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Contents 1 History 2 Powers and Abilities 2.1 Powers 2.2 Weaknesses 3 See Also 4 Links and References 4.1 Footnotes

History

Babe came from the planet Egg where his people are actually the rocklike formations of that world that generate new offspring through nonsexual reproduction; the children eventually will grow and form new mountains as they age. Babe was eventually stolen from his homeworld by a greedy offworld captain and forced to work as slave labor until Morphea encountered him and offered herself as a surrogate mother with the promise of bringing the child home. Babe became part of Martin Champion's second team known as the Atari Force, where they were to retrieve one of the Martin's probes that was stolen by the Dark Destroyer.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Great strength and a dense shell-like backside that gives him some level of protection from projectiles.

Weaknesses

Despite his immense size, Babe is effectively a toddler and is prone to childlike behavior.

See Also

• Discuss Babe (Atari Force) on the forums
• Appearances of Babe (Atari Force)
• Character Gallery: Babe (Atari Force)
• Images featuring Babe (Atari Force)

Links and References

• Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe II
  

Footnotes

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From Muppet Wiki

Released	1995
Running time	89 minutes
Director	Chris Noonan
Written by	Dick King-Smith (novel The Sheep Pig), George Miller & Chris Noonan (screenplay)
Original music by
Studio	Universal Studios
MPAA Rating	G

Babe was a 1995 movie based on the novel The Sheep Pig (published in America as Babe: The Gallant Pig). In addition to the use of live animals, Jim Henson's Creature Shop supplied realistic animatronic animals for Babe (approximately 50% of the total shots), Ferdinand the Duck (approximately 50% of the total shots), Fly and Rex the sheepdogs (approximately 10% of the total shots), Duchess the Cat (approximately 90% of the total shots), and the Singing Mice (100% of the total shots). Standing, sitting and lying models were created, as well as hand-puppet versions for certain scenes. John Cox's Creature Workshop supplied the sheep, and Rhythm and Hues created the CGI lipsync of the real animals.

The 1998 sequel, Babe: Pig in the City, was made without Creature Shop involvement.

The Creature Shop won an Academy Award as part of the Visual Effects.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Credits 3 Trivia 4 References 5 Sources 6 External Links

Cast

• Live Cast

James Cromwell as Farmer Arthur Hoggett

Magda Szubanski as Mrs. Esme Hoggett

Zoe Burton as Daughter

Paul Goddard as Son-in-Law

Wade Hayward as Grandson

Brittany Byrnes as Granddaughter

Mary Acres as Valda

Marshall Napier as Chairman of Judges

• Voices

Christine Cavanaugh as Babe

Miriam Margolyes as Fly

Danny Mann as Ferdinand

Hugo Weaving as Rex

Miriam Flynn as Maa

Russi Taylor as Duchess the Cat

Evelyn Krape as Old Ewe

Michael Edward-Stevens as Horse

Charles Bartlett as Cow

Paul Livingston as Rooster

Roscoe Lee Browne as Narrator

• Performance Puppeteers: Mak Wilson, David Greenaway, Allan Trautman, Ian Tregonning
• Assistant Puppeteers: David Collins, Janet Dalgliesh, Terry Ryan, Hugh Simpson

Credits

• Creature Shop Supervisor: John Stephenson
• Creative Project Supervisor: Neal Scanlan
• Head of Production: William Plant
• Animal Visual Designers: Jeremy Hunt, Graham High, Barry Sutton
• CGI Sculptor: John Coppinger
• Fur Design Specialist: Val Jones
• Feather and Anatomy Designer: Monique Brown
• Animatronic Designers: Chris Barton, Chris Howes, Tim Jordan, Jim Machin, Jason Reed, Joe Scott
• Workshop Supervisor: Geoff Paige

Trivia

In media coverage of the film, and the Creature Shop's involvement, inevitable comparisons were made to the most famous puppet pig:

One pig who thrives on human attention is Jim Henson's Miss Piggy. Was the sultry sow, as rumored, angry she didn't land the part of Babe? Hogwash, says Lynn Calle of Jim Henson's Creature Shop: "Miss Piggy doesn't acknowledge she's a pig. She's upset she's not getting parts that go to Michelle Pfeiffer. [1]

References

• During the 68th Academy Awards that were held on March 25, 1996, Miss Piggy intercepts a video conference uplink between host Whoopi Goldberg and nominee Babe in order to assert her porcine ranking in Hollywood by offering to save the show with one of her sensational production numbers she titles "Porkahontas," but instead the audience is saved by the recovery of the initial connection.

• In Sesame Street Episode 4142, the number 0 is fed up with representing "nothing," so he poses as a pig, dubbing himself "Babe."

Sources

1. ↑ Snead, Elizabeth. "Hog Wild on the Babe Set." USA Today, August 8, 1995.

External Links

• IMDb

From the RuneScape Wiki, the wiki for all things RuneScape

Babe

Release date	Unknown edit
Race	Undead Oxen
Members NPC?	Yes
Quest NPC?	No
Location	Maggie's Camp, near the Legends' Guild
Sells items?	No
Skill requirement?	No
Quest requirement?	No
Gender	Female
Examine	How can an ox without lungs sneeze like that?!?!?
Notable features	Entirely skeletal.

Babe is an undead ox owned by the witch Maggie. Babe can be found, along with Maggies other ox, Norman, in their camp west of the Legends' Guild in central Kandarin. Babe and the rest of Maggie's camp were once located east of the Crafting Guild, but after the end of the 2008 Hallowe'en event, they moved to the fields near East Ardougne. Although Babe is mentioned in the Swept Away quest, she is not directly involved. Maggie remarks during the 2008 Hallowe'en event that Babe has 'the sniffles' which is why she can't go trick-or-treating.

Babe sneezes all the time, which bothers Norman. Maggie advices not to come to close to Babe, because she still might be a bit contagious after she gave her a portion of Goulash.

Trivia

The name Babe most likely comes from the story of Paul Bunyan, as he has an ox named Babe.