15 Tintin Memes To Relive Your Childhood

The Adventures of Tintin is one of the weirder comic book series to ever become a global phenomenon. Something about Tintin's travels around the world, the ambient darkness and menace of his universe, and the strangeness of the supporting characters still draws children in. We now know that Tintin grows out of a weird, racist worldview (at least in the earliest comics) but that the main character and the world of the series underwent many changes later in its run. As is noted in the "Controversy" section of the Tintin Wikipedia article early Tintin "shows little sympathy for humanity" and is "incoherent," but later on he is defined by his "tremendous spirit" and the very weird-looking animated adaptation of the comic series directed by Steven Spielberg. This odd piece of culture has been the subject of many memes both in French and English, which we present to you here: