History Recap / TintinFlight714

* EastIndies: Where the action takes place, complete with volcanoes, a jungle island, and a Komodo dragon.

* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: Haddock dumps Carreidas' "chlorophyl fortified" soft drink in a plant pot. [[ThatPoorPlant The plant dies instantly]].

* AncientAstronauts: The aliens that visit the island and that Mik is in contact with.

* DieHardOnAnX: ''Die Hard'' in a tropical island, with a lot more humiliation for the Hans Kruger stand-in and a ''[[GoingCosmic very weird]]'' third act. Rastapopoulous even does a move worthy of the Kruger brothers by allying himself with terrorists to gather the funding and manpower for what is essentially a very complicated heist and then planing to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness stab them all in the back]] and run away with the loot.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: While Rastapopolos escaped at the end of "The Red Sea Sharks", here it's revealed that Tintin and Haddock's ruining his slave trade operation has nearly bankrupted him.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: The truth serum is a subversion. It's a good idea on paper, but Krollspell's formula is completely worthless. It made the subject talk about everything ''but'' the answer to the question he was being explicitly asked...
** Though it could still be very useful, it's just Carreidas had so many things to be truthful about due to his life of crime.

* MindControl: Mik Ezdanitoff is able to do this.

** Mik Ezdanitoff. His last name references the phrase ''Is dat niet tof?'' ("Isn't that swell?") in Dutch. Hergé would often use words and expressions from the Marol dialect, Flemish spoken in Brussels.

* BerserkButton:
** Don't hit Calculus' hat off, for he will give you a thrashing that you won't forget!
** Captain Haddock is about to tell Calculus to stop acting the goat, but [[Recap/TintinDestinationMoon wisely changes his words]] on seeing his DeathGlare.

* AbsenteeActor: Detectives Thomson and Thompson are completely absent from the story.

* AnalogyBackfire: Rastapopulos tells Tintin he will crush him like he crushes a spider. However, he proves unable to stamp on the spider.

* BrokeEpisode: ''Flight 714'' is one for Rastapopolous. Tintin and Haddock nearly wiped out his fortune in ''The Red Sea Sharks'', and he's reduced to a glorified armed robber.

* KarmaHoudini: Subverted by Rastapopolous. While he escaped at the end of "The Red Sea Sharks", it's revealed that Tintin and Haddock's ruining his slave trade operation has nearly bankrupted him.

Fortunately, even though Krollspell's TruthSerum works, Carreidas [[MistakenConfession starts rattling off every misdeed he did in his life]] instead of answering Rastapopoulos' questions about Carreidas' bank account. Fed up with Carreidas' stories, Rastapopoulos angrily tries to hit Krollspell. However, Rastapopulos accidentally jabs himself with the needle, causing both him and Carreidas to bicker about each other's misdeeds to prove who's the most evil person. In the end, Rastapopoulos, Krollspell and the uncooperative Carreidas are BoundAndGagged by Tintin and Haddock. However, they are intercepted by Allan, after which Rastapopoulos escapes and orders Allan and his {{Mook}}s to find them. Knowing that Rastapopoulos plans to double cross him thanks to the TruthSerum, Krollspell decides to help Tintin's group and is freed after he tries to warn the group of Carriedas (who tries to run away) and Rastapopoulos' escape.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Potentially, anyway; the truth serum is potentially useful, if Krollspell could work out the kink that made the subject talk about everything ''but'' the answer to the question he was being explicitly asked...

* GoneHorriblyRight: Krosspell's TruthSerum is an incredibly potent concoction that will make people tell the whole truth uncontrollably. Unfortunately for Rastapopulos (in more ways than one), this includes rambling on and ''on'' about childhood secrets and anything else the uninhibited person deems worth talking about.

** Carreidas keeps complaining about his hat and risking everybody's lives over it. Tintin is unable to make him come along while he is under the influence of truth serum, to the point he has to be BoundAndGagged so he can be taken along.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: While Spalding's primary motivation was greed, it's strongly implied Rastapopoulos was able to get him to betray Carreidas because he was fed up with the man treating him like dirt.

* PokeThePoodle: Allan kicking round Carreidas' hat and jamming it over Haddock's eyes.

* SecretUndergroundPassage: Which is given away when Carreidas' hat gets stuck under the door.

* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: The aliens mind-wipe everybody, hero (and implied villain) alike and release them. As far as the people on Carreidas' flight will forever know, the plane went down in the ocean because of a mechanical malfunction and they survived miraculously.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Under the truth serum, Rastapopoulos boasts that he plans to kill off all his minions (with the exception of Allan), [[ImStandingRightHere including Dr Krollspell]], who is understandably alarmed and willing to help Tintin after that point.

* ButtMonkey: Rastapopoulos becomes one as part of his VillainDecay, ending up as the butt of the joke regularly throughout the albumg and enduring a good load of AmusingInjuries.

While making a stop in Jakarta on their way to a scientific conference in Sydney, Tintin, Haddock and Calculus happen to run into the former two's friend Piotr Skut, the Estonian pilot from "[[Recap/TintinTheRedSeaSharks The Red Sea Sharks]]". He is currently the personal pilot of eccentric aircraft tycoon Lazlo Carreidas, "the millionaire who never laughs", whom he introduces to the rest. After Calculus inadvertently makes Carreidas laugh, twice, the latter decides to give them a lift to Sydney on his private jet. Due to that Spalding, Carreidas' assistant, decides to make a quick call to his accomplice to cancel their secret plan. However his accomplice refuses even the fact that he seems to recognize Tintin from afar.

* TropicalIslandAdventure: This story takes place on a tropical island called Sondonesia.

* VillainDecay: Infamously done to Rastapopoulos who spends the entire book wearing a pink shirt and cowboy boots (or rather boot, as one gets knocked off part way through the story), is introduced wearing a stetson hat, and is on the receiving end of slapstick comedy. Hergé claims the latter naturally followed the former: he just couldn't take him seriously after putting him in ''that'' outfit. Aside from that, Rastapopolous is reduced from having a large trafficking syndicate and a rich fortune, to being nearly broke and having only a few thugs working for him.

* ButtMonkey: Rastapopoulos becomes one as part of his VaillainDecay, ending up as the butt of the joke regularly throughout the albumg and enduring a good load of AmusingInjuries.