Fridge Brilliance
- In the battle with a giant Sulfurix, the giant Roman centaur first takes all the attacks thrown at it, then hampers Sulfurix with an ear punch and then starts judo-throwing him. That's smart fighting to do a disarming move — even in a giant robot fight, using intelligence works to gain a strategic advantage. This highlights the theme through the Asterix saga that while foes can be on equal strength, intelligence always works to find an upper hand (Caesar and Asterix rely on their wits to outsmart each other, knowing that brute strength won't work with either — Caesar has his army, but Asterix has the magic potion and Obelix).
- The film gives a fairly brilliant explanation as to why the art of druidism did not survive the passage of time. There is the plot-relevant joke that most apprentice druids met on the Gauls' journey were either unable to do even the most basic of druidic tasks, one-trick ponies who couldn't do much else, or had sketchy affiliations. The only one that remained, that seemed to have any sort of future as a druid? Sulfurix ruined him. Of course, as the end of the film implies, Pectine might take that mantle, but then she would be the sole remaining druid known in the land.
- When the druids arrive at the village, the same druid Demonix froze earlier in the movie has to be carried around by another druid, since Demonix escaped the druids meeting without undoing the spell.
- The last time we heard of someone drinking an entire cauldron's worth of a potion made by a druid, the effects became permanent; yes, it was Obelix. Sulfurix did exactly that with the potion granting him fire powers...
- Even though the end of the movie shines a hopeful light on the Gaul village's future with Pectine potentially taking over as the new druid (and, we may assume, training under Getafix), there is still the possibility that the village finds itself without a druid to brew the magic potion in the near future. Well, unless the ending of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix is considered canon...
