History Recap / AsterixAndCleopatra

* PaperThinDisguise: Obelix tries to get some Magic Potion by disguising himself as an Egyptian worker. And the diguise consists of wearing an Egyptian cloth on his head. Getafix immediately sees through it and furiously sends him away. The Egyptian standing behind in the queue behind Obelix clearly finds the whole thing amusing.

* PaperThinDisguise: Obelix tries to get some Magic Potion by disguising himself as an Egyptian worker. And the diguise consists of wearing an Egyptian cloth on his head. Getafix immediately sees through it and sends the Gaul away.

** In the comic Edifis' scribe says he speaks all the living languages: Latin, Greek (meaning Ancient Greek) and Egyptian. Today all of these languages are dead.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Artifis, upon being confronted by Asterix and Obelix, blurts out that he thought Cleopatra threw them to the crocodiles. He claps his hand over his mouth too late - Asterix realizes at once that he's referring to the poisoned cake, which he couldn't have known about unless ''he'd'' sent said cake to frame the Gauls.

* BigBadEnsemble: Julius Ceasar and Artifis act as two separate big bads who, despite their common goal (both want to see Edifis fail) never join forces. Artifis tries to sabotage the construction by convincing the workers to go on strike, bribing the stone-delivery man to throw his load away, kidnapping Edifis, sending Cleopatra a poisoned cake and blaming the Gauls for it, and having the Gauls locked up in a pyramid. Julius Ceasar on the other hand resorts to brute force, using his soldiers to lay siege to the construction site and attack the palace with catapults.

** In the comic Edifis' scribe says he speaks all the living languages: Latin, Greek and Egyptian. Today all but one of these languages, Greek, are dead.

** In the comic Edifis' scribe says he speaks all the living languages: Latin, Greek and Egyptian. Today all these ancient languages are dead.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Obelix breaks the Sphinx's nose while climbing it.

** The album cover is a parody of the movie poster to the EpicMovie ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' with Creator/ElizabethTaylor, which came out two years before the album was published. Several scenes are also directly inspired by this film, including Cleopatra travelling on a large sphinx, pulled by slaves.

* GodzillaThreshold: Getafix normally doesn't allow Obelix to have any Magic Potion out of fear of potential side-effects but when the Gauls are trapped inside the pyramid he allows Obelix to have three drops to supercharge his strength enough to bust them out.