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Being the main character of all the adventures, what we can say about Tintin is really less than any other character in all the volumns. He is always righteous and smart. What makes him a real man is his friendship with Chang, the only person for whom he ever shed tears in The Blue Lotus and Tintin in Tibet. |
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The white fox-terrier Snowy is the most important and lovely role in the stories (besides Tintin, of course). Although his companion and whisky addiction are mostly replaced by Captain Haddock after the first few albums, he is always Tintin's biggest help, when he's not hunting for a bone. He is called Milou in French, but I prefer his English name much more. |
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Captain Haddock became the indispensable companion to Tintin from The Crab with the Golden Claws. He never really helped or saved Tintin as Snowy always has(only except in The Red Sea Sharks when he acted like a real captain to steer the ship away from the torpedos), but his passionate expressions(taken from Ahmed Fasih's site) and penchant for whiskey turned to be almost as important as the stories themselves. |
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Professor Cuthbert Calculus is the God, except that he's deaf. The absent-minded professor type appeared as the professor who climbed up a lamp post and greeted the parrot in The Broken Ears, and Professor in King Ottokar's Sceptre. Hergé didn't seem to be satisfied with these occasional charaters, so Professor Calculus appeared in Red Rackham's Treasure, with Professor's near-sight transformed into deafness. His inventions are numerous and crucial to most stories: The pendulum and shark submarine (besides the washing machine and wall bed) in Red Rackham's Treasure, the nuclear powered rocket in the moon series, the ultrasonic weapon in The Calculus Affair, the pure white rose in The Castafiore Emerald, and the antialcohol chemical in Tintin and the Picaros. He is also very sentimental and sensitive, as he fell in love with Castafiore simply because he's the only one who cannot hear her voice. |
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Dupont and Dupond are nothing but a pair of sheer idiots -- the most adorable idiots ever. They first attempted to arrest Tintin in Cigars of the Pharaoh, inadvertently won a flight competetion in The Black Island, walked into the sea from a flying boat in King Ottokar's Sceptre, had dozens of their wallets stolen in The Secret of the Unicorn, couldn't stop pumping in Red Rackham's Treasure, swallowed Dr. Muller's Formula 14 in Land of Black Gold, caught a skeleton in Destination Moon, danced on the moon in Explorers on the Moon, lost the emerald in the grass in The Castafiore Emerald, and gave the famous last works "Kiss me, Dupont" in Tintin and the Picaros. Some of their fancy costumes are here. And some of their trade-mark expression "To be precise..." are here(again, taken from Ahmed Fasih's site). |
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First appeared in Cigars of the Pharaoh as a film tycoon, king of Cosmos Pictures, Rastapopoulos is also the king of drug smugglers and other evil deeds. He also appeared in The Blue Lotus, The Red Sea Sharks, and at last in Flight 714 when he and his fellow villains are captured by an extraterrestrial spaceship. His real character comes out during his encounter with millionaire misanthrope Carreidas when they argue as to who is the devil incarnate, one of the funniest scene in all the albums. |
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Alan first appeared in Cigars of the Pharaoh as the captain of smuggling ship Sereno, he is always Rastapopoulos's first aide but never does anything good for his boss, especially in Flight 714 when he threw a grenade away and accidentally shredded Rastapopoulos, and made a precise analogy between a proboscis monkey and Rastapopoulos. He introduced Captain Haddock into the world in The Crab with the Golden Claws, being his First Mate on Karaboudjan. |
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The Milanese Nightingale's arrival and the sound of her voice are akin to a cyclone in King Ottokar's Sceptre, The Seven Crystal Balls(a duet with Snowy), The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea Shark, even in the snow mountains in Tintin in Tibet. In The Castafiore Emerald, Bianca Castafiore became the main character of the sitcom. Her imprisonment in The Republic of San Theodoros started the whole story of Tintin and the Picaros, in which her singing in the court terminated the session. |
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Nestor is always the most faithful butler, for both the dubious Bird brothers and Captain Haddock. He always withstands every ordeal with a perfect calmness, no matter it's the millions of calls for Mr. Cutts the Butcher, Princess Abdullah's ingenius pranks, or Jolyon Wagg's "little brood". |
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Jolyon Wagg first bumped into The Calculus Affair, and can't be got rid of ever since. He always shows up when and where he's the last person you want to meet, bringing his brood to Marlinspike in The Calculus Affair, organizing a rally of the Vagabond Car Club in The Red Sea Sharks, selling insurance to Castafiore in The Castafiore Emerald, but except in Tintin and the Picaros where his clown band enabled General Alcazar's revolution. His moronic presence brings a lot more realism into the stories, because he's the one that we're most likely to come across on any corner in the world. |
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General Alcazar's up-and-down power struggle with General Tapioca started in The Broken Ears. He was banished to be a knife-thrower in The Seven Crystal Balls, and bought some planes in The Red Sea Sharks. His personalities were fully shown in Tintin and the Picaros as a tradition follower, an ambitious commander, and an uxorious husband. The bloodless revolution will gain him a longer reign, hopefully. |
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Senhor Oliveira de Figueira first appeared in Cigar of the Pharaoh carrying the solo supermarket into the desert. He then showed himself as a maginificent story-tellor in Land of Black Gold to help Tintin. Once more in The Red Sea Sharks he saved Tintin and Captain Haddock using all his pitchers. |
 1929Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (δ³ö�æ) |
 1930Tintin in the Congo ¶¡¶¡ÔÚ¸Õ�û |
 1931Tintin in America ¶¡¶¡ÔÚÃÀÖ� |
 1932Cigar of the Pharaoh ÉñÃØμÄÑ©ÇÑ |
 1935The Blue Lotus À¶Á«»� |
 1935The Broken Ear Æƶú¶äμĹÊ� |
 1937The Black Island �Úμ� |
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 1940The Crab with the Golden Claws �ìÇ�ó¦Ð� |
 1941The Shooting Star ÉñÃØμÄ�Ç�Ç |
 1946The Secret of the Unicorn ¶À�ÇÊÞºÅμÄÃØÃÜ |
 1946Red Rackham's Treasure �£μÁ�§±� |
 1948The Seven Crystal Balls Æß�öË®¾§Çò |
 1948Prisoners of the Sun Ì�ÑôμÄÇôÍ� |
 1950Land of Black Gold ÔÚ�Ú½ðÖ®¹ú |
 1953Destination Moon �ÉÏòÔÂÇò |
 1953Explorers on the Moon ÔÂÇòÌ�Ï� |
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