Tintin/Heartwarming: Difference between revisions

** Haddock repeatedly comes back after swearing up and down that Tintin was crazy for going off on his hare-brained rescue mission. The first time he surprises Tintin by recruiting an experienced Sherpa guide and several porters (and a rucksack full of whiskey), and the second time he shows up at a remote village, sheepishly explaining that he's only there to get a photo of the Yeti to sell to a magazine.

** Also a [[Real Life]] Heartwarming Moment: Hergé had used a friend he made while researching for ''The Blue Lotus'', Zhang Chongren, as the basis for Chang Chong-Chen, a friend Tintin makes when he is in China. By the time Hergé wrote ''Tintin in Tibet'', he had not seen Zhang for several decades, but the French media managed to find him and arranged a trip for him to travel to France, where the two friends finally met. There is a photo of the two of them sitting in front of a cutout of Tintin and Chang saying the words used in their reunion in that comic.

Chang/Zhang: "Tintin! Oh, how often I've thought of you!" }}

* ''The Black Island'' has a Gorilla who's sent to kill Tintin. It's injured and Tintin saves the animal, who then proceeds to become his friend.

==== Film ====

* Haddock's motivational speech to Tintin during his [[Heroic BSOD]] stage:

'''Captain Haddock:''' Failed. There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse. Don’t you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, ''that'' is what people pick up. Don’t you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There’s something you need to know about failure, Tintin. You can never let it defeat you. }}

* Hergé's [[Creator Cameo]] at the Belgian marketplace.

** What makes it even sweeter is that after the intro credits, he's the ''first person you see'' in the film.

* After the chase in Morocco, Tintin {{spoiler|is wrestling Sahkarine's bird for the last scroll. Sahkarine threatens to drown Haddock if Tintin doesn't let the bird go. Sahkarine drops Haddock into the water, and Tintin goes after him instead of getting the scrolls first. Aww.}}