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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Tintin tries to catch Bobby Smiles during a horseback chase by throwing a lasso. However he's never tried it before, and only ends up tangling himself and his horse up with the rope.
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trope about IU colorism now
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* 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.
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he was already there in the black and white version
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Roberto Rastapopoulos in one panel in the recolored version.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Roberto Rastapopoulos in one panel in panel. He is one of the recolored version.guests of a reception in honour of Tintin.
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* TechnicalEuphemism: Bobby Smiles doesn't like being called a gangster, preferring the term "syndicate member".
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* TheGreatDepression: This story takes place during Prohibition in the Great Depression era, and the impact is shown in society, like sit-down strikes which have been common when workers wages were cut.
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** Al Capone appears in the book. No later ''Tintin'' album ever depicted a real person.
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* CrapsackWorld: America. Crime runs rampant, and meat producers put dogs, cats and rats in the [[MysteryMeat meat]].
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Punctuation.
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-->'''Tintin''':"Hands Up! Put your guns down and slide them behind you"
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-->'''Tintin''':"Much obliged, seeing as I didn't have one of my own."
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* SpeedySnail: One of the animals in the ForebodingFleeingFlock is a tortoise, and it's apparently running as fast as both a fox and a hare.
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* BarbellBeating: Towards the end, Tintin is captured by gangsters who throw him into the river tied to a dumbbell. However, it turns out that it was actually a fake dumbbell made of wood, which allows him to float. Tintin then manages to get on a boat belonging to members of the gang and breaks the wooden dumbbell in half to use it as a weapon to beat up the gangsters.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: As the final episode of the Ellipse-Nelvana animated version, an altered ending shows Tintin receiving a call and rushing off for a new adventure.
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* 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.
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* 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. The boomtown story is not shown in the animated version.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Some members of the gang who threw Tintin into Lake Michigan spot a man floating on the surface of the lake and immediately help him out of the water... until they realize it's Tintin himself and try to kill him again.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The detective who was looking for Tintin is trapped by the gangsters along with Snowy, but we're never shown what happens to him after that.
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* BowledOver: Tintin does this with half of a wooden dumbbell on the second-to-last page complete with a bubble showing imaginary bowling pins knocked over.
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* SwitchToEnglish: Or rather, Switch to French. The French version has American characters who appear to be speaking French, but 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.
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* TranslationConvention: The French version had American characters who appear to be speaking French, but 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. Obviously, the English translation averts this.
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Moved to more specific trope and removed comment not related to it.
* SwitchToEnglish: Or rather, Switch to French. The French version has American characters who appear to be speaking French, but 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.
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* 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.