Dogmatix is an especially brilliant one, since the original is Idéafix (stubborn, single-minded, literally "of fixed ideas"), and the translation not only manages to preserve that meaning but also add "Dog" to it :)

Exactly! The translators did such a fantastic job over all. I would have imagined that kind of humor to be untranslatable.

Same with the Muppets, whoever translated that show was doing an amazing job.

Yup, even as a kid I could tell the translators also had to be comedic geniuses too. I would constantly be marveling at the names, and how they were only a joke that made sense in English.

The original name would work in English too though. In the Danish translation the dog is is just idéfix which works just as well in Danish.

English does have the loanword https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/id%C3%A9e_fixe#English but I think this is often considered technical vocabulary (per Wiktionary, in psychology and music composition) that most native speakers would probably not recognize.

I meant that idea and fixed are both English words, so it should be possible to associate ideafix with "fixed idea" - a bit more obscure though than the original.

Idéfix, not Idéafix! "Idea" is "idée" in French. It comes from "idée fixte" which means fixed idea, like you say, or in other words, an obsession.

Oops, you're right! I was mislead since in my native language, in which I read the books as a child, he is called Ideafix :)

Not to mention Lucretia, the young woman who married the wealthy old man (Lucre)

Good find ! had missed that one.

He even looks like Sean Connery!

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You will find Paul McCartney too. When I read them as a kid in India I missed many of these, not the Beatles or Dubbelosix.

I have read every one of the 'originals' (Goscinny and Uderzo ones) so many times, but even now when I re-read them in my late 40s I discover something that I had missed before. Usually something happening in the background -- mark of stellar writing and drawing.

Dubbleosix is "zerozerosix" in the original. Maps one-to-one, I'd say.