![]() ![]() Adipose Rex: Caliph Haroun El-Plassid, the jovial and benign ruler, is a Big Eater and spends most of his days sleeping, making him quite obese.In the Polish version of the cartoon Iznogoud's name is changed to Nicponim ("Nic Po Nim" being meaning more or less "Good for nothing"). ![]() His henchman is named Saunabad (sauna-bath, if you take the "bath" from Swedish) while the caliph is Harun El Pullah ("pulla" means a kind of bun and has connotations of a fat, lazy person). The Finnish translation uses Ahmed Ahne as the name of the main protagonist (Ahmed being a stereotypically recognisable Oriental name, while his last name/ sobriquet means "avaricious" or "greedy").For example, the Midas touch-afflicted recluse from "The Golden Handshake" was called Ghoudas Gho'ld in the comics and Karat in the cartoon, while the purveyor of the title object in "The Magic Catalogue" goes from introducing himself as "Uatsdadha, mage" ("What's the damage?") to "the wizard Avahz" ( The Wizard of Oz). Many of the one-shot characters had their names changed, generally from one play on words to another.Among the regular cast, Iznogoud's henchman Wa'at Alahf was re-named Adulahf Alot (still an ironic name for a Deadpan Snarker), while the neighbouring sultan was called Streetcar instead of Pullmankar (Pullman cars being less familiar to younger viewers thanks to the decline of long-distance rail travel).Although the French version of the 1995 cartoon kept the original names from the comics, the English translation changed several of them.Neither subplot features in the animated version, "The Magic Puzzle" instead, Iznogoud's attempt to finish the jigsaw in the desert is briefly disrupted when he accidentally sets up camp in the middle of a caravan route. For example, the printed version of "The Jigsaw Turk" includes a strike by Baghdad's binmen (who, when they see Iznogoud carrying one of the palace dustbins in his search for the missing piece of his magic jigsaw, beat him up for being a scab) and Iznogoud accidentally giving an entrepreneur the idea to start a seaside resort in the middle of the desert for people who like the beach but hate the water, resulting in him being surrounded by hundreds of holidaymakers while trying to work on his jigsaw. Adaptation Distillation: Some of the longer stories from the Goscinny era had subplots cut in the interest of time for the Animated Adaptation.except that in the Mirror Universe he is the Caliph. In "Mirror Image", the vizier travels to a Mirror Universe (literally on the other side of a mirror where everything is reversed) and is delighted that every single citizen wants the Caliph's head. ![]() The answers turn out to be almost entirely to ask him to either commit suicide or let them kill him. Later in the same album, he sends Wa'at to do a poll around Baghdad about what he could do to please them. When asked who is in this conspiracy, Wa'at replies to Iznogoud that everyone in Baghdad is, since except for the Caliph, they all hate him.
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