Quagmire triplets

Duncan, Isadora, and Quigley Quagmire are fictional characters in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events". Isadora's and Duncan's first names are derived from that of the dancer Isadora Duncan, and Quigley's first name is derived from Lillian F. Quigley, author of "The Blind Men and the Elephant". [Quigley, Lillian F., "The Blind Men and the Elephant", Scribner, New York, 1959.] Their last name, "Quagmire," literally means a swamp, but is to be interpreted here metaphorically as "a difficult or precarious situation." [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quagmire]

Quigley

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colour = green
name = Quigley Quagmire


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first = "The Slippery Slope"
last = "The Slippery Slope
cause = Lost at Sea
nickname = "Sweatered Scout"
species = human
gender = Male
age = 14 in the Slippery Slope
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occupation = V.F.D. volunteer fire department, Snow Scout
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relatives = Isadora and Duncan Quagmire
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creator = Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)

Quigley Quagmire was thought to be dead until Violet and Klaus Baudelaire met him in a cave with the Snow Scouts in "The Slippery Slope". He and Violet Baudelaire clearly have some romantic interest in each other, as Snicket implies at one point in the book when Violet and Quigley are climbing a mountain that they share a kiss: when they stop to rest , Violet comments on the view, which Quigley agrees looks beautiful. Snicket then decides to break off at this point and let Violet have some privacy. However, he tells the reader that, throughout the rest of their climb, they had "small, secret smiles," and, when Quigley expresses surprise that they've been climbing the whole afternoon, Violet reminds him (while giving him a shy smile) that they have not been climbing the "whole" afternoon.

His mother hid him in a trapdoor during the fire to protect him. He was under there for a few hours, then he found that it was a tunnel. It took him to Dr. Montgomery Montgomery's house, after the Baudelaires had been there. The house was empty, so the Baudelaires had already left and Dr. Montgomery was already dead. This also implies that the Quagmire house burned down after the Baudelaire mansion. Then, Jacques Snicket arrived, but left for Paltryville.

At the end of the book, The Baudelaires and Quigley escaped Olaf but the icy Stricken Stream melted, and Quigley got washed away by the current of the river into a separate tributary. He apparently survived, as he sends the Baudelaires a telegram with a hidden message in it in The Grim Grotto, telling them to go to Briny Beach. He is on the "good" side of the schism.

Like his siblings, Quigley has an interest related to writing, in his case cartography.

In "The Penultimate Peril", Kit Snicket tells The Baudelaires that Quigley and Kit were planning to meet up with the three children, but he received word from his other two siblings that they were being attacked in the sky. Kit says that he stole a helicopter to help them and Hector, and would do this by constructing a huge net.

At the end of the series, Kit informs the Baudelaires that Quigley did indeed manage to meet up with his siblings, shortly before the eagles popped the balloons holding them up. Everyone inside the mobile home was sent toppling downwards, destroying the Queequeg directly below them. Duncan, Isadora, Kit Snicket, Captain Widdershins, Fiona, Phil, Fernald, Hector, Ink, and Quigley were all left stranded in the water, before the large question-mark shaped object, The Great Unknown, appeared below them. Kit and Ink managed to escape, while everyone else was pulled under, either to their deaths, or to their rescue. It is unknown if they are alive or not, but in "The End" it mentions that the Quagmires are "in circumstances just as dark ... as the Baudelaires'" Kit also mentions that the last she heard of them was one of the Quagmires calling out Violet's name. Sunny asks which sibling called it, but Kit dies before she can give an answer. It is likely that the sibling who called out Violet's name was Quigley.

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