List of Fictional Badgers - Badgers in Literature, Poetry, and Comics

Badgers in Literature, Poetry, and Comics

• Azrael Dak, a were-badger from the Ravenloft campaign setting in Dungeons & Dragons, as well as badgers, dire badgers, and dire badger skeletons included as monsters in the game
• Badger, a badger incarnation of Dagger (Tandy Bowen) from the Spider-Ham one-off in the graphic novel serial, Cloak and Dagger
• Badger, Shadow, and Frond, from the children's novel The Animals of Farthing Wood and its components The Fox Cub Bold and Battle for the Park all by Colin Dann.
• Badger, the title character in Susan Varley's Badger's Parting Gifts, a Mother Goose Award-winning children's story that was showcased on Reading Rainbow in season 18.
• The badgers in the badger colony raised by Ismaïl for food and to be raped in Urmuz' absurdist work, Ismaïl and Turnavitu
• The badger orphans cared for by Belinda Blair from the "Badgered Belinda" story arc in Jinty
• The badger that Arthur meets when he is transformed into a badger by Merlin in The Once and Future King
• The badger on the barge, the eponymous badger from Janni Howker's Whitbread Children's Award and Carnegie Medal shortlisted book, Badger on the Barge (1984)
• The badger mascot of Hufflepuff, one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series. The mascot features on the school's coat of arms.
• The badger who operates the rickshaw in Wildwood
• The badgers that destroy ThunderClan's camp in Sunset
• The badger cub that Jed kills and the other two badger cubs that Harley and Pearl watch in My Sister Jodie
• The badgers of Aphrodite Pandemos in "Cancer, or, The Crab" from Joseph Macleod's The Ecliptic (1930)
• The badger from the 19th century poem "The Badger" by John Clare
• The badger mascot of the fictional Miskatonic University in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
• The badger in the basement from Ben Baglio's Animal Ark
• The badger that is killed with a pitchfork in the "Helmut Werstler's Cruelty Zoo" comic strip from the February 1998 issue of PC Zone. Designed by humorist, Charlie Brooker, this strip was considered so offensive that the magazine was pulled from shelves in England.
• The badger-folk that try to capture Tom Bombadil in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
• The badger god in The 'Immortals' quartet by Tamora Pierce
• The brown and cream badger that traps Askam and leads the maddened animals against Zared in Pilgrim
• The mother badger from Incident at Hawk's Hill.
• Beaufort and the badgers of Cilgwyn from The Cold Moons by Aeron Clement
• Bill, friend of Rupert Bear, originally created by Mary Tourtel
• Bill Badger from Bill Badger and the Pirates and other stories in the series by 'B.B.'
• Brock Blueheart (also known as "Stinky"), a badger character in the graphic novel, Fables
• Boomer Badger, a badger character who is Ranger Rick's friend in Ranger Rick
• Borun and his family in The Badgers of Summercombe by Ewan Clarkson
• Brock the Badger in Yours Ever, Sam Pig By Alison Uttley
• Captain Ramshackle of Jeff Noon's Automated Alice
• Charlie Coffer, the badger poet from The Crown Snatchers
• Dashiel, Jocelyn, and Archibald, three badger space pirates from The Pirate Loop
• Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock, in the steampunk comic book, Grandville by Bryan Talbot
• Digger the Badger, in the stories of Thornton Burgess
• Doraga, leader of the Marat, and all members of the Gargant tribe (a tribe of giant burrow badgers) in Codex Alera
• Earth Badger of Root, a Taoist deity in the form of a badger from Journey to the West
• Edgar Badger from Edgar Badger's Fix-it Day by Monica Kulling and Neecy Twinem
• Frances, Gloria and Albert from the series Frances the Badger by Russell Hoban
• Gar, the badger whose sett O-ha moves into after the death of A-ho in Hunter's Moon
• The golden badgers that Meg Lewis protects from the badger-baiters in The Magician's House
• Gregorius the badger, one of Paulus' friends in Paulus the woodgnome
• Grimbeert the badger from the Dutch masterpiece, Van den vos Reynaerde (a variation of the classical tale of Reynard the Fox)
• Henry, the badger that Alexa meets in the forest of Bridewell in the children's mystery novel, The Dark Hills Divide
• Ingolf, a giant in badger-form that is run over by Malcolm Fisher at the start of Expecting Someone Taller
• Kalthas of Garry Kilworth's Thunder Oak and the badger that Torca Marda resurrects to kill Scrif and Mawk in Castle Storm
• Little Badger from Little Badger's Just-About Birthday by Eve Bunting
• Lord Brocktree, the Badger Lords, the Badger Mothers, and various other badgers in Brian Jacques's Redwall series.
• Midnight of the Warriors series. And other badgers from the series such as the badger that kills Willowpelt in Firestar's Quest
• Mr. Badger in The Wind in the Willows and later sequels such as The Willows at Christmas by William Horwood
• Mr. Badger, one of the animen created by Dr. Moreau that interrupt Quatermain and Murray while they are having sex in "Red in Tooth and Claw" from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II
• The Mujina of the Akasaka Road from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
• Old Brock, a badger from the tale of "El-ahrairah and the Lendri" in Watership Down.
• Old Silver Grizzle from Old Silver Grizzle the Badger and Other Stories by Ernest Thompson Seton
• The One-Armed Badger, The King of the Badgers, and various other badger inhabitants of Badgertown in J. P. Martin's Uncle series.
• Pon-chan, a shape-shifting tanuki living in D's pet shop in Pet Shop of Horrors. The creature is translated for English-speaking audiences as a badger.
• Raths, a species of badger created by Lewis Carroll for the original poem Jabberwocky from his Mischmasch column. The rath would later be identified by Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass as a sort of green pig. Another badger character in the Alice in Wonderland universe is the lizard badger that lives alongside the rath in the Garden of Underland. This character was created by Linda Woolverton for her screenplay, Alice, that later became Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Yet a third badger appears to sing a duet with the March Hare in the Alice in Wonderland opera.
• Sincerity and the badger messengers of Brock Marsh in New Crobuzon from China Miéville's Bas-Lag novels, Perdido Street Station, Iron Council, and The Scar
• Tanuki, the principal of Botchan's school in the Japanese novel, Botchan. He is translated into a badger for English audiences.
• Tanuki Hirayanu, badger spirits from "Land of Eight Million Dreams" in the Changeling: The Dreaming role-playing game
• The tanuki who causes trouble in the farmer's fields in Kachi-kachi Yama is translated as a badger for English-speaking audiences
• Tommy Brock from The Tale of Mr. Tod - Kidnaps the Flopsy Bunnies and gets into a scuffle with Mr. Tod.
• Trufflehunter is a talking badger from C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series.
• Tummeler, a talking badger from Here, There Be Dragons, his son Uncas from The Shadow Dragons, and his grandson–Uncas' son Fred, from The Indigo King