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* AwkwardCollarPull: Spurius Brontosaurus tugs the collar of his uniform (complete with his face turning red and some nervous sweat) when he sees Asterix and Obelix brought Pepe, the son of Iberian chief Huevos y Bacon, back to Spain (the boy was supposed to be in Gaul as a hostage of the Romans).
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are a few references to UsefulNotes/TheFrancoRegime in the comic. The first one is that Asterix and Obelix must be extra careful when crossing the Spanish border, which of course didn't exist in Roman times. This references the smuggling that existed on the border in the 1960s. The Roman legionaries in Spain wear uniforms consisting of a blue tunic and red scarf, reminiscent of the Falange's blue jacket and red beret, and unlike the green fatigues used by all other Romans in the series (this number's Gaul section included). Finally, also uniquely in the series, Spain is run by an unnamed general when the Gauls arrive, despite Caesar himself appearing and antagonizing Pepe's father in person at the beginning of the comic.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are a few references to UsefulNotes/TheFrancoRegime in the comic. The first one is that Asterix and Obelix must be extra careful when crossing the Spanish border, which of course didn't exist in Roman times. This references the smuggling that existed on the border in the 1960s. The Roman legionaries in Spain wear uniforms consisting of a blue tunic and red scarf, reminiscent of the Falange's blue jacket and red beret, and unlike the green fatigues used by all other Romans in the series (this number's album's Gaul section included). Finally, also uniquely in the series, Spain is run by an unnamed general when the Gauls arrive, despite Caesar himself appearing and antagonizing Pepe's father in person at the beginning of the comic.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are a few references to UsefulNotes/TheFrancoRegime in the comic. The first one is that Asterix and Obelix must be extra careful when crossing the Spanish border, which of course didn't exist in Roman times. This references the smuggling that existed on the border in the 1960s. The Roman legionaries in Spain wear uniforms consisting of a blue tunic and red scarf, reminiscent of the Falange's blue jacket and red beret, and unlike the green fatigues used by all other Romans in the series (this number's Gaul section included). Finally, also uniquely in the series, Spain is run by an unnamed general when the Gauls arrive, despite Caesar himself appearing and antagonizing Pepe's father in person at the beginning of the comic.
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* TorosYFlamenco: Obviously. In typical ''Astérix'' fashion, both titular ones make a direct appearance despite the centuries older setting.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Brontosaurus quits the army to become the first torero after surviving his bout with an auroch.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Brontosaurus quits the army to become the first torero after surviving his bout with an auroch.aurochs.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When Asterix tells Vitalstatistix that the villagers are having a fight, he immediately comes out and reprimands them. In later comics, he would certainly take part in it himself. Granted, part of it was that he didn't want them fighting in front of a child, but he didn't know about that at first, and in later albums it's doubtful he would care.
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* LostInTranslation: A two-panel scene depicts Julius Caesar publicly pardoning a captured barbarian chief he has just been parading before the Roman public, after receiving much applause from everyone (including the prisoner!). This was done for a Caesar-relevant pun that only works in French: when asked what Caesar is doing, one of the bystanders explains "il affranchit le rubicond" ("he is freeing the red(head)"). Which is almost the same, in French, as "il a franchi le Rubicon" ("he has crossed the Rubicon"), one of Caesar's most famous historical deeds, and the one that started the civil war that Caesar is now returning victorious from. In translated versions, this was completely lost; while the English version was fairly amusing in providing the excuse for a few puns about having a "captive audience" or the chief being "clapped in irons", it seemed to serve no other purpose than being a page filler (it served as the last two panels on the page it appeared on).
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Brontosaurus quits the army to become the first toreador after surviving his bout with an auroch.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Brontosaurus quits the army to become the first toreador torero after surviving his bout with an auroch.
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* BroughtDownToBadass: Having lost his magic potion doesn’t make Asterix any less badass, as he singlehandedly fights off an enraged bull. It earns him the respect of the crowd, including a noblewoman who the red cloak Asterix used (and subsequently saved) belonged to, who has him pardoned.
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* BroughtDownToBadass: Having lost his magic potion doesn’t make Asterix any less badass, as he singlehandedly fights off an enraged bull. It earns him the respect of the crowd, including a noblewoman who the whose red cloak Asterix used (and subsequently saved) belonged to, saved), who has him pardoned.
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* EnfanteTerrible: Wherever and whoever he is with, Pepe causes trouble. Even his own father points out that his son captured as a Roman hostage is bound to give the Romans more trouble than they bargained for, calling it his one consolation over the event.
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* LazyMexican: Asterix visits Spain, where several jokes are made about the supposed Spanish laziness. At one point, for instance, they travel over a bad road. Asterix complains about it, but his Spanish companion tells him: "Yeah, it's bad now, but in a few years you'll see it will be much better." As he says this there is one Spaniard calmly working on the road, all by himself. The underlying joke is that even today Spanish roads are still bad and the authors suggest it is because the Spaniards are just too lazy to do something about it.
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* YouShallNotPass: Said word for word by Pepe as he single handedly tries to stop Caesar and some of his soldiers, armed with nothing but a slingshot. It’s how he ends up captured by the Romans.
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* YouShallNotPass: Said word for word by Pepe as he single handedly tries to stop Caesar and some of his soldiers, armed with nothing but a slingshot. It’s how he ends up captured by the Romans.Romans.
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* BratsWithSlingshots: Pepe dings Caesar twice with his.
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* BratsWithSlingshots: Pepe dings Caesar twice with his.his (although while definitely a brat, he's actually armed with a [[SufferTheSlings sling]], not a slingshot).
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* HistoricalInJoke: Unhygienix demands to be paid in menhirs for the renting of his boat, because he needs to lay out
a plot in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_stones Carnac]].
a plot in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_stones Carnac]].
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* HistoricalInJoke: Unhygienix demands to be paid in menhirs for the renting of his boat, because he needs to lay out
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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: The noble-woman who pardons Asterix is Caesar's half-sister of a cousin by marriage.
* HistoricalInJoke: Unhygienix demands to be paid in menhirs for the renting of his boat, because he needs to layout out
a plot in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_stones Carnac]].
* HistoricalInJoke: Unhygienix demands to be paid in menhirs for the renting of his boat, because he needs to lay
a plot in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_stones Carnac]].
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For the fourteenth ''Asterix'' album, Goscinny and Uderzo's satirical eyes turn to France's neighbours over the Pyrenees: the Spaniards.
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For the fourteenth ''Asterix'' album, Goscinny and Uderzo's satirical eyes turn to France's [[UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} neighbours over South of the Pyrenees: the Spaniards.
Pyrenees mountains]].
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* ShoutOut: When Cacofonix is asked to sing Pepe a lullaby, he sings “I’m dreaming of a white solstice”.
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* ShoutOut: When Cacofonix is asked to sing Pepe a lullaby, he sings [[HoldYourHippogriffs “I’m dreaming of a white solstice”.]]
