Characters by Name: S

Compiled by Tintinologist.org staff Irene Mar. Contributions from Tintinologist.org Belgium Correspondent Etienne Chevalier. Special thanks to Simon Doyle, Ed Charles Adams, Christian Jaeschke, Garen Ewing and 'Frankymole' for correcting the entry for Sunny Jim.

Last modified: 31 December 2012.

Sakharine, Ivan Ivanovitch

Début: The Secret of the Unicorn - page 3, frame 9 (name appears on page 7, frame 15) - Collector of model ships.
Trivia:

  1. The word 'sakharine' sounds like 'saccharine.' Saccharine means excessively sweet (e.g. a saccharine smile.)
  2. Sakharine's address: 21 Eucalyptus Avenue.

Also appears in: Red Rackam's Treasure (page 62, frame 1)

Sam

Début: Tintin in America - page 59, frame 7 (man on the left) - Villain. Chicago gangster.

Sanders-Hardiman

Début: The Seven Crystal Balls - name appears on page1, frame 3; seen on page 49, frame 8 - Scholar (Professor). Leader of the Sanders-Hardiman Expedition.

Sandys

Début: Cigars of the Pharaoh - page 8, frame 2 - Mummified Egytologist.
Trivia: Sandys is Carnaval in the French version. (Lord Carnavon was a famous Egyptologist.)

Sarcophagus, Sophocles

Début: Cigars of the Pharaoh - page 2, frame 1 (name appears on page 3, frame 7) - Scholar. Scatter-brained Egyptologist whom Tintin accompanied to discover the secret of the Kih-Oskh.
Trivia: A sarcophagus is stone or marble coffin or tomb, especially one bearing sculpture or inscriptions.

Sawyer, Charlie

Début: The Castafiore Emerald - first mentioned on page 58, frame 6 - Woodman. Tintin borrowed a kit from the old woodman to climb up the poplar to get to the nest in which the lost emerald had been hidden.

Schelhammer, Werner

Début: The Black Island - page 54, frame 10 - A name that appears on a list Tintin found on the Black Island.

Schulze, Otto (PhD)

Début: The Shooting Star - page 14, frame 1 - Scientist of the University of Munich. He is a member of the Professor Phostle's Arctic expedition team.
Trivia: In the French edition, Schulze is a scientist of the University of Iena.

Schwarz, P

Début: Cigars of the Pharaoh - page 8, frame 1 - Mummified Egyptologist.
Trivia: P. Schwarz is I.E. Roghliff in the French version.

Schzlozitch

Début: King Ottokar's Sceptre - page 18, frame 2 - Sydavian Air Minister.

Sebastian (Papa/Father Sebastian)

Début: Tintin in the Congo - named on page 36, frame 4 - Priest and missionary school teacher. When Father Sebastian fell ill, Tintin offered to relief him of his teaching duties.

Silk, Aristides

Début: The Secret of the Unicorn - page 1, frame 6 (name appears on page 54, frame 11) - Retired civil servant and kleptomaniac.

Simon, Leslie E.

Début: The Calculus Affair - page 23, frame 12 - American Scientist, and the author of the book, German Research in World War II.
Trivia: German Research in World War II is a real book.

Simons

Début: The Seven Crystal Balls - page 18, frame 11 - Dr Simons is the Chemist working at the laboratory operated by the Police Special Branch.

Sirov

Début: King Ottokar's Sceptre - page 26, frame 8 - Villain. One of the many crooks.

Skut, Piotr

Début: The Red Sea Sharks - page 35, frame 7 (name appears on page 35, frame 9) - Estonian pilot under Bab El Ehr's command. He was ordered to pursue and kill Tintin and Haddock. However, his plane got shot down by Tintin, who subsequently rescued him. He became one of Tintin's many loyal friends.
Also appears in: Flight 714.

Släszeck, Hansa

Début: The Black Island - page 54, frame 10 - A name that appears on a list Tintin found on the Black Island.

Slim

Début: Tintin in America - page 31, last frame (the taller man) - Railway track worker, Jem's partner.

Smiles, Bobby

Début: Tintin in America - page 12, frame 1 (name appears on page 4, frame 16) - Leader of the rival gang fighting Al Capone.

Smith (Professor)

[see Müller, Doctor J. W.]

Snowball (1)

Début: Tintin in the Congo (colour edition) - page 9, frame 3 - Small child watching Tintin arriving in Africa.

Name in French: Boule de Neige

Snowball (Mr & Mrs)

Début: Cigars of the Pharaoh - page 38, frame 5 - Members of the drug trafficking ring.

Snowy

Début: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets - and is in every book in the series.
Trivia:

  1. Original name in French is Milou, named after Hergé's first girlfriend, Marie-Louise Van Cutsem (Malou).
  2. Snowy is a dog (male) in the book - see Tintin and the Picaros [page 50, frame 5. Tintin says to Haddock: Let's hope... let's hope he'll (referring to Snowy) eat the food ... ]
  3. Snowy used to talk to Tintin in the early books; e.g. Cigars of the Pharaohs p1, frame 4. Interestingly, in this frame, Snowy refers to Marlinspike (but not in the French edition)—a place that he and his master will not know about until much later, in Red Rackham's Treasure.

See also:

  1. Snowy's name in different languages

Spalding

Début: Flight 714 - visible on page 1, frame 8; name appears on page 4, frame 4 - Villain. Millionaire Carreidas' secretary.

Sponsz

Début: The Calculus Affair - page 46, frame 11 (name appears on page 49, frame 1) - Villain. Chief of the Bordurian Secret Police, ZEP.
Also appears in:

  1. Tintin and the Picaros as Colonel Esponja, Chief of San Theodoros Security Police.
  2. The Castafiore Emerald (pagggge 28, frame 4/B1) - name mentioned by Bianca Castafiore.

Sporovitch

Début: King Ottokar's Sceptre - page 3, frame 5 (name appears on page 5, frame 11) - One of the conspirators. He tried to take a photograph of Tintin as Tintin was walking past him.

Stanislas

Début: The Calculus Affair - page 39, frame 9/page 41, frame 3 - Villain. The driver of the Syldavian kidnappers' yellow Chrysler getaway car.

Stassanov, Igor

Début: King Ottokar's Sceptre - page 60, frame 9 - Diplomat (an ambassador). He is a close friend of Professor Hector Alembick's.

Staszrvich (Baron)

Début: King Ottokar's Sceptre - page 21, frame 1 - Syldavian aristocrat.

Stewart, T. W.

Début: The Black Island - page 62, frame 1 (bottom right hand photo, second left) - One of the four police constables photographed with Tintin.

Steinkopf, Otto.

Début: The Black Island - page 54, frame 10 - A name that appears on a list Tintin found on the Black Island.

Sun (Prince of the Sun)

Début: Prisoner of the Sun

Sunny Jim

Début: Tintin and the Picaros - page 51, frame 8 - Costume designer for the Jolly Follies. When Jolyon Wagg told Tintin and Haddock that "Sunny Jim" had designed the Jolly Follies' costumes, Wagg was actually referring to himself. “Sunny Jim” is a British idiom (possibly a combination of "sonny" rather than "sunny", a boy, and "Jim", both are commonly used as fill-in names for people one does not know, or wish to pretend one does not know. In the French edition, Wagg says: "Et c'est moi aussi qui ai créé leur costume! ... Pas mal, non?" [Translation: I also created their costume! ... Not bad, eh?]

More on the origin of "Sunny Jim":

  1. Our forum community member, Frankymole, says there was a cartoon character called Sunny Jim, who advertised a breakfast cereal called "Force" wheat flakes in the early-mid 20th century. He was a smiling, marching white bearded guy with a top hat. A cereal company resurrected him for a while in the 1980s or 1990s, pointing out the nostalgic wholesomeness of their cereal. Here is a link to a page showing a picture, and a description: http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-othercereals.html
  2. Garen Ewing, who has also done a little research on Sunny Jim, confirms the origin of the name 'Sunny Jim' is the breakfast food 'Force'. The term 'Sonny Jim' is the phrase used for someone you are talking to, perhaps with a slightly condescending yet familiar way - and it may have even deviated from the marketing character of Sunny Jim. Garen also thinks Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner were indeed referring to the character of Sunny Jim (due to the spelling) and were aware of the character as an energetic figure who can do anything / does everything, who Wagg identifies himself with.
  3. For more information about Sunny Jim, please refer to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Classic FM's breakfast show "Word of the Day" entry for Thursday, 27 November 2003.

Sword (General M.R.C.Sword)

Début: Tintin in America - name appeared on page 51 frame 2 - General - He was kidnapped on May 18.

Szhrinkoff, Stefan

Début: The Calculus Affair - name first mentioned on page 16, frame 12, and can be spotted on page 17, frames 2, 7 (man on the right with black hair), and on page 18, frame 14 (the man who tripped Haddock).
Trivia: 'Szhrinkoff' sounds like 'shrink off'.

Szplodj

Début: King Ottokar's Sceptre - page 29, frame 3 (name appears on page 27, frame 6) - Chief of Police at Zlip, Syldavia.

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