Bea Menace

Beatrice Menace, nicknamed Bea, is Dennis the Menace's little sister. She is a baby girl who was born in Beano issue 2931, dated 19 September 1998. She gained her own comic strip a few months later which lasted until 2009 before restarting in issue 3737 dated 7 June 2014. Bea is known as a Mini-Menace or a Menace in training. She often farts and they smell really bad.
==Concept and creation==
Bea's introduction to the comic began with the edition of 8 August of The Beano ensuring readers that they may be in for a big surprise. Subsequently, Dennis' strip inside revealed that his mother was in fact pregnant. Dennis, reacting to the news, fainted out of surprise. The next week the comic went through a revamp and the cover showed Dennis' father announcing that he had just become the father to a daughter. The story inside showed Dennis was worried about the news, feeling having a younger sister would tarnish his reputation as a menace. However, his family portrait revealed that his little sister, named Bea, was just as much of a troublemaker as him. These were the first Dennis strips drawn by the new artist David Parkins, who had taken over from the previous artist, David Sutherland.
Parkins had always intended that the character would be called "Bea" (short for Beatrice), taken partly from the comic's name and evidenced in the yellow-and-black striped romper suit/onesie she was seen wearing in her first appearance. However, the comic staff decided to put the name up for vote. The readers seemed to agree with Parkins, as "Bea" won the vote by a nearly two-thirds majority. Dennis' Mum regularly shouts; "Bea! No!" whenever she does something naughty, the two words evidently making the word "Beano".
==Personality==
Bea is an uncontrollable baby girl who is a Mini-Menace. She is considered to be a "menace in training". She looks up to her older brother Dennis, who is her hero that is very protective of her and does not approve of people harming her. She also likes having fun with Dennis, as in one strip, she reused her old pram as a racecar to race against Dennis. Bea is a fun-loving tomboy, as she usually farts without feeling panicked or embarrassed, even going so far as to like how flatulent she is. This could mean that Bea might have a flatulence problem as she constantly farts. Her farts are nicknamed "Bea Bombs". In the 2009 re-launch, she became far more baby-like, but she went back to her original personality in 2012.
==Appearance== 
As a pun on her name, Bea dresses only in a yellow and black one piece with a yellow hair band to match. Her appearance is extremely similar to her elder brother's in that she sports jet-black messy hair and a behind the nose grin. After the 2009 re-launch of Dennis and Gnasher, like all the female characters, eyelashes were added to her appearance and she became far more baby-like in not only looks but also personality.
==Trivia==
*Her main colours are Yellow and Black (which are also the main colours of a bee). 
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