History Recap / TintinKingOttokarsSceptre

* IAteWhat: Tintin's reaction when he's told the Syldavian meal he's eaten includes dog, and [[EatTheDog Snowy is missing]]. Snowy comes [[BigEater out of the restaurant's kitchen]] moments later.

* DinosaurDoggieBone: Snowy steals a bone from a dinosaur skeleton at a museum.

* DinosaurDoggieBone: Snowy steals a diplodocus femur and is chased by the local dogs.

* LockedRoomMystery: Once the titular sceptre was stolen, this leaves an empty display case and the camera used to photograph it, with the room guarded by sentries [[UndyingLoyalty who have been confirmed to serve the King until the very end]] and a ([[EpicFail painful) experiment by the detectives with a tree branch roughly the same size and shape as the sceptre that the only way out for it is through a barred window, but simply throwing it would've had it bounce off the bars.

* LockedRoomMystery: How was the Sceptre stolen?

* EarlyBirdCameo: Colonel Sponsz appears as among the guests at Tintin's investiture into the Order of the Golden Pelican at the end. He would later appear as the BigBad in ''[[Recap/TintinTheCalculusAffair The Calculus Affair]]'' and ''[[Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros Tintin And The Picaros]]''.

* AdultFear: A pet example. After paying the bill at a restaurant and inquiring about the dish, Tintin was told that the dish he ate is the hind leg of a ''young dog'' while his own pet dog ran off. He understandably [[IAteWhat freaks out]].

* AdultFear: A pet example. After paying the bill at a restaurant and inquiring about the dish, Tintin was told that the dish he ate is the hind leg of a ''[[IAteWhat young dog]]'' while his own pet dog ran off. He understandably freaks out.

Happening upon a briefcase lost in the park Tintin returns it to its owner [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Hector Alembick]], an expert in sigillography (the study of seals - the ones on letters rather than the ones with flippers). Professor Alembick is travelling to the Balkan kingdom of [[{{Ruritania}} Syldavia]] and offers Tintin a job as his assistant. Tintin declines but later finds himself under surveillance by sinister individuals who seem connected with that country. After more than one attempt on his life Tintin decides to accept Alembick's offer and accompany him to Syldavia and get to the bottom of things.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Both the book and animation go to great pains to make it clear that (fictional) King Ottokar IV, a medieval Syldavian king who is important to the story, is in no way connected to any of the real-life kings of [[UsefulNotes/Bohemia Bohemia]] named Ottokar, who coincidentally were in power at roughly the same time at this story's fictional King Ottokar.

* LocalReference: The royal palace of Syldavia is modelled after the one in Brussels. Many critics see Muskar XII as a thinly-veiled expy of King Leopold III and Syldavia's situation as an expression of fears of what Nazi Germany might do to its little neighbor Belgium.

** Tintin has an OhCrap reaction when he's about to hand over the sceptre to the authorities only to find it's fallen out of his pocket. Fortunately Snowy has picked it up and saves the day, (having the temptation of ditching it for a tasty bone he finds on the way).