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But who's the hunter?Asterix by Uderzo, for Dargaud.
Well, this cartoon will only make sense for Europeans. I don't think Asterix is well known outside of it. Oh well.
So, as promised, every 2 months I'd do an animation on request for one of my patreons and I only got one request: Asterix.
So congrats to be the only one to ask.
Luckely I could figure out an idea for a cartoon.
As for the actual Patreon cartoons I'm making, still work in progress. Alas.
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XDXDXD Geniaal!
I love Asterix, too, I wonder why Goscinny and Uderzo never thought about such an eventuality
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Probably too dark, but yeah, it's a shame. Could be interesting.
Closest we get are the life action movies having them fight other super-powered Romans, and the Viking animation where the Vikins are so tough they can actually take Obelix's punches.
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Yeah, I mean, in all the stories I read wild boars never tried to resist Asterix and Obelix, to the utmost, they always run away from them
Yet, I remember that in the 34th book, "De verjaardag van Asterix & Obelix: Het guldenboek", at about the finale they show some ideas suggested by readers, like a darker version of the two protagonists, so in that case it could have worked
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Oh yeah, that looked cool
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That was one unexpected cartoon of Asterix and Obelix. 
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That's karma.
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No problem, keep up the good ol work, never getting tired of them.
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i dont know here in mexico asterix is know or not but i remember watching its movies when i was kid, the only one i remember is the one were they go to egypt.
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that one had catchy songs
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Wow, this was such a throwback for me. I may American, but I can say that Tintin and Asterix was my childhood growing up, and so the fact that this animation stayed so faithful to the original comics delighted me very much (caught the reference of the boar's feet fluttering like Asterix's does and the campfire scene was brilliant).
Heard there was a CGI Asterix movie that just came out in France a couple of years back! I've been wanting to see it but I don't know how I can get a copy here in the states.
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I don't even see copies of that movie here.
It's pretty rare.
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Really? Huh. In that case, I might have to keep waiting a while.
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Looks like the boars got the revenge they deserve. Yow.
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Yeah, always feelsorry for them, especially when the cartoons/ comics go out of their way to show the boars have an awareness of the situation.
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Yeah,it's a sad damn shame indeed,bro.
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The source material is a movie, right? Because now I want to watch it.
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"A movie"?
Hah, make that about 8 animated movies, 4 life action movies, 30+ graphic novels, and so on and so on.
I suppose the 1985 animated feature "Asterix versus caesar" is the closest to this parody, since i used most of the soundtrack for it.
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Wait... 4 action movies? I only knew of two...
Damn, I am late to the party.
Maybe they just stopped advertising the movies like a big thing. The second movie already felt rather lackluster to me. Using rather different humor than the first one. Not very "mainstream" kind of humor. Or so I felt.
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yeah, the second movie is really weird with their anime jokes and all that.
Didn't like any of the life action movies much, a bit too weird and mean spirited.
But yeah, there's 4. First one based on a bunch of random stories around Asterix's village, second about Asterix in Egypt, third about the Olympic games and fourth about Brittain.
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I see... And is the 3rd and 4th movie more similar to the first or the second?
I liked the first more because it was more... "grounded". For me, it was perfect mix between animated logic and movie logic. It had the ideas from the animated media, yet it translated them rather well to the real world looking environment. In the second movie, I could kind of feel that the dialogs were meant to be delivered by animated characters. The lines were awkward at times. And it looked like theΒ embarrassing lines themselves were supposed to be the joke, but when you don't have animated characters making extreme facial expressions and performing physically impossible feats, it completely loses its punch. For example, the dialogs between Numerobis and his secretary Papyris (found on google, hopefully it's that character, I don't remember well) were really weird. Overly prolonged, based on one character constantly misspeaking or misinterpreting the other... and those dialogs had no real consequences other than wasting time. I think that one of the frequent jokes was Papyris talking about something completely irrelevant and outside of interest of all of his listeners... and the joke was that it was annoying I suppose? Then you had the scene where Asterix, Obelix and Panoramix eat the cake off screen. That was really weird, since the cake was oversized, and didn't really look like a real cake. It looked like it leaked there directly from the animated series. It was unfitting. And the joke where Asterix and Panoramix took "small" slices of the cake while Obelix took the rest of it didn't really work, as even those slices were like 100x bigger than what a normal man could eat. The first movie in this department managed to make the world look real. It managed to build it and develop it. We were there as an audience to discover it from the very beginning unfolding in front of our eyes. In the second movie, everything was just presented as it had just always been there. And it felt weird because it was much more cartoonish than in the first movie.
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Good question.. Problem is, I skipped the third movie and watched the 4th movie in french with no subtitles because it was on a plane and had nothing else to do. So I can't tell.
But yeah, I see what you mean.
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Wow... so it's a franchise?? That's awesome!
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The best thing about your parodies is that the jokes make sense, even when the viewer isn't familiar with the series you're making fun of. That's a sign of great parody skills!Β
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Really? I was worried about this one.
So much that I had planned a scene explaining the concept of their super potion first.
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Yeah, it totally made sense! Two vikings hunt the boars, boar drinks the potion stash, boar gets buff, and the boars feast on vikings. Simple and effective.
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Heh. Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
Nice touch on the Gallien's facial expressions being more subdued, less "GAAAAAH eyes pop out of their skulls", felt more natural for them.
Thinking of Asterix and Oberlix reminds me of, how I used to wonder what an "Asterix and Oberlix time travel to the present" comic would have been like when I was a kid. 
"These future people are crazy, always with their smart phones and autonomous self-driving googly cars and internets and lolcats...!"
...Yeah, I never knew about that "Asterix and Oberlix meet aliens" comic, that would've been right up my kid-self's alley.
Also, of course, if they brought the magic elixer with them to the future, their nemesis would have to be some mad scientist ... not that he cares about actually drinking the medicine, but reverse engineering the potion instead.
Use it for science!
ok maybe the twist would be that the scientist isn't actually evil after all, just excentric and likes laughing maniacally a lot 
I mean, who knows what kind of applications a magic potion could have in present day? How it could revolutionize our understanding of science! Medicine! Stuff! 
...Which reminds me of the scene in "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality " where they try using magic to invent an alzheimer's cure .
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Not sure if the Super potion would be used that much.
Maybe see what happens if a person is paralized and lost their ability to move their limbs, if it would have an effect.
Other then that, outside of criminals trying to get to it for murder and theft, the only application for it would be in construction, Asterix in Egypt style.
Then again, the Druid has way more magic potions. Curing poison, instant trees growing, beard growing...
Bound to be some interesting stuff.
Also I remember another comic where a kid in modern times was throwing in random ingriedients in a cauldron, play acting as if he was Getafix, then getting sick from drinking his own random potion.
Then when the mom calls a doctor, the doctor looks exactly like Getafix from the comics and is also seen brewing his own medecine with weird ingriedients, sending the kid in a panic again.
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"Maybe see what happens if a person is paralized and lost their ability to move their limbs, if it would have an effect."
...Steven Hawking with super-strenght.
"Then when the mom calls a doctor, the doctor looks exactly like Getafix from the comics"
Was that, per chance, a collection of short comics by different artists, made to celebrate the birthday of Asterix and Oberlix, or maybe its creator, and called "Uderzo", or something?
Because if that's the case then I read that, once. But the comic got lost, and I can't even find it online anywhere since it's virtually un-googlable.
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Nah, it's from Petit Spirou, has nothing to do with Asterix, it was just a one comic cameo.
This series:
www.bedetheque.com/media/Couveβ¦
And this is the one scan of the Panoramix comic I could find online:
3.bp.blogspot.com/-7sHxxx7lQBIβ¦
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Yikes! That was a severe role-reversal there!
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That's what they get for cheating with magic potion.
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Well, getting beaten-up by a buff boar was funny enough by itself... but then that ending with them being roasted... that was horrifying...
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You can look at it this way, the boars didn't do anything the gauls wouldn't have done to THEM.
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Not really the most comfortable reasoning...
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No.
Well, my apologies if I made you too uncomfortable then. It is a little dark.
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No problem - I guess I don't go for the dark humour like many people these days.
I seem to walk this fine line of slapstick humour where I can laugh when beloved characters can suffer humiliating "amusing injuries", but it kinda crosses the line when they get brutally killed or something...
Like I can watch fan-cartoons of Papyrus making an ass of himself, but I don't really like the Genocide-themed ones unless it has Chara get their comeuppance somehow...
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Yeah, I see what you mean. Makes sense.
My intention with this cartoon wasn't so much to have the punchline to be "haha, Asterix and Obelix are dead"
It's just about the reversing of the typical ending of their comics into this new context. So yeah, it's not the tragedy iself that's the joke, more that the outcome of the cartoon flips their traditional ending upside down.
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Yeah, I get the idea...
Maybe for seconds, the boars could conquer Rome too...
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LOOOOOOOL!!! 
Asterix was one of my favorite comics in my childhood. This video has a special meaning for me
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Come to think of it, given how over the course of comic nearly everyone and their mother got to take a sip of that super secret magic potion, it seems that only you managed to bring it to a logical conclusion - one that was never explored by Asterix team.
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Wasted potential yeah, altough I suppose the gang facing actual danger doesn't seem to fit with the Asterix style.
Only the life action movies had them face super powered opponents it seems, the comics or animation never did.
But I did like in the Asterix and the Vickings movie that the vickings could withstand Obelix's punches and fight back. Too bad the movie never did much with it, being too obsessed with it's lame Romeo and Julliette plot.
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Man, I remember reading these as a kid. Takes me back.
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Asterix was my chilhood, but it's only now I understand how funny those comics really are. My favorites are Asterix the Legionary, The Mansions of the Gods, Asterix the Gladiator and Asterix at the Olympic Games. However, not all of them translate well into movies, especially not Asterix the Legionary. There are three kinds of Asterix movies, the ones that follow the comic book down to the tiniest detail, the ones that combine multiple comic books into one story and the sucky live action movies that barely have anything to do with the source material. And the animated ones have this weird tendency to have trippy musical numbers where you have no idea what's going on. The only exceptions I know of are The Twelve Tasks of Asterix which is a completely original story, Asterix and the Vikings which is based on Asterix and the Normans, but adds some love arc for Justforkix and the recent movie based on Mansions of the Gods which was really good, probably the best of them all.
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