Piotr Skut
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Image:Skut.gif 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, who appears in two albums: The Red Sea Sharks and Flight 714. 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 the Dutch version of the Red Sea Sharks, 'Cokes in voorraad', his name is Piotr Stíc, which sounds like 'stik', meaning 'choke (on it)'. In Flight 714, there is no joke, and his name is still 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.
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.
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