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* The reason why Hergé provides no explanation for Haddock's [[Deus Ex Machina]] rescue of Tintin in ''[[Main/Tintin/Land of Black Gold/Recap|Recap]]'' (when Haddock tries to explain how he got there, he's always cut short) is that it's actually a meta joke. The original version of ''Land of Black Gold'' was initially serialized in a newspaper in 1939 and 1940, but after Germany occupied Belgium in 1940, Hergé thought that the comic would not pass the German censors because to its political nature, so the publication of Land of Black Gold was stopped mid-story. At this point Captain Haddock hadn't yet appeared in the series, so naturally he wasn't in the original Land of Black Gold either. Several other Tintin stories were published before Hergé decided to redraw Land of Black Gold in 1948, and in those intervening stories Haddock had become the most significant character in the series besides Tintin himself. Thus it would've been odd if Haddock had been left out of the new version of Land of Black Gold, but on the other hand he didn't really belong to a story that had been scripted before he even existed. This is the reason why Haddock is virtually absent from the story until the very end, and why there's no explanation for his sudden appearance. The lack of explanation is Hergé's comment on Haddock "invading" a story he wasn't originally a part of. So there ''is'' a solution to the riddle on a meta level, but not in the actual text.

* Because ''Tintin in the Congo'' is often not printed that much anymore due to [[Values Dissonance|racism]], [[Al Capone]] mentions a diamond operation in the Congo that is never mentioned again and makes the viewer wonder if s/he missed an adventure. This may seem like a [[Noodle Incident]] to the uninitiated.