Abdallah (The Adventures of Tintin)

Abdallah is a character in the comic series The Adventures of Tintin, by Hergé. It appears in three albums: Tintin in the Land of Black Gold, Coke Stock and Tintin and the Alpha-Art, and is mentioned in others two: Target: the Moon and Tintin in Tibet.

He is the only son (or, at least, it is never indicated that he has siblings) of Emir Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, ruler of the country of Khemed. He is a child spoiled by his father, who calls him "little treasure", and is always willing to tolerate and excuse his practical jokes as long as he is not his victim. Hyperactive and unbearable, he never stops playing practical jokes on everyone who crosses his path, including Tintin himself and, especially, Captain Haddock.

He appears for the first time, like his father and his country, in Tintin in the Land of Black Gold. In this comic, Abdallah is kidnapped by Professor Smith (who is, in reality, the evil Dr. Müller) as part of a plot involving Sheikh Bab el-Ehr, the emir's adversary, the Arabair airline company, and the oil company Skoil., and that seeks to dislodge Ben Kalish Ezab from power. The emir already foresaw Arabair's betrayal, since inexplicably the company's passenger planes had refused to do some loopings or somersaults in the air to please the little treasure, which that anticipated its creeping character.

In Coke Stock, Sheikh Bab el-Ehr has taken power and the country is the scene of a slave trafficking plot in which the sheikh, Rastapopoulos and the Arabair company participate. The emir sends his son to Moulinsart to save him from political upheavals. Abdallah undertakes it with Captain Haddock, whom he calls "Thousand Rays" and the rest of the castle's inhabitants, planting their firecrackers here and there. Tintin and Haddock leave the nightmare scenario created by the terrible child to head to the Khemed. We will not see him again: at the end of the story, when the protagonists return to Moulinsart, the resigned and terribly emaciated butler Néstor announces that Mr. Abdallah has fortunately returned to his country, but not without leaving some hidden firecracker.

In Tintin and the Alpha-Art, the last album in which it appears, and the last in the series The Adventures of Tintin, Abdallah visits Europe in the company of his father, the emir When his father is interviewed for television, he sets off two firecrackers.

In Target: the Moon, it is referenced when Haddock attempts to cure Professor Tornasol's amnesia using a fake camera that he had confiscated from Abdallah. In Tintin in Tibet, the captain asks Tintin if Tchang looks like Abdallah.