Asterix and The Big Fight - Puns

Puns

In the original French version, Vitalstatistix's opponent is called Aplusbégalix ("A plus B equals X"). In the English translation, his name Cassius Ceramix is a reference to the boxer Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay, who was world heavyweight champion when the story was written. Vitalstatistix's strategy of wearing down his opponent (rope a dope) and his victory dance (the Ali shuffle) is a parody of Ali's style.

When a Roman envoy is sent to Linoleum to inform Ceramix that Getafix has been disposed of, he asks a resident where the chief is and is told that he is inspecting Professor Berlix's school for modern languages, a play on Maximilian Berlitz and his International Language Schools.

In the scene in which an amusement park is set up, one ride is called the 'Slavic Mountain'. This is a pun on the French name for roller coaster, "Russian mountain". A book store called "W. H. Smix" can be seen in the same scene, which is a pun on the chain W. H. Smith. In the same panel is a tent with a sign, "Menagerix — See The Fabulous Animals." A billboard outside of this tent has a picture of the Marsupilami, a famous Belgian comics character.

In the part where Pschoanalytix's nurse introduces the conditions of his patients to Asterix and Obelix, there is one whom she says is impersonating someone but nobody knows who. He is in fact behaving like one of the Gauls' most famous descendants: Napoléon Bonaparte.