Abstract The theme of resistance has been a popular topic in Asterix scholarship, whether this resistance is applied to the historical Gauls in their defiance of imperial Rome, to later nationalist or regionalist sentiments in France against invading forces, to any small groups of locals in opposition to foreign or global forces, to a cultural war between France/Europe and America, or to the dominant educational canon of Western history and literature. What is missing in current scholarship on Asterix is a discussion of how these acts of resistance are created and implemented. To that end, this paper identifies ‘low-key’ humor as a seminal means of achieving this resistance in Asterix; this effect involves a ‘lowering’ where figures of the grand or sublime are supplanted, nullified, or defeated by the more restrained figures of the commonplace. The aim of this paper is to identify the typical character of this low-key humor in Asterix through analyzing an exemplary version of this humor – in the animated film The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976). From the perspective of humor studies, this analysis serves as a corrective to a commonly held impression of the Asterix bandes dessinées as being characterized by more overt or puerile forms of humor. From the perspective of Asterix scholarship, this study is the first to analyze one of the animated films; far from being an outlier in the oeuvre, The Twelve Tasks both consolidates and extends the lowering humor of Asterix by opening up the possibilities of a new medium.

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“杂货商赫拉克勒斯？”：阿斯特里克斯的十二项任务中的低调幽默

摘要 抵抗的主题一直是阿斯特里克斯学术界的热门话题，无论这种抵抗是否适用于历史上高卢人对罗马帝国的蔑视，后来的法国民族主义或地区主义反对侵略势力的情绪，也适用于任何反对的当地人外国或全球力量，法国/欧洲和美国之间的文化战争，或者西方历史和文学的主要教育经典。当前关于 Asterix 的学术研究中缺少的是对如何创建和实施这些抵抗行为的讨论。为此，本文将“低调”幽默视为在 Asterix 中实现这种抵抗的开创性手段；这种效果涉及一种“降低”，其中宏伟或崇高的人物被更内敛的平凡人物取代、取消或击败。本文的目的是通过分析这种幽默的典型版本——动画电影《阿斯特里克斯的十二项任务》（1976），来确定阿斯特里克斯这种低调幽默的典型特征。从幽默研究的角度来看，这种分析可以纠正人们普遍认为 Asterix bandes dessinées 的特点是更公开或幼稚的幽默形式。从Asterix奖学金的角度来看，这项研究是第一个对动画电影进行分析的；《十二个任务》远非作品中的局外人，通过开辟新媒体的可能性，既巩固了又扩展了 Asterix 低沉的幽默感。