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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Thanks to replacing other detectives from the original stories, Japp can be assigned anything from homicide to the prime minister's security detail to tracking a jewel thief, instead of sticking to one specialty.
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--> '''Hastings:''' (Discussing Japp's sleep-talking) I can't take much more of it, Poirot. [And] I've been through three days of a Jerry barrage.\\

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--> ---> '''Hastings:''' (Discussing Japp's sleep-talking) I can't take much more of it, Poirot. [And] I've been through three days of a Jerry barrage.\\
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...not to be confused with The Sign of Four, which is a Sherlock Holmes novel.


* In "The Sign of Four", Hastings uses this to "tell" him that the BigBadEnsemble is blackmailing him.

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* ** In "The Sign of Four", ''The Big Four'', Hastings uses this to "tell" him that the BigBadEnsemble is blackmailing him.
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* In "The Sign of Four", Hastings uses this to "tell" him that the BigBadEnsemble is blackmailing him.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: His insistence on wearing patent-leather shoes means that any time he has to do any large amount of walking, he complains about his aching feet. Of course, a fashionable man like Poirot would never stoop to wearing boat shoes or plimsolls.
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Character page for Creator/AgathaChristie's Literature/HerculePoirot novels.

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Character page for Creator/AgathaChristie's Literature/HerculePoirot ''Literature/HerculePoirot'' novels.

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Character page for Creator/AgathaChristie's Literature/HerculePoirot novels and its adaptations.

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Character page for Creator/AgathaChristie's Literature/HerculePoirot novels and its adaptations.novels.

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* [[Characters/HerculePoirotKennethBranagh Kenneth Branagh's film series]]
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* SpeedDemon: Hastings is well known for his love of cars and fast driving. In ''The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly' he delightedly announces to Miss Lemon that his beloved Lagonda has been accepted into the 1935 Le Mans. (That year's Grand Prix of Endurance was indeed won by a Lagonda.)

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* SpeedDemon: Hastings is well known for his love of cars and fast driving. In ''The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly' Waverly'' he delightedly announces to Miss Lemon that his beloved Lagonda has been accepted into the next stage of entry for the 1935 Le Mans. (That year's (The 1935 Grand Prix of Endurance was indeed won by a Lagonda.)
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* SpeedDemon: Hastings is well known for his love of cars and fast driving. In ''The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly' he delightedly announces to Miss Lemon that his beloved Lagonda has been accepted into the 1935 Le Mans. (That year's Grand Prix of Endurance was indeed won by a Lagonda.)
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* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Or in this case, middle ''initials''.
** When Hastings returns from his South American exploits in ''The ABC Murders'' his suitcases are monogrammed alternately with 'Captain A. J. M. Hastings' or 'A.J.M.H.' - however, we never learn what his middle names are.
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* EmbarassingNickname: In ''Dumb Witness'' he is called 'Battler' by his old friend Charles Arundel. When Poirot asks why Charles calls him that, Hastings initially tries to fob him off with 'English humour,' before eventually revealing that it is a somewhat horrible word-play on the 'Battle a'Hastings'. Poirot is thoroughly unimpressed.

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* EmbarassingNickname: EmbarrassingNickname: In ''Dumb Witness'' he is called 'Battler' by his old friend Charles Arundel. When Poirot asks why Charles calls him that, Hastings initially tries to fob him off with 'English humour,' before eventually revealing that it is a somewhat horrible word-play on the 'Battle a'Hastings'. Poirot is thoroughly unimpressed.

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