History WesternAnimation / TheAdventuresOfTintin1991

* TruerToTheText: While it's very much a CompressedAdaptation and three albums were not adapted for various reasons, the series is considerably more faithful to the comic books than the 1960s Belvision episodes and animated films, which all provided much AdaptationExpansion and significant plot and character alterations.

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}.

It debuted in 1991. 39 episodes were produced over the course of its three seasons, dividing some album adaptations in [[MultiPartEpisode two parts]]. It first aired on France 3 in France, La Deux in Belgium, Creator/{{HBO}} and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the USA, Creator/{{Global}} and Creator/FamilyChannel in Canada and Creator/Channel4 in UK.

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}. Three composers collaborated for the soundtrack, Ray Parker Jr. (of the ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' song fame), Jim Morgan, and Tom Szczesniak (''WesternAnimation/{{Care Bears|1980s}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheWizardOfOz'').

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}. Three composers collaborated for the soundtrack, Ray Parker Jr. (of the ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' song fame), Jim Morgan and Tom Szczesniak (''WesternAnimation/{{Care Bears|1980s}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheWizardOfOz'').

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}.

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of almost every one of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}.

* WormInAnApple: While waiting for his team to come pick up a curious meteorite in the album "[[Recap/TintinTheShootingStar The Shooting Star]]", Tintin eats an apple he discovers a maggot inside of and promptly throws it away. The next morning, the maggot has metamorphosized into a giant butterfly and the apple core has sprouted into a humongous tree all due to the meteorite's influence.

* AdaptedOut: Zloty the poet and Sheik Patrash Pasha do not appear in the animated version of ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''.

* AdaptedOut: Zloty the poet and Sheik Patrash Pasha do not appear in the animated version of ''Cigars of th Pharaoh''.

* AdaptationalHeroism: The series turned Mitsuhirato's manservant into a Son of the Dragon who [[TheMole infiltrated]] the drug trafficking gang and saves Tintin from being injected with the Rajaijah (poison of madness). In the comic book, the agent who does so is unrelated to Mitsuhirato (he simply snuck in and out)

** A jostled case for the English dub of ''The Red Sea Sharks''. The backstory of the ship full of people being sold into slavery, in order to avoid {{Blackface}}, were changed to middle eastern and north-african looking people who were refugees instead of muslims being tricked on their pilgrimage. In some ways it lightens it a bit, but in many other ways, it makes it even ''darker''.

* HellIsThatNoise: The ''Tintin in Tibet'' comic book doesn't quite convey how spine-chilling the [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Yeti]]'s growls in the dark of the night are. [[NightmareFuel The animated version does]].

** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwHp9hgW8AEjFLu.jpg:large Tintin disguises himself as a black cabin boy]] in the album ''The Broken Ear''. Since it's a rather embarrassing case of {{Blackface}}, the series turned his disguise into WigDressAccent. It becomes something of an AdaptationInducedPlotHole because both the comic and the episode had the antagonists being ProperlyParanoid about Tintin following them and so they target two people who look like Tintin in disguise (an old, short man and a short fat man wearing a wig) but due to his very obvious disguise in the episode (similar facial features, voice and height with just a wig and a goatee), it becomes baffling that Alonso and Ramón didn't think of this guy as Tintin in disguise. Perhaps they [[BeneathSuspicion disregard the staff]], as those they suspected were passengers.

Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin'', the 2011 motion capture film directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg.

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of almost every one of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format[[note]]''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]'' and ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' were skipped due to their extreme levels of ValuesDissonance, with Hergé [[CreatorBacklash disowning both]] as a result, while ''[[Recap/TintinTintinAndAlphArt Tintin and Alph-Art]]'' was omitted because [[DiedDuringProduction Hergé had never finished it before his death]], forcing it to end on an [[LeftHanging unresolved]] cliffhanger; [[ComicBook/TintinAndAlphArtYvesRodier Yves Rodier's finished version]] was an unauthorized one[[/note]]. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}.

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of almost every one of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format[[note]]''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]'' and ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' were skipped due to their extreme levels of ValuesDissonance, with Hergé [[CreatorBacklash disowning both]] as a result, while ''[[Recap/TintinTintinAndAlphArt Tintin and Alph-Art]]'' was omitted because [[AuthorExistenceFailure Hergé had never finished it before his death]], forcing it to end on an [[LeftHanging unresolved]] cliffhanger; [[ComicBook/TintinAndAlphArtYvesRodier Yves Rodier's finished version]] was an unauthorized one[[/note]]. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}.

[[caption-width-right:350:Cue [[{{Fanfare}} the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb-9TIr31i0 fanfare]]]]

* CompressedAdaptation: The size of the AdaptationDistillation page speaks for itself. Some episodes last 40 minutes while others last 20 minutes. Those belonging to the latter case are the most compressed.
* CreatorCameo: A posthumous version occurs with Hergé himself, who passed away eight years prior to the series. An animated version of him appears as a background character in multiple episodes, just like he did in the comic books. Fittingly, he's often showing drawing on a sketchpad.
* CulturallySensitiveAdaptation: For one scene in the original comic, Tintin wears {{blackface}} to disguise himself on a ship. In the episode adapting this comic ("Broken Ear"), Tintin disguises himself with glasses, a wig, and a fake mustache.

** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwHp9hgW8AEjFLu.jpg:large Tintin disguises himself as a black cabin boy]] in the album ''The Broken Ear''. Since it's a rather embarrassing case of {{Blackface}}, the series turned his disguise into WigDressAccent. It becomes something of an AdaptationInducedPlotHole because both the comic and the episode had the antagonists being ProperlyParanoid about Tintin following them and so they target two people who look like Tintin in disguise (an old, short man and a short fat man wearing a wig) but due to his very obvious disguise in the episode (similar facial features, voice and height with just a wig and a goatee), it becomes baffling that Alonso and Ramón didn't think of this guy as Tintin in disguise.

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of almost every one of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format[[note]]''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]'' and ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' were skipped due to their extreme levels of ValuesDissonance, with Hergé [[CreatorBacklash disowning both]] as a result, while ''[[Recap/TintinTintinAndAlphArt Tintin and Alph-Art]]'' was omitted because [[AuthorExistenceFailure Hergé had never finished it before his death]], forcing it to end on an [[LeftHanging unresolved]] cliffhanger; [[Fanfic/TintinAndAlphArtYvesRodier Yves Rodier's finished version]] was an unauthorized one[[/note]]. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}.

!!Tropes specific to the series:

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Implemented in some areas, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools but it's done enough so that it doesn't hamper the plots too much.]]

** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwHp9hgW8AEjFLu.jpg:large Tintin disguises himself as a black cabin boy]] in the album ''The Broken Ear''. Since it's a rather embarrassing case of {{Blackface}}, the series turned his disguise into WigDressAccent. It becomes something of an AdaptationInducedPlotHole because both the comic and the episode had the antagonists being ProperlyParanoid about Tintin following them and so they target two people who look like Tintin in disguise (an old, short man and a short fat man wearing a wig) but due to his very obvious disguise in the episode (similar facial features, voice and height with just a wig and a goatee), it becomes baffling that Alonso and Ramón didn't think of this guy as Tintin in disguise.

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of almost every one of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format[[note]]''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' and ''Tintin in the Congo'' were skipped due to their extreme levels of ValuesDissonance, with Hergé [[CreatorBacklash disowning both]] as a result, while ''Tintin and Alph-Art'' was omitted because [[AuthorExistenceFailure Hergé had never finished it before his death]], forcing it to end on an [[LeftHanging unresolved]] cliffhanger[[/note]]. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}.

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of almost every one of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format[[note]]''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' and ''Tintin in the Congo'' were skipped due to their extreme levels of ValuesDissonance, while ''Tintin and Alph-Art'' was omitted because [[AuthorExistenceFailure Hergé had never finished it before his death]], forcing it to end on an unresolved cliffhanger[[/note]]. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}.

''The Adventures of Tintin'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin'') is a French-Canadian-Belgian AnimatedAdaptation of Creator/{{Herge}}'s [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} famous comic books]] in a TV series format. It was coproduced by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}.