YMMV / Asterix and the Goths

• Designated Villain: The Romans are worried because the Goths have invaded Gallia. Both Goths and Gauls pass the frontier and roam in the forest, and the Romans are completely incapable of doing anything about it. Which may be also an Historical In-Joke as it was pretty much the situation in The Migration Period, when thousands of Goths crossed the borders with the Romans unable to stop them.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Rhetoric is understandably afraid of being killed alongside Getafix if he refuses to make magic potion for Metric. Getafix can understand the Goth language and knows his predicament... and yet he straight up refuses and has no sympathy for an interpreter who fears for his life, later directly telling Metric he's been lying. Getafix comes off as a cold jerk and many a reader can't help but sympathize with Rhetoric. Apparently, you must hate the latter because... he is a Goth. He does eventually take him along when they escape and offers to help him take out the kuningaz but in his defiant stance he did cause him plenty of anguish at first.

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