Mr. Bohlwinkel (Tintin)

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Bohlwinkel (first name unknown) Blumenstein (first name unknown)
Alias	Mr. Bohlwinkel
Origin	Tintin
Occupation	Financier Owner of Golden Oil Criminal
Powers / Skills	Wealth
Hobby	Selling oil
Goals	Beat the Aurora expedition at finding the recently fallen meteorite (temporarily succeeded, but later failed) Sabotage the Aurora to delay Tintin and the researchers Claim the meteorite (both failed)
Crimes	Attempted sabotage Fraud
Type of Villain	Greedy Businessman

Mr. Bohlwinkel is the main antagonist of the 1942 Tintin book The Shooting Star and it's 1991 TV adaptation. He is the owner of Golden Oil, a major banking concern and a petroleum firm, who uses his wealth and resources to beat Tintin and the researchers in a race to find a meteorite that has recently fallen.

Throughout the events of the book, he uses many different ways to stop Tintin from beating the race and find the meteorite before him, like sabotage, but his plans are thwarted and he is later arrested for his crimes.

Appearance

Mr. Bohlwinkel is a man with black hair, a long nose and large lips. He wears a black suit with a red tie and white shirt.

Personality

Bohlwinkel is a greedy man who's willing to do anything to achieve his goal and interest.

Biography

Mr. Bohlwinkel is first seen when Professor Calculus organizes an expedition led by himself to find the meteorite, having set out his team to beat Tintin and the researchers in the race to find the meteorite before them.

He attempts to sabotage the expedition by getting a henchman to plant a stick of dynamite on the ship on the eve of departure, but this plan is thwarted by Snowy, who extinguishes the fuse by urinating on it. Afterwards, he attempts to ram one of his ships into the Aurora to stop it's progress. This almost succeeds but again fails as Haddock steered his ship out of the way. Bohlwinkel manages to beat the Aurora expedition after further setbacks occur at the Icelanic port of Akureyri, but is later almost beaten by the Aurora as it comes closer to catching them. They then attempt to delay the Aurora by sending a fake distress call so they can turn around to help the so-called distressed ship, but Tintin's inquires make him realize that the call was just a bait to lure them away from the Peary expedition. It is later informed that the Peary has reached the meteorite but didn't actually claimed it yet. Tintin then uses the ship's seaplane and parachutes down to the meteorite's location, beating the crew of the Peary in seconds and defeating Bohlwinkel, who is later investigated by law enforcement agencies and later arrested for sabotaging and delaying the expedition.

Trivia

• Mr. Bohlwinkel was referred as "Blumenstein" in the original version of the story released during World War II, and his bank was explicitly stated as being in New York. This was changed in later editions, as Hergé attempted to alter the character's antecedents by relocating him in the fictional South American country of São Rico and changing his name to the Brabantian dialect word for a sweet shop, to avoid having the character come off as a stereotypical depiction of a Jewish man.