Marco Pagot

Marco Pagot is the main protagonist of the Studio Ghibli film Porco Rosso. He was a human pilot who was cursed into a pig. He is known as Porco Rosso, the bounty hunter.

Plot
When Marco and and his friend Gina were young, Marco and her flew in a plane with the word "Adriano" on the side. After drifting through the water the plane took off, and the two were mesmerized. After flying up to a high enough altitude the wind blew Gina's dress up, embarrassing the two. This moment would later be remembered by Gina when seeing Marco flying his Savoia S.21. Sometime before the Great War Marco became a pilot for the Italian Air Force. During a routine surveillance mission Marco attending his friend Berlini's wedding as his best man. During the wedding Berlini was wed to Marco's childhood friend Gina. Immediately after the ceremony Marco, Berlini, and a few other members of the Italian Air Force were called to battle, were Marco would experience the worst dogfight of his life, And before long Marco was the last survivor of his unit. After the remaining planes from the enemy unit lost him in the clouds he emerged above the clouds and the plane began to fly itself. After flying in the clouds he saw what he thought to be a band of white, only to realize it was millions of ghost planes and their dead occupants. He then saw the ghosts of his friends in their planes fly into the ring of ghost pilots. After offering to go instead of Berlini, his friend could not hear him, and flew high into the band of planes before his plane flew itself under the clouds.

Sometime after the last summer of the Great War Marco deserted the Italian Air Force and became a criminal to Italy. After deserting the Air Force Marco found a one of a kind Savoia S.21 covered in dust in a warehouse, because the manufacturer found the design to dangerous. He would eventually grow attached to the plane, and it would become his signature fighter.

Years before fighting the Mama Aiuto Gang, Marco would be cursed to become a pig. After becoming a pig he became very cynical and separated himself from the rest of the world by living on a small island in the Adriatic, and becoming a freelance bounty hunter.

After becoming a freelance bounty hunter Marco would become known as Porco Rosso, and he would become a well known and famous hero amongst the Adriatic people. Because of this when the Mama Aiuto Gang kidnapped a group of schoolgirls off of a ferry liner, the ferry liner called the freelance bounty hunter to help them get the girls back. After chasing the dimwitted gang he would catch up with them and blow out their engines and shoot off the tail of the plane.

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