Captain Haddock the Picaros", when Professor Calculus 'cures' him of his taste for alcohol. In the adventure "Secret of the Unicorn" (and continuing in "Red Rackham's Treasure") he and Tintin travel to find a pirate's treasure captured by his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock (François de Hadoque in French). With newfound wealth and regaining his ancestral home Marlinspike Hall, Captain Haddock becomes a socialite; riding a horse, wearing a monocle, and sitting in a theatre box seat ("The Seven Crystal Balls"). He then evolves to become genuinely heroic, volunteering to sacrifice his life to save Tintin's own in the pivotal "Tintin in Tibet".
The Adventures of Tintin (film) assassinated while attempting to recover the "Unicorn". Tintin places the scroll in his wallet, but it is pickpocketed by Silk the next morning. Later, Tintin is abducted by accomplices of Sakharine, and imprisoned on the SS "Karaboudjan". He learns Sakharine formed an alliance with the ship's staff and led a mutiny to take control. On board, Tintin meets Archibald Haddock, the ship's captain. Haddock is permanently drunk and thus unaware of most of his past. Tintin, Haddock, and Snowy eventually outrun the crew and escape from the "Karaboudjan" in a lifeboat. The ship fails to ram their boat because they