Index of characters by album
''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets''
* Tintin * Snowy *Vlipvlop (Coloured version: Wirchwlov) *Nokzitov (Coloured version: Lulitzosov) *Vladimir *Borschtisov (Coloured version: Boustringovitch) ----''Tintin in the Congo''
* Tintin * Snowy * Coco *''Tintin in America''
* Tintin * Snowy * Big Chief Keen-eyed-Mole * Bobby Smiles *''Cigars of the Pharaoh''
* Tintin * Snowy * Thomson and Thompson * Sophocles Sarcophagus * The fakir * The gunrunner * Allan * Rastapopoulos * Patrash Pasha * Mr. and Mrs. Snowball * Oliveira da Figueira * Maharaja of Gaipajama * Crown prince of Gaipajama * Reverend Peacock * Zloty * Studios Hergé members (cameo) ----''The Blue Lotus''
* Tintin * Snowy * Thomson and Thompson * Maharaja of Gaipajama * Crown prince of Gaipajama * Chang Chong-Chen *''The Broken Ear''
* Tintin * Snowy * Alonso Pérez and Ramón Bada * Rodrigo Tortilla * General Alcazar * General Tapioca * Trickler * Corporal Diaz * Basil Bazarov * Pablo * Ridgewell * The Arumbayas * The Rumbabas * Caraco * Karamelo * Thomson and Thompson * Professor Euclide * Ernestine * Colonel Barker * Colonel Jimenez * Colonel Juanitos * Jacob Balthazar * J. Balthazar * A.J. Walker * Lopez * Rodriguez *Samuel Goldbarr ----''The Black Island''
* Tintin * Snowy * Thomson and Thompson *''King Ottokar's Sceptre''
* Tintin * Snowy * Thomson and Thompson *''The Crab with the Golden Claws''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Thomson and Thompson * Omar Ben Salaad * Allan * Mrs. Finch *''The Shooting Star''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Bohlwinkel *''The Secret of the Unicorn''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Thomson and Thompson *''Red Rackham's Treasure''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus * Thomson and Thompson * Bill the cook *''The Seven Crystal Balls''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus * Thomson and Thompson *''Prisoners of the Sun''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus * Thomson and Thompson * Chiquito * Huascar *''Land of Black Gold''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus * Thomson and Thompson * Ben Kalish Ezab * Abdullah *''Destination Moon''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus * Thomson and Thompson *''Explorers on the Moon''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus * Thomson and Thompson *''The Calculus Affair''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus * Thomson and Thompson * Bianca Castafiore * Irma * Igor Wagner *''The Red Sea Sharks''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * General Alcazar * Dawson (as Debrett) * Ben Kalish Ezab * Abdullah *''Tintin in Tibet''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Tharkey * Blessed Lightning * Grand Abbot * Chang Chong-Chen * The yeti * Professor Calculus *Chang Lin-Yee * Bianca Castafiore (cameo) ----''The Castafiore Emerald''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus * Thomson and Thompson * Bianca Castafiore * Irma * Igor Wagner *''Flight 714 to Sydney''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus *#Laszlo Carreidas, Laszlo Carreidas *''Tintin and the Picaros''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Professor Calculus * Thomson and Thompson * General Alcazar * General Tapioca *#Colonel Alvarez, Colonel Alvarez *#The Picaros, The Picaros * Pablo * Bianca Castafiore * The Jolly Follies *''Tintin and Alph-Art''
* Tintin * Snowy * Captain Haddock * Bianca Castafiore *Main characters
Tintin
Snowy
Captain Haddock
Professor Calculus
Thomson and Thompson
Bianca Castafiore
Rastapopoulos
Chang Chong-Chen
Nestor
Jolyon Wagg
Antagonists
Al Capone
Al Capone is a Chicago crime boss and the main villain in ''Tintin in the Congo'' and ''Tintin in America''. In ''Tintin in the Congo'', he runs a criminal diamond smuggling operation, trying to gain control of African diamond production. He orders thugs to face Tintin in ''Tintin in America''. Capone's main rival in Chicago is Bobby Smiles. Tintin arrests 355 members of Capone's Central Syndicate of Chicago Gangsters. Capone himself is tied up by Tintin and arrested, but he escapes. The character Al Capone is based on the real-life Al Capone of Chicago. Al Capone was alive in 1931 when Hergé depicted him in his comics. It would be the last real-life individual to appear as a character in the ''Adventures'' under their real name.Allan Thompson
Allan Thompson, commonly Allan, is a British-American criminal henchman and merchant seaman, often involved in smuggling and other criminal activities. His complete name is Allan Thompson in the original French, but English translations leave out his surname to avoid confusion with the detectives Thomson and Thompson. Originally, Allan was the treacherous first mate of Captain Haddock in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', keeping him drunk and running the ship to smuggle opium, Allan takes orders from Omar Ben Salaad. He appears retroactively when Hergé redrew the earlier adventure ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'', as he was not in the original. The following year, Hergé featured him in ''The Red Sea Sharks'' in league with Rastapopoulos, where his ship is used in slave trading. In ''Flight 714 to Sydney'', he is Rastapopoulos' main accomplice. He is shown savagely beaten after escaping the #The Sondonesians, Sondonesians, causing him to suffer a loss of his teeth (the original French version specifies that he lost his dentures). He escapes a volcanic eruption and flees in a rubber raft with the other criminals, but he and his accomplices are hypnotised and compelled to board a spaceship, whisking them away to an unknown fate. Also, he neither appeared in ''Tintin and Alph-Art'', nor was he supposed to appear, but in Rodier's version of ''Tintin and Alph-Art'', Allan quit his life as a mariner and became a mailman in the mainland United States. At some point, Rastapopoulos attempted to reach out to Allan and offer him a job, but Allan refused to return to the criminal empire. In another completed version of that unfinished comic by a writer using the pseudonym Ramó Nash, Allan is again portrayed as an associate of Rastapopoulos. Allan is portrayed by Daniel Mays in the motion capture film ''The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn''.Alonso Pérez and Ramón Bada
(french: link=no, Alonzo Perez et Ramon Bada) Alonso Pérez and Ramón Bada are the chief antagonists in ''The Broken Ear''. They discover that a diamond is being concealed in a fetishism, fetish and do anything to possess it. Pérez, an engineer, is the leader of the two. Bada, the follower, is a knife thrower, and uses more Spanish in his speech than Pérez. While fighting with Tintin in hand-to-hand combat for the diamond, Ramón and Alonso fall into the sea, each clutching whom they believe is Tintin, and drown. They are last seen being taken to Hell by smiling winged demons.Colonel Alvarez
Colonel Alvarez is the polite aide-de-camp to General Tapioca who appears in ''Tintin and the Picaros''. He is the one who receives Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus when they arrive in San Theodoros and takes them to their apartment. When he is first introduced in the adventure, he seems to be friendly and good-natured, which impresses the Captain. However, it is then revealed that Alvarez is a part of the plot orchestrated by Colonel Sponsz to eliminate Tintin, the Captain, and the Professor, and Alvarez is enraged when his men fail. When General Tapioca is overthrown, Alvarez shifts over to Alcazar's side, even expressing disappointment that Tapioca will not be executed. He then assists Tintin and the Captain in rescuing Thomson and Thompson and also freeing Bianca Castafiore and her entourage.Bab El Ehr
Sheikh Bab El Ehr is an Arab people, Arab insurgent who fights Emir Ben Kalish Ezab, ruler of the fictional Arabian state of Khemed; though overall he comes across as a villain rather than a noble fighter. In ''Land of Black Gold'', he is shown allied withBarnaby
(french: link=no, Barnabé) Barnaby is the man hired by the antique dealers, theBasil Bazarov
(french: link=no, Basil Bazaroff) Basil Bazarov (formerly Mazarov in an early edition) of the Korrupt Arms Company (Vicking Arms Company in the French edition) is a German arms dealer who appears in ''The Broken Ear''. He sells weapons to both sides of the conflict between San Theodoros and neighbouring Nuevo-Rico. He also works with his associate Mr. Trickler in an attempt to bring an end to their mutual enemy Tintin. Hergé's Basil Bazarov was "characterised in every detail" by the real life Greek Vickers Limited, Vickers arms dealer Basil Zaharoff, who profited by selling weapons to both sides of the conflict between Bolivia and neighbouring Paraguay during the War of the Gran Chaco (in ''The Broken Ear'', Bazarov fuels the "War of the Gran Chapo"). Sir Basil Zaharoff enjoyed a good reputation at the time ''The Broken Ear'' appeared; he was made a Legion of Honour, Grand-officier de la Légion d'honneur and made member of the Order of the British Empire.Big Chief Keen-eyed-Mole
(french: link=no, Taupe-au-regard-perçant) Big Chief Keen-eyed Mole is the sachem of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Blackfoot Native Americans in the United States and is convinced by crime boss Bobby Smiles that Tintin is attempting to steal their land. He addresses Tintin as "paleface" and plans to execute him using a tomahawk. Tintin then flicks resin at the Chief, who believes that it was done by other members of the tribe using slingshots, and escapes while they all exchange blows. After coming around, Keen-eyed Mole realises that Tintin discovered the secret cave after Smiles speaks with him. He decides to leave the reporter in the hole, and is last seen being forced to leave by the military after an oil discovery in the area.Bird brothers
(french: link=no, Les frères Loiseau) The Bird brothers, Max and G. Bird (french: link=no, Maxime et G. Loiseau) are the main adversaries in ''The Secret of the Unicorn''. They are antique dealers who learn about a treasure left by the pirateBobby Smiles
Bobby Smiles is a Chicago crime boss whose rival isBohlwinkel
Mr. Bohlwinkel is a financier from the fictitious South American country São Rico, who appears in ''The Shooting Star''. As the owner of a major banking concern and a petroleum firm called Golden Oil, he uses his wealth and resources to attempt to beat Tintin and his friends in the race to find a recently fallen meteorite. Apart from financing the exploratory vessel ''Peary'', he unsuccessfully attempts to sabotage the competing expedition's ship ''Aurora'', helmed by Captain Haddock. This includes depositing lit dynamite onto its deck (which Snowy puts out), instructing another ship under his control to ram the ''Aurora'' during a storm, refusing to allow the ''Aurora'' to refuel at a Golden Oil depot (only to have Haddock's old friend Captain Chester fuel the ''Aurora'' by siphoning oil being pumped into his tanks), and sending a fake S.O.S. to throw the ''Aurora'' off course (Tintin contacting multiple shipping agencies to determine that the ship and company that sent the distress call do not exist). ''The Shooting Star'' ends with a dismayed Bohlwinkel listening to a radio announcement that reveals that the police are onto him. Bohlwinkel has physical traits reflecting a stereotypes of Jews, stereotypical Jews, Jew in themes in Nazi propaganda#Jews, Nazi propaganda. In the original edition of ''The Shooting Star'' published during World War II, he was named Blumenstein, an American Jew from a bank in New York. For the later edition of the book, Hergé altered the financier's antecedents by relocating him to the fictitious South American country São Rico and changing his name to a Brabantian dialect word for "sweet shop": ''bollewinkel'', also modifying the spelling of the new name. After the edition was published, Hergé subsequently learnt that Bohlwinkel is a Jewish surname.Chiquito
Chiquito, or Rupac Inca Huaco, is a full-blooded Peruvian Quechua people, Quechua and one of the last descendants of the Incas. He is first seen as the sidekick to General Alcazar in ''The Seven Crystal Balls'' and is ultimately seen as a leading member of the Incas in ''Prisoners of the Sun''. He assists General Alcazar in his knife-throwing act, but this serves as a cover since Chiquito, unknown to the General, is out to punish theDawson
Mr. J.M. Dawson is the corrupt British Chief of Police of the Shanghai International Settlement in ''The Blue Lotus''. In revenge for Tintin's rebuking of his American friend, businessman Mr.Corporal Diaz
(french: link=no, Caporal Diaz) Corporal Diaz was a colonel for General Alcazar until Alcazar demoted him to corporal, replacing him with Tintin, after Diaz complained to the general that San Theodoros had too many colonels and too few corporals (''The Broken Ear''). In revenge, Diaz engaged in repeated, unsuccessful assassination attempts against Alcazar. Diaz expired in the last attempt when the bomb he planted exploded prematurely. Alcazar had just arrested and sentenced Tintin to death due to faked evidence, and had just promoted Corporal Diaz back to colonel.Endaddine Akass
Endaddine Akass is a guru and main antagonist of the unfinished book ''Tintin and Alph-Art'', the last of '' The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé. An odd-looking man with a large nose, long hair, beard, moustache, and large spectacles, Endaddine Akass holds a conference on "Health and Magnetism" for crowds of followers including Bianca Castafiore. Tintin recognises his voice. He could be Dr. Müller or Max Bird, but more than likely he is Rastapopoulos in disguise. His name, like many in the series, is based upon the Brussels patois ''marols''. In the two completed versions of ''Tintin and Alph-Art'' by Yves Rodier and a pseudonymous writer called Ramó Nash, respectively, Endaddine is indeed revealed to be Rastapopoulos. "They'll never take me alive!" he says in the dramatic conclusion.The fakir
The fakir is the loincloth-wearing asceticism, ascetic appearing in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'' as a high-ranking member of an opium smuggling ring. He shoots darts soaked in the dangerous Rajaijah juice that drives people mad. Among his talents are hypnosis, the Indian rope trick, and escapology (to the point where he is offended by Tintin thinking he could tie him up). He is eventually captured when the leader accidentally knocks him out with a rock that had been intended for Tintin. When the ''Blue Lotus'' was originally published in black-and-white, the fakir tells his boss on the phone how he intends to bribe an asylum guard into arranging Tintin's "suicide". It is also later hinted that he is the chairman of the meeting of the hooded leaders of the drug cartel. In the sequel ''The Blue Lotus'', the fakir escapes from prison and again uses his darts to poison a Chinese man sent to warn Tintin againstGibbons
Mr. W.R. Gibbons is an American steel trader in ''The Blue Lotus''. Gibbons is portrayed as an overweight, loud-mouthed, racist bigot. He is rude and abusive to a Chinese rickshaw driver, prompting Tintin to intercede. Gibbons also physically assaults a Chinese waiter at the "Occidental Private Club". He reports Tintin to the Japanese authorities in retaliation only to be arrested as a liar when his information is found inaccurate. He is a friend of the Shanghai police chief Dawson who arranges for Gibbons to be released in return for expelling Tintin from the International Settlement into Japanese hands. In the unfinished adventure ''Tintin and Alph-Art'', Haddock and Tintin visit Bianca Castafiore at an island villa. There they meet a number of guests, including Mr. Gibbons; "He's in import-export", Castafiore says. Not to be confused with another Gibbons, who is an American criminal worker affiliated with Al Capone and appears only in ''Tintin in the Congo''.The gunrunner
The gunrunner, who appears in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'', is an arms trafficking, arms trafficker who rescues Tintin from a storm at sea, then turns him over to his enemies when Tintin discovers his weapons of contraband. After he and his men learn that Thomson and Thompson are about to board his ship, he escapes. He is based on the real life French gunrunner Henry de Monfreid, a writer and adventurer whom Hergé initially admired. When Hergé learnt that Monfreid was providing guns for war, his attitude about him changed.Hans Boehm
Hans Boehm, who appears briefly in ''Flight 714 to Sydney'', is one of the pilots and aircraft hijacking, hijackers of that flight. Rastapopoulos planned to eliminate him and the other conspirators.Huascar
Huascar, in ''Prisoners of the Sun'', is one of the last descendants of the Incas, who worship the Sun in a hidden city in the mountains. Wearing a hat and poncho, Huascar watches Tintin and Captain Haddock when they arrive in Peru to rescue Professor Calculus. He listens in on their conversation with the chief of police and follows them through the streets of Callao. At Santa-Clara, he arranges a train "accident" that nearly gets them killed by threatening a guard with the consequences of disobeying the orders of the Inca. At Jauga, however, he sees Tintin defending a young orange seller namedIvan
Ivan is a character who appears in ''The Black Island''. He is a chauffeur and henchman of the villainous psychiatristColonel Jorgen
Colonel Boris Jorgen is a sworn enemy of Tintin. They first meet in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'', where he is known as Colonel Boris and is a relatively minor character, supposedly in the service ofJumbo
Jumbo is a henchman of Allan while aboard the ''Karaboudjan'' in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws''. Allan asks him to watch for Tintin to return through a porthole window, while Tintin emerges instead from his hiding place under the bed. Allan returns to find him tied up with ropes. Jumbo was a black African people, African man in the original serialisations, but Hergé's American publishers objected to any depiction of the mixing of races. Hergé redrew Jumbo and another sailor as Arab people, Arab but kept the accompanying text intact, which resulted in Haddock continuing to refer to the Arab man as a "Negro".Dr. Krollspell
Dr. Krollspell is a German psychiatry, doctor and associate of Tintin's enemy Rastapopoulos in ''Flight 714 to Sydney'', but he later changes sides when it is in his best interest to turn from his employer. Krollspell is an ex-Nazi Germany, Nazi scientist, probably based on Josef Mengele or Adolf Hitler's personal doctor, Theodor Morell. In an interview, Hergé himself suggested that Krollspell had worked in a Nazi concentration camps, concentration camp—''Flight 714 to Sydney'' having been published some 20 years after the World War II, war. The name "Krollspell" is Brussels dialect for ''krulspeld'', which means "hair roller, hair curler". Dr. Krollspell is the head of a psychiatric clinic in New Delhi (Cairo in the English version). He developed a truth serum that Rastapopoulos intends to use on kidnapped millionaire #Laszlo Carreidas, Laszlo Carreidas in order to learn where Carreidas had left a large part of his personal fortune. However, when Rastapopoulos was injected with the serum by accident and "confessed" that he planned to eliminate Krollspell rather than pay him for his assistance, Krollspell joined forces with Tintin and his allies to try to escape from the island. Before the eruption of the volcano, Krollspell is taken away by the aliens along with Rastapopoulos and his gang. By the end of the adventure, a news programme announces that Krollspell was found near his clinic with no memory of how he got there. Krollspell is depicted in some sketches of the unfinished ''Tintin and Alph-Art''.Krônik and Klûmsi
(french: link=no, Kronick et Himmerszeck) Krônik and Klûmsi are inept Bordurian ZEP Secret Police agents ostensibly assigned by Colonel Sponsz to ensure Tintin and Captain Haddock's safety and well-being during their visit to the Bordurian capital Szohôd in ''The Calculus Affair''. Their real objective is to prevent the two visitors from making indiscreet inquiries in their hunt for Professor Calculus. Tintin and Haddock neutralise the agents by plying them with drinks at dinner and then locking them in their respective hotel rooms. Their names are undoubtedly puns on "chronic" and "clumsy". They appear to be the Bordurian equivalents of Thomson and Thompson.Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch
(french: link=no, Maréchal Plekszy-Gladz) Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch is dictator of the fictional regime of Borduria. Although he never appears as a character in the series, he is mentioned by name and glimpsed in statues and portraits in ''The Calculus Affair'' and ''Tintin and the Picaros''. His English name is an allusion to his curved moustache, which also appears as a stylised circumflex mark in the Bordurian language (an example can be seen in his name). Bordurians are often heard swearing "by the whiskers of Kûrvi-Tasch". The original French name plays on the word plexiglass, the "artificial plasticity" of his character. Kûrvi-Tasch's Bordurian government closely resembles the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime. The usage of the country's national insignia (naturally resembling the marshal's moustache) on badges and armbands is similar to the swastika. The greeting "Amaïh Kûrvi-Tasch" (meaning "Hail Kûrvi-Tasch") is similar to "Heil Hitler!"Miller
Miller is the calculating spymaster from an unnamed power who masterminds the plot to hijack the Syldavian rocket programme in ''Destination Moon (comics), Destination Moon'' and ''Explorers on the Moon''. He was the man who offered to help Frank Wolff out of his gambling debts in exchange for information on the rocket programme: Miller is shown in one panel checking a list of personnel at the Centre and finds Wolff's name among them. Miller is first seen on the plane to Syldavia in ''Destination Moon''. He was seated in the row ahead of Tintin and Captain Haddock and was astonished to hear the Captain mention the name "Professor Calculus, Calculus", showing that he was already planning to take over the moon programme that Calculus was working on. He discreetly followed Tintin and Haddock through Klow airport but pulled back when he realised that they were being escorted by Zepo, the local secret police. With an associate known as the Baron, he then set about parachuting agents into the area of the Centre and obtaining the plans for the experimental uncrewed rocket X-FLR6. When X-FLR6 was launched, Miller's technicians were able to intercept it and divert the rocket to their own territory. However, Tintin and Calculus had expected this and destroyed the rocket before it could land. Miller threatened to have Wolff killed, as he suspected him of double-crossing him, but refrained when it was announced that a crewed rocket was to go to the moon. Miller arranged for Colonel Jorgen, an old enemy of Tintin's, to be smuggled aboard. Ultimately though, his attempt to control the rocket failed—his agents Jorgen and Wolff both perishing in the process. Miller is last seen cursing the rocket's crew and his agents' bungling, wishing that they would all perish in the last stage of the return journey. Like any good spymaster, Miller designated various codenames to his targets and operations: the Centre was referred to as the "Main Workshop"; Calculus and Haddock were "Mammoth" and "Whale"; and the operation to hijack the crewed rocket to the moon was called "Odysseus, Ulysses" (after the Greek hero who also goes on Odyssey, an epic journey and is himself a master of intrigue and deception).Mitsuhirato
Mitsuhirato is a Japanese people, Japanese double agent who appears in ''The Blue Lotus''. He owns a women's clothing shop on the Street of Tranquility in Shanghai and appears friendly to Tintin, but Mitsuhirato also plots with Dawson and is involved in a drug trafficking cabal with Rastapopoulos while working for the Japanese government. Mitsuhirato is characterised as an evil, scheming person, exploiting political turmoil in China to his and his country's advantage. He is depicted as unscrupulous and militaristic, with stereotypically rectangular teeth. After his subsequent capture at the end of ''The Blue Lotus'', he committed suicide by seppuku, hara-kiri.Dr. Müller
(french: link=no, Docteur Müller) Dr. J. W. Müller is the evil German psychiatrist whose position and qualifications serve as a cover for more villainous activities, including mistreatment of patients, counterfeiting, and later criminal mercenary. Hergé considered Müller "a Rastapopoulos figure prepared to risk his own life." Müller frequently uses profanity, profanities such as "Kruzitürken" that are of Bavarian language, Bavarian origin, suggesting his background to be Bavarian or Austrian, but he could also be Swiss or South-Tirolian. As with Rastapopoulos, his true nationality is never revealed. Müller's first appearance is in ''The Black Island'' where he is in league with English and Scottish counterfeiters. He tries to send Tintin to his psychiatric clinic, but Tintin defeats him and Müller accidentally burns his own house. He and his henchman Ivan manage to recover some of the counterfeit money and fly away to the Black Island. Once there, Tintin knocks out and gags Müller, but he is subsequently released by his employerMüsstler
Müsstler is the unseen powerful despot in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre''; a Syldavian political agitator and leader of the "Iron Guard", cover for the ZZRK (Syldavian Central Revolutionary Committee). He plots the deposition of the Syldavian king and the annexation of the country by Borduria. Hergé arrived at the character's name by combining the surnames of Italy's National Fascist Party, National Fascist leader Benito Mussolini and Nazi Party, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Müsstler's group, the Iron Guard, is named after a Iron Guard, Romanian fascist group. Bordurian officers wear uniforms based on those of the German Schutzstaffel, SS. Literary critic Jean-Marie Apostolidès of Stanford University asserted that the inclusion of the Iron Guard evoked Colonel François de La Rocque's Croix-de-Feu, noting that the figure of Müsstler was "the Evil One without a face".Omar Ben Salaad
Omar Ben Salaad is a wealthy Arab people, Arab merchant based in the fictional port city of Bagghar in French Morocco, who appears in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws''. A shopkeeper claims he is the wealthiest man in Bagghar. He is seen to own a palace with servants, horses, cars, huge amounts of land, and a plane. Tintin, however, discovers him to be behind an opium trafficking ring, which uses tins of crab to smuggle the drug. When Tintin was captured early in the adventure, it was Salaad who wired the initial order to have Tintin thrown overboard, but Tintin's escape prevented it. Later, Tintin discovers the base where the opium is stored is in Salaad's cellar, with an entrance behind a bookcase. Salaad tries to shoot Tintin but is knocked out when Snowy bites him, causing him to shoot a chandelier onto himself, and is arrested. It is later revealed that his activities went all the way to the Far East. Omar Ben Salaad's city Bagghar sounds like ''bagarre'', the French word for "fight" or "brawl". "Omar" is a common Arabic name, but Omar Salaad also sounds like ''homard salade'' ("lobster salad"). Omar Ben Salaad is portrayed by Gad Elmaleh in the motion capture film ''The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn''; however, in the film he has no part in any conspiracy, merely owning a palace at which Bianca Castafiore performs.Pablo
Pablo is a native of San Theodoros and lives in the capital Los Dopicos. His first appearance is in ''The Broken Ear'', in which the adventure's villain Mr. Trickler hires him to bring an end to Tintin. Pablo's attempt fails; Tintin captures Pablo, who begs for mercy, and Tintin lets him go. Trickler then frames Tintin for espionage and the young man is soon sentenced to death. In return for Tintin's mercy, Pablo assembles a gang of men, breaks into the prison, and frees Tintin and Snowy. In the 1935 serialised version, Pablo's full name was given as Juan Paolino, the Terror of Los Dopicos and best shooting, shooter in the country. Pablo returned in ''Tintin and the Picaros'', where he appeared to help Tintin and his friends escape their current captivity, but really putting them in a position where they could be shot while trying to escape. When Tintin discovered his treachery, he allowed Pablo to go free, as he remembered Pablo once saved his life.Paolo Colombani
Paolo Colombani, is Skut's co-pilot and aircraft hijacking, hijacker of that flight. Rastapopoulos planned to eliminate him and the other conspirators.Puschov
(french: link=no, Wronzoff) Puschov is leader of the international gang of banknote counterfeiters in ''The Black Island'', handler ofRanko
Ranko is a gorilla who is used byRascar Capac
Rascar Capac is the Incan mummy in ''The Seven Crystal Balls''. He is an ancient Incan monarch dug up by theRed Rackham
(french: link=no, Rackham le Rouge) Red Rackham is the pirate who attacks the ''Unicorn (Tintin), Unicorn'', the ship captained byThe Sondonesians
(french: link=no, Les Sondonésiens) The Sondonesians are the fictional Southeast Asian people who appear in ''Flight 714 to Sydney''. The name sounds similar to "Indonesians" and may also refer to the Indonesian Sunda Islands. Rastapopoulos hires the Sondonesians as mercenaries to collaborate in his scheme to steal the fortune of #Laszlo Carreidas, Laszlo Carreidas, explaining that he will help them in their war for independence. They assist in capturing Carreidas' plane and diverting it to an Indonesian island, keeping the passengers and pilot imprisoned in old Japanese WWII bunkers. Rastapopoulos has mined the Sondonesians' Junk (ship), junks so that they will be eliminated. When Allan corners Tintin and his entourage in a cave, the Sondonesians refuse to enter, pointing to signs the gods have left on the cave threatening punishment for anyone who enters. In fact, these "gods" are extraterrestrials who have been visiting the island for years, and a landing of theirs had occurred just the previous night, as signified by strange lights in the sky that frightened the Sondonesians. When the main characters meet #Mik Kanrokitoff, Mik Kanrokitoff, he explains that he has hypnotised and freed the Sondonesian guards (whom Tintin and Captain Haddock had bound and gagged) and let them spread fear among their compatriots. When an earthquake occurs shortly afterwards, the Sondonesians' nerves are finally stressed beyond their breaking point. Allan frantically attempts to stop them, but they assault him and flee the island. Hergé depicts the Sondonesians using the real Indonesian language. While on duty, two of Tintin's captors talk about a particular Indonesian dish that originated in Java: sambal ulek (ground chili sauce with shrimp paste).Spalding
Spalding appears in ''Flight 714 to Sydney''; he is the British secretary for millionaire #Laszlo Carreidas, Laszlo Carreidas and is one of the aircraft hijacking, hijackers of that flight. Captain Haddock mistakes him for Carreidas when they first meet. Rastapopoulos planned to eliminate him and the other conspirators. He is finally seen being abducted by the aliens and brought to an unknown fate. In an interview with the Sunday Times in 1968, Hergé is quoted as saying that Spalding was "a British public school man, obviously the black sheep of his family". Spalding has a formal manner, stiff upper lip, and fashionable clothes.Colonel Sponsz
Colonel Sponsz is the monocle-wearing military official and Chief of Police of the Bordurian capital Szohôd, as well as head of the ZEP Secret Police, which operates on behalf of the country's dictator Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch. He first appears in ''The Calculus Affair''; he is the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Professor Calculus by ZEP to force Calculus to use his research on ultrasonic waves to create a weapon of mass destruction. He also arranges for Tintin and Captain Haddock, who are attempting to rescue Calculus, to be shadowed by ZEP agentsMr. and Mrs. Snowball
Mr. and Mrs. Snowball are members of the secret Kih-Oskh organization, a gang of international opium-smugglers in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. They wear hooded garments and meet in a secret hiding-place of the organization. During the evening-party at the Major's country house, Mrs. Snowball faints, thinking she saw a ghost. But it is actually Sophocles Sarcophagus, wrapped in a white sheet. They are tied up, knocked unconscious, unmasked, and turned over to the authorities by the end of the adventure.General Tapioca
General Tapioca is the arch-rival of General Alcazar. Tapioca and Alcazar are both generals in their armies in the banana republic of San Theodoros during ''The Broken Ear''. He and Alcazar depose each other and assume dictatorial leadership of the country with comedic frequency. In ''The Seven Crystal Balls'', Tapioca has exiled Alcazar from San Theodoros, taking his role as the dictator of the country. By ''The Red Sea Sharks'', Dawson is selling planes to Tapioca and to Alcazar. At the end of the adventure, a newspaper clipping reports that Alcazar has again ousted Tapioca. In ''Tintin and the Picaros'', Tapioca is now being helped by Colonel Sponsz of Borduria, an old foe of Tintin and Captain Haddock, who was assigned by Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch to San Theodoros and serve as Tapioca's technical adviser. General Tapioca's regime is overthrown by Alcazar with the help of Tintin and Captain Haddock. Although Tapioca approves of Alcazar's plan to execute him, he and Alcazar both submit to Tintin's petition to spare Tapioca and exile him to Borduria.Trickler
(french: link=no, Chicklet) Mr. R.W. Trickler is an unscrupulous American businessman in ''The Broken Ear'' who represents General American Oil in the South American republic of San Theodoros. Trickler attempts to engineer a war in order for San Theodoros to seize total control of the supposedly oil-rich Gran Chapo region from neighbouring Nuevo-Rico and hand it over to his company. He further seeks to profit even more through the sale of arms by his associate Basil Bazarov to both countries. Trickler tries unsuccessfully to bribe Tintin into convincing General Alcazar to start a war against Nuevo-Rico. When that fails, he tries to have Tintin assassinated and bribes Alcazar in person, then has Tintin framed as a spy and nearly executed. At the end of the adventure, it turns out the Gran Chapo region has no trace of oil. He appears anonymously in ''The Calculus Affair'' (page 47), staying in hotel Zsnorr; presumably he is in arms traffic. In the unfinished adventure ''Tintin and Alph-Art'', Haddock and Tintin visit Bianca Castafiore at an island villa. There they meet a number of guests, including Mr. Trickler; "Director of an important oil company", Castafiore says.Supporting characters
Abdullah
(french: link=no, Abdallah) Abdullah is the spoiled, mischievous young prince of the fictional Arabian state of Khemed, whose father is Ben Kalish Ezab, the Emir. He first appears in ''Land of Black Gold'', then in ''The Red Sea Sharks'' when the Emir entrusts his son to Tintin's care. Prince Abdullah is based on the young King Faisal II of Iraq. Abdullah is a serial practical joker whose favourite victim is the short-tempered Captain Haddock. He is doted upon by his father. Abdullah has a tendency to dislike people and promise punishments from his father to everyone who annoys him—even as he is playing pranks on them. He begins to heavily like Captain Haddock (mistaking his name as Blistering Barnacles), finding his tantrums and general behaviour hilarious.General Alcazar
(french: link=no, Général Alcazar) General Alcazar is a friend of Tintin and is the occasional dictator of the fictional banana republic of San Theodoros. He is involved in a never-ending struggle for power with his arch-rival General Tapioca. Both men claim leadership of the country and rename its capital after themselves upon arriving in power. Alcazar controls the Presidential Palace of Los Dopicos in ''The Broken Ear'', where he makes Tintin his aide-de-camp, before ordering Tintin's arrest after being persuaded by Mr. Trickler. By the time of ''The Seven Crystal Balls'', Alcazar has lost power, becoming a cabaret act in Europe under the stage name Ramón Zarate. In ''The Red Sea Sharks'', Alcazar is discovered to be buying weapons from Dawson in an illegal arms deal. Finally, in ''Tintin and the Picaros'', Alcazar has returned to his country and is finding it difficult to lead the #The Picaros, Picaros on a guerrilla operation in the tropical forest while married to a harridan who bullies him. Tintin, though uninterested in his cause, devises a stratagem to return him to power in order to rescue his friends. Alcazar is once again in charge of San Theodoros, but it is suggested his rule is no different from Tapioca's.Peggy Alcazar
Peggy Alcazar is the wife of General Alcazar in ''Tintin and the Picaros''. Appearing first in hair curlers and later with a high ponytail, she dominates General Alcazar and makes him do the housework.Professor Alembick
(french: link=no, Professeur Nestor Halambique) Professor Hector Alembick is a sigillography, sigillographer: an expert on seal (device), seals used to authenticate state documents. He appears as a bespectacled, chain-smoking academic in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' when Tintin meets him when returning a briefcase the professor had left on a park bench. Professor Alembick tells Tintin of his desire to visit Syldavia to research an ancient seal belonging to the Syldavian monarch King Ottokar IV. Tintin offers to be Alembick's secretary on his journey. On the day before the trip, Alembick calls Tintin by telephone; in the midst of the conversation Tintin hears a struggle and a cry for help before the connection is cut short. When Tintin rushes to the professor's apartment to investigate, he is startled to find the professor calmly packing his bags. Although Alembick's appearance seems unchanged, subtle changes in his behaviour, such as no longer requiring cigarettes or eyeglasses, lead Tintin to suspect that something is amiss. At the end of the adventure, Tintin discovers that Professor Hector Alembick had indeed been kidnapped and impersonated by his twin brother Alfred. Professor Alembick's name is a pun on alembic, an alchemical still.Alfredo Topolino
Alfredo Topolino is a Swiss people, Swiss expert in Ultrasound, ultrasonics residing in Nyon, Switzerland, who appears in ''The Calculus Affair''. An acquaintance of Professor Calculus, he survives first an assault on his doorstep then the destruction of his house by Bordurian agents interested in Calculus's work. His manservant Boris works for the secret service of that country. His last name means "little mouse" in Italian.Aristides Silk
(french: link=no, Aristide Filoselle) Aristides Silk is a pickpocketing, pickpocket who becomes a pivotal character in ''The Secret of the Unicorn'', inadvertently collecting the parchments leading to ''Red Rackham's Treasure''. Silk claims he is not a thief, but admits he is a kleptomaniac. He explains he adores wallets and displays his large collection, none of which have been emptied of their contents. He is first seen in the market near the beginning of the adventure, moving away from Thomson and Thompson just before they discover that their wallets have been stolen. He later steals Tintin's wallet containing the parchments ofArturo Benedetto Giovanni Giuseppe Pietro Archangelo Alfredo Cartoffoli da Milano
(french: link=no, Arturo Benedetto Giovanni Giuseppe Pietro Archangelo Alfredo Cartoffoli dé Milano) Arturo Benedetto Giovanni Giuseppe Pietro Archangelo Alfredo Cartoffoli da Milano is the expert Italian driver of a Lancia Aurelia GT in ''The Calculus Affair''. He eagerly helps Tintin and Captain Haddock pursue Syldavian agents who kidnapped Professor Calculus in the adventure's car chase. While speeding through a built-up area in the French Haute Savoie on market day, he was stopped by a gendarme who wanted to record his name. The flabbergasted gendarme meekly let him off with "Don't do it again." When they finally stopped the Syldavian car and did not find Calculus inside, Cartoffoli accused Tintin and the Captain of making up their story to get a free ride before zooming away. As an Italian driver, he has great pride in Italian cars, which he claims are the best in the world.The Arumbayas
The Arumbayas are an indigenous people living in the South American rainforest along the fictional river Coliflor. They first appear in ''The Broken Ear'' where, investigating the theft of an Arumbaya Zuni fetishes, fetish with a broken ear, Tintin and Snowy venture into the San Theodoros jungle. The British explorer Ridgewell lives with them. Despite a reputation for ferocity, the Arumbayas prove to be relatively civil when Tintin encounters them. They casually explain that their bad reputation may be due to the actions of their neighbours, the Rumbabas, who behead anyone who passes their way. The Arumbayas also appear in ''Tintin and the Picaros''.Mr. Baxter
Mr. Baxter is the Director General of the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre, appearing in ''Destination Moon (comics), Destination Moon'' and ''Explorers on the Moon''. He is humble, refusing to go to the Moon in Captain Haddock's place when it is offered to him, and he works well with Professor Calculus, whom he supports completely. He misses most of the excitement of the Moon journey, having to stay and man the Centre, but acquires some of it when the returning Moon rocket nearly lands on his car.Bill the cook
(french: link=no, Van Damme) Bill, a ship's cook, is the cook on board the ''Aurora'' during ''The Shooting Star''. He then returned as cook on board the ''Sirius'' during ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' and was the first character seen in that adventure, meeting a friend at a pub before sailing. His indiscreet talk of treasure hunting was overheard by a newspaper reporter, which, after that story was published, caused Tintin and Captain Haddock to be besieged with more newspaper reporters. Bill was beleaguered by both Snowy and Professor Calculus, the former who stole a chicken and the latter who stole a box of biscuits.Blessed Lightning
Blessed Lightning is a Tibetan people, Tibetan Buddhist monk with psychic powers. He occasionally goes into a trance, floats into the air, and is able to see events from the future. In ''Tintin in Tibet'', he foresees Snowy's journey to bring the monks a distress message from Tintin, leading to Tintin's rescue.Mr. Bolt
(french: link=no, Isidore Boullu) Mr. Arthur Bolt is a stonemason who appears in ''The Castafiore Emerald'', hired by Captain Haddock to fix the broken step in Marlinspike Hall, but who repeatedly fails to arrive and instead offers a continuous sequence of excuses. Later, Mr. Bolt is one of the people who send the Captain a telegram when his engagement to marry Bianca Castafiore is erroneously announced. He is also a member of the band that plays outside Marlinspike as part of the "celebrations". At the end of the adventure, Mr. Bolt finally arrives to fix the broken step, but it is immediately broken again. By the time of ''Tintin and the Picaros'', Mr. Bolt appears to have finally fixed the step.Bunji Kuraki
Bunji Kuraki is a Japanese people, Japanese detective of the Yokohama police force appearing in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws''. He was investigating a powerful gang of drug smugglers in the Far East and followed their trail to Europe, but was kidnapped from the street outside Tintin's flat before he could warn him. He was finally able to meet Tintin at the end of the adventure after he had been freed by police.Captain Chester
Captain Chester, an old friend of Captain Haddock, is a gruff merchant skipper with red hair and a bushy red moustache. He first appears in ''The Shooting Star'' in Iceland, where he bumps into Captain Haddock at the docks and launches into a bizarre greeting ritual with Haddock that Tintin at first interprets as the build-up to a fight. However, Haddock and Chester warmly clasp hands and take Tintin to a local bar to reminisce over a bottle of whisky. Chester is captain of the ''Sirius'', a merchant trawler, and uses it to secretly refuel Haddock's research vessel in Iceland when their competitors block the supply, allowing his friend to continue his voyage. Chester later lends the ''Sirius'' to Haddock when he and Tintin set off to find ''Red Rackham's Treasure''. Chester is briefly mentioned in ''The Seven Crystal Balls''—Tintin and Haddock attempt to visit him while he is docked at a port—but he departs before they arrive. He is one of the people to send Haddock a telegram in ''The Castafiore Emerald''.Christopher Willoughby-Drupe and Marco Rizotto
(french: link=no, Jean-Loup de la Battellerie et Walter Rizotto) Christopher Willoughby-Drupe and Marco Rizotto are a writer and photographer working for the magazine ''Paris Flash''. They first appear in ''The Castafiore Emerald'' where, to the fury of Captain Haddock and the amusement of Bianca Castafiore, they write a sensational article for their magazine announcing that the Captain and the Diva are engaged. They later appear briefly in ''Tintin and the Picaros''. They make a cameo appearance in the redrawn version of ''The Black Island''; Willoughby-Drupe is shown interviewing the old man in the pub while Rizotto is in the crowd of reporters welcoming Tintin at the docks (page 61). Hergé created the pair after being interviewed for ''Paris Match'' and finding the resulting piece dubious.Coco
Coco is a Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congolese boy who is Tintin's assistant in ''Tintin in the Congo''. He speaks in an old-fashioned pidgin dialect. Fiercely loyal, he is the one person whom Tintin can fully rely on during his travels there.Cutts the butcher
(french: link=no, Boucherie Sanzot) Cutts the butcher runs the local butcher's shop whose phone number of 431 is frequently mistaken for 421 to Marlinspike Hall. As a result, the mansion's inhabitants are endlessly plagued by orders for lamb chops and sausages. The irony is that when making calls himself, Captain Haddock usually ends up getting put through to Cutts' shop, rather than the place he was actually calling. The unseen delivery man from Cutts' butcher shop plays a vital role in ''The Calculus Affair'' by offering Professor Calculus a lift to the village just in time to save him from a Bordurian kidnapping attempt. It would appear that Cutts is also the local mayor, since he can be seen dressed very formally along with the local municipal band congratulating Haddock and Bianca Castafiore on their "engagement" in ''The Castafiore Emerald''. He had one last reference at the start of ''Tintin and Alph-Art'', where a call for him was made. In the original French, the name of the butcher's shop ''Boucherie Sanzot'' is a pun. Sanzot sounds like ''sans os'', which means "without bones". The English translation uses Cutts to make a different pun. Cutts also appeared in a French TV ad for cooking oil with Professor Calculus in 1979.Lieutenant Delcourt
Lieutenant Delcourt is a character who appears in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws''. He is in command of the outpost of Afghar, in the Sahara desert. He assists Tintin and Captain Haddock on their way to find the missing freighter ''Karaboudjan''.Professor Euclide
Professor Euclide is an absent-minded professor appearing in ''The Broken Ear'' who forgets his glasses, wears his cleaning-lady's overcoat, holds his cane upside down as if it were an umbrella, mistakes a parrot for a man, and leaves his briefcase next to a lamp post. In the original edition published in 1935, his name is given as Professor Euclide (after the Greek mathematician). He is one of Hergé's many prototypes for Professor Calculus.Mrs. Finch
(french: link=no, Mme Pinson) Mrs. Finch is Tintin's landlady at , where Tintin lived before joining Captain Haddock at Marlinspike Hall. A simple soul, she was badly frightened whenSir Francis Haddock
(french: link=no, Chevalier François de Hadoque) Sir Francis Haddock is an ancestor of Captain Haddock. He is a knight and a Ship-of-the-Line Captain in the Royal Navy, commanding the ''Unicorn (Tintin), Unicorn'' under the Union Jack in 1676. In the original French version, he is Chevalier François de Hadoque of the Marine Nationale, French Royal Navy, commanding la ''Licorne'' for King Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV. He was rewarded by the king with the estate of Marlinspike Hall (Moulinsart) in 1685. Sir Francis was forced to scuttling, scuttle the ''Unicorn'' when it was taken by pirate captainFrank Wolff
Frank Wolff is the rocket engineer who assists Professor Calculus during the Syldavian expedition to the moon (''Destination Moon (comics), Destination Moon'' and ''Explorers on the Moon''). In an interview, Hergé described him as clever, stating he had a PhD in Mathematics with Mechanics and a BEng in Chemical Engineering, but also described him as feeble and quiet. Wolff is ultimately exposed as a spy who was coerced into helping an unnamed foreign power hijack the moon rockets he had helped build, after they learnt of his former compulsive gambling and heavy debt. After refusing to allow the enemy agent Colonel Jorgen to shoot the rest of the rocket crew, his struggle for Jorgen's gun resulted in the agent's accidental death. As the rocket ship is returning to Earth without enough oxygen for Tintin and his friends, Wolff, still overcome with guilt over the way he had betrayed his companions, redeems himself for his past mistakes and sacrifices himself for the survival of the group by space exposure, throwing himself into space. Even the cynical Captain Haddock, who had, until the last moment, still suspected Wolff of treachery, was moved by his selfless act.Grand Abbot
The Grand Abbot is head of an order of Tibetan people, Tibetan Buddhist monks in ''Tintin in Tibet'', who rescues Tintin and Captain Haddock from the mountains after they succumb to an avalanche. At first discouraging Tintin from his quest, he later presents Tintin with a khata scarf in honour of the bravery he has shown for his friend Chang Chong-Chen.Henri Fourcart
Henri Fourcart is director of Fourcart Gallery that hosts the Alph-Art exhibition of artist #Ramó Nash, Ramó Nash in ''Tintin and Alph-Art''. When he is introduced to Captain Haddock, he recognises him as the friend of the famous Tintin and requests to meet him. He is killed in a car accident under suspicious circumstances before the meeting can take place.Igor Wagner
Igor Wagner is the quiet pianist working for Bianca Castafiore. He is driving with his employer when she first encounters Tintin in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre''. He does not contribute to a plotline until ''The Castafiore Emerald'', when he is discovered to be a gambler who bets on races in secret. He has a small moustache and dresses formally in black. After the thievery of Castafiore's emeralds, his attempts to help only incriminate him, as it was his footprints found near Castafiore's window, it was him suspiciously rummaging in the attic, and it was he who broke a step on the staircase. He tries to sneak out of his practice sessions (dictated by Castafiore) and, instead of practising, is caught using a playback tape recorder. He was imprisoned along with Castafiore and Irma in ''Tintin and the Picaros'', before being freed by Tintin. His name is made up of a humorous reference to two well-known composers: Igor Stravinsky and Richard Wagner.Irma
Irma is the maid of Bianca Castafiore. Irma first appears in ''The Calculus Affair'' before appearing in ''The Castafiore Emerald''. Castafiore describes her as a faithful, loyal, and honest servant. Despite giving a meek impression, she has a strong sense of personal pride: when Thomson and Thompson accuse Irma of stealing Castafiore's emerald, she becomes angry and assaults them with a walking stick. In ''Tintin and the Picaros'', she is arrested and put in jail along with Castafiore and Igor Wagner. She also appears in ''Tintin and Alph-Art'' as a background character and is the person who informs Castafiore of Tintin and Captain Haddock's arrival to #Endaddine Akass, Endaddine Akass's villa.Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine
Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine lives in Brussels and is a collector of models of ships, among which, one is the ''Unicorn (Tintin), Unicorn''. He appears in ''The Secret of the Unicorn'', in the old market. Noticing another model of the ''Unicorn'', he and another man Barnaby try to buy it, only to find that it has already been claimed by Tintin. Tintin declines all the offers made by Barnaby and Sakharine to buy the model off him. Tintin's ''Unicorn'' is later stolen and he suspects Sakharine of the theft. Visiting Sakharine, he discovers the other ''Unicorn'' model. Sakharine is later attacked by Barnaby who steals the parchment from the model ship. It is one of three parchments that lead to a treasure. TheBen Kalish Ezab
Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab is the Emir of the fictional Arabian state of Khemed. His son is the spoiled prince Abdullah. After first appearing in ''Land of Black Gold'', the Emir reappears in ''The Red Sea Sharks'' when he has been temporarily overthrown by his rival, SheikhLaszlo Carreidas
Laszlo Carreidas, a wealthy aircraft manufacturer tycoon, becomes embroiled in the adventure ''Flight 714 to Sydney''. While Tintin and his friends are travelling in Indonesia on their way to Sydney, Captain Haddock mistakes Carreidas sitting in the Jakarta airport for a tramp. Meanwhile, the criminal mastermind Rastapopoulos kidnaps Carreidas to take his Swiss fortune. He is drugged by #Dr. Krollspell, Dr. Krollspell to reveal his Swiss bank account number, rescued then bound by Tintin and Captain Haddock and marched as a hostage, and hypnotised by #Mik Kanrokitoff, Mik Kanrokitoff to think that he still wears his hat. Kanrokitoff hypnotises him again and leaves him with the others in the motorboat, and later, Carreidas is on the flight to Sydney with Tintin and his friends. His unassuming figure notwithstanding, Carreidas is revealed to be a cunning individual with a long history of unscrupulous behaviour not limited to the business world; he is not above cheating Captain Haddock at a game of Battleship (game), Battleships with the help of closed-circuit television. An aircraft industrialist, Laszlo Carreidas naturally travels in a prototype supersonic business jet, the Carreidas 160. Despite the caution he appears to take with his money, refusing to pay any ransom and keeping his accounts secret, Carreidas generally appears to have a random attitude about his finances, ordering the purchase of multiple paintings simply because a rival ("Aristotle Onassis, Onassis") is after them, and appearing more concerned about the loss of a rare hat ("a pre-war Crosse & Blackwell, Bross & Clackwell") than the loss of his prototype aeroplane. Carreidas' name is a pun: ''carré d'as'' means "four aces" in French. Accordingly, the logo on the tail of his business jet consists of four aces. Hergé based Carreidas on Marcel Dassault, the French aircraft industrialist, who possessed a similar combination of wealth, aeronautical engineering genius, and quaint notions of fashion (Dassault's wardrobe remained frozen in the mid-1930s). Carreidas is depicted in some sketches of the unfinished ''Tintin and Alph-Art'', in which he is seen at the inauguration of #Ramó Nash, Ramó Nash's art exposition.Maharaja of Gaipajama
(french: link=no, Maharadjah de Rawhajpoutalah) The Maharaja of Gaipajama is the monarch of a fictional princely state of India. He is kind and immediately trusting of Tintin, whom he meets in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. The Maharaja explains that his family have long been fighting a criminal opium-smuggling gang. ''The Blue Lotus'' opens in the Maharaja's palace, where Tintin has been his guest. In reality, there is no place in India called Gaipajama; the name is a nonsensical mix of two Hindi words: Gai (cow) and pajamas, pajama. The original French name is Rawajpoutalah.Martine Vandezande
Martine Vandezande is the attractive assistant of #Henri Fourcart, Henri Fourcart at his art gallery in ''Tintin and Alph-Art''. She wears large glasses and is a follower of #Endaddine Akass, Endaddine Akass. Tintin realizes "this girl seems sincere" after he inadvertantly causes her to cry when evidence he uncovered leads him to accuse her as being part of the plot. Due to a covert listening device, listening device someone has hidden in her necklace, she is made an unwitting informer of Akass and his henchmen.Mik Kanrokitoff
(french: link=no, Mik Ezdanitoff) Mik Kanrokitoff is a Russian writer for the magazine ''Space Week''. His name is Ezdanitoff in the original version, another example of Hergé's Bruxellois wordplay; ''is dat niet tof'' in Dutch language, Dutch means "isn't that nice". His fortuitous appearance in ''Flight 714 to Sydney'' helps Tintin, Captain Haddock, and their friends escape from an Indonesian island after Rastapopoulos and his cohorts set off an explosive charge, stirring up the island's volcano. Kanrokitoff wears a small antenna and transmitter that enables him to communicate Telepathy, telepathically with other people and even subject them to mass-hypnosis. He maintains close touch with an unseen race of extraterrestrials and it is their spaceship that enables Tintin and the others to escape the island. Although he was never seen by Tintin and his friends after this, Kanrokitoff is depicted in some sketches of the unfinished ''Tintin and Alph-Art'', in which he is at the inauguration of #Ramó Nash, Ramó Nash's art exposition, apparently recognizing Tintin. This character was inspired by French ufologist Jacques Bergier..King Muskar XII
King Muskar XII is the monarch of Syldavia. He appears in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre''. A keen motorist who drives his own car and keeps his own gun for protection, he is married to an unnamed queen consort. Because the Crown's sceptre once saved the life of King Ottokar IV in 1360, every year on Saint Vladimir's Day, 15 July, the current king must show the people that he has the sceptre; otherwise he will be forced to abdicate. Tintin discovered a plot to steal the sceptre and set out to warn King Muskar XII, though traitorous elements in the king's entourage, led by his aide-de-camp #Colonel Jorgen, Boris (Colonel Jorgen), were ready to stop him. Upon hearing of the plot, the monarch was fair-minded enough to investigate Tintin's claims, which turned out to be true: the sceptre had been stolen, a constitutional crisis was imminent, and Syldavia was about to be plunged into an invasion by its long-term enemy Borduria. Muskar then orders his ministers and generals to prevent the invasion. The revolutionary party in the adventure, called the Iron Guard, may have been inspired by the Fascist paramilitary groups widespread in Europe Interwar period, between the wars. The abdication crisis was very similar to that of the Anschluss in Austria in 1938, though the conclusion was not the same. King Muskar XII and his country do not appear to have been based on definitive models; both were inspired by various Eastern European and Balkan states. Many of these states were monarchies ruled by Carol II of Romania, Zog I of Albania, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and Boris III of Bulgaria. The king's costumes may have been inspired by the portrait of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and the Romanian prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza. The king bears a striking resemblance to Zog of Albania, a man who also carried a gun and confronted violent conspiracies. He is sometimes shown wearing a military uniform, holding the rank of Colonel of the Royal Guards. The king's military service is similar to members of other real European royal families, who have members that have served in their nation's militaries. King Muskar XII is noticeably absent from the post-war stories set in Syldavia: he does not appear at the launching of the moon rocket in ''Destination Moon (comics), Destination Moon'' and Tintin does not call on him for help when his friend Professor Calculus is kidnapped by Bordurian and later Syldavian agents in ''The Calculus Affair''. The post-war Syldavia may no longer be a monarchy; the latter ''Adventures'' set after World War II came at a time when various Balkan models for the fictional Syldavia had now been overthrown and their rulers exiled.Oliveira da Figueira
Senhor Oliveira da Figueira (or Oliveira de Figueira) is the friendly Portuguese salesman who can sell even the most trivial of items. He and Tintin first meet in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. Tintin and Snowy have been cast adrift in the Red Sea when they are picked up by a dhow; Figueira is a passenger. He quickly talks Tintin into buying a variety of superfluous objects. He later appears in ''Land of Black Gold'', where he plays a valuable role in helping Tintin infiltrateDr. Patella
(french: link=no, Docteur Rotule) Dr. Patella is a ginger bearded osteopathic doctor who appears briefly in ''Destination Moon (comics), Destination Moon'' and ''Explorers on the Moon''. His model human skeleton, skeleton is arrested by Thomson and Thompson, and later he attends to an unconscious Captain Haddock after his arrival back on Earth. He also sent a congratulatory telegram to Haddock when (incorrect) news of his engagement to Bianca Castafiore was announced in ''The Castafiore Emerald''. In 2000, on one episode of the French-language version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', 73 percent of the voting audience correctly identified Dr. Patella (french: Docteur Rotule, links=no) as the doctor who treated Captain Haddock in ''Explorers on the Moon''. This led to allegations that the show was rigged: one Tintin fan questioned how such a large portion of the audience could pick from four options the correct answer, especially given Dr. Patella's very minor role in the series. A psychoanalyst postulated that children remember proper names much better than adults, hence its retention by members of the audience who read ''Tintin'' in their youth. The name Patella (and Rotule) has a medical origin. It means "kneecap".Patrash Pasha
Sheikh Patrash Pasha is an Arab people, Arab sheikh appearing in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'' and a big fan of ''The Adventures of Tintin''. He arranges for Tintin to be kidnapped, but when Tintin is brought before him, he recognises him from his adventures, frees him, and sends him on his way with fresh supplies. His servant shows Tintin an ''Adventures of Tintin'' book that Pasha owns. The book title shown to Tintin has changed over the years; it was originally ''Tintin in America'', it became ''Tintin in the Congo'' at one point, and eventually settled on ''Destination Moon (comics), Destination Moon''—the most recently published title at the time but, confusingly, takes place after the events in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. In ''The Red Sea Sharks'', when Emir Ben Kalish Ezab was overthrown byProfessor Philippulus
Professor Philippulus, or Philippulus the Prophet as he calls himself, is an astronomer who appears in ''The Shooting Star''. After observing a ball of fire making its way towards Earth, Philippulus goes insane, dresses himself in white sheets, and goes around town beating a gong while claiming to be a prophet tasked with announcing the end of the world. The madman also decides that Tintin is a spawn of the Devil after he tried to calm him, and takes to harassing him at his home. Philippulus later escapes a mental asylum and makes it to the expedition ship ''Aurora'', eventually taking refuge up the main mast and nearly setting off a stick of dynamite in the belief that it is a firework. Tintin tricks him into climbing down by using a megaphone to shout supposedly heavenly instructions for him; Philippulus relents and is taken back to the asylum. Philippulus represents the dilemmas some face over religious belief and scientific research. In his case, the conflict took a toll on his mind when the apocalypse, end of the world appeared to be imminent.Professor Phostle
(french: link=no, Professeur Hippolyte Calys) Professor Decimus Phostle is an astronomer, observatory director, and expedition leader in ''The Shooting Star''. Tintin consults him about a large bright star he saw in Ursa Major. Professor Phostle claims that it is a ball of fire that will hit the Earth and cause the end of the world the following morning, and actually looks forward to this, thinking that predicting the end of mankind would make him famous. Initially disappointed that the meteor has missed the Earth, Phostle consoles himself by naming an unknown metal fallen from the meteor after himself: "phostlite". He then leads an expedition of scientists to follow Tintin and Captain Haddock to attempt to retrieve the fallen phostlite from the sea. Phostle was to return in ''Destination Moon (comics), Destination Moon'' and ''Explorers on the Moon'' as a villain, but that early draft by Bernard Heuvelmans was abandoned by Hergé. In ''Hergé's Adventures of Tintin' (made from 1957 to 1964), he was replaced by Professor Calculus.The Picaros
The Picaros are a band of guerillas in the country of San Theodoros, supposedly under the control of General Alcazar in ''Tintin and the Picaros''. Alcazar has returned to his country and is attempting to command the Picaros to mount a guerrilla operation over of his arch-rival General Tapioca. However, the Picaros have become corrupt drunkards since Tapioca started dropping copious quantities of alcohol near their camp. Tintin offers to cure the Picaros of their alcoholism if Alcazar agrees to refrain from killing Tapioca and his men. Alcazar reluctantly agrees. Moments after the Picaros are cured, a musical troupe called the Jolly Follies arrives, intending to perform at the upcoming carnival in San Theodoros. Alcazar, with a little advice from Tintin, launches an assault on Tapioca's palace during the carnival by dressing the Picaros in the troupe's costumes and sneaking them into the capital.Piotr Skut
(french: link=no, Piotr Szut) Piotr Skut, an eyepatch-wearing Estonian people, Estonian pilot, appears in two albums: ''The Red Sea Sharks'' and ''Flight 714 to Sydney''. In ''The Red Sea Sharks'', Skut flies one of the DeHavilland Mosquitoes used by SheikhPrince of the Sun
The Prince of the Sun is the reigning monarch over a lost, sun-worshipping Incan civilisation in ''Prisoners of the Sun''. When Tintin's party invades his temple, the Prince plans to burn them at the Execution by burning, stake, but change his mind when a solar eclipse occurs just before the sacrifice. Convinced that the Sun God favours Tintin, the Prince releases him and provides him with generous gifts of gold and jewels. In return, Tintin and his friends promise never to reveal the location of the Temple of the Sun.Ramó Nash
Ramó Nash is an artist and the creator of Alph-Art that Captain Haddock purchases at the #Henri Fourcart, Fourcart Gallery in ''Tintin and Alph-Art''. Tintin learns that Nash is under the control of #Endaddine Akass, Endaddine Akass to fabricate paintings of the masters in an art forgery ring. In the unofficial completed version of ''Tintin and Alph-Art'' by Yves Rodier, Nash is of Jamaican nationality. He saves the lives of Tintin and Captain Haddock by defeating Akass.Ridgewell
Ridgewell is a British explorer who travelled into the South American rainforest occupied by the #The Arumbayas, Arumbayas. He first appears in ''The Broken Ear'' and appears later in ''Tintin and the Picaros''. Ridgewell settled down with the Arumbayas and decided to stay, not caring if the outside world knew if he was dead or alive. When Tintin ventured into Arumbaya territory, Ridgewell initially fired darts at him in order to scare him away, but later agreed to take him to the Arumbaya village for information. Ridgewell did bring some of Western civilisation to the Native South Americans, such as introducing them to the game of golf. However, the players do not appear to have mastered it well—on one occasion hitting Tintin rather than the hole in the ground. Ridgewell's influence on the Arumbayas resulted in him gaining an enemy in the local witch doctor. When Ridgewell was captured by an enemy nation called the Rumbabas (''Bibaros'' in the original version), the witch doctor kept this from the other Arumbayas, hoping to be rid of his rival. When one Arumbaya expressed concern for Ridgewell, the witch doctor threatened to turn him and his family into frogs. But Ridgewell got away and fired a dart into the witch doctor's bottom as punishment. Fortunately, unlike the Arumbayas, Ridgewell did not use poisoned darts. Ridgewell is also a ventriloquist and has a sense of humour, shown on occasions such as in ''Tintin and the Picaros'' when he fired a dart into the cigar of General Alcazar. In that adventure, he reestablished ties with Tintin, and was shown to lament changes in the behaviour of the Arumbayas, namely the spread of alcoholism. The character of Ridgewell is strongly reminiscent of the real-life British explorer Percy Fawcett who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925 under similar circumstances.Sanders-Hardiman expedition members
(french: link=no, Les membres de l’expédition Sanders-Hardtmut) The Sanders-Hardiman expedition members brought the Incan mummySophocles Sarcophagus
(french: link=no, Philémon Siclone) Sophocles Sarcophagus is an absent-minded professor and Egyptologist in search of the tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-Oskh, whom Tintin meets on a cruise ship at the beginning of ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. He is a bit of an eccentric: rowing a boat while unaware that it is not even in the water, saying goodbye to Snowy as if he was a little boy, and bumping into things and people. He is distracted, dresses Edwardian, and has an unusual beard. He is the first of a number of eccentric scholars that would culminate in the character Professor Calculus. Sophocles leads Tintin to the tomb hidden under the sand, but disappears soon after finding it. He, Tintin, and Snowy end up floating in sarcophagi in the middle of the Red Sea. Sophocles is then picked up by a ship captained by Allan, a drug smuggler, whose gang uses the tomb of Kih-Oskh as a base. With Sophocles as a prisoner, the ship sets off for India. When ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'' was first published in the 1930s, Sarcophagus was an unnamed and beardless scholar who wore sunglasses. When Tintin explored the tomb, he found sarcophagi for himself and Snowy but not for the scholar, who does not even turn up in the Red Sea incident—thus, how he ends up in India is unexplained. Tintin finds Sophocles in the Indian jungle completely by chance in a string of absurd coincidences, painting the symbol of Kih-Oskh on palm trees. Tintin even speculates that the scholar is a member of the gang of drug smugglers that he finds himself pitted against. Sophocles is now completely mad because he has been given poison called Rajaijah, imagining himself to be Pharaoh Ramesses II. He is eventually committed to a sanatorium in India for treatment. In ''The Blue Lotus'', an antidote for Rajaijah was developed, but it was never revealed whether Sarcophagus was cured.Studios Hergé members
Hergé and other Studios Hergé members were not above drawing themselves and other characters into the action of some of the ''Adventures'' as cameo appearances. Hergé, Edgar P. Jacobs, and Jacques Van Melkebeke appear in ''Tintin in the Congo'' (page 1, frame 1) as a man in a brown jacket, a dark-haired man in a grey suit, and a fair-haired man with glasses; in the same panel, also making a cameo appearance, are Thomson and Thompson. Edgar P. Jacobs appears in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'' (on the cover and on page 8, frame 1) as a mummy marked "E. P. Jacobini". Hergé and Jacobs appear in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' (page 38, last frame) as men to the left in red and green dress uniforms, and later in the same book, Hergé, his wife Germaine Kieckens, Germaine, Jacobs, and Van Melkebeke appear (page 59, last frame) as a man on the right in a green uniform accompanying a woman in mauve, a monocled man on the right with black hair and breastplate, and a fair-haired man in evening wear on the left near the window. Hergé appears in ''The Calculus Affair'' (page 13, last frame) as a man standing by the tent smoking, equipped with a sketch pad and pen, while Edgar P. Jacobs and Jacques Van Melkebeke appear in ''The Seven Crystal Balls'', the first (page 16, frame 4) as a man in brown suit and black bow-tie in the middle box on the left, and the other (page 57, frame 2) as a man standing behind General Alcazar. Studios Hergé member Bob de Moor does not appear. Other cameos in the ''Adventures'' include Auguste Piccard, whom the character Professor Calculus is based on (appearing in ''The Shooting Star'', page 21, frame 2, as the scientist on the far right) and Quick & Flupke, characters in a separate Hergé series (appearing in ''Tintin in the Congo'', page 1, frame 1, as two boys in the group, and also appearing in ''The Shooting Star'', page 20, frame 8, as two boys running ahead of Thomson and Thompson, who are also making a cameo appearance in that book).Professor Tarragon
(french: link=no, Professeur Hippolyte Bergamotte) Professor Hercules Tarragon hosts a mysterious evening for Tintin and his friends in ''The Seven Crystal Balls''. He was one of theTharkey
Tharkey is a Sherpa people, Sherpa guide who helps Tintin locate the ill-fated Patna-Kathmandu flight carrying Chang Chong-Chen in ''Tintin in Tibet''. Although reluctant to risk the perilous attempt to find Chang, whom he believes to be dead, Tharkey leads Tintin and Captain Haddock to the crash site of the aircraft. After initially leaving the site to return to his village, he feels guilty for leaving them alone and returns just in time to help Tintin and Haddock out of a dangerous situation. However, he subsequently breaks his arm from an avalanche and must return to the plains after partly convalescing at a Buddhist monastery while Tintin and the Captain continue their search for Chang. Tharkey was based on Ang Tharkay, a Nepalese people, Nepalese mountain climber and explorer who acted as Sherpa people#Mountaineering, sherpa and later sirdar for many Himalayan expeditions. He was "beyond question the outstanding sherpa of his era" and he introduced Tenzing Norgay to the world of mountaineering.Wang Chen-Yee
(french: link=no, Wang Jen-Ghié) Wang Chen-Yee is the Chinese leader of the ''Sons of the Dragon'' brotherhood featured in ''The Blue Lotus''. He serves as Tintin's host during his stay in China, and later adopts Chang Chong-Chen.Zorrino
Zorrino is an indigenous Peruvian people, Peruvian boy who makes a living by selling oranges in the mountain town of Jauja. In ''Prisoners of the Sun'', he leads Tintin and Captain Haddock on the trail of their kidnapped friend Professor Calculus to the Incan civilisation in the mountains. At the end of the adventure, Zorrino is invited to stay in the Inca city and follow their way of life, an invitation which he accepts.References
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