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 (so to speak) 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".
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.
Smee has also been a main character in the adaptation of Peter Pan by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry, "Peter and the Starcatchers". He is loyal to the Black Stache, the name held by Captain Hook before he lost his hand. 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.
There is some odd speculation to the relationship between Smee and Hook, to the point that Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins added a homosexual subtext to their relationship in the movie Hook.
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