History Fridge / Asterix

FridgeBrilliance in the ''ComicBook/Asterix'' series.

* On Obelix' white and azure striped pants:

** Obelix' azure stripes likely play a part on why the Romans are especially terrified of him: while they know he's human and his strength comes from a magic potion, the fact he's ''that'' strong and wears azure would make the Romans instinctively think of him as a HumanoidAbomination.

** While [[UndefeatableLittleVillage the village still resists]], the rest of the Gauls is under Roman control... And, as shown as early as Recap/AsterixAndTheBigFight, they're already culturally integrating the population, with many other stories showing they have already integrated the Gauls economically. The realization that his village's continuing resistance on the long run is amounting to nothing, Vitalstatix, already a ShellShockedVeteran from Alesia, could have hit the DespairEventHorizon and concluded the Romans will ''eventually'' win in some way, so he surrendered just to get on with it and spare his villagers the worst of it.

* The Romans are awfully quick to turn on Convolvulus when Asterix thanks him for "his collaboration". Part of it is Convolvulus' ability to bring discord just by being there being turned on him... And part ''all the Romans hating him'', so even if they figured out Asterix was lying they won't waste the chance to get back at him without Caesar takin exception.

** Alternately he learnt from Alesia that peace is a lot less troublesome and more mutually benefit to everyone. He still enjoys fighting Romans and being cheeky to Romans, but is more respectful of them and is smart enough to avoid [[BullyingaDragon irking Caesar into bringing down his Empire on his small village.]]

** The very likely fact that eventually this comic's adorable Caesarion will be killed before ever managing to become a man and his mother will commit suicide also counts.
* In ''Recap/AsterixInBelgium'' Beefix and Brawnix are shown not to fear the Romans in general while also being ''terrified'' of Caesar. Point is, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiorix%27s_revolt the Eburones' revolt]] showed that the Romans are not invincible... But also that Caesar not only is, if he shows up he does it with the intention to ''slaughter their whole tribes'', with the only chance to escape being hiding in the mountains until Caesar decides he has better things to do. So when Caesar shows up they know he's there to kill them, their warriors and their families, and ''there's no mountain to hide into''.
** This also casts a new light to the two chieftains marching out their tribe to face Caesar and telling Vitalstatistix' group to leave: they plan to make a LastStand and [[HeroicSacrifice keep the Romans busy long enough for their families to run]], and don't want to have Caesar come after them next. And the HeroicSacrifice ''fails'': [[CurbStompBattle Caesar's reinforced legion was casually slaughtering them]] when Vitalstatix, Asterix and Obelix got an excuse to get involved anyway and saved them...

** This also casts a new light to the two chieftains marching out their tribe to face Caesar and telling Vitalstatistix' group to leave: they plan to make a LastStand and [[HeroicSacrifice keep the Romans busy long enough for their families to run]], and don't want to have Caesar come after them next. And the HeroicSacrifice ''fails'': [[CurbStompBattle Caesar's reinforced legion was casually slaughtering them]] when Vitalstatix, Asterix and Obelix got an excuse to get involved anyway and saved them...


[[AC: FridgeLogic]]
* In many a way, the series met its success due to being a story about Gaulish/French resistance against an imperialist invader represented by an eagle. After WWII, French media spent a decade or two insisting on the heroism of LaResistance (and trying to downplay LesCollaborateurs as much as possible). This was definitely an intended reading, with René Goscinny being both French and Jewish.
** The imperialist theme is used again with the Goths (ancestral Germans) in Asterix and the Goths. Before leaving Germania, Getafix makes a point to turn them against each other so they will drop all possible invasion plans.

** This also casts a new light to the two chieftains marching out their tribe to face Caesar and telling Vitalstatistix' group to leave: they plan to make a LastStand and [[HeroicSacrifice keep the Romans busy long enough for their families to run]], and don't want to have Caesar come after them next. And the HeroicSacrifice ''fails'': [[CurbStompBattle Caesar's reinforced legion was casually slaughtering them]] when Vitalstatix, Asterix and Obelix got an excuse to get involved anyway and saved them...

** In ''Recap/ObelixAndCo'' Preposterous suggests Obelix to change outfit to reflect his newly (more) enriched status, even if he, as a Roman economist and status symbol expert, should know his clothes already hint at great wealth... Except he's ''Roman'', and to him that color is cursed.

* In ''Recap/AsterixInBelgium'' Beefix and Brawnix are shown not to fear the Romans in general while also being ''terrified'' of Caesar. Point is, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiorix%27s_revolt the Eburones' revolt]] showed that the Romans are not invincible... But also that Caesar not only is, if he shows up he does it with the intention to ''slaughter their whole tribes'', with the only chance to escape being hiding in the mountains until Caesar decides he has better things to do. So when Caesar shows up they know he's there to kill them, their warriors and their families, and ''there's no mountain to hide into''.

* The village was already fighting the Romans a generation before Caesar's conquest in spite of it being in Armorica, quite distant from Roman territory at the time. However the Romans were already making their influence felt at the time, with some tribes being allied with the Romans (the ''casus belli'' for Caesar's initial two campaigns being in fact the threats the Helvetii and the Suebi posed against two tribes allied with Rome) - the Romans fought by Asterix and Obelix' fathers were likely part of a Roman expedition in support of a tribe allied with them.

** The very likely fact that eventually this comic's adorable Caesarion will be killed before ever managing to become a man and his mother will commit suicide also counts.

** Caesar himself has only a few more years before his fated assassination at the hands of Brutus and his conspirators, and while HE might have been seen the Gauls as a WorthyOpponent, no matter how often he tried to crush them, but his adoptive son, heir and eventual successor Octavian might not have had any such sentiment. This is the same man who murdered Caesars biological son, the same infant Asterix and Obelix saved in ''Asterix and Son'', so it's entirerly belivable that Octavian would have been far more ruthless than Caesar and had simply murdered Getafix or found some other dishonorable way of crushing the Gauls spirit once and for all.