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* RevealingReflection: There's a scene where a gangster enters Tintin's apartment. Tintin, who is in front of a mirror, notices the gangster and goes to the toilet while acting like he saw nothing. While the bandit waits for Tintin to come out, Tintin leaves the toilet by the window so he can enter from another window and sneak up on the gangster.
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* BrandishmentBluff: When two gangsters are seeing if they've actually killed him after throwing a dummy in the lake:
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* BrandishmentBluff: When two gangsters are seeing if they've actually killed him after throwing a dummy him in the lake:lake (which he survives because, [[BornLucky of course,]] [[DeusExMachina he does]]):
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For many years ''Tintin in America'' was the earliest adventure available in English and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness it shows.]] Aside from Tintin and Snowy there are no other familiar characters, the plot (and research) is near non-existant, and Snowy still talks (admittedly only on one page).
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For many years ''Tintin in America'' was the earliest adventure available in English and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness it shows.]] Aside from Tintin and Snowy there are no other familiar characters, the plot (and research) is near non-existant, non-existent, and Snowy still talks (admittedly only on one page).
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* WhenEldersAttack: An older lady punches the dog detective with her umbrella because he stole her Fritzy.
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* WhenEldersAttack: An older lady punches hits the dog detective with her umbrella because he stole her Fritzy.
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* DeusExMachina: Arguably uses this more than any other entry in the series. 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 woman stopping the train, the cannery workers going on strike, Tintin mistakenly being tied to a set of wooden weights rather than real ones.
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* DeusExMachina: Arguably uses this more than any other entry in the series. 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 woman stopping the train, the cannery workers going on strike, Tintin mistakenly being tied to a set of wooden weights rather than real ones.
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* AdaptedOut: The Native American storyline doesn't appear in the Ellipse-Nelvana animated adaptation.
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* AbortedArc: The comic starts with Tintin searching for Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse is never seen again]], and the story switches to having Bobby Smiles as the main villain. This is averted in the animated adaptation where Al Capone is the main villain and he gets arrested by the end.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching for Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again, and the story switches to having Bobby Smiles as the main villain. This is averted in the animated adaptation where Al Capone is the main villain and he gets arrested by the end.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Bobby Smiles is the principal villain of the story, but Al Capone is actually the first gangster who Tintin runs up against, and a separate gang tries to go after Tintin in the closing sections, after Smiles has been caught.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Bobby Smiles is the principal villain of the story, but Al Capone is actually the first gangster who Tintin runs up against, and a separate gang tries to go after Tintin in the closing sections, after Smiles has been caught. In the Ellipse-Nelvana animated adaptation all the Gangsters Tintin encounters work for Al Capone.
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* CountingToThree: Another case of BondVillainStupidity. One gangster has Tintin at gunpoint and counts to three to pull the trigger, giving Snowy time to drop a vase on his head.
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* CountingToThree: Another case of BondVillainStupidity. One gangster has Tintin at gunpoint and counts to three to pull the trigger, giving Snowy time to drop a vase on his head. Although to be fair at that point Tintin looked very unlikely to escape and he could hardly have known a dog was about to drop something on him.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching for Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again, and the story switches to having Bobby Smiles as the main villain.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching for Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again, and the story switches to having Bobby Smiles as the main villain. This is averted in the animated adaptation where Al Capone is the main villain and he gets arrested by the end.
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* TheStrongman: Tintin is kidnapped by a gang of criminals and thrown into Lake Michigan chained to a barbell... which floats. Cut to a strongman trying and failing to lift his barbell and figuring out someone stole his wooden ones.
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* KnightsArmorHideout: Tintin sneaks into the castle where the members of the KIDNAP Inc. meet. He hides inside a knight's armor in the corridor and takes out one unsuspecting baddie after the other as they pass by.
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* DeadlyDodging: Of the accidental kind. One goon picks up a vase to throw at Tintin who stands by the door. Then Al Capone comes through the door and receives the vase in his face.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Flavor 2
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* {{Eagleland}}: Flavor 22.
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* AdaptedOut: The Native American storyline doesn't appear in the Ellipse-Nelvana animated adaptation.
* 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 BoomTown is built ''[[RidiculouslyFastConstruction 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.
* 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 life since he was ChainedToARailway at the time.
* AscendedExtra: Al Capone in the Nelvana adaptation.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Some of them actually make the Thompsons look halfway competent.
* BalconyEscape: Tintin switches rooms this way.
* BigBadEnsemble: Bobby Smiles is the principal villain of the story, but Al Capone is actually the first gangster who Tintin runs up against, and a separate gang tries to go after Tintin in the closing sections, after Smiles has been caught.
* BoomTown: The discovery of oil in a piece of InjunCountry leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour by the army at bayonet-point). 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.
* 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 BoomTown is built ''[[RidiculouslyFastConstruction 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.
* 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 life since he was ChainedToARailway at the time.
* AscendedExtra: Al Capone in the Nelvana adaptation.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Some of them actually make the Thompsons look halfway competent.
* BalconyEscape: Tintin switches rooms this way.
* BigBadEnsemble: Bobby Smiles is the principal villain of the story, but Al Capone is actually the first gangster who Tintin runs up against, and a separate gang tries to go after Tintin in the closing sections, after Smiles has been caught.
* BoomTown: The discovery of oil in a piece of InjunCountry leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour by the army at bayonet-point). 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.
* ButNotTooBlack: When ''Tintin'' finally got marketed in the USA in the 1950s he was forced to change a few black extras 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.
* CassandraTruth: The police officer thinks Tintin is taking him for a ride when the latter tells he captured Al Capone.
* ChainedToARailway: Bobby Smiles does this to Tintin.
* ChandelierSwing: Tintin defeats the villain with his SwordCane this way.
* ClimbSlipHangClimb: The Ellipse-Nelvana animated version adds this to a ledge-walking scene that had averted it in the book. Made more egregious by Tintin outright pulling himself up using only his arms to climb back on the platform.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: All over the place. Maurice Oyle is a prime example.
* CountingToThree: Another case of BondVillainStupidity. One gangster has Tintin at gunpoint and counts to three to pull the trigger, giving Snowy time to drop a vase on his head.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The Nelvana animated adaptation uses the same album cover, but no Native Americans appear in the story.
* CowboyEpisode: It was based on [[{{Flanderization}} European stereotypes of the USA]] and features plenty of Wild West imagery despite being set in the 1930s.
* CurtainCamouflage: Tintin hides behind curtains to evade some mooks.
* DeusExMachina: Arguably uses this more than any other entry in the series. 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 woman stopping the train, the cannery workers going on strike, Tintin mistakenly being tied to a set of wooden weights rather than real ones.
* CassandraTruth: The police officer thinks Tintin is taking him for a ride when the latter tells he captured Al Capone.
* ChainedToARailway: Bobby Smiles does this to Tintin.
* ChandelierSwing: Tintin defeats the villain with his SwordCane this way.
* ClimbSlipHangClimb: The Ellipse-Nelvana animated version adds this to a ledge-walking scene that had averted it in the book. Made more egregious by Tintin outright pulling himself up using only his arms to climb back on the platform.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: All over the place. Maurice Oyle is a prime example.
* CountingToThree: Another case of BondVillainStupidity. One gangster has Tintin at gunpoint and counts to three to pull the trigger, giving Snowy time to drop a vase on his head.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The Nelvana animated adaptation uses the same album cover, but no Native Americans appear in the story.
* CowboyEpisode: It was based on [[{{Flanderization}} European stereotypes of the USA]] and features plenty of Wild West imagery despite being set in the 1930s.
* CurtainCamouflage: Tintin hides behind curtains to evade some mooks.
* DeusExMachina: Arguably uses this more than any other entry in the series. 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 woman stopping the train, the cannery workers going on strike, Tintin mistakenly being tied to a set of wooden weights rather than real ones.
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* SwordCane: One of the villains pulls out a sword hidden in his cane.
* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Tintin attempts to use his lasso, only to end up lassoing himself and his own horse instead.
* OrMyNameIsnt: This line is used twice by hostile people. The French version was "As true as my name is X, I'll [get him]!"
* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Tintin attempts to use his lasso, only to end up lassoing himself and his own horse instead.
* OrMyNameIsnt: This line is used twice by hostile people. The French version was "As true as my name is X, I'll [get him]!"
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* SwordCane: One of {{Eagleland}}: Flavor 2
* EarlyBirdCameo: Roberto Rastapopoulos in one panel in thevillains pulls out a sword hidden in his cane.
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*WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tons of it!
** Basically, the USA gets [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] to the point that it reads like an ...actually pretty amusing parody overall.
** This is the last Tintinattempts to use his lasso, only to end up lassoing himself book where Snowy is shown actually talking, and his own horse instead.
(though it's slightly ambiguous) Tintin seems to understand what he's saying.
*OrMyNameIsnt: This line EvilVersusEvil: Tintin is used twice upset when the people most applauding him for taking on Al Capone are a rival group of gangsters led by hostile people. The French version was "As true as my name is X, I'll [get him]!"Bobby Smiles.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Roberto Rastapopoulos in one panel in the
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** Basically, the USA gets [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] to the point that it reads like an ...actually pretty amusing parody overall.
** This is the last Tintin
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* TheSavageIndian: The book features somewhat unfortunate depictions of a plains tribe as rather primitive and hostile towards outsiders.
* BoomTown: The discovery of oil in a piece of InjunCountry leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour by the army at bayonet-point). 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.
* TrapDoor: Bobby Smiles presses a button with his foot to make Tintin fall through the floor and into a room with some KnockoutGas.
* WeirdTradeUnion: There is a meeting of "The League of Distressed Gangsters".
* TranslationConvention: Done in a weird way in the French version. While the American characters appear to be speaking French, they begin their sentences with English phrases such as "How do you do" and "Good morning" to remind the readers that they are really speaking English. Most other books have everyone speak French even in situations where English or Spanish would be more appropriate.
* SherlockScan: Tintin hires a private detective after his beloved dog Snowy goes missing. The detective examines the scene and quickly produces a detailed scenario of the dog-napping. Tintin wonders if this man is a Sherlock or a charlatan — it's unfortunately the latter as he repeatedly turns up with every kind of dog except Snowy.
* BoomTown: The discovery of oil in a piece of InjunCountry leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour by the army at bayonet-point). 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.
* TrapDoor: Bobby Smiles presses a button with his foot to make Tintin fall through the floor and into a room with some KnockoutGas.
* WeirdTradeUnion: There is a meeting of "The League of Distressed Gangsters".
* TranslationConvention: Done in a weird way in the French version. While the American characters appear to be speaking French, they begin their sentences with English phrases such as "How do you do" and "Good morning" to remind the readers that they are really speaking English. Most other books have everyone speak French even in situations where English or Spanish would be more appropriate.
* SherlockScan: Tintin hires a private detective after his beloved dog Snowy goes missing. The detective examines the scene and quickly produces a detailed scenario of the dog-napping. Tintin wonders if this man is a Sherlock or a charlatan — it's unfortunately the latter as he repeatedly turns up with every kind of dog except Snowy.
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* TheSavageIndian: The book features somewhat unfortunate depictions of a plains tribe as rather primitive and hostile towards outsiders.
* BoomTown: The discovery of oil in a piece of InjunCountry leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour by the army at bayonet-point). 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.
* TrapDoor: Bobby Smiles presses a button with his foot to make Tintin fall through the floor and into a room with some KnockoutGas.
* WeirdTradeUnion: There is a meeting of "The League of Distressed Gangsters".
* TranslationConvention: Done in a weird way in the French version. While the American characters appear to be speaking French, they begin their sentences with English phrases such as "How do you do" and "Good morning" to remind the readers that they are really speaking English. Most other books have everyone speak French even in situations where English or Spanish would be more appropriate.
* SherlockScan: Tintin hires a private detective after his beloved dog Snowy goes missing. The detective examines the scene and quickly produces a detailed scenario of the dog-napping.ForebodingFleeingFlock: Tintin wonders if this man is a Sherlock or a charlatan — it's unfortunately why all the latter as animals are passing him. Then he repeatedly turns up with every kind of dog except Snowy.sees the prairie fire.
* {{Gangsterland}}: Tintin is pitted against Chicago gangsters, including an undisguised Al Capone.
* BoomTown: The discovery of oil in a piece of InjunCountry leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour by the army at bayonet-point). 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.
* TrapDoor: Bobby Smiles presses a button with his foot to make Tintin fall through the floor and into a room with some KnockoutGas.
* WeirdTradeUnion: There is a meeting of "The League of Distressed Gangsters".
* TranslationConvention: Done in a weird way in the French version. While the American characters appear to be speaking French, they begin their sentences with English phrases such as "How do you do" and "Good morning" to remind the readers that they are really speaking English. Most other books have everyone speak French even in situations where English or Spanish would be more appropriate.
* SherlockScan: Tintin hires a private detective after his beloved dog Snowy goes missing. The detective examines the scene and quickly produces a detailed scenario of the dog-napping.
* {{Gangsterland}}: Tintin is pitted against Chicago gangsters, including an undisguised Al Capone.
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* CountingToThree: Another case of BondVillainStupidity. One gangster has Tintin at gunpoint and counts to three to pull the trigger, giving Snowy time to drop a vase on his head.
* RunawayTrain: The brake lever is broken on the train so it runs head on into a boulder on the tracks.
* CurtainCamouflage: Tintin hides behind curtains to evade some mooks.
* CasandraaTruth: The police officer thinks Tintin is taking him for a ride when the latter tells he captured Al Capone.
* BalconyEscape: Tintin switches rooms this way.
* KnockoutGas: The Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago uses knockout gas on Tintin after dropping him through a TrapDoor and before dumping him into Lake Michigan. Fortunately for Tintin, they used the wrong kind of gas.
* SenselessViolins: There is a single panel showing one of the gangsters with his gun inside a violin.
* SetAMookToKillAMook: Tintin tricks the Indians to fight each other so he can escape in the meantime.
* WaterGeyserVolley: The oil geyser first lifts an Indian up in the air and then Tintin is floating on its top as well.
* ForebodingFleeingFlock: Tintin wonders why all the animals are passing him. Then he sees the prairie fire.
* RunawayTrain: The brake lever is broken on the train so it runs head on into a boulder on the tracks.
* CurtainCamouflage: Tintin hides behind curtains to evade some mooks.
* CasandraaTruth: The police officer thinks Tintin is taking him for a ride when the latter tells he captured Al Capone.
* BalconyEscape: Tintin switches rooms this way.
* KnockoutGas: The Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago uses knockout gas on Tintin after dropping him through a TrapDoor and before dumping him into Lake Michigan. Fortunately for Tintin, they used the wrong kind of gas.
* SenselessViolins: There is a single panel showing one of the gangsters with his gun inside a violin.
* SetAMookToKillAMook: Tintin tricks the Indians to fight each other so he can escape in the meantime.
* WaterGeyserVolley: The oil geyser first lifts an Indian up in the air and then Tintin is floating on its top as well.
* ForebodingFleeingFlock: Tintin wonders why all the animals are passing him. Then he sees the prairie fire.
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* WhenEldersAttack: An older lady punches the dog detective with her umbrella because he stole her Fritzy.
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* WhenEldersAttack: An older lady punches HereWeGoAgain: The AnimatedAdaptation ends with Tintin finishing his report, before getting a phone call about an unknown situation and leaving to solve it. He even mentions the dog trope name. Since this was also the last episode aired, it also qualifies as AndTheAdventureContinues.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/AlCapone, who was still alive at the time this story was drawn. For obvious reasons Hergé had to let him escape. In Harry Thompson's "Tintin and Hergé: a double biography" Thompson wrote down a funny quote about this cameo: ''"We don't know what Al Capone ever thought of the album. He probably never read it, seeing that Hergé was never found on the bottom of a Belgian river with his [[CementShoes feet in a block of cement]]."''
* IHaveYourWife: Snowy is kidnapped by gangsters, and Tintin has to rescue him.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The horses appearing in the story have pretty strange postures. And if you compare carefully, they all have just two or three different outlines.
* InjunCountry: A rather mixed example -- the Blackfeet Indians are violent and gullible but they are also depicted as victims.
* InMediasRes: Because ''Tintin in the Congo'' was not available for so long but this story was, it came across as this. Al Capone referring to his previous clash with Tintin sounded more like a CrypticBackgroundReference to readers than referring back to an actual written previous story.
* KarmaHoudini: Al Capone, assuming he had not been arrested offscreen. In RealLife, Capone was tried and arrested for tax evasion while this story was still being serialised, so one can presume his fictional counterpart eventually followed suit. Averted in the AnimatedAdaptation, where he's arrested alongside the other gangsters (due to the real Capone being long dead at that point).
* KnockoutGas: The Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago uses knockout gas on Tintin after dropping him through a TrapDoor and before dumping him into Lake Michigan. Fortunately for Tintin, they used the wrong kind of gas.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Tintin. ''Twice''.
* MobWar: Played with; the mobs are initially battling each other, but near the end of the story most of them call a truce in an effort to get rid of Tintin once and for all.
* MysteryMeat: Grynde Corp. make their tinned meat out of dogs, cats, rats and nearly Tintin, until he escaped.
* NationalStereotypes: The USA is depicted as a country full of gangsters, skyscrapers and cowboys and Native Americans who apparently still roam the Wild West. When Tintin strikes oil countless American business people quickly appear out of nowhere to buy the ground from him (offering sums in tens of thousands). After being informed that it actually belongs to the Native Americans the business people quickly pay them a paltry $25, force them to leave immediately and build an entire city from scratch in a matter of 24 hours!
* OrMyNameIsnt: This line is used twice by hostile people. The French version was "As true as my name is X, I'll [get him]!"
* PunnyName: Mr. Grynde and Grynde Corp., who make ''ground'' tinned meat.
* RandomEventsPlot: Not to the same extent as ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Land of the Soviets]]'' or '' [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'', as about half of the storyline is focused on Tintin's attempt to take down Bobby Smiles, but it still doesn't really have a coherent overall storyline, instead just being based around the general theme of Tintin battling gangsters.
* RunawayTrain: The brake lever is broken on the train so it runs head on into a boulder on the tracks.
* TheSavageIndian: The book features somewhat unfortunate depictions of a plains tribe as rather primitive and hostile towards outsiders.
* SavedByThePlatformBelow: Tintin falls off a cliff while pursued by angry natives, but is saved by a small tree with a ledge right below... and that ledge has an entrance to a secret cave.
* SenselessViolins: There is a single panel showing one of the gangsters with his gun inside a violin.
* SetAMookToKillAMook: Tintin tricks the Indians to fight each other so he can escape in the meantime.
* SherlockScan: Tintin hires a private detective after his beloved dog Snowy goes missing. The detective examines the scene and quickly produces a detailed scenario of the dog-napping. Tintin wonders if this man is a Sherlock or a charlatan — it's unfortunately the latter as he repeatedly turns up withher umbrella because he stole her Fritzy.every kind of dog except Snowy.
* ShoutOut: The original 1931 story had a shout-out to Creator/MaryPickford near the end, when Tintin is speeching to a bunch of rich people. This was removed from the color version.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/AlCapone, who was still alive at the time this story was drawn. For obvious reasons Hergé had to let him escape. In Harry Thompson's "Tintin and Hergé: a double biography" Thompson wrote down a funny quote about this cameo: ''"We don't know what Al Capone ever thought of the album. He probably never read it, seeing that Hergé was never found on the bottom of a Belgian river with his [[CementShoes feet in a block of cement]]."''
* IHaveYourWife: Snowy is kidnapped by gangsters, and Tintin has to rescue him.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The horses appearing in the story have pretty strange postures. And if you compare carefully, they all have just two or three different outlines.
* InjunCountry: A rather mixed example -- the Blackfeet Indians are violent and gullible but they are also depicted as victims.
* InMediasRes: Because ''Tintin in the Congo'' was not available for so long but this story was, it came across as this. Al Capone referring to his previous clash with Tintin sounded more like a CrypticBackgroundReference to readers than referring back to an actual written previous story.
* KarmaHoudini: Al Capone, assuming he had not been arrested offscreen. In RealLife, Capone was tried and arrested for tax evasion while this story was still being serialised, so one can presume his fictional counterpart eventually followed suit. Averted in the AnimatedAdaptation, where he's arrested alongside the other gangsters (due to the real Capone being long dead at that point).
* KnockoutGas: The Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago uses knockout gas on Tintin after dropping him through a TrapDoor and before dumping him into Lake Michigan. Fortunately for Tintin, they used the wrong kind of gas.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Tintin. ''Twice''.
* MobWar: Played with; the mobs are initially battling each other, but near the end of the story most of them call a truce in an effort to get rid of Tintin once and for all.
* MysteryMeat: Grynde Corp. make their tinned meat out of dogs, cats, rats and nearly Tintin, until he escaped.
* NationalStereotypes: The USA is depicted as a country full of gangsters, skyscrapers and cowboys and Native Americans who apparently still roam the Wild West. When Tintin strikes oil countless American business people quickly appear out of nowhere to buy the ground from him (offering sums in tens of thousands). After being informed that it actually belongs to the Native Americans the business people quickly pay them a paltry $25, force them to leave immediately and build an entire city from scratch in a matter of 24 hours!
* OrMyNameIsnt: This line is used twice by hostile people. The French version was "As true as my name is X, I'll [get him]!"
* PunnyName: Mr. Grynde and Grynde Corp., who make ''ground'' tinned meat.
* RandomEventsPlot: Not to the same extent as ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Land of the Soviets]]'' or '' [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'', as about half of the storyline is focused on Tintin's attempt to take down Bobby Smiles, but it still doesn't really have a coherent overall storyline, instead just being based around the general theme of Tintin battling gangsters.
* RunawayTrain: The brake lever is broken on the train so it runs head on into a boulder on the tracks.
* TheSavageIndian: The book features somewhat unfortunate depictions of a plains tribe as rather primitive and hostile towards outsiders.
* SavedByThePlatformBelow: Tintin falls off a cliff while pursued by angry natives, but is saved by a small tree with a ledge right below... and that ledge has an entrance to a secret cave.
* SenselessViolins: There is a single panel showing one of the gangsters with his gun inside a violin.
* SetAMookToKillAMook: Tintin tricks the Indians to fight each other so he can escape in the meantime.
* SherlockScan: Tintin hires a private detective after his beloved dog Snowy goes missing. The detective examines the scene and quickly produces a detailed scenario of the dog-napping. Tintin wonders if this man is a Sherlock or a charlatan — it's unfortunately the latter as he repeatedly turns up with
* ShoutOut: The original 1931 story had a shout-out to Creator/MaryPickford near the end, when Tintin is speeching to a bunch of rich people. This was removed from the color version.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The ending of ''Tintin in the Congo'' teased a battle between Tintin and Al Capone, and the early stages of the story seem to be setting him up as the main villain, but he ends up disappearing quite early on, with Bobby Smiles subsequently taking over as the main villain. It's thought that Hergé actually did intend to have Capone as the main villain throughout the story, but for whatever reason -- either due to the possibility that one of the then-ongoing investigations into Capone would actually lead to his being jailed, which would pose a problem given the serialised nature of the story, or the off-chance that Capone had some Belgian friends who he might send to teach Hergé a lesson -- wrote him out and replaced him with Smiles.
* SwordCane: One of the villains pulls out a sword hidden in his cane.
* TickertapeParade: In Tintin's honor at the end, after he cleans up Chicago.
* TranslationConvention: Done in a weird way in the French version. While the American characters appear to be speaking French, they begin their sentences with English phrases such as "How do you do" and "Good morning" to remind the readers that they are really speaking English. Most other books have everyone speak French even in situations where English or Spanish would be more appropriate.
* TrapDoor: Bobby Smiles presses a button with his foot to make Tintin fall through the floor and into a room with some KnockoutGas.
* SwordCane: One of the villains pulls out a sword hidden in his cane.
* TickertapeParade: In Tintin's honor at the end, after he cleans up Chicago.
* TranslationConvention: Done in a weird way in the French version. While the American characters appear to be speaking French, they begin their sentences with English phrases such as "How do you do" and "Good morning" to remind the readers that they are really speaking English. Most other books have everyone speak French even in situations where English or Spanish would be more appropriate.
* TrapDoor: Bobby Smiles presses a button with his foot to make Tintin fall through the floor and into a room with some KnockoutGas.
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* ChandelierSwing: Tintin defeats the villain with his SwordCane this way.
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* ChandelierSwing: WaterGeyserVolley: The oil geyser first lifts an Indian up in the air and then Tintin defeats the villain is floating on its top as well.
* WeirdTradeUnion: There is a meeting of "The League of Distressed Gangsters".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching for Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again, and the story switches to having Bobby Smiles as the main villain.
* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Tintin attempts to use hisSwordCane this way.lasso, only to end up lassoing himself and his own horse instead.
* WhenEldersAttack: An older lady punches the dog detective with her umbrella because he stole her Fritzy.
* 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 Chicago's doorstep.
* WeirdTradeUnion: There is a meeting of "The League of Distressed Gangsters".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching for Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again, and the story switches to having Bobby Smiles as the main villain.
* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Tintin attempts to use his
* WhenEldersAttack: An older lady punches the dog detective with her umbrella because he stole her Fritzy.
* 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 Chicago's doorstep.
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* AdaptedOut: The Native American storyline doesn't appear in the Ellipse-Nelvana animated adaptation.
* 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 BoomTown is built ''[[RidiculouslyFastConstruction 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.
* 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 life since he was ChainedToARailway at the time.
* AscendedExtra: Al Capone in the Nelvana adaptation.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Some of them actually make the Thompsons look halfway competent.
* BigBadEnsemble: Bobby Smiles is the principal villain of the story, but Al Capone is actually the first gangster who Tintin runs up against, and a separate gang tries to go after Tintin in the closing sections, after Smiles has been caught.
* ButNotTooBlack: When ''Tintin'' finally got marketed in the USA in the 1950s he was forced to change a few black extras 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.
* ChainedToARailway: Bobby Smiles does this to Tintin.
* ClimbSlipHangClimb: The Ellipse-Nelvana animated version adds this to a ledge-walking scene that had averted it in the book. Made more egregious by Tintin outright pulling himself up using only his arms to climb back on the platform.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: All over the place. Maurice Oyle is a prime example.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The Nelvana animated adaptation uses the same album cover, but no Native Americans appear in the story.
* CowboyEpisode: It was based on [[{{Flanderization}} European stereotypes of the USA]] and features plenty of Wild West imagery despite being set in the 1930s.
* DeusExMachina: Arguably uses this more than any other entry in the series. 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 woman stopping the train, the cannery workers going on strike, Tintin mistakenly being tied to a set of wooden weights rather than real ones.
* {{Eagleland}}: Flavor 2
* EarlyBirdCameo: Roberto Rastapopoulos in one panel in the recolored version.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tons of it!
** Basically, the USA gets [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] to the point that it reads like an ...actually pretty amusing parody overall.
** This is the last Tintin book where Snowy is shown actually talking, and (though it's slightly ambiguous) Tintin seems to understand what he's saying.
* EvilVersusEvil: Tintin is upset when the people most applauding him for taking on Al Capone are a rival group of gangsters led by Bobby Smiles.
* {{Gangsterland}}: Tintin is pitted against Chicago gangsters, including an undisguised Al Capone.
* HereWeGoAgain: The AnimatedAdaptation ends with Tintin finishing his report, before getting a phone call about an unknown situation and leaving to solve it. He even mentions the trope name. Since this was also the last episode aired, it also qualifies as AndTheAdventureContinues.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/AlCapone, who was still alive at the time this story was drawn. For obvious reasons Hergé had to let him escape. In Harry Thompson's "Tintin and Hergé: a double biography" Thompson wrote down a funny quote about this cameo: ''"We don't know what Al Capone ever thought of the album. He probably never read it, seeing that Hergé was never found on the bottom of a Belgian river with his [[CementShoes feet in a block of cement]]."''
* IHaveYourWife: Snowy is kidnapped by gangsters, and Tintin has to rescue him.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The horses appearing in the story have pretty strange postures. And if you compare carefully, they all have just two or three different outlines.
* InjunCountry: A rather mixed example -- the Blackfeet Indians are violent and gullible but they are also depicted as victims.
* InMediasRes: Because ''Tintin in the Congo'' was not available for so long but this story was, it came across as this. Al Capone referring to his previous clash with Tintin sounded more like a CrypticBackgroundReference to readers than referring back to an actual written previous story.
* KarmaHoudini: Al Capone, assuming he had not been arrested offscreen. In RealLife, Capone was tried and arrested for tax evasion while this story was still being serialised, so one can presume his fictional counterpart eventually followed suit. Averted in the AnimatedAdaptation, where he's arrested alongside the other gangsters (due to the real Capone being long dead at that point).
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Tintin. ''Twice''.
* MobWar: Played with; the mobs are initially battling each other, but near the end of the story most of them call a truce in an effort to get rid of Tintin once and for all.
* MysteryMeat: Grynde Corp. make their tinned meat out of dogs, cats, rats and nearly Tintin, until he escaped.
* NationalStereotypes: The USA is depicted as a country full of gangsters, skyscrapers and cowboys and Native Americans who apparently still roam the Wild West. When Tintin strikes oil countless American business people quickly appear out of nowhere to buy the ground from him (offering sums in tens of thousands). After being informed that it actually belongs to the Native Americans the business people quickly pay them a paltry $25, force them to leave immediately and build an entire city from scratch in a matter of 24 hours!
* PunnyName: Mr. Grynde and Grynde Corp., who make ''ground'' tinned meat.
* RandomEventsPlot: Not to the same extent as ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Land of the Soviets]]'' or '' [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'', as about half of the storyline is focused on Tintin's attempt to take down Bobby Smiles, but it still doesn't really have a coherent overall storyline, instead just being based around the general theme of Tintin battling gangsters.
* SavedByThePlatformBelow: Tintin falls off a cliff while pursued by angry natives, but is saved by a small tree with a ledge right below... and that ledge has an entrance to a secret cave.
* ShoutOut: The original 1931 story had a shout-out to Creator/MaryPickford near the end, when Tintin is speeching to a bunch of rich people. This was removed from the color version.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The ending of ''Tintin in the Congo'' teased a battle between Tintin and Al Capone, and the early stages of the story seem to be setting him up as the main villain, but he ends up disappearing quite early on, with Bobby Smiles subsequently taking over as the main villain. It's thought that Hergé actually did intend to have Capone as the main villain throughout the story, but for whatever reason -- either due to the possibility that one of the then-ongoing investigations into Capone would actually lead to his being jailed, which would pose a problem given the serialised nature of the story, or the off-chance that Capone had some Belgian friends who he might send to teach Hergé a lesson -- wrote him out and replaced him with Smiles.
* TickertapeParade: In Tintin's honor at the end, after he cleans up Chicago.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching for Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again, and the story switches to having Bobby Smiles as the main villain.
* 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 Chicago's doorstep.
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* BrandishmentBluff: When two gangsters are seeing if they've actually killed him after throwing a dummy in the lake:
-->'''Tintin''':"Hands Up! Put your guns down and slide them behind you"
-->(Gangsters comply. Tintin collects guns.)
-->'''Tintin''':"Much obliged, seeing as I didn't have one of my own."
* DogPileOfDoom: Tintin is falsely accused of being a bandit, and a group of yokels try to lynch him. After failing to do so repeatedly, they all descend on him in a dogpile, each wanting to be the next one to try. Tintin escapes by crawling out from underneath.
* SwordCane: One of the villains pulls out a sword hidden in his cane.
* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Tintin attempts to use his lasso, only to end up lassoing himself and his own horse instead.
* OrMyNameIsnt: This line is used twice by hostile people. The French version was "As true as my name is X, I'll [get him]!"
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: Twice. First it's a random paperboy, later it's Tintin disguised as one.
* TheSavageIndian: The book features somewhat unfortunate depictions of a plains tribe as rather primitive and hostile towards outsiders.
* BoomTown: The discovery of oil in a piece of InjunCountry leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour by the army at bayonet-point). 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.
* TrapDoor: Bobby Smiles presses a button with his foot to make Tintin fall through the floor and into a room with some KnockoutGas.
* WeirdTradeUnion: There is a meeting of "The League of Distressed Gangsters".
* TranslationConvention: Done in a weird way in the French version. While the American characters appear to be speaking French, they begin their sentences with English phrases such as "How do you do" and "Good morning" to remind the readers that they are really speaking English. Most other books have everyone speak French even in situations where English or Spanish would be more appropriate.
* SherlockScan: Tintin hires a private detective after his beloved dog Snowy goes missing. The detective examines the scene and quickly produces a detailed scenario of the dog-napping. Tintin wonders if this man is a Sherlock or a charlatan — it's unfortunately the latter as he repeatedly turns up with every kind of dog except Snowy.
* GasChamber: The bandits drop Tintin into one through a TrapDoor.
* CountingToThree: Another case of BondVillainStupidity. One gangster has Tintin at gunpoint and counts to three to pull the trigger, giving Snowy time to drop a vase on his head.
* RunawayTrain: The brake lever is broken on the train so it runs head on into a boulder on the tracks.
* CurtainCamouflage: Tintin hides behind curtains to evade some mooks.
* CasandraaTruth: The police officer thinks Tintin is taking him for a ride when the latter tells he captured Al Capone.
* BalconyEscape: Tintin switches rooms this way.
* KnockoutGas: The Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago uses knockout gas on Tintin after dropping him through a TrapDoor and before dumping him into Lake Michigan. Fortunately for Tintin, they used the wrong kind of gas.
* SenselessViolins: There is a single panel showing one of the gangsters with his gun inside a violin.
* SetAMookToKillAMook: Tintin tricks the Indians to fight each other so he can escape in the meantime.
* WaterGeyserVolley: The oil geyser first lifts an Indian up in the air and then Tintin is floating on its top as well.
* ForebodingFleeingFlock: Tintin wonders why all the animals are passing him. Then he sees the prairie fire.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: One villain charges Tintin with a bottle but then the latter [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight pulls out gun and the fight is over]].
* WhenEldersAttack: An older lady punches the dog detective with her umbrella because he stole her Fritzy.
* SpinningClockHands: One panel shows the clock at different times while Tintin is running in circles waiting for the dog detective to return with Snowy.
* VillainExitStageLeft: One of the baddies escapes through the TrapDoor in his office.
* ChandelierSwing: Tintin defeats the villain with his SwordCane this way.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Bolivar, the strongest man in the world. Turns out he is a fake.
-->'''Tintin''':"Hands Up! Put your guns down and slide them behind you"
-->(Gangsters comply. Tintin collects guns.)
-->'''Tintin''':"Much obliged, seeing as I didn't have one of my own."
* DogPileOfDoom: Tintin is falsely accused of being a bandit, and a group of yokels try to lynch him. After failing to do so repeatedly, they all descend on him in a dogpile, each wanting to be the next one to try. Tintin escapes by crawling out from underneath.
* SwordCane: One of the villains pulls out a sword hidden in his cane.
* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Tintin attempts to use his lasso, only to end up lassoing himself and his own horse instead.
* OrMyNameIsnt: This line is used twice by hostile people. The French version was "As true as my name is X, I'll [get him]!"
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: Twice. First it's a random paperboy, later it's Tintin disguised as one.
* TheSavageIndian: The book features somewhat unfortunate depictions of a plains tribe as rather primitive and hostile towards outsiders.
* BoomTown: The discovery of oil in a piece of InjunCountry leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour by the army at bayonet-point). 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.
* TrapDoor: Bobby Smiles presses a button with his foot to make Tintin fall through the floor and into a room with some KnockoutGas.
* WeirdTradeUnion: There is a meeting of "The League of Distressed Gangsters".
* TranslationConvention: Done in a weird way in the French version. While the American characters appear to be speaking French, they begin their sentences with English phrases such as "How do you do" and "Good morning" to remind the readers that they are really speaking English. Most other books have everyone speak French even in situations where English or Spanish would be more appropriate.
* SherlockScan: Tintin hires a private detective after his beloved dog Snowy goes missing. The detective examines the scene and quickly produces a detailed scenario of the dog-napping. Tintin wonders if this man is a Sherlock or a charlatan — it's unfortunately the latter as he repeatedly turns up with every kind of dog except Snowy.
* GasChamber: The bandits drop Tintin into one through a TrapDoor.
* CountingToThree: Another case of BondVillainStupidity. One gangster has Tintin at gunpoint and counts to three to pull the trigger, giving Snowy time to drop a vase on his head.
* RunawayTrain: The brake lever is broken on the train so it runs head on into a boulder on the tracks.
* CurtainCamouflage: Tintin hides behind curtains to evade some mooks.
* CasandraaTruth: The police officer thinks Tintin is taking him for a ride when the latter tells he captured Al Capone.
* BalconyEscape: Tintin switches rooms this way.
* KnockoutGas: The Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago uses knockout gas on Tintin after dropping him through a TrapDoor and before dumping him into Lake Michigan. Fortunately for Tintin, they used the wrong kind of gas.
* SenselessViolins: There is a single panel showing one of the gangsters with his gun inside a violin.
* SetAMookToKillAMook: Tintin tricks the Indians to fight each other so he can escape in the meantime.
* WaterGeyserVolley: The oil geyser first lifts an Indian up in the air and then Tintin is floating on its top as well.
* ForebodingFleeingFlock: Tintin wonders why all the animals are passing him. Then he sees the prairie fire.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: One villain charges Tintin with a bottle but then the latter [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight pulls out gun and the fight is over]].
* WhenEldersAttack: An older lady punches the dog detective with her umbrella because he stole her Fritzy.
* SpinningClockHands: One panel shows the clock at different times while Tintin is running in circles waiting for the dog detective to return with Snowy.
* VillainExitStageLeft: One of the baddies escapes through the TrapDoor in his office.
* ChandelierSwing: Tintin defeats the villain with his SwordCane this way.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Bolivar, the strongest man in the world. Turns out he is a fake.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The ending of ''Tintin in the Congo'' teased a battle between Tintin and Al Capone, and the early stages of the story seem to be setting him up as the main villain, but he ends up disappearing quite early on, with Bobby Smiles subsequently taking over as the main villain. It's thought that Hergé actually did intend to have Capone as the main villain throughout the story, but for whatever reason -- either due to the possibility that one of the then-ongoing investigations into Capone would actually lead to his being jailed, which would pose a problem given the serialised nature of the story, or the off-chance that Capone had some Belgian friends who he might send to teach Hergé a lesson -- wrote him out and replaced him with Smiles.
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For many years ''Tintin in America'' was the earliest adventure available in English and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness it shows.]] Aside from Tintin and Snowy thereare no other familiar characters, the plot (and research) is near nonexistant, and Snowy still talks (admittedly only on one page).
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For many years ''Tintin in America'' was the earliest adventure available in English and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness it shows.]] Aside from Tintin and Snowy thereare there are no other familiar characters, the plot (and research) is near nonexistant, non-existant, and Snowy still talks (admittedly only on one page).
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* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Dog]]: Snowy is kidnapped by gangsters, and Tintin has to rescue him.
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* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Dog]]: IHaveYourWife: Snowy is kidnapped by gangsters, and Tintin has to rescue him.
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* InjunCountry: A rather mixed example - the Blackfeet Indians are violent and gullible but they are also depicted as victims.
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* InjunCountry: A rather mixed example - -- the Blackfeet Indians are violent and gullible but they are also depicted as victims.
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* ClimbSlipHangClimb: The Ellipse-Nelvana animated version adds this to a ledge-walking scene that had averted it in the book.
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* ClimbSlipHangClimb: The Ellipse-Nelvana animated version adds this to a ledge-walking scene that had averted it in the book. Made more egregious by Tintin outright pulling himself up using only his arms to climb back on the platform.
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* DeusExMachina: Arguably uses this more than any other entry in the series. 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.
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* DeusExMachina: Arguably uses this more than any other entry in the series. 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 woman stopping the train, the cannery workers going on strike, Tintin mistakenly being tied to a set of wooden weights rather than real ones.
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* NationalStereotypes: The USA is depicted as a country full of gangsters, skyscrapers and cowboys and Native Americans who apparently still roam the Wild West. When Tintin strikes oil countless American business people quickly appear out of nowhere to buy the ground from him. After being informed that it actually belongs to the Native Americans the business people quickly pay them a small fee, force them to leave immediately and build an entire city from scratch in a matter of 24 hours!
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* NationalStereotypes: The USA is depicted as a country full of gangsters, skyscrapers and cowboys and Native Americans who apparently still roam the Wild West. When Tintin strikes oil countless American business people quickly appear out of nowhere to buy the ground from him. him (offering sums in tens of thousands). After being informed that it actually belongs to the Native Americans the business people quickly pay them a small fee, paltry $25, force them to leave immediately and build an entire city from scratch in a matter of 24 hours!
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The Nelvana animated adaptation uses the same album cover, but no Native Americans appear in the story, probably due to political correctness.
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For many years ''Tintin in America'' was the earliest adventure available in English and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness it shows.]] Aside from Tintin and Snowy there are thereare no other familiar characters, the plot (and research) is near nonexistant, and Snowy still talks (admittedly only on one page).
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* ChainedToARailwayChainedToARailway: Bobby Smiles does this to Tintin.
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* {{Gangsterland}}{{Gangsterland}}: Tintin is pitted against Chicago gangsters, including an undisguised Al Capone.
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* ShoutOut:
** The original 1931 story had a shout-out to Creator/MaryPickford near the end, when Tintin is speeching to a bunch of rich people. This was removed from the color version.
** The original 1931 story had a shout-out to Creator/MaryPickford near the end, when Tintin is speeching to a bunch of rich people. This was removed from the color version.
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* ShoutOut:
**ShoutOut: The original 1931 story had a shout-out to Creator/MaryPickford near the end, when Tintin is speeching to a bunch of rich people. This was removed from the color version.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Bobby Smiles is the principal villain of the story, but Al Capone is actually the first gangster who Tintin runs up against, and a separate gang tries to go after Tintin in the closing sections, after Smiles has been caught.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching for Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The AnimatedAdaptation ends with Tintin finishing his report, before getting a phone call about an unknown situation and leaving to solve it. He even mentions the trope name.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The AnimatedAdaptation ends with Tintin finishing his report, before getting a phone call about an unknown situation and leaving to solve it. He even mentions the trope name. Since this was also the last episode aired, it also qualifies as AndTheAdventureContinues.
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* InMediasRes: Because ''Tintin in the Congo'' was not available for so long but this story was, it came across as this. Al Capone referring to his previous clash with Tintin sounded more like a CrypticBackgroundReference to readers than referring back to an actual written prequel story.
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* InMediasRes: Because ''Tintin in the Congo'' was not available for so long but this story was, it came across as this. Al Capone referring to his previous clash with Tintin sounded more like a CrypticBackgroundReference to readers than referring back to an actual written prequel previous story.
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* AscendedExtra: Al Capone in the Nelvana adaptation.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Dog]]: Snowy is kidnapped by gangsters, and Tintin has to rescue him.
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* AdaptedOut: The Native American storyline doesn't appear in the Ellipse-Nelvana animated adaptation.
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* NationalStereotypes: The USA is depicted as a country full of gangsters, skyscrapers and cowboys and Native Americans who apparently still roam the Wild West. When Tintin strucks oil countless American business people quickly appear out of nowhere to buy the ground from him. After informing them that it actually belongs to the Native Americans the business people quickly pay them a small fee, force them to leave immediately and build an entire city from scratch in a matter of 24 hours!
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* NationalStereotypes: The USA is depicted as a country full of gangsters, skyscrapers and cowboys and Native Americans who apparently still roam the Wild West. When Tintin strucks strikes oil countless American business people quickly appear out of nowhere to buy the ground from him. After informing them being informed that it actually belongs to the Native Americans the business people quickly pay them a small fee, force them to leave immediately and build an entire city from scratch in a matter of 24 hours!
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic starts with Tintin searching for Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Al is never seen again.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The AnimatedAdaptation ends with Tintin finishing his report, before getting a phone call about an unknown situation and leaving to solve it. He even mentions the trope name.
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* KarmaHoudini: Al Capone, assuming he had not been arrested offscreen. In RealLife, Capone was tried and arrested for tax evasion while this story was still being serialised, so one can presume his fictional counterpart eventually followed suit.
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* KarmaHoudini: Al Capone, assuming he had not been arrested offscreen. In RealLife, Capone was tried and arrested for tax evasion while this story was still being serialised, so one can presume his fictional counterpart eventually followed suit. Averted in the AnimatedAdaptation, where he's arrested alongside the other gangsters (due to the real Capone being long dead at that point).
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* WretchedHive: Chicago is presented as such, and the US as a whole comes across as a CrapsackWorld.
* WretchedHive: Chicago is presented as such, and the US as a whole comes across as a CrapsackWorld.
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