Tintin's Unicorn is later stolen and he suspects Sakharine of the theft. “I don’t use the singers to make the audience laugh,” she says, pointedly. After the Unicorn sank, Sir Francis lived for two years among the natives of the nearby tropical island. How has that experience informed the masterclasses that she now gives to young singers? Pedro / 1st Mate (voice) (as Sebastian Roche) Kim Stengel. He is sometimes shown wearing a military uniform, holding the rank of Colonel of the Royal Guards. The greeting "Amaïh Kûrvi-Tasch" (meaning "Hail Kûrvi-Tasch") is similar to "Heil Hitler!". At first, Ranko seems very fierce and bloodthirsty, but he is easily controlled by Snowy's barking, which terrifies him.

Miller threatened to have Wolff killed, as he suspected him of double-crossing him, but refrained when it was announced that a manned rocket was to go to the moon. He uses a large magnifying glass to set fire to the stake used to burn the westerners, but is thwarted by a solar eclipse that leads to their release.
Ranko is a gorilla who is used by Puschov, employer of Dr. Müller, to frighten inquisitive intruders away from The Black Island, where forgers are printing counterfeit banknotes off the Scottish coast. Max escapes, but is later caught while trying to flee the country. Although he was never seen by Tintin and his friends after this, Kanrokitoff is depicted in some sketches of the unfinished Tintin and Alph-Art, in which he is at the inauguration of Ramó Nash's art exposition, apparently recognizing Tintin. However, the Picaros have become corrupt drunkards since Tapioca started dropping copious quantities of alcohol near their camp.

[11] Sir Basil Zaharoff enjoyed a good reputation at the time The Broken Ear appeared; he was made a Grand-officier de la Légion d'honneur and made member of the Order of the British Empire.[12].
When X-FLR6 was launched, Miller's technicians were able to intercept it and divert the rocket to their own territory. At first discouraging Tintin from his quest, he later presents Tintin with a khata scarf in honour of the bravery he has shown for his friend Chang Chong-Chen. He is shown savagely beaten after escaping the Sondonesians, causing him to suffer a loss of all his teeth. The Desdemona in a top-flight production of Verdi’s Otello hurt her back, plunging Fleming into the part – and a confrontation scene with a giant she had never even met: Plácido Domingo. “He was so frightening that, by the end, I needed help to get off the stage,” she says.

Krollspell is an ex-Nazi scientist, probably based on Josef Mengele[21] or Adolf Hitler's personal doctor, Theodor Morell. They are now 26 and 28 and, although both were promising singers, they showed no sign of allowing themselves to be “indentured” into a musical career. Chester is briefly mentioned in The Seven Crystal Balls—Tintin and Haddock attempt to visit him while he is docked at a port—but he departs before they arrive. Carreidas' name is a pun: carré d'as means "four aces" in French. At the close of The Red Sea Sharks, Bab El Ehr's regime is overthrown. He turns from his employers and tries to warn Tintin of them but could only point to feeding birds. In San Theodoros, he takes the Spanish spelling of his name, Esponja. He was the man who offered to help Frank Wolff out of his gambling debts in exchange for information on the rocket programme: Miller is shown in one panel checking a list of personnel at the Centre and finds Wolff's name among them. The mummy is not seen again. The revolutionary party in the adventure, called the Iron Guard, may have been inspired by the Fascist paramilitary groups widespread in Europe between the wars. [39] This led to allegations that the show was rigged: one Tintin fan questioned how such a large portion of the audience could pick from four options the correct answer, especially given Dr. Patella's very minor role in the series. (uncredited), Thompson / In 2000, on one episode of the French-language version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, 73 percent of the voting audience correctly identified Dr. Patella (French: Docteur Rotule) as the doctor who treated Captain Haddock in Explorers on the Moon. Rackham intends to have Haddock tortured by his men the following day, but before he can, Sir Francis frees himself and they engage in single combat using cutlasses. Zorrino is an indigenous Peruvian boy who makes a living by selling oranges in the mountain town of Jauja. Sanzot sounds like sans os, which means "without bones". When Tintin was captured early in the adventure, it was Salaad who wired the initial order to have Tintin thrown overboard, but Tintin's escape prevented it. In Flight 714 to Sydney, he is Rastapopoulos' main accomplice. Ultimately though, his attempt to control the rocket failed—his agents Jorgen and Wolff both perishing in the process. More recently, she was the voice of Bianca Castafiore, the Captain Haddock-bothering opera singer in Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin – her top C electronically ratcheted up to a glass-breaking top F. Last year alone, her singing featured on Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning The Shape of Water and – unbeknown even to her – contributed to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The Sanders-Hardiman expedition members brought the Incan mummy Rascar Capac back to Europe in The Seven Crystal Balls. Appearing first in hair curlers and later with an age-inappropriate high ponytail, she dominates General Alcazar and makes him do the housework. Apart from financing the exploratory vessel Peary, he unsuccessfully attempts to sabotage the competing expedition's ship Aurora, helmed by Captain Haddock. The Prince of the Sun releases his control over the Sanders-Hardiman expedition members and they awaken from their curse. [26] Bordurian officers wear uniforms based on those of the German SS. Dr. Krollspell is the head of a psychiatric clinic in New Delhi (Cairo in the English version).