Fictitious journalist and children's action hero
Tintin, was once criticised for being excessively brutal and a poor role-model for children, when an early version of his
Tintin in the Congo adventure contained a sequence (pg. 56) in which Tintin killed a rampaging rhinoceros by leaping onto its back, drilling (with an actual drill) a hole in its back, and inserting a lit stick of dynamite.
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And yet, Tintin was more of a hero to me during those frames, than ever before, and ever since.
I salute you, you dog-obsessed man-child.
Tim.