# Is Tintin homosexual? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460 "2003-06-30T23:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/1 "2003-06-30T23:52:50Z")
It never occured to me before. I’ve read all of the Tintin books when I was a kid. One day my dad told me that Tintin is gay… well I was suprised! The evidence: He has never had a girlfriend He lives in that big house with Captain Haddock He is neat and dresses snappily Is he or isn’t he? (hopes there are dopers who have actually heard of Tintin…) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/2 "2003-07-01T00:28:21Z")
[Pshaw](http://216.232.71.251/~larry/miscpics/blue_oranges.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/3 "2003-07-01T00:35:48Z")
Argh! I’m at work and got a warning by clicking that “You have attempted to access a site containg offensive material…” Can you describe what the link was to? ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/4 "2003-07-01T00:43:31Z")
[Hmmmm…](http://members.tripod.com/kirtin/a3.htm) ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/5 "2003-07-01T00:51:16Z")
:eek: > [@](#): > > The album also contains graphic scenes of sodomy involving Snowy and Tintin’s Chinese friend Chang. This is just sooooo wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/6 "2003-07-01T00:51:56Z")
**samarm** … That’s odd. It’s my personal webserver, which doesn’t have anything particularly offensive on it. I’m guessing the filter objects to the foldername, which contains “pics” – kinda dodgy sounding? Here’s a link to a copy in another folder: It’s just a [campy picture from a live-action Tin-Tin movie](http://216.232.71.251/~larry/tin_tin.jpg) called [\*Tintin and the Blue Oranges](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058663)\*. (Imdb link) ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/7 "2003-07-01T01:01:29Z")
Aaaaargh! I must stop cliking on your links - you are going to get me fired! The imdb one is OK though… 🙂 I can’t think why it doesn’t like your webpages… stoopid filtering software! ---
**Author:** ![Trafalgar\_Laura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trafalgar_laura/32/2907_2.png) [@Trafalgar\_Laura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trafalgar_Laura)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/8 "2003-07-01T01:36:44Z")
Hmmm - he might not be gay, but I think he is a cross dresser. [Tin-Tin](http://www.thunderbirdsonline.com/site/characterprofiles/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Tambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr\_Tambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Tambo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/9 "2003-07-01T01:54:05Z")
I think more interesting than his sexual orientation is the question of just what Tintin did for a living. He’s always referred to as ‘the fearless boy-reporter’. Well, was he? Not ‘fearless’, obviously, we all know he wasn’t scared of nuffin’. But ‘a boy-reporter’? We never saw him report on anything. We never saw him go to work. We never heard anything about stories he was working on. Sure, he was _in_ the news a lot, but we presume other people were actually reporting there. Unless maybe the newspaper employed him to drum up business for them by foiling gangsters and befriending rich eccentrics? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/10 "2003-07-01T02:17:27Z")
Gay? With THAT hair? ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/11 "2003-07-01T02:27:13Z")
Blistering barnacles! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/12 "2003-07-01T02:42:59Z")
Wasn’t there a live action Tintin movie planned a few years ago? ---
**Author:** ![litost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@litost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/litost)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/13 "2003-07-01T03:17:01Z")
Well, Haddock wasn’t gay. So, how does the fact that Tintin lived with him make Tintin gay? May be Tintin’s age had something to do with the lack of girl-friends or Herge could have wanted to avoid the romance angle completely. I do vaguely recall Tintin turning down someone’s overture in one episode. (Now, was Cacophonix gay?) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/14 "2003-07-01T03:28:16Z")
Didn’t Tintin do some reporting in “The Blue Lotus” and “King Ottokar’s Sceptre”? Been a long time since I’ve read 'em, mind. Chang had a rainbow in his heart for Tintin, but I don’t think he meant it sexually. What about Dr. Seuss’s pair of “pale green pants with nobody inside them”? Isn’t it great to ruin innocent and treasured children’s literature? Shame on you. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/15 "2003-07-01T03:32:40Z")
> [@](#): > > **litost:** Well, Haddock wasn’t gay. So, how does the fact that Tintin lived with him make Tintin gay? Just because Haddock was so butch, doesn’t mean he’s not open to new experiences. I mean, [come _on_.](http://216.232.71.251/~larry/miscpics/tintin_haddock.jpg) (Don’t click that link, **samarm** … it’s just another campy photo of Tintin being affectionate with the Captain.) ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/16 "2003-07-01T04:53:59Z")
Yeah, if anything Haddock seems _more_ gay because he is butch. Think about it: sailor, bear, moustache… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![litost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@litost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/litost)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/17 "2003-07-01T05:06:12Z")
Well, how do you explain Haddock lusting behind Bianca? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/18 "2003-07-01T05:55:51Z")
I thought I read an IMDb story suggesting a Tintin movie starring Matt Damon was being planned. I’m trying to find the story. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/19 "2003-07-01T06:15:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by litost \* > \*\*Well, how do you explain Haddock lusting behind Bianca? \*\* Um, [Bianca is so _obviously_ a drag queen](http://edbd.netatlantide.net/tintin/castafiore1.jpg)? 😉 And do you mean lusting _after_ her, or are you implying he’s got some sort of a bum fixation? Get your mind out of the gutter! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/20 "2003-07-01T06:20:42Z")
Listen, it’s a fundamental rule of the universe: if there are two males in a comic book, and they spend ANY amount of time together, SOMEONE will decide they are gay. That’s just how it is. 😛 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460.md?page=2)