coaxed
Piglet from his hiding place. When Pooh arrived, Piglet revealed that he
had brought Pooh a balloon; this was to help Pooh float up to the top
of his favorite honey tree to get some food for himself, which he
eventually did with Sora's assistance. Piglet later appeared throughout
the other pages Sora collected, joining in the escapades on each page.
When Sora finally put the final page into the book, Piglet was very
curious as to why Sora had to leave, as none of the Hundred Acre Wood
residents have any knowledge of the world outside of the pages they live
in. Sora simply explained that he had to go find his friends, which
Piglet understood, wishing Sora luck and extending an invitation for him
to return to the Hundred Acre Wood soon.
Once again, the Heartless
scattered the pages of Pooh's book across the worlds, though this time
the characters seemed unaware that this had occurred. Sora found Piglet
near his house, being blown about by the blustery winds of the day.
Piglet was very distressed to realize that Pooh did not remember who he
was, not realizing that Pooh was suffering from a case of amnesia
brought on by the Heartless' careless handling of the book. When another
strong gust of wind swept Piglet away, Pooh and Sora decided to ride
the wind as well in the hopes of saving Piglet, which they eventually
did; the event jogged a memory in Pooh's brain, and he finally
remembered who Piglet was. Piglet appeared in other areas of Pooh's book
to help bring back more of Pooh's memories, which culminated in an
adventurous game of hide-and-seek where Piglet had to face his fears and
enter the depths of the Spooky Cave. Piglet was sad to see Sora
leave at the end of their adventures, but was thankful to him for
helping bring Pooh's memories back.
Piglet appears as a meet-and-greet character near the Splash Mountain queue area in Critter Country. He gives the player a few tasks, including helping to set a trap for a Woozle,
taking pictures for Christopher Robin's picture book and assisting in
preparations for Pooh's party. He also plays a role in the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh mini-game.
Legacy
Piglet has become a popular Disney character from the Winnie the Pooh franchise along with Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Rabbit, and Roo. He has became apart of the minor Disney franchise Disney Cuties along with many other Disney Characters.
Trivia
Piglet was originally intended to be excluded from Disney's Winnie the Pooh (explaining his absence in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree) and was to be replaced by Gopher. After gaining criticism, the studio added Piglet into the next Pooh short Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
The sign in front of Piglet's house bears his great
grandfather's name and is a pun on signs people put in front of private
property-Tresspassers will be prosecuted.
According to the "Hive Five" skit on Cartoon Network's MAD, some people have mistaken Piglet for a girl. This makes some sense, as he is pink and has a high-pitched voice.
According to Disneystrology, his birthday would be on July 10th
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