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It is the last ''Asterix'' film to be made using traditional animation to this day, with the next one, ''WesternAnimation/TheMansionsOfTheGods'', [[ShiftedToCGI shifting to full CGI]].

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It is the last ''Asterix'' film to be made using traditional animation to this day, with the next one, ''WesternAnimation/TheMansionsOfTheGods'', ''WesternAnimation/AsterixTheMansionsOfTheGods'', [[ShiftedToCGI shifting to full CGI]].
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* ClassicalMusicIsBoring: During the banquet given in his honor, Justforkix protest when he hears Celtic music, saying this dates back from Antiquity. The background music then switch to 21th century pop music, and Justforkix pushes others Gauls to dance accordingly.
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** Downplayed with the vikings. While they were feared warriors in the comics, they were still no match for the Gauls and their magic potion, and were beaten almost as handily as the Romans. In the movie, however, they are able to take a lot of punishment from Asterix and Obelix, being able to shrug off several hits, forcing the two to fight more seriously.

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** Downplayed with the vikings. While they were feared warriors in the comics, they were still no match for the Gauls and their magic potion, and were beaten almost as handily as the Romans. In the movie, however, they are able to take a lot of punishment from Asterix and Obelix, being able to shrug off several hits, forcing even landing on their feet after being punched into the two to fight more seriously. air. Asterix even gives a slightly nervous "whoa" look when they don't immediately go down.
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* AerithAndBob: The characters taken from the original ''Asterix and the Normans'' all have their original PunnyNames, as does new villain Cryptograf, but other {{Canon Foreigner}}s Abba and Olaf have quite normal names.

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* AerithAndBob: The characters taken from the original ''Asterix and the Normans'' all have their original PunnyNames, as does new villain Cryptograf, but other {{Canon Foreigner}}s Abba and Olaf have quite normal names.names (though Abba's name is likely a ShoutOut to Music/{{ABBA}}).
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* UnseenNoMore: In the comics, Doublehelix was TheGhost, mentioned but never seen either in the album Recap/AsterixAndTheNormans, or in later ones. He makes his first physical apparition in this movie, and he's fleshed out by adding the detail that he was a war hero. Given that he wanted his son to toughen up, you could guess Doublehelix was himself a badass.

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* UnseenNoMore: In the comics, Doublehelix was TheGhost, mentioned but never seen either in the album Recap/AsterixAndTheNormans, or in later ones. He makes his first physical apparition in this movie, and he's fleshed out by adding the detail that he was a war hero. Given that he wanted his son to toughen up, you could guess Doublehelix was himself a badass. He looks [[StrongFamilyResemblance very much like Vitalstatistix]], except taller and more muscular.



* YouthfulFreckles: Abby has these to emphasize her youth.

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* YouthfulFreckles: Abby Abba has these to emphasize her youth.
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* HornyVikings: All of the Viking warriors have horned helmets.

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* HornyVikings: All of the Viking warriors have horned helmets.helmets, and they are all brutish warriors who don't know the meaning of fear.
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* HeirClubForMen: A major plot point is that the chief has no male heir, therefore [[HeirInLaw whoever marries his daughter is the next in line]], which is why the cleric Cryptograf wishes his son Olaf to marry Abba.
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* BigEater: Obelix stocks up with dozens of fried boars for the journey to the Viking lands, only to eat all of them in a single day and starve for the rest ot the journey.

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* HeirInLaw: How Viking society works if the chief only have a daughter. Thus [[EvilChancellor Cryptograf]] whishes his son could be this, and himself would see his status improves by being the chief's father. And he would be the defacto 's ruler as Olaf 's stupidity will led him to be a PuppetKing.

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* HeirInLaw: How Viking society works if the chief only have a daughter. Thus [[EvilChancellor Cryptograf]] whishes his son could be this, and himself would see his status improves by being the chief's father. And he would be the defacto 's ''the de facto'' ruler as Olaf 's stupidity will led him to be a PuppetKing.


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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: PlayedForLaughs; Timeandahalf and Vikea appear to be HappilyMarried despite the fact that he kidnapped her against her will. At Olaf and Abba's wedding they're fondly reminiscing about her struggling during the kidnapping and nearly biting off her future husband's finger. Surprisingly, there's no joke about "Stockholm syndrome" despite the obvious Scandinavian pun.
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* CreativeClosingCredits: The ending credits are displayed alongside a storyboard of what happened after the wedding (including a ParentalBonus moment, see below).

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* CreativeClosingCredits: The ending credits are displayed alongside a storyboard of what happened after the wedding (including a ParentalBonus moment, see below).below), looking like paintings on Viking runestones.
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* InstantMessengerPigeon: Justforkix has a pet pigeon he calls "SMS", using it to deliver messages while [[PhoneaholicTeenager holding it as a cell phone]].

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* InstantMessengerPigeon: Justforkix has a pet pigeon he calls "SMS", using it her to deliver messages while [[PhoneaholicTeenager holding it her as a cell phone]].



* PhoneaholicTeenager: Parodied with Justforkix, who calls his InstantMessengerPigeon "SMS" and spends a lot of time using it to send messages to girls.

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* PhoneaholicTeenager: Parodied with Justforkix, who calls his InstantMessengerPigeon "SMS" and spends a lot of time using it her to send messages to girls.



* YoungerAndHipper: Justforkix is not any younger than his comic book counterpart, but the comic book was published in TheSixties, when Music/TheBeatles and Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} were all the rage, and it translated in him using Cacofonix's lyra like a guitar and "singing" accordingly, per Creator/ReneGoscinny's AnachronismStew-based humor to reflect his time, and it became an [[invoked]]UnintentionalPeriodPiece after several decades passed. The film was made at the TurnOfTheMillennium, and thus the music used in his sequences has changed accordingly to fit modern audiences, from RockAndRoll to a modern remix of Kool & the Gang's "Get Down On It". Also, he now uses [[InstantMessengerPigeon messenger pigeons]] as "Short Message System".

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* YoungerAndHipper: Justforkix is not any younger than his comic book counterpart, but the comic book was published in TheSixties, when Music/TheBeatles and Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} were all the rage, and it translated in him using Cacofonix's lyra like a guitar and "singing" accordingly, per Creator/ReneGoscinny's AnachronismStew-based humor to reflect his time, and it became an [[invoked]]UnintentionalPeriodPiece after several decades passed. The film was made at the TurnOfTheMillennium, and thus the music used in his sequences has changed accordingly to fit modern audiences, from RockAndRoll to a modern remix of Kool & the Gang's "Get Down On It". Also, he now uses his [[InstantMessengerPigeon messenger pigeons]] pigeon]] as "Short Message System".
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* TheBrute: While all Vikings (except for Cryptograf) are big and brutish, Olaf is bigger and dumber than any of them.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Vikings are presented as very sexist even by the standards of the time period. Chief Timeandahalf says that the Viking way of proposal is to bash a woman in the head and [[ByTheHair drag her by the hair]].

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Vikings are presented as very sexist even by the standards of the time period. Chief Timeandahalf says that the Viking way of proposal is to bash a woman in the head and [[ByTheHair drag her by the hair]].hair]], and he mistreats his daughter Abba, forbidding her to join the raids and forcing her to marry Olaf as a reward.

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* OfficialCouple: Abba and Justforkix.



* OfficialCouple: Abba and Justforkix.

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* OfficialCouple: Abba and Justforkix.RealMenEatMeat: The very manly Gauls (in particular [[BigEater Obelix]]) have an appetite for boar, whereas the skinny, wimpy Justforkix is a vegetarian.
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* InstantMessengerPigeon: Justforkix has a pet pigeon he calls "SMS", using it to deliver messages while [[PhoneaholicTeenager holding it as a cell phone]].

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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Abba and Justforkix.
* MsFanservice: Abby is very curvy and beautiful, and wears a minidress-like tunic that leaves her shoulders and legs bare.

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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Abba is a fierce and Justforkix.
tough girl who wants to be a warrior. Justforkix is a skinny, wimpy boy who [[RealMenEatMeat is a vegetarian]] and prefers to party.
* MsFanservice: Abby Abba is very curvy and beautiful, and wears a minidress-like tunic that leaves her shoulders and legs bare.



* PolitiallyIncorrectVillain: The Vikings are presented as very sexist even by the standards of the time period. Chief Timeandahalf says that the Viking way of proposal is to bash a woman in the head and [[ByTheHair drag her by the hair]].

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* PolitiallyIncorrectVillain: PhoneaholicTeenager: Parodied with Justforkix, who calls his InstantMessengerPigeon "SMS" and spends a lot of time using it to send messages to girls.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
The Vikings are presented as very sexist even by the standards of the time period. Chief Timeandahalf says that the Viking way of proposal is to bash a woman in the head and [[ByTheHair drag her by the hair]].

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* MsFanservice: Abby is very curvy and beautiful.

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* MsFanservice: Abby is very curvy and beautiful.beautiful, and wears a minidress-like tunic that leaves her shoulders and legs bare.



* PolitiallyIncorrectVillain: The Vikings are presented as very sexist even by the standards of the time period. Chief Timeandahalf says that the Viking way of proposal is to bash a woman in the head and [[ByTheHair drag her by the hair]].



*** His wife's name is Vikea.

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*** His wife's name is Vikea.Vikea, and she likes furniture that is easy to assemble.


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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Doublehelix looks like a taller and more muscular version of Vitalstatistix.
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''Asterix and the Vikings'' (''Astérix et les Vikings'' in French) is a 2006 French-Danish animated film directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Jesper Møller, the second to be recorded in English, after 1994's ''WesternAnimation/AsterixConquersAmerica'' , based on the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' comic books and stars the voices of Creator/SeanAstin, Creator/BradGarrett, Creator/PaulGiamatti and Creator/EvanRachelWood. It mainly adapts ''Recap/AsterixAndTheNormans'', with a part lifted from ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGreatCrossing'' (which also involved Norsemen).

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''Asterix and the Vikings'' (''Astérix et les Vikings'' in French) is a 2006 French-Danish animated film directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Jesper Møller, the second ''Asterix'' film to be recorded in English, after 1994's ''WesternAnimation/AsterixConquersAmerica'' , based on the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' comic books and stars the voices of Creator/SeanAstin, Creator/BradGarrett, Creator/PaulGiamatti and Creator/EvanRachelWood. It mainly adapts ''Recap/AsterixAndTheNormans'', with a part lifted from ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGreatCrossing'' (which also involved Norsemen).
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