http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/Asterix. He was actually this (along with Asterix and Getafix) for the first 8-10 books. However, at one point the creators simply stopped, and it many late stories it appears that all he ever does is either mock Unhygienix's fish or look for a reason to bash Cacofonix. Actually the only blood that ever appears in the whole series is the one running from the Romans' noses after they have been badly beaten. Chief Vitalstatistix started as a very serious character with an occasional embarrassing moment here and there. When a character is speaking coldly, icicles form at the bottom of the speech bubble. The album Asterix the Legionary has two concurrent running gags: Obelix falls unhappily in love with Panacea. Once they get to Egypt, the Gauls have to thwart the attempts by both rival architect Artifis and the Romans to ruin the palace's construction. This is Tortuus Convolvulus' specialty. Or hurt his canine pet, Dogmatix. However, In several books, the Scottish are satirized as the Caledonians, but are instead depicted as Picts in. However, in one scene where Asterix is planning a bank robbery and makes a diagram of their plan of attack, he does it on a diptych wax tablet, which is what someone in his time period would actually have used for making notes that would have to be quickly disposed of later. In another album, the pirate crew recreates ". But when they saved his merchandise, he called them friends and has provided the occasional assistance to Asterix and Obelix since. Brutus is almost always pictured playing with a knife. Basically all the Gauls (including Dogmatix! 'Join up', they said. Discs: 2. For instance, most of the times we see writing in the series, the characters carve it into tablets, even for disposable things like memos or personal letters or teaching to children — mostly because it's funny to imagine a Roman bureaucrat having to carve twelve huge slabs of rock just to induct a new legionary. Fulliautomatix hitting Cacofonix when the latter tries to sing. dicking with the Romans pretty much because they could and ultimately winning pretty much by cheating, a beautiful Native American chieftain's daughter, eats two boars instead of his normal three, that's what most people were celebrating at the time, Administrivia/Pages Needing Transparent Images, The Romans tend to wear segmented plate armor (called, Several books feature the characters eating or preparing potatoes, which were not introduced to Europe until the 16th century. Also, whenever Cleopatra suddenly shows up some place, she's always sitting on a gigantic golden sphinx-shaped chair on wheels pulled by slaves flanked by dancers and trumpeters. The Romans get to the point where they recognize Asterix and Obelix's names, and are understandably terrified of them. The village dances merrily to a song led by Cacofonix, and also, Fulliautomatix is shown hammering metal using his bare hands, implying the Gauls use magic potion even in everyday tasks. In some regards averted when Uderzo took over the comic and altered a few things. Played around with Ekonomikrisis, the Phoenician merchant. Greeks talk in angular letters. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) 41 of 41. The first two also give readers the benefit of the doubt as to whether they are fictional are not, but archaeological evidence has confirmed, Goths fight each other to prevent them from invading other countries, yet it's thanks to the Gaulish intervention correcting the blueprints and their magic potion that the palace was built that fast and without falling apart, since Alexandria's best architect was inept, How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When he was a Little Boy. 23 avr. Totally not a young Jacques Chirac. To drive home the point that the book is set in what became Scotland. He is implied to sow discord. It's interesting to see historical accuracy flop back and forth depending on how seriously the reader is meant to take a particular scene. I find the live-action Asterix films vary in quality quite a lot. Based on the book Asterix and Cleopatra, which had previously been adapted into a 1968 animated film, it also acts as a sequel to the 1999 movie Asterix … A modern and love action update of the classic comic tale. Uderzo himself passed away at 92 in March 2020. Fortunately Caesar rebuilds it out of honor and gratitude. A chronicle by a Greek merchant visiting the region before Caesar's conquest mentions that the Gauls decorated their huts with the heads and limbs of their enemies, which the merchant did admit was tastefully done so that "you get used to it after a while". The Native Americans eat dog, leading to a "hot dog" joke later. Runtime: 107 mins. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. His wife won't allow him to dodge having a bath, so his shield bearers are forced to carry him out, Another time he appoints Asterix and Obelix as his shield-bearers (it's supposed to be an honor), but their absurdly mismatched sizes result in it being carried on a slant, with Vitalstatistix clinging to the high end. No further explanation is given about how in Earth seeing a friend in danger could revert the effects of Getafix’s medicine. Format: DVD. The Pirates in particular will run (or rather, sail — when they don't scuttle) away like madmen at the first mention of Gauls in the area. While the historical conquest of Gaul took place in 52 BC, it is depicted in the stories as taking place decades earlier than the main timeframe of the stories, notably when several middle-aged characters are depicted as being young at the time, and the villagers already fighting Romans when Asterix and Obelix were children. Tropes specific to the film include: Adaptation Expansion : The film adds Asterix is the protagonist of a French comic book series, written by René Goscinny (14 August 1926—5 November 1977) and drawn by Albert Uderzo (25 April 1927—24 March 2020), and now translated into over 100 languages and published around the world. After decades of solo work, he retired in 2013 and passed writing and art duties to Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad.note (The latter did the character design for The Road to El Dorado, but has stuck with Uderzo's style.) Surreptitius and Dubbelosix are shown smeared with honey and running from bees in the arena at the end of, The overall least comedic book in the series has to be. Impedimenta is cursing when she says "Oh, Myopia" to Geriatrix's wife. Asterix, Obelix, Getafix and Cacofonix are oddly-drawn, while Fulliautomatix looks nothing like he does in later books. MAGNIFICENT, BY JUNO! According to the comics, Vercingetorix surrendered to. Not to mention based on Obelix's experience, he doesn't appear conscious or aware of his surroundings either. Language: French. One is when he inserts real life celebrities into the comic; while these characters look rather distinct and in some regards deviate from other figures (though they still blend in pretty well). Condition: New. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with Caesar wagering the project cannot be completed in a few weeks time. He appeared time and again before the reveal? Examples of subversions include. Panoramix → Getafix (notable as while the name change makes sense since it indicates his role, the original French name would have been just as serviceable in English). ...and the little toast that goes with it! In the german edition, the racer who is the competitor of Asterix and Obelix in "Asterix in Italy" was renamed "Caligarius", which in english means Shoemaker and in german "Schuhmacher". Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois [asteʁiks lə ɡolwa]; lit. Used for deliberate stereotyping in other cases, though - Asterix's Britannic cousin Anticlimax wears baggy tweed trousers (as the historical Britons did) but his shoes have long ties that wrap tightly around his legs up to below the knee, giving his trousers the distinctive shape of plus-fours. The only exceptions are the Helvetians who have goatees. Later, as the governor has hired the pirates to be his escape route if the Corsicans attack, hear that the Gauls are among the attackers. Julius Caesar has all but conquered Gaul (pre-medieval France plus some surrounding territory), except for a few pockets of resistance. The most common involves the village chickens being put to various abuse. She has at least once referred to one such appearance as "dropping by incognito". He is such a good agent of discord though that he still causes chaos and the lions will still fight each other instead of eating him... Julius Caesar seems like one, always walking away from trouble no worse for wear, with him suffering at worst a blow to his ego. The chief then calls several of the Gauls all with names ending in -ix to tell them about this silliness. Edifis is to build the palace and be covered in gold or, if not, his fa… For example, in, This is addressed in the audio book adaptation of, The Flavian Amphitheatre, also known as the Colosseum, which features in, There are several references to the "Roman Empire", which was not founded until after Caesar's lifetime. "), There's also a character (a druid/Roman spy who has a prominent role in, Speech bubbles turn green as characters are influenced by the seeds of discord sewn by Convolvulus in. villain behind the sickle-trafficking gang. The Corsicans, Egyptians and Romans are clean shaven. They immediately jump into the harbor and swim for their lives. For example, the Egyptian in, Whenever anyone swears. Asterix subsequently loses his temper with the (extremely overbearing) guard and punches him, and through the rest of the story, "being nice to" someone means to thump them. And in one truly strange example, the tax collector that Asterix robs in. The Asterix comics take place in the year 50 BC. It happens in pretty much any translation to different degrees. The briefly-featured Cassivellaunos is notable for being a historical figure who only. The Dutch version too has become a fairly well-known phrase outside the albums, due to it sounding rather less conventional and more endearingly comical. Obelix once drinks (three drops of) the potion in, Before the pirates even made an appearance, in, The populations that Asterix and Obelix encounter are, Lampshaded in the preface to the English edition of. Gauls (including Belgians and Corsicans) -ix; Britons -ax; Egyptians and Phoenicians: -is, although theme naming was averted with some characters in the translation. Many names are changed in the Scandinavian and German dubs, notably Getafix → Miraculix (a play on the latin word "miraculus"), Cacofonix → Troubardourix, Vitalstatistix → Majestix and Geriatrix → Senilix (a play on 'senile') respectively Methusalix. Getafix realized immediately that the quaestor had been poisoned, and uses the "hostage" bit as an excuse to keep him safely away from the governor, the Romans burn the village and nearly send. As his physician is taking him out for some fresh air, Asterix, Obelix and Cacofonix fly by on a magic carpet ("Oh hey, Julius! The villagers' response? Cleopatra retaliates by betting she can have a gigantic palace built for him in three months. The Greeks are either fully bearded or clean shaven, but nothing in between. (In the English version, at least, this similarity is lampshaded; Vitalstatistix at first protests that only having one shield-bearer would make him feel like a "half-pint chief", then when Obelix says he has menhirs to make anyway, he explodes "So you refuse to serve your chief, do you? (Gaulish villages were never given names in historical records.). It also mentions Aqua Regia, sulfuric acid and baldrian. Obelix's line "These Romans are crazy! Asterix is the protagonist of a French comic book series, written by René Goscinny (14 August 1926—5 November 1977) and drawn by Albert Uderzo (25 April 1927—24 March 2020), and now translated into over 100 languages and published around the world. Cassius Ceramix, chief of the Gallo-Roman village of Linoleum in, In the first comic, Getafix creates a potion to restore lost hair, which works, Egyptians and Kushites are presented as speaking this way. Take a look at Caesar in the first page of, A similar thing happened with Obelix's dog Dogmatix in, Not every Gaulish man had a name ending with "-ix", and not every Roman had a name ending in "-us", but, The main characters would not have referred to themselves as "Gauls"; rather, they would have associated with a more regional tribal grouping. Egyptians are shown worshipping most of their ancient gods and using hieroglyphs, all of which was dead by 50 BC. compare with Old English "wealh" which is the origin of the names. Tortuous Convolvulus is a dubious one since the last time we see him, he is imprisoned by the Romans after he was framed by Asterix and shipped back to Rome to be executed. Part of the appeal of the series is probably the variety of humor, which includes slapstick fight scenes, plenty of wordplay, thinly-veiled social commentary, and Iron Age and Roman antiquity versions of just about every European (and beyond) stereotype you can imagine. The most frequently occuring roll with two dice. The pirates get their ship trashed (though not always). Subtitle: French Subtitles. There was one story where Vitalstatistix's shield bearers quit, and he appointed Asterix and Obelix as their replacements. There's the additional running gag in which he falls off the shield for some reason at least once per story. Examples being: we got to know why Obelix wasn't supposed to drink any magic potion (too much of it turns people to stone and later into children), we got an extra comic about the childhood of the heroes in the village, the bard gained the ability to summon rainstorms with his song etc. Caesar governed the Roman. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The earlier story "How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion when he was a Little Boy" shows him as a young adult when Asterix, Obelix and others are only a few years older. When trying to steal Caesar's crown, Asterix states that the magic potion doesn't protect from being harmed by Roman weapons. Also, in one particular issue, the Romans managed to get hold of a cauldron of magic potion. in which Cacofonix basically saves the day for once, so he deserves it. lose it just before they return home. In short, Cacofonix is left unbound and ungagged on an average of once every four books. I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You! 'It's a man's life', they said. Some of these give a good taste of some of the funny scenes, even if you don’t understand French. There are at least two names in which the military rank helps the pun: the Romans have a General Motus, and in Germany the magic potion inspires a man to say "I will become General Electric!". So when another Gaul asks Asterix what Obelix is doing, he gets the reply "Serving a half-pint of mild and bitter. Pour ce faire, elle fait appel à l´architecte Numérobis, Jamel Debbouze, ce Zébulon irrésistible, singulier et passionnant. A parallel would be the accents and intonations used in, In the second live-action movie, Edifis and Artifis, both powered-up by the magic potion, get into. (And unlike the above examples, the Gauls understand them, so it's probably just an accent) In ~50BC, most people spoke Greek: Latin was the official language of the empire, but Greek was the one used for trade. There are plenty of clips of Astérix Mission Cleopatre on YouTube. Cleopatra's maids during her bath song scene — who are followed by her. "The Birth of Asterix" also is said to take place in 35 BC, that is 'Before Caesar', and are said to be 35 years before the adventures of Asterix and Obelix began. Roman agent Dubbelosix spilled the oil in the sea and secretly informed Caesar that the village couldn't produce magic potion anymore. Since a lot of the Gauls will agree with you, and they fight rather chaotically, doing this almost guarantees the, The Britons' chief Mykingdomforanos is originally called, The original French versions are a delight to those who can read the language: the characterisations and use of language speaks volumes about how sophisticated metropolitan Paris views the French regions, and how the French view their neighbours around Europe. Asterix and Obelix both started off quite crude and lumpy-looking but got more rounded, cuter features as time went on. This may explain why the villagers are so protective of him. Does it make sense with the general theme of that album? It's also common for other "languages" to be written syntactically correct, but in another. The traffic cop seen in the streets of Alexandria after the opening credits takes a similar hieroglyph pose and stands there, motionless, while another Egyptian turns him around to regulate traffic. For instance, there’s this clip. Obelix being very sensitive about his weight. In big fights involving the entire village, there's inevitably at least one Roman being bashed with his own shield. These plots allow character development of the various villagers and their relationships. It goes "Rare jongens, die Romeinen! With the help of a magic potion, Asterix comes to the rescue of the Queen of the Nile as Caesar and an angry architect plot against them. The Gaulish-Gothic interpreter has a great one, when Getafix reveals to the Goth chief that he speaks Gothic. Our worried heroes return to the village and are surprised to see the Romans being routed by magic potion powered villagers. The village is never given a name either. When Asterix asks Obelix how he recovered his adult body just in time, Obelix guesses that it was from the fear of seeing him in danger. Those being mocked with "English" stereotypes in the series are in fact the cultural ancestors of the modern-day Welsh. Or he forgets to duck and hits his head on the lintel, since he's standing at least five feet in the air. Rating: Unrated. To do so, she tasks the (pretty inept) architect Edifis with it, and shall he fail to pull it off, she would feed him to her crocodiles. Astérix in Corsica gives them two: The pirates agree to ferry three passengers and a dog to Corsica. Asterix and Obelix, Mission Cleopatra / Astérix et Obélix, Mission Cléopâtre (2002) - Trailer (FR) Visual gags aplenty in this tale of ceasar's wager that Cleo cannot out build the romans firing her to tap so so architect who gets help from his Gaulish friends. 2020 - Découvrez le tableau "Astérix" de Emilie Schwenter sur Pinterest. When going to join the legion, Asterix tells Obelix to stand back while he speaks to the guard, as they need to be nice to the Romans. Proto-Germanic is represented by two different fonts, depending whether it's a Scandinavian dialect or not. Rhetoric was not expecting one of his allies to set up on his own. Original Title: Asterix et Obelix, Mission Cleopatre. Director: Claude Berri. in a matter of seconds, Obelix turns again into his adult form and his formidable strength, thus being able to save Asterix. The Undefeatable Little Village happens to be the home of our hero, a small but plucky Gaul named Asterix. This is based on an actual throwaway line in Caesar's book. Getafix accepts to follow him in Egypt, and so do Asterix and Obelix. Vitalstatistix is depicted as a child as when Asterix and Obelix are born in "The Birth of Asterix", as most of the other villagers are. He may seem just a big bully, but in his twisted, childish way he seems to genuinely appreciate the legionnaires he beats up. 30 avr. However, Getafix had just substituted equally efficient beetroot juice instead. Obelix, magic potion, cauldron, baby, blah blah blah. Mostly-blunt head trauma ensued. "), leading to both Caesar and the doc going straight to bed. The Roman Empire has all but conquered continental Europe, except for a few … Asterix and Obelix are connected by more than just the ending: On three occasions, Cacofonix actually saves the day. Regional dialects around France are signalled by variant more phonetic French in the captions; Languedoc is treated as carrot-crunching yokel country, for instance, and the appalling ways France's neighbours mangle the language is depicted in tortured and fractured French in the captions. Getafix also lives in a cave outside the village, which is never mentioned again. By Toutatis, I'm a mild man, but this makes me very bitter!" a little village by the seaside in Armorica... surrounded by fortified Roman camps, each one making a different pun based on the subject on hand, like my cousin Iznogoud, I will be Rajah instead of the Rajah. 2020 - Découvrez le tableau "ASTERIX" de TRAVERS sur Pinterest. Visual gags aplenty in this tale of ceasar's wager that Cleo cannot out build the romans firing her to tap so so architect who gets help from his Gaulish friends. These plots allow for the most satire of different cultures and nationalities. Getafix as a Druid is also painted as a wise man and brilliant wizard, with none of the Druidic tribes involvement in.
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