mondrian
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#6 · Posted: 5 May 2006 19:54
jock123
Does the scope of the question include the representation of real-life character, but not as themselves - such as Basil Bazaroff/ Zaharoff (as per labrador road 26), or just the real character being identified as themself?
If it’s the former, then presumably you are counting the appearances of Hergé, Hergée, Jacobs, de Moor et al. - which are known about, but are they all documented by Hergé? For example, Bob de Moor appears in Black Island, but I’ve never seen a ciatation for it in the literature.
What about the fact that Professor Calculus was based on Professor Picard of Brussels, but wasn’t drawn as him (because he would have been too tall to fit in the frames with Tintin & Cº - does that matter?
If it’s the latter, then I think that Al Capone is the only real life person to appear in the canon.
Good questions, maybe i should´ve been more precise.
As for the Bazaroff/ Zaharoff thing, no, he doesn´t appear as himself. Bazaroff is a fictitious character, although he´s based on a real-life character.
And the same applies for Calculus, who´s undoubtedly a fictitious character (but how many of the fictitious characters in books, movies, etc. are influenced by some real life character?). Besides, I´ve understood that Piccard is actually pictured in Shooting star, p. 21.
And yes, I´m counting the appearances by Hergé, de Moor, Jacobs etc. as they are well documented (yes, you are correct, not by Hergé himself in all cases but at least by his studio staff, which I count as reliable sources)
But, as the excellent answer by yamilah
shows, there are lots of real life persons to choose from, even if we count out the controversial ones.
Few footnotes in regard to her answer:
Lotus . . . . . . .Don Quixote (p.7) / Lao Tseu (p.13) To my knowledge, Don Quijote is strictly fictious, but as Laotse is deemed to be a historical character almost unanimously, this is correct.
Shooting Star .Judas* (p.30)
I understand Haddock is referring to Judas Iscariot. To be honest, I really don´t know where theologists and historians stand nowadays. Is he really a historical character or not? Anyways, I understand that it´s an unquestionable fact that Jesus was a historical character and he had some apostles, although their exact names and actions seem to be a topic for eternal (in the worldly mean of the word, no need to laugh) discussion, so I count this answer correct.
Crystal . . . . . Dunlop (p.48)
It could be argued that Tintin isn´t referring to John Dunlop as a person, but to tyres brand. Close enough, I´d say (on page 1 a man on the train is telling Tintin about Tutankhamon, which definitely closes the case concerning this album)
Destination M. [st-bernard, p12 & poubelle, p15] / Ulysses (p.50) the first two I really don´t get, could you please explain Yamilah? Also with Ulysses it´s again possible to argue that the villain isn´t referring to Ulysses as a person, but to an operation that´s named after him.
Anyways, I hope no-one needs to protest, and we can declare Yamilah the winner in this question.
And as for the trivia questions I´d rather have them complex, or at least really rare. I have no need to criticise the previous question (as I got a point!), but neither do I feel really special as I know most people in this forum could´ve answered in an instant had they been on the site at the right moment.
Of course it´s crucial that the questions can be answered without controversy, but I´d also consider the fact that most people here are rather dedicated to the cause. And for most easy questions it´s possible to find the answer in a second from the net (no I didn´t!).
Anyways, congratulations to Yamilah!
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