Caledonian Boar

The Caledonian Boar is a minor antagonist in both the 1997 Hercules film and the Hercules TV series.
==Appearances==
===Hercules===
In the Hercules movie, the Caledonian Boar was the first beast that Hercules faced during the Zero to Hero montage. He is first seen as one of Hades's pawn pieces being moved into play, and then the scene switches to the giant boar about to charge Hercules. Hercules quickly grabs a bow and arrow, firing it at the beast. The camera zooms in on the boar's shocked face as it makes collision. The scene then changes to a painting of the boar on a vase where his roasted corpse is being served on a plate by Hercules to Philoctetes. Hades backhands the boar's piece off the board in response.
===Hercules TV Series===
In the TV series, according to production order, the species was first mentioned in "Hercules and the Underworld Takeover", when Zeus considered Artimis' request to list the Calydonian Boar as an endangered species.
The Caledonian Boar makes its first and only physical appearance in the episode "Hercules and the Caledonian Boar". In this episode, Hercules and Philoctetes go into the woods to hunt down a Caledonian Boar. They eventually find one, but Hercules finds himself unwilling kill it. The boar instead chases and embraces them in front of others who were hunting in the woods during the same time they were. Later in the episode, Philoctetes is turned into a boar by Artemis for hunting in her woods.
==Gallery==
Calydonian boar pawn.png|The Caledonian boar's pawn piece from the film. 
Calydonian boar defeated.png|The deceased Caledonian boar painted on a vase. 
Caledonian Boar TV series Hercules.png|A Caledonian boar from the TV series. 
Phil in Hades Challenge.png
Zero to Hero lorcana.jpg
Hades - Meticulous Plotter lorcana.jpg
==Trivia==
*The Caledonian boar is often mistaken by fans for another kind of mythological giant boar known as the Erymanthian boar, which was among Hercules' labors. Both of these boars are similar in Greek mythology.
**According to Caledonian boar's myth, it was sent by Artimis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because King Oeneus had failed to honor her in his rites to the gods until he sent the greatest heroes and hunters to hunt down the boar in the event known as the Caledonian boar hunt.
*According to Artemis (in the TV series), there aren't many Caledonian Boars left. 
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