History Recap / TintinTintinInAmerica

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again.

* AnimalWrongsGroup: An elderly woman on a train pulls the lever because she saw a [[PredatorsAreMean puma attack a deer]] and ''insists'' the conductor intervene. She ends up inadvertently saving Tintin's live since he was ChainedToARailway at the time.

* TheWildWest: Apparently coexisting with 1930s Chicago. That being said, the redrawn version at least indicates that Tintin needs a two-day train journey to get there, whereas the original edition had it practically on Chigago's doorstep.

* MobWar

* RandomEventsPlot: Not to the same extent as ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' but definitely compared to the later books.

* TheWildWest: Apparently coexisting with 1930s Chicago.

* KarmaHoudini: Al Capone, assuming he had not been arrested offscreen.

* BadCopIncompetentCop: Some of them actually make the Thompsons look halfway competant.

* ButNotTooBlack: When ''Tintin'' finally got marketed in the USA in the 1950s he was forced to change a few black extra's into white people. For instance: the man guarding the hotel after the Native Americans are being removed from their land was originally black, as were the woman and her crying baby whom Tintin incorrectly assumes is Snowy crying for help.

It's 1931 and having dealt with AlCapone's [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo diamond smuggling operation in the Belgian Congo]] Tintin and Snowy head for Chicago to clean up {{Gangsterland}}. He almost at once runs afoul of Al Capone himself[[note]]Capone is the only real person to appear in the Tintin stories[[/note]] but manages to evade the mob boss only to find himself making an enemy of Capone's rival Bobby Smiles.

* AnimalWrongsGroup: An elderly woman on a train pulls the lever because she saw a [[PredatorsAreMean puma attack a deer]] and ''insists'' the conductor intervene. [[spoiler: She ends up inadvertently saving Tintin's live since he was ChainedToARailway at the time.]]

* DeusExMachina: Arguably uses this more than any other entry in the series. [[spoiler:Smiles' mooks using knockout gas instead of poison gas by mistake, the animal lover stopping the train, Tintin and Snowy being tossed off a cliff and landing on a branch conveniently next to a cave network, the cannery workers going on strike, Tintin mistakenly being tied to a set of wooden weights rather than real ones.]]

* MysteryMeat: Grynde Corp. make their tinned meat out of dogs, cats, rats and [[spoiler: nearly Tintin, until he escaped.]]

* [[spoiler:TickertapeParade: In Tintin's honor at the end, after he cleans up Chicago.]]

* AmericansAreCowboys: Once Tintin leaves Chicago and its mobsters, pretty much every American he encounters in the countryside is a cowboy or some other kind of frontiersman. Somewhat justified, as the cowboy era was not long dead. The trope is PlayedWith in the same book, however: A city is built [[{{Boomtown}} overnight]] in an area that used to be pretty WildWest. The next morning, Tintin finds himself the only person in the city still wearing his cowboy outfit, and receives a chiding from a police officer who tells him to put on something proper.

It's 1931 and having dealt with AlCapone's [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo diamond smuggling operation in the Belgian Congo]] Tintin and Snowy head for Chicago to clean up {{Gangsterland}}. He almost at once runs afoul of Al Capone himself[[hottip:*: Capone is the only real person to appear in the Tintin stories]] but manages to evade the mob boss only to find himself making an enemy of Capone's rival Bobby Smiles.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Roberto Rastapopoulos in one panel.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: The comic starts with Tintin searching Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again.

* InjunCountry: A rather mixed example - the Blackfeet Indians are violent and gulible but they are also depicted as victims.

* WretchedHive: Chicago is presented as such, and the US as a whole comes across as a CrapsackWorld.

It's 1931 and having dealt with AlCapone's [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo diamond smuggling operation in the Belgian Congo]] Tintin and Snowy head for Chicago to clean up {{Gangsterland}}. He almost at once runs afoul of Al Capone himself[[hottip:*: Capone is the only real peron to appear in the Tintin stories]] but manages to evade the mob boss only to find himself making an enemy of Capone's rival Bobby Smiles.

* DeusExMachina: Arguably uses this more than any other entry in the series. [[spoiler: The animal lover stopping the train, the cannery workers going on strike, Tintin mistakenly being tied to a set of wooden weights rather than real ones.]]

It's 1931 and having dealt with Al Capone's [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo diamond smuggling operation in the Belgian Congo]] Tintin and Snowy head for Chicago to clean up {{Gangsterland}}. He almost at once runs afoul of Al Capone himself[[hottip:*: Capone is the only real peron to appear in the Tintin stories]] but manages to evade the mob boss only to find himself making an enemy of Capone's rival Bobby Smiles.

* AnimalWrongsGroup: An elderly woman on a train pulls the lever because she saw a puma attack a deer and ''insists'' the conductor intervene. [[spoiler: She ends up inadvertently saving Tintin's live since he was ChainedToARailway at the time.]]