History Franchise / Tintin

* ThievingMagpie: There's one in ''The Black Island'' and another one in ''The Castafiore Emerald''.

* PainfulAdhesiveRemoval: In "Flight 714", Tintin, Captain Haddock are keeping Dr. Krospell and Rastapopolos as adhesive tape- muffled hostages as they hide from Rastapopoulos' henchmen (they also keep Carreidas muffled because the latter was drugged and can put them in danger). Rastapopoulos eventually magages to escape and be found. Moments later, Tintim and Haddock hear a string of bloodcurling shrieks in the woods, with Tintin commenting that "It's enough to make your hair stand on end." It's Rastapopoulos, having the tapes "carefully" peeled off by Alan, his incompetent right arm.

* HaveAGayOldTime: There are a few old slangs that might get a few chuckles today. notably one instance where a character says "Clever dick", in reference to a police officer. While the series doesn't shy away from depicting drug smuggling and use, these days readers are likely to raise an eyebrow when a ship's captain claims to only be carrying "coke." Coke being a fuel source, not the drug.

* ComicBookTime: Nobody ages, even though the technology, fashion and politics of the world around them progress from the 1930s to the 1970s. The closest is Tintin getting a proper pair of pants for "Picaros" (at long last).

* BrieferThanTheyThink: Altough Rastapopoulos is considered to be Tintin's main villain and nemesis, he only appears in four comics in the series out of twenty three. There is also a huge gap between his second and his third appearence.

** While Herge usually did his research, once he made a blatant mistake: Tintin, the captain and Skut are shipwrecked on the ocean, and Tintin suggests that they drink ''sea water'' to survive. Yes, Tintin, who usually knows everything. And to make things worse, the captain only objects to the taste, not the fact that drinking salt water would only make them more thirsty. '''Haddock''' of all people should know this, due to being an experienced ''sailor''. However, they ''do'' refer to the studies Dr. Alain Bombard did on a sea water diet, so it may just be that ScienceMarchesOn.

* AnyoneCanDie: ''Tintin'' is notorious for the fact that quite some characters die, usually ''off screen'', but no distinction is made between villains or good characters.

* AllForNothing: ZigZaggedTrope on ''The Calculus Affair'': while rescuing the Professor prevented the bad guys from using him to develop weapons, the microfilm with the plans for the ''specific'' piece of technology [[MacGuffin that was central to the plot]] never even left Marlinspike (the spies barged in looking for it but couldn't find it before Tintin and Haddock fought them off, and Calculus forgot that he didn't put it in the secret pocket of his umbrella).

* BoundAndGagged: Happens to the bad guys only. Except in ''Prisoners of the Sun'', where Haddock is attacked.

* BrotherChuck:
** King Muskar XII of Syldavia, who is inexplicably absent from later stories involving that country, even when his appearance would be expected (''Destination Moon'' and/or ''Explorers on the Moon'') or useful (''The Calculus Affair''). This is possibly a reflection of RealLife politics in the Balkans before and after WWII: Former monarchies were replaced with republican (in practice: communist) governments. (Syldavia does not seem to have a communist government in its later appearances, though).

** The Maharajah of Gaipajama never shows up nor is referred to again after ''The Blue Lotus''.

* AbsenteeActor: Thomson and Thompson are absent in two stories since their introduction to the franchise: ''Tintin in Tibet'' and ''Flight 714''.

...two radio series by the BBC in 1992-93, a Dutch musical in 2001, a theatre adaptation of ''Tintin in Tibet'' in 2007/2008, and a French documentary series ''Sur les traces de Tintin'' in 2010, which recaps the stories while mixing comic panels with live-action imagery and providing lots of commentary.

* AndHereHeComesNow: In ''Recap/TintinAndThePicaros'', Captain Haddock is saying to Professor Calculus that Tintin was wise not to come along with them to the GildedCage they're being held at:

* AndHereHeComesNow: In ''{{Tintin}} and the Picaros'', Captain Haddock is saying to Professor Calculus that Tintin was wise not to come along with them to the GildedCage they're being held at:

* CerebusSyndrome: The first two {{Tintin}} adventures (''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' and ''Tintin in the Congo'') are outright comedies where the action is often completely surreal and played for laughs (for instance, Tintin killing a rhino by drilling into its hide and dropping in a stick of ''dynamite''). The third adventure (''Tintin in America'') was transitional with a lot of off-the-wall comedy still mixing with the plot before the series finally found its familiar mood of realistic action-adventure with ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. There was still comedy but it was far more down-to-earth and character-driven.

* KnownByThePostalAddress: On various occasions, it is established that Franchise/{{Tintin}} lives in an apartment in Rue de Labrador no.26 in Brussels. Although there is no Labrador street in Brussels, there is a Newfoundland street which houses the same working-class apartment buildings that make up the fictional Labrador street. Eventually when the Hergé museum in Louvain-La-Neuve was built, the city fathers decided to call the access road 'Rue du Labrador' just so the museum could have the official address of no. 26.

** In ''Tintin and the Picaros'', masks of Franchise/{{Zorro}}, ComicBook/{{Asterix}}, [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]], WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and [[Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}} Snoopy]] can be seen in a festival.

* CanineCompanion: Snowy.

* SingleServingFriend: In ''The Shooting Star'', Tintin and Haddock are stuck when the local fuel company, which is owned by their adversaries, refuses to supply them. Fortunately, they happen to run into Haddock's old friend Captain Chester, whom he describes as "a shipmate for more than twenty years" but has never even been mentioned previously.

** The infamous and controversial [[spoiler:HeroicSuicide of Frank Wolffe]].

''The Adventures of Tintin'', originally titled ''The Adventures of Tintin and Snowy'', is a seminal Belgian comic series and has had considerable influence on the development of graphic narratives in Europe and around the world.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin'' (2011), MotionCapture [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] animated movie by Creator/PeterJackson's Creator/{{WETA}} Digital and directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg. It was intended to grow to a film series but the buzz has gone quiet for a while.