History Recap / AsterixAndCleopatra

** How Artifis managed to make a cake without eggs or flour is never explained. It's even lampshade as, just before turning out the cake (revealing it as looking quite like a normal cake), Artifis gives a wink to the viewer, as if saying "Just wait till you see our little trick !".

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The Special Iced Arsenic Cake takes this UpToEleven - the cake is made almost entirely out of poison. According to the VillainSong mentioned above, it is made out of: Strychnine, Hemlock, Paraffin, Opium, a Leech in Scum, Chopped Frog's Spawn, Arsenic, Narcotic, Castor Oil, Snake's Blood, Crushed Tadpole, Glue, Rat Poison, Cobra's Venom, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Orange Juice (For flavor)]], Mandrake Root, Moldy Fruit and Vitriol. How Artifis managed to make a cake without eggs or flour is never explained.

* AnimatedAdaptation: Released in 1968. Including...
** AdaptationExpansion: Included a second encounter with the pirates, as well as an attempt by Caesar to quietly neutralize Getafix.
** DisneyAcidSequence: "When You're Eating Well You're Well" song, which also counts as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, by the way. In the Dutch version of the film, this is a DeletedScene.
** EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pirates look different in this film than in the comics and the later animated films. The captain is taller and more muscular, and his hair is more orange than red. The lookout in the crow's nest is smaller, and the wisecracking old pirate is replaced by a parrot.
** VillainSong: "The Arsenic Cake" song from Artifis and Krukhut.

* DeletedRole: Edifis' scribe does not appear in the animated version.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: After he and his crew have been forced to take jobs as galley slaves on Cleopatra's barge, the captain expresses the unusual determination to wreak revenge on the Gauls — in his later book appearences, he simply wishes never to encounter them again.

** DisneyAcidSequence: "When You're Eating Well You're Well" song, which also counts as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, by the way. In the Dutch version of the film this is even a DeletedScene and you know what? You don't even notice it! This troper in particular only found out about it when he watched the French version.

* [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Better to Sink than Be Sunk]]: The pirates. Amounts to the same thing and saves them a few knocks.
* {{BlackFace}}: The animated version has the black pirate in the pirate's nest turn white of fear when he sees the Gauls appear. This gag has been removed nowadays.

* BlackFaceGag: The animated version has the black pirate in the pirate's nest turn white of fear when he sees the Gauls appear. This gag has been removed nowadays.

** DisneyAcidSequence: "When You're Eating Well You're Well" song, which also counts as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, by the way. In the Dutch version of the film this is even a MissingScene and you know what? You don't even notice it! This troper in particular only found out about this extra scene in the original when he watched the French version and it really doesn't add anything to the plot.

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

** DisneyAcidSequence: The "When You're Eating Well You're Well" song.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: After he and his crew have been forced to take jobs as galley slaves on Cleopatra's barge, the captain expresses the unusual determination to wreak revenge on the Gauls — in his later book appearences, he simply wishes never to encounter them again

** BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The "When You're Eating Well You're Well" song, as well as the "Cleopatra Lovely Queen" song.

* CardboardPrison: Cleopatra's prison can't keep Obelix in or out any longer than he feels like it (Then again, what prison could?).

* RecliningReigner: Ceasar lies on a reclined seat and eats chicken at the beginning.

* CutASliceTakeTheRest: Obelix divides the poisoned cake into three pieces- two little ones for Asterix and Getafix, and one large one for himself! ("You greedy pig!" mutters Asterix)

* {{Stinger}}: After the traditional banquet, there's a panel that shows Vitalstatistix berating Obelix for making menhir's shaped like obelisks.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The Special Iced Arsenic Cake takes this UpToEleven - the cake is made almost entirely out of poison. According to the VillainSong mentioned above, it is made out of: Strychnine, Hemlock, Paraffin, Opium, Lichen Scum, Chopped Frog's Spawn, Arsenic, Narcotic, Castor Oil, Snake's Blood, Crushed Tadpole, Glue, Rat Poison, Cobra's Venom, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Orange Juice (For flavor)]], Mandrake Root, Moldy Fruit and Vitriol. How Artifis managed to make a cake without eggs or flour is never explained.

[[Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]] has insulted {{Cleopatra}} by saying that the Egyptians have become decadent. To prove him wrong, Cleopatra declares that she will have a palace for him built within three months. The Queen of the Nile warns her architect Edifis that if he fails to make the three-month time limit, he will be fed to the crocodiles. Since such a thing would not be possible without magic, Edifis goes to Gaul and enlist the aid of his friend Getafix, with Asterix, Obelix, and Dogmatix along for the ride.

** DisneyAcidSequence: The "When You're Eating Food You're Well" song.

JuliusCaesar has insulted {{Cleopatra}} by saying that the Egyptians have become decadent. To prove him wrong, Cleopatra declares that she will have a palace for him built within three months. The Queen of the Nile warns her architect Edifis that if he fails to make the three-month time limit, he will be fed to the crocodiles. Since such a thing would not be possible without magic, Edifis goes to Gaul and enlist the aid of his friend Getafix, with Asterix, Obelix, and Dogmatix along for the ride.

* CleoptraNose: Cleopatra is drawn with a huge pointy nose and her fame rests on it. Throughout the book, characters (including Caesar) comment on how she has a pretty nose.

** DisneyAcidSequence: The 'When You're Eating Food You're Well' song.
** VillainSong: The Arsenic Cake song from Artifis and Krukhut.

* {{Stinger}}: After the traditional banquet, there's a panel that shows Vitalstatistix berating Obelix for making menhir's shaped like obelisks.

* CutASliceAndTakeTheRest: Obelix divides the poisoned cake into three pieces- two little ones for Asterix and Getafix, and one large one for himself! ("You greedy pig!" mutters Asterix)