Poirot Vs Miss Marple: Who's the Better Detective?
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- Which iconic TV detective does it best? In this version of Versus, WatchMojo UK sets up the mystery-solving, code-breaking, crime-stopping fight that everyone's been waiting to see... Miss Marple Vs Hercule Poirot! These famous Agatha Christie characters have been a staple of British viewing for years now, but which one will win??
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I wish Christie had written a novel where Poirot and miss Marple meet and cooperate to solve the mystery. It would've been a bestseller!
Apparently Christie thought that Poirot and Miss Marple meeting each other would not be a great thing. Her argument was that Poirot was too proud to be advised by an old spinster.
I agree!
Well, such a story could have been possible. There are a lot of crossover characters between Miss Marple, Poirot, Tommy and Tuppence, Colonel Race and Parker Pyne books. And the short mention of St. Mary Mead as the home place of Katherine Grey in The Mystery of the Blue Train confirms that Poirot and Marple lived in the same fictional universe. The difference between the characters is that Poirot is a professional private detective while Marple is a curious old lady from a small village who interferes with other people’s lives and intervenes in their crimes by accident.
I've often thought the same thing. And a movie with David Suchet and Geraldine McKewan.
I'm reading The Mystery of The Blue Train right now, please no spoilers 🤫 Anywayz there is a character in the book who is from St. Mary Mead, that's a sort of cross over.
David Suchet was the ultimate Poirot, exactly as I imagined the character when reading the books
i agree, the kenneth branaught version is more like a caricature of poirot, with a far too large moustache that is rather an cariacture of a moustache, and he doesnt have any good vallonic accent either, while suchet is poirot, and have even been praised in belgium for his authentiic accent.
👍👍👍That is my opinion too.
@@marcusfridh8489 don't forget, Brannagh abused Poirot's character with more physical (chasing suspect) and fighting.. and true, Suchet is the profile I imagine when I read the books...
@@marcusfridh8489 I'm not sure why you say he was "praised" in Belgium. I saw a documentary where some Belgians said his accent was all right, but that's it. I don't know much about Belgian accents, but the few Belgians I have seen in interviews don't sound like Suchet, to be honest.
Completely agree!
Agatha Christie is just the best. Hercule Poirot was her master detective whom she wished was younger when she started. Miss Marple was based on her. Both are iconic and so well represented in British television. David Sushet just perfected his characterization. He is Poirot. I'm so glad for it. Great video. Thanks.
I think she based Miss Marple on her grandmother.
They're both very different characters, so it's hard to choose really. Poirot is a renowned detective who establishes logic with his little grey cells, whilst Miss Marple is am elderly spinster with a mind sharp as a katana blade who reads between the lines and tricks everyone into thinking she's harmless
I remember in one of the Poirot books he mentioned that looking harmless is to his advantage because people just ignore his capabilities because he is foreign and think they can say whatever they want in front of him without consequences.
@@maryamkhan5522 harmless and extravagantly foreign-looking
also the books say that the people always think he's a harmless old man who can't even speak english properly (mentioned in After the funeral)
I personally prefer Miss Marple's understated homespun take on investigating than Poirot's pomposity. That said, they're both iconic characters and Joan Hickson and David Suchet's portrayals are similarly iconic.
Joan Hickson - BAH!!! Geraldine McEwan is the one and only true Miss Marple.. Don´t doubt it even for a nanosecond!!
I personally prefer Poirot, however, don’t compare these 2 loveable detectives. They are both legendary!
The one thing that is clear to me with both of them is that if I was a character staying at a hotel or in a village and either Poirot or Miss Marple shows up I am going to get the hell out of there quick because somebody is about to be murdered. Same goes with Father Brown. Run away! Run away!
David Suchet as Poirot--magical!!
no pink panther is better
I love both iconic detectives, but Miss Marple will always be the first series that I read by Christie, so she gets my vote by a margin! ♥️
I personally liked poirot character more than miss Marple because of how dramatic and center focsed poirot was made.. i love how he keep the attention to himself , the moment of final revelation of the murderer is always exciting to while miss Marple always engage others give out clues to make others reach the truth .. am fascinated by Poirot methods , his little gray cells and the people around him makes it more fun and friendly....
Poirot the best! Ever and forever.
Besides, thanks to Sir David Suchet, Poirot really "existed" . Miss Marple, even if I like the actress in question, it will be always a TV character.
Poirot by other hand, was "absolutely real".
Poirot was based on the fictioal GK Chesterton character Flambeau
For all his travels, Poirot never went to St Mary Mead.
David Suchet the best actor for Poirot and Joan Hickson the best Miss Marple. I love them both the SAME ❤️❤️❤️
Joan Hickson was boring. Geraldine McEwan had the spark that was Miss Marple in the novels.
I think the best Marple was Margaret Rutherford
Actually Joan Hickson was in one of Margaret Rutherford 's Marple movies
Margaret Rutherford wasn’t as close to the books if I remember correctly
Poirot!! I love marple too but I love the quirky Belgian detective more.
Met Joan Hickson. The Moving Finger was filmed in our kitchen... Lovely lady...
I remember the creepy opening credits to that eighties 'Miss Marple' version. Although memorable, the theme tune was a bit off kilter as well.
@@dorkarama3135 I disagree.. I think they were perfect..
@@lottiebelottie I was a kid but I just remember the people represented in the opening credits looked like they were up to no good...especially the woman in the upstairs window...like she was thinking about bumping off her husband.
I love them both but I think if their skills could be weighed and measured, Miss M would come out on top simply because her talent is 100% natural and she has no higher education or training with the police, although as a minister's daughter, she did learn the Bible backwards and forwards. I love when she zaps Canon Pennyfeather in "At Bertram's Hotel" with McKewan in the role. Someone like her could take over the world but smart people don't want to take over the world because they're smart enough to know it would be a never-ending headache.
Same here
In Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot regretfully let a lot of people get away with murder. But I enjoy both sleuths equally. And David Suchet will always be the best Poirot.
Whilst I don’t disagree that David Suchet was a great Poirot, I think Albert Finney’s portrayal of Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, the all-star movie, is completely without equal. For me he IS Poirot.
oh, it wasn't the only time he allowed a criminal to get away, if he thought, justice was served and he could present a proper result, of course. He had a reputation to protect, after all.
The fact that you said “ regretfully “ , shows you did not fully understand and appreciate the struggle and his reasons for doing so.
I think what makes MOTOE such a great story IS THAT THE MURDERERS WERE ALL LET OFF.
In life, nothing is so simplistic.
A bit of trivia : Dame Agatha met Joan Hickson and told her that when she was older, she would make a wonderful Miss Marple. Quite prophetic.
As for who better, well, Dame Agatha didn't kill off Marple, did she?😂😂
That was when Margaret Rutherford played Marple in Murder, She Said and Joan Hickson played the housekeeper
As a big detective fan, i believe both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are the best detectives and probably could have been a great detective team if given the chance. I can't compare one over the other because they are both incredible detectives who use their skills to solve crimes in their own amazing way.
Poirot of course.
Both are equally fascinating and good! 👍🏻🔥👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Poirot without a doubt!
I always found Miss Marple's assumption that the people she meets will behave exactly like their counterparts among her acquaintance quite simplistic and dangerous to build a case on. Other than that, they're both great.
Elementary, my dear mojo! Such a Herculean Task!
Joan Hickson was the best Miss Marple😀
She was brilliant Marple
I find them both to be masters of their craft, just through very different expression.
I can't agree on the one with the questioning abilities. It takes much more skill to gain needed information through conversations and you get a great fan of more information than through direct querying
I think Poirot has the edge, though both he and Miss Marple use different techniques and thought processes. But both always solve the mystery!
The problem with miss Marple tv series is that...she is hardly in it..in some episodes big chunks of the the episode goes by with some no body detective and other characters doing their business and that's not very interesting.
I love both detectives so much. I'm going to have to say, personally, I think it depends on the situation, circumstances, and context as to a definitive edge. Also this might just be me, but I honestly think Marple should get the edge with experience or at the very least it be a wash. Both investigators operate on the principal that human nature is cyclical and repeats. I think then Miss Marple's total life experience plus which source you use.... should count in her favor.
I don't think that the gender difference should be underestimated here, either. In this time period (well, in any time period, really), Poirot's voice and confidence would be stronger because he is a man. I often wonder if Christie made him a foreigner to mitigate this advantage, to make it harder for hm to gain the confidence of the suspects.
Miss Marple, on the other hand, must have come from a family of some means and status; her many "acquaintances" have wealth and status; she went to a finishing school, too-- not something your run of the mill Englishwoman would do. She uses the means and methods available to women at that time-- gossip, a substantial network of influential men and women to get where she needs to go, her knowledge of fashion, cooking, the household routines, gardening, the habits of servants, her clear eye for truth versus bombast, her schoolmarm attitude to worm the truth out of those younger than herself. She can be severe when she needs to be.
For all his self-congratulation, Poirot was never called Nemesis by anyone.
@@athenastewart9167 you bring up a very good point. In Body in the Library, a group of I believe girl scouts or the equlivent of the time period were believed to be witnesses. I wouldn't personally know but I would imagine have someone very grandmotherly in appearance and manner would be best as opposed to the great Hercule Poirot. As much as I love both, Poirot can often come across as cold, logical and sometimes callus.
David suchet and Joan Hickson were the perfect version of these characters
While Poirot was the professional with the experience I was always impressed by Miss Marple because she was just this little old lady who had lived in one little village all her life and yet she could crack the cases when the police couldn't. She was so intelligent that she could not be fooled. Poirot was also intelligent and saw what others didn't, but his ego was really off-putting for me. The way he let all of the murderers go in Orient Express and the fact that he was the murderer in Curtain also bothered me even though there were good reasons both times. The way David Suchet showed how difficult the decisions were for Poirot in both cases was excellent. I think that David Suchet really understood Poirot and loved him, for me he IS Poirot. I haven't seen the newest Murder on the Orient Express yet, the mustache is so wrong for me that it puts me off of it. I really need to get past that lol.
Yes, you should get past the mustache, since Christie's estate approved of it.
I wonder how familiar you actually ARE with Christie's books, because the Poirot she produced in Murder on the Orient Express is very different from the Poirot that Suchet displayed. In the original story, Poirot didn't struggle as much with his decision. The Suchet adaptation has him being devoutly Catholic and really struggling with his conscience. That isn't true to the book, so I'm not sure why you are so gleeful about Suchet's representation of the story. I'm also assuming you haven't actually read Curtain.
If Suchet REALLY understood Poirot, he wouldn't have played him as a devoutly religious man. His religion was barely mentioned in the stories/books.
@@kugelweg First of all, I have read all of the books since I was a teenager and I'm in my early 60's now. The reason I liked Suchet's portrayal is because I like the idea that it would bother a detective (the Catholic part doesn't factor in for me) to let these murderer's get away with it. I can't see being a detective and just letting these people go without it bothering you. Maybe it's my age, but I believe in right and wrong and murder is just wrong no matter what the circumstances unless it is self-defense.
I love them both. They are so different that I think they are each other‘s equal ❤
I love both of them for different reasons honestly couldn't pick between them. Geraldine McEwan will always be my favourite Marple I think 😊.
Poriot is the better detective especially in the murder mysteries on master piece theater David Succhet fits the character to the tee if you ever read the books
Yes. Poirot is #1. But Jane Marple is still amazing.
Marple comes across as much nicer in TV versions than she does in the novels themselves. In the books, she's ultra-conservative, extremely snobbish and a gossip with quite an acid tongue. In contrast, Poirot often betrays sympathy for morally reprehensible characters and treats the working classes with a great deal more respect than Marple does.
Neither, their fictional constructs. Only in fiction do observers get to see all the loose ends tied up. Rarely if ever are all questions answered when it comes to murder. Who do we favor? Well Miss Marple lacks the actual professional experience and training that Poirot possess. Her little gray cells are of a most unusual nature and she seems to be able to assimilate information in a unique way without the actual title of investigator. Poirot, on the other hand, has solved more cases and traveled around the world to do it. I enjoy Marple as an underdog, and Poirot for his style.
Definitely Poirot but I would have 2 qualify that statement and say David Suchets Poirot
I love Poirot especially played by David Suchet although I really enjoyed Kenneth Branaghs Murder on the Orient Express and am eagerly waiting to see Death on the Nile.
To be honest I never really liked Mrs Marple
Two of my favorite detectives!
Hercule Poirot my fav detective after Sherlock Holmes.
Don't forget Poirot did the perfect murder in his last episode, he went to a health retreat (we find out later Poirot is dying) & their is this bloke who has a talent of getting people to murder. Poirot knowing that this man won't stop, murdered him knowing that was the only way to stop him. We only find out about this when Poirot left a letter to Hastings & Miss Lemon after he died telling them what he done & why. Could Miss Marple do that? no I don't think so.
Thanks for the spoilers!! Please put a spoiler alert in the beginning of your comment
@@alise4377 well it is about 8 years old 😂😂
@@bycolourshraum8107 and the book was written in the 70s…soooo yeah 😂
***Spoiler*** But Poirot didn’t just die. He killed himself by purposefully failing to take his heart medication after he committed the murder. Talk about commitment to justice. Poirot should’ve scored that one too!
@@leedsdevil well actually he didn't use the amyl nitrate because he knew that a person who commited ONE murder might kill more and more people
he just didn't want to take a chance
their were people he loved was afraid for, like his dear friend Hastings and Judith
😳 I... I can’t answer this, even after the video. I love them both so much!! They’re both 100% successful. The biggest difference is in their personality and how they treat people. Nevertheless, it’s a great video and this subject is worthy of more attention. Thank you. ❤️
I like to think of Miss Marple and Jane Austen as being very similar. Using there intimate knowledge of the minute, they then apply it in a broader way. Christie's elderly character has watched the mundane goings on of her neighbors, and has learned from this microcosm of human nature what she needs to solve cases. Austen's novels focus on prosperous, white, women, of her time, she's writing about the society that she knows, but in writing about the micro so well, knowing people's inconsistencies, foibles, & failings, her books apply to people the world over.
I'm a sucker for Miss Marple. She is so sweet and unassuming. I love Poirot, but he's such a braggart bless him. In Body in the Library one her classmates mentioned that Miss Marple had been observent since school days.
ALWAYS I AM RIGHT! IT IS SO INVARIABLE IT STARTLES ME! - Poirot
Poirot hands down he best 🥰
The trouble with Poirot and Marple is that you are never presented with / by all information / clues needed. There is always at least one assumption, which makes a bridge among separate pieces.
And that assumption is the weak point of the case. All the culprits are sonner or later "broken", but the evidence against them are not that strong...
Geraldine McEwan is really underrated. I know Joan Hickson was first, but Geraldine as innacurate as her adaptations were, was the first and only actress to give Marple her signature elderly charm. There was a distinct spark in her
I know! I wish she could've survived to finish out the seasons.
Funny enough, these two were protagonists of an anime, with Poirot having a niece.
Joan Hickson is the definitive Miss Marple I think, her character could almost be based on my own late mother and perhaps one other elderly lady of my acquaintance 😉.
Can you make Sherlock holmes vs poirot please
I love Miss Marple, but Poirot is the best of the best! My favorite detective ever!
In Britain or the British Colonies, I will take Miss Marple every time. Everything that can happen with British people, has happened in St. Mary’s Mead.
Putting this into context, if I needed a professional detective to help me find out who killed a friend or relative, I would prefer Poirot on the case. His fee would be steep, but worth every penny to see the murderer's face as Poirot denounces him or her before all the other suspects. On the other hand, if I had a suspicion that one of my neighbors was responsible for a local murder, I'd invite Miss Marple to tea and share my concerns with her. I'm sure she'd have no trouble finding out whodunit as she mingles with the neighbors, asking seemingly innocent questions, observing everything closely with her shrewd, china blue eyes, coming up with a parallel to one of the many people she's known during her long life, until she ferrets out the killer and tricks a confession out of him or her, usually with the detective in charge of the case within earshot, in case the murderer gets violent or tries to escape. Poirot has class and experience, but Marple has good instincts and is a shrewd judge of character. She's the original cozy mystery heroine.
Miss Marple obviously: Poirot never went to St Mary Mead, that amateur.
In all seriousness, they're both great in different ways. But Miss Marple gets my vote due to pulling it off with no formal training.
I think Poirot's dramatic reveals are actually a disadvantage: they risk the murderer reacting violently and harming someone before they can be restrained.
Why not Both? Yeap BOTH
The both intelligent differently I like Poirot better but miss Marple second
Poirot hands down!
I don’t know who is best but we certainly know who has the biggest ego.
poirot the best
Can you do Arthur Conan Doyle vs Agatha Christie in Global Influence
Marple was once described as having a brain like a bacon slicer.
the questions are:
would marple have solved - death on the nile? if so, how quickly?
would poirot have solved - a murder is announced? if so, how quickly?
There is no VS they are both great.
Why asking something So dam SILLY Poirot end of story
Poirot sherlock are the best detectives noone surpass them
The only fictional detective better than Hercule Poriot is Sherlock Holmes especially when played by Jeremey Brent
Jeremy Brett was great. Cumberbatch is fun, but does not surpass Brett.
My Favoriten Part about choice of ACristy of two detectives Options which are "Not Genger based" (i mean - Poirot is Not a men - he's a STD, EgoSheldon, Foregner (yea, he IS my fav); and Marple IS Not a women - she an old Person, lonely one, with Connection to Life around as a Story, Plot combination exercises - Like everything IS unreal, Not with timeflow, but all fantasies simultaneously - i do love such procradtination myself (eben you subsoncious Jungle possibility of "what Kind of Person your aquaintances could be)
I also liked Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes and Peter Ustinov
Poirot Always
I like them both. I want to see it work together on a case. but I Agate did not want it, the two have different personalities. But that's why I want to see them work together 😊
They should have done a Crossover episode of those shows
And don' t forget the 1857 born Sherlock Holmes!
Just saw 'Death on the Nile' the other day, and we've been binging the Joan Hickson Miss Marple episodes lately, so this is topical.
Was Nile any good?
@@diedertspijkerboer I thought it was an excellent adaptation, and it actually made more sense than the book, although some characters were cut. But then Christie herself said she wouldn't want any adaptation to be too faithful, because she'd want the story to be a surprise in some ways for those who'd read the book. So I'm okay with that.
@@gracehowell. Great! Thank you for taking the time to reply.
I heard the new movie isn’t that good, you notice that it was made completely with green screen and they weren’t actually in Egypt.
@@Pyrokatze I'm glad to hear that they weren't actually breaking the law by climbing on pyramids and pushing large stones off sacred temples.
Poirot...👌
7:04 you do know they would be hanged every Time? He gave them just Time going out on there Terms.
Both are good characters. But Hercule Poirot is the better detective as far as I'm concerned. Marple is good in her own way, but I never got the same enjoyment reading her books. When Poirot cracks a case it's like we're on an adventure. As a reader, reading him solve the cases were way more entertaining than Marple.
This is like comparing NBA MVP with Euroleague MVP lol
In one of the questions you call out Marple as the winner, but the animations makes Poirot the winner, so what is it?
The funny thing is that Miss Marple doesn't look like average detective. And quite frankly, she doesn’t resemble a detective at all. But she have ability to blend into the background, and her intelligence is hidden in her love of knitting, gardening and gossip. As unassuming and often overlooked person, she has the freedom to pursue the truth. Jane Marple is a fussy, spinsterish, curious and cunning old lady with a gentle, appealing manner but she inadvertently gets entangled in other people’s lives and ends up investigating and solved their crimes. And always it all happened to her by accident, what it is one of the mainstays of Miss Marple's books. And I find it somehow funny how other characters in the books constantly comment that Marplen shouldn’t be there and get involved. But Marple can't do anything about her predisposition to observe human nature because she has lived all her life in a small and quiet village where deal of evil and wickedness are always present as she often points out. And although she is cheerful person, she always expect the worst of everyone and everything, and is, with almost frightening accuracy, usually prove right. Just the similar person as Christie's own Grandma was. And her grandmother had been a huge influence on Marple's character.
This has to be one of the most British "Versus" I've ever seen.
I prefer sparkle to pompous dazzle, which would make Marple the winner- particularly in light of how off putting his questioning manner was (which you gave him another point for), while no one seemed to refuse Miss Marple
Yes! I'm so down for this.
My dad always said the one-and-only crossover fiction he would ever read would be a Hercule Poirot/Miss Marple novel, ,if Agatha Christie would ever write one. (I wonder why she never did? She must have gotten plenty of requests for it from her fans.)
Christie supposedly said that Poirot would not be happy collaborating with an old lady. But she could have written it as a competition between the two, of course.
Even though Idea of childish comparing IS Always appealing - in thus Case it's wrong Style of discussion. (It could be wonderful to Talk about "how different they are; how both usual and unique, how they are clishe's of the topic and still in Style with themselfs.
Hercul Legend.
The true Miss Marple Margaret Rutherford is missing!!!
I do not think you are doing justice, pun intended, to Poirot's motivations for solving mysteries: yes, he is vain in the extreme, but he does like a good challenge. I would have to look it up in which book exactly, probably one of the earlier stories, but Hastings does tell he lets cases that bring in the motherload of cash go for problems that do nothing to his bank account (so it stays 444 pounds 4 shillings and 4 pence) that interest him.
Next to that, he is "un bon catholique" and believes it is his duty given by God to bring justice. I have seen many comments of who was the better Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, but what caught me most is Suchet-Poirot explaining himself, almost (?) causing him to have a first heart attack later on the platform.
And Miss Marple has a very strong sense of right and wrong: she really wants to set things straight, and can be quite disapproving of actions taken by people.
In the end, I would call it a draw as motive for solving is concerned.
And I know Dame Agatha was against the idea, but I still would have loved 1 story with them together... (Yes, I know there stories by others, but I mean one written by Christie herself)
Poirot uses logic and more traditional investigation methods. Marple analysises the psychology of the criminal. And uses her ability not to been seen as events unfold
Miss Maple is supreme. And she didn't commit murder. Much respect to the Belgian genius, however. Everything Christie is unbeatable.
I think Dame Agatha Christie had a harder time ending the Poirot character rather than Miss Marple.
Well the queen lives.
I do not like the Kenneth Branagh version tho
Poirot always!
pink panther
Both my favs 👍✌️❤️🇺🇲🤭
Poirot for me
I prefer Marple to Poirot but I love them both
Poirot! ❤️