Other Themes
In this story, we see Dogmatix's distress over the uprooting of trees for the first time.
This is the first album in the series since Asterix the Gaul where Cacofonix is not tied up for the story-ending banquet.
Fulliautomatix the blacksmith had previously appeared in both Asterix the Gaul and Asterix and the Banquet, but he differed somewhat from the appearance he now took in Asterix and the Normans, and he would remain essentially unchanged for the rest of the series.
In contrast to Justforkix, there is the, at first, over-eager Roman rookie Legionary Oleaginus, whose hair is cut short in the manner of modern-day soldiers. Whereas Justforkix learns courage, Oleaginus learns to fear the Gauls and the Normans and also the means of getting out of confronting them, such as wasting time on making three copies of the same report (i.e. red tape).
When Justforkix explains his Chariot is from Mediolanum (now Milan, Italy) it is a reference to that modern sports cars are made there.
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