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"An Astérix Discussion Thread? These Debaters are Crazy!"

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With the verse starting to gain traction in Flashlight's buff revision and a new animated series coming to Netflix in 2025, I've decided to finally write a discussion-centered thread for one of my all-time favorite/childhood comic book series.

It does need some clean-up after all, so this thread can be used for discussing new feats, powers & abilities, canonicity, non-VS debating related stuff, news and many other things, as long as we stay under the forum rules like always.
 
Tonygameman said:
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With the verse starting to gain traction in Flashlight's buff revision and a new animated series coming to Netflix in 2025, I've decided to finally write a discussion-centered thread for one of my all-time favorite/childhood comic book series.

It does need some clean-up after all, so this thread can be used for discussing new feats, powers & abilities, canonicity, non-VS debating related stuff, news and many other things, as long as we stay under the forum rules like always.
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YESSSSS BASEDDDD
 
I was thinking, if we do Potionless/Base keys for the Gauls, sans Obélix, I was thinking it could go something like this:

  • Attack Potency: Wall Level (With the exception of Obélix, the Gauls of the village seem to be on even grounds with each other, as seen win ther very common brawls started by Unhygienix's fishes, where there's never a clear winner and they even attack each other with blunt objects, like wooden boxes, rocks, metal shields, smithing hammers and even bladed weapons. Among them, Fulliautomatix is regularly shown to bury Cacophonix into the ground by hitting him, and on one ocassion, Cacophonix was capable of returning the favor), far higher through heightened emotions (When truly angered or eager to fight, Gauls can perform feats of strength far above their normal capabilities)
  • Durability: Wall level (The Gauls from the village very commonly fight each other), likely higher (Scaling to Astérix, who can withstand friendly elbow hits from Obélix, which still carry enough power to send Astérix flying power, due to Obélix having trouble to control his own strength)
  • Speed: Athletic Human movement speed (Scaling to Astérix, who, with only an evening of training, can compete in the Olympic Games with Rome's best athletes, and isn't far behind the Greek champions), Subsonic reaction speed (Gauls have been shown to avoid and dodge the Roman army's arrows and even catapult boulders)
 
TartaChocholate said:
I was thinking, if we do Potionless/Base keys for the Gauls, sans Obélix, I was thinking it could go something like this:

  • Attack Potency: Wall Level (With the exception of Obélix, the Gauls of the village seem to be on even grounds with each other, as seen win ther very common brawls started by Unhygienix's fishes, where there's never a clear winner and they even attack each other with blunt objects, like wooden boxes, rocks, metal shields, smithing hammers and even bladed weapons. Among them, Fulliautomatix is regularly shown to bury Cacophonix into the ground by hitting him, and on one ocassion, Cacophonix was capable of returning the favor), far higher through heightened emotions (When truly angered or eager to fight, Gauls can perform feats of strength far above their normal capabilities)
  • Durability: Wall level (The Gauls from the village very commonly fight each other), likely higher (Scaling to Astérix, who can withstand friendly elbow hits from Obélix, which still carry enough power to send Astérix flying power, due to Obélix having trouble to control his own strength)
  • Speed: Athletic Human movement speed (Scaling to Astérix, who, with only an evening of training, can compete in the Olympic Games with Rome's best athletes, and isn't far behind the Greek champions), Subsonic reaction speed (Gauls have been shown to avoid and dodge the Roman army's arrows and even catapult boulders)
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That is a good start, yes. Scans would help tho; VBW's head over heels over references.
 
Hello, would like to quickly point out that the link to Obélix's teleportation ability (Twelve Tasks) leads to a dead video. Might want to fix that.
 
Also, I have several Astérix albums in my bookcase. Only, I'm not sure if they're usable since they're in Dutch (I live in Flanders).

Definitely wouldn't mind looking for English scans though.
 
Well, the stat upgrades are in now..! And quite frankly, I'm pretty happy with having upgraded a verse that's been on stasis for awhile.
 
Just finished Astérix and the Missing Scroll. Nothing really that instersting, outside how darn funny the whole story is. That said, at a point Getafix's old teacher hands them magic potion that he was storing since Getafix was a student (which must be like a billion years). This aged magic potion is far more powerful than the one recently prepared, noticeably, Asterix and Getafix who drank it outsped Obelix by a large margin and arrived at their destination a good while before.
 
Withersoul_235 said:
Why wouldn't it be?
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Don't know. I read some people hating it because it introduces science fiction and declaring it non-canon because of it. But I never found an official statement about Falling Sky being non canon. BTW, the twelve tasks is canon?
 
V-King said:
Don't know. I read some people hating it because it introduces science fiction and declaring it non-canon because of it. But I never found an official statement about Falling Sky being non canon. BTW, the twelve tasks is canon?
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Yeah, no, they're full of shit lol. I can get the disappointment behind the introduction of sci-fi, but the "clearly it's not canon" declaration is just copium. The comic book was made by one of the co-creators and nothing in it implies that it takes place in a different continuity.

I believe that Twelve Tasks is also canon, yes.
 
Withersoul_235 said:
Yeah, no, they're full of shit lol. I can get the disappointment behind the introduction of sci-fi, but the "clearly it's not canon" declaration is just copium. The comic book was made by one of the co-creators and nothing in it implies that it takes place in a different continuity.

I believe that Twelve Tasks is also canon, yes.
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Thanks! Now it's clear to me!
 
I'm telling you, Franco-Belgian comics NEEED more attention on this wiki! So much cool stuff goes under the radar here.

Edit: Shouldn't Asterix have different keys/stats for base and with the potion? Surely the potion is meant to make him far stronger? Isn't that the entire point? Then again, he scales to Obelix who is permanently potion-buffed so hmmm...
Potion-buffed Asterix = Obelix = Base Asterix? It doesn't quite add up... I find it hard to believe potionless Asterix scales to Obelix, since Obelix is supposed to be stronger than every potionless villager. But maybe the profile is only taking potion-buffed Asterix into consideration?
 
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Finished Astérix and the Gryphon. It was funny how Obélix had a relationship of sorts with one of the local warrior women. Granted it was a gag, but they had a bit of chemistry so it came kind of sweet all things considered.

I didn't really find much, but notably Astérix went the entire story without drinking magic potion, and still handled himself really well against romans, even keeping up against a gladiator champion especially sent for the mission, using his swordsmanship.
 
Started watching The Big Fight on Netflix, pretty promising so far.

A pilot/flashback episode to that young Obelix book is so adorable. And him falling into the magic cauldron caused a large shockwave from Getafix/Panoramix's house that cleared off snow around it; basically invented the potion.
 
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Yeah, a new series doesn't have much notable feats, but the final episode did have Obelix pushing a large wooden wheel structure with Gauls inside while running back to the village and caused another shockwave while fighting a potion-powered Potus. (looks bigger than the cauldron one he survived being in the epicenter as a kid)

A post-credit animated short (Mission Potager) took place during the series, with some two boars surviving a high fall from the sky (with a iconic map from the comics, hitting the magnifying glass) and being directly hit by one of the catapulted boulders that destroyed parts of those houses (as seen in one trailer).

As a note for calculators, clips came from deleted YouTube videos that were most likely cut in length to avoid copyright infringements.
 
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