Piglet

From The Unofficial DisneyWiki

Piglet is a fictional character from A. A. Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh. Piglet is a small piglet who is a good friend of Winnie the Pooh in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Piglet is Pooh's best friend other than Christopher Robin. He has constant fear of the dark and is anxious about most things. Despite the fact that he is a Very Small Animal, he often conquers his fears. In the original color versions of the Winnie-the-Pooh books Piglet has white skin and a green jumper rather than the pink skin and pink jumper that he has acquired from The Walt Disney Company]].

Piglet spells his name "Piglit". Piglet was once referred to as "Henry Pootel" by Christopher Robin, who did not recognize Piglet after he was thoroughly cleaned by Kanga.

Piglet is known to many only through the Disney films and cartoon series. Interestingly, Piglet's character 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 According to the film's director, Wolfgang Reitherman, Piglet had been replaced by a gopher, which Disney thought had a more "folksy, all-American, grass-roots image,"[1]. But Disney relented to pressure, particularly from the British, who were familiar with the classic Milne books, and added Piglet back into the story. The first appearance of the character in the Disney films was in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968). Piglet also makes a bunch of cameos such as in The House Of Mouse series and the 1988 hit film Who Framed Roger Rabbit as the shillouete that desperatly hangs on at the end of the train that slams in to the dip machine in Toontown.