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[[File:Les adaptations étrangères d'Agatha Christie par François Rivière et Jean-François Miniac alias Solidor, cliché Miniac..JPG|thumb|400px|A few of the novels featuring M. Poirot]]
{{quote|''"There are moments when I have felt: 'Why-Why-Why did I ever invent this detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature?...Eternally straightening things, eternally boasting, eternally twirling his moustaches and tilting his egg-shaped head...I point out that by a few strokes of the pen...I could destroy him utterly. He replies, grandiloquently: 'Impossible to get rid of Poirot like that! He is much too clever.'"''|'''[[Agatha Christie]]'''}}
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Notable associates of his include: Captain Arthur Hastings, war veteran, secretary and later Argentinian farmer; Ariadne Oliver, irritatingly popular mystery novelist; the Countess Vera Rossakoff, possibly an aristocratic Russian refugee, most definitely a talented conwoman; Miss Felicity Lemon, a most efficient secretary; and of course any number of solid, even stolid, English policemen who good-naturedly allow him to take over their crime scenes. After all, Mr Parrot's only a [[Funny Foreigner]]. What harm could it do?
Many different actors have played Poirot on screen. [[Peter Ustinov]] gained some fame for his many appearances as the character in the 1970s and 1980s, [[Albert Finney]] was nominated for an Oscar for playing him in 1974, but nowadays the definitive portrayal is believed to be [[David Suchet]]'s ''[[Poirot]]''.
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== Novels in this series ==
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* ''Curtain'' (1975).
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=== Tropes that were created to describe the great Hercule Poirot include: ===▼
* [[Poirot Speak]]
* [[Affectionate Parody]] / [[Deconstruction]]: "The Veiled Lady" is a literary [[Shot for Shot Remake]] of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton", but with an extra [[Twist Ending]].
* [[Always Murder]]
* [[Always Someone Better]]: subverted, since of course there is no one better than Hercule Poirot. Not even his brother Achille. {{spoiler|Who doesn't exist.}}
* [[Badass Moustache]]: Agatha Christie liked the 1974 adaptation of [[Murder on the Orient Express]], and had but a single complaint: [[Albert Finney]]'s mustache wasn't magnificent enough!
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The Boyntons in ''Appointment with Death''.
* [[Brain Fever]]: in ''Murder on the Links.'' Interestingly, in ''The Big Four'', a doctor dismisses brain fever as an invention of writers.
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* [[Call to Agriculture]]: Poirot, in ''[[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]''.
* [[Celibate Hero]]: Poirot does not have a romantic relationship over the course of his literary career. He expresses a strong admiration for Countess Vera Rossakoff, but Christie does not pursue a relationship between them.
* [[Chaotic Good]]: Poirot has no issue with committing burglary to aid his investigations, and will allow a murder go unpunished if it the act was just or done for the greater good.
* [[Clueless Mystery]]: The novel is always fair to the reader in that it is conceivable for a genius to solve it. It is not Poirot's fault that he is cleverer than the reader.
* [[The Corrupter]]: {{spoiler|Stephen Norton in ''Curtain''}}
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