History NightmareFuel / Tintin

** In ''"Recap/TintinTintinInTibet"'', Haddock dreams he meets Professor Calculus, who claims he has lost his umbrella. Haddock then tells him he's got a lot of umbrellas with him, but has no idea where they came from. Calculus is angried by his answer and tells him: ''"You lie! It's red pepper."'' Then Haddock suddenly wears Calculus' clothes, while Calculus wears those of Haddock. Now grown to enormous size Calculus hits Haddock on the head with an umbrella, claiming it's "Checkmate!

* After arriving at the small Scottish town where Mueller's plane crashed, Tintin is told that the authorities had searched everywhere in the area for survivors... with the exception of a nearby deserted island. The bartender is reluctant to go into detail, but an old man named Macgregor reveals the real reason.

** Then there's the scene where Tintin finds three new sarcophagi, being prepared for ''himself, Snowy and the newest archaeologist''.

** From the same issue, the two bad guys wrestling each other to drown at the bottom of the sea. Then they get [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LMhHOKdcXJE/TvSuS-MVn5I/AAAAAAAAAms/f2RsRx2C9pM/s1600/14Tintin.jpg carried off to hell by pitchfork-wielding devils]].
** Devils with ''[[SlasherSmile shit-eating grins]]''.

* The fact that in all of these adventures, and the sheer number of people who try to ''kill him,'' [[WouldHurtAChild Tintin is only 16-19 years old. He's just a kid!]]

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* The introduction of Sir Francis Haddock's statue in the animated adaptation of ''"[[Recap/TintinRedRackhamsTreasure Red Rackhams Treasure]]"''

** Another shows why there aren't mountains of hair floating around the rocket: they're ThrownOutOfTheAirlock as they're cut. Haddock nearly throws Snowy (who was sleeping in the hair) out, although Tintin catches him in time.

* The fact that in all of these adventures, and the sheer number of people who try to ''kill him,'' Tintin is only 16-19 years old. He's just a kid!

** In ''"Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls"'', Tintin and his companions all have the same nightmare: that they are visited by the Inca mummy Rascar Capac who enters their bedroom by night and then throws a poisonous crystal ball on the floor. It's probably the scariest moment out of all the books. The SlasherSmile on the mummy's face makes it even worse, and the animated series turns it UpToEleven.

* The characters often saying how they won't survive this adventure, and then
* The dangerous adventures they get into (Haddock leaving the ship, Snowy falling down a precipice). And then there's Wolff and Jorgen...

** From the same album, the two bad guys wrestling each other to drown at the bottom of the sea. Then they get [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LMhHOKdcXJE/TvSuS-MVn5I/AAAAAAAAAms/f2RsRx2C9pM/s1600/14Tintin.jpg carried off to hell by pitchfork-wielding devils]].

* Tintin and Snowy falling onto the conveyor belt in the factory and about to be made into corned beef and ''eaten''. Thank god for [[DeusExMachina the striking workers]], who stopped the conveyor belt out of anger at their wage cut. And in the same album, the cow being turned into corned beef alive, and the "missing pet" notices outside the factory, when you realize that the pets were also made into beef... you will never look at corned beef the same again after that.

* Earlier on, the yeti is played up with a great deal of suspense and mystery. At one point, Tintin and Snowy are stuck in a Himalayan blizzard with visibility down to almost zero. Tintin sees a human figure not far away in the driving snow, and thinks it's Haddock, but whoever it is ignores him when he calls for help. He ends up falling into a crevasse, and after the blizzard dies down, he manages to escape. He asks Haddock and Tharky why they didn't help... and both men explain that they never left their shelter when the blizzard hit...

* The fact that in all of these adventures, Tintin is only 16-19 years old. He's just a kid!

** In ''Recap/TintinPrisonersOfTheSun'', Tintin dreams that Calculus is admiring an "Inca Tree" whose flowers are skulls while a real Inca menaces him with a spear, next Tintin asks the Inca, who now has Haddock's face if he has a licence for the rifle over his shoulder, upon which the Inca turns into a mysterious Indian who has been following the heroes and blasts Tintin with fire for blasphemy. Tintin then wakes up with hot sunlight on his face.

* ''everyone's'' near death. At one point Tintin becomes trapped, leading to Haddock to attempt a heroic sacrifice. At another, just when everyone seems to be back on solid ground, they get caught in an avalanche. With no true antagonist, this story nevertheless comes alarmingly close to killing our heroes on occasion

* There's the very disturbing end of in which one character is revealed to be a human in contact with aliens, possibly a spy, and he uses MindControl to save the heroes and forces the criminals into his ship. We don't find out what happened to them... but that just makes it ''[[NothingIsScarier worse]]''. [[note]]WordOfGod states that they eventually turned up alive and amnesiac on a deserted island.[[/note]]

** Jorgen's plan is to abandon Haddock, the Thompsons and Calculus on the moon, condemning to a hideous death (and he openly ''laughs'' at the idea of their faces when they discover the rocket has gone without ever knowing what happened). The plan is only foiled when they have to return to the rocket early, and Tintin severs the leads to the rocket, but they still arrive in time to see the rocket begin to take off without them before it falls back to the ground.
** Tintin managed to sabotage the rocket at the last second to stop the takeoff. Good right? Except when Calculus examines the damage he expects it will take at least 100 hours to get it working before they can even take off. There oxygen supply will last, at the most... 100 hours. Calculus outright states they will likely not survive the return journey. From here on out the air of dread hanging over the adventure ramps up to eleven, and the result is arguably the most tense climax in the entire series. It's only reinforced by the fact that Calculus turned out to have been optimistic; [[spoiler: even with two fewer people they nearly all died]]

** The fact that in the end this wasn't a lucky near miss or a clever escape. They only made it back alive because Wolff and Jorgen didn't

*** It's much more terrifying because we don't get to see their hallucinations... A good theory is Rascar Capac and other Incan Mummies coming to life, appearing and trying to kill them in various horrible ways, with those massive [[SlasherSmile slasher smiles]] on their faces. ''[[AndIMustScream And they have to endure that every single day]]''. Brrrr."

* Tintin getting shot.
* Haddock beaten up by a stranger in the hallway.