History Recap / TintinTheCrabWithTheGoldenClaws

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Belvision and Nelvana animated series version as well as the [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin 2011 movie adaptation]] changed how Tintin, Haddock and Snowy crash landed into Sahara desert. In the original book, it was due to Haddock's AlcoholInducedStupidity. Haddock was so drunk, he decided it was his turn to fly the plane. When Tintin refused to let him do so, he smashed it on his head, knocking him out, making the plane lose her pilot and crashing into Sahara (thankfully, Tintin regained his consciouness at the last moment and managed to pull back a little bit, thus the crash was not fatal).

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Both the Nelvana animated series version and the [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin 2011 movie adaptation]] change how Tintin, Haddock and Snowy crash landed into Sahara desert. In the original book, it was due to Haddock's AlcoholInducedStupidity. Haddock was so drunk, he decided it was his turn to fly the plane. When Tintin refused to let him do so, he smashed it on his head, knocking him out, making the plane lose her pilot and crashing into Sahara (thankfully, Tintin regained his consciouness at the last moment and managed to pull back a little bit, thus the crash was not fatal).
** In the animated show, the original pilot sent by Alan managed to untie himself and ''he'' smashed the bottle on Tintin's head and jumped off the plane with a parachute.

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. In the 1960s this version was reworked at the behest of the American publishers.

* CharacterDevelopment: When we first meet Haddock, he is a drunk and miserable wreck without a friend in the world and when he joins Tintin, his alcoholism means he causes more trouble for Tintin than he solves. At the end of the story, he is reformed and becomes the President of the Society of Sober Sailors! In later albums, he retains a fondness for the bottle, but is never as weak or unstable as he is here.

* 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, to turn a black crewman of the Karaboudjan into a white one, and also to redraw some panels so that Captain Haddock [[{{Bowdlerized}} would never actually be seen holding a bottle to his lips]]! As Hergé commented afterwards: "Everyone knows that Americans never drink whiskey [...] and that there are no blacks in America."

* GrievousBottleyHarm: Haddock beats Tintin over his head with a bottle.

* TheMillstone: Bumbling Haddock. He accompanies Tintin but all he causes is trouble due to his AlcoholInducedIdiocy. E.g. he slips and thus prevents Tintin from capturing the villains.

* PunnyName: Omar Ben Salaad's name sounds like ''Homard Salad'', which is French for "lobster salad", and the city of Bagghar sounds like ''bagarre'', which is French for "fight" or "brawl".

* InelegantBlubbering: Haddock breaks down weeping when Tintin confronts him about his alcoholism and asks him WhatWouldYourMotherSay?

* FallingChandelierOfDoom: When Omar Ben Salaad is about to shoot Tintin, Snowy comes from behind and bites him in the ass. Ben Salaad loses his balance and shoot in the air upon which a chandelier comes crashing down on his head.

* 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, to turn a black crewman of the Karaboudjan into a white one, and also to redraw some panels so that Captain Haddock [[{{Bowdlerized}} would never actually be seen holding a bottle to his lips]]! As Hergé commented afterwards: "Everyone knows that Americans never drink whisky [...] and that there are no blacks in America."

* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: Captain Haddock is pinned down behind a sand dune by enemy troops. When [[BerserkButton they shoot his bottle of whisky]], he charges their position screaming at the top of his lungs and spinning his rifle around his head like a club. The enemy flees. Haddock calms down, turns around, and discovers that they were fleeing because TheCavalry have finally arrived, not because they were afraid of him.

* YouDontWantToCatchThis: Tintin claims that Snowy had rabies in order to scare a man out of his cab.

* SecretPassage: A huge barrel acts an a doorway to the cellar where the villains keep the tins of crab.

* InescapableNet: During the climactic boat chase, Tintin disabled Allan by throwing a net over him.

* FollowThatCar: Tintin and another man both get into the cab, each insisting it's his. By the time Tintin gets the man to leave, the car he planned to follow had long since disappeared.

* FallingChandelierOfDoom: When Omar Ben Salaad is about the shoot Tintin, Snowy come from behind and bites him in the ass. Ben Salaad loses his balance and shoot in the air upon which a chandelier come crashing down on his head.

* 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, to turn a black crewman of the Karaboudjan into a white one, and also to redraw some panels so that Captain Haddock [[{{Bowdlerized}} would never actually be seen holding a bottle to his lips]]! As Hergé commented afterwards: "Everyone knows that Americans never drink whisky [...] and that there are no blacks in America."

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

%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Omar Ben Salaad.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Most of what Haddock does. It even provides the page image.

* TheMillstone: Bumbling Haddock. He accompanies Tintin but all he causes is trouble. E.g. he slips and thus prevents Tintin from capturing the villains.

* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: 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.

!!Tropes

* DragonTheirFeet: Allan after Salaad is dealt with Allan tries to escape and Tintin has to chase him down by boat.

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

%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Omar Ben Salaad.

%%* HollywoodMirage

%%* TheMillstone: Haddock.

%%* BigBad: Omar Ben Salaad.

* ShoutOut:
** In the ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'' album ''De Gesel van Rotterdam'' the ship Karaboudjan and Allan Thompson appear, directly referencing this Tintin album.
** 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.

* BigBad: Omar Ben Salaad.

** DragonInChief
** [[spoiler: DragonTheirFeet: After Salaad is dealt with Allan tries to escape and Tintin has to chase him down by boat.]]

* FramedForHeroism[=/=]ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: 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.

* TheHeavy: Allan.

* HollywoodMirage

* TheMillstone: Haddock.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Omar Ben Salaad.

* AscendedExtra: Bunji Kuraki in the Nelvana episode. Whereas in the comic he only shows up on the penultimate page, the episode starts with a scene of his meeting with Herbert Dawes,and Tintin later encounters him while he's imprisoned.

* NightmareSequence: Tintin dreams that he is inside a bottle when Haddock plans to uncork him with a NightmareFace so scary that we used it as the image on the NightmareFuel page for ''Tintin''.

* ThirstyDesert: Tintin and Haddock cross a desert while being extremely thristy because of their lack of water.

* 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 Pharaoh''.