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Thomson and Thompson ((フランス語:Dupond et Dupont)) are fictional characters in ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. They are two incompetent detectives who provide much of the comic relief throughout the series. While the two are apparently unrelated as they have different surnames, they look like identical twins whose only discernible difference is the shape of their moustaches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How to tell a Thompson from a Thomson )〕 They are afflicted with chronic spoonerisms, are extremely clumsy, thoroughly incompetent, and usually bent on arresting the wrong character. In spite of this, they somehow get entrusted with delicate missions. The detective with the flared, pointy moustache is Thomson, who often describes himself as "Thomson, without a 'P', as in Venezuela". The detective with the flat, droopy moustache has described himself as "Thompson, with a 'P', as in psychology" or "Philadelphia", using words with either a silent "P" or in which the "P" is combined with another letter, losing the "P" sound. Thomson and Thompson usually wear bowler hats and carry walking sticks, except when abroad: during these missions they insist on wearing the stereotypical costume of the country they are visiting so that they blend into the local population, but instead manage to dress in folkloric attire that actually makes them stand apart. The detectives were in part based on Hergé's father and uncle, identical twins who wore matching bowler hats while carrying matching walking sticks. ==Character history== Thomson and Thompson first appeared in a Tintin adventure in 1932, in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'', when they came into conflict with Tintin on board a ship where he and Snowy were enjoying a holiday cruise. When this adventure was first published they were referred to as X33 and X33bis (or X33 and X33b).〔〔 Here they showed an unusually high level of cunning and efficiency, going to great lengths to rescue Tintin from the firing squad and save Snowy from sacrifice in disguises that fooled even Tintin. In this and two other early stories ''The Blue Lotus'' and ''The Black Island'', they spent most of their time pursuing Tintin himself for crimes he had not committed, forced to follow official orders and faked evidence, the two noting in ''Blue Lotus'' that they never believed in Tintin's guilt even if they had to obey their orders. In the 1946 colour version of the second Tintin story ''Tintin in the Congo'', Hergé added a cameo appearance from Thomson and Thompson, who were introduced fourteen years earlier in the original version of the fourth Tintin story, ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. Adding them to the first page, Hergé featured them in the backdrop, watching a crowd surrounding Tintin as he boards a train and commenting that it "Seems to be a young reporter going to Africa..." In the same frame, Hergé inserted depictions of himself and his friend Edgar P. Jacobs (the book's colourist) into the crowd seeing Tintin off. Except for their codenames, they remained nameless in the early adventures. It was not until ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'', published in 1938, that Tintin mentions their definitive names when introducing them to Professor Alembick at the airport. In his 1941 Tintin play co-written with Jacques Van Melkebeke, ''Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond'', Hergé named them as "Durant and Durand," although he later renamed them as "Dupont and Dupond." The series' English-language translators, Michael Turner and Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, renamed them "Thomson and Thompson." While the original version of ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'' came out in 1932, the rewritten and redrawn version was issued in 1955, and the English version was not issued until 1971. This resulted in some chronological confusion for new readers of the Tintin series, which is why the text hints that Tintin already knew the pair, and was surprised at their unfriendly behavior; however, on the original chronological sequence, this was indeed the first time they ever met. Thomson and Thompson also appear on the first page of the 1946 remake of ''Tintin in the Congo'',〔 though they keep at a distance, looking on as Tintin, surrounded by admirers, sets off. A remark made by one of them implies that at that stage they do not even know Tintin by name, only reputation. (In the original publication, made in the 1930s, this remark is made by a railway worker chatting to a colleague.) Thomson and Thompson were originally only side characters but later became more important. In the redrawings of the earlier books, especially ''The Black Island'', the detectives gained their now-traditional mannerisms. In ''Land of Black Gold'', the detectives mistakenly swallow some mysterious fuel-related pills that caused them to sprout immensely long beards and hair that change color constantly and grow at a break-neck pace. The condition wears off by the end of this adventure, but it relapses in ''Explorers on the Moon'', causing problems when the captain must continuously cut their hair, repeatedly switching back to re-cut floor length hair (and mustaches and beards) which all grow back in seconds. In the 19 books following ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'', Thomson and Thompson appear in 17 of them, not appearing in ''Tintin in Tibet'' or ''Flight 714''. In some of these books their role is minor; the duo's appearance in ''The Shooting Star'' is confined to two panels, they appear briefly only at the beginning of ''The Broken Ear'' (before being tricked into closing the case in the belief that the stolen object has been returned when it was actually replaced by a fake), and are imprisoned and face execution on false charges in ''Tintin and the Picaros''. During their other appearances, they serve as the official investigators into whatever crimes Tintin is currently investigating. 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「Thomson and Thompson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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