History Recap / AsterixAndTheBlackGold

* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Doubleosix' is introduced disguised as a statue in Caesar's palace, while covered entirely in gray dust. It's surprisingly effective.

* DeusExMachina: Not revealed until the very end of the story to Asterix, Obelix and the readers, Getafix has found finding a replacement for the rock oil during Asterix's journey. And just in time before the Romans conquered the village.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Obelix falls on the skin of rock oil, spilling it into the ocean. Fortunately, Getafix found a substitute ingredient.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Doubleosix had done the job Caesar hired him for, and immediately informed Caesar the Gauls could no longer make magic potion the moment he found out, the Romans could have conquered the village before Getafix had the chance to find another way to make magic potion. Instead, he keeps this information to himself since he wants to find out the secret ingredient of the magic potion first, and doesn't tell Caesar untill both he and Surreptitius are taken captive by Asterix and Obelix, and the 2 Gauls have obtained the rock juice they needed. By then however, it's already too late for the Romans.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Doubleosix and Surreptitius are respectively modeled after actors Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/BernardBlier.

Getafix anxiously waits for Ekonomikrisis the Phoenician tradesman to arrive, because he needs some rock oil for the magic potion. As it turns out he forgot to bring it along with him, causing Getafix to go mad with anger and suffer a heart attack in the process. After calming down a bit he explains the situation and Asterix and Obelix decide to travel along with Ekonomikrisis to Judea (Israel/Palestine nowadays) to get the urgently needed fluid. Meanwhile, a Roman spy named Doubleosix travels along with them, disguised as a druid, trying to sabotage the mission...

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* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: In 50BC. Asterix is surprised the Jewish merchant Samson Alius is willing to cause so much mischief for the Romans given that his name sounds Roman. Alius responds that "Alius" is just a name he came up with for business purposes,[[note]]In other words, an ''[[PunnyName alias]]''[[/note]] his real name is the improbably Ashkenazi-sounding "Rosenblumenthalvitch".

** Doubleosix is a caricature of Creator/SeanConnery and a ShoutOut to both the ''Film/JamesBond'' and ''Series/MissionImpossible'' series (the fact he wakes up Getafix by giving him Caledonian grain liqueur - i.e. Scotch whisky - even evokes Connery's homeland). His companion in Rome, Surreptitius, is a caricature of actor Bernard Blier.

- -> “These Judeans are Crazy!”

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Invoked at the end, when Asterix asks that, in future, Getafix conduct his experiments to change the magic potion’s recipe before sending him and Obelix on an arduous quest for a lost ingredient.

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Inverted. When the oil is accidentally spilled into the ocean a sea bird gets the entire fluid sprayed upon them. The bird then shouts back: "Oh no! Don't tell me you're starting already!", referencing the oil tanker spills in the 20th century (and beyond) - more specifically, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco_Cadiz_oil_spill Amoco Cadiz one in 1978]], as the narration even mentions "the first oil spill in Brittany".

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: In 50BC. Asterix is surprised the Jewish merchant Samson Alius is willing to cause so much mischief for the Romans given that his name sounds Roman. Alius responds that "Alius" is just a name he came up with for business purposes, his real name is the improbably Ashkenazi-sounding "Rosenblumenthalvitch"

* DeusExMachina: Getafix finding a replacement for the rock oil during Asterix's journey and just in time before the Romans conquered the village.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Sure they were the villains, but seeing Doubleosix and Surreptitius smeared with honey and about to be stung to death by bees is a rather graphic image for an Asterix comic. Usually we just hear a bad guy's going to be thrown to the lions for his failure, not seeing it the second before it happens. Then again, considering this ''is'' still an ''Asterix'' comic, they'll probably just [[AmusingInjuries end up covered in lumps.]]

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: In 50BC. Asterix is surprised the Jewish merchant Samson Alius is willing to cause so much mischief for the Romans given that his name sounds Roman, Alius responds that "Alius" is just a name he came up for business purposes, his real name is the improbably Ashkenazi-sounding "Rosenblumenthalvitch"

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: In 50BC.

* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: Provides the current page image. The scroll Surreptitius gives to Doubleosix when he sets out for Gaul, and which contains his instructions, catches fire just after he read it.