History Recap / TintinTheBlackIsland

** Rankor doesn't break his arm in the Belvision version.

* AdaptedOut: The two nameless members of the gang do not appear in the Nelvana adaptation.

* RakeTake: Happens to Tintin himself, but actually works to his advantage: As he is 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.

* JustPlaneWrong: The airplane Thomson and Thompson's commandeer stays in the air for two days. That's a pretty big fuel tank...

* RakeTake: Happens to Tintin himself, but actually works to his advantage: As he is 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.

* 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]]î''.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In the original 1930s version of the story, Tintin is shocked to enter a room and discover the source of the noises he heard is "...a television set!?!" It looks quite HilariousInHindsight to later readers, which is probably why the 1960s reprinting changed his line to "It's only a television set!" (See below.)

* ShoutOut: Ranko the KillerGorilla was inspired by ''Film/KingKong'' (1933), which ran in theaters around the time Hergé drew this comic book story in theaters.

* 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 60's 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 30's 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.

* 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]]''.

* NamesTheSame: Ranko is not [[RanmaHalf the female name of a martial artist cursed with a Gender Bender]].
* {{Padding}}: Two pages are spent watching a group of firefighters trying to find the keys to their fire station, chasing a bird who steals it, discovering that it's actually the wrong key and finally getting it from one of their wives.
** YMMV; this can be seen as an appropriate ShoutOut to English {{farce}} theatre.

* InspectorJavert: Thomson and Thompson. You'd really think they'd have cought on by now...

* BonnieScotland

* DidNotDoTheResearch: There was some slight controversy over this book in Britain because it mistakenly depicted British policemen as routinely carrying guns.

While taking a walk in the countryside, Tintin comes across a plane with no registration number making an emergancy 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 inn Sussex, England, which prompts him to leave the hostital and go on an investigation.

* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Thomson and Thompson mistakingly order an untrained engineer to fly a plene for them, resulting in them being stuck performing various accidental flying stunts without being able to land, much to their horror.

* 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 the 60's. The [[Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar two]] [[Recap/TintinKingOttokarsSceptre stories]] surrounding it are clearly still set in the 30's 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.