History WesternAnimation / AsterixInBritain

** The Roman fleet's friendly fire scene has sounds of ''machine guns, planes and bombs'' somehow. Similarly, the landing crafts have a bow opening like the crafts the Allies used on D-Day. And the Roman centurion who has to coordinate the fleet with hand flags produces morse code telegraph sounds.

* AnachronismStew: The Roman fleet's friendly fire scene has sounds of ''machine guns, planes and bombs'' somehow. Similarly, the landing crafts have a bow opening like the crafts the Allies used on D-Day. And the Roman centurion who has to coordinate the fleet with hand flags produces morse code telegraph sounds.

* CompositeCharacter: There's a multitude of Roman authority figures in the comic book outside of Caesar. They have more or less all been blended into General Motus.

** The Roman governor (Gaius Roideprus in French) does not appear in the film. [[CompositeCharacter His role is transferred]] to the Roman General, who's unique to the film (General Motus in French).

UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar has conquered Brittania with his Roman legions, and a small village of Britons does its best to resist. They send Anticlimax (Jolitorax in French) across the Channel into Gaul, to seek help from another village that resists Roman rule, that of Asterix, Anticlimax's first cousin once removed. Asterix and Obelix volunteer to accompany him back to his village with a barrel full of the SuperStrength magic potion made by Getafix the druid (Panoramix, in French).

UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar has conquered Brittania with his Roman legions, and a small village of Britons does its best to resist. They send Anticlimax (Jolitorax in French) across the Channel into Gaul, to seek help from another village that resists Roman rule, that of Asterix, Anticlimax's first cousin once removed. Asterix and Obelix volunteer to accompany him back to his village with a barrel full of the SuperStrength magic potion made by Getafix (Panoramix, in French).

** The landing of the Roman fleet in Britain looks a lot like D-Day (the 1944 Normandy landings). The Romans escalating the cliff also evokes the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe_du_Hoc battle of the Pointe du Hoc]], which was famously depicted in ''Film/TheLongestDay''.

!!Tropes specific to this version:

UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar has conquered Brittania with his Roman legions, and a small village of Britons does its best to resist. They send Anticlimax (Jolitorax in French) across the Channel into Gaul, to seek help from another village that resists Roman rule, that of Asterix, Anticlimax's first cousin once removed. Asterix and Obelix volunteer to accompany him back to his village with a barrel of magic potion made by Getafix (Panoramix, in French).

* RecycledSoundtrack: Vladimir Cosma reused the music he composed for the Olympic torch relay scene in ''Film/AceOfAces'' for the scene where UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar's army conquers Britain during the Britons' weekend break.

!!Tropes specific to this version, I say.

* {{Facepalm}}: Caesar has one when he sees the chaos caused by the hand flags centurion who tried to brush a seagull off (with his flags still in his hands) and ordered the fleet's catapults to fire doing so.

* {{Facepalm}}: Caesar has one when he sees the chaos caused by the hand flags centurion who tried brush a seagull off and ordered the fleet's catapults to fire doing so.

* RecycledSoundtrack: Vladimir Cosma reused the music he composed for the Olympic torch relay scene in ''Film/AceOfAces'' for the scene where Caesar conquers Britain during the Britons' weekend break.

* BoisterousBruiser: The usual argument over the quality of the local fish starts the usual brawl between the blacksmith and the fishmonger, with half the men of the village running to join in just because it's an excuse to fight. Obelix not joining in because of his suffering Roman withdrawal disrupts it, but then there's the following conversation:

* BoisterousBruiser: The film demonstrated how the whole village qualifies perfectly. The usual argument over the quality of the local fish starts the usual brawl between the blacksmith and the fishmonger, with half the village running to join in just because it's an excuse to fight. Obelix not joining in because of his suffering Roman withdrawal disrupts it, but then there's the following conversation:

** The landing of the Roman fleet in Britain looks a lot like D-Day (the 1944 Normandy landings). The Romans escalating the cliff also evokes the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe_du_Hoc battle of the Pointe du Hoc]], which was famously featured in ''Film/TheLongestDay''.

''Asterix in Britain'' (''Astérix chez les Bretons'' in French) is the French-Danish 1986 [[AnimatedAdaptation animated film adaptation]] of the [[Recap/AsterixInBritain eponymous comic book]], directed by Pino Van Lamsweerde. The soundtrack was composed by Music/VladimirCosma and the band Cook Da Books performed the theme song.

** The landing of the Roman fleet in Britain looks a lot like D-Day (the 1944 Normandy landings).

* AnachronismStew: The Roman fleet's friendly fire scene has sounds of ''machine guns, planes and bombs'' somehow. Similarly, the landing crafts have a bow opening like the crafts the Allies used on D-Day.

** The landing of the Romans in Britain looks a lot like D-Day (the 1944 Normandy landings).

* TruerToTheText: To this day, the film is perhaps the one that sticks the most to the original material, out of all the Asterix adaptations.

* AnachronismStew: The Roman fleet's friendly fire scene has ''machine guns and bombs sounds'' somehow. Similarly, the landing crafts have a bow opening like the crafts the Allies used on D-Day.

''Asterix in Britain'' is the 1986 [[animated film adaptation]] of the [[Recap/AsterixInBritain eponymous comic book]].

* RecycledSoundtrack: Music/VladimirCosma reused the music he composed for the Olympic torch relay scene in ''Film/AceOfAces'' for the scene where Caesar conquers Britain during the Britons' weekend break.

** When Anticlimax knocks on Dipsomaniax's door, he taps out the "Beethoven's Fifth" rhythm that forms the Morse code for the letter V, used to represent "victory" during World War II. Similarly, after winning the battle, Anticlimax makes the "Victory" sign with his fingers, in reference to UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.