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2* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In "Tintin in Tibet", was Captain Haddock stammering out of fear of the yeti (which would make his denial of said fear a lie) or from the cold?
3* BadassDecay:
4** General Alcazar could fit in this category. He seems pretty badass until you learn who wears the brightly colored pants in his marriage.
5** Invoked in ''Flight 714'' with Rastapopolous and Allan. Two of Tintin's more cunning villains... and Hergé decided to make them into more laughable villains.
6* BigLippedAlligatorMoment In ''The Broken Ear'', after the two bad guys fall from the boat and drown, there's a panel showing them being DraggedOffToHell by three little black devils, which is really out of place for the genre of the series (and really creepy as well). While it does get the point across that they died, it's an odd way to show it.
7* BizarroEpisode: ''[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714]]'' starts out normal enough, when Tintin and his friends are kidnapped by Rastapopulus's henchmen and kept prisoners on a small Indonesian island. But it soon become clear that something weird is going on, and it turns out that aliens have been coming to the island for millennia. And yeah, everybody (except for Snowy) forgets all about the adventure due to LaserGuidedAmnesia.
8* BrokenBase:
9** Is ''[[Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald The Castafiore Emerald]]'' an entertaining diversion, a deliberately silly chamber piece that trades in the high stakes and tension of the rest of the series for humor and character work? Or is it a pointless exercise in wheel-spinning, a waste of the heroes' and the readers' time? You can find both views expressed very eloquently [[http://them0vieblog.com/2011/10/21/tintin-the-castafiore-emerald-review/ here]] and [[http://dreamingaboutotherworlds.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-castafiore-emerald-by-herg.html here]].
10** Tintinologists are divided over the issue of fan art and parodies. Some, including fan sites such as Tintinologist.org, are ''vehemently against'' fan art and fanfiction and would ban the posting of such threads on sight, opining that such works fly in the face of Hergé and desecrate his legacy (though [[JustifiedTrope understandably so]], given what happened with ''Tintin in Thailand'' which portrayed the characters in a decidedly pornographic light). Others, while respecting Hergé's wishes for others to not publish any works based on his creation, have made fan works regardless, believing that those are merely love letters to a comic book author they admire and would not intend to dilute or tarnish Tintin's reputation.
11* CompleteMonster:
12** [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Roberto Rastapopoulos]] is Tintin's ArchEnemy. [[Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh Debuting]] as a seemingly benign film producer, Rastapopoulos is in reality the ringleader of an international drug cartel that utilizes a [[ChemicallyInducedInsanity poison to drive his enemies, interlopers, and any disloyal minions insane]]. When his operations in Cairo and India crumble, Rastapopoulos kidnaps the Maharajah's son and attempts to [[WouldHurtAChild crush the boy]] and Tintin with a boulder, only to apparently fall to his death. [[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus Revealed to have survived in China]], Rastapopoulos orders the execution of Tintin and Mr. Wang's family, to be beheaded by Mr. Wang's own drugged son. [[Recap/TintinTheRedSeaSharks He later returns]] as the ringleader of a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave trafficking ring]], abducting Muslims under the pretense of granting them safe passage, only to later sell them off. Discovering Tintin's interference, Rastapopoulos shows no regard for the lives of innocents in his attempts on Tintin's life; he arranges for a bomb to be planted in Tintin's passenger plane, and later orders a submarine to torpedo the slave ship Tintin had commandeered. In [[Recap/TintinFlight714 his final appearance]], Rastapopoulos attempts to rebuild his fortune by stealing Lazlo Carreidas's own using a truth serum. But when accidentally injected with said serum, he gleefully reveals his plan [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to have most of his minions killed off once he claims Carreidas's fortune]]. Driven by {{Greed}}, Rastapopoulos truly lives up to his [[CardCarryingVillain self-proclaimed moniker]] as "the devil incarnate".
13** [[HerrDoktor Dr. J. W. Müller]] is a doctor posing as a respected man to hide his counterfeiting operation. In "[[Recap/TintinTheBlackIsland The Black Island]]", when Müller catches Tintin inside his house, he captures him and plans to send him to an asylum to [[DrivenToMadness drive him insane]]. Tintin escapes and gets into a fight with Müller; during the fight the house is set on fire, so Müller traps Tintin inside the house to let him slowly burn to death, even purposefully sabotaging the operation of the firefighters to make sure this happens. In "[[Recap/TintinLandOfBlackGold Land of Black Gold]]", Müller has been sabotaging oil pipelines to create tension between the Middle East and the rest of the world to [[WarForFunAndProfit start a war to profit from]]. Müller also has been [[PlayingBothSides playing both Bab El Ehr and the Emir of Khemed against each other]] to start a CivilWar and further increase tension. After Tintin shows up, Müller thinks his plans might be in jeopardy and kidnaps Abdullah and frames Bab El Ehr to expel the Arabex oil company out of Khemed.
14* CommonKnowledge: Even among hardcore ''Tintin'' fans, it's common to assume that Thompson and Thomson are twin brothers because of their almost identical appearance and personality, the fact that they live together, and that both Haddock and Snowy refer to them sarcastically as twin brothers in some books. In reality, they aren't related at all, and their different surnames should give it out. There is also the fact that the two are [[RelatedInTheAdaptation actually brothers in the]] Belvision animated series and movies and they constantly refer to each other as "my dear brother."
15* EnsembleDarkhorse: Captain Haddock, who became even more popular and well-loved than Tintin himself.
16* EstrogenBrigade: There's quite a large female fandom of these comics, and while many enjoy the adventures and comedy, others have admitted to find [[TheAce Tintin]] and [[SilverFox the Captain]] rather swoon-worthy, even if the comic book's art style is the opposite of erotic. Hmm. Must be all the endangering and tied-up situations they get involved in.
17* FairForItsDay: The series has what would be considered very racist portrayals of minorities today. However, Tintin and the heroes usually treated these people with respect, while the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain villains]] would not treat them this way.
18** 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 rickshaw puller 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.
19** This is why Nelvana [[PragmaticAdaptation chose to]] {{Bowdlerise}} some of the stories. In ''The Broken Ear'', Tintin still disguises himself as a member of the boat crew, but rather than dress in blackface like in the comic book, just wears a wig and has a fake moustache. In ''The Red Sea Sharks'', the ship full of African Muslims trying to make their pilgrimage to Mecca were instead changed to refugees. [[FridgeHorror That makes it sound even worse]]. Although said Muslims were portrayed with stereotypical features and as rather dim, it's made clear they should be aided, as they're being [[HumanTrafficking trafficked into modern slavery]]. Similarly, the Arabs (though pretty stereotypical at times too) are often also sympathetic, with Tintin siding with them again.
20** The same goes for the Blackfeet tribe from "Tintin in America". Again, pretty stereotypical (and anachronistic because they're shown still living a traditional lifestyle and this is in the late 1920s), but they are portrayed as right for fighting against outsiders that encroach onto their land. It's being seized by the government after oil is discovered there is shown as clearly tragic and wrong.
21* {{Fanon}}: Some fans in the Anglosphere speculate Archibald Haddock is supposed to be Scottish, due to his name ("Archibald" is a stock Scottish name, and "Haddock" is an actual British surname[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Haddock amusingly, there was a British merchant navy captain named "Haddock" in early 20th century]][[/note]]) and his personality (a rather hot-tempered man who loves whisky). Also, the English localization of some adaptations giving him a Scottish accent didn't help. His ancestor François de Hadoque is supposed to be French in the original version of ''The Secret Of The Unicorn'', but followers of the "Haddock is a Scotsman" theory handwave it as "Hadoque was a Scottish mercenary working for France".
22* FanonDiscontinuity: Tintin's first three stories are definitely not popular with fandom: ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' is heavy-handed anti-communist propaganda, ''Tintin in the Congo'' is horribly racist, and ''Tintin in America'', although considered better than the previous two books, is still criticized for having a series of random events rather than a linear story. Because of this, many fans advise the people who want to get started with Tintin's books to start with ''Cigars of the Pharaoh,'' the first story where Hergé really tries to tell a coherent story with a beginning, middle and end. It helps that the events of these first three books are never mentioned by the other books in the franchise.
23* FashionVictimVillain: Roberto Rastapopoulos. In his first appearances he wears relatively normal business clothes, but he degenerates ''fast''. First, in his disguise as Marquis Gorgonzola, he wears a bizarre red and green outfit that includes a cape and a cowl with ''plummage'' (although he has the reasonable excuse of being at a costume party). In ''Flight 714'', he wears a hideous pink cowboy shirt, complete with hat, boots and bolo tie, and for some reason, carries around a riding crop, even though there's no horses around. Hergé himself said that he wanted to ridicule him and make him a "luxury cowboy" (sic).
24* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The franchise is insanely popular in the West Bengal state of UsefulNotes/{{India}}, to the point that Tintin is a cultural icon. The books are translated in Bengali and the Nelvana animated series has also been dubbed and aired in Bengali TV channels, with almost all of the characters' localised names from the comic books retained in the series. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that Creator/SatyajitRay was a big fan and had referenced the franchise in some of his works.
25** Considering how the Franco-Belgian comics are very obscure ([[NoExportForYou and only small portion of them are translated]]) in Japan, Tintin is relatively popular there (as a '''''picture book''''', though) and remembered for its [[{{Woolseyism}} well-made translation.]] The word “Bārō(バーロー),” a colloquial form of “Bakayaro(馬鹿野郎)” which means “stupid,” is often associated with Captain Haddock’s famous catchphrase [[note]]Of course <<<Mille milliards de mille sabords>> in French, or “Blistering Barnacles” in English [[/note]] which is translated as “Konkonnyarō no Bārō Misaki(コンコンニャローのバーロー岬)” roughly translated as “You stupid” and also works as a pun on the point Barrow (which is now called Utqiagvik) in Alaska, USA.
26* GeniusBonus:
27** Llamas are indeed even-toed ungulates.
28** While under the influence of truth serum, {{jerkass}} billionaire Carreidas in ''Flight 714'' goes on at tedious length about his first evil act - stealing a pear as a child. Stealing pears was also St. Augustine's (354-430) first step on the path of sin, according to his famous ''Confessions''.
29* GrowingTheBeard: After the first three books, the series picked up in terms of story quality. ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'' was the first story that attempted to be a cohesive storyline rather than just being a loose collection of set pieces based around a particular country. Hergé himself considered the following story, ''The Blue Lotus'' to be the point where the stories really started to get good.
30* HarsherInHindsight:
31** Most of ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' is laughably crude [[RedScare anti-communist]] propaganda, with [[BombThrowingAnarchists Soviet agents planning to blow up all the capitals of Europe]] and red soldiers trying to drown Snowy ForTheEvulz. They were largely lifted from a popular anti-Soviet pamphlet of the time and influenced by Hergé's employer, the right-wing Catholic publication ''Le Petit Vingtième''. Some scenes of the oppression in Stalinist Russia, however, are cases of AccidentallyCorrectWriting which ring painfully true, for instance when Tintin helps a kulak hide his grain from the bolscheviks. It has been estimated that half a million kulaks were killed and 1.8 million people starved to death due to forced collectivization and confiscations of grain in the early thirties.
32** Much of the shenanigans of [[RoyalBrat Abdullah]] became this as his inspiration, Faisal II, was overthrown and executed in 1958 (8 years after the original publication of ''Land of the Black Gold'').
33** Tintin's hunting of an elephant and a rhinoceros in the original, black-and-white version of ''Tintin in the Congo'', not least because of how the populations of both animals have dwindled in the years since the release of that version.
34** The plane hijacking in ''Flight 714'' and the real life hijacking of Flight 370 are so similar it's speculated the latter was inspired by the former.
35** The ending scene from ''Tintin and The Blue Lotus'', where Japan withdraws from the League of Nations along with its mistreatment of the Chinese becomes a ForegoneConclusion to its entry in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, along with the later years of the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar when reading it now. In particular, the book also represents the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and ends shortly before Japan started committing serious atrocities against the Chinese.
36* HilariousInHindsight:
37** The references to "coke" in ''The Red Sea Sharks''. At the time it was widely used to refer to as a derivative of coal, but nowadays "coke" usually refers to either Coca-Cola or cocaine. The latter interpretation makes Haddock's shocked reaction to Tintin's question if their ship is carrying any coke look particularly hilarious.
38** In ''The Castafiore Emerald'', Bianca Castafiore gives Haddock a violent and ill-tempered, red-feathered pet parrot [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} named Iago]]. Only applicable to the English translation, though; in the French version the parrot is named Coco.
39** Also in ''The Seven Crystal Balls'' and ''The Castafiore Emerald'', Captain Haddock, a character with black scruffy hair and beard, [[Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff falling down the stairs]]...
40** In ''Tintin In Congo'', Tintin is accompanied by a 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''.
41* HoYay:
42** Tintin's relationship with Captain Haddock gives many readers this impression. Neither characters shows any interest in women throughout the series, and a few books after Haddock buys Marlinspike Manor, Tintin moves in with him, and lives there with him.
43** Less obviously, Tintin and Chang from ''The Blue Lotus'' and ''Tintin in Tibet''.
44* InferredHolocaust: Happens at the start of the first Tintin story, ''Land of the Soviets'', as the train that Tintin is taking to the USSR gets blown up by a bomb, and all the passengers and crew are apparently killed (except for Tintin and Snowy, who survive... [[PlotArmor just because]], really).
45* ItWasHisSled: Everybody knows that Roberto Rastapopoulos is [[BigBad more than just a movie director]]...
46* MagnificentBastard:
47** "[[Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls The Seven Crystal Balls]]" and "[[Recap/TintinPrisonersOfTheSun Prisoners of the Sun]]": The story arc covered by these two books has this duo of Incan priests:
48*** Rupac Inca Huaco, or "Chiquito" is the more proactive of the duo. Seeking retribution against a team of European explorers for desecrating the tomb of Rascar Capac, he travels to Europe and works undercover as Ramon Zarate's assistant, to use the titular crystal balls to put the explorers in a coma and torment them using wax figures. He also kidnaps Professor Calculus for putting on a bracelet belonging to the former king, and smuggles him to Peru with the intention of executing him for sacrilege. However, when Tintin tells the Incan Prince that the explorers were well-intentioned people who wanted to educate the world about the Incan Civilization, Chiquito willingly destroys the figures upon the prince's orders, freeing his victims from their curse.
49*** Huascar is Chiquito's fellow priest who is introduced in "Prisoners of the Sun". Initially spying on Tintin and Haddock while they are looking for Professor Calculus in Peru, Huascar attempts to get them off the trail by sabotaging their train ride, almost succeeding in sending them plummeting to their deaths. However, upon seeing Tintin defend Zorrino from a pair of Spanish bullies, Huascar's views on him soften and he tries to talk him out of looking for Calculus, warning him that the journey will be dangerous. When Tintin insists on continuing his search, Huascar gives him a medallion to protect him from the wrath of the Incan prince, and personally vouches for Tintin after the latter accidentally breaks into the Temple of the Sun.
50** "[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714 to Sydney]]": Mik Kanrotikoff (Ezdanitoff in the French version) acts as the middle-man between Earth's scientists and aliens formerly worshiped by the residents of Pulau-pulau Bompa. He uses a telepathic transmitter to communicate with the aliens and is introduced telepathically instructing Tintin on how to find him. He saves Tintin and company from a volcanic eruption by hypnotizing them into entering a flying saucer, erasing their memory of the events of the story, and depositing them on a dinghy in the ocean, though still leaving them dazed and at the mercy of the volcano.
51* MandelaEffect: The title character is often thought to have orange-red hair. Throughout the original comic, he is actually a blonde, though sometimes strawberry blonde and sometimes even ''brown-haired''. Animated screen adaptations usually [[AdaptationDyeJob make him a full-on redhead]].
52* MemeticMutation:
53** The comics' covers are a huge source of parodies. The most parodied cover is the one from ''Explorers on the Moon'', originally titled ''On a marché sur la lune'' (We walked on the moon), whose title is a source of parody on its own right.
54** "[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ha-ha-ha-oh-wow HA HA HA, OH WOW]]", an edit of two panels from ''Destination Moon'' of Captain Haddock laughing at Prof. Calculus's plans to build a moon rocket.
55** "Caramba! Encore raté!" ("Caramba! Missed again!") from ''Broken Ear'', whenever a plan fails or a target is missed.
56** The Thompsons' catchphrase "Je dirais même plus..." (To be precise...)
57** Many of Haddock's {{Character Catchphrase}}s, e.g. "Thundering typhoons!" or "Blistering barnacles!"
58** Among French commentators, Captain Haddock's bandaid in ''The Calculus Affair'' is sometimes used as a comparison to any particularly sticky scandal that may plague a politician and that just won't go away.
59** From the Nelvana animated adaptation of ''Prisoners of the Sun'': "Tomorrow's the sixteenth! EUREKA! We're saved!"
60** [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh What a week, huh?. Captain, it's Wednesday]].
61** "Where do you think we are?": A fan-made drawing that recreates the WhamLine from the ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' episode [[Recap/ScrubsS3E14MyScrewUp "My Screw-Up"]], with Tintin as JD and Captain Haddock as Dr. Cox.
62** A number of comics turning characters into parodies of themselves (Tintin as a racist ImmoralJournalist actively causing diplomatic tensions so he'd have something to report on, Haddock as an upper-class reactionary, Castafiore as a rapper, etc) by Un Faux Graphiste attracted some attention when Hergé's estate threatened to sue if they weren't removed.
63* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales:
64** Once the colonialist propaganda was [[CanonDiscontinuity excised from later editions of]] ''Tintin in the Congo'', it actually became popular in parts of Francophone Africa, most egregiously, ''in former Belgian Congo itself''. (Those caricatured natives? Obviously they represent that other tribe; [[ValuesDissonance Tribe A is often perfectly fine with mocking Tribe B, vice versa, and they're both often fine with mocking Tribe C]].) However, others don't see the editing as enough.
65** It happens on almost every country that Tintin has been to. Peruvians adore the Temple of the Sun storyline for portraying their country and the Incan culture mostly accurately and not romanticizing the Spanish conquista. Similarly, Tintin is also liked a lot in China and Tibet.
66** Despite its antagonistic portrayal and [[AsianBuckTeeth a borderline racist facial trait]], Mitsuhirato from ''[[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus The Blue Lotus]]'' is very popular among Japanese Tintin fanbase, since Japanese people aren’t much represented in the series (and Tintin has never been to Japan). His [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign pseudo Japanese-sounding name which doesn’t actually exist in real Japanese names]] sounded funny for the Japanese as well.
67* NotSoCrazyAnymore: In "Destination Moon", Captain Haddock spends a lot of time mocking Professor Calculus for saying that travel to the moon is possible. When the book was published, in 1953, this was understandable, but after 1969, ''Haddock'' seems like the crazy one...
68* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Young readers who have seen many adventure comics/cartoons may find Tintin to be cliché - despite Hergé trail-blazing some of those ideas.
69* OneSceneWonder: The [[DrivesLikeCrazy insane]] Italian driver [[OverlyLongName Arturo Benedetto Giovanni Giuseppe Pietro Archangelo Alfredo Cartoffoli da Milano]] from ''The Calculus Affair''.
70* TheScrappy: Jolyon Wagg is considered annoying by both the in-universe characters and the readers.
71* ValuesDissonance:
72** Herge usually tried to avert it, but if there is some, it's there '''''big time'''''. For instance, ''Tintin in the Congo''. Where he does everything dissonant known to 21st century man: Blowing up a rhino by drilling dynamite holes into it, shooting an ape to use his skin as camouflage, all the way down to teaching native children imperialist Belgian ideology. Fabulous, eh? Note that this was mostly forced onto him by ExecutiveMeddling. In no small due to this, Hergé himself would [[CreatorBacklash later look quite negatively back at the story]], calling it "paternalistic" and "bourgeois".
73** The Japanese are portrayed as many a [[YellowPeril big-toothed]] {{Jerkass}} in ''The Blue Lotus''. This is because the album came out during the brutal invasion and occupation of China by Imperial Japan, who committed horrific atrocities on the civilian population, such as the Nanking massacre. As such, that unflattering depiction is a scathing indictment of Japanese imperialism at the time and no different from similar depictions of Nazi Germany. [[note]]For comparison, in the ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', there is a sympathetic Japanese character, who appears in the very beginning and the very end, who is not caricatured and is not a JerkAss of any sort, nor is he aligned with Imperial Japan.[[/note]] Modern readers, however, would likely see the ''visual'' caricature as racist and wrong.
74*** The main reason for the representations of the normal Chinese and caricatural Japanese in ''Blue Lotus'' was due to a Chinese student offering to help Hergé with his research precisely because he was afraid of the stereotyping being as bad as ''Congo''. Hergé put him in the story as Chang in thanks.
75** [[DirtyCommunists About]] [[RedScare everything]] in ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets''.
76** Or in ''The Shooting Star'' (published during WWII, when Belgium was occupied by Germany), where Tintin's expedition's nemesis is a certain [[{{Eagleland}} American]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive industrialist]] called [[GreedyJew Blumenstein]]. In the later versions, the country was renamed [[BananaRepublic Sao Rico]] and Blumenstein was renamed Bohlwinkel (which [[NotHelpingYourCase incidentally is]] ''also'' a jewish surname, but Herge supposedly [[InnocentlyInsensitive did not know this at the time]]).
77** Or when the world was allegedly going to end in the same album, and two stereotypical Jews are seen talking about it, one of them saying that would spare him paying a debt to another Jew. Those were erased from post-World War II editions.
78** The English translation used "Aborigine" and "Tribe of Polynesians" among Captain Haddock's many unusual insults. Back then, it may not have been a big deal, but now it makes him look unacceptably (and uncharacteristically) racist.
79** Tintin even wears {{blackface}} to spy on the villains in ''The Broken Ear''. This was thankfully replaced by a wig, mustache and glasses in the Nelvana adaptation.
80** There's a scene in ''Land of Black Gold'' where Tintin ''beats a child'' in a manner apparently so violent that it happens off-screen (we're shown the door of the room, with the sounds of smacking, and the next panel shows the child in tears). It's played for laughs, and never mentioned again. Later in the same book Haddock spanks the same child..
81* ValuesResonance: On the other hand, while the stories are old and filled with antique prejudices of the era, a lot of the messages found in them can also be found engaging and relevant today:
82** The criticism of Japan's invasion of China in ''The Blue Lotus'', considering the rise of revisionism in Japan, especially far-right politicians and trolls (netouyo). 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.
83** While the Captain's alcoholism is often treated as a joke, it's also shown as a hindrance for the characters in their adventures, and a big part of Haddock's development throughout the series is to learn to not be so dependent on the drink.
84** Portraying the Incas and their descendants as rightfully wary of foreigners due to their past with the Spaniards, and criticizing the European exploitation of Peru and its rich culture in ''The Seven Crystal Balls'' / ''Prisoners of the Sun''. It's exemplified the best in the scene that opens the first book, where the gentleman sitting next to Tintin calls out the desecration of Rascar Capac's tomb, and later the scene where Tintin saves Zorrino from being bullied by two Criollo-looking men. Additionally, the Incans were ''not'' demonised for protecting their heritage - and the expedition was done in the name of teaching the world what the Incans were ''actually'' like.
85** Believing in the Roma's innocence and not supporting the Thompsons' racist accusations in ''The Castafiore Emerald''.
86** Not caring for either Alcazar ''or'' Tapioca's regime in ''Tintin and the Pícaros'', since at the end of the day both leaders still abandon the poorer sections of the population to cater to their own whims and to the richer classes.
87** In general, after the stories of Congo and America, Herge just put a lot more of research into his stories, making the world and characters come off as unique and realistic. Considering how many modern authors nowadays barely do a thing of research and leave their token characters to be mere stereotypes, this is more impressive to consider.
88* VanillaProtagonist: The title character is calm, levelheaded, and lacking in quirks, making the colorful and wacky supporting cast stand out more in comparison.
89* ViewerNameConfusion: Non-European people tend to write Tintin's name as [=TinTin=] or Tin Tin.
90* VillainDecay: Rastapopoulos to a tee. In his earlier appearances, he is a powerful, deceptive and menacing {{chessmaster}}. Flight 714 sees him reduced to a pathetically short-tempered pink cowboy who can't think even one step ahead (he's still pretty evil though, as he is quick to tell us). His [[TheDragon dragon]] Allan falls prey to this too, becoming nothing more than a dumb and cowardly henchman. Note that this was [[InvokedTrope done on purpose;]] Hergé deliberately decided to ridicule his villains at this point.
91* VindicatedByHistory: While the series was never poorly received in the States and English Canada, it was pretty obscure owing mostly to its very limited run. (Meaning you had to hope your library had copies or pay pretty steep prices in online auctions.) After its reprints in TheNewTens, it's now one of the few Franco-Belgian comics some people in North America can even ''name''.
92* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: For a series primarily aimed at younger audiences, it features some heavily mature undertones such as gun violence, drug usage, organized crime, political conflicts and even terrorism. It also isn't shy of showing near-death experiences, and goes as far as directly or indirectly showing a few characters's deaths. The earliest albums are even guilty of overt propaganda, promoting colonialism and feature racist depictions of certain ethnic groups like the Congolese and the Japanese. Then again, ''Tintin'' is from Belgium, and Europe is relatively permissive when it comes to content for children.
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94!!Ellipse-Nelvana animated series
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96See [[YMMV/TheAdventuresOfTintin1991 here]].
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98!!2011 Film
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100See [[YMMV/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011 here]].
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102!!Other adaptations
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104* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V77_-L70IsE bombastic theme]] from the ''Lake of Sharks'' animated movie.
105* {{Narm}}: The audio dramas give us a couple.
106** In ''The Black Island'', Puschov shouting "CURSES!" to the Thomson twins' "To be precise…" moment is Narmy enough, but there's also the fact that it sound suspiciously like they used the same audio clip twice:
107--->'''Thomson:''' Hands up!\
108'''Puschov:''' CURSES!\
109'''Thompson:''' To be precise; up hands!\
110'''Puschov:''' ''<exactly the same as before>'' CURSES!
111** From ''The Castafiore Emerald'', someone in the TV crew gives us this gem, all the while sounding like he's on the verge of bursting into tears:
112--->[[LargeHam "HEY! WHAT'S THE IDEA?! SOMEONE'S RRRUNNING ARRROUND IN THE DAARRRRK!"]]
113* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: ''Tintin and the Sun Temple'' was the only Belvision production that Hergé himself was involved in, and is generally regarded as the best of them by far.
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