History WesternAnimation / LaBalladeDesDalton

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* TheGamblingAddict: Sam Game, a former gambler who became a clergyman, but still references gambling terms in his sermons.

* CurbStompBattle: After the Daltons learn that they've been had and all their targets are still alive, Lucky Luke takes them all down so quickly that it's obvious that he could have recaptured them and shipped them back to prison at any time. He was probably just playing along with their scheme so that they could be seen to have failed and get the money sent to the orphanage.

2. Thadeus Collins - A jail warden, whose entire prison population tunneled out of freedom. He feels he treated them too nice and thus commits suicide by blowing his jail up (or so they think - he actually escapes through a tunnel, and they blow the jail up when they accidentally tunnel into the dynamite store and Averell lights a match).

5. Tom O' Connor - An old timer who supposedly disappeared into his gold mine. Luke meets him beforehand and explains the situation. The Daltons search from him in a mine-cart leading to a chase scene that resembles a rollercoaster ride. When they find the old timer, he acts like a ghost and convinces them that he has been dead for many years.

6. Sam Game - A former gambler who saw the light and became a clergyman (even though he still uses and references gambling terms in his sermons.). He is killed in a game or Russian roulette, which, of course, turns out to be faked.

7. Bud Bugman - A train driver. The Daltons try to kill him by derailing the train he is riding on to a different direction.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Inheritance conditions mandating murder or any other illegal or immoral acts are utterly void and null as offending law or public policy.

* MatchlightDangerRevelation: The Daltons dig a tunnel to escape and end up in the dynamite storage building, where they unbeknownst strike a match.

* RussianRoulette: Sam Game chooses to play this game.

* SuicideAsComedy:
** Jail warden Thadeus Collins blows himself up along with his prison.
** Sam Game decides to play a game of Russian roulette.
* TalkingAnimal: Compared to the previous ''Lucky Luke'' movie ''WesternAnimation/DaisyTown (1971)'', Jolly Jumper and Rantanplan are now talking animals.
* ThirstyDesert: The Daltons cross one.

!! This trope provides examples of:

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: When Lucky Luke is asked to witness the Daltons fulfilling the condition required to inherit their Uncle's money, he's told he'll be killed if he refuses.

** While in the desert Ratanplan assumes the Daltons stole the scenery.

* DisneyAcidSequence and/or BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Daltons are given magic mushrooms by a Native American and thus have a wonderful dream sequence where they imagine themselves to be Hollywood musical stars.

* GoldDigger: Tom O' Connor, who is also a GrumpyOldMan.
* LongerThanLifeSentence: The Daltons are serving a 4200-years hard labor sentence
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Snakefeather, who has magic mushrooms and apparently has a mushroom cellar below his tipi.
* MatchlightDangerRevelation: The Daltons dig a tunnel to escape and end up in the dynamite storage building, where they unbeknownst strike a match.

** Ming Li Foo is a short, yellow Chinese man with an imbecilic grin, long pony tail who speaks {{Engrish}} and is a proprietor of laundry who happens to know kung-fu. He is even referred to as a "Chinaman".
** Snakefeather is a MagicalNativeAmerican/ NobleSavage who speaks in TontoTalk and has an AwesomeMcCoolname.
* NonFatalExplosions: For all the StuffBlowingUp in this film nobody dies.
* RollercoasterMine: The Daltons try to find an old-timer by climbing into a mine-cart and have a rollercoaster ride. Also note that this is six years before ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' (1984) made it a trope!

* RussianRoulette: Sam Game choses to play this game.
* SpoofingInTheRain: During the Daltons' dream they have a sing-and-dance routine where they spoof ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', while wearing raincoats and dancing in the rain.

* TalkingAnimal: Compared to the previous Lucky Luke movie ''WesternAnimation/DaisyTown (1971)'' Jolly Jumper and Rantanplan are now talking animals.

''La Ballade des Dalton'' ("''The Ballad of the Daltons''") is the second animated adaptation in the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' series, after ''WesternAnimation/DaisyTown'' (1971). The film was released in 1978 by the same company that made ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' (1976), which also explains why the plot is kind of similar.

* ValuesDissonance: Lucky Luke is still seen smoking here, a habit he would quit nine years later and didn't showcase in the 1980s Hanna & Barbera animated series. Also Ming Li Foo and Snake Feather are racial stereotypes that come across as a bit more uneasy nowadays.

''La Ballade des Dalton'' ("''The Ballad of the Daltons'')'' is the second animated adaptation in the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' series, after ''WesternAnimation/DaisyTown'' (1971). The film was released in 1978 by the same company that made ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' (1976), which also explains why the plot is kind of similar.

2. Thadeus Collins - A jail warden, whose entire prison population tunneled out of freedom. He feels he treated them too nice and thus commits suicide by blowing his jail up.

8. Mathias Bones - An undertaker, accompanied by a vulture. The Daltons ambush him by shooting him dead from his carriage.

''"La Ballade des Dalton" ("The Ballad Of The Daltons")'' is the second animated adaptation in the ComicStrip/LuckyLuke series, after ''WesternAnimation/DaisyTown (1971)''. The film was released in 1978 by the same company that made ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix (1976)'', which also explains why the plot is kind of similar.

* WardensAreEvil: Subverted. Thadeus Collins was actually too nice to his prisoners, causing them to leave his jail.

* UnexpectedInheritance: The Daltons will receive Uncle Bill's fortune OnOneCondition: that they murder the jury and judge who sentenced him to the gallows.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Daltons' hallucination is caused by a Native American given them peyote/magic mushrooms.

* SpoofingInTheRain: Averell's rain dance spoofs ''Film/SinginInTheRain''.

2. Thadeus Collins - A jail warden, whose entire prison population tunneled out of freedom. He feels he treated them to nice and thus commits suicide by blowing his jail up.

** Ming Li Foo is a short, yellow Chinese man with a long pony tail, speaking {{Engrish}} and a proprietor of laundry who happens to know kung-fu. He is even referred to as a "Chinaman".

* ValuesDissonance: Lucky Luke is still seen smoking here, a habit he would quit nine years later and didn't showcase in the 1980s Hanna & Barbera animated series. Also Ming Li Foo and Snake Feather are racial stereotypes that feel a bit more uneasy nowadays.

* DisneyAcidSequence/BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Daltons are given magic mushrooms by a Native American and thus have a wonderful dream sequence where they imagine themselves to be Hollywood musical stars.

* RollercoasterMine: The Daltons try to find an old-timer by climbing into a mine-cart and have a rollercoaster. Also note that this is six years before ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' (1984) made it a trope!

* MatchlightDangerRelevation: The Daltons dig a tunnel to escape and end up in the dynamite storage building, where they unbeknownst strike a match.