Porky Pig: good guy or bad guy?

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Do you guy prefer when Porky Pig is portrayed as a good guy (like in the Film Fan or The case of The Stuttering Pig) or do you like it better when he is a bad guy (like in the Scarlett Pumpernickle)? or do you like it better when it is a little bit of both (like in his cartoons with charlie dog)?

I kinda like it better when he is a good guy. I like how he acted in Porky Pigs feat, Robin Hood Daffy and Duck Dogers In The 24th and a half century.

so, what do you th-th-think? :ham:

[RingDestruction]

I like the "good" Porky better. I don't think he was ever really a bad guy, he treated the obnoxious Charlie Dog like anyone would have. And like you said in the "roles that could have gone to other characters" thread, The Scarlett Pumpernickel was an interview between Daffy and the WB producer, so it was okay to distort the characters' personalities.

[Geezil]

I think he's always been a good guy (except, of course, in that infamous clip where he hits his thumb with a hammer and...) ;)

[guy incognito]

I prefer Porky as the fussy, easily-irritated foil to Daffy or Charlie.

And, no, I don't consider that Porky to be a "bad guy", any more than I consider Elmer, or Barnyard Dawg, or the Daffy of the Hunting Trilogy to be "bad guys". A foil is not a villain.

[J Lee]

If you go back and look at all of Porky's films, even the hunting cartoons, the directors were pretty consistant in trying to keep the audience's sympathy with Porky (as opposed to the Bugs-Elmer shorts, where te sympathy was always with the rabbit). It's the Porky cartoons where he's beaten around with either not enough comedy coming from his opponent (Daffy, the Do-Do or whoever) or no payback at the end of the short for his opponent that are the least satisfying and least successful.