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* HilariousInHindsight: Maccabeus is the villain of the story, and his appearance is so cartoonisly evil it resembles [[Characters/TheLegendOfZeldaGanonGanondorf Ganondorf]] from Zelda.
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Although the Gauls doesn't appreciate him, the story doesn't treat Numerusclausus as a bad guy.
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* DesignatedVillain: Numerusclausus. The poor guy was just a civilian Roman trying to make a census of the village and the Gauls kept beating him up. They were no signs that the census would have been used for military purposes. That being said, [[SubvertedTrope they finally]] [[PetTheDog give him lenience]] at the end of the book, by suggesting the one surefire method to have a headcount: [[OnceAnEpisode the traditional banquet]].
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It's always been a RunningGag in the ''Asterix'' series to make fun of regional food, but this story set in Scotland never tries to do a joke about [[HaggisIsHorrible haggis]].
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* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story, it relaunched interest in the Asterix series following the widely panned album ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky''. Especially since Creator/AlbertUderzo decided to retire from it and trust a new team of creators who recaptured the series' original spirit. Then ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMissingScroll'' was received even better as it returned to political satire in a way that would make the late Creator/ReneGoscinny proud.
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* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story, it relaunched interest in the Asterix ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' series following the widely panned album ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky''. Especially since Creator/AlbertUderzo decided to retire from it and trust a new team of creators who recaptured the series' original spirit. Then ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMissingScroll'' was received even better as it returned to political satire in a way that would make the late Creator/ReneGoscinny proud.
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* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story, it relaunched interest in the Asterix series following the widely panned album ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky''. Especially since Creator/AlbertUderzo decided to retire from it and trust a new team of creators who recaptured the series' original spirit. Then ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMissingScroll'' was received even better as it returned to political satire.satire in a way that would make the late Creator/ReneGoscinny proud.
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* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story, it relaunched interest in the Asterix series following the lambasted widely panned album ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky''. Especially since Creator/AlbertUderzo decided to retire from it and trust a new team of creators who recaptured the series' original spirit. Then ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMissingScroll'' was received even better as it returned to political satire.
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* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story, it relaunched interest in the Asterix series following the lambasted album ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky''. Especially since Albert Uderzo Creator/AlbertUderzo decided to retire from it and trust a new team of creators who recaptured the series' original spirit. Then ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMissingScroll'' was received even better as it returned to political satire.
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* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story, it relaunched interest in the Asterix series following the very controversial lambasted album ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky''. Especially since Albert Uderzo decided to retire from it and trust a new team of creators who recaptured the series' original spirit. Then ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMissingScroll'' was received even better as it returned to political satire.
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* DesignatedVillain: Numerusclausus. The poor guy was just a civilian Roman trying to make a census of the village and the Gauls kept beating him up. They were no signs that the census would have been used for military purposes. That being said, [[SubvertedTrope they finally]] [[PetTheDog give him lenience]] at the end of the book, by suggesting the one surefire method to have a headcount: [[OnceAnEpisode the traditional banquet]].
* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story,''Asterix and the Picts'' it relaunched interest in the Asterix series following the very controversial album ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky''. Especially since Albert Uderzo decided to retire from it and trust a new team of creators who recaptured the series' original spirit. Then ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMissingScroll'' was received even better as it returned to political satire.
* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story,
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* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story, ''Asterix and the Picts'' relaunched interest in the Asterix series following the very controversial album ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky''. Especially since Albert Uderzo decided to retire from it and trust a new team of creators who recaptured the series' original spirit. Then ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMissingScroll'' was received even better as it returns returned to political satire.
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* WinBackTheCrowd: While arguably not the best story, ''Asterix and the Picts'' relaunched interest in the Asterix series following the very controversial album ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky''. Especially since Albert Uderzo decided to retire from it and trust a new team of creators who went back to recaptured the series' original spirit.spirit. Then ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMissingScroll'' was received even better as it returns to political satire.
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