Quagmire triplets
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'''Duncan''', '''Isadora''', and '''Quigley Quagmire''' are [[fictional character]]s 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''.<ref>Quigley, Lillian F., ''The Blind Men and the Elephant'', Scribner, New York, 1959.</ref> 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]
==Isadora and Duncan==
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| first = ''[[The Austere Academy]]''
| last = ''[[The Vile Village]]''
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| age = 13 when they first meet, 14 in the Slippery Slope
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Duncan and Isadora first appear in ''[[The Austere Academy]]'', when the Baudelaire children, [[Violet Baudelaire|Violet]], [[Klaus Baudelaire|Klaus]] and [[Sunny Baudelaire|Sunny]], meet them at [[Business locations in A Series of Unfortunate Events#Prufrock Preparatory School|Prufrock Preparatory School]]. The five instantly bond.
[[Count Olaf]] kidnaps the Quagmires at the end of the book. The Baudelaires find them in ''[[The Ersatz Elevator]]'', but fail to rescue them. At the end of ''[[The Vile Village]]'', the Quagmires escape from the [[Towns in A Series of Unfortunate Events#Village of Fowl Devotees|Village of Fowl Devotees]] with [[List of Guardians in a Series of Unfortunate Events#Hector|Hector]] in a large self-sustaining hot air balloon. The Baudelaires try to climb up the ladder connecting to the balloon, but fail when [[Esmé Squalor]] destroys the ladder with a harpoon gun.
It is strongly implied that Isadora and Duncan are part of the good side of [[V.F.D.]]. [[Snicket siblings#Kit Snicket|Kit Snicket]] reveals in ''The Penultimate Peril'' that they were flying over the sea, but were apparently attacked, and the narrative later reveals that these attackers are the [[Animals in A Series of Unfortunate Events#Eagles|V.F.D. Eagles]]. In the final book it is revealed (by Kit Snicket) that while she met up with Captain Widdershins, Fiona and Fernald, Quigley managed to reach the hot air mobile home and aided his siblings against the eagles. Then Kit and the rest show up to help the Quagmires and Hector, but the eagles pop the balloons holding the home in the air into the sea and the Queequeg, leaving them all castaways. Then the question mark thing appeared below them. Kit and Ink were able to leave on the raft that she built, but the others took their chances, and did not hear Kit shouting. Thier brother Quigley is heard screaming "Violet" before being taken. None of the tripplets are heard from again.
Snicket states that the triplets are older than Klaus (who is thirteen years old since The Vile Village) but younger than Violet (fourteen years old), so the triplets must be around thirteen years old. In the course of the series, Violet turns fifteen, and Klaus thirteen, so the triplets might now be fourteen.
Duncan and Isadora carry [[commonplace book]]s with them. Duncan's is dark [[green]] and Isadora's is black. Duncan used his to write interesting facts, while Isadora used hers to write [[couplets]] in. In ''[[The Vile Village]]'' Duncan and Isadora attempt to give their notebooks to the Baudelaires, but [[Esmé Squalor]], disguised as the village's [[Chief of Police]], shoots the notebooks with a harpoon gun, which contained secrets about Olaf and his plots and V.F.D
Duncan's favorite book is ''The Portable [[Dorothy Parker]]'', and his sister Isadora's favorite book is ''[[Les Fleurs du mal]]'' by [[Charles Baudelaire]].
==Quigley==
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| name = Quigley Quagmire
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| first = ''[[The Slippery Slope]]''
| last = ''[[The Slippery Slope]]
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Quigley Quagmire was thought to be dead until [[Violet Baudelaire|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 it was implied at a point when they decided to take a rest that they had kissed.
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, [[Snicket siblings#Kit Snicket|Kit Snicket]], [[List of Guardians in a Series of Unfortunate Events#Captain Widdershins|Captain Widdershins]], [[Supporting characters in A Series of Unfortunate Events#Fiona|Fiona]], Phil, [[Hook-Handed Man|Fernald]], [[Hector (A Series of Unfortunate Events)|Hector]], [[Incredibly Deadly Viper|Ink]], and Quigley were all left stranded in the water, before the large question-mark shaped object, [[Boats in A Series of Unfortunate Events#The Great Unknown|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'", which could be suggesting that they are still alive.
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