History YMMV / Asterix

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqpSK7OzjU Cacofonix's song]] in ''Asterix and the Big Fight''. ([[JustifiedTrope Justified]], though, as Getafix was ''absolutely off his gourd'' when it happened.)

* JumpingTheShark: ''Asterix and the Falling Sky'' is considered as the worst Asterix album by many, for good reasons. This album has aliens from outer space, a different and far less detailed drawing style, and on top of that the album is nothing but a gigantic TakeThat to mangas in general (Uderzo himself admitted this). Arguably, since [[AuthorExistenceFailure René Goscinny death]], many critics were made on the quality of the new albums, but this one definitly cements the trope.

*** In one scene, Caesar pulls an ingenuinely creepy SlasherSmile, after pondering whether Asterix and Obelix will suvive the next task. This is immediately followed by a shot of the senators trying to hide under the table, being just as creeped out as the viewers, brilliantly lampshading this, but not quite managing to serve as NightmareRetardant .

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The storm scene in ''Asterix Versus Caesar'' (the animated movie). Having Asterix nearly drowning in a dungeon, Dogmatix being flushed through the sewers, and Obelix desperately searching for both of them makes this easily the darkest moment in all history of ''Asterix''.
** The soothsayer in ''Asterix and the Big Fight'' terrified this troper when she was a child. It's the way he cuts up a fish to tell fate from it... and then uses it as a hand puppet. It should be funny. It's not.
** The Place That Sends You Mad from ''Asterix and the Twelve Tasks'' (and an honorable mention goes to the [[SurrealHorror Cave of the Beast]] beforehand). The House itself isn't that terrifying, but seeing the effects ''is'', especially when there are some genuinely terrifying things among all of the kid-friendly crazies. Woman running down the street acting like a chicken? Hah--man, that's fun. Man with a SlasherSmile, following her with an [[AxCrazy axe]] and chopping wildly? [[NightmareFuel Oh... God.]]
*** Not to mention the eleventh task, where they have to sleep on a haunted plain. Like the Cave of the Beast it's pretty disturbing until the moment Asterix starts to argue with the centurion ghost. At which point it turns into a {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}.
*** In one scene, Caesar pulls an ingenuinely creepy SlasherSmile, after pondering whether Asterix and Obelix will suvive the next task. This is immediately followed by a shot of the senators trying to hide under the table, being just as creeped out as the viewers, brilliantly lampshading this, but not quite managing to serve as NightmareRetardant .

*** In one scene, Caesar pulls an ingenuinely creepy SlasherSmile, after pondering whether Asterix and Obelix will suvive the next task. This is immediately followed by a shot of the senators trying to hide under the table, being just as creeped out as the viewers, brilliantly lampshading this, but not quite managing to to serve as NightmareRetardant .

*** However, there was also the terribly {{Macekre}}'d German "translation" ''Siggi und Barnabas'', where the translator substituted the light-hearted humor with heavy-handed political {{Author Tract}}s. Goscinny and Uderzo quickly withdrew his publication rights.

*** In one scene, Caesar pulls an ingenuinely creepy SlasherSmile, after pondering whether Asterix and Obelix will suvive the next task. This is immediately followed by a shot of the senators trying to hide under the table, being just as creeped out as the viewers, brilliantly lampshading this, but not quite managing to to serve as NightmareRetardent .

* UnfortunateImplications

* NightmareFuel: The storm scene in ''Asterix Versus Caesar'' (the animated movie). Having Asterix nearly drowning in a dungeon, Dogmatix being flushed through the sewers, and Obelix desperately searching for both of them makes this easily the darkest moment in all history of ''Asterix''.
** The soothsayer in ''Asterix and the Big Fight'' terrified this troper when she was a child. It's the way he cuts up a fish to tell fate from it... and then uses it as a hand puppet. It should be funny. It's not.
** The Place That Sends You Mad from ''Asterix and the Twelve Tasks'' (and an honorable mention goes to the [[SurrealHorror Cave of the Beast]] beforehand). The House itself isn't that terrifying, but seeing the effects ''is'', especially when there are some genuinely terrifying things among all of the kid-friendly crazies. Woman running down the street acting like a chicken? Hah--man, that's fun. Man with a SlasherSmile, following her with an [[AxCrazy axe]] and chopping wildly? [[NightmareFuel Oh... God.]]
*** Not to mention the eleventh task, where they have to sleep on a haunted plain. Like the Cave of the Beast it's pretty disturbing until the moment Asterix starts to argue with the centurion ghost. At which point it turns into a {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}.

** It doesn't help that, despite Uderzo's claims of the contrary, it may be his last story (he's now almost 85 years old), and that, when selling his own share of Editions Albert René, he has apparently allowed for more Asterix stories to be made after his death. ''His own daughter'' [[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dont-leave-our-asterix-in-a-fix-dad-1366733.html accused him publicly on this]].

** It doesn't help that, despite Uderzo's claims of the contrary, it may be his last story (he's now almost 85 years old), and that he has apparently appointed his assistants to inherit the writing and drawing of Asterix stories after his death.

** So Cacofonix was holding out on the village all this time; he CAN sing decently!

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqpSK7OzjU Cacofonix's song]] in ''Asterix and the Big Fight''. Seriously, [[FlatWhat what]]. ([[JustifiedTrope Justified]], though, as Getafix was ''absolutely off his gourd'' when it happened.)

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments
** In ''Asterix and the Cauldron'', after Asterix is forced to leave the village and Obelix follows him.
-->'''Asterix:''' Go back to the village, Obelix. You don't have to follow me. I've been banished.\\
'''Obelix:''' Banished? Very well then, we'll be banished together! ''ManlyTears ensue''

* {{Moment of Awesome}}
** Dogmatix, drinking a life-saving drip of magic potion in the ''Asterix in Britain'' movie. Bulldog-asskicking ensues.
** Obelix (while de-aged and no longer has his SuperStrength in Obelix All at Sea) sees Asterix get knocked out. This results in him growing back to adult size and strength. Ass-kicking ensues.
** In ''Asterix and the Roman Agent'' and ''The Mansions of the Gods'', when the villagers get over their quarrels and proceed to kick ass. There's something deeply satisfying in watching the bunch getting their differences fixed by busting fools.
** Whenever Cacophonix gets invited to the big feast at the end of the book, instead of being hogtied as always. Because it always happens if the bard did something utterly badass, intentionally or not.
** Obelix's birthday in ''Obelix and Co.'' They got him a whole camp full of ''brand new Romans'', for Jupiter's sake. While they stood in the background singing "Happy Birthday", too!
** In ''Asterix and the Twelve Tasks'', Asterix's meeting with Iris, the Egyptian magician. It has to be seen. [[spoiler:It eventually ends with Iris short-circuiting his eyes and hypnotizing ''himself'' into believing he's a wild boar. He runs out onto the yard to the previous people he hypnotized, believing themselves to be a cat and a bird.]]
*** "That must be useful for reading at night."
** In ''Asterix and the Laurel Wreath'' a roman slave has our heroes thrown into prison for attempted murder of Caesar, then winds up "ab-so-lute-ly blotto" in a pub. Asterix waking him up, paired with his reaction, is the stuff of legends.
*** [[http://asteriximages.asterix.co.nz/books/laurelwreath/img18.htm Here it is.]]
** In ''Asterix and the Actress'' Obelix punches Asterix in a temper and Getafix gives Asterix some magic potion, thus causing Asterix to go ''completely insane''.

* JumpingTheShark: ''Asterix and the Falling Sky'' is considered as the worst Asterix album by many, for good reasons. This album has aliens from outer space, a different and far less detailed drawing style, and on top of that the album is nothing but a gigantic TakeThat to mangas in general (Uderzo himself admitted this).

* JumpingTheShark: ''Asterix and the Falling Sky'' is considered as the worst Asterix album by many, for good reasons. This album has aliens from outer space, a different and far less detailed drawing style, and on top of that the album is nothing but a gigantic TakeThat to mangas in general (Uderzo himself admitted this). Arguably, since René Goscinny

** [[CoruptCorporateExecutive Ekonomikrisis]], [[TheMole Dubbelosix]], and Convolvulus all fit the bill as well.

** Obelix (while de-aged and no longer has his SuperStrength in Obelix All at Sea) sees Asterix get knocked out. This results in him growing back to adult size and strength. AssKickingEnsues.

** The Place That Sends You Mad from ''Asterix and the Twelve Tasks'' (and an honorable mention goes to the [[SurrealHorror Cave of the Beast]] beforehand). The House itself isn't that terrifying, but seeing the effects ''is'', especially when there are some genuinely terrifying things among all of the [[GRatedMentalIllness kid-friendly crazies.]] Woman running down the street acting like a chicken? Hah--man, that's fun. Man with a SlasherSmile, following her with an [[AxCrazy axe]] and chopping wildly? [[NightmareFuel Oh... God.]]

* {{Moment of Heartwarming}}
** In ''Asterix and the Cauldron'', after Asterix is forced to leave the village and Obelix follows him.
-->'''Asterix:''' Go back to the village, Obelix. You don't have to follow me. I've been banished.\\
'''Obelix:''' Banished? Very well then, we'll be banished together! ''ManlyTears ensue''
* UnfortunateImplications
** Various Nubian characters appear with quite dramatically stereotyped faces, and talk in a [[FunetikAksent "Yes massa'!" faux-Southern-slave mushmouth dialect]]. This is particularly evident in the earlier books (when that kind of humour was generally more acceptable). But then, they are [[AcceptableTargets not the only ones]].
*** Note that for Baba (the black pirate lookout), this is justified as being part of the spoof of ''Le Démon des Caraïbes'', since the character he's parodying also speaks like that.
** There's also ''Asterix and the Secret Weapon'', where the character who introduces feminism to the Gauls is an unscrupulous StrawFeminist, and an all-female Roman army is defeated when the Gaulish women [[AllWomenLoveShoes build a shopping mall]].

* UnfortunateImplications: Various Nubian characters appear with quite dramatically stereotyped faces, and talk in a [[FunetikAksent "Yes massa'!" faux-Southern-slave mushmouth dialect]]. This is particularly evident in the earlier books (when that kind of humour was generally more acceptable). But then, they are [[AcceptableTargets not the only ones]].