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* AdaptedOut: Pablo and Trickler do not appear in the AnimatedAdaptation.
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* AdaptationalDistillation: The 1990s animated series simplifies the circumstances as to how Tortilla came to know about the fetish and the gem from Lopez, something that was never explained in the book, by combining both characters into a single person. The show also simplifies Lopez's connection to Ramon and Alonzo by having them be former cellmates who Lopez let slip of the fetish's existence, as opposed to the duo stumbling upon Lopez's letter that Tortilla had dropped by coincidence.
* AdaptedOut: Pablo and Trickler do not appear in the AnimatedAdaptation. Neither is Rodrigo Tortilla, who is instead combined with Lopez.
* AdaptedOut: Pablo and Trickler do not appear in the AnimatedAdaptation. Neither is Rodrigo Tortilla, who is instead combined with Lopez.
* CompositeCharacter: In the animated adaptation, Tortilla and Lopez are combined into a single person, which addresses an unresolved plot point in the comic.
* KarmicDeath: Ramon and Alonzo murder Tortilla by throwing him off the ship they were on. At the end of the book, they end up drowning after falling of another ship, by each other's own unwitting hands no less.
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** Ramon always throws his knifes too far to the right.
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**RunningGag: Ramon always throws his knifes too far to the right.
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* AssassinOutclassin: one RunningGag is the recurrent assassination attempts of General Alcazar by Colonel-demoted-to-Corporal Diaz. The attempts all fail miserably, Diaz usually being HoistByHisOwnPetard.
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* AssassinOutclassin: one One RunningGag is the recurrent assassination attempts of General Alcazar by Colonel-demoted-to-Corporal Diaz. The attempts all fail miserably, Diaz usually being HoistByHisOwnPetard.
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''The Broken Ear'' begins with a bizarre robbery. A fetish created by the South American Arumbaya tribe is stolen from the Museum of Ethnography, only to be returned the following day - apparently stolen only as a prank. Tintin realises the 'returned' fetish is a fake and quickly discovers that a local sculptor who specialised in making primitive art has died under odd circumstances. Rightly believing the theft and the sculptor's death to be linked, Tintin begins his investigation.
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''The Broken Ear'' begins with a bizarre robbery. A fetish created by the South American Arumbaya tribe is stolen from the Museum of Ethnography, only to be returned the following day - apparently stolen only as a prank. Tintin realises the 'returned' fetish is a fake and quickly discovers that a local sculptor {{sculptor|s}} who specialised in making primitive art has died under odd circumstances. Rightly believing the theft and the sculptor's death to be linked, Tintin begins his investigation.
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* ReplacedWithReplica: Tintin waits for an officier near a dock when he sees someone walking away with his suitcase, he starts for it but then sees that his suitcase is still right there. It turns out that the man he saw did swap Tintin's real suitcase for a fake full of bombs, and then tipped off the police.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Even ignoring the revolution and the war, ''The Broken Ear'' has the highest onscreen bodycount in the series: the sculptor Balthazar (killed by Tortilla), Tortilla (drowned by Alonzo and Ramon), Corporal Diaz (killed by his own bomb) and Alonzo and Ramon (drowned - and '''shown in Hell''' afterward). Additionally, while the story probably has more gags than [[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus the previous adventure]] the comedy tends towards the [[BlackComedy dark]] (see ShotAtDawn below).
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Even ignoring the revolution and the war, ''The Broken Ear'' has the highest onscreen bodycount in the series: the sculptor Balthazar (killed by Tortilla), Tortilla (drowned by Alonzo and Ramon), Corporal Diaz (killed by his own bomb) and Alonzo and Ramon (drowned - and '''shown in Hell''' afterward). Additionally, while the story probably has more gags than [[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus the previous adventure]] the comedy tends towards the [[BlackComedy dark]] (see ShotAtDawn below).dark]].
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* FictionalCountry: San Theodoros and Nuevo Rico.
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* FullBodyDisguise: Tintin successfully disguises himself as a black waiter.
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* TheGhost: General Tapioca, Tortilla, and Lopez.
* GoingNative: Why Ridgewell stayed in the jungle.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: see AssassinOutclassin above.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Corporal Diaz.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Corporal Diaz.
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* LivingMacGuffin: Balthazar's parrot.
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* MistakenForFakeHair: Ramon and Alonso tried pulling the beard of an old man they assumed to be Tintin just to find out quickly that the beard was real.
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* MistakenForFakeHair: Ramon and Alonso tried try pulling the beard of an old man they assumed assume to be Tintin just to find out quickly that the beard was is real.
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* RunningGag: Ramon always throws his knifes too far to the right.
** Also see AssassinOutclassin above.
** Also see AssassinOutclassin above.
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* RunningGag: RunningGag:
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** Ramon always throws his knifes too far to the right.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Hergé drew the bananas on a banana tree upside-down.
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* {{Blackface}}: How Tintin disguises himself aboard the ship (in the animated adaptation, he wears a false mustache and glasses).
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* {{Blackface}}: How Tintin disguises himself aboard the ship (in the animated adaptation, he wears as a false mustache and glasses).black cabin boy in ''Broken Ear''.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: In the english version of the book, the dialog amongst the Indian tribesmen initially appears to be nonsensical foreign words. But if you read it all out loud, their actually speaking what sounds a lot like cockney english! Not only that, but their dialog is pretty much true to the subsequent translations that Tintin receives from Ridgewell.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: In the english version of the book, the dialog amongst the Indian tribesmen initially appears to be nonsensical foreign words. But if you read it all out loud, their they are actually speaking what sounds a lot like cockney english! Not only that, but their dialog is pretty much true to the subsequent translations that Tintin receives from Ridgewell.
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Moving to page for the series.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the Nelvana animated adaptation, the fetish is referred to as an idol, [[HaveAGayOldTime due to fetish having a VERY different meaning.]] The Dutch version subverts this, though, and calls it a fetish anyway. The Nelvana version also removes Tintin's {{Blackface}} disguise, replacing it with a more sensible one.
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* CompositeCharacter: The Nelvana adaptation combines the characters of Rodrigo Tortilla and Lopez. Rodrigo Lopez not only steals the Heart of the Jungle and hides it in the idol, but he is also the one to steal it from the museum.
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* DeusExMachina: Perhaps ''literally'' this time: Just when Alonzo is about to shoot a tied up Tintin, the house they're in is struck by lightning, and it sends Tintin flying out of the house! Averted in the Nelvana animated series, where the situation is resolved by Snowy coming in and biting the ropes to free Tintin, and then both escape the house by the window.
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* DeusExMachina: Perhaps ''literally'' this time: Just when Alonzo is about to shoot a tied up Tintin, the house they're in is struck by lightning, and it sends Tintin flying out of the house! Averted in the Nelvana animated series, where the situation is resolved by Snowy coming in and biting the ropes to free Tintin, and then both escape the house by the window.house!
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* TheGhost: General Tapioca and Tortilla. Subverted by Lopez in the Nelvana cartoon, who does not appear on-panel in the book but appears during a flashback in the adaptation.
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* TheGhost: General Tapioca Tapioca, Tortilla, and Tortilla. Subverted by Lopez in the Nelvana cartoon, who does not appear on-panel in the book but appears during a flashback in the adaptation.Lopez.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Trickler, of the American Oil Company, is perfectly willing to cause a war between the San Theodoros and the Nuevo Rico over the Gran Chapo desert, just to get to exploit the oil that il hypothetically here, even trying to bribe Tintin to convince Alcazar to start the war and to try to have him assassinated and later have him imprisonned necause Tintin refused.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Trickler, of the American Oil Company, is perfectly willing to cause a war between the San Theodoros and the Nuevo Rico Nuevo-Rico over the Gran Chapo desert, just to get to exploit the oil that il is hypothetically here, even trying to bribe Tintin to convince Alcazar to start the war and to try to have him assassinated and later have him imprisonned necause because Tintin refused. Also Basil Bazarov, the arms dealer, who sells the same cannons to both countries and helps Trickler frame Tintin by giving him a false document accusing Tintin of having sold his cannon's blueprints to Nuevo-Rico, so the war can happen.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Trickler, of the American Oil Company, is perfectly willing to cause a war between the San Theodoros and the Nuevo Rico over the Gran Chapo desert, just to get to exploit the oil that il hypothetically here, even trying to bribe Tintin to convince Alcazar to start the war and to try to have him assassinated and later have him imprisonned necause Tintin refused.
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"Name and Name" is misuse since they are not in the title.
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''The Broken Ear'' introduced General Alcazar, later an important reccurring character and ally of Tintin. With San Theodoros (and its neighbour Nuevo-Rico) Hergé also created the first of his fictional countries and languages - in the original French edition the Arumbayas speak a language based on Marollien (a Flemish dialect spoken in the regio of Brussels) and in the English translation they are speaking phonetic Cockney English!
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''The Broken Ear'' introduced General Alcazar, later an important reccurring recurring character and ally of Tintin. With San Theodoros (and its neighbour Nuevo-Rico) Hergé also created the first of his fictional countries and languages - in the original French edition the Arumbayas speak a language based on Marollien (a Flemish dialect spoken in the regio of Brussels) and in the English translation they are speaking phonetic Cockney English!
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Even ignoring the revolution and the war, ''The Broken Ear'' probably has the highest 'onscreen' bodycount in the series; the sculptor Balthazar (killed by Tortilla), Tortilla (drowned by Alonzo and Ramon), Corporal Diaz (killed by his own bomb) and Alonzo and Ramon (drowned - and '''shown in Hell''' afterward). Additionally, while the story probably has more gags than [[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus the previous adventure]] the comedy tends towards the [[BlackComedy dark]] (see ShotAtDawn below).
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Even ignoring the revolution and the war, ''The Broken Ear'' probably has the highest 'onscreen' onscreen bodycount in the series; series: the sculptor Balthazar (killed by Tortilla), Tortilla (drowned by Alonzo and Ramon), Corporal Diaz (killed by his own bomb) and Alonzo and Ramon (drowned - and '''shown in Hell''' afterward). Additionally, while the story probably has more gags than [[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus the previous adventure]] the comedy tends towards the [[BlackComedy dark]] (see ShotAtDawn below).
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* NameAndName: Alonso and Ramón.
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** It's not shown what happened to the parrot after Alonzo and Ramon get the information they want out of it.
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** It's not shown what happened to the parrot after Alonzo and Ramon get the information they want out of it. Considering they are on the verge of killing it due to its annoyance this doesn't bode well for it.
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* BerserkButton: When Tintin is saved by the revolutionaries, General Alcazar makes him a colonel in his revolutionary army. When his aide-de-camp Colonel Diaz points out that they already have ''thousands'' of colonels but less than a hundred corporals and suggests that Tintin be made a corporal instead, Alcazar explodes. He immediately declares ''Tintin'' his new aide-de-camp and demotes Diaz to the rank of corporal.
** Later subverted when Tintin is fulfilling one of his duties as aide-de-camp, namely playing chess with the General. When Tintin checkmates Alcazar, the general explodes again and shoots at Tintin. Tintin thinks he's going to die, but then Alcazar laughs at his macabre joke, pointing out that the bullets in his gun were blanks.
** Later subverted when Tintin is fulfilling one of his duties as aide-de-camp, namely playing chess with the General. When Tintin checkmates Alcazar, the general explodes again and shoots at Tintin. Tintin thinks he's going to die, but then Alcazar laughs at his macabre joke, pointing out that the bullets in his gun were blanks.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the Nelvana animated adaptation, the fetish is referred to as an idol, [[HaveAGayOldTime due to fetish having a VERY different meaning.]] The Dutch version subverts this, though, and calls it a fetish anyway.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the Nelvana animated adaptation, the fetish is referred to as an idol, [[HaveAGayOldTime due to fetish having a VERY different meaning.]] The Dutch version subverts this, though, and calls it a fetish anyway. The Nelvana version also removes Tintin's {{Blackface}} disguise, replacing it with a more sensible one.
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* MistakenForFakeHair: Ramon and Alonso tried pulling the beard of an old man they assumed to be Tintin just to find out quickly that the beard was real.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: The Macguffin is referred to as a "fetish". A work written in contemporary time would now have it as "idol" or something along those lines rather than referring to it as a "fetish". Especially in a comic book typically given to children. While "gay" is often understood to have also meant "happy" at some point, "fetish" is mostly understood as a sexual reference.
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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Trickler]] successfully manages to manipulate Alcazar into starting a war in order to seize control of the Gran Chapo fields and gain a monopoly over his rival company. However, not only does he fail to gain a monopoly on the fields (a treaty was signed dividing the fields equally between San Theodoros and the other side, who his rivals are backing) but it's later established that [[AllForNothing there was never any oil in the fields to begin with]], making his portion utterly useless to him.
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----> ''(The brown idol? Aye, aye! [It's] like I told you. The tribe give the brown idol to Walker. He was a nice guy. But his fellas took our precious jewel. And if Arumbayas catch him, I'll have his guts for garters. No messing!)''
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----> ''(The brown idol? Aye, aye! [It's] like I told you. The tribe give the brown idol to Walker. He was a nice guy. But his fellas took our precious jewel. And if the Arumbayas catch him, I'll have his guts for garters. No messing!)''
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: In the english version of the book, the dialog amongst the Indian tribesmen initially appears to be nonsensical foreign words. But if you read it all out loud, their actually speaking what sounds a lot like cockney english! Not only that, but their dialog is pretty much true to the subsequent translations that Tintin receives from Ridgewell.
->'''Ridgewell:''' Naluk. Djarem membah dabrah nai dul? Tintin zluk infu rit'h. Kanyah elpim?
----> ''(Now look, Do you remember the brown idol? Tintin's lookin' for it. Can you help him?)''
->'''Tribal Chief:''' Dabrah nai dul? Oi, oi! Slaika toljah. Datrai b'giv dabrah nai dul ta'Walker. Ewuz anaisgi. Buttiz'h felaz tukahr presh usdjuel. Enefda Arumbayas ket chimdai lavis gutsfa gahtah'z. Nomess in'h!
----> ''(The brown idol? Aye, aye! [It's] like I told you. The tribe give the brown idol to Walker. He was a nice guy. But his fellas took our precious jewel. And if Arumbayas catch him, I'll have his guts for garters. No messing!)''
->'''Ridgewell:''' Naluk. Djarem membah dabrah nai dul? Tintin zluk infu rit'h. Kanyah elpim?
----> ''(Now look, Do you remember the brown idol? Tintin's lookin' for it. Can you help him?)''
->'''Tribal Chief:''' Dabrah nai dul? Oi, oi! Slaika toljah. Datrai b'giv dabrah nai dul ta'Walker. Ewuz anaisgi. Buttiz'h felaz tukahr presh usdjuel. Enefda Arumbayas ket chimdai lavis gutsfa gahtah'z. Nomess in'h!
----> ''(The brown idol? Aye, aye! [It's] like I told you. The tribe give the brown idol to Walker. He was a nice guy. But his fellas took our precious jewel. And if Arumbayas catch him, I'll have his guts for garters. No messing!)''
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* ThoseTwoBadguys: Alonzo and Ramon.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Even ignoring the revolution and the war, ''The Broken Ear'' probably has the highest 'onscreen' bodycount in the series; the sculptor Balthazar (killed by Tortilla), Tortilla (drowned by Alonzo and Ramon), Corporal Diaz (killed by his own bomb) and Alonzo and Ramon (drowned.) Additionally, while the story probably has more gags than [[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus the previous adventure]] the comedy tends towards the [[BlackComedy dark]] (see ShotAtDawn below).
** After Alonzo and Ramon die, '''it shows them in Hell!'''
** After Alonzo and Ramon die, '''it shows them in Hell!'''
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Even ignoring the revolution and the war, ''The Broken Ear'' probably has the highest 'onscreen' bodycount in the series; the sculptor Balthazar (killed by Tortilla), Tortilla (drowned by Alonzo and Ramon), Corporal Diaz (killed by his own bomb) and Alonzo and Ramon (drowned.) (drowned - and '''shown in Hell''' afterward). Additionally, while the story probably has more gags than [[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus the previous adventure]] the comedy tends towards the [[BlackComedy dark]] (see ShotAtDawn below).
** After Alonzo and Ramon die, '''it shows them in Hell!'''below).
** After Alonzo and Ramon die, '''it shows them in Hell!'''
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* LastMinuteReprieve: The revolution saves Tintin from being executed by a squad.
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* LastMinuteReprieve: The Hilariously played with - Tintin is framed as a revolutionary and sentenced to death by firing squad, only to be saved when an officer [[JustInTime rushes in with news that General Tapioca has been overthrown and Tintin can thus go free]]. As he is being untied ''another officer'' rushes in with news that Tapioca has defeated the revolution saves so Tintin from being executed by will have to face the firing squad after all. Fortunately their rifles have been sabotaged, leading Tintin and the commander of the firing squad to share a squad.friendly drink while they wait for the rifles to be fixed. By the time the rifles have finally been fixed the two men have had quite a few more drinks and are bombed out of their skulls, and the revolutionaries really ''have'' won.
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* ShotAtDawn: Hilariously played with - Tintin is framed as a revolutionary and sentenced to death by firing squad, only to be saved when an officer [[JustInTime rushes in with news that General Tapioca has been overthrown and Tintin can thus go free]]. As he is being untied ''another officer'' rushes in with news that Tapioca has defeated the revolution so Tintin will have to face the firing squad after all. Fortunately their rifles have been sabotaged, leading Tintin and the commander of the firing squad to share a friendly drink while they wait for the rifles to be fixed. By the time the rifles have finally been fixed the two men have had quite a few more drinks and are bombed out of their skulls, and the revolutionaries really ''have'' won.
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* DraggedOffToHell: Alonzo and Ramon after being drowned are seen being dragged by off demons, presumably to hell. One of the few surreal events in the series. It may count as an EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
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* DraggedOffToHell: Alonzo and Ramon after being drowned are seen being dragged by off by demons, presumably to hell. One of the few surreal events in the series. It may count as an EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
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* TrainEscape: Tintin's car just barely makes it past a train, which delays his pursuers. Unfortunately, their car catches up with his in the mountains.
