Tweedledum and Tweedledee (comics)

Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Tweedledum and Tweedledee debut in Detective Comics #74
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Detective Comics #74 (April 1943)
Created by	Bob Kane Don Cameron Jerry Robinson
In-story information
Alter ego	Dumfree and Deever Tweed
Team affiliations	Society of Super Villains Wonderland Gang
Notable aliases	Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Abilities	Fat bodies that allow rolling and bouncing The New 52: Superhuman strength and resistance

Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics who were primarily known as enemies of Batman.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee first appeared in Detective Comics #74 (April 1943), and were created by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and Don Cameron.

Dumfree Tweed and Deever Tweed are cousins who resemble each other so closely that they are often mistaken for identical twins. The pair are known as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, both as a play on words on their real names, and because they closely resemble Sir John Tenniel's depictions of those characters in Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland entitled Through the Looking-Glass. The two Tweeds always conduct their criminal activity in partnership with one another. They prefer to mastermind criminal schemes and let their henchmen carry out any necessary physical activity. The Tweeds will often use their extraordinary resemblance to trick their opponents into thinking there is only one of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee first encountered Batman and Robin when they began a crime spree in Gotham City. Batman and Robin have fought against the Tweeds and have overcome them on subsequent occasions.

The pair makes an appearance in Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth as inmates in Arkham Asylum. In this incarnation, they appear attached to each other by a pair of electroshock helmets, with Tweedledum representing the right half of the brain, and Tweedledee the left.