Jolyon Wagg
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Jolyon Wagg (in the original French version: Séraphin Lampion) is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. He is an intensely gregarious, simple, and overbearing man. He is strongly disliked by Captain Haddock (although Wagg remains cheerfully oblivious to this, believing himself to be a great friend of the Captain) who finds him frustrating. Wagg is often portrayed as a clueless tourist in the exotic places where Tintin and the Captain have their adventures. Wagg is an insurance salesman by trade, and he often tries to sell the other characters insurance.
He offers to sell "Rock Bottom" insurance, the brand name of his insurance.
He is generally seen as a more "modern" character, as opposed to the older archetypes (crusty sea captain, absent-minded professor) that inhabit Hergé's earlier works. Wagg only appeared relatively late in the series; his first appearance was in The Calculus Affair, the eighteenth of the 24 Tintin books. Wagg also appears in The Red Sea Sharks, The Castafiore Emerald, Flight 714 and Tintin and the Picaros.
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