Porky Minch

Porky Minch (, Porky/Pokey Minch), also known as Pokey Minch, The Pig King, or King P, is a character who originated in . A self-centered and rotten brat, Porky becomes a self-aggrandizing, sadistic monarch in Lucas's homeland after retreating through time from Ness and his party.

Origin
Porky Minch first appeared in  and was Ness's snooty neighbor. In the beginning of EarthBound, Porky temporarily joined Ness' team to find his brother Picky. However, whenever the team encounters an enemy, the cowardly Porky doesn't fight. He later turns against Ness and becomes his enemy by joining the intergalactic destroyer Giygas. Towards the end of EarthBound, Porky is fought alongside Giygas in a "Heavily Armored" machine. His attacks involve charging at Ness' party, tearing into them (probably with the machine's legs) and unleashing a very stinky gas which lowers stats. After unleashing Giygas's true form, he flees from the scene by time traveling, leaving Ness and his companions to fight Giygas.

Porky later appears in Mother 3 as the main antagonist and leader of the Pigmask Army. He appears in a machine similar to the Heavily Armored Machine in EarthBound. The attacks he does, however, are not specified (For example, "What did Porky do?") though they look like certain moves (such as Fassad's Bombs). In this game, he has ordered robots designed after him to be created, which are used in some of his attacks in Brawl.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl
New Pork City is a stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Also, is, as the name implies, Porky's signature music piece in Brawl.

Role in The Subspace Emissary
As the third boss of the The Subspace Emissary and a member of the Subspace Army, Porky sends Primids to divert before deploying his giant statue, The Pig King Statue, that soon starts to hunt Lucas down. This statue is indestructible, so Lucas has no choice but to escape; the giant statue destroys containers, barrels, enemies, and even metallic buildings. Lucas finally comes to a small water marsh, which seems to save him as the Pig King Statue sinks into it, but the Statue soon respawns. The Pig King Statue can even damage Lucas as it is respawning.

Lucas then stumbles after catching his foot in a grass knot, and just as the giant statue has him, appears and uses PK Thunder which causes the statue to tip over. The statue once again recovers and flies into the air, this time to crush Ness. However, Ness uses a PK Flash and the statue explodes, revealing Porky Minch himself (in his bed-mecha from Mother 3), who immediately challenges Lucas and Ness.

Porky Minch attacks by moving around and by using a variety of lasers, as well as small Porky-bot enemies. Porky moves by facing towards the screen and walking side-to-side like a crab. Despite its appearance, the player can actually step on the glass vial on top of Porky's Bed-Mecha and avoid some attacks, while other times it leaves the player perfectly open to damage; but at this position, the player is capable of attacking the whole time standing up there. can plant mines on Porky that will explode next time he attacks. However, most of the time the characters will slide off quickly. This can, however, cause the Earthquake Glitch to occur, defeating him quickly. The edge of Porky's cage is sloped, despite its appearance. This can be held as strategic value, and fast-falling attacks (e.g. Aether, Stone, Final Cutter) can land on Porky then slide off, out of range of his legs.

Porky is eventually taken down, making his machine explode and fall into the background, twitching. His condition after the explosion is unknown. He is brought back by Tabuu to distract the heroes in The Great Maze.

As a playable character

 * Main article: Porky (SSBB)

Like all Brawl bosses, Porky can be played as in Boss Battles through hacking, which will assign debug controls to Player 3. His Rush Attack is absent, but everything else is intact.

Moveset
Like all bosses, Porky is controllable with hacks in Boss Battles Mode. The start button will, like all other bosses, self-destruct him.

HP and damage taken
Like all bosses in Brawl, Porky gains an additional ×0.6 damage resistance modifier when fought in co-op mode, effectively gaining 67% more health. This modifier is applied whenever the second player is in-game, and is no longer applied if the second player loses all their stocks.

In Super Smash Bros. 4
Porky appeared as a smash tour item in and mentioned in the Porky Statue trophy in.

In Smash Tour
Porky appears as a green Smash Tour item, once again in his Mother 3 mech. When selected, he allows the user to steal the effect of an item used by another player.

Trivia

 * Porky can damage the player after he has run out of HP, though he cannot KO the player in this state, as the blastzones cease to exist once Porky's HP is fully depleted.
 * If the player defeats Porky while he is performing his jumping or running attack, he will complete the attack before beginning his defeat animation.
 * Additionally, any Porky-bots on-screen while Porky is KO'd remain active and can still hit the player with their explosions.
 * The sound effect heard when Porky is defeated is similar to the sound effect used for the Ultimate Chimera's roar in Mother 3.
 * Porky is the only boss:
 * whose Brawl trophy is different than his official artwork.
 * to have a weakness to the darkness and aura attacks.
 * to have different resistance values depending on the location and mode he is fought.
 * Porky is the only boss in the Super Smash Bros. series to lack a spirit in Ultimate; however, the Absolutely Safe Capsule which Porky seals himself inside at the end of Mother 3 does appear as a spirit.

Porky Minch