Talk:Rastapopoulos

Rastapopoulos and Rastafari?
Has his name something to do with Rastafari which is also sometimes abbreviated to "rasta"? Or where from does the name come? -- CdaMVvWgS 18:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I doubt it -- the name Rastafarianism is based on the coronation of Haile Selassie in 1930, and took decades after that to get known in the world, while this character has apparently existed since the early 1930's. AnonMoos 02:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Bit late to answer this, but the name comes from the old-fashioned French word "rastaquouère", which means a rogue. Mezigue (talk) 13:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Based on someone real?
Was Rastapopoulos actually based on a real person? Many characters, especially major villains, in Tintin are. Hergé was quite into politics and his books often describe actual issues of the time. Is there any 1930s American tycoon we should think of? Steinbach (talk) 17:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

First or last time?
Tintin first meets him on a boat where he seems angry and says 'It's not the first time we've met.'

I think it should be "not the last time".80.141.189.85 (talk) 10:06, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Why? --75* 18:42, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Cigars of the Pharaoh was redrawn in the 1950s, to conform with the ligne-claire of the Herge studios. When this happened, a couple of minor changes were made to the dialog, to have the story fit into the contemporary storyline, such as mentions of Marlinspike. Perhaps to make readers think they are reading a new adventure, not something twenty years old? A few page further on, someone recognises Tintin and shows him the cover of one of his books: Destination Moon. Originally it was the cover of Tintin in America shown here. Haddock's rival Alan was also retrofitted into the story, it would have been a different character in the original. The statement suggesting Tintin and Rastapopoulos have met before was also a product of this revisionism. I've never read the original, as published 1932-34, but facsimiles have been published and are easily available. It would be better to quote from the original text of Tintin's first encounter with Rastapopoulos, than from the revised 1955 version.
 * J Edward Malone (talk) 15:41, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

First appearance
This character first appeared as the villain in Cigars of the Pharaoh in 1934. When the early stories were remade in the new format (64 pages colour) after the war, his face was added to a banquet scene in Tintin in America for whatever reason, but he is not otherwise in that story. In any case, this was 11 years after his first appearance in Cigars. Mezigue (talk) 16:07, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

And it's not the first time we met...
I've read that this sentence doesn't necessarily have to mean that Tintin and Rastapoupolos have met before, but is used in French idiomatically akin to "I've heard about him before" or "He's really famous", roughly. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 10:50, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Possibly inspired by Athanasios Rhousopoulos?
I wonder if the Rastapopoulos's name was inspired by Anathasios Rhousopoulos (1823-1898), a well-known Greek archaeologist, antiquities dealer, and professor who was also accused of several antiquities crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasios_Rhousopoulos MarritzN (talk) 23:24, 29 November 2023 (UTC)