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* CulturalPosturing: All but stated with the Incas, who own a secret settlement in the mountains where they have carefully retained all of their Pre-Hispanic culture, including rituals, weapons and et caetera, but at the same time they have members infiltrated in the Peruvian society with perfect competence and are clearly aware of modern society. Not fully so, as they are still fields they are not become familiar with, namely astronomy, which proves to be a plot point.
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* CulturalPosturing: All but stated with the Incas, who own a secret settlement in the mountains where they have carefully retained all of their Pre-Hispanic culture, including rituals, weapons and et caetera, but at the same time they have members infiltrated in the Peruvian society with perfect competence and are clearly aware of modern society. Not fully so, as they society -- although there are still fields they are not become familiar with, namely astronomy, which astronomy. This proves to be a plot point.
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* ConvenientEclipse: Oddly enough, the Incas do not know about the impending eclipse, despite worshipping the sun and having covert contact with the modern world. Hergé later discovered this oversight on his part, and declared he would have written a different ending if he had known about this.
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* ConvenientEclipse: Oddly enough, the Incas do not know about the impending eclipse, despite worshipping the sun and having covert contact with the modern world. Hergé Hergé later discovered this oversight on his part, and declared he would have written a different ending if he had known about this.
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* ShownTheirWork: Thanks to a National Geographic magazine, Hergé was able to get many details correct, such as Inca dress and architecture. However, he only uses these touches where it fits the story, so there are no "tourist moments" in the story showing off the temple, for instance. Of course, his limited sources meant he still made some mistakes (like assuming the Inca had a writing system and did not know about eclipses), but he corrected the former mistake partly in a later edition, and stated that he would have changed the eclipse ending if he had the chance.
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* ShownTheirWork: Thanks to a National Geographic magazine, Hergé Hergé was able to get many details correct, such as Inca dress and architecture. However, he only uses these touches where it fits the story, so there are no "tourist moments" in the story showing off the temple, for instance. Of course, his limited sources meant he still made some mistakes (like assuming the Inca had a writing system and did not know about eclipses), but he corrected the former mistake partly in a later edition, and stated that he would have changed the eclipse ending if he had the chance.
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* YouDontWantToCatchThis: A rare villain example occurs when the crew of the ship where Calculus is being held put up a quarantine flag and have a crooked doctor declare the ship out of bounds. However, Tintin isn't fooled.
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* ConvenientEclipse: Oddly enough, the Incas do not know about the impending eclipse, despite worshipping the sun and having covert contact with the modern world. Herge later discovered this oversight on his part, and declared he would have written a different ending if he had known about this.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Professor Calculus is convinced that the Incas are making a film and he and the others are appearing in it.
* ConvenientEclipse: Oddly enough, the Incas do not know about the impending eclipse, despite worshipping the sun and having covert contact with the modern world.Herge Hergé later discovered this oversight on his part, and declared he would have written a different ending if he had known about this.
* ConvenientEclipse: Oddly enough, the Incas do not know about the impending eclipse, despite worshipping the sun and having covert contact with the modern world.
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* ShownTheirWork: Thanks to a National Geographic magazine, Herge was able to get many details correct, such as Inca dress and architecture. However, he only uses these touches where it fits the story, so there are no "tourist moments" in the story showing off the temple, for instance. Of course, his limited sources meant he still made some mistakes (like assuming the Inca had a writing system and did not know about eclipses), but he corrected the former mistake partly in a later edition, and stated that he would have changed the eclipse ending if he had the chance.
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* ShownTheirWork: Thanks to a National Geographic magazine, Hergé was able to get many details correct, such as Inca dress and architecture. However, he only uses these touches where it fits the story, so there are no "tourist moments" in the story showing off the temple, for instance. Of course, his limited sources meant he still made some mistakes (like assuming the Inca had a writing system and did not know about eclipses), but he corrected the former mistake partly in a later edition, and stated that he would have changed the eclipse ending if he had the chance.
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* RunawayTrain Tintin is set up to be killed when the Incas decouple his train car. He can escape in the last moment.
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* RunawayTrain RailCarSeparation: Tintin and Captain Haddock find themselves on a runaway coach while travelling by train on the way to find Calculus. The stationmaster at the next station then mentions it was the first accident on the line, but by that point Tintin is already convinced it wasn't an accident at all.
* RunawayTrain: Tintin is set up to be killed when the Incas decouple his train car. He can escape in the last moment.
* RunawayTrain: Tintin is set up to be killed when the Incas decouple his train car. He can escape in the last moment.
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* DeathGlare: Captain Haddock gives an angry stare to a llama. Unfortunately for him, it counters by chewing his beard off.
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It's not like Zorrino even has the choice of leaving or not.
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Zorrino [[IChooseToStay decides to stay]] with the Inca while Tintin, Haddock and Calculus return to Europe safe and sound.
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Zorrino [[IChooseToStay decides to stay]] stays with the Inca while Tintin, Haddock and Calculus return to Europe safe and sound.
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* IChooseToStay: At the end, Zorrino chooses to stay behind with the Incas.
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* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: The coin Tintin received from a stranger.
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* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: The coin medal Tintin received receives from a stranger.
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* HistoricalInJoke: Possibly accidental, but it's notable that the high priest who becomes secretly favorable to the European heroes against the more zealous emperor is named Huascar. In real life, Huascar was the name of the original Inca emperor before his brother Atahualpa overthrew him, which had the effect of pitting most of the empire against Atahualpa... and [[EnemyMine in favor of the Spaniards]] once they arrived.
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* AlternateHistory: The story features a secret Inca holdover whose members have great influence over the entire Peruvian population, to the point even the cops themselves are implied to serve them out of fear. This echoes the real life Neo-Inca State of Vilcabamba, an excision of the Inca Empire that continued warring against the Spaniards (and the rest of the empire, most of which had sided with Spain) for almost a century before being assimilated. It seems that in this version, either Vilcabamba was ''not'' fully assimilated or there was a separate holdover the Spaniards and their allies never had notice of.
* CulturalPosturing: All but stated with the Incas, who own a secret settlement in the mountains where they have carefully retained all of their Pre-Hispanic culture, including rituals, weapons and et caetera, but at the same time they have members infiltrated in the Peruvian society with perfect competence and are clearly aware of modern society. Not fully so, as they are still fields they are not become familiar with, namely astronomy, which proves to be a plot point.
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* {{Mayincatec}}: The Incas are portrayed rather sympathetically, as even though they try to sacrifice the heroes, their interactions with outsiders have rarely been positive. Oh, and they suck at astronomy, as a plot point. On the whole Hergé, who got a lot of his information from ''National Geographic'', does not mix up the Inca with the Maya except with reference to the prophetic inscription mentioning the retribution that will befall the violators of Rascar Capac's tomb, which plays a large part in ''[[Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls The Seven Crystal Balls]]''. The Incas, unlike the Mayas and Aztecs, had no system of writing. The original version of ''The Seven Crystal Balls'', serialized in ''Le Soir'', also contained a lead disc with symbols "resembling Aztec or Inca signs", but Hergé excised the panel that showed it and texts that mentioned it when the album version was produced.
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* {{Mayincatec}}: The {{Mayincatec}}:
** Some pieces of artwork used here and there are either pre-Inca or not Inca at all, like Staff God of the Tihuanaco Empire, and there is mention of an Inca writing system, which didn't exist in real life. Those Incasare portrayed rather sympathetically, as even though they try to sacrifice the heroes, seem also a bit more sacrifice-happy than real deal were, but this can be explained because their interactions with outsiders have rarely been positive. Oh, and they suck at astronomy, as a plot point. On the whole positive.
** Hergé, who got a lot of his information from ''National Geographic'',does not mix mixes up the Inca with the Maya except with the reference to the prophetic inscription mentioning the retribution that will befall the violators of Rascar Capac's tomb, which plays a large part in ''[[Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls The Seven Crystal Balls]]''. The Incas, unlike the Mayas and Aztecs, had no system of writing. The original version of ''The Seven Crystal Balls'', serialized in ''Le Soir'', also contained a lead disc with symbols "resembling Aztec or Inca signs", but Hergé excised the panel that showed it and texts that mentioned it when the album version was produced.
** Some pieces of artwork used here and there are either pre-Inca or not Inca at all, like Staff God of the Tihuanaco Empire, and there is mention of an Inca writing system, which didn't exist in real life. Those Incas
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* ModernMayincatecEmpire: The Incas are an unusual variant in that they don't directly rule Peru, but the non-Incan Peruvians are scared enough of them that the Peruvians will do whatever they say.
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* ModernMayincatecEmpire: The Incas are an unusual variant in that they don't directly rule Peru, but the non-Incan rest of the Peruvians are scared enough of them that the Peruvians they will do whatever they say.
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* IdiotBall: The Incas had full knowledge of what eclipses were and how to predict them, and thus wouldn't freak out at Tintin's stunt. Hergé admitted that this was "a huge blunder" on his part.
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* BirdPoopGag: One of the Thom(p)sons asks what guano is and Captain Haddock is not sure how to put it, and then a bird poops on the detective's hat and Haddock says, "Guano? Well, that's a free sample!".
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* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: A RunningGag concerns Haddock's poor affinity with llamas.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Finding Calculus's dowsing pendulum, Thompson and Thomson try to dowse with it in tracking him down. They get the general details right, but the precise location wrong, i.e. ''[[EpicFail it takes them out of Peru and all the way to Paris, instead]]''.