User blog comment:X9 The Android/PE Proposal: Rastapopoulos/@comment-30634893-20200125152211/@comment-30634893-20200125214047

Here's the thing about that: despite being more comedic in his last appearance, he was still taken seriously as a threat. After all, the whole reason that Dr. Krollspell turned on him was that he knew he would be killed by him otherwise. At the end of the day, following all the funny accidents and injuries he had gotten during the adventure, if he succeeded, he would have killed all of his minions, Tintin, and everyone else on the island. Regardless of his comical depiction in that story, he was a genuine threat towards just about everybody around him (in fact, looking back, his planned murder of Tintin and everyone else is mostly just sugar-coated by his funny moments), which is why that argument doesn't do it for me. Being redeemed and becoming more comedic are far from the same thing.