Assurancetourix

Assurancetourix is the bards village of Astérix and Obélix in the Cartoon Astérix the Gallic of Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

Indentity card

Its principal characteristic: it has a terrible voice when it sings while it draws from the improbable sounds of its Lyre. He is persuaded of its talent, all the others are persuaded of the opposite. When he sings, he often starts escapes éperdues animals traumatized and, since Astérix at Rahàzade , of the pouring rain.
Rather large, fair and solitary, it likes to live in its hut perched in top of a tree to compose of the songs that to him only appreciates (although Goudurix said to him in Astérix and Norman the which it would make a tobacco with Lutèce and even promised to him to present it to Brunococatrix )
It will move for the Field of the gods in the album éponyme, but will pose too much problem of Turk vicinity
Tête of the village, it is struck to innumerable recoveries by the Forgeron Cétautomatix and finishes almost always muzzled in order not to disturb the recurring final banquet.
When he does not sing, Assurancetourix is a very appreciated character of the inhabitants of the village. It is very sympathetic nerve and it is a merry companion. Like says it Panoramix, it is " as good comrade as he sings mal" .
It is besides very officially notable village, sitting at the council which pronounces the banishment of Astérix in Astérix and the cauldron
Its name " Assurancetourix" comes from the expression Comprehensive insurance , which indicates a type of auto insurance.

With the wire of the episodes

Its song is the only thing able to make known the Peur with terrible Normands ( Astérix and Norman the ), and it likes in addition

the young person Lutécien (Goudurix) come to be reinforced the character.

Like known as previously, it is (extremely fortunately for the Gallic ones) at the origin of the disappearance of the field of the gods.

Même if it is able to him to fight, it is, with the druid Panoramix, the only man of the nonwarlike village, which does one of the most inoffensive characters of them. That was worth to him to be removed by the Romans ( Astérix gladiator ), then offered in gift to César. In Astérix at Rahàzade , Astérix and Obélix take along Assurancetourix in India for a particular mission: to make rain while singing and thus finish a dryness which, if it still lasts, will generate the setting with dead of Rahazade, girl of the sultan.

Exceptionnellement, in the Gift of César , Assurancetourix cuts the word in Abraracourcix, which derogates a little from its rather courteous practices.

saying itself bards official and undeniable village, it sees of a very evil eye the arrival of Maestria in the Rose and the sword, where it will be there too one of the main characters of the history.

First appearance

He appears as of the first episode of the series ( Astérix the Gallic ) and its songs are already very little appreciated by the other inhabitants of the village.