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| - Frederick "Fred" Colon is a fictional character in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett. He first appears in Guards! Guards!. Colon is a sergeant in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, and appears to have been so for a long time. He was a corporal in the Watch at the time Samuel Vimes first joined, and subsequent to this spent some time in the army (the Duke of Quirm's Middleweight Infantry and then the Duke of Eorle's First Heavy Infantry), before returning to the Watch.He is described on several occasions as "one of nature's sergeants". He is overweight, and prefers to avoid trouble and exertion. He is also rather unimaginative. When not on desk duty, he generally "guards" bridges or large buildings against theft. His reasoning is that until someone attempts to steal the geographic feature in question, he can lean against it and stay out of danger .In The Fifth Elephant, Colon became the head of the Traffic Squad, which also included his best friend Nobby Nobbs. This role perfectly fit the above described qualities, especially as the Traffic Squad is "self financing" . A brief promotion to acting-captain confirmed what everyone, himself included, had suspected, and he has returned to his previous rank. Once he put clamps on various buildings for "causing serious traffic congestion". Among the clamped were the Opera House, three other buildings, six fountains, three statues and a gibbet. He also clamped the Patrician's Palace for the same reason, but he let it slide because Vetinari parked it on business.He is currently holding dual position of Custody Officer and Watch Liaison Officer; jobs so vague that no one is entirely sure what they entail, least of all Colon himself. They serve the dual purpose of preventing his brain from becoming overburdened with responsibility and avoiding the catastrophic possibility that he might be given a task of any real importance. Closer examination, though, shows that Colon has some hidden depths. As Vimes thought it, most of the other watch officers saw a fat, stupid, lazy, cowardly man and that was mostly what was there, but Colon and Nobby have a street-level knowledge of Ankh-Morpork on a par with Vimes and are good at sensing tension in a crowd. Both are also survivors of the Glorious 25th of May. Colon also performs his duties in Thud! fairly well. He is an amiable jailer, and bright enough to keep the keys in a closed tin box in the bottom drawer of his desk, well out of reach of anything an inmate would be able to use. He is often portrayed as being prejudiced against women in the Watch, dwarves, undead, "foreigners" and virtually any other group that could be considered a minority in Anhk-Morpork. However his prejudice is so non-specific and naive that nobody takes it seriously. His office, in a separate building from the main watch house, is frequented by old acquaintances who want somewhere quiet to get away from the wife, hear what's happening on the street and - in Vimes' words - "gossip like washerwomen." For this free-flowing source of information, Vimes considers the cost of donuts on an expense voucher a very favorable trade.He is possibly related to Sergeant Doppelpunkt, one half of the town watch in Bad Blintz, Überwald, seen in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. Other Discworld characters with a notable similarity to Colon include a member of the guard in the Überwald town of Bonk and one of the market guards in Al Khali, Klatch. Like the various Dibblers, this may be due to morphic resonance. Colon is married, though his wife works during the day; since he works at night, the two seldom see each other and instead communicate by leaving notes. Vimes even goes as far as to privately attribute the longevity of Fred's marriage to this fact. They have a son, who is attributed to a particularly persuasive note. In Jingo, his name is misspelled as Cohen. Pratchett was probably thinking of Cohen the Barbarian. (en)
- Frédéric Côlon est un personnage du Disque-monde de Terry Pratchett. Fred Côlon, éternel sergent dans le Guet Municipal d'Ankh-Morpork, est le compagnon de route et (à l'occasion) de beuverie du caporal Chicque. Il est marié, mais nous n'avons que peu d'informations sur Mme Côlon. Le sergent semble toujours à la limite de partir à la retraite pour s'installer dans une ferme à la campagne mais ne le fait jamais. C'est le plus vieux policier encore en activité d'Ankh-Morpork. Étant donné qu'il a tendance à accepter la moindre proposition de repas, il est énorme et peu zélé. Il est terrifié à l'idée d'être promu officier, ce qui grâce aux interventions respectives de Samuel Vimaire et du Patricien, n'arrive pas avant Le Cinquième éléphant, où Côlon en capitaine suppléant, brûle toute la paperasse avant de se faire submerger par elle et surveille de près la réserve de sucre, partant du principe qu'une fois le sucre sauf, le reste suivra. Une grève viendra régler la question. Il est garçon d'honneur au mariage de Sam Vimaire et de Dame Sybil Ramkin. Lecteur lent et méticuleux, rendu poltron par de longues années en tant que flic, le sergent Côlon est une des figures récurrentes de la série.Il apparaît dans les tomes suivants : *Au Guet !*Le Faucheur*Le Guet des orfèvres*Pieds d'argile*Va-t-en-guerre*Le Cinquième éléphant*Ronde de nuitCatégorie:Personnage du Disque-monde (fr)
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