Smee

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Smee can also refer to a variety of ducks: pintail duck, widgeon, diving duck, and smew. It is a homophone of the TLA SME pronounced as a word.

Smee is a fictional character in the Peter Pan mythos. He is Captain Hook's right-hand man and bo'sun in J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan and the novel Peter and Wendy. He seems an oddly genial man for a pirate — Barrie describes him as "a man who stabbed without offence" — and is shown in the multiple movies as a rather stupidly entertaining man interested in loot rather than Hook's more evil pleasures. Loyal to Hook and enjoying his life as a pirate, he still manages to appear more as a child's troublecausing uncle than a genuinely bad man.

In J. V. Hart's Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth, "Smee" is said to be short for the name "Bartholomew Quigley Smeethington", which is perhaps his real name ("Smee" could just be a nickname given to him by Captain Hook).

In the Disney film, Peter Pan, Smee is voiced by Bill Thompson. In all other Disney productions, he is voiced by Jeff Bennett. Kazuo Kumakura does his Japanese voice. In most Disney media Smee is supposedly Hook's first mate; in Peter Pan and Wendy Smee is the boatswain and Starkey is first mate.

Smee is also a main character in the novel Peter and the Starcatchers by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry. He is loyal to the Black Stache, the name held by Captain Hook before he lost his hand.

In the 1991 Steven Spielberg film Hook, Smee is portrayed by actor Bob Hoskins. In the film, Smee is more concerned with himself than his loyalty to Captain Hook, and can be seen escaping Hook's ship with heaps of assorted treasure near the end of the movie.