Obelix

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Obelix (originally Obelix) is a fictional character, a sidekick with superhuman strength in the Asterix comic books. His job when not bashing Romans is as a menhir delivery man. He has a little dog named Idefix (Dogmatix in English editions).

Unlike all other Gauls in the village, Obelix has no need to drink the druid's magic potion, because he fell into the cauldron as a baby, making its effect upon him permanent.

Obelix has a tremendous appetite, and his favourite dish is roast wild boar, which he hunts with Asterix. He gets drunk very quickly if he consumes alcohol. Obelix is kind-hearted, but not too bright intellectually, and leaves to Asterix much of the decisions.

This does not seem to have led to a general practice of infant baptism in magic potion among the Gauls.

Obelix's name is said to be a play on the French word obelisque (obelisk), suggested by his habit of casually carrying heavy stone monuments around with him.

In fact his name stems from the word Obelus, a typographical mark just like the Asterisk, from which the name of his little friend Asterix stems.