Asterix makes quick work of it with the magic potion.
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Bears Are Bad News: The evil medicine man unleashes a vicious grizzly on Asterix as he comes to free Getafix.Leading the medicine man to say such things as "Minnesota Manitoba MIAMI!". As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The Natives talk using a random mix of North American place names that were taken from words in the languages of the actual tribes that lived in those regions.There's also a short lived love story with Obelix, instead of Obelix trying to flee marriage with her in the comics. Obelix saving her from a buffalo stampede is the key to gain the trust of the villagers, and she has a personal score to settle with the evil medicine man, which she does with a bit of Getafix's magic potion. The Chief's Daughter, whose personality is more fleshed out along with the Adaptational Attractiveness.Here, they cause the conflict by abducting Getafix, and come very close to finally bringing the Gaulish village to its knees. Also the Romans, who in the comic only appeared at the start of the story and are not on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle.Here, he is abducted by the Romans and ends up in North America along with Asterix and Obelix. In The Great Crossing, he stayed in the village and only appeared at the very beginning and very end of the comic. Art Shift: There's a brief switch to CGI during the chase on the Atlantic ocean.Artistic Licence History: Romans did not believe in the Flat World theory.Artistic Licence - Geography: Asterix and Obelix trek across a bizarrely wide array of North American landscapes ranging from East Coast forests to South Dakota and Arizona in about one day on foot, while Getafix could not have been catapulted further than the shores of the East Coast (and that catapult's range is already Toon Physics).Animal Stampede: The Chief's Daughter is introduced being chased by a herd of buffalos.That's over 1500 years before the man whose first name would be used to christen the Americas, Amerigo Vespucci, was born. Getafix drops the name "Amerix" to name the land in the French version.The pizza was invented in the 19th century. It was built 120 years later, in 70 AD, under The Roman Empire. The evergreen anachronism of the franchise, this time by the French narrator: the Colosseum DID NOT EXIST CIRCA 50 BC.They were later amalgamated into Asterix and the Vikings, the 2006 adaptation of Asterix and the Normans. Adapted Out: The film mainly adapts Asterix and the Great Crossing, but the Danish Vikings of the comic book's climax don't appear in this version.
The evil Native American medicine man wanting to get his hands on the magic potion after Getafix uses it to best him in a magic duel.Caesar wanting Getafix tossed off the edge of the world so he can conquer the village without having to face magic potion-empowered villagers anymore.Adaptation Expansion: While the film cuts the subplot with the Vikings, it adds two new subplots to the story:.In Asterix Conquers America, she is an Indian Maiden with the body proportions of a bathing suit model and a much prettier face, and Obelix is understandably sad to leave her. Adaptational Attractiveness: In Asterix and the Great Crossing, The Chief's Daughter is unattractive and pudgy, and escaping marriage to her is the reason the Gauls decide it's time to go back home.Asterix Conquers America provides examples of: