Line #20 YMMV/LuckyLuke


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4	* CantUnHearIt: In French, the voices of Pierre Trabaud (Joe Dalton) and Pierre Tornade (Averell Dalton) were pretty memorable and immediately recognizable, perfectly rendering the characters as TheNapoleon and TheDitz respectively. It helps that they voiced the characters in all of the early animated installments, that being ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and the [[WesternAnimation/LuckyLuke1983 first animated series]] (though Trabaud only did the first season).
5	* OlderThanTheyThink:
6	** "I'm a Poor Lonesome Cowboy" is a RealLife American Old West song the author of which is unknown, neither Creator/{{Morris}} nor Creator/ReneGoscinny made it up. It was first used moviewise in 1945's ''Along Came Jones'' with Creator/GaryCooper and Creator/LorettaYoung.
7	** The ''WesternAnimation/KidLucky'' SpinoffBabies cartoon started in 2020. Not many people know it's based off a comic book series of its own that started in 1995.
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11	* AluminumChristmasTrees: Lucky Luke drawing his gun noticeably faster than his own shadow is a mighty impressive feat--the emphasis being on the word "noticeably". Since your shadow always moves a fraction of a second later than your youself do, it's physically impossible ''not'' to draw your gun at least a little bit faster than your own shadow.
12	* {{Anvilicious}}: General criticism against Jul's stories is that he tends to hammer the Aesop to the readers' face, like in ''A Cowboy In High Cotton'' which tackled racism and ''Rantaplan's Ark'', about veganism.
13	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt:
14	** Creator/{{Morris}}' style, even though it's not as detailed compared to other creators' works, is still appealing to the eye. Not only it's expressive, but it's full of grand cinematic panels and characters whose designs resemble that of famous [[TheWestern western]] actors, making it GeniusBonus for [[TheWestern western]] fans. It's true, however, that it faced a serious decline in the '90s…
15	** Post-Morris era may be full of problems, but Creator/{{Achde}}'s style is definitely not one of them. The current artist does a great job mimicking Morris' style, as well as being extremely detailed and expressive.
16	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
17	** Rantanplan. He was popular enough to have his own spin-off series, but there're also those who find him annoying and believe he makes things worse.
18	** The Lucky Luke fanbase is split into two sections; the first section likes the Daltons and prefers them to Lucky Luke, even [[RootingForTheEmpire hoping that they'll beat him one day]], while the second section, although they do find them funny in some stories, also thinks that they're overused and boring. The Daltons' base-breaking status was the result of the WolverinePublicity they received in plenty post-Goscinny stories, where they'd appear even when the plot had nothing to do with them, just because they're the series' most iconic villains and for cheap laughs.
19	* BrokenBase: Jolly Jumper's gender is a huge topic in UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} for the following reason: for many decades, Jolly Jumper was written as a female mare called Dolly. That was until the 73th issue was released, whose plot had to do with Jolly Jumper falling in love with a beautiful mare named Province. To avoid making her a lesbian, the publishers changed Dolly's gender to male, something that was followed in the next albums. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Those who protest this change]], mainly for being familiar with Dolly as a mare, state that her gender doesn't affect the story at all, that the horse's blonde mane and sassy personality fit her more as a female and like the idea of her being the only female companion in [[CelibateHero Lucky Luke]]'s life. Those, on the other hand, who are actually welcomed to that change, say it's for the better, since the next generation will grow up being familiar with Dolly's correct gender.
20	* CrazyIsCool: Calamity Jane is a [[TheLadette Ladette]] BoisterousBruiser SirSwearsALot who will shoot you if you don't show elementary gallantry toward women, constantly defies the DamselInDistress trope and generally rivals Luke in sheer badassery.
21	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
22	** Calamity Jane, for being just as [[CrazyIsCool crazy, yet cool]] as Lucky Luke, constantly defying the DamselInDistress trope, as well as being one of the few prominent badass female characters in the series.
23	** Ma Dalton may only appeared for a couple of stories, but fans absolutely adore her and consider her to be one of the funniest characters in the series.
24	* EstrogenBrigade:
25	** It's not uncommon to hear from women who grew up with the series/franchise that they had a crush on the titular character himself, mainly helped from the fact that Luke is drawn in a pretty appealing caricatured way.
26	** Averell has an unexpected amount of lady admirers himself, mostly due to being the [[MinionWithAnFInEvil the least evil]] of the Dalton brothers as well as his stupidity coming off as {{Adorkable}} to some.
27	* {{Fanon}}: Lucky Luke being asexual is a popular one due to his CelibateHero status.
28	* FanonDiscontinuity:
29	** Some fans completely ignore every story written after Morris' death, others do the same with every story written after Goscinny's death and then there's a third camp who explicitly read only the stories that Goscinny wrote.
30	** When it comes to the various animated adaptions, fans don’t care much for the '90s series. Despite each episode being a very faithful adaption of various comics, a lot of the comedy was heavily undermined by the [[NoBudget cheap]] [[LimitedAnimation production values]] and clunky pacing. Not helping matters is that each episode had to cut out a lot of content from the original to fit it in a 22-minute episode.
31	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Like many French-Belgian comics, Lucky Luke is extremely popular in Scandinavia, especially Sweden, to the point that there's a long-standing live show at the western-themed amusement park [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Chaparral_Theme_Park High Chaparral]], featuring Lucky Luke and the Daltons.
32	* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler: Killing off Jolly Jumper in ''Rantaplan's Ark''. We, the audience, are quickly informed that the shot of the bandit merely injured him.]]
33	* MorePopularReplacement: The second set of Daltons have ended up becoming much more famous and iconic than the original, to the point that many believe that the RealLife Daltons were indeed named Joe, William, Jack and Averell.
34	* MyRealDaddy: It's not like Creator/{{Morris}} isn't acknowledged for his work (he did the drawings until his passing after all), but many people choose to primarily associate the series with writer Creator/ReneGoscinny. The period when he was the writer is widely referred as the "Golden Age" of the series and the most iconic stories are mostly the ones he wrote. Not only that, but he's responsible for the comic's most known elements, like it being an AffectionateParody of TheWestern genre, Luke riding Jolly Jumper at the end of each story while singing "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy" etc.
35	* NarmCharm: The shot that [[spoiler: injured Jolly Jumper in ''Rantaplan's Ark'' and made Luke mistaken him for dead]] is a pretty heavy thing to put in a light and comedic comic like ''Lucky Luke''. Yet, it still comes across as shocking and it leads into [[SugarWiki/{{HeartwarmingMoments}} a last panel where Luke choses not to ride Jolly so he won't burden him.]]
36	* SeasonalRot: Laurent Gerra's run is particularly disliked. The thinly-veiled celebrity and politician parodies (Gerra is primarily a comedian who made his fame with caricatures and imitations of French politicians and celebrities) which are a surefire way to end up {{Unintentional Period Piece}}s don't help.
37	* TearJerker:
38	** In ''A Cure For The Daltons'', the psychatrist's treatment actually works on Averell, who begins to regret his life of crime and his underlying good nature shines through. At one point, he actually breaks down sobbing after he steals thread from a store (the psychiatrist had gotten him interested in needlepoint).
39	---> '''Averell''': I know it's bad to steal, [[ChronicVillainy but I couldn't help myself]]! [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Go ahead and eat without me, I'm not hungry...]]
40	** In the opening, Senator Beuregard is violently opposed to the idea of rehabilitating criminals, and it's all but stated he's like that because of his abusive father.
41	** In ''A Cowboy in High Cotton'', Luke inherits a large cotton farm, including the recently-freed African-American workforce. When he arrives, one of the workers speaks up to him, demanding payment for the months they've gone unpaid since the previous owner died. Two of the workers in the crowd are utterly terrified, certain that Luke will shoot her dead any moment. It's a sober reminder of the realities of slavery. While the audience knows that Luke would never harm anyone, the former slaves know all too well how cruel white men can be, and have no reason to expect Luke to be any different.
42	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
43	** The decision to have Luke stop smoking and chewing a straw instead was not received well by some fans, and even by anti-smoking fans, who consider the cigarette that TheHero used to smoke more iconic and fitting for the character.
44	** As noted above in the BrokenBase section, Dolly (the Greek name of Jolly Jumper) having his gender changed to male, which didn't sit well with the Greek fans who have grown up with Dolly as female. Then again, there's also those who don't like the original decision to make the horse female and rename "her" Dolly.
45	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Bass Reeves was the first major black cowboy to appear in the comic and being put on an equal term with Lucky Luke (with Luke even confirming that he learnt plenty of things from him), so it was a bit disappointing when he was only featured in the beginning and reappearing later [[spoiler:at the end, when the heroes are in major danger]].
46	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''Cowboy in Paris'' is the first story where Luke travels across the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, this happens in the second half of the plot and when the cowboy arrives at the french capital, we don't get to see much of it.
47	* ValuesDissonance:
48	** This being an AffectionateParody comic that started in the 1950s (when westerns were one of the most popular film genres in Europe) and is set in 19th-century America, there are depictions of black people, Chinese people and Native Americans that can be considered highly offensive (though as Morris himself often pointed out. [[AllStereotypeCast Every character in the book is a not exactly flattering stereotype]]). Some recent editions of the comic need a foreword from the writers that explains that this was how things were in those times, and no insult was intended from a comic book.
49	** ''[[Recap/LuckyLuke53BrideOfLuckyLuke Bride of Lucky Luke]]'' is full of gender stereotypes ([[DrivesLikeCrazy women being terrible drivers]], afraid of mice, the hairdresser being an obvious CampGay etc.) that can come across as sexist in today's society and one would think that they were sexist even back when the story was published. In all these stereotypes, you can still spot a sense of {{Irony}} however... There's also some FairForItsDay to be found in it, considering how the Dalton brothers are portrayed as lazy and messy and how Jenny O'Sullivan actually compells them into cleaning their own hideout and doing other kinds of chores they normally don't care about.
50	* VillainDecay: The Dalton Brothers have suffered quite a bit of it over the years. In ''Les Cousins Dalton'', their 1958 debut, they get the best of Lucky Luke, forcing him to service for a time. Within the story each brother is given different character traits. Joe is the mastermind, William is obsessed with guns and using everything on sight for target practice, Jack is a master of disguise. Averell is naive but also a superb boxer. In fact he fights Luke to a standstill. Luke only wins by using his cunning, not his fists. The two combatants agree to meet for a rematch and retreat to their own rooms for sleep. Only Luke manages to releases mosquitoes in Averell's room. The following day, Luke is fresh after a good night's sleep, Averell has not managed to sleep at all. He can barely walk, much less fight. Since then, several stories portray them as incompetents, and in some stories William and Jack may as well be interchangeable for all the characterization they get, if they are not relegated to background status within the group, where Joe and Averell tend to get the spotlight almost exclusively.
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54	* ''YMMV/LuckyLukeDaisyTown''
55	* ''YMMV/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons''
56	* ''YMMV/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''
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60	* ''YMMV/LuckyLuke1983''
61	* ''YMMV/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''
62	* ''YMMV/TheDaltons''
63	* ''YMMV/KidLucky''
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67	* ''Film/LuckyLukeAndTheDaltons''
68	* ''YMMV/LuckyLuke2009''
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72	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: One track in particular stands out, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEKIlV40WxI&feature=related Train]]" from the first GB/GBC Lucky Luke game. While the series itself shows pretty good music overall, this one is bound to get stuck in your head for a while.
73	* GoodBadBugs: A glitch exploited in an [[Website/YouTube out-of-sync-audio]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7szNFNsKkM&feature=related longplay]] allows a steamboat ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments to ride the riverside]]''.
74	* NightmareFuel: The GBC title ''Lucky Luke: Desperado Train'' can get pretty creepy at times. Case in point:
75	** The BGM for "Explosive Mine".
76	** The SlasherSmile given by the guy in "[[RhythmGame Crazy]] [[UnexpectedGameplayChange Telegram!]]" if you screw up too many times (yup, someone working with a telegraph has a Slasher Smile - go figure).
77	** The ScareChord played when you die.
78	** A Continue option (available by collecting a silver coin with a hole in it) where you have to shoot faster than your own shadow: they managed to make the ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/050711_lucky_luke.jpg former image for the main article]]'' '''''creepy''''' thanks to DramaticWind and [[NothingIsScarier lack of music]].
79	** Most prominently, the GameOver screen, where you first see someone pointing a Gun at Lucky Luke's back (a Continue Screen available [[EasyModeMockery only in Sheriff mode]]) and then [[GoryDiscretionShot shifts]] to Barnaby the [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals same-as-always]] undertaker as he holds his hands in cynical delight, with a poster reading Game Over (in typical "western" font). Can easily become High Octane for the most sensitive.
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