History NightmareFuel / Tintin

[[folder: ''The Broken Ear'']]
* The angry corporal getting blown up by his ''own bomb.''
** 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]].
** Devils with ''[[SlasherSmile shit-eating grins]]''.
** Notably, this scene is entirely cut from the animated version, with Tintin saving the two idiots from getting themselves killed over the damn gem.

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[[folder: ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'']]
* The mummified corpses of the doomed Egyptologists and archaeologists. Remember, these were archaeologists in a coma who were mummified alive. The blank stares make it worse too. It's like they're watching you, and they know you're next...
** What's worse? They're on the cover of the book itself.
** Try to think of their last moments of hallucinating and mummification. And remember, these are supposed to be ''corpses'', murdered by the drug smugglers.
** Then there's the scene where Tintin finds three new sarcophagi, being prepared for ''himself, Snowy and the newest archaeologist''.

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[[folder: ''Prisoners of the Sun'']]
* The Indians getting turned into snowballs and rolling down ''into a canyon''.
** The fact that Tintin and his friends would have been ''burned to death'' were it not for a ConvenientEclipse.

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[[folder: ''The Black Island'']]
* Tintin is captured sneaking into Dr. Müller's garden. Dr. Müller intends to send him to a private mental institution where he will be subjected to a treatment that will cause him to go insane (it's implied that Müller has already disposed of other people this way). While Tintin manages to get free before he is taken to the institution, the [[{{Gaslighting}} tropes]] [[DrivenToMadness implied]] are pretty disturbing.

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

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[[folder:''Flight 714'']]
* 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]]

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[[folder: ''Tintin in Tibet'']]
* The yeti is portrayed with a great deal of sympathy (and as the occasional butt of a joke), but when he catches Tintin in his cave, trying to make off with Chang... ''brrrrrr''.
* Haddock’s near death.

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[[folder:''Flight 714'']]
* 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]]

[[folder: ''The Shooting Star'']]
* The fact that the beginning of the book opens with [[ApocalypseHow a meteor about to strike the Earth]]; fortunately, Prof. Phostle's calculations are off (and it switches fairly quickly to a wacky sci-fi adventure story), but the tension and helplessness in those few pages are deeply disturbing.
* The giant spider. First, Tintin visits the planetarium and views through the telescope when he sees a gigantic spider. It turns out it is just a small one on top of the lens. That night, Tintin has a nightmare where Philippus the prophet shows him a full size poster depicting a huge black spider, with the caption: "real life measurements". But later, as Tintin travels to the comet which crashed into the sea, it turns out there is a giant spider after all! Grown to the size of a large dog due to the comet's radiation!
** The Belvision animated series of the 1960s makes the spider on the comet even bigger.
** The original magazine run of this story, which is creepy for another reason entirely; a bunch of anti-American and anti-semite content approved because it was published during the days of the Nazi occupation of Belgium. Herge wasn't really a racist or a Nazi but a lot of his early work is very disturbing because it's like he didnt know any better.

[[folder: ''Tintin in Tibet'']]
* The yeti is portrayed with a great deal of sympathy (and as the occasional butt of a joke), but when he catches Tintin in his cave, trying to make off with Chang... ''brrrrrr''.
* Haddock’s near death.

[[folder: ''Destination Moon'']]
* The overall air of mystery and thriller.
* Most of the exposition occurring in eerie, wide labs.
* Tintin getting shot.
* Haddock beaten up by a stranger in the hallway.

[[folder: ''Explorers on the Moon'']]
* 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...
** 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.
* Frank Wolff leaving the rocket and committing suicide. Even though it happens off screen and is explained in a suicide note, it's still very disturbing.
** Made worse with the fact that the reader gets to imagine his horrible death and the fact that his body could be floating around in space forever...!

[[folder: ''Prisoners of the Sun'']]
* The Indians getting turned into snowballs and rolling down ''into a canyon''.
** The fact that Tintin and his friends would have been ''burned to death'' were it not for a ConvenientEclipse.

[[folder: ''The Broken Ear'']]
* The angry corporal getting blown up by his ''own bomb.''
** 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]].
** Devils with ''[[SlasherSmile shit-eating grins]]''.
** Notably, this scene is entirely cut from the animated version, with Tintin saving the two idiots from getting themselves killed over the damn gem.

[[folder: ''The Blue Lotus'']]

* The Poison of Madness concept. A single blowdart with it will drive any person insane, and [[ParanoiaFuel no one is safe.]]
* Mr. Wang's son's insanity, and him about to ''DECAPITATE HIS OWN PARENTS AND TINTIN'' near the climax. Which would then have been followed by Rastapopoulos and Mitsuhirato's lackey finishing him off with his pistol after the deed had been done.

[[folder: ''Tintin in America'']]
* 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.

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[[folder: ''Red Rackhams Treasure'']]

[[folder: The Shooting Star]]

[[folder: Tintin in Tibet]]

[[folder: Destination Moon]]

[[folder: Explorers on the Moon]]

[[folder: Prisoners of the Sun]]

[[folder: The Broken Ear]]

[[folder: The Blue Lotus]]

[[folder: Cigars of the Pharaoh]]

[[folder: Tintin in America]]

[[folder: The Black Island]]

[[folder: Red Rackhams Treasure]]

*** 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.
** 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!"

** In ''"Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald"'', Captain Haddock dreams he is listening to an opera singing parrot while he is seated completely nude in an audience consisting of nothing but parrots.

* There's the very disturbing end of ''Recap/TintinFlight714'' 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]]

** The fact that the beginning of the book opens with [[ApocalypseHow a meteor about to strike the Earth]]; fortunately, Prof. Phostle's calculations are off (and it switches fairly quickly to a wacky sci-fi adventure story), but the tension and helplessness in those few pages are deeply disturbing.

** The two Moon books could be the contenders for the most tense Tintin stories. The first book is shrouded in an air of mystery and thriller, with most of the exposition occurring in eerie, wide labs; and then we have things like Tintin getting shot or Haddock beaten up by a stranger in the hallway. And then ''Explorers on the Moon'' has this overall air of dread starting in the first page, and it continues on till the end, with the characters often saying how they won't survive this adventure, and then the actual dangerous adventures they get into (Haddock leaving the ship, Snowy falling down a precipice). And then there's Wolff and Jorgen...
** 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.

* Early in ''The Black Island'', Tintin is captured sneaking into Dr. Müller's garden. Dr. Müller intends to send him to a private mental institution where he will be subjected to a treatment that will cause him to go insane (it's implied that Müller has already disposed of other people this way). While Tintin manages to get free before he is taken to the institution, the [[{{Gaslighting}} tropes]] [[DrivenToMadness implied]] are pretty disturbing.
* The opening of ''The Calculus Affair'', with the crystals breaking into pieces during the storm. It's incredibly eerie, and without us knowing what is exactly happening, it puts us a little on edge. The rest of the story also has this tense atmosphere too, portraying well the anxious sensation of the Cold War Era.

* The captain's near death in "Recap/TintinTintinInTibet".

* The entire Poison of Madness concept in "[[Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh Cigars of the Pharaoh]]" and "Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus". A single blowdart with it will drive any person insane, and [[ParanoiaFuel no one is safe.]]
** Mr. Wang's son's insanity, and him about to ''DECAPITATE HIS OWN PARENTS AND TINTIN'' near the climax of "Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus". Which would then have been followed by Rastapopoulos and Mitsuhirato's lackey finishing him off with his pistol after the deed had been done.
* The mummified corpses of the doomed Egyptologists and archaeologists in "Cigars Of The Pharaoh". Remember, these were archaeologists in a coma who were mummified alive. The blank stares make it worse too. It's like they're watching you, and they know you're next...

* In "Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica", 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.

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

The dream and nightmare sequences in "Tintin" are notoriously surreal and downright creepy:

* The giant spider in ''"[[Recap/TintinTheShootingStar The Shooting Star]]"''. First, Tintin visits the planetarium and views through the telescope when he sees a gigantic spider. It turns out it is just a small one on top of the lens. That night, Tintin has a nightmare where Philippus the prophet shows him a full size poster depicting a huge black spider, with the caption: "real life measurements". But later, as Tintin travels to the comet which crashed into the sea, it turns out there is a giant spider after all! Grown to the size of a large dog due to the comet's radiation!

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* Throughout ''"Recap/TintinTintinInTibet"'', the yeti is portrayed with a great deal of sympathy (and as the occasional butt of a joke), but when he catches Tintin in his cave, trying to make off with Chang... ''brrrrrr''.
* Frank Wolff's suicide in ''"Recap/TintinExplorersOnTheMoon"''. He leaves the rocket. Even though it happens off screen and is explained in a suicide note, it's still very disturbing.

* In "Recap/TintinPrisonersOfTheSun", the Indians getting turned into snowballs and rolling down ''into a canyon''.

* The angry corporal getting blown up by his ''own bomb'' in "Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar"

* The giant spider in ''"[[Recap/TintinTheShootingStar The Shooting Star]]"''. First, Tintin visits the planetarium and views through the telescope when he sees a gigantic spider. It turns out it is just a small one on top of the lens. That night, Tintin has a nightmare where Philippus the prophet shows him a full size poster depicting a huge black spider, with the caption: "real life measurements". But later, as Tintin travels to the comet which crashed into the sea, it turns out there is a giant spider after all! Grown to the size of a large dog due to the comet's radiation!
** The fact that the beginning of the book opens with [[ApocalypseHow a meteor about to strike the Earth]]; fortunately, Prof. Phostle's calculations are off (and it switches fairly quickly to a wacky sci-fi adventure story), but the tension and helplessness in those few pages are deeply disturbing.
** The Belvision animated series of the 1960s makes the spider on the comet even bigger.
** The original magazine run of this story, which is creepy for another reason entirely; a bunch of anti-American and anti-semite content approved because it was published during the days of the Nazi occupation of Belgium. Herge wasn't really a racist or a Nazi but a lot of his early work is very disturbing because it's like he didnt know any better.
* The dream and nightmare sequences in "Tintin" are notoriously surreal and downright creepy:

** The original magazine run of this story, which is creepy for another reason entirerly; a bunch of anti-American and anti-semite content approved because it was published during the days of the Nazi occupation of Belgium. Herge wasn't really a racist or a Nazi but a lot of his early work is very disturbing because it's like he didnt know any better.

** Notably, this scene is entirerly cut from the animated version, with Tintin saving the two idiots from getting themselves killed over the damn gem.

[[caption-width-right:200: Haddock trying to disect Tintin. Sweet dreams.]]

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** Mr. Wang's Son's insanity, and him going to ''DECAPITATE HIS OWN PARENTS AND FAMILY'' near the climax of "Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus".

** Notably, this scene is entirerly cut from the animated version, with Tinton saving the two idiots from getting themselves killed over the damn gem.

*** 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. ''And they have to endure that every single day''. Brrrr.

* There's the very disturbing end of ''Recap/TintinFlight714'' in which [[spoiler: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]]''.
** WordOfGod states that they eventually turned up alive and amnesiac on a deserted island.

** The two Moon books could be the contenders for the most tense Tintin stories. The first book is shrouded in an air of mystery and thriller, with most of the exposition occurring in eerie, wide labs; and then we have things like Tintin getting shot or Haddock beaten up by a stranger in the hallway. And then ''Explorers on the Moon'' has this overall air of dread starting in the first page, and it continues on till the end, with the characters often saying how they won't survive this adventure, and then the actual dangerous adventures they get into (Haddock leaving the ship, Snowy falling down a precipice). [[spoiler:And then there's Wolff and Jorgen...]]

* In "Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica", 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 [[spoiler: 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.

* Early in ''The Black Island'', Tintin is captured sneaking into Dr. Müller's garden. Dr. Müller intends to send him to a private mental institution where he will be subjected to a treatment that will cause him to go insane (it's implied that Müller has already disposed of other people this way). [[spoiler:While Tintin manages to get free before he is taken to the institution, the [[{{Gaslighting}} tropes]] [[DrivenToMadness implied]] are pretty disturbing.]]

* The giant spider in ''"Recap/TintinTheShootingStar"''. First Tintin visits the planetarium and views through the telescope when he sees a gigantic spider. It turns out it is just a small one on top of the lens. That night Tintin has a nightmare where Philippus the prophet shows him a a full size poster depicting a huge black spider, with the caption: "real life measurements". But later, as Tintin travels to the comet which crashed into the sea it turns out there is a giant spider after all! Grown to the size of a large dog due to the comet's radiation!
** The fact that the beginning of the book opens with [[ApocalypseHow a meteor about to strike the Earth]]; fortunately Prof. Phostle's calculations are off (and it switches fairly quickly to a wacky sci-fi adventure story), but the tension and helplessness in those few pages are deeply disturbing.
** The original magazine run of this story, which is creepy for another reason entirerly; a bunch of anti-American and anti-semite content approved because it was published during the days of the Nazi occupation of Belgium. Herge wasnt really a racist or a nazi but a lot of his early work is very disturbing because it's like he didnt know any better.

** In ''"[[Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh Tintin Cigars of the Pharaoh]]"'' Tintin is locked inside an Egyptian tomb and put to sleep with sleeping gas. He then dreams several strange images combining recent people he met and Egyptian artwork.
** In ''"Recap/TintinTheCrabWithTheGoldenClaws"'' Tintin dreams he is turned into a bottle, which Haddock (making a NightmareFace) is planning to uncork.
** In ''"Recap/TintinTheShootingStar"'' Tintin dreams he is visited by Philippulus the prophet who then shows him a picture of a gigantic spider, claiming it is life size!
** 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.
** Also from ''Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls,'' the seven Egyptologists that have been rendered comatose simultaneously regain consciousness at the same time every day and [[FreakOut scream in terror]] before returning to their comatose state. It's never said what is [[NothingIsScarier making them scream]] like that except for a reference in ''Prisoners of the Sun'' about them being tormented via {{Voodoo Doll}}s. Of course it is ''much'' worse in the animated series; in the comics it was just one panel of all seven of them writhing about, in the series we're treated to the sight of their weirdly blueish-grey skin and close ups of them screaming which is itself horrific to listen to.
*** 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. ''And they have to endure that every single day''. Brrrr.
** 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!"

** In ''"Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald"'' Captain Haddock dreams he is listening to an opera singing parrot while he is seated completely nude in an audience consisting of nothing but parrots.

** Word Of God states that they eventually turned up alive and amnesiac on a deserted island.

* Frank Wolff's suicide in ''"Recap/TintinExplorersOnTheMoon"''. He leaves the rocket. Even though it happens off screen and is explained in a suicide note: it's still very disturbing.

** The two Moon books could be the contenders for the most tense Tintin stories. The first book is shrouded in an air of mystery and thriller, with most of the exposition occurring in eerie, wide labs; and then we have things like Tintin getting shot or Haddock beaten up by a stranger in the hallway. And then Explorers on the Moon has this overall air of dread starting in the first page, and it continues on till the end, with the characters often saying how they won't survive this adventure, and then the actual dangerous adventures they get into (Haddock leaving the ship, Snowy falling down a precipice). [[spoiler:And then there's Wolff and Jorgen...]]

* The entire Poison of Madness concept in "[[Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh Tintin Cigars of the Pharaoh]]" and "Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus". A single blowdart with it will drive any person insane, and [[ParanoiaFuel no one is safe.]]

* The giant spider in ''"Recap/TintinTheShootingStar"''. First Tintin visits the planetarium and views through the telescope when he sees another gigantic spider. It turns out it is just a small one on top of the lens. That night Tintin has a nightmare where Philippus the prophet shows him a a full size poster depicting a huge black spider, with the caption: "real life measurements". But later, as Tintin travels to the comet which crashed into the sea it turns out there is a giant spider after all! Grown to the size of a large dog due to the comet's radiation!