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Tintin is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Tintin is the protagonist, the eponymous hero of the series. He is a reporter and adventurer who travels around the world with his dog Snowy. The character was created in 1929 and introduced in Le Petit Vingtième ("The Little Twentieth") a weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle ("The Twentieth Century"). He appears as a slender young man 14–17 years old and has a round head with red hair, which front part is spiked up. He often wears plus fours, shirt and sweater. He is imaginative with good powers of deduction, knows languages and is able to fly aeroplanes. Further, he is able to defend himself and can survive falls with only small injuries. Tintin apparently has no family but the friends he makes through his exploits become his adopted family.

The origin of the name Tintin and the inspiration for the character remain a mystery since Hergé was vague about it; when pressed for an answer he would say that Tintin was himself. Tintin is called by his original name in most language versions with the Dutch Kuifje being an exception.