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''Tintin and the Picaros'' () is the twenty-third volume of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was the last ''Tintin'' adventure to be completed by Hergé, serialized in ''Tintin'' magazine in 1976. Tintin and his friends are invited to San Theodoros by General Tapioca to clear themselves of accusations of working with Tintin's old friend, General Alcazar. Tintin declines the invitation, but his friends go only to be imprisoned. Tintin joins them and they all escape and join Alcazar and his rebels, the Picaros. After a successful revolution, Tintin and his friends fly home, seeing the country is no better off than before. The book is notable for the changes made to many of the characters. Tintin no longer enjoys adventuring and has abandoned his trademark フランス語:plus fours for bell-bottoms, Captain Haddock can no longer drink alcohol, and General Alcazar's masculinity is ridiculed by his new domineering wife. ==Synopsis== Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus hear in the news that Bianca Castafiore, her maid Irma, pianist Igor Wagner and Thomson and Thompson have been imprisoned in San Theodoros for allegedly attempting to overthrow the military dictatorship of General Tapioca, who has yet again deposed Tintin's old friend General Alcazar, this time with the help of the Kûrvi-Tasch regime of Borduria. The trio themselves are soon accused of taking part in the conspiracy, but are later invited by Tapioca to Tapiocapolis, the capital of San Theodoros, to hear their side of the story. While the Captain and the Professor accept the invite, Tintin remains at Marlinspike, on suspicion that the invitation is a trap. At Tapiocapolis, the Captain and the Professor are received warmly by Colonel Alvarez, aide-de-camp to General Tapioca and are accommodated in a luxury apartment in the outskirts of the city; but the Captain confirms Tintin's suspicions, when he is restricted from buying tobacco alone. Later, Tintin joins them, in hope to rescue Castafiore, her entourage, and the Thompsons. A few days later, Pablo, (who had saved Tintin's life in ''The Broken Ear'') reveals that Colonel Sponsz (an advisor to General Tapioca) arranged the accusation against Castafiore, to avenge his embarrassment in ''The Calculus Affair''; and adds that Alcazar would rescue them the following morning. Alcazar does rescue them; but it soon appears that Pablo and Alvarez are involved in Sponsz's plot to kill the trio and Alcazar. The four narrowly escape; and Tintin, the Captain, and the Professor seek refuge with Alcazar and his small band of guerrillas, the Picaros. At the Picaros' camp deep in the jungle, the trio learn that all the Picaros, and their indigenous neighbors the Arumbayas, are inebriated by boxes of whisky bottles dropped over their camp by Tapioca's pilots; and that Alcazar is now dominated by his wife Peggy Alcazar, who nags him constantly about his failure to achieve a successful revolution. Later, they see a show trial of Castafiore and the Thompsons on television, wherein Castafiore is sentenced to life imprisonment, and the Thompsons are sentenced to death by firing squad during the annual San Theodoros carnival, three days away. Tintin and the Captain, though uninterested in Alcazar's cause, decide to assist him in overthrowing Tapioca, to save their friends, and decide to use the Professor's latest invention to cure the Picaros of their alcoholism: a pill that makes alcohol taste disgusting to anyone who ingests it, earlier tested on Haddock and the Arumbayas. At first the Picaros are suspicious, thinking that the Professor is trying to poison them, but change their minds after they see Snowy eat the food containing the cure. Immediately afterward, Jolyon Wagg and his troupe, the "Jolly Follies", arrive at the camp, having lost their way to Tapiocapolis where they mean to take part in the carnival. Alcazar, on advice from Tintin, smuggles himself, Tintin, the Captain and the Picaros into the capital, in the Follies' costumes, and forces Tapioca to abdicate. Tapioca is banished from the country, and Sponsz is sent back to Borduria. Pablo is pardoned by Tintin, while Alvarez defects to Alcazar's side; and Alvarez, along with Tintin and the Captain, commandeers the carnival's chief float to rescue the Thompsons. The next morning, Alcazar takes over as the President of San Theodoros and honours Tintin, the Captain, the Professor, Wagg and the Jolly Follies for their parts in his victory, and gives his wife the presidential palace (despite this, she continues to scold him). A few days later, with all matters resolved, Tintin, the Captain and the Professor return to Marlinspike. As they leave, a skeptical political message is displayed: as under Tapioca, the city slums under Alcazar's regime are filled with wretched, starving people and patrolled by apathetic police, and only the name of the President has changed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tintin and the Picaros」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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