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==Bio Info==
==Bio Info==
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'''Titles:''' Pug the Slaver
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'''Title:''' Pug the Slaver
'''Age:''' Adult
'''Age:''' Adult
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'''First Appearance:''' ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', Ch. 3 (1952)
'''First Appearance:''' ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', Ch. 3 (1952)
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==About Pug==
 
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Pug is an opportunist like Governor [[Gumpas]], but in an entirely different socioeconomic class. Being a man with little or no education, Pug embarks on slave-trading as a way to exploit the lack of accountability from the Lone Islands' Narnian overlords. He is filthy, uncouth, and foul, cruel to his victims and ingratiatingly servile to his superiors. It appears that he has been in the slave trade for quite some time, and the long years of "living on broken hearts" have killed whatever kindess he ever had. Predictably, he thinks only of himself when the slave trade is abolished by [[Caspian]].
 
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===~ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ~ (1952)===
===~ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ~ (1952)===
[[File:3778.jpg|left]]Pug and his men are eating lunch on the island of Felimath when they are approached by [[Caspian]], [[Edmund Pevensie|Edmund]], [[Lucy Pevensie|Lucy]], [[Eustace Clarence Scrubb|Eustace]], and [[Reepicheep]]. Pug and the other slavers capture the party, not knowing that [[Caspian]] is the king of Narnia, with the intention of selling them at the slave market the following morning. As they march off to the slave ship, they meet [[Lord Bern]] who then buys [[Caspian]] from Pug. The following morning at the market, Pug has sold [[Edmund Pevensie|Edmund]], [[Lucy Pevensie|Lucy]], and [[Reepicheep]] (though he can't sell [[Eustace Clarence Scrubb|Eustace]] because of his sulky looks) when [[Caspian]] arrives with troops in full armor. [[Caspian]] declares the slave trade abolished and every slave in the market free, and demands that Pug pay back every merchant who purchased a slave that morning. Deprived of his parasitic livelihood, Pug is presumably left a beggar.
[[File:3778.jpg|left]]Pug and his men are eating lunch on the island of Felimath when they are approached by [[Caspian]], [[Edmund Pevensie|Edmund]], [[Lucy Pevensie|Lucy]], [[Eustace Clarence Scrubb|Eustace]], and [[Reepicheep]]. Pug and the other slavers capture the party, not knowing that [[Caspian]] is the king of Narnia, with the intention of selling them at the slave market the following morning. As they march off to the slave ship, they meet [[Lord Bern]] who then buys [[Caspian]] from Pug. The following morning at the market, Pug has sold [[Edmund Pevensie|Edmund]], [[Lucy Pevensie|Lucy]], and [[Reepicheep]] (though he can't sell [[Eustace Clarence Scrubb|Eustace]] because of his sulky looks) when [[Caspian]] arrives with troops in full armor. [[Caspian]] declares the slave trade abolished and every slave in the market free, and demands that Pug pay back every merchant who purchased a slave that morning. Deprived of his parasitic livelihood, Pug is presumably left a beggar.
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==About Pug==
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Pug is an opportunist like Governor [[Gumpas]], but in an entirely different socioeconomic class. Being a man with little or no education, Pug embarks on slave-trading as a way to exploit the lack of accountability from the Lone Islands' Narnian overlords. He is filthy, uncouth, and foul, cruel to his victims and ingratiatingly servile to his superiors. It appears that he has been in the slave trade for quite some time, and the long years of "living on broken hearts" have killed whatever kindess he ever had. Predictably, he thinks only of himself when the slave trade is abolished by [[Caspian]].
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*"Whew! It can talk! Well I never did. Blowed if I take less than two hundred crescents for him." (VDT, Ch. 3)
*"Whew! It can talk! Well I never did. Blowed if I take less than two hundred crescents for him." (VDT, Ch. 3)
*"Now, missie, don't you start taking on and spoiling your looks for the market tomorrow. You be a good girl and then you won't have nothing to cry about, see?" (VDT, Ch. 3)
*"Now, missie, don't you start taking on and spoiling your looks for the market tomorrow. You be a good girl and then you won't have nothing to cry about, see?" (VDT, Ch. 3)
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*"I've never seen such a drug in the market in all my born days. Priced [Eustace] at five crescents in the end and even so nobody'd have him. Threw him in free with other lots and still no one would have him. Wouldn't touch him." (VDT, Ch. 4)
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*"I've never seen such a drug in the market in all my born days. Priced him at five crescents in the end and even so nobody'd have him. Threw him in free with other lots and still no one would have him. Wouldn't touch him." (VDT, Ch. 4)
==Portrayals==
==Portrayals==
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*[[File:BBCPug.jpg|left]]Marcus Eyre: BBC TV series, 1989 – 1990
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*[[File:BBCPug.jpg|left]]Marcus Eyre: BBC TV series, 1988 – 1990

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