Tweedledum and Tweedledee enantiomorphs — three-dimensional mirror images. Evidence for these assumptions cannot be found in any of Lewis Carroll's writings. Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fictional characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19800. The names have since become synonymous in western popular culture slang for any two people who look and act in identical ways, generally in a derogatory context. Common versions of
Tweedledum and Tweedledee (comics) Tweedledum and Tweedledee (comics) Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two fictional characters, a duo of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, primarily known as enemies of Batman. Tweedledum and Tweedledee first appeared in "Detective Comics" #74 (April 1943), and were created by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and Don Cameron. Dumfree Tweed and Deever Tweed are cousins who resemble each other so closely that they are often mistaken for identical twins. The pair are known as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, both as a play on words on their real names, and because they closely resemble Sir John Tenniel's depictions