- List of villains in Pugad Baboy
Throughout the years, "
Pugad Baboy " creator Pol Medina has created villains and rogues to challenge his main characters, some of which were based on the scourges of the Philippine social and political environment. Sometimes they were the people within the law, like Patrolman Durugas and Senator Cabalfin. Most times they were criminals, ex-lawmen, former military and even those of supernatural origin. Here are some of the supposed villains in Medina's strips, in chronological order.*Atong Damuho (Renate Domingo) - Wisedog/Dobermaxx's arch-enemy. He started as a small-time drug-pusher. [Atong Damuho's first appearance in a comic strip compilation is in "Pugad Baboy One".] From there he graduated to other illegitimate professions selling stray dogs for
Asocena (a local delicacy) ["Wisedog ", Pugad Baboy 3] , drughorticulturist ["The Baguio Connection ", Pugad Baboy 3] , illegal logger and poacher ["Apo Hikers ", Pugad Baboy XI] . Though he was apprehended every time, he has managed to escape prison through bribery.
*Lucifer - Medina's version ofSatan . To reflect the devil's ambiguous nature, he portrayed him as ahomosexual (for which he calls himself "Lucy"). He appears during periods of disasters and elections, when the mortality rates rise and the trading of souls for success is high. [Lucy's first compilation appearance is in the section "Lindol" (from "The Best of Pugad Baboy")]
*The Taokoy Tribe - A group ofsea monster s encountered by the Pugad Baboy Gang during their seaside vacation. They regularly surface to find healthy human specimens for their dissection studies. "Taokoy" is a portmanteau of "tao" (human, pronounced "ta-o") and "siokoy" (a sea monster in folklore somewhat equivalent to malemermaids , oddly resemblingthe Creature from the Black Lagoon ). ["Bakasyon ", The Best of Pugad Baboy]
*The Taonggoy Tribe - A group of cannibals encountered by the Pugad Baboy Gang during their trip to Lubang Island. They claim to be an ethnic tribe undiscovered by anthropologists (an allusion to theTasaday tribe). "Taonggoy" is aportmanteau of "tao" (human) and "unggoy" (ape). [Pugad Baboy One; "Lubang Island", PB4]
*Sendong Langib (General Cresendo Lagumbay) - A strict general who first appeared in a strip series in "Pugad Baboy 4" called "Retraining" ["Retraining", Pugad Baboy 4] . He used his reputation as a cover for an illegal pedophile smuggling operation he runs deep in the Mt. Makulot retraining ground. This was stopped by Tomas, Ka Noli, and Robin Hound and the General was arrested. Lagumbay was released years later to form a security guard recruitment agency and teamed up with Violeta Kainam during the "terrorist scare" period."Private Investigator! ", PB13]
*Ka Damuseyn (first name never mentioned) - He is technically not a villain, but a spoof ofSaddam Hussein during the Pugad Baboy Gang's trip to Bangui,Ilocos . He claims the rights to a plot of land where a malunggay tree owned by Ka Kwate, Ka Noli's comrade, is planted. The struggle to reclaim his plot became known as "The Malunggay Conflict ". ["The Malunggay Conflict ", Pugad Baboy 4]
*Devlino (Mang Danilo, surname never mentioned) - The leader of the supernatural entities that reside around the village ofDueñas, Iloilo . He poses as a faith healer who once treated Bab of his drug addiction. He failed to have the Pugad Baboy gang in his "smorgasborg" so Lucifer turned him into a poisonous mushroom. ["Ang Hiwaga ng Dueñas ", Pugad Baboy 4]
*Anton Damien - Atong Damuho's descendant in 2078. He continues his great-grandfather's profession by smuggling drugs, as overseen by him and his three clones, Adam Carlo, Adam Alfred, and Adam Berto. ["2078", PB5]
*Cassius "G.I." Jones - A rogue sailor from theUS Navy who wentAWOL to form a white slavery syndicate inOlongapo . He was arrested by Judge Tickolas Marshall and was sentenced to death "in any way possible". ["The Olongapo Caper ", Pugad Baboy 6]
*Colonel Magti - The police chief who, seeing the low "revenue" acquired from their activities, initiates "Oplan Paglalanse". The Walang Payat Gang or WPG ("No Thin Persons Gang"), composed of Utoy, Joma, Paltik and Polgas, punished Magti's precinct for their acts of law mismanagement and corruption. One of his prime motivations was to support his four wives and fourteen children. ["Oplan Paglalanse ", Pugad Baboy 7]
*Col. Manyakis (Lt. Col. Violeta Kainam) - A female officer who became Tomas' boss. Initially, she seemed to lecherously have the hots for him. She's actually using him as a frame-up for her bank robbery/account fraud scheme. ["Col. Manyakis ", pugad baboy 8] After recovering from aconcussion she had when Tomas tried to expose her, she teamed up with General Lagumbay years later to aid on his security recruitment agency. "Manyakis" is the Tagalog corruption of maniac, used to connote an extremely lusty person (a sexual maniac).
*Jonas (Jose Ignacio) - A former OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker) and leader of adoomsday cult whose actual purpose was to extort cash and belongings from his rich juvenile followers. Imitating the infamous suicide rite cliché performed by the Heaven's Gate cult, Jonas tries to persuade his initiates to drink contaminated water (instead of Kool-Aid laced with cyanide) to die from severediarrhea . ["Kulto ", Pugad Baboy 9]
*Luna ("King Louie" Lupito Nakpil) - During PresidentFerdinand Marcos ' regime, Louie Nakpil was a rich customs inspector. When he was investigated for his "unexplained wealth" during theEDSA Revolution , Nakpil rushed to hisTagaytay estate to hide. He was considered missing in action until he rose topiracy , joining with the Red Marlin gang, a group ofMuslim petty pirates. He once had a golden retriever named Cecilia (Polgas's mother). He appeared primarily in thegraphic novel "Pirata". ["Pirata"]
*Mr. Chan (Chien Jie Yao) - AKung Fu master and restaurant owner who trains Bab (aka Bruce Swine, Babman The Pork Knight) in the ways of the Stoned Dragon Kung Fu technique. Chan desires to acquire Philippine land but is prohibited to purchase, so he relies on a localaristocrat named Doña Fe to legally own them. His signature move is theThree Stooges -esque poke-in-the-eye (which he innocently doubles as apeace sign ). Mr. Chan spoofsDavid Carradine 's Shaolin master in the TV series "Kung Fu". This is shown by his restaurant's name, "Shaolin Temple ", and Bab is called "Grass-smoker", just as Carradine's characterKwai Chang Caine was nicknamed "Grasshopper". More broadly, Mr. Chan could be a parody ofBatman 's actual Asian trainers in DC Comics. ["Babman ", Katorse!]
*Agent Echo a.k.a. Helga (Eliseo) - Polgas' fellow canine OCB agent who runs a "magic mushroom" breeding operation deep within Mt. Arayat,Pampanga . He was exposed and was fired from the OCB. ["Aso", Kinse!]
*"Nap and Alex Ang" ("Napoleon and Alexander Ang") - a pair of jueteng lord brothers in Bulacan disguised as the Chinese-Filipino identical twins who are import-export traders. The fake pair wanted to bring Rudolf Cruz, their accountant, killed, which was why they hired Igno. Rudolf later revealed to Igno that the Nap and Alex Ang who hired him were not the real ones as the real ones speak Filipino with a Chinese accent (the fake brothers speak Filipino fluently). The fake Nap Ang further revealed during Rudolf and Igno's incarceration that he and his brother switched identities with the real twins in Thailand. Nap was shot by Rudolf using a pipe and the bullet the former sent to the latter; he was taken to the hospital to remove the bullet. Alex, on the hand, was last seen washing his hands after handling Rudolf, who happens to be gay; it was presumed that he was arrested along with his goons. The real names of the fake Ang twins were never mentioned. The Angs (the real twins) are Chinese immigrants to the Philippines; they named themselves after Napoleon Bonaparte andAlexander the Great as they believed that they are descendants of a Chinese emperor. ["", Pugad Baboy Sunday Comics]References
Each item in this list pertains to the section or story arc in which the guise is found within a compilation followed by the name of compilation itself.
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