# Mr. Blucher — The Innocents Abroad character guide

> Mr. Blucher in The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Blucher, Young Mr. Blucher, Blucher, himself

**First appearance:** 0006-iv

## Snapshot

The earnest young passenger whose eagerness to do everything correctly makes him the expedition's favorite target for practical jokes and mock-serious counsel.

## Who they are

Young Mr. Blucher travels with the sincere desire to be a proper member of a refined company, which is precisely what makes him useful to his shipmates' humor. He takes advice at face value, follows instructions too literally, and absorbs each prank with a gravity that only invites the next one. His function in the early going is to expose the group's pecking order: the tour advertises mutual friends and cultivated manners, and Blucher is where that fiction gets tested, gently and repeatedly.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/ii)

A fellow excursionist who naively believes everyone is going to Paris and is incredulous when a store clerk says he is not.

### [Summer in Mid-Atlantic—An eccentric moon—Mr. Blucher loses confidence—The mystery of 'ship time'—The denizens of the deep—'Land hoh'—The first landing on a foreign shore—Sensation among the natives—Something about the Azores Islands—Blucher's disastrous dinner—The happy result.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/v)

Worries about his watch keeping time on the ship; later hosts a disastrous dinner in Fayal, mistaking the bill for a huge sum.

### [Solid Information](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/vi)

Has a comical and troublesome experience with his donkey during the ride.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/ix)

Nearly rides into a mosque, which would have been a dire profanation.

### [Genoa the Superb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xvii)

Gone, none could tell where.

### [Chapter XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xix)

Referenced for his note to a Parisian landlord about missing soap.

### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxii)

Not directly mentioned in this chapter.

### [XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxxiii)

Mentioned as a fellow traveler, though not directly involved in the events described.

### [XXXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxxv)

Collects and mislabels relics, including a 'Fragment of a Russian General' that is actually a horse's jawbone, and gathers pebbles falsely labeled as from Mars Hill.

### [XXXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxxvii)

Mentioned in connection with Baker's boy and the breakfast suggestion.

### [XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xli)

Mr. Blucher comments on the poor condition of the horses, warning the dragoman about potential trouble.

### [XLIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xlix)

Implied as part of the group; the narrator refers to 'eight armed Christians' including himself and presumably Mr. Blucher.

### [LI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/li)

Implied among the pilgrims who engage in reckless behavior with revolvers.

### [Chapter LVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/lviii)

Implied as part of the group; left behind in Alexandria to return to Europe.

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