History NightmareFuel / Asterix

* The storm scene in ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' (the animated movie), when the pair is split up in the streets of UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}. Having Asterix [[DrowningPit nearly drowning]] in a dungeon, Dogmatix being flushed through the sewers facing rats almost as big as he is, and Obelix desperately searching for both of them makes this easily one of the darkest moments in all ''Asterix'' history.

* The storm scene in ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' (the animated movie), when the pair is split up in the streets of Rome. Having Asterix nearly drowning in a dungeon, Dogmatix being flushed through the sewers facing rats almost as big as he is, and Obelix desperately searching for both of them makes this easily one of the darkest moments in all ''Asterix'' history.

** In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBlackGold'', Doubleosix and Surreptitius tried to plot against Caesar, resulting in him not knowing Getafix couldn't make the magic potion until after he managed to replace an ingredient... So, as a joke on them using a trained fly to deliver messages, he has them smeared in honey and stung to death by bees. This is called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism Scaphism]], an alleged form of CruelAndUnusualDeath that was supposedly used in Ancient Persia.

** In ''Recap/AsterixAndCaesarsGift'', the titular gift: one of the soldiers who had just completed their military service and were due to receive a plot of land was a drunkard who had neglected his duties in favor of getting drunk and spent the previous night in jail for loudly insulting Caesar while drunk and disorderly, so Caesar gifted him ''the Gauls' village''.

** Even when it's not creative, Caesar's wrath is still terrifying: it's not stated outright, but in ''Asterix in Belgium'' the Belgians' fatalistic reaction to his arrival imply they know he's there to ''wipe out the entire tribe''. After all, he had already done the same to another Belgian tribe...

** Brutus comes off as even more AxCrazy in this album than ever before, and vows to "put all of Gaul to the sword and fire" to capture the baby. He was not kidding.

** How easily he comes close to breaking the bond among the villagers. He already starts the discord by giving Asterix a gift and flattery, and later he manages to fool the arguing villagers into thinking the Romans have the magical potion. The discord he sowed even results in a feast where [[DarkReprise nobody talks to anyone and only the bard ISN'T tied up, which means the end...]] [[NearVillainVictory the end of the village!]] It takes Brutus in Uderzo's comics to come this close to a Roman victory again.

** How easily he comes close to breaking the bond among the villagers. He already starts the discord by giving Asterix a gift and flattery, and later he manages to fool the arguing villagers into thinking the Romans have the magical potion. The discord he sowed even results in a feast where [[EvilCounterpart only the bard ISN'T tied up, which means the end...]] [[NearVillainVictory the end of the village!]] It takes Brutus in Uderzo's comics to come this close to a Roman victory again.

* ''Recap/AsterixAndSon'' is pretty comedic overall, but gets one ''hell'' of a MoodWhiplash near the end. Angered by the failed attempts at kidnapping the baby, [[spoiler: in reality the infant son of Caesar and Cleopatra]], Brutus leads a night attack against the village, ordering the troops to set fire to it using ballistas. The village quickly turns into a raging inferno, and Vitalstatistix sends his wife to lead the women and children to safety on the beach while he leads the men in a counterattack. The women reach the beach...only to find Brutus waiting for them. What really makes this bad is that in the chaos, ''the women were not given any potion'', leaving them effectively defenseless.

** How easily he comes close to breaking the bond among the villagers.

** In ''Recap/AsterixAndCaesarsGift'', the titular gift: one of the soldiers who had just completed their military service and were due to receive a plot of land was a drunkard who had spent the previous night in jail for loudly insulting Caesar while drunk and disorderly, so Caesar gifted him ''the Gauls' village''.

** The effects of the potions that Getafix invents during his insanity are much more nightmarish than in the comic, where they mostly made people change skin colour (or float). The potion that cures his insanity seems to make his head explode, while the poor Roman soldier on which they test it is turned into random objects.

** In ''Recap/AsterixAndObelixAllAtSea'' he had promised admiral Crustacius, "The silliest sausage in Rome", to throw him to the lions if he failed to recover his personal galley. The ship ends up sunk, but Crustacius has been turned to stone... So Caesar has him put in the arena as a statue "In memory of the silliest Sausage in Rome", hoping the lions one day will develop a taste for granite.
*** There's an added layer for this one, because Cleopatra is present when the statue is unveiled, but while Caesar and the readers know the reasoning behind it, she isn't. It's implied by her reaction that to the outside viewer, it looks like the premiere statesman of Rome has become dangerously unhinged.

* Justforkix in ''Recap/AsterixAndTheNormans'' being surrounded by vicious looking Vikings, [[NightmareRetardant until]] their leader walks towards him and demands: "Make us scared!"

** When his neighbours realized he was getting them to fight with each other they press charges and get him thrown to the lions. At the start of the story he's in jail because ''the lions ate each other''.

** The climate on the ship bringing him to Gauls-and him getting [[ButtMonkey the pirates]] to beat each other up and sink their ship by claiming he had bough off Baba.
** How easily he comes close to break the bond among the villagers.

** In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBlackGold'', Doubleosix and Surreptitius tried to plot against Caesar, resulting in him not knowing Getafix couldn't make the magic potion until after he managed to replace an ingredient... So, as a joke on them using a trained fly to deliver messages, he has them smeared in honey and stung to death by bees. This is an actual punishment called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism Scaphism]], and a real life example of CruelAndUnusualDeath

** In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBlackGold'', Doubleosix and Surreptitius tried to plot against Caesar, resulting in him not knowing Getafix couldn't make the magic potion until after he managed to replace an ingredient... So, as a joke on them using a trained fly to deliver messages, he has them smeared in honey and stung to death by bees.

* The teenage boy in ''Recap/AsterixAndTheNormans'' being surrounded by vicious looking Vikings, [[NightmareRetardant until]] their leader walks towards him and demands: "Make us scared!"

* The storm scene in ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'' (the animated movie), when the pair is split up in the streets of Rome. Having Asterix nearly drowning in a dungeon, Dogmatix being flushed through the sewers, and Obelix desperately searching for both of them makes this easily one of the darkest moments in all ''Asterix'' history.

* ''NightmareFuel/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' has its own page.

* ''Recap/AsterixAndSon" is pretty comedic overall, but gets one ''hell'' of a MoodWhiplash near the end. Angered by the failed attempts at kidnapping the baby, [[spoiler: in reality the infant son of Caesar and Cleopatra]], Brutus leads a night attack against the village, ordering the troops to set fire to it using ballistas. The village quickly turns into a raging inferno, and Vitalstatistix sends his wife to lead the women and children to safety on the beach while he leads the men in a counterattack. The women reach the beach...only to find Brutus waiting for them. What really makes this bad is that in the chaos, ''the women were not given any potion'', leaving them effectively defenseless.