Ramon Bada is one of the two main antagonists of the Tintin comic book The Broken Ear and it's 1991 animated adaptation.
He is Alonso Perez's associate who is the owner of Polly, Jacob Balthazar's parrot, given to him after his death. Just like Alonso Perez, he plans to find the Arumbaya Idol and break it to find the Heart of the Jungle, a rare diamond which could make them wealthy. However, it was stolen by Rodrigo Tortilla, the assassin of Jacob Balthazar, who took a trip to Europe.
When they arrive on the boat Rodrigo Tortilla is boarded on, he knocks him out with a baton and tosses his body into the sea, causing his death. Unfortunately, he and Alonso were arrested multiple times as they attempted to kill Tintin as revenge for the destruction of the idol in the fire and both eventually die after a failed attempt of getting the diamond, drowning in the sea.
Appearance[]
Ramon Bada is a man with black hair and a black mustache. He also wears several clothing throughout the comic, like a prisoner outfit after escaping prison.
Personality[]
Ramon Bada is shown to be a bad-tempered man who hates being annoyed by his own pet, Polly, even to the point of nearly killing him when he throws a knife toward him. He is also obsessed to get rid of Tintin just like his associate, due to the fact that their only goal of finding the idol was ruined after the boat was burned, which in reality was a fake one that Tintin mentioned to them. Unfortunately, his obsession for the diamond later causes his own death.
Biography[]
Ramon Bada is first seen walking on the streets, with Balthazar's parrot, Molly, inside a box. A man then confronts him after he was insulted by the parrot, as Ramon Bada apologizes for it, but he does it again and the man, infuriated, attacks Ramon and causing the parrot to break free from the box he was contained. After the parrot was recovered and brought inside Tintin's home, Ramon breaks inside and attempts to steal the parrot, only to be caught by Tintin as he turns on the lights and holds him at gun point. Ramon recognizes Tintin as the one who attempted to take his parrot back. Tintin then asks him why he is interested in Molly, only for the lights to go out, allowing Ramon to throw a knife at Tintin and nearly stabbed him, but missed due to aiming a bit too much on the right.
He is later seen practicing his aiming, missing the target multiple times due to aiming too much on the right. In the meantime, he is constantly annoyed by Molly as he attempts to kill the parrot, but misses. This causes Ramon to be angry and attempts to attack the parrot again, but Alonso warns him that if he messes with the parrot, he would kill him, but eventually aims the parrot after he bit his finger. The two then realize that Balthazar's killer was none other than Rodrigo Tortilla, who was pretending to be a doctor going on a trip to Europe to actually steal the idol.
Later, in the boat Ville-de-Lyon, he and Alonso try to find Rodrigo Tortilla, encountering Tintin disguising himself as a civilian who tricks the duo when they attempted to kill him, instead hitting the scarf of the real civilian, who calls for help. Afterwards, they discuss with a drunk crew member who reveals to them the location of Rodrigo Tortilla. When the night arrives, Ramon and Alonso silently enters the room and knocks Rodrigo unconscious before he is thrown in the sea, resulting in his death. The next day, the ship crew noticed that Rodrigo Tortilla was missing from the boat and was possibly thrown overboard. This was confirmed as true as the black waiter from earlier and some of the sailors hold them at gun point, revealing them as the responsibles of Rodrigo's death. The black waiter was revealed to be Tintin in disguise the whole time, the duo are then arrested.
During the first day of Tintin's job as the new Colonel and associate of General Alcazar, Ramon and Alonso are later seen as soliders and try to have a meeting with Alcazar, but Alcazar can't receive them as he is waiting for his A.D.C, which is none other than Tintin, much to their surprise. They then realize that the idol Tintin had in his suitcase was a fake. Knowing that Tintin certainly knows where the real idol is, he and Alonso decide to hire a Mexican associate to kidnap Tintin and have him reveal the location of the real idol to them. The plan succeeds and Tintin is brought inside a cabin where the duo of criminals hold him at gun point and order him to tell them the truth about the location of the real idol. Tintin then reveals that the real idol is on the ship Ville-de-Lyon, inside his trunk. Now convinced about the truth Tintin revealed to them, Alonso prepares to execute Tintin, as Ramon doesn't want to waste too much time as he doesn't like capital punishments. However, they are all struck by a ball of lightning, shredding some parts of their suits off. This also resulted in Tintin being free as he tries to run away. Alonso and Ramon then fire at him and chase him, but they are both hit unconscious by rocks thrown by Tintin, who then binds them using wires from poles and takes them to prison.
They later escape and hide themselves from the authorities, vowing revenge on Tintin and get the idol back. Later at night, he attempts to assassinate Tintin, only to miss Tintin and hitting a banana tree, resulting in Pedro, an assassin hired by businessman R.W. Trickler, being blinded and accidentally firing a shot that misses Tintin and hits Ramon in the back. As he goes home to recover, Alonso asks him what happened as Ramon says that he killed him. As he goes to sit on a chair, he is stung by a small spiky pillow.
After Tintin was framed as a spy and saved from execution thanks to Pedro, indirectly causing a war on El Chapo, Alonso and Ramon then plan to desert from the army in order to go back on finding the idol again. However, they find out on a newspaper that the idol was destroyed by the fire on the boat, angering them due to their plan being ruined, but Ramon tells him that it is possible that Tintin lied to them about the idol's location. They later desert from the army and hide in the jungle to find a canoe, but they notice that Tintin is boarding it. They catch him by surprise and tell him that the idol he was talking about earlier was destroyed by the boat's fire because of his lies. Tintin admits that he lied but knows nothing about it. As Alonso prepares to shoot Tintin if he doesn't tell them the real location of the idol, he and Ramon are distracted and beaten by Tintin, seemingly defeating them. As Tintin brings them to justice, Ramon notices that Alonso freed himself and knocked Tintin off the boat so he can be eaten by piranhas, allowing them to escape.
Final confrontation and Death[]
Later, on the Washington boat, Alonso and Ramon go inside Goldbarr's cabin to search for the idol, which they successfully find in one of the suitcases. They quickly attempt to get back to their cabin, as someone may come nearby. Their expectations were confirmed when they encounter Tintin on the boat as he orders them to put their hands up, accidentally dropping the idol and breaking it, revealing the diamond, which rolls over and falls into the sea as Tintin, Alonso and Ramon attempt to catch it but to no avail. Angered by their plan being ultimately ruined, they restrain Tintin and eventually fall off into the sea while they were fighting. Tintin manages to get back up to the surface thanks to the ship's sailors saving him, but Ramon and Alonso drowned after strangling each other to unconsciousness, each believing that the other is Tintin. They are then seen carried by smiling, pitchfork-bearing, winged demons in what appears to be Hell.
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Trivia[]
- In the 1991 animated TV adaptation, which was famous for censoring some of the most mature elements from the source material, Ramon Bada and Alonso Perez do not drown, instead being arrested for their crimes. It's likely this change was enacted due to religious concerns, as they are implied to have been taken to Hell in the original comic, which could have inconvenienced non-Christian audiences. No other novel in the Tintin series has any "afterlife" moment like this, except in dreams - suggesting that the image of them in Hell was only something Tintin imagined.
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