When the second version of the story was translated into English by Michael Turner and Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, they made several alterations to the text. For instance, Monsieur Tom Hawke, whose name was a pun on tomahawk, was renamed Mr. Maurice Oyle, and the Swift factory was renamed Grynd Corp. [44] Other changes were made to render the story more culturally understandable to an Anglophone readership; whereas the factory originally sold its mix of dogs, cats, and rats as hare pâté—a food uncommon in Britain—the English translation rendered the mix as salami. [44] In another instance, garlic, pepper, and salt were added to the mixture in the French version, but this was changed to mustard, pepper, and salt for the English version, again reflecting British culinary tastes. [44] San Theodoros in South America, a prototypical banana republic where US-based companies and Borduria (meant as an allusion to the USSR or Cuba) vie for power, with "advisors" of local generals. The capital is Los Dopicos, which is later renamed Tapiocapolis.

The Strongman: Tintin is kidnapped by a gang of criminals and thrown into Lake Michigan chained to a barbell... which floats. Cut to a strongman trying and failing to lift his barbell and figuring out someone stole his wooden ones. When I first read Hergé's Tintin en Amérique in German translation (as Tim in Amerika) as a child (and I guess I must have been about nine or ten years of age), I did indeed find the general storyline somewhat and mildly amusing. But even then (even at that time), I was already thinking that Hergé had been rather strangely loose with his fusing together 1920s-1930s Chicago gangster and organised crime culture with what can only be considered and described as the so-called Wild West (and its utterly stereotypical late 19th century Cowboys and Indians thematics and scenarios). Now the ethnic stereotyping, the cultural insensitivity to Native Americans did not chafe me so much as a child (especially since in Germany at that time, the rather similarly constructed and conceptualised tales of "Noble Savages" and especially the stories penned by authors like Karl May were both popular and often readily available as children's novels or in my case, as abridged vinyl record audio recordings of said tales), but already then did I most definitely feel that from a logical point of departure, the details presented in Tintin en Amérique did not really make all that much sense by any stretch of the imagination (and that 1930s Chicago, with its gangs, its prohibition era rum running, with Al Capone and other such villains simply did not fit in any fashion with the Wild West scenarios also depicted, as that was not the early and middle 20th, but the late 19th century).Random Events Plot: Not to the same extent as Land of the Soviets or Tintin in the Congo, as about half of the storyline is focused on Tintin's attempt to take down Bobby Smiles, but it still doesn't really have a coherent overall storyline, instead just being based around the general theme of Tintin battling gangsters. This is the last Tintin book where Snowy is shown actually talking, and (though it's slightly ambiguous) Tintin seems to understand what he's saying. Just Wantano (2:00.7), winner of the SA Kindergarten Stakes and a close fourth in the Vicbred Final, and Aussie Vista (2:01.1), a placegetter in the QBred Triad 2YO Final, have been other winners by Tintin In America from his first crop. Even Evil Has Standards: Some members of the gang who threw Tintin into Lake Michigan spot a man floating on the surface of the lake and immediately help him out of the water... until they realize it's Tintin himself and try to kill him again. Jakarta: Flight 714 to Sydney (Tintin arrives in Jakarta airport before continuing flight to Sydney)

Tintin also shows a side of deviousness when it comes to some things: In Tintin in America he calls out "Hey, fellas! Do you know how to call the police without a telephone? Well!" He then fires several shots off from the gun he is holding while laughing like a maniac. Barbell Beating: Towards the end, Tintin is captured by gangsters who throw him into the river tied to a dumbbell. However, it turns out that it was actually a fake dumbbell made of wood, which allows him to float. Tintin then manages to get on a boat belonging to members of the gang and breaks the wooden dumbbell in half to use it as a weapon to beat up the gangsters. 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.

Tropes:

Tintin shows young readers that the world in all its complexity is theirs to bestride. (The Wall Street Journal) -