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* BilingualBackfire: Happens to Rhetoric when it's discovered Getafix can speak Gothic.

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* BilingualBackfire: Happens to Rhetoric when it's discovered LanguageFluencyReveal: Speaking through his interpreter, the chief demands that Getafix can speak Gothic.brew him magic potions. Getafix refuses but the interpreter, having been threatened with death if Getafix doesn't agree, lies and says he agrees. But as Asterix and Obelix arrive to free Getafix, the interpreter is taken captive while trying to escape when the Gauls surrender. As they are brought before the chief, Getafix reveals that he fluently speaks Gothic and that the interpreter has been lying, much to the shock of the interpreter.



* TactfulTranslation: Each time Getafix refuses Metric's order to brew the magic potion for them, Rhetoric translates his answer as "Yes" to avoid angering his boss ([[ShootTheMessenger and being executed alongside him]]). Getafix, [[BilingualBackfire who speaks perfect Gothic,]] finally snaps and tells Metric that Rhetoric has been lying to him.

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* TactfulTranslation: Each time Getafix refuses Metric's order to brew the magic potion for them, Rhetoric translates his answer as "Yes" to avoid angering his boss ([[ShootTheMessenger and being executed alongside him]]). Getafix, [[BilingualBackfire [[LanguageFluencyReveal who speaks perfect Gothic,]] finally snaps and tells Metric that Rhetoric has been lying to him.
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* TakeThat: The Goths (Germans) in this story are represented as purely villains. This story was drawn only 20 years after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when anti-German sentiment was still strong. Uderzo apologized for this one-dimensional portrayal and in later Asterix stories Germans are shown far more sympathetically.

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* TakeThat: The Goths (Germans) in this story are represented as purely villains. This story was drawn only 20 years after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when anti-German sentiment was still strong.strong, also Creator/RenéGoscinny has lost some family members during Holocaust. Uderzo apologized for this one-dimensional portrayal and in later Asterix stories Germans are shown far more sympathetically.
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* PaintingTheMedium: Characters speaking Gothic have their dialogue written in a Gothic font, naturally.
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* LastRequest: During the night before their planned execution, Getafix requests to be allowed to prepare a Gaulish soup (in actuality, the Magic Potion) one last time. Metric agrees and grants him the request, with the prison guard bringing the requested ingredients to the cell.

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