History Trivia / Tintin

** 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 Archive), yet it's missing the first few minutes of the broadcast.

* FranchiseZombie: Author Hergé eventually got quite tired of writing Tintin's adventures.
* 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.
* 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.

* 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).

* TheWikiRule: There's the French [[https://tintin.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Wiki_Tintin Wiki Tintin]].

* AuthorPhobia: Author Hergé 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.

* OldShame:
** ''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).

* TalkingToHimself: Thomson and Thompson are played by the same actor (Charles Kay) in the [=BBC=] radio adaptations.

** Given how Hergé [[ShownTheirWork showed his work]] in all albums beginning by Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus, one could wonder how ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]'' and ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' would be drawn with a little more research.

* NamesTheSame: It's written differently but Tintin shares his name with Tin-Tin, an ActionGirl from ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''.

** There were a number of historical examples too. ''The Black Island'' and ''Tintin in America'' were banned by the German occupieers 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.

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** UndyingLoyalty

* FranchiseZombie: author Hergé eventually got quite tired of writing Tintin's adventures.

** One aspect of ''Shooting Star'' Herge was allegedly not very fond of was the portrayal of the antagonists as Jewish-Americans.

* 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''.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: 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.

* 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.

** Replacing Tintin's school lesson about Belgium with a math lesson where he writes "1+1=2" (also from the get-go).