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Oliveira de Figueira is from Lisbon, Portugal, and when he appears in the ''Tintin'' stories it's at the same time that Portugal was under Salazar's rule. He's living in the Middle East either because he's on the run due to there being a warrant out for him, or he simply doesn't enjoy life under Salazar so he chose to relocate. He helps out Tintin against Müller and Bab El Ehr because he doesn't want what happened in Portugal to happen again in the Middle East.
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Oliveira de Figueira is from Lisbon, Portugal, and when he appears in the ''Tintin'' stories it's at the same time that Portugal was under Salazar's rule. He's living in the Middle East either because he's on the run due to there him being a warrant out for him, an opponent of the regime, or he simply doesn't enjoy life under Salazar so he chose to relocate. He helps out Tintin against Müller and Bab El Ehr because he doesn't want what happened in Portugal to happen again in the Middle East.
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[[WMG: The Incas from ''The Seven Crystal Balls''/''Prisoners of the Sun'' had in a Dark Age ever since the conquistadores.]]
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[[WMG: The Incas from ''The Seven Crystal Balls''/''Prisoners of the Sun'' had been in a Dark Age ever since the conquistadores.]]
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* I see your theory and raise you: Haddock is a descendant of [[Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III]].
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[[WMG: Akass in "Alph-Art is a fake identity given to Ratopopolous by Kanrokitoff]].
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[[WMG: Akass in "Alph-Art is a fake identity given to Ratopopolous Rastopopolous by Kanrokitoff]].
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[[WMG: Herge had originally intended Sakharine to be Red Rackham's true descendent.]]
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[[WMG: Herge had originally intended Sakharine to be Red Rackham's true descendent.descendant.]]
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Borduria is first introduced via agents of [[PortmanteauName Musstler]], a clear stand-in for Hitler and Mussolini, who is never mentioned again in comics set after WWII, being replaced by Kûrvi-Tasch - a military dictator who engages in a cold war with Syldavia and feeds his ego with heroic statues and his very own political ideology named after himself, and in such respects is a broad analogue for Stalin.
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Borduria is first introduced via agents of [[PortmanteauName Musstler]], Musstler, a clear stand-in for Hitler and Mussolini, who is never mentioned again in comics set after WWII, being replaced by Kûrvi-Tasch - a military dictator who engages in a cold war with Syldavia and feeds his ego with heroic statues and his very own political ideology named after himself, and in such respects is a broad analogue for Stalin.
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Oliveira de Figueira is from Lisbon, Portugal, and when he appears in the ''Tintin'' stories it's at the same time that Portugal was under Salazar's rule. He's living in the Middle East either because he's on the run due to there being a warrant out for him, or he simply doesn't enjoy life under Salazar so he chose to relocate. He helps out Tintin against Müller and Ben Kalish Ezab because he doesn't want what happened in Portugal to happen again in the Middle East.
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Oliveira de Figueira is from Lisbon, Portugal, and when he appears in the ''Tintin'' stories it's at the same time that Portugal was under Salazar's rule. He's living in the Middle East either because he's on the run due to there being a warrant out for him, or he simply doesn't enjoy life under Salazar so he chose to relocate. He helps out Tintin against Müller and Ben Kalish Ezab Bab El Ehr because he doesn't want what happened in Portugal to happen again in the Middle East.
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While the events of ''The Calculus Affair'' are set during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and Borduria uses quite a few CommieLand tropes it also still has a lot Nazi/Fascist elements - in fact the political ideology of the ruling regime is called 'Taschism', after the dictator Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch.
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While the events of ''The Calculus Affair'' are set during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and Borduria uses quite a few CommieLand tropes it also still has a lot Nazi/Fascist elements - in fact the political ideology of the ruling regime is called 'Taschism', after the dictator Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch.
Kûrvi-Tasch.
[[WMG: Borduria (and Syldavia) experienced offscreen revolutions during the WWII period]]
Borduria is first introduced via agents of [[PortmanteauName Musstler]], a clear stand-in for Hitler and Mussolini, who is never mentioned again in comics set after WWII, being replaced by Kûrvi-Tasch - a military dictator who engages in a cold war with Syldavia and feeds his ego with heroic statues and his very own political ideology named after himself, and in such respects is a broad analogue for Stalin.
Much like how Syldavia seems to have lost its monarchy in an offscreen conquest by Axis forces and then been liberated as a NATO-friendly conservative republic, Borduria must have been a German ally during WWII which was conquered by the Red Army on their way to Berlin (perhaps during the Budapest Offensive). Kûrvi-Tasch would plausibly have been a Bordurian nationalist and Cominform leader who came to power overthrowing the Axis government, took control of a pro-Stalin authoritarian military state, and joined the Warsaw Pact. (As for why Borduria doesn't seem to have changed all that much... as the name "Taschism" suggests, it's just gone from one national populist dictator to another, with similar consequences as Alcazar and Tapioca deposing each other's juntas in San Theodoros.)
[[WMG: Borduria (and Syldavia) experienced offscreen revolutions during the WWII period]]
Borduria is first introduced via agents of [[PortmanteauName Musstler]], a clear stand-in for Hitler and Mussolini, who is never mentioned again in comics set after WWII, being replaced by Kûrvi-Tasch - a military dictator who engages in a cold war with Syldavia and feeds his ego with heroic statues and his very own political ideology named after himself, and in such respects is a broad analogue for Stalin.
Much like how Syldavia seems to have lost its monarchy in an offscreen conquest by Axis forces and then been liberated as a NATO-friendly conservative republic, Borduria must have been a German ally during WWII which was conquered by the Red Army on their way to Berlin (perhaps during the Budapest Offensive). Kûrvi-Tasch would plausibly have been a Bordurian nationalist and Cominform leader who came to power overthrowing the Axis government, took control of a pro-Stalin authoritarian military state, and joined the Warsaw Pact. (As for why Borduria doesn't seem to have changed all that much... as the name "Taschism" suggests, it's just gone from one national populist dictator to another, with similar consequences as Alcazar and Tapioca deposing each other's juntas in San Theodoros.)
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Badass Mustache and Badass Beard are being merged into Manly Facial Hair. Examples that don't fit or are zero-context are removed. To qualify for Manly Facial Hair, the facial hair must be associated with masculinity in some way. Please read the trope description before readding to make sure the example qualifies.
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They're not perfect duplicates of each other, but comic![[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111104023733/tintin/images/d/d0/Ivan_Ivanovitch_Sakharine.png Sakharine]] bears a great resemblance to [[http://videocitylondon.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/87266229a-rackham-rouge-jpg.jpg Red Rackham]]. They have similar noses, foreheads, and [[BadassBeard beards]]. Perhaps, in an original draft of the script, Herge had intended to play up this resemblance: either Sakharine was supposed to be the real villain, or a red herring to distract from the actual villain, or it was just going to be a joke about how the infamous pirate's descendent is a harmless collector.
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They're not perfect duplicates of each other, but comic![[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111104023733/tintin/images/d/d0/Ivan_Ivanovitch_Sakharine.png Sakharine]] bears a great resemblance to [[http://videocitylondon.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/87266229a-rackham-rouge-jpg.jpg Red Rackham]]. They have similar noses, foreheads, and [[BadassBeard beards]].beards. Perhaps, in an original draft of the script, Herge had intended to play up this resemblance: either Sakharine was supposed to be the real villain, or a red herring to distract from the actual villain, or it was just going to be a joke about how the infamous pirate's descendent is a harmless collector.
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* That is ''if'' there are new stories. The last Tintin comic isn't recent at all. It stopped because the author died.
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* That is ''if'' there are new stories. The last Tintin comic isn't recent at all.all (1976). It stopped because the author died.
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* Semi-jossed by WordOfDante: most "tintinologist" assume that in a LitteraryAgentHypothesis, the stories happened shortly before being published in the real world. This is a kind of convention. So the stories published during WWII were actually what happened DURING WWII. As for why it's not addressed… "Please don't ask me why, no one quite know the answer", as another children book author would put it.
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* Semi-jossed by WordOfDante: most "tintinologist" assume that in a LitteraryAgentHypothesis, LiteraryAgentHypothesis, the stories happened shortly before being published in the real world. This is a kind of convention. So the stories published during WWII were actually what happened DURING WWII. As for why it's not addressed… addressed... "Please don't ask me why, no one quite know knows the answer", as another children book author would put it.
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* That is ''if'' there is new stories. The last Tintin comic isn't recent at all. It stopped because the author died.
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* That is ''if'' there is are new stories. The last Tintin comic isn't recent at all. It stopped because the author died.died.
[[WMG: Oliveira de Figueira has fled Portugal's Estado Novo]]
Oliveira de Figueira is from Lisbon, Portugal, and when he appears in the ''Tintin'' stories it's at the same time that Portugal was under Salazar's rule. He's living in the Middle East either because he's on the run due to there being a warrant out for him, or he simply doesn't enjoy life under Salazar so he chose to relocate. He helps out Tintin against Müller and Ben Kalish Ezab because he doesn't want what happened in Portugal to happen again in the Middle East.
[[WMG: Oliveira de Figueira has fled Portugal's Estado Novo]]
Oliveira de Figueira is from Lisbon, Portugal, and when he appears in the ''Tintin'' stories it's at the same time that Portugal was under Salazar's rule. He's living in the Middle East either because he's on the run due to there being a warrant out for him, or he simply doesn't enjoy life under Salazar so he chose to relocate. He helps out Tintin against Müller and Ben Kalish Ezab because he doesn't want what happened in Portugal to happen again in the Middle East.
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Times change, and what was once socially acceptable can't be anymore, or the previously unthought can be accepted. Seeing how Alph-Art featured the first prominent supporting female character (not counting Castafiore), it's safe to believe that in future Tintin stories, more female characters would feature more prominently (perhaps one could even be added to the main group of characters?). And maybe supporting non-white characters that previously appeared in the series would have bigger roles, like Chang or Abdullah.
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Times change, and what was once socially acceptable can't be anymore, or the previously unthought can be accepted. Seeing how Alph-Art featured the first prominent supporting female character (not counting Castafiore), it's safe to believe that in future Tintin stories, more female characters would feature more prominently (perhaps one could even be added to the main group of characters?). And maybe supporting non-white characters that previously appeared in the series would have bigger roles, like Chang or Abdullah.Abdullah.
* That is ''if'' there is new stories. The last Tintin comic isn't recent at all. It stopped because the author died.
* That is ''if'' there is new stories. The last Tintin comic isn't recent at all. It stopped because the author died.
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I know DeathOfTheAuthor is popular to throw around, but considering how the Tintin stories go, in which the majority were inspired by real life events of the time period, I think it's safe to assume Tintin and his friends lived off more adventures in the following years, some imaginary, some slightly based on real world issues: seeing Japan turn into a first world economy and Peru submit to communism terrorism in the 80s, helping the Emir in the matter of the Gulf War...And based on setting itself on current events.
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I know DeathOfTheAuthor is popular to throw around, but considering how the Tintin stories go, in which the majority were inspired by real life events of the time period, I think it's safe to assume Tintin and his friends lived off more adventures in the following years, some imaginary, some slightly based on real world issues: seeing Japan turn into a first world economy and Peru submit to communism terrorism in the 80s, helping the Emir in the matter of the Gulf War...And based on setting speaking of of "basing itself on current events.
events"...
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The times change, and what was once socially acceptable can't be anymore, or the unthought can be accepted. Seeing how Alph-Art featured the first prominent supporting female character (not counting Castafiore), it's safe to believe that in future Tintin stories, more female characters would feature more prominently (perhaps one could even be added to the group?). And maybe supporting non-white characters that previously appeared in the series would have bigger roles, like Chang or Abdullah.
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Hence the seeming FaceHeelTurn of the Syldavians in ''The Calculus Affair'' - the Syldavians have no particular reason to feel grateful to our heroes for the trip to the moon and the scandal might even have been bad enough to topple whatever government might have been working with Calculus to begin with.
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Hence the seeming FaceHeelTurn of the Syldavians in ''The Calculus Affair'' - the Syldavians have no particular reason to feel grateful to our heroes for the trip to the moon and the scandal might even have been bad enough to topple whatever government might have been working with Calculus to begin with.with.
[[WMG: Tintin lived many more adventures after the canonical ones, based on events of the real world.]]
I know DeathOfTheAuthor is popular to throw around, but considering how the Tintin stories go, in which the majority were inspired by real life events of the time period, I think it's safe to assume Tintin and his friends lived off more adventures in the following years, some imaginary, some slightly based on real world issues: seeing Japan turn into a first world economy and Peru submit to communism terrorism in the 80s, helping the Emir in the matter of the Gulf War...And based on setting itself on current events.
[[WMG: The new stories would reflect the social thoughts of the era.]]
The times change, and what was once socially acceptable can't be anymore, or the unthought can be accepted. Seeing how Alph-Art featured the first prominent supporting female character (not counting Castafiore), it's safe to believe that in future Tintin stories, more female characters would feature more prominently (perhaps one could even be added to the group?). And maybe supporting non-white characters that previously appeared in the series would have bigger roles, like Chang or Abdullah.
[[WMG: Tintin lived many more adventures after the canonical ones, based on events of the real world.]]
I know DeathOfTheAuthor is popular to throw around, but considering how the Tintin stories go, in which the majority were inspired by real life events of the time period, I think it's safe to assume Tintin and his friends lived off more adventures in the following years, some imaginary, some slightly based on real world issues: seeing Japan turn into a first world economy and Peru submit to communism terrorism in the 80s, helping the Emir in the matter of the Gulf War...And based on setting itself on current events.
[[WMG: The new stories would reflect the social thoughts of the era.]]
The times change, and what was once socially acceptable can't be anymore, or the unthought can be accepted. Seeing how Alph-Art featured the first prominent supporting female character (not counting Castafiore), it's safe to believe that in future Tintin stories, more female characters would feature more prominently (perhaps one could even be added to the group?). And maybe supporting non-white characters that previously appeared in the series would have bigger roles, like Chang or Abdullah.
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[[WMG: Tintin's real name is Martin Totor.]]
No complicated theory. Just that Tintin is short for Martin (and his pen-name as a journalist and the name he goes by) and he's the same character as the young boy scout from Hergé's early strip The Adventures of Totor. Sure, it looks a bit odd to compare Totor to the Tintin of "... in Tibet", but factoring in the ''severe'' EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in "Land of the Soviets" it's not so strange.
No complicated theory. Just that Tintin is short for Martin (and his pen-name as a journalist and the name he goes by) and he's the same character as the young boy scout from Hergé's early strip The Adventures of Totor. Sure, it looks a bit odd to compare Totor to the Tintin of "... in Tibet", but factoring in the ''severe'' EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in "Land of the Soviets" it's not so strange.
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* Considering what happened to the others abducted, even Krollspell just being dropped near Cairo where his clinic is, this looks quite likely.
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* Considering what happened to the others abducted, even Krollspell just being dropped near Cairo where his clinic is, this looks quite likely.likely.
[[WMG: The Syldavian Government bitterly regretted backing the lunar expedition in ''Destination Moon''/''Explorers on the Moon''.]]
While the lunar expedition seems like a great success from a scientific point of view, and from that of a personal point of view it was probably a PR disaster for the Syldavians. To begin with despite providing the highest possible security the project was infiltrated by agents of a foreign power, which hardly casts the ZEPO (Syldavia's intelligence agency) in the best light. Worse however is the fact that the ''only'' Syldavian on the expedition is a murderous traitor who sneaks aboard - Professor Calculus would seemingly sooner bring his friend's dog than a Syldavian despite their money and resources bankrolling the operation. Finally we know the cold war between Syldavia and Borduria turns particularly bad almost immediately afterwards in ''The Calculus Affair'' meaning that many in Syldavia might wonder if that uranium might have been better spent on weaponry than a costly moon rocket that doesn't even offer them any national prestige.
Hence the seeming FaceHeelTurn of the Syldavians in ''The Calculus Affair'' - the Syldavians have no particular reason to feel grateful to our heroes for the trip to the moon and the scandal might even have been bad enough to topple whatever government might have been working with Calculus to begin with.
[[WMG: The Syldavian Government bitterly regretted backing the lunar expedition in ''Destination Moon''/''Explorers on the Moon''.]]
While the lunar expedition seems like a great success from a scientific point of view, and from that of a personal point of view it was probably a PR disaster for the Syldavians. To begin with despite providing the highest possible security the project was infiltrated by agents of a foreign power, which hardly casts the ZEPO (Syldavia's intelligence agency) in the best light. Worse however is the fact that the ''only'' Syldavian on the expedition is a murderous traitor who sneaks aboard - Professor Calculus would seemingly sooner bring his friend's dog than a Syldavian despite their money and resources bankrolling the operation. Finally we know the cold war between Syldavia and Borduria turns particularly bad almost immediately afterwards in ''The Calculus Affair'' meaning that many in Syldavia might wonder if that uranium might have been better spent on weaponry than a costly moon rocket that doesn't even offer them any national prestige.
Hence the seeming FaceHeelTurn of the Syldavians in ''The Calculus Affair'' - the Syldavians have no particular reason to feel grateful to our heroes for the trip to the moon and the scandal might even have been bad enough to topple whatever government might have been working with Calculus to begin with.
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[[WMG: Tintin's father is IndianaJones.]]
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[[WMG: Tintin's father is IndianaJones.Franchise/IndianaJones.]]
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* Given the time period Tintin was first published, IndianaJones may have been too young to father him. His father, however...
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* Given the time period Tintin was first published, IndianaJones Franchise/IndianaJones may have been too young to father him. His father, however...
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*Semi-jossed by WordOfDante: most "tintinologist" assume that in a LitteraryAgentHypothesis, the stories happened shortly before being published in the real world. This is a kind of convention. So the stories published during WWII were actually what happened DURING WWII. As for why it's not addressed… "Please don't ask me why, no one quite know the answer", as another children book author would put it.
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While the events of ''The Calculus Affair'' are set during the ColdWar and Borduria uses quite a few CommieLand tropes it also still has a lot Nazi/Fascist elements - in fact the political ideology of the ruling regime is called 'Taschism', after the dictator Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch.
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While the events of ''The Calculus Affair'' are set during the ColdWar UsefulNotes/ColdWar and Borduria uses quite a few CommieLand tropes it also still has a lot Nazi/Fascist elements - in fact the political ideology of the ruling regime is called 'Taschism', after the dictator Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch.
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Only the memory altering went wrong and he's still evil.
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Only the memory altering went wrong and he's still evil.
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They're not perfect duplicates of each other, but comic![[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111104023733/tintin/images/d/d0/Ivan_Ivanovitch_Sakharine.png Sakharine]] bears a great resemblance to [[http://videocitylondon.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/87266229a-rackham-rouge-jpg.jpg Red Rackham]]. They have similar noses, foreheads, and [[BadassBeard beards]]. Perhaps, in an original draft of the script, Herge had intended to play up this resemblance: either Sakharine was supposed to be the real villain, or a red herring to distract from the actual villain, or it was just going to be a joke about how the infamous pirate's descendent is a harmless collector.
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They're not perfect duplicates of each other, but comic![[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111104023733/tintin/images/d/d0/Ivan_Ivanovitch_Sakharine.png Sakharine]] bears a great resemblance to [[http://videocitylondon.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/87266229a-rackham-rouge-jpg.jpg Red Rackham]]. They have similar noses, foreheads, and [[BadassBeard beards]]. Perhaps, in an original draft of the script, Herge had intended to play up this resemblance: either Sakharine was supposed to be the real villain, or a red herring to distract from the actual villain, or it was just going to be a joke about how the infamous pirate's descendent is a harmless collector.collector.
[[WMG: Rastapopoulos and the rest of his gang were only dropped off unharmed but with amnesia]]
* Considering what happened to the others abducted, even Krollspell just being dropped near Cairo where his clinic is, this looks quite likely.
[[WMG: Rastapopoulos and the rest of his gang were only dropped off unharmed but with amnesia]]
* Considering what happened to the others abducted, even Krollspell just being dropped near Cairo where his clinic is, this looks quite likely.
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[[WMG: Herge had originally intended Sakharine to be Red Rackham's ancestor.]]
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[[WMG: Herge had originally intended Sakharine to be Red Rackham's ancestor.true descendent.]]
