les Dupondt

Post date: Mar 21, 2011 3:44:50 PM

Dupond et Dupont (appelés les Dupondt collectivement) sont des personnages fictifs des Aventures de Tintin par Hergé. Ce sont deux policiers de comédie qui travaillent en équipe.

Thomson and Thompson (original French: Dupont et Dupond) are a pair of detectives in Hergé's classic Belgian comic graphic-novel series The Adventures of Tintin. While the two are apparently not related as they have different surnames, they are twice referred to as twins or brothers in the original language version of the series. In any case, the two clumsy detectives look like twins and can only be told apart by the shape of their moustaches. (Thomson's moustache flares out a tiny bit on each side at the bottom.) They provide much of the comic relief throughout the series, as they are afflicted with spoonerism and extremely clumsy. They are thoroughly incompetent, and always bent on arresting the wrong character, but in spite of this, they somehow get entrusted with delicate missions, such as ensuring security for the Syldavian space project or investigating arms dealing. The detective with the flared moustache is Thomson (without a "p"), who often describes himself as "Thomson, without a 'p,' as in Venezuela!" and who often remarks, "To be precise...". The detective with the flat moustache has described himself as "Thompson with a 'P,' as in..." and then used words with either a silent "P," or in which the "P" is combined with another letter, losing the "P" sound, such as Philadelphia, psychology and so on.