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We know that at the end of Flight 714, Dr. Krollspell is found with a complete loss of memory, according to the TV reporter.
Assuming the aliens did this, why erase his memory completely? Why not just erase the memories since he started having dealings with Rastapopoulos...?

Unless the reporter is exaggerating, which is a possibility.

As a punishment? Maybe he has done evil things his whole life and they wiped his head clean and gave him a fresh start?

Rik

It's possible. As long as he loses those creepy sunglasses...^_~

Funny how Hergé decided to reveal what happened to Krollspell and not the more well-known Rastapopoulos. Perhaps because the doctor turned "good" and helped Tintin later in the book...
Although as Tintin mentioned, it may only be because he knew Rastapopoulos was going to liquidate him after the plot was complete.

We could assume, if based only on the official Tintin books, that Rastapopoulos and Allan were taken to that distant planet for experiments and body probes and that Krospell was too minor a villain to waste time with (don't they use the cadavers of people on death row for medical school anatomy classes? Same idea...). Still, it's no pleasure being out in the desert the way Krospell did...

This is also another way to undo the relevance of Krospell in the story, to sort of clean out our record of him by cleaning him out. It also seems to keep us thinking about what happened Rastapopoulos and Allan and not getting distracted by Krospell, whose proper place in Tintiniverse had been restored.

Funny how Hergé decided to reveal what happened to Krollspell and not the more well-known Rastapopoulos.

In Alph-Art though Rastapopoulos does came back, except with plastic surgery.

In Alph-Art though Rastapopoulos does came back except with plastic surgery.
I thought that Rastapopoulos only appeared in an unauthorized version of "Alph-Art".
For all purposes he is really defeated in Flight 714 and leaving Krospell with perhaps a less-worse fate...

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For all purposes he is really defeated in "Flight 714" and leaving Krospell with perhaps a less-worse fate...

... To return, complete with a superb moustache and goatee, as director of a 'brown sugar factory' in one of Hergé's preliminary ideas for Alph-Art !

I have often wondered if there was going to be a follow-up to the events of Flight 714 had Hergé been around longer.
I can imagine Tintin, Snowy, Haddock & Calculus going back into space with Mik Kanrokitoff to help the aliens preventing Rastapopoulos, Allan from escaping back to and conquering Earth!
So many possibilities.