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3	''Tintin and the Lake of Sharks'' (''Tintin et le Lac aux requins'') is a 1972 Belgian-French animated film based on Creator/{{Herge}}'s comic book hero, Franchise/{{Tintin}}. The story is not based on any of the comic book storylines, it's an original story created by Hergé's fellow Belgian cartoonist Greg.
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5	While there's a wave of thefts of valuable artworks in museums (which are replaced by copies), Tintin and Captain Haddock are invited by Professor Calculus to Syldavia. Professor Calculus develops his latest invention: a machine that can replicate any object.
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7	The film was [[RecursiveAdaptation adapted itself]] as a FilmComic. It's the only official, non-Hergé ''Tintin'' story available as an album.
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9	!!''Tintin and the Lake of Sharks'' provides examples of:
10	* '60s Hair: the stewardesses have her hair in flips.
11	* AdaptationalDistillation: The ComicBookAdaptation alters some parts of the story. In the movie, [[spoiler:Tintin, Niko and Nouchka manage to swim out of Rastapopoulos' [[CollapsingLair exploding lair]] in time. In the book, they only manage to get out of the room with the bomb and the explosive goes off before they can escape, Tintin being BornLucky is what saves him and the kids.]] The climactic showdown is also shortened, [[spoiler:instead of a drawn out fistfight, that matches with the commentary of an ongoing football match, Tintin and Haddock simply corner Rastapopoulos and his right hand man, and have them arrested]].
12	* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The comic version omits a critical line from Calculus, which in the film implied Tintin was deliberately giving the Big Bad a bogus ransom.
13	* AppliedPhlebotinum: Calculus's invention, that can replicate any object.
14	* BigBad: The mysterious evil mastermind turns out to be [[spoiler:Rastapopoulos, a classic Tintin foe.]]
15	* BusmansHoliday: Tintin and Captain Haddock are supposed to go on holiday in professor Calculus's villa. This holiday won't be very relaxing.
16	* CallBack: A slightly redesigned version of the iconic shark-shaped submarine of ''[[Recap/TintinRedRackhamsTreasure Red Rackham's Treasure]]'' is back.
17	* CavalryRefusal: The Syldavian police refuses to intervene at first, because the lake is on the Bordurian border and the police is afraid of diplomatic incidents. {{Subverted\|Trope}}, because in the end the Syldavian police shows up to arrest the villains. [[DoubleSubversion Double subverted]], because the police refuses to chase the big bad's submarine beyond the Bordurian border.
18	* CollapsingLair: Tintin, Niko and Nouchka must escape the collapsing underwater base after [[spoiler:Rastapopoulos]] locks them up and activates the SelfDestructMechanism.
19	* ComicBookAdaptation: The comic version ''pretends'' to be a FilmComic, but if you compare the comic to the movie, the movie's character art is frequently OffModel while the comic's is much better. It seems like Hergé's studio had access to all of the movie's background paintings, but completely redrew as many cels as were necessary to create the comic's panels.
20	* ComingInHot: Tintin has to make an emergency landing in the mountains with a sabotaged aircraft.
21	* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: One of the most striking examples is the rocks that collapse in the chasm after Tintin saves Nouchka from falling.
22	* CrashCourseLanding: After the pilot jumps from the plane with a parachute, Tintin has to take control of the plane and perform an emergency landing.
23	* CutPhoneLines: The BigBad orders the phone lines cut so that Tintin and his friends cannot call the police.
24	* DancePartyEnding: The book ends with our heroes dancing the ''blushtika'' with the Syldavians in their village square. The movie however has another scene after that, which has Thomson and Thompson trying to play golf and accidentally smashing a bottle of whiskey the Captain was trying to drink out of. Everyone, including the Captain himself [[EverybodyLaughsEnding just laugh it off]].
25	* DrowningPit: The villain locks Tintin, Niko and Nouchka up in a room which is slowly filling with water. Moreover, the rising water will also activate the SelfDestructMechanism of the base.
26	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: How the movie ends. Thomson and Thompson try to play golf and accidentally smash a bottle of whiskey the Captain was trying to drink out of. Everyone, including the Captain himself [[ActuallyPrettyFunny just laugh it off]].
27	* TheFaceless: The big bad is always shown with the frame cropping out his face (we mainly see his hands), until it is revealed he is [[spoiler:Rastapopoulos]].
28	* FlawedPrototype: Calculus' invention can create replicas of objects, but the replicas aren't stable and melt by themselves after some time.
29	* FunnyForeigner: The YouNoTakeCandle-[=speaking=] Syldavian farmer Tintin knocks at the door of to ask if he can use his phone for a call. In the French version, he understands Tintin's "coup de téléphone" ("calling with the phone") [[{{Malaproper}} with the other meaning of "coup", "to hit", thus thinking Tintin is up for violence]]. He points his blunderbuss through the door's hole at Tintin, who dodges a shot, and said shot destroys the farmer's poor dog's kennel.
30	* HiddenVillain: The BigBad is TheFaceless, until it is revealed he is [[spoiler:Rastapopoulos]].
31	* HijackedByGanon: The BigBad is revealed to be [[spoiler:Rastapopoulos, a recurring opponent of Tintin]].
32	* HostageForMacGuffin: The BigBad kidnaps Niko and Nouchka and holds them hostage in exchange for Professor Calculus's duplication machine.
33	* InternalHomage:
34	** In the beginning a valuable object is stolen from a museum. The attendant notices it is missing, then the thieves replace the object by a copy. Just like in ''[[Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar The Broken Ear]]''.
35	** In the airport, Lazlo Carreidas from ''[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714]]'' is waiting for his flight.
36	** Tintin is hitchhiking in Syldavia. He is picked up by Bianca Castafiore, just like in ''[[Recap/TintinKingOttokarsSceptre King Ottokar's Sceptre]]''.
37	* LiteralCliffhanger:
38	** The plane used by Tintin, Captain Haddock, Thompson and Thomson crashes on the edge of a cliff and tilts precariously. Fortunately, Niko and Nouchka save them.
39	** Later, Nouchka ends up hanging from a shrub above a chasm. Tintin saves her.
40	* TheMole: Madame Black, Professor Calculus's servant, is a spy who works for the villain.
41	* NarratingTheObvious: The comic version frequently has narration boxes that laboriously describe what's happening in the very next panel, which is a departure from the usual ''Tintin'' style, but is very similar to ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer''.
42	* OminousPipeOrgan: In one scene, the BigBad shows Tintin, who he has taken hostage, his gallery of stolen, priceless artwork. He gloats about his new plan to exploit one of Professor Calculus' machines to make counterfeit clones of the artwork, and [[{{Greed}} sell them to make gobs of money]]. [[https://youtu.be/aVGsGaGLUhg?t=52m10s The scene is accompanied by a powerful organ tune]], and fittingly, the first things we see in the scene are stained glass windows with the BigBad's insignia.
43	* ReplacedWithReplica: Rastapopolous' EvilPlan. Using technology stolen from [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Calculus]], he plans to make copies of famous artworks around the world, steal the originals, and get filthy rich.
44	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Greg was inspired to write the story by several cases of submerged villages due to the constructions of dams.
45	* RunForTheBorder: In the end, the villain crosses the border to escape from the Syldavian police. So the police must actually stop the chase, but Tintin and Captain Haddock cross the border to and catch him.
46	* {{Ruritania}}: The story is set in Syldavia, not far from the Bordurian border.
47	* SecretUndergroundPassage: The bad guys use two secret passages:
48	** Tintin and Snowy discover the first one not far from the lake when they are on the frogman's trail. It contains stolen artworks.
49	** They discover the second one when they search professor Calculus's villa for bugs. It is hidden behind a clock and it leads to the bottom of the well.
50	* SelfDestructMechanism: The underwater base has one and [[spoiler:Rastapopoulos]] activates it when he needs to escape.
51	* ShoutOut:
52	** The movie's plot seems like an attempt to [[FollowTheLeader capitalize on the popularity]] of the Franchise/JamesBond franchise, particularly the similarity of [[spoiler:Rastapopoulos's]] depiction before his face is revealed to Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
53	** Niko and Nouchka's theft of the underwater tank starts off the same way as the scene where ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko steal an underwater tank in ''The Secret Ray''.
54	* SigilSpam: The underwater base is decorated with a red "r" logo (which stands for [[spoiler:Rastapopoulos]]).
55	* SlipperySkid: Thompson and Thomson slip on Captain Haddock's golf balls in the airport.
56	* SupervillainLair: The underwater base, equiped with a SelfDestructMechanism.
57	* TagalongKid: After Niko and Nouchka help Tintin and his friends escape from the wreckage of their plane before it goes over a cliff, they tag along with him for the rest of the movie.
58	* TheyHaveTheScent: Snowy and Gustav sniff the flipper of the frogman. Gustav brings Haddock to a dumping ground, whereas Snowy picks up the scent and brings Tintin to a SecretUndergroundPassage.
59	* TruerToTheText: The Belvision AnimatedAdaptation [[AbledInTheAdaptation removed Professor Calculus' hearing problems]]. Here, he is hard of hearing again and a joke is made of him not being able to understand what Captain Haddock is saying at one point.
60	* UnderwaterBase: There is one under the lake.
61	* UnderwaterRuins: There are the ruins of a village under the lake.

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