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** It may not be that he hates parrots, he just wasn't happy that Bianca randomly offered him a pet without asking him first.
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* In the earlier albums featuring Alcazar, he is in a perpetual struggle for power with Tapioca, "both men claiming leadership of the country with comedic frequency" (from Wiki/TheOtherWiki). But in ''Picaros'', it is clearly stated as a San Theodoros tradition that, upon a coup, the defeated leader be executed. How come neither of them is dead?

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* In the earlier albums featuring Alcazar, he is in a perpetual struggle for power with Tapioca, "both men claiming leadership of the country with comedic frequency" (from Wiki/TheOtherWiki).Website/TheOtherWiki). But in ''Picaros'', it is clearly stated as a San Theodoros tradition that, upon a coup, the defeated leader be executed. How come neither of them is dead?
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*** It could also be that he "appreciates" his deafness as it lets him focus more on his work without interruption.


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** Alternatively, maybe their presence on the trip wasn't officially disclosed? Keep in mind that they ended up on the rocket by accident because they got the launch time wrong, it may be that certain details of the expedition (including Jorgen's presence and Wolffe's betrayal and final suicide) weren't disclosed to the general public to save face.
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** In addition, those organisms were all very small, even compared to Snowy, so they would have absorbed a great deal more radiation for their body size. It's possible that Snowy would have started growing if he'd stayed longer on the phostlite, followed by Tintin, as their bodies kept accumulating the substance's strange radiation.
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** Maybe Alcazar didn't pay for the aircraft up front; perhaps he got the aircraft for free in exchange for future payments, or an exclusive contract to use that dealer for future orders of military hardware?
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** It's probably a tradition that's only carried out when leaders are ''caught''; chances are, Alcazar and Tapioca know when the tide's turning and flee before this tradition can be observed.
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*** The same way SherlockHolmes survived the fall in "The Final Problem".

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*** The same way SherlockHolmes Literature/SherlockHolmes survived the fall in "The Final Problem".
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** Most likely he was just MuggedForDisguise and left by the pipe. As the authorities don't mention arresting anyone maybe he just came to a moment later and ran away before they arrived.



*** If i can remember correctly, Tintin didn't find it completely by accident. He fell into the basement and looked around, finding a sculpture with a eagle on its shoulder, with a stone globe under it, pressing the button where the island is opened the globe, showing the treasure inside it. Showing how the messages in the models were pointing to the Marlinspike Hall all along.

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*** If i I can remember correctly, Tintin didn't find it completely by accident. He fell into the basement and looked around, finding a sculpture with a eagle on its shoulder, with a stone globe under it, pressing the button where the island is opened the globe, showing the treasure inside it. Showing how the messages in the models were pointing to the Marlinspike Hall all along.




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** They do also point out the third time the evidence all points to Tintin being responsible for a mugging which Tintin even agrees with. And him resisting arrest means more reason to go after him.



** Perhaps they were invited as well, but either they couldn't attend or were already on Sydney by the time the story takes place. Maybe they just had catched an early flight which Tintin, Haddock and the others weren't able to catch.

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** Perhaps they were invited as well, but either they couldn't attend or were already on Sydney by the time the story takes place. Maybe they just had catched caught an early flight which Tintin, Haddock and the others weren't able to catch.
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* Whatever happened to Ahmed? I might have missed something, but I think Tintin got to him and the latter managed to impersonate him to get close to Muller. So he's just left in the desert?
** I've always wondered this. I assumed Tintin left him BoundAndGagged to be killed by the fire from the pipeline, but that seems unlikely.


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* Whatever happened to Ahmed? I might have missed something, but I think Tintin got to him and the latter managed to impersonate him to get close to Muller. So he's just left in the desert?
** I've always wondered this. I assumed Tintin left him BoundAndGagged to be killed by the fire from the pipeline, but that seems unlikely.

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** The same reason the Marlinspike phone is still connected to the wrong number of Cutts the Butcher: Rule of Funny.

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** The same reason the Marlinspike phone is still connected to the wrong number of Cutts the Butcher: Rule of Funny.RuleOfFunny.

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** Speaking of this episode, ''what the hell was the point''? Seriously, throughout the whole episode we are given numerous possible thieves, and in the end it turns out it was a bird.
*** This was deliberate: Hérge wanted to see if he could maintain suspense throughout sixty-two pages in which not much happens.
** We have a trope for this: RuleOfFunny.

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** Speaking of this episode, ''what The same reason the hell was Marlinspike phone is still connected to the point''? Seriously, throughout wrong number of Cutts the whole episode we are given numerous possible thieves, and in the end it turns out it was a bird.
*** This was deliberate: Hérge wanted to see if he could maintain suspense throughout sixty-two pages in which not much happens.
** We have a trope for this: RuleOfFunny.
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** ''What the hell was the point''? Seriously, throughout the whole episode we are given numerous possible thieves, and in the end it turns out it was a bird.
*** This was deliberate: Hérge wanted to see if he could maintain suspense throughout sixty-two pages in which not much happens.
** We have a trope for this: RuleOfFunny.
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** He's MadeOfIron like Tintin who suvived several gunshots including some on the ''head''.
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