Tin-Tin Kyrano
| Tin-Tin Kyrano | |
|---|---|
 Tin-Tin Kyrano | |
| First appearance | "Trapped in the Sky" (30 September 1965) |
| Last appearance | Thunderbirds (2004 film) |
| Created by | Sylvia Anderson |
| Portrayed by |
Christine Finn (1965-1966, 1968; voice work) Vanessa Hudgens (2004 film) |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | International Rescue Assistant |
| Family | Kyrano (father) The Hood (half uncle) |
| Nationality | Malaysian |
Tin-Tin Kyrano is a character in the mid-1960s British television show Thunderbirds. In the original TV series and its original movie adaptations, Tin-Tin, like the other characters, is portrayed using a marionette, and Christine Finn provided her voice.
Tin-Tin is the daughter of Kyrano, an old friend of Jeff Tracy and joins the International Rescue team shortly after they begin operating. Ironically, Tin-Tin becomes involved in their first rescue mission when she is onboard Fireflash which due to sabotage by her half uncle The Hood has to be rescued by International Rescue.
Tin-Tin has a variety of roles on Tracy Island from playing secretary to Jeff ("Terror In New York City"), laboratory and engineering assistant to Brains ("City Of Fire", "Danger At Ocean Deep") and sometimes accompanies International Rescue on their missions, most notably the rescue of the Sun probe spaceship ("Sun Probe"). She is also known to accompany Lady Penelope on espionage missions ("The Cham Cham").
Broadcasts of fictional programs in Japan typically include subtitles introducing the names of characters when they first appear on screen. The actor's names are listed underneath, when live characters are involved. Tin-Tin, however, is introduced as Min-Min. This is because there is no character in Japanese for "ti", and "chi" is usually substituted instead. However, chin-chin is a Japanese colloquialism for the male phallus, which is a wholly inappropriate name for a teenage girl.
Tin-Tin is romantically involved with Alan Tracy, though her feelings for Alan were clouded when an old flame Eddie Houseman came to visit ("End Of The Road").
In the 2004 live action film Thunderbirds which was loosely based on the TV series, she is played by Vanessa Hudgens, although the character of Tin-Tin is much younger and is no longer Malaysian but depicted as being from India. In the film, she also has a mother, Onaha. Also she is shown to have the same kind of powers as her uncle, the Hood. She also (later in the film) is shown to suffer the same weakening side-effect.
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