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Nero is a Flemish comic book character and the main protagonist in Marc Sleen's long running comic book strip series ''The Adventures of Nero'' (1947–2002). He is one of the most recognizable comic book characters in Belgium and comparable to Lambik from the ''Suske en Wiske'' series by Willy Vandersteen. Nero is a middle aged, fairly obese man who is bald except for two long hairs on his head. Furthermore, he wears a huge red bow tie and has laurel leaves behind his ears, in reference to the Roman emperor Nero after whom he was named. Nero is an anti hero. He is a complex character with many good character traits, but also many human fallities. He is sometimes stupid, lazy, naïve, egotistical and vain, but in other situations he proves himself to be clever, friendly, determined and melancholic. ==Origin== When Marc Sleen started a comic strip series in 1947 for ''De Nieuwe Gids'' Detective Van Zwam was originally the central character, therefore naming the series after him. In the very first story, "Het Geheim van Matsuoka" ("Matsuoka's Secret") (1947) Nero made his debut. Van Zwam meets him while trying to solve a case, yet Nero is still named "Schoonpaard" (in reprints "Heiremans", after a colleague of Sleen at his office) here. Because he drank the insanity poison, Matsuoka beer, Schoonpaard thinks he is the Roman emperor Nero. At the end of the story he gets his senses back. Still, in all other albums everyone, including himself, refers to him as "Nero".〔In "De Rode Keizer" ("The Red Emperor")(1953) and "De Draak van Halfzeven" ("The Dragon of Half Past Six") (1959) Nero acted again as if he was emperor Nero, yet this time fully aware of what he was doing.〕 Nero became the breakout character of the series. Readers wrote to Sleen that they felt Nero was more sympathetic than Van Zwam and thus, from the ninth album "De Hoed van Geeraard de Duivel" ("The Hat of Gerard the Devil") (1960) on, the series was named after him and Nero became the central protagonist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nero (comic book character)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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