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Tintin is the titular protagonist of The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . He is a reporter and adventurer who travels around the world with his dog Snowy . The character was created in 1929 and introduced in Le Petit Vingtième , a weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle . He appears as a young man, around 14 to 19 years old with a round face and quiff hairstyle. Tintin has a sharp intellect, can defend himself, and is honest, decent, compassionate, and kind. Through his investigative reporting, quick-thinking, and all-around good nature, Tintin is always able to solve the mystery and complete the adventure. Unlike more colourful characters that he encounters, Tintin's personality is neutral, which allows the reader not merely to follow the adventures but assume Tintin's position within the story. Combined with Hergé's signature ligne claire ("clear line") style, this helps the reader "s...

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is a 2011 action-adventure , platforming video game based on the film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn , which is based on the series The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . The game was released for Microsoft Windows , Nintendo 3DS , PlayStation 3 , Wii and Xbox 360 on 21 October 2011 in Europe, on 1 December in Australia and on 6 December in North America. The game was developed by Ubisoft Montpellier , working in collaboration with the producers of the film, and published by Ubisoft. The iOS , Android and Symbian^3 versions were published by Gameloft and released on the App Store and Android Market on 31 October 2011, and on the Ovi Store on 11 January 2012. The online services for the game were shut down on 6 October 2015. A sea plane carrying Tintin (voiced by Adam Howden ), Captain Haddock ( Lewis Macleod ), and Tintin's dog Snowy is flying through a thunde...

Thomson and Thompson ( French : Dupond et Dupont) are fictional characters in The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . They are two incompetent detectives who provide much of the comic relief throughout the series. While their different (albeit similar) surnames would suggest they are unrelated, they look like identical twins whose only discernible difference is the shape of their moustaches. They are afflicted with chronic spoonerisms , are extremely clumsy, thoroughly clueless, and usually bent on arresting the wrong character. In spite of this, they somehow get entrusted with delicate missions. The detective with the flat, droopy walrus moustache is Thompson and introduces himself as "Thompson, with a 'P', as in psychology ", " Philadelphia ", or any other "P" word in which the initial "P" is combined with another letter, losing the initial "P" sound or else rendering it completely sil...

Professor Cuthbert Calculus ( French : Professeur Tryphon Tournesol) meaning "Professor Tryphon Sunflower "), is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . He is Tintin's friend, an absent-minded professor and half-deaf physicist , who invents many sophisticated devices used in the series, such as a one-person shark-shaped submarine , the Moon rocket , and an ultrasound weapon . Calculus's deafness is a frequent source of humour, as he repeats back what he thinks he has heard, usually in the most unlikely words possible. He does not admit to being near-deaf and insists he is only a little hard of hearing in one ear. Calculus first appeared in Red Rackham's Treasure , and was the result of Hergé's long quest to find the archetypal mad scientist or absent-minded professor . Although Hergé had included characters with similar traits in earlier stories, Calculus developed into a much more complex f...

Captain Archibald Haddock ( French : Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a fictional character and a protagonist in The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . He is Tintin's best friend, a seafaring pipe-smoking Merchant Marine Captain . Haddock is initially depicted as a weak and alcoholic character under the control of his treacherous first mate Allan , who keeps him drunk and runs his freighter. He regains his command and his dignity, even rising to president of the Society of Sober Sailors ( The Shooting Star ), but never gives up his love for rum and whisky , especially Loch Lomond , until the final Tintin adventure, Tintin and the Picaros , when Professor Calculus 'cures' him of his taste for alcohol. In the adventure Secret of the Unicorn (and continuing in Red Rackham's Treasure ) he and Tintin travel to find a pirate's treasure captured by his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock (François de Hadoque in French). With newfou...

Snowy (Milou) is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . Snowy is a white Wire Fox Terrier who is a companion to Tintin , the series' protagonist. He debuted on 10 January 1929 in the first installment of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets , which was serialised in Le Petit Vingtième until May 1930. Snowy's conception was inspired in part by a Fox Terrier at a café Hergé used to frequent. Milou, Snowy's original French name, was the nickname of Hergé's first girlfriend (although Snowy/Milou is male). In the first eight Tintin adventures, Snowy regularly addresses his internal monologue to the reader. Hergé diminished Snowy's speaking role after the introduction of Captain Haddock in the ninth story. The Crab with the Golden Claws However, at times when Captain Haddock is not around, he speaks - as seen in Tintin in Tibet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_(character) -----------------...