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* ''[[Asterix]]'' |
* ''[[Asterix]]'' |
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** The hapless pirates get sunk [[Once an Episode|once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed. |
** The hapless pirates get sunk [[Once an Episode|once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed. |
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*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[ |
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[wikipedia:The Raft of the Medusa|The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault. |
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** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda. |
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda. |
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** The ways the village keeps Cacofonix from singing. |
** The ways the village keeps Cacofonix from singing. |
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