# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**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, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/21 "2003-07-01T06:28:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*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. 😛 \*\* Thomson and Thompson are gay, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/22 "2003-07-01T06:37:53Z")
> [@](#): > > He has no real age; sometimes he seems to be a child, at other times an adolescent, but generally he behaves like an adult… His sexlessness is also noteworthy. At no time does he have a girlfriend, or do marriage plans interfere with his adventures. > Strictly speaking, he is characterless. This could be seen as a weakness, but that would be a basic misunderstanding of the great coherence of Hergé’s world. In fact this is the neutrality of the hero which is the key element of the books’ success. From this great [Tintin site](http://www.tintin.com) the navigation is a bit funny with all the new windows but it’s a beauty. ---
**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, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/23 "2003-07-01T06:39:31Z")
> [@](#): > > **litost** : Thomson and Thompson are gay, I suppose. Well, the [Thompson Twins](http://www.lexiconmagazine.com/NWC/Now/tt.html) named themselves after them. That could mean something. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/24 "2003-07-01T07:15:45Z")
One of my first crushes was Skut. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/25 "2003-07-01T07:42:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*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! \*\* **samarm** - i had the same thing happen with the filter at my job. The problem wasn’t the webpage that I linked to; it was that the site was supported by pop-up ads, which our filter didn’t like. The explanation I got was that pop-ups are one of the indicators for gambling/porn sites, so they trigger a warning, even if the site that you want to see is innocuous. When I clicked on **Larry Mudd’s** links just now, I got a couple of pop-up ads, so that may be the problem. ---
**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, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/26 "2003-07-01T08:10:36Z")
You might want to run [Adaware](http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/), **Northern Piper** – no popups on my server-- (The links were direct to .jpgs – no code to put popups into…) As for the filters-- maybe it’s because it’s a direct link to my IP…? Filtering software might object to that because folks might use it to get around banned URLs. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/27 "2003-07-01T09:24:37Z")
No, but his boyfriend is. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rapunzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Rapunzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rapunzel)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/28 "2003-07-01T11:25:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*Well, the [Thompson Twins](http://www.lexiconmagazine.com/NWC/Now/tt.html) named themselves after them. That could mean something. \*\* And Tintin’s biographer, who wrote a marvellous book about Tintin and Herge, is called Harry Thompson. Coincidence? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/29 "2003-07-01T11:39:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*[Pshaw](http://216.232.71.251/~larry/miscpics/blue_oranges.jpg). \*\* HEY! DAMMIT! I’M AT WORK! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Call your shots, **Mudd**!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: ---
**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, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460/30 "2003-07-01T17:18:38Z")
What the heck? Is that a joke, **Bosda**? There’s no reason I should expect those links to be regarded as NSFW. To avoid further hijacking this thread, I’ve [posted a plea in GQ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=194691). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tintin-homosexual/185460.md?page=1)