Piotr Skut (Piotr Szut) is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. He is an eyepatch-wearing Estonian pilot and radio expert, who appears in two albums: The Red Sea Sharks and Flight 714. Image File history File links Skut. ... The main characters and others from The Castafiore Emerald, one of the later books The Adventures of Tintin (French: ) is a series of Belgian comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi (1907–1983). ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... An eyepatch is a small patch, usually of black cloth, that is worn in front of one eye and usually attached around the head by an elastic band or by a string. ... The Red Sea Sharks (Coke en stock), is the nineteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... Flight 714 (Vol 714 pour Sydney), first published in 1968, is the twenty-second of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...

The surname Skut (or Szut) does not, however, seem to be Estonian. The closest spelling to Estonian should be Sütt. This is because of an inside joke: when he first meets Tintin and Captain Haddock, he is captured by them and the Captain asks his name. He says Szut, which sounds like the French word "zut", which is roughly translated as "damn". The captain thinks he is insulting him, before he tells him that it's his name. In the English version, he pronounces his name like "scoot", leading the Captain to think he's being told to get lost.

In other language versions, the name is likewise changed:

• Dutch: Piotr Stíc - "stik" = "Choke (on it)!"
• Finnish: Pjotr Pahk - "pah" = "Bah!"
• German: Pjotr Klap - "Klappe!" = "Shut up!"
• Spanish: Piotr Pst - "pst" = onomatopoeia meaning "I don't care!"
• Portuguese: Piotr Xyssa - "chiça" = "My foot!" or "The devil!"
• Danish: Piotr Schyyh - "sch" = onomatopoeia meaning "Shush!"
• Swedish: Piotr Szut

Skut's first name, Piotr, is a Russian form of Peter. Thus, this character's name might be better rendered in Estonian as Peeter Sütt. Look up onomatopoeia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Skut is initially a mercenary pilot trying to kill Tintin and Haddock on behalf of the Khemed government, but when his plane is shot down, and the heroes generously rescue their would-be assailant, he becomes an ally. He has retired to a life of commercial piloting by the time Flight 714 takes off. Khemed is the fictional country in the Arabian Peninsula invented by Hergé for Tintin books. ...