Themistocles Paparanic was a French captain who appeared in the live action film Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece in The Adventures of Tintin series. He was first heard when Captain Archibald Haddock, a friend of him, died in Istanbul at the age of 67. Since then, Haddock inherits the Golden Fleece where Anton Karabine decided to offer Haddock 30 million francs. Even so, Paparanic saved the country of Tetaragua, along with Midas Papos, Scoubidouvitch, and Alexandre Timochenko, including Karabine, and hid his gold in the Tassika Island that is part of Greece.