Babe is the titular main protagonist of Babe and its sequel, Babe: Pig in the City.
He is also the adopted son of Fly and Rex, the border collies.
In the first film, he was voiced by the late Christine Cavanaugh and in the sequel, he was voiced by E.G. Daily, both of whom appeared as voice actresses in Rugrats as Chuckie Finster and Tommy Pickles, respectively. In the Japanese dub from the movie, he was voiced by Mayumi Tanaka.
Biography[]
Babe is a young pig who gets separated from his family and ends up into Hoggett farm owned by Farmer Arthur Hoggett and his wife Esme Hoggett. He’s prejudiced by many animals (who simply call him "pig") but unlike them, Babe is very friendly and polite to about anyone he meets. Because of his kindness, he gets many of the animals to warm up to him. He becomes Fly and Rex (a sheep dog couple)'s adoptive son and also the sheep's friend.
However, one his friends named Maa was killed by a group of wild dogs and Farmer Hoggett mistook him for her death and prepares to shoot him. Luckily he was saved by Fly and Esme Hoggett. Esme informed the farmer that she received a call from the police that there were wild dogs attacks and the other farm owned by the Mitchells has lost 6 lambs that morning. She tells him it was the wild dogs who caused Maa's death. Maa's death devastated the other Hoggett's animals including Ferdinand when they heard this from Fly.
Farmer Hoggett soon discovers Babe has a gift, and can do a sheep dog work (in fact, Babe gets the sheep to get in and out of fences by asking politely) and trains him as a sheep dog. The farmer is taken for a madman until Babe proves himself in a sheep dog contest having courage by Rex and makes a perfect score. In their victory, Hoggett simply says, with a smile: "That'll do, pig. That'll do." and Babe sighs happily.
Babe: Pig in the City[]
After Babe and Arthur return home with a celebration parade, they made Babe a full-time celebrity when they are given fan mails all over world for his appearance. But Arthur was too retired to be invited but rather focus on fixing the water pump in the well which made Babe carelessly overconfident to help Arthur fix the well for him but only for his clumsiness to accidently injure Arthur. Babe was lucky Arthur was still alive but disabled until he regained his recoveries and wished he could understand him so he can apologize for his overconfidence.
Babe learns from Esme and Fly that the farm is about to be sold if they don't pay by the end of the month but Rex ensures Babe, that the only way to save the farm is to be invited to the state fair where they will pay them if Babe demonstrates sheep herding so Babe agrees but Rex and Fly are unable to be invited while Ferdinand doesn't want Babe to leave because he sees him as his protection from being eaten by the Hoggetts since he retired crowing.
After a flight without Fly and Rex to instruct him even further to learn to be patient he ends up talking to a security dog for help but became careless for the dogs' demonstrations which costed the next flight to the fair when he was mistaken for carrying illegal substances. After that they failed to catch the flight because the fair as already expired now are forced to return home but their flight is delay for two days. Esme tries to find a hotel where they take in animals but none of them was accounted until they found a secret hotel yet sanctuary for animals that are owned by Miss Floom.
Later Babe thought this wasn't sheep Hearding when he see's the view of the city but doesn't realize the delay was his own fault, soon a monkey name Tug trespassed Babe's room (while Esme was away to make a phone call) and stole the suitcase all the way to the chimps room that are owned by Bob, Zootie Easy and Thelonius, Babes was unable to force them to return the suitcase back to his owner Esme without Rex and Fly to help him standup to those primates for being thieves. later Miss Flooms uncle Fugly hides Babe from Esme while lying to her that he wonder off, while he's planning to use him for his new act for his performance while hoping they will pay them if their performance goes well for the children's hospitals. But Babe became carelessly impatient about the reward which he accidently tripped Fugly and caused a fire disaster to his set. After this the chimps reveals to Babe that the people of the city are too cruel and criticized to reward them especially after the accident. the next morning Babe's see Fugly dying in a coma and is taken to a hospital which upsets Thelonius because he has always been his best friend, Babe felt sorry for him because he was responsible for his final stage.
Babe waited hours for Esme to come home so she can feed him but was unaware she's in jail because she went looking for him. he tries to join the chimps to help him get some food while they tried to tell him to leave before he drawn attention to the neighbors. so, they stall him by claim theirs sheep inside the fence but reveals to be savage dogs instead, the Pitbull tries to catch Babe but later was drowning in the river so Babe choose to save his life with the help from Tug which impress the other stray dogs and cats for his bravery and reveals they have no owners but they do want sanctuary Babe tries to ask permission for them to be sheltered in the hotel but Bob and Thelonius refuses knowing the cruel neighbor Hortense will expose them. But the Pitbull stands up for Babe since he owes him his life later after feeding them with jellybeans and calling a truce for cats and dogs to be friends (since Fly & Rex gets along with Duchess) while sing a choir about Zootie giving birth for her twins, which alerts Ferdinand since he recognized the song back from the farm but later gave away their position when Hortense quickly alerts animal controls and impounded all the animals except for Bade, Ferdinand, Tug and Flealick who barely escape.
Babe wishes to rescue them but Ferdinand refuses because they are nothing but strangers who are now on their own and should have return home when they still have a chance to escape. After that Ferdinand still follows Babe to rescue the animals when they traced them to the facility they waited until dark so they can free them while Flealick stays behind to keep a look out when he managed to find Esme and Miss Floom. Later Babe leads the animals all the way to the charity ball where they sprung chaos by Esme and Miss Floom while babe was taken by a chef so he can cook him Esme tries to rescue babe from the chef but managed to knock him out.
Later Thelonius was too deluded to believe Esme is Fugly (only Easy knows that's not truly him) and was unable to warn him not to climb on Esme because due to the weight of the suit along with Babe and Thelonius with her hanging while Zootie, Bob and their babies inside the chandelier caused them to drop down the chimps where worried they misplaced one of their babies until Bade notice one on the top of the wire and managed to tell Thelonius to catch it after that miss floom sold the hotel and used it to buy the farm where all the animals found their new sanctuary while Babe was happy to see Arthur is now fully recovered while he finally fixed the water pump.
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