History YMMV / Tintin

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Young readers who have seen many adventure comics/cartoons may find Tintin to be cliché.

** In ''Tintin In Congo'', Tintin is accompanied by the native boy called Coco. Kusao Takeshi, who voices Tintin in the Japanese dub of [[WesternAnimation/{{The Adventures of Tintin|1991}} the 1991 animated series]], voices a character called Coco in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''.

** The criticism of Japan's invasion of China in ''The Blue Lotus''. Tintin also delivers an excellent speech to Chang about how, while a lot of Chinese are afraid of westerners because they don't know what they're like, a lot of westerners are just as afraid of the Chinese because they believe they're all YellowPeril Literature/FuManchu stereotypes, and when you overcome ignorance you realise that race doesn't determine whether people are good or bad.

** Many of Haddock's {{Catch Phrase}}s, e.g. "Thundering typhoons!" or "Blistering barnacles!"

** Whilst not as outright offensive as some of its portrayals of people who aren't white, the best you could say about the series' portrayal of women is that it is typical of its age. Women are almost entirely absent from the books, and those few that do appear are always in stereotypical roles: cleaners, waitresses, landladies, air hostesses etc. Any significance to the plot is usually miniscule and fleeting. Castafiore, the only recurring female character, is mainly used as comic relief and not portrayed especially flatteringly. Judged by the standards of their time the books aren't outright misogynistic; but they seem to exist in a universe where women are little more than scenery. Hergé outright acknowledged this, saying he didn't see a place for women in his stories.

* AudienceAlienatingEnding: The final book in the series, ''Tintin and Alph-Art'', was left incomplete by Herge's death in 1983. The book was published 3 years later (or at least, incomplete notes and rough drawings). The book ends with Tintin about to be executed in liquid polyester.

** Invoked in ''[[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus The Blue Lotus]]'', where Hergé consciously defies Western stereotypes about the Chinese and makes fun of people who still believe in them. Tintin defended a Chinese waiter who gets manhandled unfairly by a brutish American businessman. Later, he befriends Chang, a Chinese boy and they stay close in later books. Tintin freely admits many Westerners mistreat Chinese people, and the book is squarely on their side against both this along with it denouncing Japanese imperialism. Chang was based on a real Chinese friend of Hergé's.