!!Individual Volumes
* ''Trivia/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets''
* ''Trivia/TintinTintinInTheCongo''
* ''Trivia/TintinTheBlackIsland''
* ''Trivia/TintinKingOttokarsSceptre''
* ''Trivia/TintinTheShootingStar''
* ''Trivia/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls''
* ''Trivia/TintinPrisonersOfTheSun''
* ''Trivia/TintinLandOfBlackGold''
* ''Trivia/TintinDestinationMoon''
* ''Trivia/TintinExplorersOnTheMoon''
* ''Trivia/TintinTheRedSeaSharks''
* ''Trivia/TintinTintinInTibet''
* ''Trivia/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald''
* ''Trivia/TintinFlight714''
* ''Trivia/TintinTintinAndThePicaros''
* ''Trivia/TintinTintinAndAlphArt''

!!Listed Trivia:
* ActingForTwo: Thomson and Thompson are played by the same actor (Charles Kay) in the [=BBC=] radio adaptations.
* AdaptationFirst: Portugal was the first country to do the following:
** Having ''Tintin'' translated into a language other than French;
** Having ''Tintin'' published in color (from the get-go). Hergé reportedly [[ApprovalOfGod liked it]];
** In ''Tintin in the Congo'' (which was published as ''Tintin in Angola''), replacing Tintin's school lesson about Belgium with a math lesson where he writes "1+1=2" (also from the get-go).
* AscendedFanon: The version of ''Tintin and Alph-Art'' by fan artist Yves Rodier almost became this, as Herge's former assistant Bob de Moor attempted to have it released as an official entry in the series. However, de Moor himself died before this could be done, and nothing came of it.
* AuthorPhobia: Author Creator/{{Herge}} was forced to listen to his aunt singing opera arias when he was a child. It led to a strong dislike of opera music, exemplified in the character Bianca Castafiore, whose singing usually scares away Tintin and Haddock or makes glass break.
* BannedInChina:
** Surprisingly averted with ''Tintin in Tibet'', likely because it's politically neutral. Played straight in a number of markets when publishing ''[[OldShame Tintin in the Congo]]'', however...
** ''Red Sea Sharks'' is specifically banned from importation in Egypt, and only Egypt, for political correctness issues. Both its comic and animated versions, along with those of those for ''L'Or Noir'' and ''Tintin in Congo'' were skipped as well from the Arabic dubs, although they are still available in markets in their original versions.
** There were a number of historical examples too. ''The Black Island'' and ''Tintin in America'' were banned by the German occupiers of Belgium during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII due to the perception that they were sympathetic to Britain and America, respectively. Of course, the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi censors]] were not too thorough in analyzing which books to ban, as they did not ban ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'', which involves the hero undermining a fascist coup.
* CashCowFranchise: Despite not having any new adventure since Hergé's passing, the series consistently remains among the best-selling FrancoBelgianComics. Collectible figures are still a hot commodity, and for the past 20 years or so the GEO magazine isn't done selling magazines and anthology books with RealLife / comic book page comparisons to highlight all the quasi-ethnological and geographical research (or lack thereof sometimes) Hergé did.
* CreatorBacklash:
** ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' and ''Tintin in the Congo''. ''Soviets'' was pretty much ripped completely from a book about Russia at the time. Hergé regretted a ''lot'' about ''Tintin in the Congo'', such as the animal cruelty and the artstyle. He allegedly tried to get them removed from print, but at least got to assess some of his own personal issues with ''Congo''.
** One aspect of ''Shooting Star'' Herge was allegedly not very fond of was the portrayal of the antagonists as Jewish-Americans (Belgium was under Nazi occupation at the time).
* CreatorBreakdown: Hergé had one over ''Tintin in Tibet'', though it ended up being one of his best stories anyway. See the Heartwarming page.
* CrossDressingVoices: Most dubs of the animated series have Bianca Castafiore voiced by a man.
* DeletedScene: [[http://www.tintinmilou.free.fr/vignettes/uk.htm A number of panels or even pages]] were removed from later printings, sometimes because of a change in format, the author deciding they weren't needed, or political context (such as a conflict pitting Jews against Arabs in a British protectorate).
* DiedDuringProduction: Hergé died partway through his work on ''Tintin and Alph-Art''; the unfinished draft has been published as part of the regular series of Tintin albums.
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** The earliest adventures, which appear out of place when one knows the entire series, were the product of Hergé just doing what he was told by his boss at ''Le Petit Vingtième'', the Abbé Norbert Wallez, who was quite intent on using the comic strip as propaganda. After the first adventure, Hergé wanted to send Tintin to America immediately because he really wanted to write about Indians. Abbé Wallez however insisted he first write a story that would encourage readers to emigrate to the Belgian Congo. Wallez also liked to meddle in the private lives of his employees, [[ArrangedMarriage setting up Hergé with his secretary]] and officiating at their wedding!
** ''The Black Island'' was completely redrawn and ''In the Land of Black Gold'' redrawn and rewritten on the insistence of Tintin's British publishers Methuen.
* FollowTheLeader:
** Virtually every European comic strip owes something to ''Tintin''. If they are not directly inspired by it, they at least read it in their youth. The ''Tintin'' magazine was full of comic strips directly inspired by Hergé's drawing style (the so called ''Ligne Claire'' (clear line) style, characterized by all the inking lines having the same width, no hatching to suggest shadows, and an almost anal-retentive level of emphasis on ShownTheirWork and detailed backgrounds).
** ''Tintin'' has long been an inspiration for filmmakers. French director Philippe de Broca was so frustrated to not be able to get the rights that he basically made a ''Tintin'' knockoff film, ''Film/ThatManFromRio'', and longtime fan Creator/StevenSpielberg (long before [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011 he got the rights]]) proceeded similarly with ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' (although with other sources of inspiration in the mix).
* FranchiseZombie: Author Hergé eventually got quite tired of writing Tintin's adventures. It was likely this reason (besides his passing as mentioned earlier) why Hergé requested that all his series be discontinued after his passing.
* MissingEpisode:
** Herge co-wrote two Tintin plays: ''The Mystery of the Blue Diamond'' (1941) and ''The Disappearance of Mr. Boullock''. Sadly the scripts to both have since been lost.
** The BBC Radio Special ''The Castafiore Emerald'' is partially this and KeepCirculatingTheTapes, since it has not yet received a commercial release nor a repeat broadcast as of 2024. A partial home recording does exist (and is on the Internet Archive), yet it's missing the first few minutes of the broadcast.
* TheOtherDarrin: In the BBC Radio Productions, Haddock is voiced by Leo [=McKern=] (yes, [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 THAT Leo McKern]]) in the first 6 episodes and by Lionel Jeffries for the remaining 6. Nestor changes to a new actor in the second half as well, and Castafiore changes actresses ''every'' time she appears.
* PostscriptSeason: Hergé apparently considered ''Tintin in Tibet'' to be the true finale of the series, with the following three books mostly being vehicles to experiment with his characters (being, respectively, [[Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald a story in which absolutely nothing happens set entirely in Marlinspike Hall]], [[Recap/TintinFlight714 a story with paranormal influences that ends with an explicitly science-fiction ending]] and [[Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros a story in which Tintin tires of adventure and initially refuses to accompany his friends into danger]]). ''Tintin and Alph-Art'' may have gotten things back on track somewhat, judging by the preliminary work Hergé did.
* RealitySubtext: The political situations in various parts of the world often loom heavily over the fictional storylines. This is especially prevalent in the books written just prior to the UsefulNotes/SecondWorldWar and the Nazi occupation.
* ScienceImitatesArt: Asteroid 1683 Castafiore is named for diva Bianca Castafiore.
* ScienceMarchesOn: ''Destination Moon'' and ''Explorers on the Moon'', written a decade before the Apollo moon landings, shows this. For instance, water ice is shown to exist on the surface of the moon, which is also very craggy as opposed to being flat like real life.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Hergé was working on the early stages of a GrandFinale for the Tintin series, "Tintin and Alph-Art," when he unexpectedly died.
** ''Flight 714'' was apparently just going to be a SliceOfLife story that takes place inside an airport lobby.
** Hergé considered sending Tintin to some place like the Yukon or Greenland once. Nothing came of this.
** In 1948, Hergé [[https://www.facebook.com/Tintin/photos/herg%C3%A9-and-walt-disneyin-1948-herg%C3%A9-was-dreaming-about-introducing-the-tintin-ser/10150440311261500/ wrote]] to Creator/WaltDisney hoping to pitch his series into a potential animated feature in an effort to introduce Tintin to American audiences. The proposal fell through as Disney was busy working on ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' around that time, though Hergé did receive a Mickey Mouse trophy and a picture showing Tintin and Mickey shaking hands decades later.
* WordOfGod: Hergé told in an interview that Tintin and Haddock's DreadfulMusician opinion of Bianca Castafiore's singing is supposed to be their own opinion and she's actually a good singer (since she ''is'' a world famous opera singer).
* WriteWhoYouKnow:
** For ''The Blue Lotus'' Hergé created a young Chinese boy Chang Chong-Chen ([[UsefulNotes/WhyMaoChangedHisName Zhang Zhongren in modern pinyin]]) inspired by his real-life friend Chang Chong-jen (Zhang Chongren) who he consulted on Chinese language and culture for the story. Chang also appears in ''Tintin in Tibet''.
** The Thomsons were based on Hergé's father and uncle, who were identical twins and also endeavored to dress identically -- right down to the bowler hats and walking sticks.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The first couple of stories were written like this, [[RandomEventsPlot and boy does it show.]]
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