Je to můj hrdina, kapitán Archibald Haddock z Tintina. After twenty years of navigation, the Captain becomes Tintin's best friend. Haddock is the descendant of the "Chevalier" François de Hadoque, marine captain under Louis XIV. Introduced in Crab with Golden Claws, the Captain has an impulsive character and is as often passionate about something. This passion he often experesses in a torrid barrage of verbal invective which is quite amusing. But apart from that, he really is a very sensitive man who gets on very well with Tintin, for whom he would (and has) risk his life. Although he yells at Professor Cuthbert Calculus and pokes fus at him he is quite attached to Cuthbert Calculus. When the Professor went missing, Captain was quite distraught. But it would be a mistake to think that such an ebuillent character has a great thirst for adventure and travel. For Haddock has, especially after his installation at Marlinspike Hall, a constantly-thwarted ambition to be but a gentleman-farmer. A whisky and a good pipe in front of a cosy fire, after an invigorating walk in the countryside, seem to be all he desires of life. The Captain's taste for liquor is legendary. But two periods need to be distinguished: the time before he meets Tintin, when he is a piteous drunk, a wreck who is bullied by his first mate, and after his providential meeting with the young reporter, when things change fundamentally, even if he is not quite equal to his elevated position as Honorary President of the Society of Sober Sailors, and his partiality for drink is no more than a pleasant penchant. Haddock also likes tobacco very much and often smokes the pipe. He's mostly dressed in black trousers, a blue pullover with an anchor on it, and his seaman's cap. The most characterizing element of Haddock is his register of insults: http://hemu.net/tintin/haddock.htm