History Recap / TheMansionsOfTheGods

In the seventeenth ''Asterix'' book, Goscinny and Uderzo poke fun at both urban planning and the French labour movement. It received a CGI AnimatedAdaptation in 2014, ''WesternAnimation/TheMansionsOfTheGods''.

-->'''Cacofonix''': ''("singing")'' J'aime les forêts/Dirladada/Parce qu'il y a des sangliers/Dirladada... ''(the other tenants all freak out)''[[note]]”On the first day of Solistice my true love sent to me, a wild boar in an oak tree/On the second day of Solistice my true love sent to me, two standing stones and a wild boar in an oak tree/On the third day of Solistice . . .”[[/note]]

-->'''Cacofonix''': ''("singing")'' J'aime les forêts/Dirladada/Parce qu'il y a des sangliers/Dirladada... ''(the other tenants all freak out)''

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Getafix gives the potion to the Roman slaves so they'd rise up against their masters. However, in Ancient Rome slaves were treated as persons and were even ''paid a small stipend'' so they could eventually buy back their freedom ([[PragmaticVillainy so their masters wouldn't have to pay for their upkeep in their old age]]) and the Romans executed escaped slaves, so the slaves instead demand an increase of said stipend and to be freed upon completion, and the Romans comply.

* AuthorTract: René Goscinny was highly critical of the direction urban planning had taken following the May 1968 riots, and made it a target of satire in ''The Mansions of the Gods''.[[note]]Compare to the visionary at the beginning of Asterix and the Soothsayer who says “any old thing” and the speech bubble shows a photograph of modern high-rise buildings.[[/note]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Annoyed as Asterix and Getafix are, they will not use violence against Roman civilians. Instead, they send in Cacophonix to clear them out.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Redbeard and his crew are freed and paid just like the other slaves.

** Cacofonix. He had no idea when Asterix, Getafix and Obelix arranged for him to move into the one couple's flat, that he was being used to drive out the other tenants with his singing. And while it may not have been in his friends' plan to have him evicted to accommodate the Roman legion moving into the flats, it certainly worked in their favor.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Cacofonix, in recognition of his role in destroying the flats and driving out the Romans, is allowed to take part in the banquet at the end.

* FairForItsDay: Flaturtha's leopard loincloth has a tail, which would be unacceptable today. On the other hand, he is the leader of a multinational group of slaves, he is smart enough to bargain with the Romans instead of trying to escape, and he talks the Gauls into letting the Romans finish one building so the slaves will be free.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Annoyed as Asterix and Getafix are, they will not use violence against Roman civilians. Instead, they send in Cacophonix.

* SelfServingMemory: Caesar's memory of Vercingetorix's surrender has the Gaulish chieftain kneeling pitiably at his feet as the Roman general looks on impassively. The series' "official" version of these events, as seen in ''Asterix the Gaul'' and ''Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield'', has Vercingetorix taking the order to throw his arms at Caesar's feet literally, causing Caesar to hobble off in agony.

* EveryoneHasStandards: The villagers might not particularly like Cacofonix, but the minute they discover that the Romans have evicted him from his apartment, they immediately march on the Mansions of the Gods with the express goal of totally destroying the building.

* EveryoneHasStandards: The villagers might not particularly like Cacofonix, but the minute they discover that the Romans have evicted him from his apartment -- something that Asterix and Getafix ''hadn't'' actually planned on happening, with their only goal for him being to scare away the Roman tenants -- they immediately march on the Mansions of the Gods with the express goal of totally destroying the building.