History Recap / TintinTheCrabWithTheGoldenClaws

* CounterfeitCash: Thomson and Thompson are investigating counterfeit coins that they found on the drowned sailor at the beginning of the book, but this doesn't really amount to anything.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Omar Ben Salaad.
* UnstoppableRage: Haddock gets truly pissed off when a band of Bedouin raiders firing at him shatter his bottle of whiskey. When Alan's men find Haddock and Tintin drunk and helpless (they were trapped in a wine cellar, and bullets had holed the wine vats) all it takes is another broken bottle to turn the tables.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Most of what Haddock does.

* LighterAndSofter: The animated adaptations in comparison to the original comic book story. In at least the Remastered version of the 1990s animated series, Allan's crimes are changed from smuggling opium to smuggling diamonds. But, oddly, only in the second episode; the first episode is true to the comics by having Allan be involved in drug-smuggling, and despite the fact Allan appeared as part of the opium-smuggling ring in ''Cigars of the Pharoah''.

This is the first story that Hergé produced during the German occupation of Belgium (1940-1944) for the Brussels daily newspaper ''Le Soir'' ("The Evening"). During the occupation this leading French-language paper of Belgium had been handed over by the Germans to Belgian collaborators and thus was called ''Le Soir volé'' ("the stolen ''Soir''") by those who weren't collaborators. At first the instalments appeared in a weekly supplement for children, but the war paper-shortage meant that this kept getting smaller and smaller and by September 1941 it was discontinued entirely. From then on ''Tintin'' appeared as a small daily comic strip in the main pages of ''Le Soir''. ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' was collected into a colour album. Later this version was slightly reworked at the behest of the American publishers to create the "definitive" one.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: At the behest of his American publishers, Hergé had to alter a scene in which [[ValuesDissonance Captain Haddock is caned by Allan's black henchman]] to him being caned by a Mediterranean, but white-skinned mook, and also to redraw some panels so that Captain Haddock [[{{Bowdlerized}} would not actually be seen holding a bottle to his lips]].

This is the first story that Hergé produced during the German occupation of Belgium (1940-1944) for the Brussels daily newspaper ''Le Soir'' ("The Evening"). During the occupation this leading French-language paper of Belgium had been handed over by the Germans to Belgian collaborators and thus was called ''Le Soir volé'' ("the stolen ''Soir''") by those who weren't collaborators. At first the instalments appeared in a weekly supplement for children, but the war paper-shortage meant that this kept getting smaller and smaller and by September 1941 it was discontinued entirely. From then on ''Tintin'' appeared as a small daily comic strip in the main pages of ''Le Soir''. ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' was collected into a colour album during the war and after 1945 this version was slightly reworked at the behest of the American publishers to create the "definitive" version.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: At the behest of his American publishers, Hergé had to alter a scene in which Captain Haddock is caned by Allan's black henchman to him being caned by a Mediterranean, but white-skinned mook, and also to redraw some panels so that Captain Haddock [[{{Bowdlerized}} would not actually be seen holding a bottle to his lips]].

* FramedForHeroism: At one point, a raging Haddock charges ahead against a group of armed Bedouin raiders, who promptly run away. It turns out they were actually running away from the reinforcements arriving behind him.

* UnstoppableRage: Haddock gets truly pissed off when a band of Bedouin raiders firing at him shatter his bottle of whiskey. When Alan's men find Haddock and Tintin drunk and helpless (they were trapped in a wine cellar, and the bullets had spilled the booze) all it takes is another broken bottle to turn the tables.

* UnstoppableRage: Haddock gets truly pissed off when a band of Bedouin raiders firing at him shatter his bottle of whiskey. When Alan's men find Haddock and Tintin drunk and helpless, all it takes is another broken bottle to turn the tables.

* UnstoppableRage: Haddock gets truly pissed off when a band of Bedouin raiders firing at him shatter his bottle of whisky.

* ShoutOut: In WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons episode ''In The Name Of The Grandfather'' Bart insults Belgium, to which Marge threatens him: ''"Bart, if you hate Belgium so much, maybe I should take your Tintin stories away."'' Bart then clutches a copy of ''The Crab With The Golden Claws'', promising he'll behave.
* ThirstyDesert

** The drawing of the figure for Haddock in this comic looks a bit amateurish in some cases as well; this improves a lot in later comics.

* AdaptationDecay: In at least the Remastered version of the 1990s animated series, Allan's crimes are changed from smuggling opium to smuggling diamonds. But, oddly, only in the second episode; the first episode is true to the comics by having Allan be involved in drug-smuggling, and despite the fact Allan appeared as part of the opium-smuggling ring in ''Cigars of the Pharoah''.

* ChekhovsGun: The Can Snowy Gets His Nose stuck in turns out to be very important later on.

* Chekhov's Gun: The Can Snowy Gets His Nose stuck in turns out to be very important later on.

* MeatOVision: After wandering around in the desert with Tintin for a while, Haddock envisions Tintin as a huge bottle of champaigne and nearly strangles him to death trying to uncork him.

* Chekov's Gun: The Can Snowy Gets His Nose stuck in turns out to be very important later on.

After an unknown Japanese man is kidnapped on his doorstep, Tintin decides to investigate the Karaboudjan, but is immediately captured. While being held captive, Tintin discovers that the ship's cargo of canned crab meat is actually a cargo of heroin, but he also discovers that the ship's captain, named Haddock, doesn't know about the smuggling operation, and is being deceived (and supplied with a lot of whiskey) by his first mate Allan. Along with Haddock, Tintin escapes and ends up in Morocco, where they continue their investigation of the smuggling operation.

After an unknown Japanese man is kidnapped on his doorstep, Tintin decides to investigate the Karaboudjan, but is immediately captured. While being held captive, Tintin discovers that the ship's cargo of canned crab meat is actually a cargo of heroine, but he also discovers that the ship's captain, named Haddock, doesn't know about the smuggling operation, and is being deceived (and supplied with a lot of whiskey) by his first mate Allan. Along with Haddock, Tintin escapes and ends up in Morocco, where they continue their investigation of the smuggling operation.