He has a forceful and often violent personality, and is the villager most stridently opposed to Cacofonix's singing. He enjoys singing and playing his musical instruments, but the other villagers hate his horrible singing.įulliautomatix is the village blacksmith. Although he is fairly smart, he is useless following a trail-whenever given a trail to follow, he will find a menhir.Ĭacofonix is the village bard.
He met Asterix and Obelix in Asterix and the Banquet. He loves nature and hates it when anyone knocks down a tree. He is very tiny, but, like his master, can eat huge amounts of food. Often the central cause of Asterix and Obelix's adventures is because of him or his potion.įirst appearance: Asterix and the Banquet.ĭogmatix is Obelix's pet dog. He has the ability to brew the strength potion and many other medicines and potions. He is an old, whitebearded man who always wears a red cloak and carries a golden sickle to cut mistletoe. He has a voracious appetite for wild boar.įrench: Obélix (obelisk: a tall, narrow, four-sided, tapering monument which ends in a pyramid like shape at the top) Getafix the druid will not allow him to have any potion because of harmful side effects, something that Obelix hates and often tries to bypass. His immense strength comes from falling into a cauldron of magic potion when he was an infant. Asterix was created by writer Ren Goscinny and illustrator Albert Uderzo and debuted in 1959 in the French comic magazine Pilote. He is a tall, extremely strong, overweight menhir delivery man, and is often shown carrying one. Asterix, French Astrix, French cartoon character, a small-statured cunning Gallic warrior who, with the help of a magical strength potion, defends his village and goes on comic globe-trotting adventures. His name has never been changed by translation. Send us feedback.Asterix is a small, shrewd warrior with a love for perilous adventures.įrench: Astérix (a star). These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'asterisk.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
2017 The movie made $60 million domestically (another $40 million internationally, asterisked by the fact that this was the era before international box-office dominated performance) on a budget of $66 million.
2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The game validated all of the improvement that was asterisked by the low level of Ohio State's competition since the loss to Oklahoma. 2021 These are called manager specials or manager markdowns and often also have an asterisk on the price tag. 2021 Having a wider vision comes with experience, but everything has an asterisk with it.īrent Lang, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021 But Europe’s dependence on biomass adds an asterisk to its green credentials, critics say. 2021 An asterisk notes that team has played at least one game not sanctioned by the OHSAA. 2021 Still, that success has been accompanied by an unignorable asterisk.ĭavid Meyer, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2021 My once-perfect perception of that album now has a that-didn’t-age-well asterisk.]).
2021 An asterisk appears next to the two nominations Morgan Wallen has for this year’s American Music Awards.Ĭhris Willman, Variety, 28 Oct. Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Lil' Kim would become a footnote in hip-hop history, only mentioned as an asterisk to prop up the careers of other women in rap.