History WesternAnimation / LaBalladeDesDalton

1. Ming Li Foo - A Chinese laundryman. Luke motivates the Daltons to wash their clothes first. While they are in the nude Ming Li Foo flees out of the store. Since they are naked they ask Luke to chase Ming for them. After a martial arts fight sequence Luke is able to get Ming to fake his own death before the Daltons are back.

2. Thadeus Collins - A jail warden, whose entire prison population tunneled out to freedom. The Daltons tunnel into the prison and blow it up, not knowing that the warden had already left using one of the tunnels.

3. Snake Feather - A Native American witch doctor. He gives the Daltons some magic mushrooms, causing them to hallucinate a bizarre dream sequence. When they awake Luke informs them that they have already killed him.

4. Dr. Aldous Smith - A traveling quack doctor whom the Daltons force to drink his own medicine. He drops dead, though he actually just fainted because he was not used to drinking water.

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 some time.

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 of 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. Bugman hides in the tender car while his assistant tells the Daltons that he was killed and the body fell off the train during the derailing.

8. Mathias Bones - An undertaker, accompanied by a vulture. The Daltons ambush him by shooting him dead from his carriage (they actually shoot a dummy).

9. Judge Grudy - A judge. The Daltons plan to kill him at the party he holds after a rodeo, but Luke uses a fake newspaper to fool them.

* ButtMonkey: Tobias Wells. No matter what he's trying to sell, it's always something the Daltons need to steal.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Tobias Wells keeps trying to sell something that the Daltons need, and keeps running into the Daltons shortly after they realize that they need it.

* RunningGag: The Daltons meet Tobias Wells every time [[ContrivedCoincidence they need something he's selling]]. After the BallisticDiscount they get from their first meeting, he runs away from them in fear every subsequent time, allowing them to get free horses, clothes, dynamite and shovels.

* DoubleStandard: The women in Sam Game's church all chew out the Daltons for not taking off their hats during the service -- but they're all wearing hats themselves. It is worth noting, however, that women's heads are expected to be covered inside the church (hats were a way to compensate for that) while it's the complete opposite for men so they're just scolding them for not following this.

* DreamSequence: The Daltons' dream.

!!Trope:

** Juries for capital felonies generally have twelve jurors, not eight (This is understandable from a Doylist perspective - thirteen targets instead of nine would have added at least another half an hour to the movie).

* TheCameo: Dr. Aldous Smith is a caricature of Creator/WCFields.

* DoubleStandard: The women in Sam Game's church all chew out the Daltons for not taking off their hats during the service - but they're all wearing hats themselves.
** It is worth noting, however, that women's heads are expected to be covered inside the church (hats were a way to compensate for that) while it's the complete opposite for men so they're just scolding them for not following this.
* EverybodyLives: For a film where many characters get murdered or commit suicide there's only one real death in this movie and it happens off screen before the story got started: the Daltons' uncle.

* TalkingAnimal: Compared to the previous ''Lucky Luke'' movie ''WesternAnimation/DaisyTown (1971)'', Jolly Jumper and Rantanplan are now talking animals, though they only talk to other animals or the audience.
* ThirstyDesert: The Daltons cross one, called 'The Desert of Thirst'.

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

* MushroomSamba: Causes the Daltons' dream sequence.

** It is worth noting, however, that women's heads are expected to be covered inside the church (hats were a way to compensate for that) while it's the complete opposite for men so it's actually just a mandatory custom.

''La Ballade des Dalton'' ("''The Ballad of the Daltons''") is the second animated adaptation in the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' series, after ''Daisy Town'' (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. Like its predecessor, it also have a very good animation quality (though due to financial restrictions the film doesn't contain any "animation effects" like the ghosts of ''The Twelve Tasks'').

1. Ming Li Foo - A Chinese laundryman. Luke motivates the Daltons to wash their clothes first. While they are in the nude Ming Li Foo flees out of the store. Since they are naked they ask Luke to chase Ming for them. After a martial arts fight sequence Luke can inform Ming to fake his own death before the Daltons are back.

** Juries for capital felonies generally have twelve jurors, not eight.

The Daltons are informed that their uncle has died. They will enherit his fortune if they murder the judge and all the jury members that sentenced him to the gallows. To make sure that they fulfill this will they will be accompanied by Lucky Luke, seeing that he is the only honest man that he has ever known. If they fail their mission all the money will go to charity.

''La Ballade des Dalton'' ("''The Ballad of the Daltons''") is the second animated adaptation in the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' series, after ''Daisy Town'' (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. Like its predecessor, it also have a very good animation quality, almost Disney-level (though due to financial restrictions the film doesn't contain any "animation effects" like the ghosts of ''the Twelve tasks'').

* 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.

* DisneyAcidSequence: 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.

''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. Like its predecessor, it also have a very good animation quality, almost Disney-level (though due to financial restrictions the film doesn't contain any "animation effects" like the ghosts of ''the Twelve tasks'').

* PlayAlongPrisoner: Lucky Luke could have taken the Daltons down the moment he got his gun back, but played along with their scheme so that Henry Dalton's estate would end up going to the orphanage.

2. Thadeus Collins - A jail warden, whose entire prison population tunneled out of freedom. The Daltons tunnel into the prison and blow it up, not knowing that the warden had already left using one of the tunnels.

* DoubleStandard: The women in Sam Game's church all chew out the Daltons for not taking off their hats during the service - but they're all wearing hats themselves. Worth noting, however, that women's heads are expected to be covered inside the church (hats were a way to compensate for that) while it's the complete opposite for men so it's actually just mandatory customs.

* DoubleStandard: The women in Sam Game's church all chew out the Daltons for not taking off their hats during the service - but they're all wearing hats themselves.