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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As an intelligence agent and underworld overlord, he is sufficiently proficient in the use of both guns and melee weapons to carry out his own assassinations in a pitch, and rather more dangerous than most of his {{Mook}} minions. However, in a fair fight he loses to [[StrongerThanTheyLook Tintin]].
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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As an intelligence agent and underworld overlord, he is sufficiently proficient in the use of both guns and melee weapons to carry out his own assassinations in a pitch, and rather more dangerous than most of his {{Mook}} minions. However, in a fair fight he loses to [[StrongerThanTheyLook Tintin]].
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* CatchPhrase: Much of his FloweryInsults can be counted as this Examples include:
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* CatchPhrase: Much of his FloweryInsults can be counted as this Examples include:this. The most prominent examples:
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Maybe, this wasn’t a proper example of Adaptational Sexuality.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Most characters, especially children in ''Tintin'' are chaste, but in the 1969 Belvision movie adaptation, he has and the Inca's daughter (movie only character) seem to have a mutual crush on one another and even have a love song.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: He lacks his hearing problems in the Belvision animated adaptations, and is much less absent-minded as a result.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: He lacks his hearing problems in the Belvision animated adaptations, adaptations (aside from a brief scene in ''Lake of Sharks'') and is much less absent-minded as a result.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Most characters, especially children in ''Tintin'' are chaste, but in the 1969 Belvision movie adaptation, he has and the Inca's daughter (movie only character) seem to have a mutual crush on one another and even have a love song.
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Royals Who Actually Do Something is not "royals who gives orders like any royal is syupposed to do". It's when the royal takes action themself, which is not the case of this character. Wold did not do a Deal With The Devil, even if you added context, that would be a misuse.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He doesn't physically fight (but rather, it's suggested all the actions the other Incas do are at his command), but every act he demands is done in order to preserve his culture and his people.
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* FaceHeelTurn: His back-story.
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* AdaptedOut: He notably doesn't appear in the 2011 movie, although it could be justified by the fact that the film adapts ''The Secret of the Unicorn'' and ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', two volumes that Calculus didn't appear in.
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** Carreidas' obsession with his hat, to the point he keeps insisting they go back to look for it, and even when there are criminals close behind them and gas is coming through the tunnel he keeps running back for his hat, only being stopped by lava. At the end in an interview, he doesn't seem that upset about losing his new plane, secretary and two of the crew and says what really upsets him is losing his hat, a Pre-War Brosse and Clackwell.
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** Carreidas' obsession with his hat, to the point he keeps insisting they go back to look for it, and even when there are criminals close behind them and gas is coming through the tunnel he keeps running back for his hat, only being stopped by lava. At the end in an interview, he doesn't seem that upset about losing his new plane, secretary and two of the crew and says what really upsets him is losing his hat, a Pre-War [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosse_%26_Blackwell Brosse and Clackwell.Clackwell]]. %%sic, presumably for LawyerFriendlyCameo reasons.
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* OneSteveLimit: In the original French, his name is Allan Thompson. To avoid obvious confusion, the English translation left out his last name entirely.
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* OneSteveLimit: In the original French, his full name is Allan Thompson.Thompson (but only mentioned once, in the retconned ''Cigars''). To avoid obvious confusion, the English translation left out his last name entirely.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Fernand Rauzena (Belvision series), Serge Nadaud (''The Lake of Sharks''), Creator/SergeSauvion (Nelvana series)
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* CaptainObvious: His near-deafness and absent-mindness causes him to sees or realizes things much later than others, and to say things others have already said or to make remarks about things that Tintin and Captain Haddock have already gotten, much to Haddock's annoyance.
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* CaptainObvious: His near-deafness and absent-mindness causes him to sees see or realizes realize things much later than others, and to say things others have already said or to make remarks about things that Tintin and Captain Haddock have already gotten, much to Haddock's annoyance.
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*CaptainObvious: His near-deafness and absent-mindness causes him to sees or realizes things much later than others, and to say things others have already said or to make remarks about things that Tintin and Captain Haddock have already gotten, much to Haddock's annoyance.
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* ButtMonkey: If there's a way for a character to have a humourous accident or injury, it'll happen to Captain Haddock. In ''Red Sea Sharks'', he gets hurt '''32 times''' in all! Eventually, ''everyone'' {{Lampshades}} this.
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** All '''202''' of Haddock's catch phrases are [[http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html here]].
** At the end of Red Rackham's Treasure (and the Spielberg/Jackson film), he gets so excited [[spoiler: over finding what Sir Francis Haddock salvaged of the treasure]] that he actually mixes up his own catchphrase!
** At the end of Red Rackham's Treasure (and the Spielberg/Jackson film), he gets so excited [[spoiler: over finding what Sir Francis Haddock salvaged of the treasure]] that he actually mixes up his own catchphrase!
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: He often misunderstands the others because of his deafness, creating a lot of funny situations.
* ButtMonkey: In contrast to the Captain, they generally bring about their own misfortune through their clumsiness.
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* CatchPhrase: ''Will'' burst into the Jewels Aria at the drop of a hat.
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* CatchPhrase: ''Will'' burst into CharacterSignatureSong: Bianca Castafiore is usually seen and heard performing the Jewels Aria at Jewel aria from Charles Gounod's opera ''Faust''. In the drop of a hat.English Nelvana dub, she instead sings "How I love to see her lovely eyes!"
* TheCaligula:
** In his first appearance, as the military dictator of San Theodoros, he has a shade of this, though mostly he is more of a paranoid Stalin type than a sadist. However, he does indulge in such jokes as throwing a tantrum and shooting a military aide [[spoiler:([[FalseRoulette with blanks]], though [[{{Gaslighting}} he did not know that]])]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution beating him at chess]]. He mellows considerably in later appearances, at least in his interactions with Tintin, but sometimes has throwbacks to this, firing weapons in the air and throwing around reckless death threats. These are taken all the more seriously by subordinates who ''can't'' know whether he will carry them out or not, even if Tintin ignores them as mere histrionics. And he remains a megalomaniac to the very end, renaming the capital of his country [[EgoPolis Alcazaropolis]] once he seizes power in ''Tintin and the Picaros''.
** In his first appearance, as the military dictator of San Theodoros, he has a shade of this, though mostly he is more of a paranoid Stalin type than a sadist. However, he does indulge in such jokes as throwing a tantrum and shooting a military aide [[spoiler:([[FalseRoulette with blanks]], though [[{{Gaslighting}} he did not know that]])]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution beating him at chess]]. He mellows considerably in later appearances, at least in his interactions with Tintin, but sometimes has throwbacks to this, firing weapons in the air and throwing around reckless death threats. These are taken all the more seriously by subordinates who ''can't'' know whether he will carry them out or not, even if Tintin ignores them as mere histrionics. And he remains a megalomaniac to the very end, renaming the capital of his country [[EgoPolis Alcazaropolis]] once he seizes power in ''Tintin and the Picaros''.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Captain Haddock. Or was it Hoddack? Haddad?
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* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: Again, comics only.
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'''Snowy:''' Marvellous… You mean dull as a ditchwater!… Why doesn't someone [[BlackComedy fall overboard to brighten things up?]]\\
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-->''When Tintin starts looking too much into a case''\\
'''Snowy:''' Oh dear, here we go again… Literature/SherlockHolmes on the trail!
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* FriendToAllChildren: His status as a NiceGuy easily makes him this. His best friend before Haddock was Chang, a younger, Chinese boy. While Abdullah is an exception, Tintin still tries to keep him out of danger.
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** The fact that he often remarks that [[RoyalBrat Abdullah]] deep down in a really nice kid on more than one occasion really reflects what kind of man he is deep down. Of course, being the ButtMonkey of the series, [[TemptingFate whenever he makes statements like this]], he immediately becomes a victim one of his pranks, making him backtrack on his statements.
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** The fact that he often remarks that [[RoyalBrat Abdullah]] deep down in a really nice kid on more than one occasion really reflects what kind of man he is deep down. Of course, being the ButtMonkey of the series, [[TemptingFate whenever he makes statements like this]], he immediately becomes a victim of one of his pranks, making him backtrack on his statements.
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* ShorterMeansSmarter: He is noticeably shorter than most of the main characters except Tintin and is a brilliant scientist, to the point of being targeted for his inventions.
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* DeadpanSnarker: In the comics, where he speaks, nobody is safe from his cutting remarks. Not even Tintin. In the animated incarnations, he is more of a SilentSnarker.
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'''Snowy:''' Oh dear, here we go again… Literature/SherlockHolmes on the trail!
-->''When Tintin starts looking too much into a case''\\
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** The fact that he often remarks that [[RoyalBrat Abdullah]] deep down in a really nice kid on more than one occasion really reflects what kind of man he is deep down. Of course, being the ButtMonkey of the series, [[TemptingFate whenever he makes statements like this]], he immediately becomes a victim one of his pranks, making him backtrack on his statements.
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Null edit to inform that the previous image change for Nestor is a quality upgrade.
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* AddictionPowered: Give a few drops of alcohol to a tired Captain Haddock, and he'll be good as new.
* {{Angrish}}: He occasionally yells a string of unintelligible syllables or consonants instead of his usual FloweryInsults when he's particularly upset.
* TheBigGuy: He's a big man, and though he isn't especially skilled in a fight, those he does hit ''stay'' hit. He once [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength ripped a wooden chair in half with his bare hands]] when angered. While the director of the space center was still sitting on it.
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* AlliterativeName: Cuthbert Calculus, Tryphon Tournesol in the original version.
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* AlliterativeName: Cuthbert Calculus, Tryphon Tournesol '''C'''uthbert '''C'''alculus, '''T'''ryphon '''T'''ournesol in the original version.version.
* BadassBookworm: He's a force to be reckoned with when he is enraged, most notably in ''Flight 714'' where Carreidas makes the mistake of arousing his ire and it then takes two men to subdue him. He has practised ''savate'' in his youth.
* BadassBookworm: He's a force to be reckoned with when he is enraged, most notably in ''Flight 714'' where Carreidas makes the mistake of arousing his ire and it then takes two men to subdue him. He has practised ''savate'' in his youth.
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* BrawnHilda: Castafiore is a much more realistic portrayal of this trope - she is indeed large, but [[ShownTheirWork this is common for opera singers with her level of vocal vigor]].
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: For someone who is supposedly a reporter, he doesn't get to do a lot of story writing. Most of the places he visits are because of his job, though. Due to DirectLineToTheAuthor, the stories about his adventures ''are'' his reports, or at least are based on them; when they originally appeared in newspapers, Herge occasionally wrote fake articles that had Tintin interviewing some of the other characters on the finer details of what was going on -- an opportunity for Herge to [[ShownTheirWork show his research]].
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: For someone who is supposedly a reporter, he doesn't get to do a lot of story writing. Most of the places he visits are because of his job, though. Due to DirectLineToTheAuthor, the stories about his adventures ''are'' his reports, or at least are based on them; when they originally appeared in newspapers, Herge Hergé occasionally wrote fake articles that had Tintin interviewing some of the other characters on the finer details of what was going on -- an opportunity for Herge Hergé to [[ShownTheirWork show his research]].
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* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: Almost textually, as he claims that western arts like wrestling, boxing and savate are superior to UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Herge based the character on scientist, inventor, and enthusiastic balloonist Dr. Auguste Piccard, who even invented a submarine.
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* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: Almost textually, as he claims that western arts like wrestling, boxing and savate are superior to UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:Herge Hergé based the character on scientist, inventor, and enthusiastic balloonist Dr. Auguste Piccard, who even invented a submarine.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Herge based him on his friend [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Chongren Zhang Chonren]], who introduced him to Chinese culture.
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* VillainDecay: He started out as a drug and arms smuggler and eventually moved on to slave trading. However, by the time he appears in ''Flight 714'' he's reduced to trying to steal Lazlo Carriedas's fortune after he was bankrupted by Tintin foiling his schemes. That's just the start of his misfortune, as he tries to threaten to squash Tintin like a spider (and then repeatedly miss said spider), his AmusingInjuries (as noted, he got hit by a ''grenade'', and only got singed), and his being accidentally injected with some defective TruthSerum and getting into a screaming match with Carreidas over which of them is more evil (and arguably ''losing'', given by the way he cries afterwards). Then there's his ridiculous attire, which consists of a salmon-colored shirt, blue jeans, gawdy star-studded cowboy boots and an oversized Stetson. Herge himself {{Lampshaded}} the decay, realizing that after he drew Rastapopulous in that silly outfit, he couldn't take poor Roberto seriously as a villain ever again.
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* VillainDecay: He started out as a drug and arms smuggler and eventually moved on to slave trading. However, by the time he appears in ''Flight 714'' he's reduced to trying to steal Lazlo Carriedas's fortune after he was bankrupted by Tintin foiling his schemes. That's just the start of his misfortune, as he tries to threaten to squash Tintin like a spider (and then repeatedly miss said spider), his AmusingInjuries (as noted, he got hit by a ''grenade'', and only got singed), and his being accidentally injected with some defective TruthSerum and getting into a screaming match with Carreidas over which of them is more evil (and arguably ''losing'', given by the way he cries afterwards). Then there's his ridiculous attire, which consists of a salmon-colored shirt, blue jeans, gawdy star-studded cowboy boots and an oversized Stetson. Herge Hergé himself {{Lampshaded}} the decay, realizing that after he drew Rastapopulous in that silly outfit, he couldn't take poor Roberto seriously as a villain ever again.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Technically, Herge left a loophole where he ''might'' have survived, but this trope otherwise fits. However, this loophole only exists in Wolff's farewell note in the collected album version: in the original magazine-published version (later changed under pressure from Catholic organizations) Wolff's last note makes it absolutely clear he has no hope of survival.]]
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Technically, Herge [[spoiler:Technically, Hergé left a loophole where he ''might'' have survived, but this trope otherwise fits. However, this loophole only exists in Wolff's farewell note in the collected album version: in the original magazine-published version (later changed under pressure from Catholic organizations) Wolff's last note makes it absolutely clear he has no hope of survival.]]
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* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler: Happens ''twice'' with Jorgen threatening to kill or abandon the other astronauts. Given that at the time there was a critical shortage of available oxygen, it comes across more as him being in denial.]]
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* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler: Happens [[spoiler:Happens ''twice'' with Jorgen threatening to kill or abandon the other astronauts. Given that at the time there was a critical shortage of available oxygen, it comes across more as him being in denial.]]
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* IHaveManyNames: After Tintin exposed his criminal activities, he returned in disguise as the Marquis di Gorgonzola. If the rumors about ''Tintin And the Alph-Art'' are true, he was also Endandinne Akass.
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* IHaveManyNames: After Tintin exposed his criminal activities, he returned in disguise as the Marquis di Gorgonzola. If the rumors about ''Tintin And the Alph-Art'' are true, he was also Endandinne Endaddine Akass.
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A mysterious group of extraterrestrial beings, who have been visiting Earth for millenia.
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* NaiveEverygirl: After she realizes she had been helping the villainous [[spoiler:Enddadine Akass]] she breaks out in tears. After that Tintin understands that she didn't have any evil intentions.
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* NaiveEverygirl: After she realizes she had been helping the villainous [[spoiler:Enddadine [[spoiler:Endaddine Akass]] she breaks out in tears. After that Tintin understands that she didn't have any evil intentions.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: She was created as a potential love interest for Tintin in the last comic.
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* UnwittingPawn: Due to a listening device hidden in her necklace, she is made an unwilling infirmer to the villains.
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* VentriloquistAnimal: This is the way Milou/Snowy, Tintin's white Fox Terrier, speaks. But different from other examples, this just happens in the comic book but not in the animated series nor the movies.
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* OverlyLongName: He's the trope image. It's His name is so long that he avoids getting a speeding ticket because the police officer has trouble writing it down and decides to let him go instead.instead. His full name is Arturo Benedetto Giovanni Giuseppe Pietro Archangelo Alfredo Cartoffoli da Milano.
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* NaiveEverygirl: After she realizes she had been helping the villainous [[spoiler:Enddadine Akass]] breaks out in tears. After that Tintin understands that she didn't have any evil intentions.
* NaiveEverygirl: After she realizes she had been helping the villainous [[spoiler:Enddadine Akass]] breaks out in tears. After that Tintin understands that she didn't have any evil intentions.
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* NaiveEverygirl: After she realizes she had been helping the villainous [[spoiler:Enddadine Akass]] she breaks out in tears. After that Tintin understands that she didn't have any evil intentions.
