History Characters / AsterixRomans

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* {{Expy}}: Dubbelosix is based on Franchise/JamesBond (specifically Creator/SeanConnery), and Surreptitius is loosely based on his taskmaster M.

* FriendlyEnemy: Very much so; he holds no personal enmity against the Gauls, despite having the ambition to conquer their last stronghold, and his main concern is the wellbeing of Rome. Two episodes do show him being antagonistic towards them, notably ''Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield'', and ''Asterix in Belgium'' -- and in the latter he has been provoked.

* JabbaTableManners: Whenever he's seen eating, he does so with his hands and drips most of whatever he eats all over himself. It's a disgusting sight.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Subverted. Flavus knows that he only has his appointment as governor for a year, meaning he has to steal as much as he can from Rome to fund his orgies and future retirement, hoping to be far away by the time Rome catches on. His embezzlement is ''so'' extreme, however, that the Roman Senate soon sends Quaestor Vexatius Sinusitus to investigate... which Flavus had ''also'' planned for.

* CordonBleughChef: His feasts feature some truly bizarre food combinations, such as boar fat fried in beef dripping ([[RunningGag with honey]]), to the point that Sinusitus's request for a simple vegetable broth for supper is met with surprise and disgust by Varius's chef.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Subverted. Flavus knows that he only has his appointment as governor for a year, meaning he has to steal as much as he can from Rome to fund his orgies and future retirement. His embezzlement is ''so'' extreme, however, that Caesar personally sends Quaestor Vexatius Sinusitus to investigate... which Flavus had ''also'' planned for.

* FatalFlaw: Greed and Gluttony. He provides ''three coins'' as Roman taxes, hoarding the rest for himself (when he doesn't spend extravagantly on food and orgies). Both these things end up biting him, as his embezzlement is cause for Caesar to send a Quaestor to investigate, and the whole reason the Gauls are able to get involved with the plot is that he's too busy stuffing himself at yet another orgy to notice Sinusitus's aide leaving the palace to get them.

* GRatedDrug: His "orgies" only focuses on the feast part, not the sex or the drugs, for obvious reasons, since this is a comic for all ages.

* OhCrap: Has this reaction when the fully cured (and magic potion-empowered) Sinusitus storms out of Getafix's hut with a bone to pick with him.

* CordonBleughChef: His feasts feature some truly bizarre food combinations, such as boar fat fried in honey, to the point that Sinusitus's request for a simple vegetable broth for supper is met with surprise and disgust by Varius's chef.

* FatalFlaw: Greed and Gluttony. He provides ''three coins'' as Roman taxes, hoarding the rest for himself (when he doesn't spend extravagantly on food and orgies), and the whole reason the Gauls are able to get involved with the plot is that he's too busy stuffing himself at yet another orgy to notice Sinusitus's aide leaving the palace to get them.

* TheHedonist: His ambition is to make his life "one long orgy".

* JabbaTableManners / FatSlob: Eats like a slob, eats with his hands, drips most of it all over himself, it's a disgusting sight.

* PunchClockVillain: The legionnaires are mostly just soldiers paid to go out and fight. A great many regret joining the army.

* YouHaveFailedMe: He has no patience for failure and incompetence, and failing him is a good way to fed to some lions in the circus. He once put the body of his admiral who had repeatedly failed and humiliated him in the circus, despite the man having turned to stone, saying he did so just in case the lions develop a taste for granite.

* {{Determinator}}: Give credit where it's due, he doesn't give up easily and manages to turn the situation in his favor and to get the first building of the Mansion of the Gods built, despite a first beating by Asterix and Obelix and the gauls'sabotages, includingna slave revolt with them having the magic potion, the gauls growing back all the trees he and his slaves take out and Cacaphonix driving all the mansion residents out. It takes a trouncing by the gauls and them utterly destroying the Mansion of the Gods for him to finally quit.

* NonActionBigBad: Stays behind in his camp in Compendium the whole story and lets his subordinates do most of the work.

* FatalFlaw: Greed and Gluttony. He provides ''three coins'' as Roman taxes, hoarding the rest for himself (when he doesn't spend extravagantly on food and orgies)

* SuspiciousSpending: Despite his governate allegedly can only provide a pittance in taxes, Flavus openly throws huge, elaborate orgies and feasts constantly in his lavish palace. When Sinusitus points this out after his arrival, Flavus just handwaves it with the excuse that "you can do a lot with good taste".

A drunk legionary who kicks off the ''[[Recap/AsterixAndCaesarsGift Caesar's Gift]]'' story. Having (technically) served in the Roman Legion for 20 years, he's due for retirement and a land deed as a reward, but due to idiotically bad-mouthing Ceasar the night before his release in a drunken stupor, he's gifted the Gaulish village as a kind of punishment.

* TooDumbToLive: Let's see, talks shit about Ceasar, tries to sell the deed to the village he was given (which you're not allowed to do in the first place) for ''more wine'', and later tries to take it back.

* WorthyOpponent: Tends to regard the Gauls as this when they best him, often willing to reward their victories. He also considers the Belgians to be this, referring to them as "the bravest of all Gauls," an allusion to his statement of the same in his ''Commentaries on the Gallic War''.

A Roman Quaestor [[Recap/AsterixInSwitzerland tasked by the Senate]] to go over the accounts of Governor Varius Flavus due to his suspiciously low tax revenue and his claims that the Rennes region is too poor to provide any more for Rome. Unfortunately, Sunisitus underestimated the extremes Varius Flavus is willing to go to hide his corruption.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: ''Asterix the Gaul'' shows that here, Vercingetorix didn't throw his weapons ''at'' Caesar's feet, but ''on'' them.

* PunchClockVillain: The legionnaires are mostly just soldiers paid to go out and fight. [[JointheArmyTheySaid A great many regret joining the army]].

* SopisticatedAsHell: In ''Asterix In Belgium'', when news arrive about the "uprising" in Belgium, Caesar responds with his usual eloquence, only to be constantly interrupted by one of the other senators about the topic they were originally debating (salad farmers). Caesar finally runs out of patience and yells something along the lines of "Oh, STUFF the salad farmers!" The presiding senator tells the stenographer to leave that part out, as it doesn't make for a very good classical quote.