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* CommonKnowledge: Among the accusations of a racist portrayal of Sub-Saharan Africans, this story is sometimes wrongly accused of depicting them as cannibals, which doesn't actually happen; it is very likely this is confused with Creator/{{Herge}}'s other comic book series, ''[[ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko Jo, Zette and Jocko]]'' where the protagonists ''do'' actually meet a stereotypical black CannibalTribe that tries to eat them.
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* CommonKnowledge: Among the accusations of a racist portrayal of Sub-Saharan Africans, this story is sometimes wrongly accused of depicting them as cannibals, which doesn't actually happen; it is very likely this is confused the result of readers confusing this story with Creator/{{Herge}}'s other comic book series, ''[[ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko Jo, Zette and Jocko]]'' where the protagonists ''do'' actually meet a stereotypical black CannibalTribe that tries to eat them.
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* DesignatedHero: Partly because of ValuesDissonance. Tintin is extremely rude and condescending to the Congolese, he forces them to upright a train after HE crashed into it and hunts lots of animals yet he's worshipped by everyone.
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* DesignatedHero: Partly because of ValuesDissonance. Tintin is extremely rude and condescending to the Congolese, he forces them to upright a train after HE ''he'' crashed into it and hunts lots of animals -- dispatching several in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath particularly cruel and violent ways]] -- yet he's worshipped by everyone.
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* {{Squick}}: The [[https://ceebeegeebee.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/tintin-insanest-of-the-insane/ entire sequence]] of Tintin -- in an attempt to retrieve Snowy from a chimpanzee that stole and carried him up a tree -- shooting another chimpanzee, skinning it, and then ''[[AnimalDisguise immediately wearing its skin]]'' to climb up and get him without suspicion. Although no gore is shown, it's still absolutely horrible to think about.
-->'''Ceebeegeebee:''' "WITHOUT AROUSING HIS SUSPICIONS"?! You’re a human being who has gutted a dead monkey and draped yourself in its still-warm fur, and [[PaperThinDisguise now you’re walking around with your face sticking out of its neck, wearing a hat and carrying a rifle]]. ''Everything about this'' would arouse a monkey’s suspicions!
-->'''Ceebeegeebee:''' "WITHOUT AROUSING HIS SUSPICIONS"?! You’re a human being who has gutted a dead monkey and draped yourself in its still-warm fur, and [[PaperThinDisguise now you’re walking around with your face sticking out of its neck, wearing a hat and carrying a rifle]]. ''Everything about this'' would arouse a monkey’s suspicions!
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* CondeemedByHistory: Once of the albums that helped launched Tintin into a massively successful series, since WWII it's become difficult to find anyone who'll defend the story over its MightyWhitey narrative, racist depiction of Congolese natives, and the rampant murder of wildlife PlayedForLaughs. Even Herge later came to view it as an OldShame.
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* CondeemedByHistory: CommonKnowledge: Among the accusations of a racist portrayal of Sub-Saharan Africans, this story is sometimes wrongly accused of depicting them as cannibals, which doesn't actually happen; it is very likely this is confused with Creator/{{Herge}}'s other comic book series, ''[[ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko Jo, Zette and Jocko]]'' where the protagonists ''do'' actually meet a stereotypical black CannibalTribe that tries to eat them.
* CondemnedByHistory: Once one of the albums that helped launched Tintin into a massively successful series, since WWII it's become difficult to find anyone who'll defend the story over its MightyWhitey narrative, racist depiction of Congolese natives, and the rampant murder of wildlife PlayedForLaughs. Even Herge later came to view it as an OldShame.
* CondemnedByHistory: Once one of the albums that helped launched Tintin into a massively successful series, since WWII it's become difficult to find anyone who'll defend the story over its MightyWhitey narrative, racist depiction of Congolese natives, and the rampant murder of wildlife PlayedForLaughs. Even Herge later came to view it as an OldShame.
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* CondeemedByHistory: Once of the albums that helped launched Tintin into a massively successful series, since WWII it's become difficult to find anyone who'll defend the story over its MightyWhitey narrative, racist depiction of Congolese natives, and the rampant murder of wildlife PlayedForLaughs. Even Herge later came to view it as an OldShame.
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* DesignatedHero: Partly because of ValuesDissonance. Tintin is extremly rude and condescending to the Congolese, he forces them to upright a train after HE crashed into it and hunts lots of animals yet he's worshipped by everyone.
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* DesignatedHero: Partly because of ValuesDissonance. Tintin is extremly extremely rude and condescending to the Congolese, he forces them to upright a train after HE crashed into it and hunts lots of animals yet he's worshipped by everyone.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Tintin himself will either be seen as a bland featureless innocent hero... or the embodiment of white racist colonialism, solely because of this story.
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* RonTheDeathEater: This infamous early portrayal of Tintin has gotten him characterized as a racist, paternalistic and arrogant white colonizer in the eyes of many, and is often subject to TakeThat parodies with this version in mind, depicting him as even more racist than he ever was in this comic.
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* OnceAcceptableTargets: Not just the Congo natives, but the animals too, and in a literal sense at that! Tintin kills them for either fun or self-defense.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** When Tintin shows the natives film footage of the wizard and the villain partying together, the film is silent and in black-and-white, as most films still were in 1930, when this comic strip story was drawn.
** Tintin teaches the children about "their fatherland UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}" in the original story. (In the color version, it was changed to a simple "2+2=4" lesson.). Since 1960, Congo is no longer a Belgian colony.
** When Tintin shows the natives film footage of the wizard and the villain partying together, the film is silent and in black-and-white, as most films still were in 1930, when this comic strip story was drawn.
** Tintin teaches the children about "their fatherland UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}" in the original story. (In the color version, it was changed to a simple "2+2=4" lesson.). Since 1960, Congo is no longer a Belgian colony.
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* ValuesDissonance: Tintin being carried around and worshiped as some kind of MightyWhitey by black Africans is less innocent today than it was when the story was first published.
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* ValuesDissonance: Tintin being carried around and worshiped as some kind of MightyWhitey by black Africans is less innocent today than it was when the story was first published.published and this is what the story is largely known for now.
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* UnfortunateImplications: The book's racism is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo#Racism heavily debated topic]], with the main argument being whether or not the portrayal of the natives was fair in contrast of the [[ValuesDissonance views of the time.]]
