List of fictional badgers

This a list of fictional badgers. Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the weasel family, Mustelidae. The personality and behavior of the real badger has greatly informed the development of personality and characteristics of the badger character in fiction. Specifically, authors of fictional works employing badgers have often emphasized their natural reclusive privacy and their ferocity and courage when protecting themselves (this aspect drawing its origins from the early tradition of badger-baiting).

The badger's role as a character in fiction can be traced back to the folklore of Europe and Asia where their nocturnal habits have given them an air of mystery. In Chinese and Japanese folklore, the badger character is a shapeshifter. In European folklore the badger character is intimately associated with the bear and is considered a forecaster of the arrival of spring. Older versions of these stories ascribed similar powers to the bear, but as bear populations dwindled, the folklore shifted to use the badger (in Germany and England), and the groundhog (in the United States).

Anthropomorphic badgers have frequently appeared in children's literature, although their personalities have never settled in one particular manner. Characters like Beatrix Potter's Tommy Brock represent the negative side of badgers and reflect the farmer's view of the real badger as a predator of small livestock. On the other hand, characters like Kenneth Grahame's gruff and ascetic Mr. Badger or Susan Varley's Badger (Badger's Parting Gifts) represent the positive side of badgers and reflect the real badgers' purposeful privacy in a way that allows authors to project human characteristics on them. Children's book critic, Amanda Craig, has noted a modern trend away from instances of the badger character in literature and has identified the lessening of interaction between humans and badgers in modern times as the underlying cause.

In more recent years, fictional badger characters have shown up in numerous visual media including animation, live-action film, and in video games.

Badgers in mythology and religion

• Mujina Badger in shapeshifting a Japanese Mythology
• Noppera-bō, shapeshifting spirits from Japanese folklore that usually take the form of a faceless human ghosts, but are occasionally translated as mujina (the Japanese badger spirit)
• Rock hyrax have been translated from the original Hebrew as badgers in the King James Bible
• Tanuki from Japanese folklore are often translated for English-speaking audiences as badgers

Badgers in literature

• Azrael Dak, a were-badger from the Ravenloft campaign setting in Dungeons & Dragons, as well as badgers, dire badgers, and dire badger skeletons included as monsters in the game
• Badger, a badger incarnation of Dagger (Tandy Bowen) from the Spider-Ham one-off in the graphic novel serial, Cloak and Dagger
• Badger, Shadow, and Frond, from the children novel The Animals of Farthing Wood and its components The Fox Cub Bold and Battle for the Park all by Colin Dann.
• Badger, the title character in Susan Varley's Badger's Parting Gifts, a Mother Goose Award-winning children's story that was showcased on Reading Rainbow in season 18.
• The badgers in the badger colony raised by Ismaïl for food and to be raped in Urmuz' absurdist work, Ismaïl and Turnavitu
• The badger orphans cared for by Belinda Blair from the "Badgered Belinda" story arc in Jinty
• The badger that Arthur meets when he is transformed into a badger by Merlin in The Once and Future King
• The badger on the barge, the eponymous badger from Janni Howker's Whitbread Children's Award and Carnegie Medal shortlisted book, Badger on the Barge (1984)
• The badger mascot of Hufflepuff, one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series. The mascot features on the school's coat of arms.
• The badger who operates the rickshaw in Wildwood
• The badgers that destroy ThunderClan's camp in Sunset
• The badger cub that Jed kills and the other two badger cubs that Harley and Pearl watch in My Sister Jodie
• The badgers of Aphrodite Pandemos in "Cancer, or, The Crab" from Joseph Macleod's The Ecliptic (1930)
• The brown and cream badger that traps Askam and leads the maddened animals against Zared in Pilgrim
• Brock Blueheart (also known as "Stinky"), a badger character in the graphic novel, Fables
• Boomer Badger, a badger character who is Ranger Rick's friend in Ranger Rick
• Charlie Coffer, the badger poet from The Crown Snatchers
• Dashiel, Jocelyn, and Archibald, three badger space pirates from The Pirate Loop
• Digger the Badger, in the stories of Thornton Burgess
• Doraga, leader of the Marat, and all members of the Gargant tribe (a tribe of giant burrow badgers) in Codex Alera
• Earth Badger of Root, a Taoist deity in the form of a badger from Journey to the West
• Frances, Gloria and Albert from the series Frances the Badger by Russell Hoban.
• Gar, the badger whose sett O-ha moves into after the death of A-ho in Hunter's Moon
• The golden badgers that Meg Lewis protects from the badger-baiters in The Magician's House
• Grimbeert the badger from the Dutch masterpiece, Van den vos Reynaerde (a variation of the classical tale of Reynard the Fox)
• Henry, the badger that Alexa meets in the forest of Bridewell in the children's mystery novel, The Dark Hills Divide
• Ingolf, a giant in badger-form that is run over by Malcolm Fisher at the start of Expecting Someone Taller
• Kalthas of Garry Kilworth's Thunder Oak and the badger that Torca Marda resurrects to kill Scrif and Mawk in Castle Storm
• Lord Brocktree, the Badger Lords, the Badger Mothers, and various other badgers in Brian Jacques's Redwall series.
• Midnight of the Warriors series. And other badgers from the series such as the badger that kills Willowpelt in Firestar's Quest
• Mr. Badger in The Wind in the Willows
• Mr. Badger, one of the animen created by Dr. Moreau that interrupt Quatermain and Murray while they are having sex in "Red in Tooth and Claw" from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II
• Old Brock, a badger from the tale of "El-ahrairah and the Lendri" in Watership Down.
• Pon-chan, a shape-shifting tanuki living in D's pet shop in Pet Shop of Horrors. The creature is translated for English-speaking audiences as a badger.
• Raths, a species of badger created by Lewis Carroll for the original poem Jabberwocky from his Mischmasch column. The rath would later be identified by Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass as a sort of green pig. Another badger character in the Alice in Wonderland universe is the lizard badger that lives alongside the rath in the Garden of Underland. This character was created by Linda Woolverton for her screenplay, Alice, that later became Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland . Yet a third badger appears to sing a duet with the March Hare in the Alice in Wonderland opera.
• Tanuki, the principal of Botchan's school in the Japanese novel, Botchan. He is translated into a badger for English audiences.
• Tanuki Hirayanu, badger spirits from "Land of Eight Million Dreams" in the Changeling: The Dreaming role-playing game
• The tanuki who causes trouble in the farmer's fields in Kachi-kachi Yama is translated as a badger for English-speaking audiences
• Tommy Brock from The Tale of Mr. Tod
• Trufflehunter is a talking badger from C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series.
• Tummeler, a talking badger from Here, There Be Dragons, his son Uncas from The Shadow Dragons, and his grandson–Uncas' son Fred, from The Indigo King
• The mother badger from Incident at Hawk's Hill.
• Bill, friend of Rupert Bear, originally created by Mary Tourtel
• Bill Badger from Bill Badger and the Pirates and other stories in the series by 'B.B.'
• Captain Ramshackle of Jeff Noon's Automated Alice
• Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock in Grandville by Bryan Talbot
• The One-Armed Badger, The King of the Badgers, and various other badger inhabitants of Badgertown in J. P. Martin's Uncle series.
• Sincerity and the badger messengers of Brock Marsh in New Crobuzon from China Miéville's Bas-Lag novels, Perdido Street Station, Iron Council, and The Scar
• The badger god in The 'Immortals' quartet by Tamora Pierce
• Brock the Badger in Yours Ever, Sam Pig By Alison Uttley

Badgers in animated movies and TV series

• Badger from Bodger and Badger
• Badger, a character voiced by Mark Hamill in The New Woody Woodpecker Show
• The Badger, a guest character on Jim Henson's Animal Show
• Badger, a character from the 1937 French stop-motion film, The Tale of the Fox
• Badger, a character from the children's TV show, Percy the Park Keeper
• The badgers whose habitat is protected by Lucy when she becomes an environmentalist in an episode of Yes Minister
• The badger mascot of Buckner Middle School in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.
• The badger that launches an attack on all humans and nearly disembowels Homer in the The Simpsons episode, "A Tale of Two Springfields"
• The badger in the "Badger Milk" commercial featured in The Animal
• Badgers that Timmy's dad periodically brings to Grandpa Vlad in The Fairly OddParents
• The badger family from the Bob the Builder episode "Bob and the Badgers"
• The badger that helps to teach trustworthiness from the Adventures from the Book of Virtues episode, "The Bear and the Travellers"
• The badger that is very jealous in the The Bellflower Bunnies episode, "Treasure hunt"
• The badger that has a splinter removed from its eye by David the Gnome in the The World of David the Gnome episode, "Good Medicine"
• The badger that angrily attacks Elf Cup in the Toad Patrol episode, "Winter Woes"
• The badgers of Rastepappe from the TV show, Archibald the Koala
• The badger that Benjy befriends and that leads to him leaving home in the 1975 Disney film, The Boy Who Talked to Badgers
• The badger that young Norbert brought home because it was injured only to have his stepfather Larry kill it. This character was responsible for inspiring the most prominent of Norbert's split personalities in the graphic novel series, The Badger
• The badger who wants to sleep in Sharon Colman's 2005 Academy Award nominated short, Badgered
• The badger that Gary cooks as roadkill when he decides to write a Roadkill Cookbook in the I'm with Busey episode, "Environment"
• The badger that defeats Lobo's father in Disney's The Legend of Lobo
• The badgers delivered to Raul in UHF
• The badger on which MacDhui performs surgery, bringing he and Lori together to ultimately fight the gypsies responsible for animal cruelty in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina.
• The dead badgers in Bernard's shop from the episode "Manny Come Home" in Black Books
• The badger that George Dent looks after in the episode "Beasts, Badgers and Bombshells" from Drop the Dead Donkey
• Badger-like mammal, a character in the "The Lost Island" episode of Primeval
• Badger Bandits, defeated by Master Croc in the Kung Fu Panda series.
• Badger Moles in Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Bark the Badger a minor character in Watership Down (TV series).
• Mayor Bascombe Badger, the mayor of Green Meadow in the The Get Along Gang TV series
• Bert and Betty Badger and their parents, Mr. and Mrs Badger from Maple Town
• Bix Badger from the Canadian TV show, The Raccoons
• Chris the Honey Badger from 64 Zoo Lane
• Clive Badger, Mr. Fox's lawyer voiced by Bill Murray in the 2009 Wes Anderson film, Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Crites from the Critters series of films have been described as badgers.
• Dennis the Badger from Doctor Snuggles. Dennis is a recurring character that features in episodes such as "The Extraordinary Odd Dilemma of Dennis the Badger"
• Edward R. Furrow, a psychiatrist badger from the Garfield and Friends episode, "Supersonic Seymour"
• Egbert, a badger character from the Poppy Cat TV series
• Friar Tuck, an American badger monk from Disney's Robin Hood
• Gaming Badger, a character from the show X-Play
• Grumpy Badger, a character voiced by John McIntire in Disney's The Fox and the Hound
• Gupta, a Bengali badger character from Ice Age: Continental Drift
• Hachi the tanuki is translated into English as a badger in the English dub of the anime series InuYasha.
• Hans, the butler of the von Bruinwald Castle in the TaleSpin episode, "The Balooest of the Bluebloods"
• Honey Badger, one of Franklin's friends who has cerebral palsy on Franklin and Friends
• Jazavac, a badger character from Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
• Lacey Badger in My Gym Partner's a Monkey
• Michelle, from Once Upon a Forest
• Minnie, a badger character from The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog
• Mr. Badger, a badger from several film adaptations of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows including The Wind in the Willows (1983), The Wind in the Willows (1987), Wind in the Willows (1988), The Wind in the Willows (the 1984 TV series), and Oh, Mr. Toad
• Nodeppou, a badger spirit from the Requiem from the Darkness episode, "Field Gun"
• Orchid, a shy badger that lies to Kimba in Kimba the White Lion.
• Red Badger of Courage, Dale's TV-show hero from Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers who prominently shows up in the episode "The S.S. Drainpipe"
• Smash Badger, a video game badger that is brought to life by Johnny in the Johnny Test episode, "Johnny vs. Smash Badger 3"
• Stripey the badger cub from Timmy Time
• Sersant-Inspekteur Tienie Ratel, a character from the South African children's TV show, Haas Das se Nuuskas
• Yoshiro the tanuki prince, Chiyo (his tanuki samurai), and Saemon (his tanuki chief retainer) are all translated as badgers in the English-language version of The Badger Palace
• Becky and Stacy, from The Penguins of Madagascar, Season 2 Episode 14 "Badger Pride"
• Tasmin Archer Badger and Gareth Southgate Badger, badgers from Harry Hill's Channel 4 show that featured several talking badgers warming up for their 'Badger Parade'. However, the parade would always end up cancelled for increasingly bizarre reasons.
• Angus McBadger in The Madcap Adventures of Mr. Toad from the Disney animation The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Badgers in video games

• The badger that must be threatened with the vacuum in Goose, Egg, Badger, a 2004 XYZZY Award winner under the category of Best Puzzles.
• The diseased badgers that are launched from trebuchets in Stronghold 3
• Badgers in SimAnimals. If you complete a number of badger-related tasks in-game, you are awarded the "Way of the Badger" Medal.
• The Pokémon Linoone resembles a badger.
• Bumper in Diddy Kong Racing
• Blue Badger, police mascot in Ace Attorney series.
• The British Badger who guards the town hall in Falderal & Nonesense Land from King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride.

Music

• Badger, the ousted former owner of the vixen Bystrouška's home in Leoš Janáček's opera, The Cunning Little Vixen
• The 11 badgers baiting - the penultimate gift that the true love sends to the singer in the Cliftonian version of The Twelve Days of Christmas (1867)
• The badger that is shot to death in William S. Burroughs' "Kill the Badger!", a track on the album, Dead City Radio. The same character appears in Burroughs' novella, The Cat Inside

Miscellaneous fictional badgers

• The badgers from the Badger Badger Badger internet meme
• Bert Badger, mascot for New Zealand's SKY Network Television
• Breezy Badger, the mascot and production name for Ubuntu v5.10
• Buckingham U. Badger (aka Bucky Badger) the mascot of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, originally a cartoon in campus publications. This badger mascot later gave its name to the 1953 Lake Michigan ferry, SS Badger.
• Giant Badger, a character from the Magic the Gathering card game
• Killer badger

See also

• List of fictional animals
• Badger
• Badger Badger Badger