" The Tintin character was never depicted as adhering to these beliefs.

The Tintin book, The Castafiore Emerald, contains settings, plots, comic devices and character types that share many similarities to screwball comedies.

South African singer / songwriter Gert Vlok Nel compares Tintin to God in his Afrikaans song " Waarom ek roep na jou vanaand ", presumably because Tintin is a morally pure character.

Scottish singer and actor Jimmy Somerville, as early as 1982, sported a new " look " with very short cut hair, and a kuifje (" small tuft " in Dutch ) up-front, in a deliberate move to resemble Tintin character.

In lighter media, a few stars of the comic industry made their debut, including Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, who would appear in over 200 million comic books in 60 languages.

* Used indiscriminately as an insult by Captain Haddock, a character in The Adventures of Tintin.

* Nestor ( Tintin character ), from The Adventures of Tintin series of comic books by Hergé

* Snowy ( character ) ( Milou in French ), fictional character of Les Aventures de Tintin comic strip series

The only woman character of importance is Bianca Castafiore, who is portrayed to be foolish and nearly oblivious to all negative reactions to her behaviour – though she does show loyalty, presence of mind and quick wit when hiding Tintin and Haddock from Colonel Sponsz in The Calculus Affair.

* Lambik is the name given by Willy Vandersteen to a Belgian character in the comic strip Spike and Suzy ( Suske en Wiske in Dutch ) which appeared in Tintin magazine.

As a token of appreciation, Hergé added the character " Chang Chong-Chen " ( Tchang in original French-language version ) to The Blue Lotus, a young Chinese orphan boy who meets and befriends Tintin.

Bianca Castafiore, the " Milanese Nightingale ", is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the series of classic Belgian comic books written and illustrated by Hergé.

The " Bianca Castafioreplein ", a tiny square along Verversstraat in Amsterdam named for the fictional opera singer Bianca Castafiore, a character in the comic books The Adventures of Tintin.

Castafiore invariably sings her signature aria in Hergé's books, in the 2011 Spielberg / Jackson film The Adventures of Tintin, the character ( voiced by soprano Renée Fleming ) presents a different aria, " Je veux vivre ..." from Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.

Movie critic Dana Stevens states " With the possible exception of the title character, the animated cast of Tintin narrowly escapes entrapment in the so-called ' uncanny valley.

* Pablo ( Tintin character ), a recurring character in the adventures of Tintin

Tintinologists such as Thompson, Michael Farr and Pierre Assouline have noted the strong influence that the character of Totor would have on Tintin, with Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier stating that " Graphically, Totor was virtually identical to Tintin in every respect, except for his scout uniform.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

Of more importance to the West than Poland's boundaries was the character of her government.

Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Susan was an active character ; ;

It was the kind of thing that could ruin a man's life, and it was a tribute to John's strength of character and very real business ability that it hadn't ruined his.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

Besides this may be mentioned editions of the New Testament apocrypha, De Evangeliorum apocryphorum origine et usu ( 1851 ); Acta Apostolorum apocrypha ( 1851 ); Evangelia apocrypha ( 1853 ; 2nd ed., 1876 ); Apocalypses apocryphae ( 1866 ), and various minor writings, partly of an apologetic character, such as Wann wurden unsere Evangelien verfasst?

He became popular in his lifetime, and remained popular after his death ; partly due to his larger than life character, and his reputation for drinking to excess.

This is partly because of the negative perception of his personal character and its influence upon his reputation.

The cycle continued the trend towards reducing the role played by Arthur in his own legend, partly through the introduction of the character of Galahad and an expansion of the role of Merlin.

* John Masters ' 1952 novel The Deceivers concerns the fight to suppress Thuggee, with a leading character partly based on William Sleeman.

X-ray crystallography — or, strictly speaking, an inelastic Compton scattering experiment — has also provided evidence for the partly covalent character of hydrogen bonds.

Patrick Krug, a biologist at California State University, Los Angeles named a sea slug with traits of sexual flexibility Alderia willowi partly for his grandmother and partly after Willow's character.

Besides a number of epistles, which are partly collected with the answers of those to whom they were written, Cyprian wrote a number of treatises, some of which have also the character of pastoral letters.

Soho's character stems partly from the ensuing neglect by rich and fashionable London, and the lack of redevelopment that characterized the neighbouring areas.

The powerful dramatic roles Kazan brought out from many of his actors was due, partly, to his ability to recognize their personal character traits.

* Headless Horseman, a fictional character in the horror film Sleepy Hollow ( 1999 ) that was partly based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

His acting quality, usually playing a powerful character, such as Scarface, was partly a result of his intense preparation for his parts, often immersing himself in study of the real character's traits and mannerisms.

Janet Maslin, in a review of an Addams biography for The New York Times, wrote, " Addams's persona sounds cooked up for the benefit of feature writers ... was at least partly a character contrived for the public eye ," noting that one outré publicity photo showed the humorist wearing a suit of armor at home, " but the shelves behind him hold books about painting and antiques, as well as a novel by John Updike.

Edward the Black Prince features prominently as a character in Edward III, a sixteenth-century play possibly partly attributable to William Shakespeare.

An excerpt from The Red Shoes ballet was included, since the character of Lermontov in the film was partly inspired by Diaghilev.

He ended his baseball career as the beloved manager for the then expansion New York Mets, which won over the hearts of New York partly due to the unique character of their veteran leader.

* In the Marvel Comics universe, the character Elektra Natchios is partly based on Electra.

In this were found large numbers of inscribed clay tablets ( it is estimated that upward of 40, 000 tablets and fragments have been excavated in this mound alone ), dating from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC onward into the Persian period, partly temple archives, partly school exercises and text-books, partly mathematical tables, with a considerable number of documents of a more distinctly literary character.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

Here Gawain partly retains the negative characteristics attributed to him by the later French, and partly retains his earlier positive representations, creating a character seen by some as inconsistent, and by others as a believably flawed hero.