History Recap / AsterixAndObelixAllAtSea

Meanwhile, Obelix has finally recovered from his stony state - and returned to childhood! And no one is more upset about this than Obelix, as he has no super-strength, and so can't lift menhirs and only has enough appetite for a less than a single boar. Getafix refuses to try anything, as Obelix has undergone too many changes as is. Obelix decides to go live in the forest and bumps into a troop of Legionaries led by Nautilus. The vice-admiral was looking a Gaulish hostage, and decides that Obelix will do. As a child, Obelix can't bash the Romans like he wants to and is captured. Dogmatix runs back to the village for help, and leads Asterix and company to Aquarium. They bash the camp up, but Crustacius has already taken Obelix on his ship, planning to use the young Gaul as a bargaining chip to get Caesar's galley.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Spartakis is named after Spartacus.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Getafix makes two cauldrons of magic potion instead of one. He has no reason to do this beyond "just in case", and outright admits that one is plenty.
* PapaWolf: Following his turning back into a child, Obelix is kidnapped by Crustacius to be used as a hostage. The Gauls get ''pissed off''.
* ShoutOut: Spartakis is a shout-out to ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', of course. The flying cows and horses on Atlantis are a {{Homage}} to ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''.
* SlaveLiberation: What starts the album.
* TakenForGranite: Drinking too much Magic Potion in one go will turn the drinker to stone. In a unique variation, clothes are not transformed.

* AndIAmTheQueenOfSheba: A de-aged and de-powered Obelix tries to face a group of Roman soldiers and is promptly captured. One of the Romans mock the kid for trying to act like Obelix. When Obelix insists that he is Obelix, one of the legionnaire says, "And I'm Queen Cleopatra." Sadly, the joke ends there, considering that Queen Cleopatra also exists in the Asterix-verse and made an appearance in the end, we didn't see said legionnaire undergo legal name change procedure and possibly running into a royal trouble if the real deal learned someone tried to take her identity for an ill-informed claim.

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At Rome, Nautilus finds Crustacius - or his stone body, as the Admiral drank the rest of the barrel containing Magic Potion. Rome's coastal guard, seeing a pirate flag, has the galley sunk, learning only too late that it belonged to Caesar. In the end, Nautilus and the trigger-happy coast guards are made sweepers of the Colosseum. Crustacius' stone body is put in the Colosseum's center, "In memory of the silliest Sausage in Rome." Caesar hopes that the lions will someday develop a taste for granite, to the confusion of UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra|VII}}.

* YankTheDogsChain: For once, the Gauls trade fairly with the Pirates, giving them Caesar's barge as an apology for accidentally sinking their ship... and then the Pirates get thrown overboard by a potion-empowered Crustacius.

* AndIMustScream: Admiral Crustacius ends up being TakenForGranite as a result of drinking too much magic potion, and without Getafix around to turn him back to normal, he'll probably stay like that. This is notably the nearest the series ever gets to having a character KilledOffForReal (with the possible exception of Dubbleosix and M. Devius Surreptitius from "Asterix and the Black Gold", as the artwork leaves it ambiguous as to whether they're being chased by bees or just flys the last time we see them).

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The face of Spartakis is modelled after Creator/KirkDouglas.

* AndIAmTheQueenOfSheba: A de-aged and de-powered Obelix tries to face a group of Roman soldiers and is promptly captured. One of the Romans mock the kid for trying to act like Obelix. When Obelix insists that he is Obelix, one of the legionnaire says, "And I'm Queen Cleopatra."

* DudeNotFunny: In-universe; when a HurricaneOfPuns follows Obelix's stone-state, Asterix furiously demands that they show a little respect.

* ThrowTheDogABone: For once, the Gauls trade fairly with the Pirates, giving them Caesar's barge as an apology for accidentally sinking their ship...
** YankTheDogsChain: ...And then the Pirates get thrown overboard by a potion-empowered Crustacius.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Granted, we are talking about a ''magic'' potion here, but the comic completely overlooks the concept of dosage proportional to body weight when it comes to potion overdoses. To put it another way; if drinking a barrel of potion was enough to turn the adult Crustacius to stone, then drinking a similarly-sized cauldron of potion should have been enough to turn the much-smaller child Obelix to stone.

* ArtisticLisenceMedicine: Granted, we are talking about a ''magic'' potion here, but the comic completely overlooks the concept of dosage proportional to body weight when it comes to potion overdoses. To put it another way; if drinking a barrel of potion was enough to turn the adult Crustacius to stone, then drinking a similarly-sized cauldron of potion should have been enough to turn the much-smaller child Obelix to stone.

* TakenForGranite: Drinking too much Magic Potion in one go will turn the drinker to stone. In a unique variation, clothes are not transformed.