Mistakes : Young Vitalstatistix

Mistakes: Young Vitalstatistix

In How Obelix fell into the Magic Potion when he was a boy, Vitalstatistix is portrayed as a young chief (without his girth) and Asterix and Obelix are just boys but in the the short story of Asterix and Obelix's birth in Asterix and the Class Act, Vitalstatistix is just a kid. Is it that he has aged 19 years instead of six in the period between the time the stories were set?

Possible Explanation: Goscinny wrote the story a long time before Uderzo illustrated it and Uderzo had simply other ideas about Vitalstatistix since the time Goscinny wrote it.

The Invisible Phan has the folowing to say on the matter....

"Note that he was a thin and unmajestic warrior at the defeat at Alesia ("Chieftain's Shield") but THAT occurred in 52 BC -- which is why "all Gaul is occupied" at the time the stories begin (50BC). But V was (as noted) a young CHIEF when Obelix fell into the potion ... (Possible solution? Since "How Obelix .." is told *by Asterix* in the first person rather than an omniscient narrator, possibly he *means* V's father ... *shrug* It would work a little better that way)"

Max also thinks he has the answer...

Age chart: 'Asterix's Birth'

Vitalstatistix: 8

Unhygenix, Fulliautomatix, Cacaofonix, Shield Bearers, Etc.: 4-6

Asterix, Obelix: Just Born or 0

Age chart: 'How Obelix Fell Into the Magic Potion when He Was a Little Boy'

Vitalstatistix: 14

Unhygenix, Fulliautomatix, Cacaofonix, Shield Bearers, Etc.: 10-12

Asterix, Obelix: 6

This would give Vitalstatistix just enough time to grow a moustache and you can see that adolescent lengthliness about him. If you follow this age chart everything seems to fit into place. Besides, in 'Asterix's Birth' all the other well known villagers are already about the age that Asterix and Obelix are in "How Obelix, Etc." This chart makes perfect sense and follows both stories."