But also 6 multiple traumas, 6 burns, 3 gunshot wounds and 7 bites.
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IIt has been translated into 70 languages, sold more than 270 million copies, and it has visited around twenty countries from the USSR, in the very first volume, to countries that do not exist such as Nuevo Rico or Syldavia, with a short detour to the Moon 15 years before humans set foot on it. Tintin is a globetrotter who is not afraid of anything, and that has also earned him some trouble.
He was born in 1929 in a Belgian weekly, Le Petit Vingtième under the fingers of Hergé, whose real name is Georges Rémi. Whose initials are GR, or, in the other direction… RG… Like Hergé.
Tintin lives in Brussels, at 26 rue du Labrador before moving “with his friend”, Captain Haddock in the Château de Moulinsart, inspired by the Château de Cheverny. The name comes from a Belgian place, near Brussels, Sart-Moulin.
And Tintin has plenty of enemies. Heaps. Except that Tintin is a non-violent. In all the albums, he does not kill any opponent. Never. The only time he uses a firearm is to defend himself. And when he has to fight, he only hurts his opponents.
3 gunshot wounds, 7 bites
On the other side, on the other hand, we don’t give gifts. Thus Tintin will be kidnapped 13 times. In the third volume alone, Tintin in America, he is the victim of two kidnappings. And by Al Capone, in addition, one of the characters he meets in the previous episode, Tintin in the Congo, and the only villain of his adventures who really existed.
The other big villain being obviously Rastapopoulos whom we also see, for the first time, in a box, the air of nothing in Tintin in America.
Must say that he is looking for it a little since his passion is all the same to find himself by chance in the middle of international conflicts. There is only one episode where Tintin does not travel abroad: The Jewels of Castafiore. Hergé wanted to challenge himself to make an entire album in the same place, Moulinsart, without bandits or international traffickers.
As a result, Tintin makes almost no bobo. And yet he morphed, the little Belgian. We have already seen 55 attempted murders but also 6 polytraumas, 6 burns, 3 gunshot wounds and 7 bites (bites due to men, a rat, a shark, a parrot, and even to Milou, who by the way is a slightly bastard hard-haired Fox Terrier).
All this will lead to 46 blackouts, 2 per album on average, not bad. He will also be entitled to 6 hospitalizations and 2 operations. Not enough to damage a hair of his puff, puff besides that he did not have at the very beginning of the very first episode. In the first 8 plates of Tintin in the land of the Soviets, his hair is glued to his forehead. But as he accelerates in the car, the wind creates this wick. It will remain throughout the album and all other episodes.
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