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Characteristics

The characteristics of Pigma, including physical appearances, personality and relationships with other characters.

Appearance

Pigma is a very small, pudgy, humanoid pig with very thin limbs and white eyes. In his full appearance in Assault, he wears a lavender, white and tan space suit. His snout appears to be crooked to the left side and he now has three claw marks on his forehead (presumably given to him by Wolf). Pigma's true eye color is still debatable as it alternates between yellow, red and white. Pigma's regular eye color is white, while it flickers yellow in Star Fox Command. When he piloted the Wolfen II and became an Aparoid mutant, his eyes are clearly red (although the former case was implied to be electronic goggles).

Personality

SF64 Fortuna Old Pal — Pigma tails his "old pal" Peppy with cruel sadistic taunts.

Pigma is an exceptionally greedy miser who does not care who he hurts so long as he ends up with a large paycheck in the end. He is also extremely sadistic, as evidenced by his claim of "Daddy screamed real good before he died!" (in the Japanese version, Pigma instead says "Your daddy's waitin' for ya in hell!"). Another example of his sadism is how he wholeheartedly and with delight tried to shoot down his former ally Peppy without any apparent hesitation, although he did vow to "do [Peppy] fast" during the encounters with Star Fox at Fichina and Bolse. Yet another demonstration of his sadism is when fighting Star Fox on Venom with the Wolfen II, where in addition to his arrogantly believing that the Star Fox team had no chance against the improved Wolfen II, he stated while pursuing his foes his intention of "busting them up REAL good." He didn't even care much for his teammates; he willingly betrayed James for the money and perhaps would have done the same to Star Wolf had he been given the chance (unless his path in Command is believed to be canon, in which case he did have some affection for his teammates).

Pigma has also shown traits of being cowardly as was shown when making a tactical retreat from the Star Fox team every time they met, after he collected the Core Memory from them. The Lylat Wars Comic also shows both Pigma and Andrew being terrified of Andross and they blame each other for their failure while in his intimidating appearance, and later being tortured by Andross for failing to bring Star Fox down yet again as Andross refers to Pigma as once a traitor always a traitor. Being cowardly and selfish are also suggested reasons for Wolf kicking Pigma out of his team. This trait can be seen in the intro of Star Fox Zero where Fox refers to Pigma as an: "honorless slime ball". Despite his cowardice, he was also shown to be very arrogant, as when dogfighting Fox, he often tauntingly told Fox to "shoot [him]" while derisively calling him "little man" in Star Fox 64 and its 3DS remake, plus his boasting that, as he considered the Wolfen II a better ship than the Arwing, the Star Fox team could not beat him in battle during their encounter on Venom, and also dismissed his fighting Fox as "boring" and hoped he'd actually make it a challenge during the dogfight on Venom in Star Fox Zero.

The Nintendo Power guide and Lylat Wars Comic also implies that Pigma is the reason for Fox and Wolf's rivalry in the first place. During the Aparoid Invasion, although still his usual greedy self, its also shown that he laughs frequently, hinting at a severe decrease in his sanity since the Lylat Wars. Peppy notes that Pigma was a very cunning wing-mate when saying "Just like Pigma. He never missed a trick", with Krystal adding upon seeing the construction of a massive base in Meteo that "[Pigma] must have planned ahead" and was shown to be intelligent by deducing the Core Memory's value when Fox protested against him taking it. He has also shown reservations, as evidenced by his initially refusing to actually be a pawn to the Aparoids' plans of invading the Lylat System and only ended up joining as a last resort to being captured (although it should be noted that he mostly refused out of self-interest rather than any genuine care for the Lylat System, because he realized that siding with the Aparoids meant that he'd have to forgo any profit that he planned to make with the Aparoid Core Memory). Pigma's trophy in the fourth Super Smash Bros title also claims that he is a shameless mechanic who had a hand in the Wolfen's design, which alludes to him saying: You can't beat me! I've got a better ship!.

Although it was stated that Pigma betrayed his comrades for money, the Japanese manual for Star Fox 64 never stated a specific reason for wanting to serve Andross and betraying Star Fox. It is also to be noted that the Nintendo Power guide and the Keibunsha strategy guide implies that Pigma is the reason why Wolf and Fox have a rivalry in the first place, while his trophy from the fourth Smash Bros game supports the story by stating that Star Wolf was born after Pigma persuaded Wolf to start a team of his own. It can also be assumed that Pigma may have also betrayed Corneria and his old team by joining Andross as an act of fear, due to his suggested trait.

In Star Fox Zero, this was altered somewhat: Namely, he had never been a long-time member of Star Fox, but instead been a volunteer for the mission, and he had also been a double agent, meaning he never was loyal to Star Fox to begin with. In addition, in Starlinks expansion, Pigma is shown to be loyal to a certain extent to Wolf, as after Wolf's defeat, he sends Star Fox a message alongside the rest of the Star Wolf team vowing to avenge Wolf. However, he is shown to have turbulent interactions with the other members of the team at best, as he was seen fighting amongst Leon and Andrew for the camera to transmit the message.

Portrayals

Language	Game	Voice actor
Japanese	Star Fox 64, Star Fox: Assault	Daisuke Gouri
Japanese	Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero	Tsuguo Mogami
English	Star Fox 64 / Star Fox 64 3D / Star Fox Zero	David White
English	Star Fox: Assault	Lev Liberman


Leader(s)
Member(s)
Allies
Others	Free-As-A-Bird • Marcus • Slippy's son • Peppy's granddaughter • Fara Phoenix
	Armoured Arwing • Light Arwing
Other Vehicles	• Roadmaster


Members	Ruffian
Vehicles	Hunter
Bases	Sargasso Hideout




	Pilot
	Corneria Defense Force • Husky Squadron • Bulldog Squadron •
Bosses	• Saucerer • Bacoon • Vulcain • Sarumarine • Goras • • Bolse's Core • Golemech •
Enemy Air Force	• Bomber • Firebirds • Borzoi Fighter • Canine • Star Warrior • Viper • Harlock-class Frigate • Zeram-class Cruiser •
Enemy Ground Force	• Desert Crawler • Desert Rover • • Rascos • Titanian Automated Defense Turret • Cannon Car • Liquid Fuel Carrier • Defense Tower
Enemy Marine Force	Patrol Boats • • Venomian Tanker • Radar Buoy •
Enemy Artillery	• Small Missiles • • Ninjin Missiles • Spy Eye • SX Laser • SX Space Mines • Bolse Laser Cannon • Bolse Shield Reactor • Land Mine • Umbra-class Defense Station • Blocker • Pillars • Stone Column • Monument
Enemy Wildlife	Gores • Troikas • Z-Gulls • Z-Serpents • Kani • Clam • Aquas Squid • Starfish • Giant Spindly Fish • Angler Fish • Sculpins • Garoas • Todora (Star Fox 64) • Cacti • Asteroid • Lava Bombs • Solar Prominences • Ore • Aquas Ruins
	Corneria (City) • Meteo • Sector Y • Fichina (Base) • Katina (Base) • Aquas • Sector X • Solar • Zoness • Titania • Macbeth (Factory) • Sector Z • Bolse • Area 6 • Venom
Game Modes	• Training Mode • Versus Mode • Lylat (language)
Navigation	Plot (64) • Missions (64) • Gallery (64) • Videos (64) • Script (64) • Gallery (3D) • Videos (3D) • Script (3D)


Main Characters	• Tricky
	• • Self-destruct program 1-Up Barrier Sphere • Special Flag • Medal Hit Point
	Corneria Defense Force Dog Soldiers
Bosses	Oikonny's flagship • Winged Aparoid • Aparoid Ship • Star Wolf (Wolf, Leon and Panther) • Cylindrical Aparoid • Aparoid Pigma • Aparoid Missile • Aparoid Queen
	Venomian Fighter • Rock Gunner • Star Warrior • Venomian Stealth Bomber • Oikonny's flagship • Venomian Battlecruiser • Venomian Carrier • Sargasso Battleship • Winged Prototype
Oikonny Ground Force	Venomian Assault Mech • Venomian Heavy Assault Mech • Venomian Light Tank • Venomian Heavy Tank • Transfer gateway
Aparoid Air Force	Aparoid Flyer \| Beetle Aparoid \| Mothlike Aparoid \| Aparoid Assault Ship \| Radar jammer \| Aparoid Spinner \| Kamikaze Aparoid \| Morphing Ship Aparoid \| Crystalline Aparoid \| Stringy Aparoid \| Bloated Aparoid \| Glowing Sac Aparoid \| Tri-winged Aparoid \| Y-shape Aparoid \| Electric Sphere Aparoid
Aparoid Ground Force	Aparoid Crawler \| Aparoid Minitank \| Purple Aparoid \| Aparoid Hatcher \| Spherical Tank Aparoid \| Aparoid Roller \| Aparoid Targeting Laser \| Aparoid Gunner \| Anti-aircraft Aparoid \| Aparoid Growth \| Force Field Generator Aparoid \| Aparoid Turret \| Blue Orb Aparoid \| Swirling Aparoid \| Silver Aparoid \| Aparoid Larvae
Locations	• Titania • Zoness
Game Modes	Arwing • Landmaster • Pilot • • • Versus Mode
Navigation	Plot • Missions • Gallery • Videos • Script


Characters

Supporting Characters	Vivian Hare • General Pepper • Marcus • Slippy's son • Peppy's granddaughter
Bosses	ZaZanga 9 • Splitter • Devil Shark • Octopod • Biobrain • Star Wolf (Wolf, Panther and Leon) • Death Crab • Pigma Dengar • Solar Satellite • Killer Bee • Dune Worm • Monarch Dodora • Grunner • Arrow Head • Anglar Emperor
Enemies	Anglar Starfish • Elite Fighter • Anglar Missile • Anglar Mothership

Navigation	Plot • Missions • Gallery • Videos • Script


Protagonists
Antagonists
	• Roadmaster
Bosses	Androsa • Reactor • Aquarosa • Star Wolf (Wolfen) • Cosmic Dodora • Scrapworm • Copperhead missile • Salvadora • Monarch Dodora • Mother Strider • Star Wolf (Hunter) • Attack Carrier • Gigarilla • Andross
Enemies	Alpaca Tank • Andromatter • Attacker l • Attacker ll • Attacker lll • Blue Bird • Blue Tank • Bionics l • Bionics ll • Butterfly Fighter • Chiritori • Chiritori Missile • Colby • Commander • Crab Tank • Dodora Egg • Dolphin • Dorisby-class Battleship • Dragon l • Dragon ll • Flinchworm • Flip Bots • Gamma Off • Gamma On • Garuda • Granby • Green Tank • Homing Missile • Invader I • Invader II Fighter • Invader III • Killer Bees • Mambo l • Mambo ll • Manta • Mole Missiles • Mono-Roader • Red Bird • Red Tank • Roly Poly • Salamander • Sawshark • Scrappyworm • Snaptrap • Stinger • Strider • Submaraider • Trivolt • Venom Fighter l • Venom Fighter ll • Venom Fighter lll • Venom Tank • Zoness Shark
	Corneria • Sector α • Area 3 • Zoness • Asteroid Field • Sector β • Titania • Sector γ • Fichina • Fortuna • Sector Ω • Venom
Navigation	Plot • Missions • Gallery • Videos • Script
Guard Bosses	Hi-Ho King • Queen Clucktron • Infernal Joker
Guard Enemies	Hi-Ho • ATK Unit • Dishruptor • KOF unit • Tank • Abductron • Pausemo • Clucktron • FAN Unit • BOO Unit • BIO Unit • MAG Unit • Nabbot • Big-G • Cloack-R • Green tank • Shieldtron
Guard Locations	Corneria • Corneria Precious Metals Ltd. • Grippia
Guard Navigation	Gallery • Videos • Script

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 =='''Appearance'''==
-Pigma is a very small, pudgy, humanoid pig with very thin limbs and white eyes. In his full appearance in ''Assault, ''he wears a lavender, white and tan space suit. His snout appears to be crooked to the left side and he now has three claw marks on his forehead (presumably given to him by Wolf). Pigma's true eye colour is still debatable as it alternates between yellow, red and white. Pigma's regular eye colour is white, while it flickers yellow in ''Star Fox Command''. When he piloted the Wolfen II and became an Aparoid mutant, his eyes are clearly red (although the former case was implied to be electronic goggles).
+Pigma is a very small, pudgy, humanoid pig with very thin limbs and white eyes. In his full appearance in ''Assault, ''he wears a lavender, white and tan space suit. His snout appears to be crooked to the left side and he now has three claw marks on his forehead (presumably given to him by Wolf). Pigma's true eye color is still debatable as it alternates between yellow, red and white. Pigma's regular eye color is white, while it flickers yellow in ''Star Fox Command''. When he piloted the Wolfen II and became an Aparoid mutant, his eyes are clearly red (although the former case was implied to be electronic goggles).
 ==='''Personality'''===
-Pigma is an exceptionally greedy miser who does not care who he hurts so long as he ends up with a large paycheck in the end. He is also extremely sadistic, as evidenced by his claim of "[[James McCloud|Daddy]] screamed real good before he died!" (in the Japanese version, Pigma instead says "Your daddy's waitin' for ya in hell!"). Another example of his sadism is how he wholeheartedly and with delight tried to shoot down his former ally Peppy without any apparent hesitation, although he did vow to "do [Peppy] fast" during the encounters with Star Fox at Fichina and Bolse. He didn't even care much for his teammates; he willingly betrayed James for the money and perhaps would have done the same to Star Wolf had he been given the chance (unless his path in ''Command'' is believed to be canon, in which case he did have some affection for his teammates).
+[[File:SF64_Fortuna_Old_Pal.png|thumb|Pigma tails his "old pal" Peppy with cruel sadistic taunts.]]Pigma is an exceptionally greedy miser who does not care who he hurts so long as he ends up with a large paycheck in the end. He is also extremely sadistic, as evidenced by his claim of "[[James McCloud|Daddy]] screamed real good before he died!" (in the Japanese version, Pigma instead says "Your daddy's waitin' for ya in hell!"). Another example of his sadism is how he wholeheartedly and with delight tried to shoot down his former ally Peppy without any apparent hesitation, although he did vow to "do [Peppy] fast" during the encounters with Star Fox at Fichina and Bolse. Yet another demonstration of his sadism is when fighting Star Fox on Venom with the Wolfen II, where in addition to his arrogantly believing that the Star Fox team had no chance against the improved Wolfen II, he stated while pursuing his foes his intention of "busting them up REAL good." He didn't even care much for his teammates; he willingly betrayed James for the money and perhaps would have done the same to Star Wolf had he been given the chance (unless his path in ''Command'' is believed to be canon, in which case he did have some affection for his teammates).
-Pigma has also shown traits of being cowardly as was shown when making a tactical retreat from the Star Fox team every time they met, after he collected the Core Memory from them. The Lylat Wars Comic also shows both Pigma and Andrew being terrified of Andross and they blame each other for their failure while in his intimidating appearance, and later being tortured by Andross for failing to bring Star Fox down yet again as Andross refers to Pigma as once a traitor always a traitor. Being cowardly and selfish are also suggested reasons for Wolf kicking Pigma out of his team. This trait can be seen in the intro of Star Fox Zero where Fox refers to Pigma as an: ''"honorless slime ball".''
+Pigma has also shown traits of being cowardly as was shown when making a tactical retreat from the Star Fox team every time they met, after he collected the Core Memory from them. The Lylat Wars Comic also shows both Pigma and Andrew being terrified of Andross and they blame each other for their failure while in his intimidating appearance, and later being tortured by Andross for failing to bring Star Fox down yet again as Andross refers to Pigma as once a traitor always a traitor. Being cowardly and selfish are also suggested reasons for Wolf kicking Pigma out of his team. This trait can be seen in the intro of Star Fox Zero where Fox refers to Pigma as an: ''"honorless slime ball".'' Despite his cowardice, he was also shown to be very arrogant, as when dogfighting Fox, he often tauntingly told Fox to "shoot [him]" while derisively calling him "little man" in ''Star Fox 64'' and its 3DS remake, plus his boasting that, as he considered the Wolfen II a better ship than the Arwing, the Star Fox team could not beat him in battle during their encounter on Venom, and also dismissed his fighting Fox as "boring" and hoped he'd actually make it a challenge during the dogfight on Venom in ''Star Fox Zero''.
-The Nintendo Power guide and Lylat Wars Comic also implies that Pigma is the reason for Fox and Wolf's rivalry in the first place. During the Aparoid Invasion, although still his usual greedy self, its also shown that he laughs frequently, hinting at a severe decrease in his sanity since the Lylat Wars. Peppy notes that Pigma was a very cunning wingmate when saying "''Just like Pigma. He never missed a trick''" and was shown to be intelligent by deducing the Core Memory's value when Fox protested against him taking it. Pigma's trophy in the fourth Super Smash Bros title also claims that he is a shameless mechanic who had a hand in the Wolfen's design, which alludes to him saying: ''You can't beat me! I've got a better ship!''.
+The Nintendo Power guide and Lylat Wars Comic also implies that Pigma is the reason for Fox and Wolf's rivalry in the first place. During the Aparoid Invasion, although still his usual greedy self, its also shown that he laughs frequently, hinting at a severe decrease in his sanity since the Lylat Wars. Peppy notes that Pigma was a very cunning wing-mate when saying "''Just like Pigma. He never missed a trick''", with Krystal adding upon seeing the construction of a massive base in Meteo that "''[Pigma] must have planned ahead''" and was shown to be intelligent by deducing the Core Memory's value when Fox protested against him taking it. He has also shown reservations, as evidenced by his initially refusing to actually be a pawn to the Aparoids' plans of invading the Lylat System and only ended up joining as a last resort to being captured (although it should be noted that he mostly refused out of self-interest rather than any genuine care for the Lylat System, because he realized that siding with the Aparoids meant that he'd have to forgo any profit that he planned to make with the Aparoid Core Memory). Pigma's trophy in the fourth Super Smash Bros title also claims that he is a shameless mechanic who had a hand in the Wolfen's design, which alludes to him saying: ''You can't beat me! I've got a better ship!''.
 *Although it was stated that Pigma betrayed his comrades for money, the Japanese manual for ''Star Fox 64'' never stated a specific reason for wanting to serve Andross and betraying Star Fox. It is also to be noted that the ''Nintendo Power'' guide and the Keibunsha strategy guide implies that Pigma is the reason why Wolf and Fox have a rivalry in the first place, while his trophy from the fourth Smash Bros game supports the story by stating that Star Wolf was born after Pigma persuaded Wolf to start a team of his own. It can also be assumed that Pigma may have also betrayed Corneria and his old team by joining Andross as an act of fear, due to his suggested trait.
-In ''Star Fox Zero'', this was altered somewhat: Namely, he had never been a long-time member of Star Fox, but instead been a volunteer for the mission, and he had also been a double agent, meaning he never was loyal to Star Fox to begin with.
+In ''Star Fox Zero'', this was altered somewhat: Namely, he had never been a long-time member of Star Fox, but instead been a volunteer for the mission, and he had also been a double agent, meaning he never was loyal to Star Fox to begin with. In addition, in ''Starlink''s expansion, Pigma is shown to be loyal to a certain extent to Wolf, as after Wolf's defeat, he sends Star Fox a message alongside the rest of the Star Wolf team vowing to avenge Wolf. However, he is shown to have turbulent interactions with the other members of the team at best, as he was seen fighting amongst Leon and Andrew for the camera to transmit the message.
 =='''Portrayals'''==
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+|''[[Star Fox 64]], [[Star Fox: Assault]]''
 |Daisuke Gouri
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+|Japanese
+|[[Star Fox 64 3D|''Star Fox 64 3D'']], [[Star Fox Zero|''Star Fox Zero'']]
+|Tsuguo Mogami
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 |English
-|''[[Star Fox 64]] / ''[[Star Fox 64 3D]] / [[Star Fox Zero]]'''
+|''[[Star Fox 64]] / [[Star Fox 64 3D]]'' / [[Star Fox Zero|''Star Fox Zero'']]
 |[[David White]]
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 |[[Lev Liberman]]
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+{{Star Wolf}}
+{{Star Fox 64/3D}}
+{{Star Fox: Assault}}
+{{Star Fox Command}}
+{{Star Fox Zero}}
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