In Danish, German, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian and Finnish, Idefix.Ideafix in Spanish, Idefiks in Esperanto and Polish, and İdefiks in Turkish). Most translations use some variant of this original name (e.g. French: Idéfix ( idée fixe, a "fixed idea" or "obsession", also a "prejudice").His most noteworthy moments were rescuing Asterix, Obelix and Getafix from entrapment in Cleopatra, finding the captured Asterix in Great Crossing, and locating the much needed desert petroleum in Black Gold. Dogmatix is relatively intelligent, and is particularly good as a hunting dog. In Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield, Obelix gets angry with hungry people who try to take Dogmatix's bone and insists they will be punished if they try to take advantage of his dog. Since then, Obelix has become very affectionate toward Dogmatix.
(Obelix once mentions that this is because Dogmatix likes to urinate on them.) Dogmatix met Asterix and Obelix in Lutetia (in Asterix and the Banquet) and followed them all the way around Gaul until Obelix finally noticed him when they reached the village and Dogmatix barked behind him. Dogmatix loves nature and hates to see trees suffer. Unlike his immense master, Dogmatix is very tiny, but he can have a nasty temper. In more recent albums, he is referred to as Oburiks, after obur, which means "gluttonous".ĭogmatix Main article: Dogmatix First appearance: Asterix and the Banquet (book 5 in France), page 8.ĭogmatix is Obelix's pet dog. Early Turkish editions called him Hopdediks, after Hop dedik!, which is a phrase uttered when someone overdoes something.In Sinhalese - සිංහල ( Jim Pappa) which means "mighty" and/or " strong".In Icelandic, his name is Steinríkur, roughly meaning "rich in stone", due to Obelix's fascination with stones.His name is also almost never changed in official translations (not counting orthographical variations such as Obeliks in e.g. French: Obélix: meaning either " obelisk", a massive monument, or the typographical symbol ( †) (also called an obelus in English) which is sometimes used to indicate a second footnote if the first footnote is indicated by an asterisk.At the end of the book, Obelix decides to go on a diet, but quickly goes back to eating huge quantities of boar. In Asterix and the Big Fight, a druid mistakes Obelix for a patient with an eating disorder. Obelix's size is often the brunt of many jokes. The only exception was in Asterix and Cleopatra when they were trapped in a pyramid and Getafix allows him to have three drops of the magic potion. As a consequence, Getafix will not let him take additional potion for fear of side effects (for example, turning into stone, as shown in Asterix and Obelix all at Sea), something that Obelix finds immensely unfair. His strength results from having fallen into Getafix's magic potion cauldron as a boy. He is a tall, obese man with two notable attributes: his phenomenal strength and his voracious appetite for food, especially wild boar.
Obelix is Asterix's closest friend and works as a menhir sculptor and delivery man.