History Recap / TintinTheBlackIsland

** Ranko the KillerGorilla was inspired by ''Film/KingKong1933'', which ran in theaters around the time Hergé drew this comic book story in theaters.

* SymbolSwearing: One baddie on the train does this when seeing Tintin.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: The [[http://www.t3fb.com/tintin/l_ile_noire_41.JPG savate kick]] Tintin uses against Puschov while on all fours may look like a random untrained attack or even a move robbed from UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}, but it is an ancient yet [[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xuT74bp1Hnw/WAPmz9GRb7I/AAAAAAAAGWo/5wbWicGh1uY-o62ds5EsXFa6vucC5-kXgCLcB/s1600/SAVATE%2B4.jpg very real technique]] used in savate.

* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors: Ranko is portrayed a beige face, hands and feet, while in real gorillas these are dark gray. At least one animated adaptation also gives him brown fur instead of the black fur real gorillas have (though the comic is accurate in this regard).

* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors: Ranko is portrayed a beige face, hands and feet, while in real gorillas these are dark gray.

* HollywoodDressCode: Tintin in a Scottish outfit.

** When the album was redrawn in the mid-60s, Müller's unnamed, moustachioed henchman was redrawn in the likeness of Hergé's friend and Studio member Edgar P Jacobs. Which also means he's a dead ringer for ''Comicbook/BlakeAndMortimer'''s Olrik (whom Jacobs modelled on himself), down to the cigarette holder.

* ShoutOut: Ranko the KillerGorilla was inspired by ''Film/KingKong1933'', which ran in theaters around the time Hergé drew this comic book story in theaters.

* CountingToThree: A goat stops the countdown for Tintin to jump off the cliff.

%% * CounterfeitCash

* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Thomson and Thompson mistakingly order an untrained engineer to fly a plane for them, resulting in them being stuck performing various accidental flying stunts without being able to land, much to their horror.
** ...and blundering into an aerial display competition. ''And winning it''.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The baddies intent Tintin to jump off a cliff prompting the latter to assume that this trope is in play.

* RakeTake: Happens to Tintin himself, but actually works to his advantage: As he is approaching Müller's chauffeur Ivan with a gun, he steps on a rake, but as he is hit by it, he accidentally fires and shoots Ivan's hat off, scaring him into submission. Then when Ivan realizes that Tintin has been knocked out and approaches him, Tintin wakes up and uses the rake to knock ''him'' out.

* SettingUpdate: The story was originally written for ''Le Petit Vingtième'' in the late 1930s but when the English translation was colourised in 1966 it was also ''modernised'' - hence the cars and trains all come from the 60s and why Tintin is not at all surprised to see a TV. The [[Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar two]] [[Recap/TintinKingOttokarsSceptre stories]] surrounding it are clearly still set in the 30s meaning that ''The Black Island'' can come across as jarring to a reader going through the stories in chronological order. It also means that Dr. Müller (originally ANaziByAnyOtherName) can come across as an Eastern Bloc agent instead.

* ChainedHeat: When Snowy finds the handcuff key while Thomson and Thompson are asleep, Tintin handcuffs them together. They aren't antagonistic to each other, but keep getting hampered by the handcuffs.

* KillerGorilla: Ranko.

* MasterForger: In his first appearance, recurring villain Dr. Muller is the forger of a counterfeiting ring, creating fake banknotes on the titular Black Island of the cost of Britain.

While taking a walk in the countryside, Tintin comes across a plane with no registration number making an emergency landing. When he approaches the plane, the pilots shoot him and take off. As Tintin is hospitalized, he learns that an unregistered plane has crash landed in Sussex, England, which prompts him to leave the hospital and go on an investigation.

* BreakoutVillain: Dr. Müller is just one member of the gang of counterfeiters, though he probably has the most screentime. Despite this he is the only one to return in future stories and is even the BigBad in ''[[Recap/TintinLandOfBlackGold Land of Black Gold]]''.

* RightHandAttackDog: Puschov has a Right Hand Attack ''Gorilla'' named Ranko.

* VisualPun: The "sticky end" Tintin mentions comes in form of a cane from behind.

* SettingUpdate: The story was originally written for ''Le Petit Vingtième'' in the late 1930s but when the English translation was colourised in 1966 it was also ''modernised'' - hence the cars and trains all come from the 60s and why Tintin is not at all surprised to see a TV. The [[Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar two]] [[Recap/TintinKingOttokarsSceptre stories]] surrounding it are clearly still set in the 30s meaning that ''The Black Island'' can come across as jarring to a reader going through the stories in chronological order. It also means that Dr. Müller (originally ANaziByAnyOtherName) can come across as Eastern Bloc agent instead.

!!Tropes

** At one point, Snowy remarks how silly it is for the gorilla to be scared of a little dog, only to run away in terror from a spider the next panel.

* TheSixties: An odd example; the story was originally written for ''Le Petit Vingtième'' in the late 1930s but when the English translation was colourised in 1966 it was also ''modernised'' - hence the cars and trains all come from the 60s and why Tintin is not at all surprised to see a TV. The [[Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar two]] [[Recap/TintinKingOttokarsSceptre stories]] surrounding it are clearly still set in the 30s meaning that ''The Black Island'' can come across as jarring to a reader going through the stories in chronological order. It also means that Dr. Müller (originally ANaziByAnyOtherName) can come across as Eastern Bloc agent instead.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Puschov does this in order to incriminate Tintin.

* CompressedAdaptation: Ranko doesn't break his arm in the Belvision version.

* AdaptedOut:
** Ranko doesn't break his arm in the Belvision version.
** The two nameless members of the gang do not appear in the 1991 animated series.

* CounterfeitCash

* JustPlaneWrong: The airplane Thomson and Thompson commandeer stays in the air for two days. That's a pretty big fuel tank...
** Probably due to {{Rule of Funny}}
** There was a [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager plane]] that stayed in the air for ''nine'' days... and yes, it was nearly all fuel tank.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When Tintin disguises himself as an old man to lead Thomson and Thompson astray, Snowy chases a cat through the window, knocking Tintin's disguise off.

* UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}

* HypocriticalHumour: At one point, Snowy remarks how silly it is for the gorilla to be scared of a little dog, only to run away in terror from a spider the next panel.