King Pig



"Now for today's agenda, I would think some boisterous yelling, some egg-stealing."

- King Pig, Angry Birds Comics #3

Smooth Cheeks, also known as King Pig or King Pig Smooth Cheeks, is the main antagonist of the Angry Birds series. He is a pig, the current monarch of the Piggy kingdom, and the heir of his father, Leonard Mudbeard.

Appearance
Originally, King Pig was a large, oval-shaped pig with lime-colored skin. He had wide eyes and a green pig snout in between. His ears were aligned to one side of his head, while the other side had a small, yellow crown with spiky ends on the top part of it, as well as small, blue jewels on it. This design was slightly altered in Angry Birds Chrome, and for Angry Birds Friends in 2020.

For the animated shorts in the early 2010s, King Pig was redesigned. He is now a round pig with green skin and small eyes, resembling other pigs. Nevertheless, he is still much larger than them, and also wears his crown, which was unaltered. This design was used few times, including the earliest animated trailers for Angry Birds Friends, and the cutscenes in Angry Birds Trilogy. The Ham'o'ween short, which also made use of this design, gave King Pig a different crown and a black and crimson cape, as he was disguised as a vampire.

Since "Bad Piggies Cinematic Trailer", King Pig was given a completely different design. He is now a triangle-shaped pig with green skin and some darker spots on his body. His crown was altered as well, being much taller and more detailed than before, though it still keeps the blue jewels from his original design. Over time, this design was slightly altered to have darker spots on King Pig's skin.

Personality
Said to be the greediest, meanest and most childish creature on Piggy Island, King Pig is very impatient, temperamental and immature, often acting like a spoiled child. He can be entertained by anything; for example, he finds the sound of deflating balloons funny, and has mimicked it while laughing. He has very bad manners, eating large chunks of cake at once and chewing with his mouth open. He is also very bossy, constantly giving his minions orders and asking for eggs, a food he seeks to eat. He is also jealous of other people's successes and accomplishments, specially Chef Pig's, and will try to be better than said people. In addition, he is very stupid and lacks common sense, proudly blaming himself for actions he did not do, and cannot solve easy problems. Nevertheless, he can sometimes be very intelligent, spying on the birds at the human world without them realizing it and even convincing them that he was a good person.

King Pig is notable for being very lazy; he spends the whole time in his palace, taking fourteen naps a day. He avoids doing exercise, which he despises, insisting to be carried around on a throne by some Minion Pigs while being fed junk food. He is shown to be a very gluttonous person, eating everything in his sight, even plates. King Pig loves sweets and desserts, and cannot resist eating them when he sees them. Once, he acted menacing to the Hocus Minion Pig for having sent him to other place, though he returned to his usual behavior when he spotted a giant cake nearby. Some other examples involve him falling on his own trap to catch the Cave Pig by eating the cakes the Cave Pig was supposed to eat, which resulted in him and Chef Pig being frozen; and when he ate radioactive-looking candies with cockroaches on them. He is also a very self-centered person, and a liar as well, building his image and reputation up with made-up stories and claims about himself and his relatives. King Pig is also greedy, not sharing anything to anyone; once, he even stole a Minion Pig's lollipop to eat it himself. However, he left aside this persona to get a Christmas gift from Terence.

"Minion pigs! Help me!"

- King Pig, Angry Birds 2

King Pig is also very coward, being terrified of the presence of birds alone, and asking his henchmen for help. He was also very scared of an innocent, pink dog-like toy, and made every effort to stop it. In addition, he once had nightmares of monsters surrounding him after Chronicler Pig told him a fairy tale. However, he is also somewhat of a dreamer, believing that he can be as good as a wrestler as his idol, El Porkador. Another example of this was when he wanted to be a sheriff, but his cowardice made him quit and imprison himself to be safe.

Behind his selfish, demanding persona, King Pig has a soft side. He likes sleeping with his teddy bear, and has had nightmares of it being in danger when he was not sleeping with it. He is also very sensible, crying in the middle of a battle with no effect. He dislikes being insulted, and feels uncomfortable whenever he is being portrayed as a disgusting person.

Powers and abilities
While not having any superhuman ability, King Pig is very durable, having survived explosions, falls, crashes, and even being crushed. He can also drive vehicles quite well.

Friends/allies

 * Piggy kingdom
 * Agent Pig
 * Chef Pig
 * Corporal Pig
 * Dr. Pig
 * El Porkador
 * Foreman Pig
 * Hektor Porko
 * Minion Pigs
 * Common Pigs
 * Knights
 * Mechanic Pig
 * Ninjas
 * Pirates
 * Ross
 * Undead
 * Wildlings
 * Prince Porky

Enemies

 * Angry Birds
 * Bomb
 * Bubbles
 * Chuck
 * Hal
 * Jake
 * Jay
 * Jim
 * Matilda
 * Red
 * Silver
 * Stella
 * Terence
 * Ice Bird
 * Mighty Dragon
 * Mighty Eagle
 * The girl
 * The girl's mother
 * Tony
 * Leonard

Trivia

 * In older Mattel games, King Pig was represented without his crown, and there was no crown accessory to use with him.
 * Despite his size, which is because of eating eggs, King Pig has never eaten any egg in his life, and does not want anybody else to learn about this fact because he fears that he will be forced out of the throne. To cover this, he eats fake eggs during ceremonies.
 * Due to him being replaced with Leonard for the films, King Pig is one of the few characters that have never been given an anthropomorphic design.