Awesome / The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

• In the third task, Asterix and Obelix have to confront Cilindric the German, a gladiator known to be invincible even in spite of his small stature. Obelix of course decides to deal with him alone ...and, for the first and only time in the entire series, not only is Obelix defeated in combat, but it's a Curb-Stomp Battle. Turns out that Obelix' immense strength is no match for Judo...
  • But Judo is no match for Asterix' brain, as he doesn't even wait for Cilindric to be finished with Obelix to talk him into teaching him, and immobilizes him Human Knot style following his instructions, much to Cilindric's horror when his explanation leads him to realize he's been beaten.
  • Both matches in all their glory.
• Asterix's meeting with Iris, the Egyptian magician. It has to be seen. It eventually ends with Iris short-circuiting his eyes and hypnotizing himself into believing he's a wild boar. He runs out onto the yard to the previous people he hypnotized, believing themselves to be a cat and a bird.
  Asterix: (Seeing Iris' glowing eyes) That must be useful for reading in bed.
• In the following Task, Asterix and Obelix are challenged with eating everything put before them by the Great Chef of the Titans. A menu that includes: a roast boar with fries, a cooked flock of geese, a herd of lamb, a full school of fish, an eight dozen egg omelet, a fully roasted ox, a cow, veal (because separating families wouldn't be right), a camel, a mountain of caviar (with one piece of toast), and an elephant stuffed with olives. A whole elephant. One Gilligan Cut later, the Chef bemoans the emptiness of his kitchen, while Obelix is asking why he left before serving the main course.
  Obelix: Did anyone see where the chef went? He walked out and I only had me starters.
• Related to the above, when the duo entered the Cave of the Beast and confronted it, it Smash Cuts to a pleasant city where they found Caius Tiddlus who asked what the Beast was like. Obelix replied, "Very tasty". Obelix ate an Eldritch Abomination.
• In the eight Task, to obtain the impossible A-38 permit, Asterix cleverly deals with the unhelpful Bureaucrats of the House That Drives You Mad (Obelix himself almost goes insane) by fast-talking a couple of desk clerks into looking for the non-existent permit A-39 stipulated by the non-existent circular B-65, which causes a chain reaction to the other office workers leaving their posts to look for it throughout their own insanity-causing maze of a building. Thanks to Asterix's plan of using their own attitude against them, the entire building's workforce ends up running around, mad as hatters. The owner of the building, who was the only sane person left, gives them the permit just to make them leave, only to realize his foolishness and go insane as well.
• Asterix's angry ranting to a Roman ghost in the eleventh task because he and Obelix are exhausted after the tasks they've already completed and they need a good night's rest. The ghost ends up scared of him.
• The final task, the Circus Maximus. It’s the Gauls vs gladiators. The Gauls win no sweat. And when they send in the vicious animals the whole thing is turned into a modern circus!
• The ending. The Gauls are victorious and Caesar finally concedes naming them gods and emperors of Rome!

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