Tintin

*"Great Snakes!"*

—**Tintin**

*"Eureka!"*

—**Tintin**

* Books
* Belvision
* 1961-64 live action films
* 1991 animated TV show
* 2011 animated film

The Tales of The Quadruplets & The Triplets (upcoming, as a ghost and in one of the family portraits)
Trapped & Disappearances (upcoming)
The Unforgettable Lifetime (upcoming)
Welcome to Canada (upcoming)

## Character Information

### Occupation

**Comics, films and cartoons:** Journalist
Traveler
Adventurer
Freedom Fighter
**Fanfics:** Student (all, expect The Unforgettable Lifetime), Retired journalist (The Unforgettable Lifetime)

### Home

Brussels, Belgium (comic, cartoon and fanfic)
Sapphire Bay (*The Medical Emergency*)
Arendelle Hall, Seltjarnarnes, Iceland (until his death in 1964, in the fanfic)
Crawley, West Sussex, England (*Trapped & Disappearances*)
Greendale, Cumbria, England (*The Unforgettable Lifetime*)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (other fanfics)

### Family

Unknown (comic, cartoon and fanfics)
See below

### Friends

Captain Archibald Haddock, Thomson, Thompson, Barnaby Dawes, Professor Calculus, Bianca Castafiore, Oliveira de Figuera, General Alcazar, Chang, Abdullah, Martine Vandezande, Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, Zorrino, Niko, Nushka, Gustav
**The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death** Angelo Voiello, Ólafía Kristjánsdóttir (love interest)
**Fanfics:** Anna and Elsa Arendelle, Kristoff Bjorgman, Sven, Olaf, Hans Westerguard, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Toothless, Astrid Hofferson, Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston, Snotlout Jorgenson, Fishlegs Ingerman, Jack Frost, Rapunzel, Merida DunBroch, Flynn Rider, Eret Eretson, Nicholas St. North, Toothiana, Sanderson Mansnoozie, E. Aster Bunnymund, Barnaby Dawes, Thomson and Thompson, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, Allan Thompson, Hiro Hamada, Cass Hamada, Baymax, GoGo Tomago, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Fred Frederickson and the others

### Enemies

Roberto Rastapopoulos, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, Allan Thompson, Tom, Max Bird, Gustav Bird, General Sponsz, J. W. Müller

### Likes

Adventures, being a journalist, his dog Snowy, Captain Haddock, Marlinspike Hall, his apartment**Fanfic:** Caring for his twin children, his family, Angelo Voiello, his lover Ólafía, decides to giving his children up to Thomson and Thompson before his death

### Dislikes

Allan Thompson, his apartment goes messing, Rastapopoulos
**Fanfic:** Taking ill to tuberculosis after three terminal illnesses, losing his lover Ólafía during childrbirth

## Character's Bio

### Full name

Augustin Martin Johannes Ejnersen Renault (The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death)
Tintin Depardieu (The Unforgettable Lifetime)
Theodore Avichai Netanyahu (other fanfics)

### Nicknames

Tintin
Landlubber (by Captain Haddock)
Ali-Bhai
Wonder Boy
Great Heart
General Haranochi
Alvaro
Pipsqueak tuft of ginger (by Captain Haddock)

### Birthdate

10 January 1929 (comic and cartoon)
14th February 1946 (The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death)
28th March 1940 (The Unforgettable Lifetime)
7th June 2003 (other fanfics)

### Birthplace

Brussels, Belgium
**Other fanfics:** Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Deathdate

14th May 1964 (The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death)

### Deathplace

Arendelle Hall, Seltjarnarnes, Iceland (The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death)

### Cause of Death

Tuberculosis after cancer, pneumonia and leukemia (The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death)

### Nationality

Belgian (comics, 1991 cartoon, fanfics & two live action films)
American (Hergé's Adventures of Tintin)
British (2011 film)
Belgian-British (Trapped & Disappearances & The Unforgettable Lifetime)
Canadian (other fanfics)

### Race

**Life and Death fanfic:** Belgian, Scandinavian
**Fanfics:** Half Belgian (Walloon, Flemish, French, Romansch, Dutch, German)
Quarter Italian (Sardinian, Catalan, Neapolitan)
Quarter Celt (Scottish, Breton, Irish)
**Other Fanfics:** Half Ashkenazi Jewish (Belgian, Scandinavian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Breton, English)
Quarter Sephardic Jewish (Greek, Macedonian, Italian, Libyan, Bulgarian, Algerian)
Quarter Mountain Jewish (Kavkazi Jewish)

### Age

13-19 (comic, cartoon and fanfics)
3 (1949)
7 (1953)
15 (1961)
16 (1962)
17 (1963)
18 (1964, deceased in the first Life and Death fanfic)
30-34 (1970-74; The Unforgettable Lifetime)
40-44 (1980-84; The Unforgettable Lifetime)
79 (2019; The Unforgettable Lifetime)

## Physical Apearance

### Species

Human
Ghost (The Tales of The Quadruplets & The Triplets)

### Hair Colour

Ginger (comics, films and cartoon)
Bright strawberry blond (fanfics, except The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death)
Gray (older, The Unforgettable Lifetime)

### Eye Colour

Black dots (comic and cartoon)
Turquoise green (films)
Light turquoise greenish blue (Life and Death fanfics)
Aquamarine/turquoise green (fanfics)

### Complexion

Fair (comic and cartoon)
Pale (fanfics)
Very pale white (on his deathbed, in The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death)

### Status

Alive (comic, films, cartoon and fanfics)
Deceased (The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death)

**Tintin** is a reporter, adventurer, traveler, and the protagonist of the popular comic book series *The Adventures of Tintin*, which was written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé (1907–1983).

## Biography

Tintin made his first appearance in *Tintin in the Land of the Soviets* (1929–1930) as a journalist reporting on the Bolsheviks of Soviet Russia with his loyal dog Snowy and soon evolved into an investigative reporter and crime-buster whose curiosity draws him into the dangerous circles of drug-traffickers and mercenaries. Tintin seems to be physically quite strong as he sometimes defeats criminals without much difficulty with punches and once easily broke a door in *The Secret of the Unicorn*.

Hergé never explicitly confirmed Tintin's nationality, but vaguely refers to him as Belgian and living in Brussels (the streets of Brussels are unmistakable in the backdrop of *The Secret of the Unicorn* and *The Red Sea Sharks. Furthermore, in Tintin in Tibet, the address written on Chang‘s letter was "比國布魯塞爾*"*,* *which means "Brussels, Belgium"*).

Hergé also never confirmed Tintin's age, but the comic books portray him as a young adult, cultured, worldly, and utterly responsible.

However, in *Hergé's Adventures of Tintin*, Tintin's home is located in New York and is supposedly American.

In earlier adventures, Tintin and Snowy live alone in an apartment, but they eventually go on to stay in one of Captain Haddock's spare rooms at Marlinspike Hall, giving the impression that Tintin is old enough not to need the influence and presence of parents or school.

In *The Secret of the Unicorn*, Tintin's passport states his birth year as 1929, which was the year of his first appearance in *The Land of the Soviets*, estimating his age to be 15, while the official Tintin website states his age as between 16–18. Hergé uses a floating timeline in *The Adventures of Tintin* so that while the world ages around him, Tintin does not age.

Tintin is well-educated, intelligent, and selfless with morals that cannot be compromised. He is efficient and responsible, does not smoke and rarely drinks, and is athletic (he is seen doing yoga various times throughout the series, and does stretches and warm-ups in *Prisoners of the Sun*). He is a skilled driver of almost any vehicle, including tanks, motorcycles, cars, helicopters, and speedboats.

The final unfinished adventure, *Tintin and Alph-Art*, saw Tintin being led out of his cell to be killed, although it is very unlikely that he dies at the end of the story.

## Family

### Life and Death fanfics

He was born Augustin Martin Johannes Ejnersen Renault in Brussels, Belgium to Dr. Jean-Baptiste Renault and his Scandinavian wife Marianne (née Ejnersen) on 14th February 1946. He was the fourth and only son of seven children and he has 6 sisters, first pair of twins Marjorie and Madeline, his two triplet sisters Adeline (eldest) and Anneliese (youngest) and second pair of twins Caroline and Catherine.

On 20th February 1949, when he was three years old, he became ill and having a fever. The doctors tells his parents that he was diagnosed with three terminal illnesses, including cancer and they have to give him 15 years to live.

6 years later, on the triplets' ninth birthday, Tintin has got a present from his parents. The present they give him for their birthday was a white wire fox terrier pup. Later he giving the pup a name "Snowy".

In 2nd April 1956, the Renaults were moving away to Arendelle Hall, a family manor which was located in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland, but his parents give him and Snowy to Mrs. Finch to look after until he turned 13 to be a journalist.

After his death, his sisters and their husbands (Archie, Jonathan, Horatio, Thomas, Henry and Nicholas) each have been blessed with a pair of twins of their own (including Anne-Marie Mortensen, Rose-Marie Williams, Wendy and Jenny Anderson) and several pairs of quadruplet grandchildren (including Addie, Archie, Vickie and Vinnie Mortensen and Amelia, Andrew, Elinor and Elliot O'Loughlin). He also had several relatives-in-law (including Bob O'Loughlin and Sam Jones).

### Welcome to Canada

Tintin was born on 7th June 2003 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Jewish family. He is the second and first boy of the octuplets and he has seven siblings, an elder sister, Eloisa, three younger sisters Avital, Claire and Nicole and three younger brothers, Daniel, Oliver and Laurence. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. Netanyahu.

## Personality

"*The idea for the character of Tintin and the sort of adventures that would befall him came to me, I believe, in five minutes, the moment I first made a sketch of the figure of this hero: that is to say, he had not haunted my youth nor even my dreams. Although it's possible that as a child I imagined myself in the role of a sort of Tintin.*"
— Hergé

Tintin is shown as a well-rounded yet open-ended character, noting that his rather neutral personality, odd given the evil, folly and foolhardiness which he encounters. His boy-scout-style ideals, which represent Hergé's own, have never been compromised by the character either. Tintin has a tendency to tie and gag people, is often shown enjoying doing this. Unlike other characters such as Captain Haddock or Professor Calculus, Tintin has no discernible backstory. Unlike Haddock and Calculus, Tintin's roots prior to *Tintin in the Land of the Soviets* are never discussed. His companions encounter old friends such as Captain Chester or Hercules Tarragon, yet Tintin only meets friends or enemies whom he met in previous adventures. At the end of Tintin and Alph-Art he is to be turned into a Cesar. Although is seems very unlikely that he dies, his fate is still left unknown.

## Physical Appearance

In the comic and cartoon, Tintin has fair skin, ginger hair styled in a quiff, and black dot eyes. He wears blue sweater, white shirt, brown plus fours, white socks and brown shoes.

In the 1961 live action film, he wears a blue sweater, white shirt, brown plus fours, pale brown socks and brown shoes.

In the 1964 live action film, Tintin wears yellow polo shirt, brown plus fours, pale brown socks and brown shoes.

In the 1972 animated film, Tintin's blue sweater and white shirt remains the same but he wears a pair of brown trousers, matching jacket with lighter lapel and shoes.

In the 2011 animated film, Tintin has pale skin, ginger hair styled in a quiff and turquoise green eyes. He wears beige coat, blue sweater, white shirt, brown plus fours, black socks and dark brown shoes. In the mystery of the Unicorn found at the globe in Marlinspike Hall, he wore white shirt, black necktie, sunshine yellow V shaped necked sweater vest, brown jacket and plus fours, black socks and dark brown shoes.

In the fanfics, Tintin has pale skin, bright strawberry blond hair styled in quiff and aquamarine/turquoise green eyes.

In The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death, Tintin has his ginger hair and light turquoise greenish blue eyes and his skin turned very pale white and very colder, he wears pale cornflower blue pajamas, barefoot and lying on his deathbed.

In The Medical Emergency, he wears two different attires:

* In his Sapphire Bay Comprehensive School attire, he wears sapphire blue necktie, white shirt, light cyan-blue V shaped necked sweater vest with the school tag emblazoned in it, midnight blue tweed jacket with the school tag emblazoned in it, matching trousers, black shoes and socks.
* In his casual attire, he wears the same clothes but he only wears brown trousers.

In Trapped & Disappearances, he also wears two different attires:

* In his casual attire, he wears light cerulean blue sweater, white shirt, tan trousers, gray socks and brown shoes.
* In his St. Wilfrid's Catholic school uniform, black jacket, white shirt, stripped necktie that consists of red, light blue, magenta, indigo and green, black trousers, black socks and shoes.

## Ethnicity

In the books and cartoons, Tintin is of fully Belgian ancestry.

In the Life and Death fanfics, he was born in Belgium and he has Belgian and Scandinavian ancestry.

In the fanfics (including The Medical Emergency), his roots are Belgian (Walloon, Flemish, French, Romansh, Dutch, German), Italian (Sardinian, Catalan, Neapolitan) and Celtic (Scottish, Breton, Irish).

In the other fanfics, Tintin was a half Ashkenazi Jewish (Belgian, Scandinavian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Breton and English), quarter Sephardic Jewish (Greek, Macedonian, Italian, Libyan, Bulgarian and Algerian) and a quarter Mountain Jewish (Kavkazi Jewish).

## Religion

In the books, cartoons and movies, Tintin was raised Catholic, just like his creator Hergé, who was also raised with his family. His surname was unknown.

In the fanfics (including the Life and Death collection), Tintin was raised in both Catholic and Lutheran faiths. In the Life and Death fanfics, his surnames are Ejnersen and Renault.

In the other fanfics, Tintin himself was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to a Jewish family and raised in a Jewish household and his first and middle name is Theodore Avichai. His surname, Netanyahu, was a similar reference to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.

## Fanfics

### The Belgian Journalist's Life and Death

In 27th January 1961, Tintin has fainted before he interviews the pilot. Captain Haddock saw him unconscious as he was holding him in his arms. He wakes up in the hospital and hearing the doctors were telling Captain Haddock, Thomson and Thompson and Professor Calculus the truth that he was diagnosed with cancer, pneumonia and leukemia when he was 3 for 12 years ago.

On 14th February 1961, Tintin, Captain Haddock, Snowy, Professor Calculus and Nestor were celebrating his 15th birthday in the morning. He was given a special gift by Captain Haddock, he's got a dog collar with a tag with the picture of him inside it for Snowy.

Two years later, three illnesses he fought were already gone. On March 1963, 17 year old Tintin coughs harder and his father tells Captain Haddock that he's got tuberculosis after the cancer, pneumonia and leukemia that he fought so hard for the last two years. Later, he was bedridden when he became very ill.

On April 1963, he first met an Icelandic girl named Ólafía Kristjánsdóttir, who was born three weeks earlier and later they're both in love. A month later, Ólafía became pregnant ever since he was bedridden.

On 14th February 1964, when Tintin became a father, Ólafía giving birth to twins, a daughter named Jacqueline and a son named Jean-Pierre. Later, she died shortly after childbirth, leaving him with their twins.

Three months later, in 13th May 1964, Tintin became very pale white, very colder and too very weaker. He was lying on his deathbed, telling everyone who'll surrounding him. He gives Captain Haddock all of his wishes and promises to looking after Snowy with good. Later, he tells a six year old Angelo Voiello about the Northuldran scarf that his maternal great-great-great grandmother wears when she was young and gives it to him. Then, he decides to give his three month old twins to Thomson and Thompson as their wards.

On 14th May 1964, he later died in his sleeping due to tuberculosis. On 10th June 1964, all of the people including his friends and family, attending his funeral at the church in Iceland. He was buried in Gufurnes Cemetery as his first resting place.

Ten years later, in 1974, Tintin's corpse was exhumed, his whole family and friends wants him to be reburied in the cemetery of St. Mary Church in New Arendelle, Gloucestershire, Great Britain (150 miles north of Sandford).

### The Builder's Life and Death

Tintin and his parents and six sisters were in one of the family portraits, but it turns out that two of his nieces were Wendy and Jenny Andersen. He died 15 years before one of his younger twin sisters, Caroline gives birth to her twin daughters, Wendy and Jenny on 23rd May 1979, same year as his nephew-in-law, Bob O'Loughlin, who was born earlier on 15th April.

### The Tales of The Quadruplets & The Triplets

Tintin appears but he's in one of the family portraits alongside his family. Tintin's ghost was haunting Arendelle Hall, Marlinspike Hall and his own apartment in Brussels and leading the triplets ways to New Arendelle, Gloucestershire, where he was reburied in the cemetery of St. Mary Church.

### The Medical Emergency

Tintin appears in The Medical Emergency, he portrays as one of the students of Sapphire Bay Comprehensive School. He tells Julian about the summer that Principal Sakharine telling about. Julian and Meera wants him and the others to come along with them and their parents to visit Principal Sakharine at Sapphire Bay Bonaventure Hospital while he's in a deep coma.

### Trapped & Disappearances

Tintin was appearing in the second fanfic, his role as a Belgian-British student of St Wilfrid's Catholic school. He lives in Crawley, West Sussex, England with Captain Haddock, Thomson & Thompson and his dog Snowy.

### Other fanfics

Tintin appears in the other fanfics as a Jewish Canadian and he lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with his family.