Quagmire

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A quagmire is a type of wetland. Rhetorically, "quagmire" may refer to a predicament or situation from which it is difficult to extricate oneself.

Quagmire may also refer to:

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Contents 1 Fictional characters 2 TV series and episodes 3 Computer games 4 Other meanings 5 References

[edit] Fictional characters

• Glenn Quagmire, a character from the animated television sitcom Family Guy
• Quagmire (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Quagmire McDuck, a minor character in Walt Disney comic books, a distant ancestor of Scrooge McDuck
• Quagmire, a character on the children's television show Eureeka's Castle
• The Quagmire Triplets, fictional characters from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Duncan and Isadora Quagmire
  • Quigley Quagmire
• Fenton Quagmire, a character in the stories of Patrick F. McManus
• The Pokémon Quagsire is the matured form of Wooper. Wooper is named after, and based on, the axolotl, a water-dwelling species of salamander in Mexico City currently facing extinction in the wild ^[1] due to its own quagmire: loss of natural habitat to city growth.

[edit] TV series and episodes

• "Quagmire" (The X-Files), the 22nd episode in the 3rd season of the television drama, The X-Files
• "Quagmire", the English title of the 12th episode in anime series Elfen Lied

[edit] Computer games

• Quagmire, a level in the game "Banjo Tooie", sequel to the game "Banjo Kazooie"
• Quagmire, a fictitious place in the game World of Warcraft, located in the zone Dustwallow Marsh
• Quagmire, an arcade style game for the Macintosh system which was released in 1993 and created by Tony Small
• Quagmire, skill in the game Ragnarok Online used by Wizards

[edit] Other meanings

• Joshua Quagmire (or JQ), an American cartoonist, best known for Cutey Bunny
• Quagmire, the setting for Ben Dunn's Ninja High School comics, and the title of two mini-series spun off from them
• Quagmire in Iraq, a commonly-used term describing the immense difficulty in defining an exit strategy in the war in Iraq; popularized by phrases used during the veitnam war≠
• Quagmire, a black enchantment from the card game Magic: The Gathering that allows creatures with the swampwalk ability to be blocked as though they did not have swampwalk
• a bog

[edit] References

A quagmire is usually in reference to a large problem a hold back, or a block.

1. ^ Axolotl verges on wild extinction http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8272144.stm Retrieved on Sept 25, 2009

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