- Nightmare Retardant: The Giant Spider which Tintin finds on the meteor would clearly be a terrifying thing to come across in real life, but in the comic it's rendered with silly cartoon eyes that give it a dimly quizzical and not at all frightening appearance. In the Belvision cartoon and the 1990s animated series, though, it looks much scarier.
- Values Dissonance: In the original edition, two Jews can at one point be talking about the end of the world, with one of them noting that if that were the case, he wouldn't have to pay his debts. To call it stereotypical is beyond an understatement. Thankfully, this was scrubbed entirely in the revamped version.
- Mr. Bohlwinkel also comes across to many as a stereotypical caricature of Jews. Worse yet, in the original version (which was, again, written directly under Nazi occupation), he was given the very Jewish name of Blumenstein, his country of origin being the U.S. As stated above, the later version changed that to the fictional São Rico, while Hergé altered the name to Mr. Bohlwinkel... which is also a Jewish name (something that apparently he didn't know).
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