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* LiveActionAdaptation: Four of them so far, most notably featuring Creator/GerardDepardieu as Obelix (other members of the main cast have been changed around often). They boast high production values and have been successful at the box office, but they have been received mostly poorly by critics and "hardcore" fans, who have often decried [[LowestCommonDenominator the use of rough humour compared to the one found in the books]]. Apparently Uderzo, dissatisfied with the first two movies as well, supervised the production of the third, but it didn't save it from receiving the "top" prize of the French equivalent of the [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie Awards]] in 2008. A fourth movie came out in Autumn 2012.

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* LiveActionAdaptation: Four of them so far, most notably featuring Creator/GerardDepardieu as Obelix (other members of the main cast have been changed around often). They boast high production values and have been successful at the box office, but they have been received mostly poorly by critics and "hardcore" fans, who have often decried [[LowestCommonDenominator the use of rough humour compared to the one found in the books]].books. Apparently Uderzo, dissatisfied with the first two movies as well, supervised the production of the third, but it didn't save it from receiving the "top" prize of the French equivalent of the [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie Awards]] in 2008. A fourth movie came out in Autumn 2012.
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* LiveActionAdaptation: Four of them so far, most notably featuring Creator/GerardDepardieu as Obelix (other members of the main cast [[TheOtherDarrin have been changed around often]]). They boast high production values and have been successful at the box office, but they have been received mostly poorly by critics and "hardcore" fans, who have often decried [[LowestCommonDenominator the use of rough humour compared to the one found in the books]]. Apparently Uderzo, dissatisfied with the first two movies as well, supervised the production of the third, but it didn't save it from receiving the "top" prize of the French equivalent of the [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie Awards]] in 2008. A fourth movie came out in Autumn 2012.

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* LiveActionAdaptation: Four of them so far, most notably featuring Creator/GerardDepardieu as Obelix (other members of the main cast [[TheOtherDarrin have been changed around often]]).often). They boast high production values and have been successful at the box office, but they have been received mostly poorly by critics and "hardcore" fans, who have often decried [[LowestCommonDenominator the use of rough humour compared to the one found in the books]]. Apparently Uderzo, dissatisfied with the first two movies as well, supervised the production of the third, but it didn't save it from receiving the "top" prize of the French equivalent of the [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie Awards]] in 2008. A fourth movie came out in Autumn 2012.
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*** The Native Americans in ''Asterix and the Great Crossing'' look like the Indians of the old Wild West.
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*** The native Americans in ''Asterix and the Great Crossing'' look like the Indians of the old Wild West.

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*** The native Native Americans in ''Asterix and the Great Crossing'' look like the Indians of the old Wild West.
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%%* AmusingInjuries: Sustained by all manner of Roman legionaries, bandits, pirates, etc.

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%%* * AmusingInjuries: Sustained Nobody dies even when they are pummeled by all manner Obelix's SuperStrength. [[AllThereInTheManual A commentary by the authors]] mentions how someone asks if the violence in Asterix would be a bad influence to children, and they make a point how the whole idea of Roman legionaries, bandits, pirates, etc.Asterix is standing up in defiance against imperialists with laughter and comedy. And how everyone that gets punched out cold, especially Romans, are drawn with a carefree smile, as if they've been released from the yoke of imperialism.
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* VillainByDefault: Roman Prefects are at the very least LawfulEvil, and more often than not they're corrupt, greedy, scheming and decadent.

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* VillainByDefault: Roman Prefects are at the very least LawfulEvil, and more often than not they're corrupt, greedy, scheming and decadent.
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* DropTheHammer: Fulliautomatix has one, both for forging metal and for bashing Cacofonix's head in if he tries to sing.
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* AccidentalGoodOutcome: In "Recap/AsterixAndTheMagicCarpet", on a visit to India, Cacofonix (whose [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands new-found]] ability to summon storms by singing is needed to trigger a monsoon) turns out to have [[LostVoicePlot lost his voice]], and the doctors who examine him declare that he needs to spend all night soaking in a bath of elephant milk mixed with elephant dung and elephant hair, in order to clear [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine his sinuses]] -- which doesn't work. While he is sleeping in his tub, however, the villains capture him and dump him in a nearby ElephantGraveyard, figuring the elephants will trample him to death for intruding -- but since Cacofonix now smells like an elephant, [[UnexpectedKindness they instead accept him as one of their own]].
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*** Also averted with the Gauls, the Belgians and the Northmen. While they might not be historically accurate either, they lack modern elements. The Gauls and the Belgians look more or less interchangeable; the Northmen look like Gauls with Viking elements thrown in.

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*** Also averted with the Gauls, the Belgians and the Northmen. While they might not be historically accurate either, they lack modern elements. The Gauls and the Belgians look more or less interchangeable; interchangeable[[note]]Historically, the Belgae were a confederacy of Gallic tribes, though their similarity in the comics may also be a reference to the closeness of nowaday French and Walloon cultures[[/note]]; the Northmen look like Gauls with Viking elements thrown in.
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already mentioned below under "Dated History"


** Obelix works as a menhir delivery man. In real life, most menhirs date from the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, long before the Roman Empire or the Gauls even existed.
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** Obelix works as a menhir delivery man. In real life, most menhirs date from the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, long before the Roman Empire or the Gauls even existed.

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