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[[folder:Billy the Kid]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Guy Piérauld (1983 animated series) and Creator/DonaldReignoux (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'')
A teenaged outlaw who's been a criminal since he was 6 years old.
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* ArchEnemy: Lucky Luke's greatest and most recurring enemy after The Daltons.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brat that he is, rather than for the greatest outlaw he believes himself to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as a hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front of the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version of the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
* KidsAreCruel: Committed his first robbery at the age of 6, and when he was punished for it by his father, he ran away from home and embarked on a life of crime.
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but the comic still tends to play up his childish antics as ComedicSociopathy. He forbids a Saloon owner to sell anything else than lemonades and threatens a man with a gun so he would tell him a bedtime story, amongst other things.
* TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete with each other over who's the better outlaw and who is Lucky Luke's greatest enemy.
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By the time of the comics present, he's 14 and a sadistic, thieving monster.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that could stop him from crying was using his dad's revolver as a sucker (wasn't loaded). At 6, he committed his first robbery and at his current age, about 14, he terrorized a whole town.
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud with Lucky Luke far more seriously than Luke does, as Luke just views and treats him as a brat, even completely ignoring him when Billy threatened to shoot him while he was shaving and singing.
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[[folder:Jesse James]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An ex-confederate soldier turned outlaw alongside his brother Frank, obsessed with the myth of Robin Hood.
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''esse '''J'''ames.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the movie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which may or may not have anything to do with his fanboying of Robin Hood.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid, his earlier portrayal actually did somewhat look like his final design.
* DemotedToExtra: After his album and being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the end of the episode that was about the rivalry of Joe Dalton and Billy the Kid as a third possible candidate for the title of worst desperado.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. He ends up using a LoopholeAbuse to share the money with his brother and his cousin, by having them taking turns in playing the "Poor" role.
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of the Robin Hood book, which is pretty tame by today's standards, but considering he lives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is perceived as one. Played straight in the movie, where he frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his debut album, that was the trademark of his brother Frank.
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[[folder:Elliot Belt]]
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One of the most infamous and tenacious bounty hunters of the West.
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* AscendedExtra: Appears more in the cartoons.
* BountyHunter: His job and a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with a nearby native tribe to get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, and his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and will know what it feels like being on the run for the rest of his life.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him for turning in their friends and loved ones wanted by the law, sometimes for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why Luke isn't interested in teaming up with him.
* HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is the most despised profession in the old west, considered even lower than outlaws, and Belt is the most hated of them all. The dance girls and piano player refuses to perform when he walks into the saloon, and the bartender just pours his drinks right on the table, because while the law says he has to serve Belt, it doesn't say he has to serve him in a glass.
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is technically on the law's side.
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he cares about is his profits, he doesn't even seem to mind he can't really enjoy the money since everyone hates him so much.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like this ever since he was a child, constantly telling on his classmates for preferential treatment and rewards. He also held a child at gunpoint because he mistook a help wanted sign for a bounty.
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[[folder:"Dr." Samuel Doxey]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Jacques Ferrière (1983 animated series)
A travelling medicine salesman and self-proclaimed doctor, whose main product is a fake cure-all elixir.
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* AllNaturalSnakeOil: One of his scams, which he markets as not just all-natural, but tasty as well. It would be, since it's actually just lemonade.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and mustache, and changes his name to Oxide. It works for a while, until his cover is blown by a kid.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a charlatan, he delusionally views himself as a great doctor and benefactor of humanity.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns in the Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, with a bandage only to shoot him with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: While he is a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about the only medicinal thing about it is that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his wagon, giving it the same mustache and beard Doxey had before shaving them off.
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people he's scammed come for revenge, he calls them ungrateful for his "help".
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite being a charlatan and not being much of a fighter, he's not without cunning and he has enough chemical skills to improvise an explosive bottle which he used to knock Luke out and lose him.
* PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he even still wears the same clothes! Somehow, it still works, Luke doesn't recognize him when they meet again.
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trick people into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the first part of the story. The animated version adds a scene where Doxey yells the alarm on Scraggy after they break out of prison to cover his own escape, and Scraggy later turns up again in the ending, now running his own snake oil scam after Doxey is recaptured by Luke.
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[[folder:Judge Roy Bean]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henri Labussière (1991 animated series)
The self-proclaimed "law west of the Pecos" who runs a makeshift courtroom out of his bar in Langtry, Texas, despite not being an actual judge, nor a lawman of any kind.
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* BearsAreBadNews: Has a tame bear who doubles as a bodyguard and enforcer.
* CoolOldGuy: Despite his old age he's a great gunslinger, who survived and escaped an encounter with an Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and knocked Luke out with a civil code book.
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one, and his real-life counterpart was possibly an UrExample, but ultimately averted in-universe, as Bean never actually sentences anyone to death, mostly limiting himself to confiscating illegal bets (that he himself encouraged people to make) and cattle, though he also likes handing out prison and labor sentences for crimes he mostly make up on the spot. Bad Ticket, the judge who briefly replaces him, turns out to ''really'' be one of these. Bonus material explain that the real Roy Bean was mostly known to just fine people and charging five dollars a wedding.
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after the cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean is still the closest thing to an actual judge the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only punishment is hanging up his outdated lawbook for good, and settles down as a bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".
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[[folder:Joss Jamon's Gang]]
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A group of ex-confederate soldiers who struck out on their own as outlaws after the end of the American Civil War. The group was led by Joss Jamon, and consisted of Bill The Cheater, Joe The Indian, Jack The Muscle, Steve The Wishy-Washy, and Sam The Farmer. The gang ends up on Luke's radar after they plunder the small town of Los Palitos and frame him for their crimes.
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* AdaptedOut: Sam the Farmer did not appear in the animated version, his role mostly taken over by Steve.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to have switched sides between the Union and the Confederacy dozens of times over the course of the war, depending on who was winning.
* DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang, and Luke only narrowly avoids being hanged by promising to bring the real criminals back to the town.
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the corrupt mayor of Frontier City, and gives cabinet positions to his henchmen.
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the entire album, only for him to suddenly deliver an eloquent monologue after the gang is cornered, including latin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one who isn't white.
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[[folder:The O'Timmins and O'Hara's]]
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A pair of feuding families whose incompetence and stubbornness might not lead to many fatalities on their rivals, but is slowly destroying their hometown of Painful Gulch.
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* AltarDiplomacy: How the feud is finally settled for good, with intermarriage between the two clans. The son produced by this union, Aloysius O'Timmins-O'Hara (who had both the family traits), eventually became mayor of Painful Gulch and went on to become a Texas congressman.
* BerserkButton: The other family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara should get water from the O'Timmins' river, and had to flee the O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that he went to the O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
* FeudingFamilies: A parody of the real-life feud between the Hatfield and [=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it that they've never managed to actually kill any of their enemies.
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at him for fifteen minutes. Despite this, they only managed to produce a bullet outline.
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and huge ears for the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.
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[[folder:Emilio Espuelas]]
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A Mexican ''bandito'' who terrorizes the area just south of the Rio Grande.
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* AccidentalKidnapping: He and his gang accidentally steal an armored wagon that was transporting the Daltons to a new prison, thinking it was a gold or money transport.
* HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners since the natives are too poor to bother with for the most part and the rich landowners too well protected, and demanding ransom.
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the Daltons how to sing with disastrous results, and stops him from hanging himself to escape their terrible singing.
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due to not finding any usefulness for them to begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a reason good enough to convince even him to reconsider.
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[[folder:The Whittaker Theater Troupe]]
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A travelling group of actors, Whittaker Baltimore, Gladys Whimple, Barnaby Float and Francis Lusty, who specialize in melodramas, especially their own creation, ''The Dashing White Cowboy''. Secretly, the actors uses the troupe as a cover to commit robberies in the towns they visit.
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* BeneathSuspicion: The one actually committing the robberies is Francis Lusty, the troupes driver and machine operator, while most of the town is busy watching the play.
* CreepyCrossdresser: After the gang ends up in prison, Francis is forced into playing the Linda role when they put on shows for the other inmates, since Gladys wasn't arrested (and even if she was, would have gone to a women's prison).
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to the trope namer. Expectedly he isn't quite as theatrical about his villainy in his real life.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money the villains have stolen is hidden inside the doll used to portray Gladys' baby brother in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in white to show what a good guy he is.
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[[folder:Cass Casey]]
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A rich and influential cattle baron who demands total control of the prairie grasslands for himself and his cattle, harassing and attacking the farmers who try to set up their own homes there.
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* BerserkButton:
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To the point nearby store and diligences refuse to bring the stuff as it will end up with them wrapped in their product.
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he doesn't even seem to know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims to the grasslands, but Casey uses his wealth and influence to basically make him the de-facto ruler of the area.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than the farmers trying to divy up the prairie with barbed wire.
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[[folder:Phil Defer]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henry Djanik (1983 animated series)
Also known as "The Spider", Defer is a very tall, gangly hitman hired by O'Sullivan, the corrupt owner of the Ace of Spades saloon, to kill his competitor O'Hara, only to come in conflict with O'Hara's friend Lucky Luke.
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* {{Bowdlerisation}}: In the original version of the album, Luke actually shot him dead. In later editions, he's simply injured and left unable to hold a gun again.
* CareerEndingInjury: In the censored version, his hitman career is permanently ended by the shoulder injury Luke inflicts on him.
* TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also such that O'Hara tries to dissuade Luke from fighting him in a duel.
* DubNameChange: In the English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them to shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick enough to not fall.
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
* LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for the 19th century, to the point that he's too tall for the bed he sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and his body is thin, like a wire.
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait until Lucky Luke has shot the six bullets in his gun before counterattacking. Unfortunately for him he had no way of knowing that Luke had the only seven-shot gun in the west, allowing Luke to defeat him.
* ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
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[[folder:Dean Smith, Emperor Of the United States]]
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A wealthy rancher whose success and riches has made him delusional, making him believe he's the Emperor of the United States.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, and has his cowboys wear army uniforms and even issues edicts and currency for Grass Town to use.
* DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that with him gone, no one is paying them to keep up with this nonsense, and disperse, ending the rebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-life self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated and not truly a villain, he was still far more antagonistic than his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately didn't do any harm and was popular with the citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who nearly went to war.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the U.S, behind for good, disappearing into Mexico.
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[[folder:Jack Ready]]
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A corrupt rancher and long-time rival of Luke's friend Baddy. After Baddy's death, Ready had hoped to finally buy up Baddy's land and add them to his own, only for Baddy's nephew Waldo, a "tenderfoot" from England, show up to claim his inheritance, something Ready has no intention of allowing.
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* DirtyCoward: After he seemingly misses during the duel with Waldo at the end, Ready falls to his knees and begs for mercy, promising Waldo his lands if he's allowed to just walk away with his life.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European style of ten paces, using flintlock pistols with only one bullet.
* FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the town bartender is in on it, because the bottle in the saloon keeps decreasing despite Ready being the only person who can afford it.
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's tarred and feathered before being chased out of town.
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[[folder:August Oyster]]
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The owner of the local saloon in the town of El Plomo. Unbeknownst to the townsfolk or the nearby cavalry base, the saloon contains a secret tunnel that Oyster uses for smuggling weapons to a local Apache tribe. That is, until he runs afoul of Calamity Jane.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Idiotically bet his saloon in an arm-wrestling contest between Jane and his GiantMook, not realizing that Jane is ''much'' stronger than she looks, even holding back at first just so she could rake it in from anyone else dumb enough to bet against her.
* ArmsDealer: His true profession, the saloon just being a valuable cover since selling guns to the indians is insanely illegal.
* TheDandy: While they were certainly around in the Old West, you wouldn't expect to find this kind of character in a frontier town like El Plomo.
* DryCrusader: After he loses the saloon to Jane, he lies to the local women's teetotaler group about having a change of heart, and giving up his former life of vice and sin, hoping to use the group to get the saloon shut down so he can resume smuggling.
* SissyVillain: In direct contrast to Calamity Jane, Oyster is a ridiculous dandy who dresses in a pink suit and douses himself in perfume. He's also not much of an action guy, relying on his DumbMuscle minion for most physical tasks.
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[[folder:Frank Malone]]
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Originally the guide for a caravan of pioneers heading to California, Malone tried to extort the groups leader, Andrew Boston, for more money when they were barely halfway, and when Boston refused, tried to shoot him, only to be disarmed by Lucky Luke who happened to be nearby. Humiliated, Malone swore revenge and hid himself in the caravan disguised as an old woman, waiting for an opportunity to strike back.
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* BeneathSuspicion: There's no hint that the old woman is anything other than one of the unnamed members of the caravan.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined that the caravan fail, or even better, all die out in the wilderness, all because he was angry at Luke and Boston.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almost the entire story in disguise on one of the wagons, appearing on-panel several times throughout, but it's not revealed it's him until the climax.
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the climax... and promptly missed all six bullets in his gun. Justified as he himself points out, since he's been sitting in a bumpy wagon knitting for weeks on end, so his hands were shaking like leaves.
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the harness for the horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter two which could easily have resulted in his ''own'' death.
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[[folder:Bull Bullets]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An outlaw working of Senator Orwell Stormwind, a corrupt U.S Senator, living high off his employers dime and serving as a go-between for Stormwinds illegal alcohol and weapon sales to the indians in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. When a project to open up the Hills for settlement is proposed, Bullets is tasked with making sure the expedition fails by any means necessary.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Tries to prove that the "firewater" he's been selling the Indians is perfectly fine by drinking a whole bottle of it by himself, then drunkenly slurring about how he can "take on any man in this here saloon" (they're in an Indian camp in the middle of nowhere at the time). He then tries fighting Lucky Luke, and can't even land a single hit on him, even though Luke is standing still right in front of him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy for ''The Black Hills''.
* NonActionGuy: He does eventually get his hands dirty, but only as an absolute last resort. Normally, he prefers using sneakier tactics such as traps, ambushes, theft, and hiring other people to do the work for him.
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[[folder:Patronimo]]
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The chief of an Apache tribe that is feuding with the cavalry garrison led by Colonel O'Nolan, Patronimo is intent on continuing the Indian Wars, and blames the colonel for the loss of his father Bisteco, the tribe's original chief.
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* AscendedExtra: The AnimatedAdaptation feature him in some other episodes than his own, sometimes as an ally to Lucky Luke.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite his hatred for the white man, Patronimo is actually half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child and reared among the Apaches as one of them. He had grown tired of the endless bloodshed years ago and returned to Europe, but Patronimo refused to follow him.
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that the tribe's medicine man is actually O'Nolan's long lost son, having been reared by the Indians since childhood, he wants to execute him immediately just for being white, despite having spent his life as an Indian.
* TheSavageIndian: He acts like a normal person for the most part, but wholeheartedly embraces the stereotype when dealing with the cavalry in his desire for revenge against the white man.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping boulders on their wagons, and the cavalry always destroys their camp in retaliation afterwards. Both sides know that the traps are coming, and know how to avoid it, but refuse to stop.
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[[folder:Denver Miles and Colorado Bill]]
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[[caption-width-right:160:Denver Miles]]
A pair of card cheats and scam artists who have a tendency of getting themselves tarred and feathered for their crimes, only to immediately go right back to their craft in the next town over. When they accompany Luke to the abandoned boom town Gold Hill, they see yet another business opportunity.
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* BurnTheWitch: One of their plans to get rid of Powell is convincing the townsfolk they saw Powell performing black magic and try to get him lynched.
* CardSharp: Both of them, though Miles is better at it than Bill.
* TheCon: Their plan is to buy Powell's seemingly worthless mine, salt it with gold, and then cash in on the resultant inflated value. Problem is, Powell refuses to sell it.
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of both of them when they have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in Daisy Town as the last member of a bunch of tougher thugs, as they break their bottles to gang up on and stab Lucky aaand [[EpicFail he fails and keeps trying to for the entirety of the brawl]], until Lucky Luke helpfully breaks it for him, on his head.
* TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to make him a mark in Denver's eyes, to rob blind in the dead of the night.
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[[folder:Otto Von Hiimbergeist]]
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A visiting scientist from Austria, who's a pioneer in the fledgling field of psychology and psychiatry, Von Hiimbergeist has theorized that crime is a mental disorder that can be cured through therapy, and has come to the United States in the hopes of testing his theories on some of the worlds most notorious outlaws -- the Daltons.
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* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Despite predating Freud himself, the ending even mentions that Hiimbergeist's work will go on to influence Freud (who's still a child by this point in time).
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.
* FaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the start, but spending enough time around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than his chosen profession and decides to become a criminal himself.
* FreudianExcuse: Ironically as he tries to cure others of theirs, he has his own. It's implied that he always wanted to become a rich man, but that his strict intellectual father prevented from going into business as he wanted, which was only made worse by him being penniless after university. Exposition to the Daltons and their backstory reawakened his frustrations and greed, and caused him to become a criminal.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guards do his work while he rests.
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to become a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques for crime.
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[[folder:The Anarchist]]
An unnamed anarchist assassin who serves as the main threat in ''The Grand Duke'', having followed Grand Duke Leonid from Russia to the United States with the intention of murdering him for political reasons while the Duke is unprotected on foreign soil during his diplomatic trip.
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* BombThrowingAnarchist: An almost exact replica of 19th century caricatures of anarchists, right down to his clothes and weapons.
* ButtMonkey: He might be a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As a member of the anti-tsarist movement, he's very much in favor of violently murdering the rich, nobility especially.
* MadBomber: His preferred weapon, even though they have a tendency to backfire on him.
* SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing up his original target in exchange for a much higher-profile one.
* ThrowTheDogABone: In the animated adaptation, he eventually becomes rich when one of his failed attempts to blow up the grand duke reveals that a seemingly exhausted gold mine in fact still contains gold. With his new fortune, he decides to let the Duke be and starts a new life.
* UnknownRival: Due to his ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.
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[[folder:Barry Blunt]]
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A Texas lawyer turned would-be oil baron, Barry Blunt is the leader of a gang of claim jumpers trying to seize control over the oil wells in the small town of Titusville through force, and there is no one around who can stop him because almost every person in authority has deserted their jobs to look for oil.
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* AmoralAttorney: He was debarred and is technically not a lawyer anymore, but he's certainly still a scumbag who uses his extensive knowledge of the laws to avoid openly breaking any. That makes it incredibly difficult for Luke to pin anything on him.
* ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the man who first discovered the oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: Due to the lack of authority in the town, Blunt is able to essentially conquer it with his gang since there's no organized authority to stop him.
* TooDumbToLive: Keeps rehiring his henchman Bingle, despite Bingles insistence on getting re-arrested, because he found oil under his cell when he was in prison the last time.
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[[folder:Derek Flood]]
A disgraced former soldier and deserter from the 20th U.S Cavalry Regiment, Flood has set himself up as an arms dealer and allied himself with the local Cheyenne tribes led by Yellow Dog.
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* ArmsDealer: Has been selling weapons to the Indians on top of all his other crimes.
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smuggler and murderer who thinks nothing of assisting the Cheyenne in massacring his former comrades.
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[[folder:The Boss and Double-Six]]
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A diminutive card cheat and his dim-witted henchman from Poker Gulch, The Boss and Double-Six realize that the newly invented "one-armed bandit" (aka the slot machine), a creation by the gadget-obsessed Caille brothers, will put the livelihoods of crooked gamblers like themselves in jeopardy, since machines can't be hustled, and set out to destroy the machine by any means necessary.
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* CardSharp: While Double-Six can't be trusted to play a game of solitaire by himself, The Boss is a card cheat through and through, to the point that when Luke shakes him upside-down to disarm him, his jacket turns out to be full of ace cards.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss is a caricature of famous French actor Creator/LouisDeFunes, while Double-Six is one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pr%C3%A9jean Patrick Préjean]].
* DumbMuscle: Double-Six might as well be the guys IQ score.
* EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
* HeelFaceTurn: In what is likely the most abrupt one in the history of the series, the Boss is offered employment by the Pony Express after one of their managers see how fast he can get around while riding Double-Six. With the promise of a fair wage and three meals a day, the Boss immediately decides to abandon his former life as a cheating gambler, and instead turns over a new leaf as a Pony Express deliveryman, using Double-Six as his mount.
* HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point that he's able to ''outrun Jolly Jumper'', much to the shock of Jolly and Luke.
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
* SapientSteed: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness, the Boss starts using Double-Six as his new steed, which surprisingly turns out to be very effective.
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[[folder:The Original Dalton Gang]]
A notorious gang of outlaws, consisting of brothers Bob, Grat, Emmett and Bill Dalton, who spread terror throughout the West long before their inept cousins ever did.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Like a lot of legends from the Old West, the Daltons' reputation was heavily embellished over the years, while contemporary records showed them to be fairly incompetent, albeit not to the extent of their fictional cousins. Here, they're just as dangerous and vicious as their legends made them out to be.
* AdaptedOut: The reason the real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did not die in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end of the album, he's said to have been hanged with his brothers -- though this is {{Retcon}}ned in the later album ''The Dalton Uncles,'' where Emmet's fate is changed to be more in line with his historical counterpart.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In real life, the Daltons (with the exception of Emmett) were killed in a shootout with a posse of townspeople after their bank heist in Coffeyville failed. Here, they're defeated by Luke, taken to prison, and eventually hanged.
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original version of the comic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from his suspenders from a lamp. For obvious reasons, this was changed for the finished version as him just being captured in a barrel.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate is retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't actually a member of the gang in real life.
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.
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[[folder:Captain Lowriver]]
Captain of the riverboat "Asbestos D. Plower", with a questionable past and more than willing to use every low-down trick to get rid of the competition so he will have the Mississippi to himself.
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* {{Pirate}}: Captain Barrows calls him this, and he certainly has the methods of one. At one point he forces his passengers at gunpoint to dig his stranded boat out, and in the final stretch he dumps all his remaining passengers in Memphis, even those that had paid for the full trip to St. Louis.
* TheRival: Of captain Barrows of the "Daisy Belle", a straightforward honest captain.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries to win the boatrace by disabling the safety valve of his steam engine. [[StuffBlowingUp This does not end well for him.]]
* TheUnfought: He never confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on hired goons instead.
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[[folder:Cards Devon]]
The first of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious gambler and con man.
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* CardSharp: Is a cheater and crook, which is why Lowriver hired him to delay the "Daisy Belle", by playing with Bang, the Daisy Belle's mechanic, and making him lose all of his money so he would be too busy trying to get his money back instead of helping the "Daisy Belle" catch up with the "Asbestos D. Plower".
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fight with Lucky Luke, which is over before anyone can place their bets.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Lucky Luke uses on him to get him to admit he was hired by Lowriver.
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[[folder:Hardhead Wilson]]
The second of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious brawler.
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* AchillesHeel: He's ticklish, which is what ultimately defeats him.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature. His sole presence is enough to make the Daisy Belle's crew wants to desert until Luke promises to protect them.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard to the point that it can damage machines and deflect bullets.
* UseYourHead: As his name implies, his head is nearly invulnerable and he can do serious damage with a headbutt.
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[[folder:Explosion Harris]]
The third of Lowriver's hired goons, a saboteur specializing in making bombs. The AnimatedAdaptation renames him to "Slag" and makes him Lowriver's permanent sidekick.
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* AscendedExtra: In the original, he appears in just a few pages, but the animated version expanded his role.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Lucky Luke calmly returns his 'lost' suitcase to him, orders a drink, sits around for a bit and unhurriedly leaves, he becomes convinced that Luke already found and disabled the bomb inside. Turns out this was not the case.
* MadBomber: As his name implies.
* StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.
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[[folder:Pistol Pete]]
The fourth and final goon hired by Lowriver, a gunman and hired killer.
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* AlliterativeName: '''P'''istol '''P'''ete.
* BerserkButton: He can't stand having his gunman skills being questioned, which is how Luke defeats him by questioning his skills so he would waste his bullets into proving his aiming abilities.
* CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: All the other clients of the hotel where he resides have left because of his presence and people fear for Lucky Luke's life when he goes to confront him and run when he orders them to leave him alone with Luke.
* TheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the point that captain Lowriver and many others believe that he can actually kill Lucky Luke. However Luke outplay him by tricking him into wasting his ammo on trick shots.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the air with his bullets.
* MuggingTheMonster: Even without his gun he proves to be too tough for an alligator.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in the game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.
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[[folder:Mad Jim]]
An early enemy of Lucky Luke who happens to look exactly like him.
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* CriminalDoppelganger: Not only does he look just like Luke, but he dresses just like him too.
* EvilDetectingDog: Jolly Jumper immediately can tell Mad Jim is not the real Luke as he tries to ride him. In fact, he is used to tell Jim and Luke apart later on.
* KilledOffForReal: He's the only villain Luke is known to have actually killed (Phil Defer was SparedByTheAdaptation, and Bob Dalton's death was dropped at the sketching stage).
* StarterVillain: One of the earliest enemies ever faced by Luke, and the first notable one. He was preceded only by the somewhat forgettable Cactus Kid, Big Belly, and Cigarette Caesar.
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[[folder:Coyote Will, Beastly Blubber and Dopey]]
A trio of opportunistic criminals and land grabbers, using the colonization of Oklahoma as an opportunity to illegally grab all the best land for themselves.
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* AllForNothing: The villains scheming turns out to be completely pointless as the poor land and arid climate of Oklahoma isn't suited for traditional settlements. It ''is'' rich in oil, but it wasn't a useful resource at the time.
* CreepyMortician: After Dopey's heel-face turn, the local undertaker replaces him. He's one of the few undertakers in the series to actually join the bad guys instead of merely hoping that they will be good for business.
* DumbMuscle: Both Blubber and Dopey serve as this for Coyote Will. Dopey gets better.
* GrewASpine: Dopey after being elected mayor.
* HeelFaceTurn: In one of the best arcs of the series, Dopey goes from a DumbMuscle mook to an honest politician with Luke's support. He completes it by turning on his former boss even after everything falls apart.
* MayorPain: Coyote Will was depending on Dopey serving as this for him after he's elected mayor of Boomtown, but Luke convinces Dopey to be an honest leader.
* NominatedAsAPrank: Dopey's candidacy for mayor is considered hilarious by everyone. But since half the town is running and there are no clear favorites, people vote for him as a joke. He wins in a landslide.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: After things start going downhill, Coyote Will's newspaper keeps using the word "infamous" to describe Mayor Dopey. Will admits that people not knowing what it means is what makes it so effective.
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[[folder:Soapy Smith]]
A con man who runs the saloon in Skagway, sells worthless claims to the gold diggers there and operates a fake telegraph line, almost exactly like his historical counterpart. Luke encounters him when he and Waldo come looking for Waldo's old friend Jasper who went missing after finding gold.
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* TheArtifact: The name "Soapy" was a nickname given to the real-life Smith thanks to his prize soap racket in Denver in the late 1870's, where he sold bars of soap with dollar bills supposedly hidden in the wrapping as prizes (and the only people who ever got these "prizes" were his henchmen). This is not explained in the story, which takes place almost 20 years later after Smith set up shop in Klondike to take advantage of the gold rush.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Luke manipulates him into admitting his telegraph is fake in front of the gold diggers.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A comic-book version of con artist and gangster [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith Jefferson Randolph Smith II]], aka "Soapy" Smith.
* NotMeThisTime: Although he did sell Jasper a worthless claim and serves as the main antagonist of the story, he is actually not responsible for Jasper's ultimate disappearance.
* RunningGag: During every confrontation Luke forces him to twirl his gun around his finger, in the end making his trigger finger too swollen to actually operate his gun.
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[[folder:Quincy Quarterhouse]]
Also known as Q.Q., he's a rich asshole and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Lucky Luke comes into conflict with after inheriting a plantation.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Q'''uincy '''Q'''uarterhouse.
* TheDreaded: As a member of the KKK and a psychotic plantation owner, black people are afraid of him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: His racism prevents him from realizing that men like Luke don't view the world the same way he does and thinks that they're mad for not sharing his hatred of black people.
* EvilVersusEvil: He and the other KKK end up in a fight with the Daltons during the climax, with Joe strangling Quincy. It's one of the few times where the audience is expected to root for the Daltons.
* KilledOffForReal: It's all but stated that he was ''eaten by an alligator'' after the hurricane at the album's climax.
* NearVillainVictory: He is about to ''burn Luke at the stake'' when [[VillainousRescue the Daltons intervene]], mistaking him and the other Klan members for a Native American tribe and buy Bass Reeves enough time to arrive with TheCavalry.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a Grand Wizard of the KKK and former slave owner.
* SlaveBrand: He used to brand his slaves with "Q.Q.", which is why he's just called that by the black plantation workers.
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[[folder:Black Bart]]
One of several outlaws that try to rob the Wells Fargo gold shipment in ''The Stagecoach'', and the one who came the closest to doing so, Black Bart is an unusually intelligent and sophisticated outlaw, and one of ''very'' few villains to get the drop on Lucky Luke.
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* AdaptedOut: He's not in the AnimatedAdaptation, his role being subsumed by Sinclair Rawlins.
* AffablyEvil: He's very polite for a gangster, and even grants Jeremiah Fallings' request to take a photo of him.
* TheDreaded: Is far more feared by the Wells Fargo than any other outlaw, to the point that even with Lucky Luke's protection Hank Bully fears a confrontation with him and that the Wells Fargo has [[spoiler: the gold transported in secret in another diligence]]. Even Luke himself treats him with more caution than the other criminals.
* EvilGenius: He's actually just a grade school teacher, but considering that the average western outlaw can't even read, Black Bart's education puts him far ahead of the curve. He makes a dummy of himself in the middle of the road, allowing him to ambush Luke, and likes to compose poetry for his crimes.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real-life Black Bart, AKA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw) Charles E. Boles]].
* KarmaHoudini: Flees when Luke disarms him, and manages to escape the heroes since he knows the area better than they do. It would be several years before the law caught up with him.
* SecretIdentity: Black Bart is in reality a mild-mannered teacher named Charles Boles, though none of the characters find this out.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Wears a hood and robe to disguise his real identity.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Underneath his mask, Black Bart is a skinny, middle-aged man with a moustache and a receeding hairline.
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[[folder:Sinclair Rawlins]]
A humble, travelling minister who joins the characters on their journey to San Francisco in ''The Stagecoach'', hoping to spread the Good Word on the way - or so he claims. In reality, Rawlins is an outlaw, and the leader of the criminals that try to ambush the stagecoach at several points, hoping to steal the gold shipment it carries.
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* AdaptationExpansion: His role is expanded in the AnimatedAdaptation, where he's the biggest threat faced by the characters instead of Black Bart.
* AllForNothing: The gold wasn't even on the stagecoach in the first place, being transported to San Francisco by other means while all the attention as on the coach, making all of his efforts pointless.
* BookSafe: His bible is hollowed out and hides a gun.
* ConvictionByContradiction: Luke figures out he's fake by the fact that he only has some basic surface knowledge about his own religion and doesn't know what he's talking about.
* PreacherMan: Pretends to be one, and even dresses the part. It's all a lie.
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[[folder:Abraham Locker]]
A psychopathic prison warden obsessed with locking people and animals up, he wants to use the site of the Statue of Liberty for a high-security prison instead and thus has the attempts to transport the statue to the US from France sabotaged.
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* {{Expy}}: A very blatant expy of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
-->Darn taco-munchers. We oughtta build a wall between our countries.
* HateSink: One of the very few villains to make Lucky Luke himself genuinely angry.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He ends up locked up in his own prison.
* NonActionBigBad: He leaves all the dirty work to hired hands.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He is openly racist, and he hates the very concept of freedom.
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[[folder:D.T Zilch]]
A wealthy businessman and organizer of the popular Fort Coyote Annual Rodeo, Zilch is willing to resort to drastic measures to ensure that ringmaster Erasmus Mulligan and his Western Circus won't be any competition for his rodeo.
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* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Zilch has a large gap in his upper front teeth, which he covers with a large diamond. Unfortunately, it has a tendency to get knocked loose, and he talks like this without it.
* HeelFaceTurn: Zilch and Mulligan end up as business partners after the climax, when a visiting French businessman proposes that the rodeo and the circus merge together as a travelling Western show. The album ends with the group preparing for a tour through Europe.
* RemovingTheRival: Zilch goes to extremes to get rid of Mulligan and his circus, including sending a hitman after them and inciting an Indian attack.
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* AdaptationDistillation: Pretty much every animated adaption of the franchise (sans the '90s cartoon), ignores their original backstory of being the identical cousins of the “real-life” Dalton brothers trying to avenge their deceased relatives, and instead presents them as the one and only Dalton gang. The Creator/HannaBarbera series even adapts the ''Outlaws'' story for one episode but with them instead of Bob, Grat, Bill, and Emmett like the original comic version (and needless to say, they survive it).
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the '90s cartoon, they sport brown hair instead of their usual black.
* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attempt to avenge the real Dalton Brothers' death at the hands of Luke. Their hate of Luke has become more personal as the story goes on, though.
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks, with pudgier faces and their mustaches were simple tuffs of hair. As the overall art style of the comics became more detailed and polished, so did the Daltons’ design, and they gained more angular faces and long pencil mustaches, which is how they have been depicted ever since, including in all their animated appearance going as far back as 1971’s ''Daisy Town''.
* BackupTwin: Or cousins in that case. After the "real" Daltons were killed in ''Outlaws'', they got replaced by the more iconic gang who became recurring villains.
* BigLittleBrother: To the point where all their respective heights are inward proportional to their age. Joe is the oldest brother, William is younger, Jack is even younger, and Averell is the youngest.
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethal but one-shot villains who died at the end of their album; they ended up so popular that a new set of them were introduced, and ended up becoming as iconic as Luke himself.
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take it to such extreme that their uncle, Marcel Dalton, is considered a BlackSheep just because he is the only honest member of the family.
* CharacterExaggeration: In their first story, they came across as a little different; Joe as the hard-boiled leader, William as a TriggerHappy {{Gunslinger}}, Jack as a MasterOfDisguise, and Averell as a strong and athletic -- if dense and food-obsessed -- [[TheBrute Brute]]. In subsequent stories, Joe remained mostly the same (though his HairTriggerTemper was enhanced quite a bit), Jack and William pretty much lost their individual traits and became full-time CoDragons to Joe, while Averell lost his strength and whatever competence he had and became more like a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
* ChronicVillainy: Any story about someone trying to redeem the Daltons (the ''Marcel Dalton'' story being the most notable example) is doomed to end up as a ShaggyDogStory.
* ContinuitySnarl: Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, William and Jack swap names. It happens first in their début story (for the first half, William is the shorter and Jack the taller; then it switches in the second half, making William taller and Jack shorter), and in some stories afterwards. In the 2006 movie and the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]], the two brothers' names are likewise swapped.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]] with Lucky Luke ([[MoodWhiplash until its abrupt and comical resolution]]). From their second screen appearance in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' onward, they would go back to their purely comedic personalities.
* DisappearedDad: It's not clear what happened to their father, but he clearly isn't around anymore. ''Belle Starr'' has Ma Dalton mentioning a NoodleIncident about him using dynamite, suggesting he might be dead. ''Ma Dalton'' implies that he accidentally killed himself while using dynamite to force a safe.
* TheDreaded: As incompetent as they can be when they are pitted against Luke, they are dangerous enough to scare the crap of almost everyone else.
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas for the Daltons'', their training to infiltrate as a mariachi band goes so badly their instructor (a hardened bandito) tries to ''hang himself''.
* EnfantTerrible: According to their mama, some wanted posters in Daisy Town and a spin-off they were pretty mean (and pretty backwards) even as kids. Joe surpassed them all, by far, however.
* EscapeArtist: Whatever prison they end up in, they will always break out.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: They honestly love Ma Dalton, and at no point do they turn against her. Not even [[TheUnfavourite Joe]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each other and Joe abuses his brothers, they always stick together and have each other's backs. In one book of the Rantanplan spin-off, when Averell gets abducted, Joe is genuinely outraged at the Warden, and they escape for the sole purpose of rescuing him.
** This extends to any and all relatives they have. To the Daltons, family is more important than ''anything'' else -- they can argue and fight and occasionally try to trick each other, sure, but if a family member is in need, the Daltons are there. Even CardCarryingVillain Joe is sympathetic towards WhiteSheep Marcel Dalton, reassuring him that he's heard living an honest life isn't ''that'' terrible.
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (while he does get tired of always having to be the one capturing them when they escape) and tends to treat them fairly nicely, especially in later albums. When they get sentenced to death, he even tries everything he can to save them, down to trying to convince the ''President''.
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them, like in ''Ma Dalton'' (where Joe, William, and Jack shave them to better impersonate their mother).
* GreekChorus: After being introduced with different skill sets, William and Jack [[{{Flanderization}} soon settled down to become interchangeable middle brothers who function this way]] between their more fleshed-out siblings Joe and Averell. Which helps to explain why even their creators Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: They're not the real Dalton brothers, but their identical cousins. However, their general incompetence was inspired by the lackluster record of the real Dalton gang, in particular their incredibly bungled final raid.
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits less frequently, especially in later animated adaptions, like the 2007 movie ''Go West!'' and their own spin-off series.
* IdiotBall: While Averell is the default holder, it gets passed around ''a lot'' among the four of them.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of a threat, and will probably just as easily foil their own schemes with their stupidity as they will get captured by Luke.
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death in a later album, but take advantage on an old law saving them from the sentence if they get married. Their marriage is cancelled at the end of the book and their former father-in-law, an indian chief, makes the authorities promise to not sentence them to death.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, the new Daltons were portrayed as so incompetent Luke was actually eager to meet them again because he found them entertaining. They eventually took lessons and became as dangerous as the original Daltons, as long as they weren't confronted with Luke himself.
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one of their typical poses.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, while Averell is the tallest and the most dimwitted. However, it is actually a subversion in that Joe may think he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most malevolent or evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Luke but there has been at least one time when he, William and Jack cheated at a poker game which would determine who gets to off him. Also William was offered once the chance to kill Luke as consolation for Joe marrying the woman that he liked.
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn't change and remains their weak point which Lucky uses to defeat them.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merely shaving their mustache and wearing her clothes.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminate him at first chance. It extends to civilians too. In the ''Daltons in the Blizzard'' they thank the Indians who saved them from drowning by violently stealing from them their sled.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the '90s cartoon, they sport brown hair instead of their usual black.
* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attempt to avenge the real Dalton Brothers' death at the hands of Luke. Their hate of Luke has become more personal as the story goes on, though.
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks, with pudgier faces and their mustaches were simple tuffs of hair. As the overall art style of the comics became more detailed and polished, so did the Daltons’ design, and they gained more angular faces and long pencil mustaches, which is how they have been depicted ever since, including in all their animated appearance going as far back as 1971’s ''Daisy Town''.
* BackupTwin: Or cousins in that case. After the "real" Daltons were killed in ''Outlaws'', they got replaced by the more iconic gang who became recurring villains.
* BigLittleBrother: To the point where all their respective heights are inward proportional to their age. Joe is the oldest brother, William is younger, Jack is even younger, and Averell is the youngest.
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethal but one-shot villains who died at the end of their album; they ended up so popular that a new set of them were introduced, and ended up becoming as iconic as Luke himself.
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take it to such extreme that their uncle, Marcel Dalton, is considered a BlackSheep just because he is the only honest member of the family.
* CharacterExaggeration: In their first story, they came across as a little different; Joe as the hard-boiled leader, William as a TriggerHappy {{Gunslinger}}, Jack as a MasterOfDisguise, and Averell as a strong and athletic -- if dense and food-obsessed -- [[TheBrute Brute]]. In subsequent stories, Joe remained mostly the same (though his HairTriggerTemper was enhanced quite a bit), Jack and William pretty much lost their individual traits and became full-time CoDragons to Joe, while Averell lost his strength and whatever competence he had and became more like a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
* ChronicVillainy: Any story about someone trying to redeem the Daltons (the ''Marcel Dalton'' story being the most notable example) is doomed to end up as a ShaggyDogStory.
* ContinuitySnarl: Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, William and Jack swap names. It happens first in their début story (for the first half, William is the shorter and Jack the taller; then it switches in the second half, making William taller and Jack shorter), and in some stories afterwards. In the 2006 movie and the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]], the two brothers' names are likewise swapped.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]] with Lucky Luke ([[MoodWhiplash until its abrupt and comical resolution]]). From their second screen appearance in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' onward, they would go back to their purely comedic personalities.
* DisappearedDad: It's not clear what happened to their father, but he clearly isn't around anymore. ''Belle Starr'' has Ma Dalton mentioning a NoodleIncident about him using dynamite, suggesting he might be dead. ''Ma Dalton'' implies that he accidentally killed himself while using dynamite to force a safe.
* TheDreaded: As incompetent as they can be when they are pitted against Luke, they are dangerous enough to scare the crap of almost everyone else.
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas for the Daltons'', their training to infiltrate as a mariachi band goes so badly their instructor (a hardened bandito) tries to ''hang himself''.
* EnfantTerrible: According to their mama, some wanted posters in Daisy Town and a spin-off they were pretty mean (and pretty backwards) even as kids. Joe surpassed them all, by far, however.
* EscapeArtist: Whatever prison they end up in, they will always break out.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: They honestly love Ma Dalton, and at no point do they turn against her. Not even [[TheUnfavourite Joe]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each other and Joe abuses his brothers, they always stick together and have each other's backs. In one book of the Rantanplan spin-off, when Averell gets abducted, Joe is genuinely outraged at the Warden, and they escape for the sole purpose of rescuing him.
** This extends to any and all relatives they have. To the Daltons, family is more important than ''anything'' else -- they can argue and fight and occasionally try to trick each other, sure, but if a family member is in need, the Daltons are there. Even CardCarryingVillain Joe is sympathetic towards WhiteSheep Marcel Dalton, reassuring him that he's heard living an honest life isn't ''that'' terrible.
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (while he does get tired of always having to be the one capturing them when they escape) and tends to treat them fairly nicely, especially in later albums. When they get sentenced to death, he even tries everything he can to save them, down to trying to convince the ''President''.
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them, like in ''Ma Dalton'' (where Joe, William, and Jack shave them to better impersonate their mother).
* GreekChorus: After being introduced with different skill sets, William and Jack [[{{Flanderization}} soon settled down to become interchangeable middle brothers who function this way]] between their more fleshed-out siblings Joe and Averell. Which helps to explain why even their creators Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: They're not the real Dalton brothers, but their identical cousins. However, their general incompetence was inspired by the lackluster record of the real Dalton gang, in particular their incredibly bungled final raid.
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits less frequently, especially in later animated adaptions, like the 2007 movie ''Go West!'' and their own spin-off series.
* IdiotBall: While Averell is the default holder, it gets passed around ''a lot'' among the four of them.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of a threat, and will probably just as easily foil their own schemes with their stupidity as they will get captured by Luke.
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death in a later album, but take advantage on an old law saving them from the sentence if they get married. Their marriage is cancelled at the end of the book and their former father-in-law, an indian chief, makes the authorities promise to not sentence them to death.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, the new Daltons were portrayed as so incompetent Luke was actually eager to meet them again because he found them entertaining. They eventually took lessons and became as dangerous as the original Daltons, as long as they weren't confronted with Luke himself.
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one of their typical poses.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, while Averell is the tallest and the most dimwitted. However, it is actually a subversion in that Joe may think he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most malevolent or evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Luke but there has been at least one time when he, William and Jack cheated at a poker game which would determine who gets to off him. Also William was offered once the chance to kill Luke as consolation for Joe marrying the woman that he liked.
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn't change and remains their weak point which Lucky uses to defeat them.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merely shaving their mustache and wearing her clothes.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminate him at first chance. It extends to civilians too. In the ''Daltons in the Blizzard'' they thank the Indians who saved them from drowning by violently stealing from them their sled.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''.
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* AdaptationDistillation: Pretty much every animated adaption of the franchise (sans the '90s cartoon), ignores their original backstory of being the identical cousins of the “real-life” Dalton brothers trying to avenge their deceased relatives, ArchEnemy: Lucky Luke's greatest and instead presents them as the one and only Dalton gang. most recurring enemy after The Creator/HannaBarbera series even adapts the ''Outlaws'' story for one episode but with them instead of Bob, Grat, Bill, and Emmett Daltons.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like theoriginal comic brat that he is, rather than for the greatest outlaw he believes himself to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as a hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front of the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version(and needless of the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent tosay, they survive it).be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
*AdaptationDyeJob: In the '90s cartoon, they sport brown hair instead of their usual black.
* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attempt to avenge the real Dalton Brothers' deathKidsAreCruel: Committed his first robbery at the hands age of Luke. Their hate 6, and when he was punished for it by his father, he ran away from home and embarked on a life of Luke has become more personal as crime.
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but thestory goes on, though.
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks,comic still tends to play up his childish antics as ComedicSociopathy. He forbids a Saloon owner to sell anything else than lemonades and threatens a man with pudgier faces a gun so he would tell him a bedtime story, amongst other things.
* TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete with each other over who's the better outlaw andtheir mustaches were simple tuffs of hair. As who is Lucky Luke's greatest enemy.
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By theoverall art style time of the comics became more detailed present, he's 14 and polished, so did the Daltons’ design, and they gained more angular faces and long pencil mustaches, which is how they have been depicted ever since, including in all their animated appearance going as far back as 1971’s ''Daisy Town''.
a sadistic, thieving monster.
*BackupTwin: Or cousins in that case. After the "real" Daltons were killed in ''Outlaws'', they got replaced by the more iconic gang who became recurring villains.
TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
*BigLittleBrother: To the point where all their respective heights are inward proportional to their age. Joe is the oldest brother, William is younger, Jack is even younger, and Averell is the youngest.
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethal but one-shot villains who died at the end of their album; they ended up so popular thatTroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a new set of them were introduced, and ended up becoming as iconic as Luke himself.
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take it to such extreme that their uncle, Marcel Dalton, is considered a BlackSheep just because he isbaby the only honest member of the family.
* CharacterExaggeration: In theirthing that could stop him from crying was using his dad's revolver as a sucker (wasn't loaded). At 6, he committed his first story, they came across as a little different; Joe as the hard-boiled leader, William as a TriggerHappy {{Gunslinger}}, Jack as a MasterOfDisguise, robbery and Averell as a strong and athletic -- if dense and food-obsessed -- [[TheBrute Brute]]. In subsequent stories, Joe remained mostly the same (though at his HairTriggerTemper was enhanced quite a bit), Jack and William pretty much lost their individual traits and became full-time CoDragons to Joe, while Averell lost his strength and whatever competence he had and became more like a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
* ChronicVillainy: Any storycurrent age, about someone trying to redeem the Daltons (the ''Marcel Dalton'' story being the most notable example) is doomed to end up as 14, he terrorized a ShaggyDogStory.
whole town.
*ContinuitySnarl: Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, William and Jack swap names. It happens first in their début story (for the first half, William is the shorter and Jack the taller; then it switches in the second half, making William taller and Jack shorter), and in some stories afterwards. In the 2006 movie and the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]], the two brothers' names are likewise swapped.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]]UnknownRival: He takes his feud with Lucky Luke ([[MoodWhiplash until its abrupt far more seriously than Luke does, as Luke just views and comical resolution]]). From their second screen appearance in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' onward, they would go back to their purely comedic personalities.
* DisappearedDad: It's not clear what happened to their father, but he clearly isn't around anymore. ''Belle Starr'' has Ma Dalton mentioning a NoodleIncident abouttreats him using dynamite, suggesting he might be dead. ''Ma Dalton'' implies that he accidentally killed himself as a brat, even completely ignoring him when Billy threatened to shoot him while using dynamite to force a safe.
* TheDreaded: As incompetent as they can be when they are pitted against Luke, they are dangerous enough to scare the crap of almost everyone else.
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas for the Daltons'', their training to infiltrate as a mariachi band goes so badly their instructor (a hardened bandito) tries to ''hang himself''.
* EnfantTerrible: According to their mama, some wanted posters in Daisy Town and a spin-off they were pretty mean (and pretty backwards) even as kids. Joe surpassed them all, by far, however.
* EscapeArtist: Whatever prison they end up in, they will always break out.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: They honestly love Ma Dalton, and at no point do they turn against her. Not even [[TheUnfavourite Joe]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each other and Joe abuses his brothers, they always stick together and have each other's backs. In one book of the Rantanplan spin-off, when Averell gets abducted, Joe is genuinely outraged at the Warden, and they escape for the sole purpose of rescuing him.
** This extends to any and all relatives they have. To the Daltons, family is more important than ''anything'' else -- they can argue and fight and occasionally try to trick each other, sure, but if a family member is in need, the Daltons are there. Even CardCarryingVillain Joe is sympathetic towards WhiteSheep Marcel Dalton, reassuring him that he's heard living an honest life isn't ''that'' terrible.
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (whilehe does get tired of always having to be the one capturing them when they escape) and tends to treat them fairly nicely, especially in later albums. When they get sentenced to death, he even tries everything he can to save them, down to trying to convince the ''President''.
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them, like in ''Ma Dalton'' (where Joe, William, and Jack shave them to better impersonate their mother).
* GreekChorus: After being introduced with different skill sets, William and Jack [[{{Flanderization}} soon settled down to become interchangeable middle brothers who function this way]] between their more fleshed-out siblings Joe and Averell. Which helps to explain why even their creators Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: They're not the real Dalton brothers, but their identical cousins. However, their general incompetencewas inspired by the lackluster record of the real Dalton gang, in particular their incredibly bungled final raid.
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits less frequently, especially in later animated adaptions, like the 2007 movie ''Go West!'' and their own spin-off series.
* IdiotBall: While Averell is the default holder, it gets passed around ''a lot'' among the four of them.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of a threat, and will probably just as easily foil their own schemes with their stupidity as they will get captured by Luke.
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death in a later album, but take advantage on an old law saving them from the sentence if they get married. Their marriage is cancelled at the end of the book and their former father-in-law, an indian chief, makes the authorities promise to not sentence them to death.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, the new Daltons were portrayed as so incompetent Luke was actually eager to meet them again because he found them entertaining. They eventually took lessons and became as dangerous as the original Daltons, as long as they weren't confronted with Luke himself.
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one of their typical poses.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, while Averell is the tallest and the most dimwitted. However, it is actually a subversion in that Joe may think he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most malevolent or evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Luke but there has been at least one time when he, William and Jack cheated at a poker game which would determine who gets to off him. Also William was offered once the chance to kill Luke as consolation for Joe marrying the woman that he liked.
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn't change and remains their weak point which Lucky uses to defeat them.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merelyshaving their mustache and wearing her clothes.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminate him at first chance. It extends to civilians too. In the ''Daltons in the Blizzard'' they thank the Indians who saved them from drowning by violently stealing from them their sled.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''.singing.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as a hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front of the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
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* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attempt to avenge the real Dalton Brothers' death
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but the
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks,
* TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete with each other over who's the better outlaw and
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By the
*
*
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethal but one-shot villains who died at the end of their album; they ended up so popular that
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take it to such extreme that their uncle, Marcel Dalton, is considered a BlackSheep just because he is
* CharacterExaggeration: In their
* ChronicVillainy: Any story
*
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]]
* DisappearedDad: It's not clear what happened to their father, but he clearly isn't around anymore. ''Belle Starr'' has Ma Dalton mentioning a NoodleIncident about
* TheDreaded: As incompetent as they can be when they are pitted against Luke, they are dangerous enough to scare the crap of almost everyone else.
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas for the Daltons'', their training to infiltrate as a mariachi band goes so badly their instructor (a hardened bandito) tries to ''hang himself''.
* EnfantTerrible: According to their mama, some wanted posters in Daisy Town and a spin-off they were pretty mean (and pretty backwards) even as kids. Joe surpassed them all, by far, however.
* EscapeArtist: Whatever prison they end up in, they will always break out.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: They honestly love Ma Dalton, and at no point do they turn against her. Not even [[TheUnfavourite Joe]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each other and Joe abuses his brothers, they always stick together and have each other's backs. In one book of the Rantanplan spin-off, when Averell gets abducted, Joe is genuinely outraged at the Warden, and they escape for the sole purpose of rescuing him.
** This extends to any and all relatives they have. To the Daltons, family is more important than ''anything'' else -- they can argue and fight and occasionally try to trick each other, sure, but if a family member is in need, the Daltons are there. Even CardCarryingVillain Joe is sympathetic towards WhiteSheep Marcel Dalton, reassuring him that he's heard living an honest life isn't ''that'' terrible.
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (while
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them, like in ''Ma Dalton'' (where Joe, William, and Jack shave them to better impersonate their mother).
* GreekChorus: After being introduced with different skill sets, William and Jack [[{{Flanderization}} soon settled down to become interchangeable middle brothers who function this way]] between their more fleshed-out siblings Joe and Averell. Which helps to explain why even their creators Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: They're not the real Dalton brothers, but their identical cousins. However, their general incompetence
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits less frequently, especially in later animated adaptions, like the 2007 movie ''Go West!'' and their own spin-off series.
* IdiotBall: While Averell is the default holder, it gets passed around ''a lot'' among the four of them.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of a threat, and will probably just as easily foil their own schemes with their stupidity as they will get captured by Luke.
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death in a later album, but take advantage on an old law saving them from the sentence if they get married. Their marriage is cancelled at the end of the book and their former father-in-law, an indian chief, makes the authorities promise to not sentence them to death.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, the new Daltons were portrayed as so incompetent Luke was actually eager to meet them again because he found them entertaining. They eventually took lessons and became as dangerous as the original Daltons, as long as they weren't confronted with Luke himself.
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one of their typical poses.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, while Averell is the tallest and the most dimwitted. However, it is actually a subversion in that Joe may think he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most malevolent or evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Luke but there has been at least one time when he, William and Jack cheated at a poker game which would determine who gets to off him. Also William was offered once the chance to kill Luke as consolation for Joe marrying the woman that he liked.
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn't change and remains their weak point which Lucky uses to defeat them.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merely
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminate him at first chance. It extends to civilians too. In the ''Daltons in the Blizzard'' they thank the Indians who saved them from drowning by violently stealing from them their sled.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''.
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!!!'''Played by:''' Ron Carey (1991 film) and Éric Judor (''Les Dalton'', 2004 film)
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!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Johan Hedenberg
!!!'''Played by:''' Ron Carey (1991 film) and Éric Judor (''Les Dalton'', 2004 film)
The oldest, but shortest, of the brothers and the mastermind of their various schemes and prison breaks.
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* {{Angrish}}: Pretty much his most frequent state.
* ArchEnemy: What the Joker is to Batman, Joe is to Lucky Luke. At least in his mind.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The most adherent about the outlaw's life he was raised in, to the point he considers being called honest citizen an insult. While the other brothers could learn a trade or have other hobbies (cards for William and reading for Jack) Joe is all about robbery and revenge.
* BerserkButton:
** Any mention of Lucky Luke's name is sure to make him go completely crazy. Same goes for seeing him in person, for that matter.
** [[EnragedByIdiocy Averell's antics]] are a close second.
* BigBad: The closest thing the series has to a recurring one. He is the leader of the Daltons, the most recurring villain in the franchise, and he has a sworn hatred towards Luke.
* BigBrotherBully: To Averell. Though to be fair, his anger and brutality usually is provoked by Averell's stupidity more than anything. Otherwise, it has been shown he does care about all his brothers, Averell included.
* BookDumb: In his own mind he is by far the smartest of his brothers, but he is completely uneducated and unfamiliar with anything you would learn in school. To give an example, he thinks UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus was the first authentic American. His one area of expertise is crime.
* ButtMonkey: He is often subject to slapstick, things almost never go his way, and he is TheUnfavourite to his mother.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Out of all the Daltons, he is by far the most proud to be a criminal, to the point that when he was pardoned once (due to the telegraph operator screwing up a message telling the prison to release an inmate named Joe ''Milton'') Joe refused to leave, feeling insulted, and had to be thrown out.
* CosmicPlaything: He is probably as unlucky as Luke is lucky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ok not deadpan per se, but even he can get snarky considering how stupid people around him are.
* EnragedByIdiocy: He has zero tolerance for the antics of his dumbass brother Averell and regularly enrages (and usually beats him up) because of them.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs, but Joe becomes sick when he gets money that he didn't steal himself, becoming terrified and even collapsing once when he discovers that money that wasn't stolen by him was added to his loot. Lucky Luke even lampshades this, saying that Joe deep down is honest for not keeping money that he didn't rob himself.
* EvilGenius: When he is not carrying the IdiotBall, he is the smartest of the four. Ahem, by comparison.
* EvilIsPetty: He has no trouble going for revenge where there's no gain in it, or will forsake whatever advantage/gain he has for revenge. In the end of "The Daltons Stash", when he found out he'd been lied to about hidden treasure, he broke out of prison to get to another prison to beat up the prisoner who gave him that lie.
* FatalFlaw:
** Wrath. His temper and resentment are just as much a detriment to him as his bad luck.
** Pride. His pride has often prevented him from thinking rationally and Luke has used it against him plenty of times.
** Greed. Whenever there is money to be taken, Joe will always go for it. He always attempts to rob a bank, even when it always ends with him and his brothers arrested by Lucky Luke and he will grab any money in the general vicinity, even when the situation required him not to steal the money. He admits that the last thing is a problem though.
* ForTheEvulz: He loves the outlaw life and not just for the money. In fact considering that the idea of legally buying something seems like a bad habit to him, the loot is treated more like a trophy and its the infamy and terror that really drives him. This stands out in at least two cases. Once when their new leader said that they would go on a bloodless crime-spree he expressed a desire to bring dynamite and for at least some blood to be spilled. He also planned on hanging the first sheriff that arrested him and his brothers on his wedding day.
* GunNut: Anytime he has a gun, he threatens to shoot people just to calm his nerves.
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Regularly verbally and physically abuses his brothers, especially Averell, and out of the four he is the most inclined to commit crime.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** When he explains to the Natives the effect the people of Daisy Town will have on them.
** Also, in the Rantanplan spin-off, he at one point calls out the Warden for failing not only to prevent them from escaping, but also to prevent people from entering in the Penitentiary to abduct prisoners. While the scene is played for laughs, the Wardens ''do'' suck at their job.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Ma Dalton he's the one who's the most like his late father, explaining that it's why she always had a soft spot for him despite being hard on him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Has his moments, like when he convinces the Natives to attack Daisy Town.
* MisterBig: Shortest of the brothers and also the one in charge.
* TheNapoleon: Jack even compares the two at one point.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He occasionally comes up with good plans, such as the one of passing himself and their brothers as Ma Dalton to rob banks, knowing that bankers wouldn't expect Ma to be dangerous and that reports of Ma Dalton being everywhere would disorientate Lucky Luke and the authorities. The plan works smoothly, even more when Ma joins in, with Luke and the authorities being unable of catching them until Luke formulates a trap involving "Mother's Day" to catch Joe's brothers using their desire to please Ma.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He often insists on killing Luke himself. He's even saved him a few times, just so he could have the chance to kill Luke himself.
* PsychopathicManchild: When all the other kids liked to play cowboys and Indians he liked to play cops and robbers most likely without the cops, a game that he never stopped. There is much tantrum-throwing when either his Ma or Lucky Luke spoil his playing.
* TheResenter: Out of all his brothers, he is the one who hates Luke the most.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, but it is actually a subversion in that he thinks he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', in an attempt to buy time to find the loot he and his brothers stole from the New York City banks and hid in one of several wagons, he manipulates a group of settlers into thinking that the journey to California would be much more perilous than they believed, forcing Luke to accompany them and bring them along, giving them eighty days to find the loot. In doing so, he foiled Edgar Crook's plan to cheat the settlers out of their money and their lands by having Luke overcome every attempt at sabotage Crook threw the settlers' way.
* TriggerHappy: His answer for the slightest provocation is to shoot it.
* TheUnfavourite: He has a big issue with Ma Dalton liking Averell more than him. However, she eventually reveals that Joe is actually her favorite because he is just like his father. The reason she is so hard on him is because he is the smartest and toughest of his brothers and needs to be able to look after them, since they would likely get themselves killed without him.
* ArchEnemy: What the Joker is to Batman, Joe is to Lucky Luke. At least in his mind.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The most adherent about the outlaw's life he was raised in, to the point he considers being called honest citizen an insult. While the other brothers could learn a trade or have other hobbies (cards for William and reading for Jack) Joe is all about robbery and revenge.
* BerserkButton:
** Any mention of Lucky Luke's name is sure to make him go completely crazy. Same goes for seeing him in person, for that matter.
** [[EnragedByIdiocy Averell's antics]] are a close second.
* BigBad: The closest thing the series has to a recurring one. He is the leader of the Daltons, the most recurring villain in the franchise, and he has a sworn hatred towards Luke.
* BigBrotherBully: To Averell. Though to be fair, his anger and brutality usually is provoked by Averell's stupidity more than anything. Otherwise, it has been shown he does care about all his brothers, Averell included.
* BookDumb: In his own mind he is by far the smartest of his brothers, but he is completely uneducated and unfamiliar with anything you would learn in school. To give an example, he thinks UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus was the first authentic American. His one area of expertise is crime.
* ButtMonkey: He is often subject to slapstick, things almost never go his way, and he is TheUnfavourite to his mother.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Out of all the Daltons, he is by far the most proud to be a criminal, to the point that when he was pardoned once (due to the telegraph operator screwing up a message telling the prison to release an inmate named Joe ''Milton'') Joe refused to leave, feeling insulted, and had to be thrown out.
* CosmicPlaything: He is probably as unlucky as Luke is lucky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ok not deadpan per se, but even he can get snarky considering how stupid people around him are.
* EnragedByIdiocy: He has zero tolerance for the antics of his dumbass brother Averell and regularly enrages (and usually beats him up) because of them.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs, but Joe becomes sick when he gets money that he didn't steal himself, becoming terrified and even collapsing once when he discovers that money that wasn't stolen by him was added to his loot. Lucky Luke even lampshades this, saying that Joe deep down is honest for not keeping money that he didn't rob himself.
* EvilGenius: When he is not carrying the IdiotBall, he is the smartest of the four. Ahem, by comparison.
* EvilIsPetty: He has no trouble going for revenge where there's no gain in it, or will forsake whatever advantage/gain he has for revenge. In the end of "The Daltons Stash", when he found out he'd been lied to about hidden treasure, he broke out of prison to get to another prison to beat up the prisoner who gave him that lie.
* FatalFlaw:
** Wrath. His temper and resentment are just as much a detriment to him as his bad luck.
** Pride. His pride has often prevented him from thinking rationally and Luke has used it against him plenty of times.
** Greed. Whenever there is money to be taken, Joe will always go for it. He always attempts to rob a bank, even when it always ends with him and his brothers arrested by Lucky Luke and he will grab any money in the general vicinity, even when the situation required him not to steal the money. He admits that the last thing is a problem though.
* ForTheEvulz: He loves the outlaw life and not just for the money. In fact considering that the idea of legally buying something seems like a bad habit to him, the loot is treated more like a trophy and its the infamy and terror that really drives him. This stands out in at least two cases. Once when their new leader said that they would go on a bloodless crime-spree he expressed a desire to bring dynamite and for at least some blood to be spilled. He also planned on hanging the first sheriff that arrested him and his brothers on his wedding day.
* GunNut: Anytime he has a gun, he threatens to shoot people just to calm his nerves.
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Regularly verbally and physically abuses his brothers, especially Averell, and out of the four he is the most inclined to commit crime.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** When he explains to the Natives the effect the people of Daisy Town will have on them.
** Also, in the Rantanplan spin-off, he at one point calls out the Warden for failing not only to prevent them from escaping, but also to prevent people from entering in the Penitentiary to abduct prisoners. While the scene is played for laughs, the Wardens ''do'' suck at their job.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Ma Dalton he's the one who's the most like his late father, explaining that it's why she always had a soft spot for him despite being hard on him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Has his moments, like when he convinces the Natives to attack Daisy Town.
* MisterBig: Shortest of the brothers and also the one in charge.
* TheNapoleon: Jack even compares the two at one point.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He occasionally comes up with good plans, such as the one of passing himself and their brothers as Ma Dalton to rob banks, knowing that bankers wouldn't expect Ma to be dangerous and that reports of Ma Dalton being everywhere would disorientate Lucky Luke and the authorities. The plan works smoothly, even more when Ma joins in, with Luke and the authorities being unable of catching them until Luke formulates a trap involving "Mother's Day" to catch Joe's brothers using their desire to please Ma.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He often insists on killing Luke himself. He's even saved him a few times, just so he could have the chance to kill Luke himself.
* PsychopathicManchild: When all the other kids liked to play cowboys and Indians he liked to play cops and robbers most likely without the cops, a game that he never stopped. There is much tantrum-throwing when either his Ma or Lucky Luke spoil his playing.
* TheResenter: Out of all his brothers, he is the one who hates Luke the most.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, but it is actually a subversion in that he thinks he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', in an attempt to buy time to find the loot he and his brothers stole from the New York City banks and hid in one of several wagons, he manipulates a group of settlers into thinking that the journey to California would be much more perilous than they believed, forcing Luke to accompany them and bring them along, giving them eighty days to find the loot. In doing so, he foiled Edgar Crook's plan to cheat the settlers out of their money and their lands by having Luke overcome every attempt at sabotage Crook threw the settlers' way.
* TriggerHappy: His answer for the slightest provocation is to shoot it.
* TheUnfavourite: He has a big issue with Ma Dalton liking Averell more than him. However, she eventually reveals that Joe is actually her favorite because he is just like his father. The reason she is so hard on him is because he is the smartest and toughest of his brothers and needs to be able to look after them, since they would likely get themselves killed without him.
to:
* {{Angrish}}: Pretty much AlliterativeName: '''J'''esse '''J'''ames.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the movie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which may or may not have anything to do with hismost frequent state.
fanboying of Robin Hood.
*ArchEnemy: What CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane and Billy the Joker is to Batman, Joe is to Lucky Luke. At least in Kid, his mind.
earlier portrayal actually did somewhat look like his final design.
*BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The most adherent DemotedToExtra: After his album and being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the end of the episode that was about the outlaw's rivalry of Joe Dalton and Billy the Kid as a third possible candidate for the title of worst desperado.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After hewas raised in, started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to thepoint poor" a bit too literally; whenever he considers being called honest citizen an insult. While the other brothers could learn a trade or have other hobbies (cards for William and reading for Jack) Joe is all about robbery and revenge.
* BerserkButton:
** Any mention of Lucky Luke's name is suregives money to make him go completely crazy. Same goes for seeing him in person, for a poor, that matter.
** [[EnragedByIdiocy Averell's antics]] areperson instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. He ends up using a close second.
* BigBad: The closest thingLoopholeAbuse to share the series has to a recurring one. He is money with his brother and his cousin, by having them taking turns in playing the leader "Poor" role.
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of theDaltons, the most recurring villain in the franchise, and he has a sworn hatred towards Luke.
* BigBrotherBully: To Averell. Though to be fair, his anger and brutality usuallyRobin Hood book, which is provoked pretty tame by Averell's stupidity more than anything. Otherwise, it has been shown he does care about all his brothers, Averell included.
* BookDumb: In his own mind he is by far the smartest of his brothers,today's standards, but he is completely uneducated and unfamiliar with anything you would learn in school. To give an example, he thinks UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus was the first authentic American. His one area of expertise is crime.
* ButtMonkey: He is often subject to slapstick, things almost never go his way, and he is TheUnfavourite to his mother.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Out of all the Daltons, he is by far the most proud to be a criminal, to the point that when he was pardoned once (due to the telegraph operator screwing up a message telling the prison to release an inmate named Joe ''Milton'') Joe refused to leave, feeling insulted, and had to be thrown out.
* CosmicPlaything: He is probably as unlucky as Luke is lucky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ok not deadpan per se, but even he can get snarkyconsidering how stupid people around him are.
* EnragedByIdiocy: He has zero tolerance forhe lives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is perceived as one. Played straight in the antics movie, where he frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his debut album, that was the trademark of his dumbass brother Averell and regularly enrages (and usually beats him up) because of them.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs, but Joe becomes sick when he gets money that he didn't steal himself, becoming terrified and even collapsing once when he discovers that money that wasn't stolen by him was added to his loot. Lucky Luke even lampshades this, saying that Joe deep down is honest for not keeping money that he didn't rob himself.
* EvilGenius: When he is not carrying the IdiotBall, he is the smartest of the four. Ahem, by comparison.
* EvilIsPetty: He has no trouble going for revenge where there's no gain in it, or will forsake whatever advantage/gain he has for revenge. In the end of "The Daltons Stash", when he found out he'd been lied to about hidden treasure, he broke out of prison to get to another prison to beat up the prisoner who gave him that lie.
* FatalFlaw:
** Wrath. His temper and resentment are just as much a detriment to him as his bad luck.
** Pride. His pride has often prevented him from thinking rationally and Luke has used it against him plenty of times.
** Greed. Whenever there is money to be taken, Joe will always go for it. He always attempts to rob a bank, even when it always ends with him and his brothers arrested by Lucky Luke and he will grab any money in the general vicinity, even when the situation required him not to steal the money. He admits that the last thing is a problem though.
* ForTheEvulz: He loves the outlaw life and not just for the money. In fact considering that the idea of legally buying something seems like a bad habit to him, the loot is treated more like a trophy and its the infamy and terror that really drives him. This stands out in at least two cases. Once when their new leader said that they would go on a bloodless crime-spree he expressed a desire to bring dynamite and for at least some blood to be spilled. He also planned on hanging the first sheriff that arrested him and his brothers on his wedding day.
* GunNut: Anytime he has a gun, he threatens to shoot people just to calm his nerves.
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Regularly verbally and physically abuses his brothers, especially Averell, and out of the four he is the most inclined to commit crime.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** When he explains to the Natives the effect the people of Daisy Town will have on them.
** Also, in the Rantanplan spin-off, he at one point calls out the Warden for failing not only to prevent them from escaping, but also to prevent people from entering in the Penitentiary to abduct prisoners. While the scene is played for laughs, the Wardens ''do'' suck at their job.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Ma Dalton he's the one who's the most like his late father, explaining that it's why she always had a soft spot for him despite being hard on him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Has his moments, like when he convinces the Natives to attack Daisy Town.
* MisterBig: Shortest of the brothers and also the one in charge.
* TheNapoleon: Jack even compares the two at one point.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He occasionally comes up with good plans, such as the one of passing himself and their brothers as Ma Dalton to rob banks, knowing that bankers wouldn't expect Ma to be dangerous and that reports of Ma Dalton being everywhere would disorientate Lucky Luke and the authorities. The plan works smoothly, even more when Ma joins in, with Luke and the authorities being unable of catching them until Luke formulates a trap involving "Mother's Day" to catch Joe's brothers using their desire to please Ma.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He often insists on killing Luke himself. He's even saved him a few times, just so he could have the chance to kill Luke himself.
* PsychopathicManchild: When all the other kids liked to play cowboys and Indians he liked to play cops and robbers most likely without the cops, a game that he never stopped. There is much tantrum-throwing when either his Ma or Lucky Luke spoil his playing.
* TheResenter: Out of all his brothers, he is the one who hates Luke the most.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, but it is actually a subversion in that he thinks he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', in an attempt to buy time to find the loot he and his brothers stole from the New York City banks and hid in one of several wagons, he manipulates a group of settlers into thinking that the journey to California would be much more perilous than they believed, forcing Luke to accompany them and bring them along, giving them eighty days to find the loot. In doing so, he foiled Edgar Crook's plan to cheat the settlers out of their money and their lands by having Luke overcome every attempt at sabotage Crook threw the settlers' way.
* TriggerHappy: His answer for the slightest provocation is to shoot it.
* TheUnfavourite: He has a big issue with Ma Dalton liking Averell more than him. However, she eventually reveals that Joe is actually her favorite because he is just like his father. The reason she is so hard on him is because he is the smartest and toughest of his brothers and needs to be able to look after them, since they would likely get themselves killed without him.Frank.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the movie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which may or may not have anything to do with his
*
*
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the
* BerserkButton:
** Any mention of Lucky Luke's name is sure
** [[EnragedByIdiocy Averell's antics]] are
* BigBad: The closest thing
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of the
* BigBrotherBully: To Averell. Though to be fair, his anger and brutality usually
* BookDumb: In his own mind he is by far the smartest of his brothers,
* ButtMonkey: He is often subject to slapstick, things almost never go his way, and he is TheUnfavourite to his mother.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Out of all the Daltons, he is by far the most proud to be a criminal, to the point that when he was pardoned once (due to the telegraph operator screwing up a message telling the prison to release an inmate named Joe ''Milton'') Joe refused to leave, feeling insulted, and had to be thrown out.
* CosmicPlaything: He is probably as unlucky as Luke is lucky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ok not deadpan per se, but even he can get snarky
* EnragedByIdiocy: He has zero tolerance for
* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs, but Joe becomes sick when he gets money that he didn't steal himself, becoming terrified and even collapsing once when he discovers that money that wasn't stolen by him was added to his loot. Lucky Luke even lampshades this, saying that Joe deep down is honest for not keeping money that he didn't rob himself.
* EvilGenius: When he is not carrying the IdiotBall, he is the smartest of the four. Ahem, by comparison.
* EvilIsPetty: He has no trouble going for revenge where there's no gain in it, or will forsake whatever advantage/gain he has for revenge. In the end of "The Daltons Stash", when he found out he'd been lied to about hidden treasure, he broke out of prison to get to another prison to beat up the prisoner who gave him that lie.
* FatalFlaw:
** Wrath. His temper and resentment are just as much a detriment to him as his bad luck.
** Pride. His pride has often prevented him from thinking rationally and Luke has used it against him plenty of times.
** Greed. Whenever there is money to be taken, Joe will always go for it. He always attempts to rob a bank, even when it always ends with him and his brothers arrested by Lucky Luke and he will grab any money in the general vicinity, even when the situation required him not to steal the money. He admits that the last thing is a problem though.
* ForTheEvulz: He loves the outlaw life and not just for the money. In fact considering that the idea of legally buying something seems like a bad habit to him, the loot is treated more like a trophy and its the infamy and terror that really drives him. This stands out in at least two cases. Once when their new leader said that they would go on a bloodless crime-spree he expressed a desire to bring dynamite and for at least some blood to be spilled. He also planned on hanging the first sheriff that arrested him and his brothers on his wedding day.
* GunNut: Anytime he has a gun, he threatens to shoot people just to calm his nerves.
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Regularly verbally and physically abuses his brothers, especially Averell, and out of the four he is the most inclined to commit crime.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** When he explains to the Natives the effect the people of Daisy Town will have on them.
** Also, in the Rantanplan spin-off, he at one point calls out the Warden for failing not only to prevent them from escaping, but also to prevent people from entering in the Penitentiary to abduct prisoners. While the scene is played for laughs, the Wardens ''do'' suck at their job.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Ma Dalton he's the one who's the most like his late father, explaining that it's why she always had a soft spot for him despite being hard on him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Has his moments, like when he convinces the Natives to attack Daisy Town.
* MisterBig: Shortest of the brothers and also the one in charge.
* TheNapoleon: Jack even compares the two at one point.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He occasionally comes up with good plans, such as the one of passing himself and their brothers as Ma Dalton to rob banks, knowing that bankers wouldn't expect Ma to be dangerous and that reports of Ma Dalton being everywhere would disorientate Lucky Luke and the authorities. The plan works smoothly, even more when Ma joins in, with Luke and the authorities being unable of catching them until Luke formulates a trap involving "Mother's Day" to catch Joe's brothers using their desire to please Ma.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He often insists on killing Luke himself. He's even saved him a few times, just so he could have the chance to kill Luke himself.
* PsychopathicManchild: When all the other kids liked to play cowboys and Indians he liked to play cops and robbers most likely without the cops, a game that he never stopped. There is much tantrum-throwing when either his Ma or Lucky Luke spoil his playing.
* TheResenter: Out of all his brothers, he is the one who hates Luke the most.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, but it is actually a subversion in that he thinks he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', in an attempt to buy time to find the loot he and his brothers stole from the New York City banks and hid in one of several wagons, he manipulates a group of settlers into thinking that the journey to California would be much more perilous than they believed, forcing Luke to accompany them and bring them along, giving them eighty days to find the loot. In doing so, he foiled Edgar Crook's plan to cheat the settlers out of their money and their lands by having Luke overcome every attempt at sabotage Crook threw the settlers' way.
* TriggerHappy: His answer for the slightest provocation is to shoot it.
* TheUnfavourite: He has a big issue with Ma Dalton liking Averell more than him. However, she eventually reveals that Joe is actually her favorite because he is just like his father. The reason she is so hard on him is because he is the smartest and toughest of his brothers and needs to be able to look after them, since they would likely get themselves killed without him.
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[[folder:William Dalton]]
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Jacques Balutin (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and the 1983 animated series), Michel Tugot-Doris (1991 animated series), Éric Legrand (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/AlexisTomassian (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Julien Cafaro (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Peter Sjöquist
!!!'''Played by:''' Dominic Barto (1991 film) and Romain Berger (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second oldest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations mistakenly named "Jack."
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Jacques Balutin (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and the 1983 animated series), Michel Tugot-Doris (1991 animated series), Éric Legrand (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/AlexisTomassian (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Julien Cafaro (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Peter Sjöquist
!!!'''Played by:''' Dominic Barto (1991 film) and Romain Berger (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second oldest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations mistakenly named "Jack."
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Jacques Balutin (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad
[[folder:Elliot Belt]]
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One of the
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Peter Sjöquist
!!!'''Played by:''' Dominic Barto (1991 film) and Romain Berger (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second oldest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations mistakenly named "Jack."
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* BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent he and Jack admire Joe and follow him out of respect. They have their limits however.
* TheCasino: In ''Lone Riders'', he shows that he can be quite TheGambler and end ups winning the entire money. He then buys the Casino and tries to make 1 million $ as fast as possible.
* CatchPhrase: "Calm down, Joe!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with Jack).
* CoDragons: With Jack. The only ones that think highly of Joe and the only ones that he considers accomplishes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he so eloquently put it, [[MoralMyopia killing Lucky Luke is fine]] but wanting [[WouldntHurtAChild to kill a baby is just not nice.]]
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* GunNut: To the extent that he treats his guns like his best friends, has a whole hotel room [[WallOfWeapons turned into an arsenal]] and considers death by Russian Roulette as the most poetic and touching way to go. Unless it is his time to go...
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with Jack. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In his confrontation with Luke, having only one bullet left, he tried to defeat him by playing the Russian Roulette with him. Needless to say, Luke, being BornLucky, easily survived the first round and easily tricked him into believing he was losing so he could take him without killing him.
* MoreDakka: If in doubt and Luke still stands, shoot some more!
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance, but since Bill is also the name of one of his deceased cousins he has since always been addressed and referred to as William Dalton.
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Town where he has a habit of pointing his gun instead of his finger, and shooting with his gun instead of touching with his hand both in order to feel natural and to make a point.
* TheCasino: In ''Lone Riders'', he shows that he can be quite TheGambler and end ups winning the entire money. He then buys the Casino and tries to make 1 million $ as fast as possible.
* CatchPhrase: "Calm down, Joe!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with Jack).
* CoDragons: With Jack. The only ones that think highly of Joe and the only ones that he considers accomplishes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he so eloquently put it, [[MoralMyopia killing Lucky Luke is fine]] but wanting [[WouldntHurtAChild to kill a baby is just not nice.]]
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* GunNut: To the extent that he treats his guns like his best friends, has a whole hotel room [[WallOfWeapons turned into an arsenal]] and considers death by Russian Roulette as the most poetic and touching way to go. Unless it is his time to go...
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with Jack. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In his confrontation with Luke, having only one bullet left, he tried to defeat him by playing the Russian Roulette with him. Needless to say, Luke, being BornLucky, easily survived the first round and easily tricked him into believing he was losing so he could take him without killing him.
* MoreDakka: If in doubt and Luke still stands, shoot some more!
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance, but since Bill is also the name of one of his deceased cousins he has since always been addressed and referred to as William Dalton.
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Town where he has a habit of pointing his gun instead of his finger, and shooting with his gun instead of touching with his hand both in order to feel natural and to make a point.
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* BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent he AscendedExtra: Appears more in the cartoons.
* BountyHunter: His job andJack admire Joe a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with a nearby native tribe to get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, andfollow his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and will know what it feels like being on the run for the rest of his life.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate himout of respect. They have for turning in their limits however.
* TheCasino: In ''Lone Riders'', he shows that he can be quite TheGamblerfriends and end ups winning loved ones wanted by the entire money. He then buys the Casino and tries to make 1 million $ as fast as possible.
* CatchPhrase: "Calm down, Joe!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (sharedlaw, sometimes for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why Luke isn't interested in teaming up with Jack).
him.
*CoDragons: With Jack. HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is the most despised profession in the old west, considered even lower than outlaws, and Belt is the most hated of them all. The only ones that think highly of Joe dance girls and piano player refuses to perform when he walks into the saloon, and the only ones that bartender just pours his drinks right on the table, because while the law says he considers accomplishes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ashas to serve Belt, it doesn't say he so eloquently put it, [[MoralMyopia killing has to serve him in a glass.
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he isfine]] but wanting [[WouldntHurtAChild to kill a baby is just not nice.]]
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most oftechnically on the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
law's side.
*GunNut: To the extent that MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he treats his guns like his best friends, has a whole hotel room [[WallOfWeapons turned into an arsenal]] and considers death by Russian Roulette as the most poetic and touching way to go. Unless it cares about is his time profits, he doesn't even seem to go...
* TheHeart: Another rolemind he shares with Jack. As such, they can't really enjoy the money since everyone hates him so much.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like this ever since he was a child, constantlyneed to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Intelling on his confrontation with Luke, having only one bullet left, he tried to defeat him by playing the Russian Roulette with him. Needless to say, Luke, being BornLucky, easily survived the first round classmates for preferential treatment and easily tricked him into believing he was losing so he could take him without killing him.
* MoreDakka: If in doubt and Luke still stands, shoot some more!
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance, but since Bill isrewards. He also the name of one of his deceased cousins held a child at gunpoint because he has since always been addressed and referred to as William Dalton.
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Town where he hasmistook a habit of pointing his gun instead of his finger, and shooting with his gun instead of touching with his hand both in order to feel natural and to make help wanted sign for a point.bounty.
* BountyHunter: His job and
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, and
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him
* TheCasino: In ''Lone Riders'', he shows that he can be quite TheGambler
* CatchPhrase: "Calm down, Joe!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared
*
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of
*
* TheHeart: Another role
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like this ever since he was a child, constantly
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In
* MoreDakka: If in doubt and Luke still stands, shoot some more!
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance, but since Bill is
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Town where he has
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[[folder:Jack Dalton]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jacques Jouanneau (''Daisy Town''), Creator/GerardHernandez (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and 1983 animated series), Olivier Hémon (1991 animated series), Éric Legrand (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/ChristopheLemoine (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Bruno Flender (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Tommy Nilsson
!!!'''Played by:''' Bo Gray (1991 film) and Saïd Serrari (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second youngest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations accidentally named "William".
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jacques Jouanneau (''Daisy Town''), Creator/GerardHernandez (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and 1983 animated series), Olivier Hémon (1991 animated series), Éric Legrand (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/ChristopheLemoine (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Bruno Flender (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Tommy Nilsson
!!!'''Played by:''' Bo Gray (1991 film) and Saïd Serrari (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second youngest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations accidentally named "William".
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jacques Jouanneau (''Daisy Town''), Creator/GerardHernandez (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and 1983 animated series), Olivier Hémon (1991 animated series), Éric Legrand (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/ChristopheLemoine (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Bruno Flender (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
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!!!'''Voiced in
!!!'''Played by:''' Bo Gray (1991 film)
A travelling medicine salesman and
The second youngest Dalton brother. In
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* BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent, he and William admire Joe and follow him out of respect. Their limits are often broken despite that.
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with William).
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.
* CorruptPolitician: In ''Lone Riders'', Jack tries to kidnap and ransom a bank director for 1 million $ but finds out that he can't give him money. However, [[DragonInChief that same director is looking for someone who will become a puppet mayor that will serve his interests]]. He went so far as to give Jack an Mayor Impunity to prevent Lucky Luke from arresting him.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: He believes he is the most sophisticated in the family. Being the only one that can read to an elementary school level technically makes him this by default.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby", he objects along with William and Averell to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with William. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good student for as long as he was at school. His father pulled him out when he got a merit for good behavior and he is the most litterate of the group.
* MasterOfDisguise: In his original appearance. This was dropped in later books, removing one of his unique traits.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Any pretense of him being cultured or super intelligent comes mainly from being from a family (and era) where almost no one knows how to read.
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost as much as Joe, delighting in his own cunning and believing that he will be the one to trick Luke.
* WickedCultured: Compared to his brothers, anyway. In the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' cartoon (one of the adaptations where he's the one named "William"), he's portrayed as a big reader, which means he's the most knowledgeable about things like history and different cultures, sometimes acting as MrExposition to his brothers. This trait was given a few nods in subsequent comics, such as "A Cowboy in Cotton," where Jack is the most enthused about reading and spends much of the album with his nose in a book, providing trivia and exposition about the circumstances the brothers end up in.
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with William).
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.
* CorruptPolitician: In ''Lone Riders'', Jack tries to kidnap and ransom a bank director for 1 million $ but finds out that he can't give him money. However, [[DragonInChief that same director is looking for someone who will become a puppet mayor that will serve his interests]]. He went so far as to give Jack an Mayor Impunity to prevent Lucky Luke from arresting him.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: He believes he is the most sophisticated in the family. Being the only one that can read to an elementary school level technically makes him this by default.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby", he objects along with William and Averell to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with William. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good student for as long as he was at school. His father pulled him out when he got a merit for good behavior and he is the most litterate of the group.
* MasterOfDisguise: In his original appearance. This was dropped in later books, removing one of his unique traits.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Any pretense of him being cultured or super intelligent comes mainly from being from a family (and era) where almost no one knows how to read.
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost as much as Joe, delighting in his own cunning and believing that he will be the one to trick Luke.
* WickedCultured: Compared to his brothers, anyway. In the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' cartoon (one of the adaptations where he's the one named "William"), he's portrayed as a big reader, which means he's the most knowledgeable about things like history and different cultures, sometimes acting as MrExposition to his brothers. This trait was given a few nods in subsequent comics, such as "A Cowboy in Cotton," where Jack is the most enthused about reading and spends much of the album with his nose in a book, providing trivia and exposition about the circumstances the brothers end up in.
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* BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent, AllNaturalSnakeOil: One of his scams, which he markets as not just all-natural, but tasty as well. It would be, since it's actually just lemonade.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard andWilliam admire Joe mustache, and follow him out of respect. Their limits are often broken despite that.
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with William).
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.changes his name to Oxide. It works for a while, until his cover is blown by a kid.
*CorruptPolitician: In ''Lone Riders'', Jack tries to kidnap BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a charlatan, he delusionally views himself as a great doctor and ransom a bank director for 1 million $ but finds out that he can't give him money. However, [[DragonInChief that same director is looking for someone who will become a puppet mayor that will serve his interests]]. He went so far as to give Jack an Mayor Impunity to prevent Lucky Luke from arresting him.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: He believes he is the most sophisticated in the family. Being the only one that can read to an elementary school level technically makes him this by default.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby", he objects along with William and Averell to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.benefactor of humanity.
*GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William TheBusCameBack: He returns in the Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise andJack function as this most of the time. Which helps eliminate Luke by feigning to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* TheHeart: Another role he shareshave a broken arm, with William. As such, they constantly need a bandage only to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good student for as long as he was at school. His father pulledshoot him out when he got a merit for good behavior with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: While he isthe most litterate of the group.
a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
*MasterOfDisguise: In his GargleBlaster: His original appearance. This was dropped in later books, removing one "miracle elixir", about the only medicinal thing about it is that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of hisunique traits.
wagon, giving it the same mustache and beard Doxey had before shaving them off.
*NormalFishInATinyPond: Any pretense NeverMyFault: When any of him they people he's scammed come for revenge, he calls them ungrateful for his "help".
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite beingcultured or super intelligent comes mainly from a charlatan and not being from a family (and era) where almost no one knows how to read.
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost asmuch as Joe, delighting in his own of a fighter, he's not without cunning and believing that he will be has enough chemical skills to improvise an explosive bottle which he used to knock Luke out and lose him.
* PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he even still wears theone same clothes! Somehow, it still works, Luke doesn't recognize him when they meet again.
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trickLuke.
* WickedCultured: Comparedpeople into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you hisbrothers, anyway. In horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' cartoon (one first part of the adaptations story. The animated version adds a scene where he's Doxey yells the one named "William"), he's portrayed as a big reader, which means he's alarm on Scraggy after they break out of prison to cover his own escape, and Scraggy later turns up again in the most knowledgeable about things like history and different cultures, sometimes acting as MrExposition to ending, now running his brothers. This trait was given a few nods in subsequent comics, such as "A Cowboy in Cotton," where Jack own snake oil scam after Doxey is the most enthused about reading and spends much of the album with his nose in a book, providing trivia and exposition about the circumstances the brothers end up in.recaptured by Luke.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with William).
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.
*
* DelusionsOfEloquence: He believes he is the most sophisticated in the family. Being the only one that can read to an elementary school level technically makes him this by default.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby", he objects along with William and Averell to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
*
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and
* TheHeart: Another role he shares
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good student for as long as he was at school. His father pulled
* EvilGenius: While he is
*
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his
*
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite being
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost as
* PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he even still wears the
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trick
* WickedCultured: Compared
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the
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[[folder:Averell Dalton]]
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Pierre Tornade (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and the 1983 and 1991 animated series) and Bernard Alane (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'', ''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Mattias Knave
!!!'''Played by:''' Fritz Sperberg (1991 film) and Creator/RamzyBedia (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The youngest, tallest and dumbest (or at any rate most obviously dumb) of the Dalton brothers.
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Pierre Tornade (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and the 1983 and 1991 animated series) and Bernard Alane (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'', ''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Mattias Knave
!!!'''Played by:''' Fritz Sperberg (1991 film) and Creator/RamzyBedia (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The youngest, tallest and dumbest (or at any rate most obviously dumb) of the Dalton brothers.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:'''
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Mattias Knave
!!!'''Played by:''' Fritz Sperberg (1991 film) and Creator/RamzyBedia (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
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* AdaptationalBadass: While he is still [[TheDitz the stupidest]] in the ''The Daltons'' TV series, Averell has shown tremendous potential as a RenaissanceMan: he has been a talented artist (painter, sculptor, interior decorator, origami crafter, puppeteer, gardener...); a chef (baker, pastry chef...); an animal trainer (horses, birds); a musician (horn, duck call); and even retained some of his previous athletic prowess (karate master, vine swinger...).
* AntiVillain: He simply follows his family's footsteps. Some gags are even about him not being wanted for his crimes since he is so harmless. Although once he was on probation, he did say it was funnier when they were stealing from banks and having the saloon for themselves.
* BigEater: To the point one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "When do we eat?"
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his stupidity, he can be just as dangerous as his brothers when he wants to be.
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jack and William to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
** He also shames Joe for stealing from their uncle Marcel, as Ma taught them to steal only from strangers or the State.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's called a terracotta bowl, amigo.
* FatalFlaw: Gluttony and Sloth. If he wasn't always hungry and if he exercised his brains a bit more, he could be as big a threat as Joe.
* FriendlyEnemies: Of all the Daltons, he has the most cordial relationship with Lucky Luke. He's the only one who's fine just having a conversation with Luke and mainly opposes him because his brothers do.
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown to possess unexpected skills, such as being able to craft a fake but perfect-looking revolver out of soap, but since he needed help to get all the details down he stole a ''real and loaded'' revolver from a negligent guard two weeks before and used it as model. He wanted to use the soap gun for their escape and offer the real one as Joe's birthday gift.
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn't for his family. When the Daltons briefly went their separate ways to see who could do best on their own, Averell ended up becoming a hugely popular chef (albeit with occasionally unscrupulous business practices which were however not his doing). In comparison, Jack become a corrupt casino boss, William a corrupt mayor and Joe just went on a huge crime spree.
* LethalChef: Despite being the BigEater, he is horrendous at cooking and will [[BerserkButton react quite violently]] when someone is criticizing his meals as seen in ''Daltons City''. However, in ''Lone Riders'', he is able to cook perfectly with an Italian pizzaiolo. Furthermore, in the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' series, he has been a proficient Baker (''Bread War''), French fryer (''Fries for free'') and Pastry Chef (''A Piece of Cake'')
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his training with his brothers, but later books turn him back into a borderline StupidGood character.
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he will never amount to much.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: One episode of the Rantanplan series has two scientists kidnapping him and using him as a test subject for a formula attempted to make him intelligent. This ends up turning him into an {{Evil|Genius}} GeniusBruiser who actually was ''even more'' dangerous and competent than Joe, to the point the leading scientist ended up turning him back to normal and destroying his formula.
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showed himself to be more dangerous than one would expect like ''The Dalton Cousins'' where he actually fought Luke to a tie and the ''Dalton's Escape'' where he came the closest to simply shooting Lucky Luke dead, stopped only by Joe's decision to take him as a prisoner and slave.
* PetTheDog: Literally; he has a soft spot for Rantanplan and is, on the whole, quite kind to him.
* SarcasmBlind: He often interprets Joe's snarky comments about him literally. For example, when they are trying to figure out who is using which fake identity:
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanted to know.
** Taken up several notches as he spends the rest of the story introducing himself as "Idiot Jones" as if it was his name.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: In a twist of this role, he may be the largest and strongest of his family but he always comes last in repeating the thoughts, words and actions of the group and he often screws them up anyway, earning himself some scowls from his three brothers for ruining their style.
* AntiVillain: He simply follows his family's footsteps. Some gags are even about him not being wanted for his crimes since he is so harmless. Although once he was on probation, he did say it was funnier when they were stealing from banks and having the saloon for themselves.
* BigEater: To the point one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "When do we eat?"
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his stupidity, he can be just as dangerous as his brothers when he wants to be.
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jack and William to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
** He also shames Joe for stealing from their uncle Marcel, as Ma taught them to steal only from strangers or the State.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's called a terracotta bowl, amigo.
* FatalFlaw: Gluttony and Sloth. If he wasn't always hungry and if he exercised his brains a bit more, he could be as big a threat as Joe.
* FriendlyEnemies: Of all the Daltons, he has the most cordial relationship with Lucky Luke. He's the only one who's fine just having a conversation with Luke and mainly opposes him because his brothers do.
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown to possess unexpected skills, such as being able to craft a fake but perfect-looking revolver out of soap, but since he needed help to get all the details down he stole a ''real and loaded'' revolver from a negligent guard two weeks before and used it as model. He wanted to use the soap gun for their escape and offer the real one as Joe's birthday gift.
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn't for his family. When the Daltons briefly went their separate ways to see who could do best on their own, Averell ended up becoming a hugely popular chef (albeit with occasionally unscrupulous business practices which were however not his doing). In comparison, Jack become a corrupt casino boss, William a corrupt mayor and Joe just went on a huge crime spree.
* LethalChef: Despite being the BigEater, he is horrendous at cooking and will [[BerserkButton react quite violently]] when someone is criticizing his meals as seen in ''Daltons City''. However, in ''Lone Riders'', he is able to cook perfectly with an Italian pizzaiolo. Furthermore, in the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' series, he has been a proficient Baker (''Bread War''), French fryer (''Fries for free'') and Pastry Chef (''A Piece of Cake'')
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his training with his brothers, but later books turn him back into a borderline StupidGood character.
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he will never amount to much.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: One episode of the Rantanplan series has two scientists kidnapping him and using him as a test subject for a formula attempted to make him intelligent. This ends up turning him into an {{Evil|Genius}} GeniusBruiser who actually was ''even more'' dangerous and competent than Joe, to the point the leading scientist ended up turning him back to normal and destroying his formula.
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showed himself to be more dangerous than one would expect like ''The Dalton Cousins'' where he actually fought Luke to a tie and the ''Dalton's Escape'' where he came the closest to simply shooting Lucky Luke dead, stopped only by Joe's decision to take him as a prisoner and slave.
* PetTheDog: Literally; he has a soft spot for Rantanplan and is, on the whole, quite kind to him.
* SarcasmBlind: He often interprets Joe's snarky comments about him literally. For example, when they are trying to figure out who is using which fake identity:
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanted to know.
** Taken up several notches as he spends the rest of the story introducing himself as "Idiot Jones" as if it was his name.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: In a twist of this role, he may be the largest and strongest of his family but he always comes last in repeating the thoughts, words and actions of the group and he often screws them up anyway, earning himself some scowls from his three brothers for ruining their style.
to:
* AdaptationalBadass: While he is still [[TheDitz the stupidest]] in the ''The Daltons'' TV series, Averell has shown tremendous potential BearsAreBadNews: Has a tame bear who doubles as a RenaissanceMan: he has been a talented artist (painter, sculptor, interior decorator, origami crafter, puppeteer, gardener...); a chef (baker, pastry chef...); an animal trainer (horses, birds); a musician (horn, duck call); bodyguard and even retained some of his previous athletic prowess (karate master, vine swinger...).
enforcer.
*AntiVillain: He simply follows his family's footsteps. Some gags are even about him not being wanted for his crimes since he is so harmless. Although once he was on probation, he did say it was funnier when they were stealing from banks and having the saloon for themselves.
* BigEater: To the point one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "When do we eat?"
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass:CoolOldGuy: Despite his stupidity, he can be just as dangerous as his brothers when he wants to be.
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jackold age he's a great gunslinger, who survived and William to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
** He also shames Joe for stealing from their uncle Marcel, as Ma taught them to steal only from strangers or the State.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's called a terracotta bowl, amigo.
* FatalFlaw: Gluttony and Sloth. If he wasn't always hungry and if he exercised his brains a bit more, he could be as big a threat as Joe.
* FriendlyEnemies: Of all the Daltons, he has the most cordial relationship with Lucky Luke. He's the only one who's fine just having a conversation with Luke and mainly opposes him because his brothers do.
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown to possess unexpected skills, such as being able to craft a fake but perfect-looking revolver out of soap, but since he needed help to get all the details down he stole a ''real and loaded'' revolver from a negligent guard two weeks before and used it as model. He wanted to use the soap gun for their escape and offer the real one as Joe's birthday gift.
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn't for his family. When the Daltons briefly went their separate ways to see who could do best on their own, Averell ended up becoming a hugely popular chef (albeit with occasionally unscrupulous business practices which were however not his doing). In comparison, Jack become a corrupt casino boss, William a corrupt mayor and Joe just went on a huge crime spree.
* LethalChef: Despite being the BigEater, he is horrendous at cooking and will [[BerserkButton react quite violently]] when someone is criticizing his meals as seen in ''Daltons City''. However, in ''Lone Riders'', he is able to cook perfectlyescaped an encounter with an Italian pizzaiolo. Furthermore, in the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' series, he has been a proficient Baker (''Bread War''), French fryer (''Fries for free'') Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and Pastry Chef (''A Piece of Cake'')
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his trainingknocked Luke out with a civil code book.
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one, and hisbrothers, real-life counterpart was possibly an UrExample, but later books turn him back into a borderline StupidGood character.
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he willultimately averted in-universe, as Bean never amount to much.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: One episode of the Rantanplan series has two scientists kidnapping him and using him as a test subject for a formula attempted to make him intelligent. This ends up turning him into an {{Evil|Genius}} GeniusBruiser whoactually was ''even more'' dangerous and competent than Joe, sentences anyone to the point the leading scientist ended up turning him back to normal and destroying his formula.
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showeddeath, mostly limiting himself to confiscating illegal bets (that he himself encouraged people to make) and cattle, though he also likes handing out prison and labor sentences for crimes he mostly make up on the spot. Bad Ticket, the judge who briefly replaces him, turns out to ''really'' be more dangerous than one would expect like ''The Dalton Cousins'' where he actually fought Luke of these. Bonus material explain that the real Roy Bean was mostly known to a tie just fine people and charging five dollars a wedding.
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after the''Dalton's Escape'' where he came cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean is still the closest thing to simply shooting Lucky Luke dead, stopped an actual judge the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only by Joe's decision to take him punishment is hanging up his outdated lawbook for good, and settles down as a prisoner bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, andslave.
* PetTheDog: Literally;is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he has a soft spot manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for Rantanplan and is, on the whole, quite kind to him.
* SarcasmBlind: He often interprets Joe's snarky comments about him literally. For example, when they are trying to figure out who is using which fake identity:
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanteda judge to know.
** Taken up several notches as he spends the rest of the story introducing himself as "Idiot Jones" as if it was his name.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: In a twist of this role, he may be the largest and strongest of his family but he always comes last in repeating the thoughts, words and actions of the group and he often screws them up anyway, earning himself some scowls TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from his three brothers for ruining their style. miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".
*
* BigEater: To the point one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "When do we eat?"
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass:
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jack
** He also shames Joe for stealing from their uncle Marcel, as Ma taught them to steal only from strangers or the State.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's called a terracotta bowl, amigo.
* FatalFlaw: Gluttony and Sloth. If he wasn't always hungry and if he exercised his brains a bit more, he could be as big a threat as Joe.
* FriendlyEnemies: Of all the Daltons, he has the most cordial relationship with Lucky Luke. He's the only one who's fine just having a conversation with Luke and mainly opposes him because his brothers do.
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown to possess unexpected skills, such as being able to craft a fake but perfect-looking revolver out of soap, but since he needed help to get all the details down he stole a ''real and loaded'' revolver from a negligent guard two weeks before and used it as model. He wanted to use the soap gun for their escape and offer the real one as Joe's birthday gift.
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn't for his family. When the Daltons briefly went their separate ways to see who could do best on their own, Averell ended up becoming a hugely popular chef (albeit with occasionally unscrupulous business practices which were however not his doing). In comparison, Jack become a corrupt casino boss, William a corrupt mayor and Joe just went on a huge crime spree.
* LethalChef: Despite being the BigEater, he is horrendous at cooking and will [[BerserkButton react quite violently]] when someone is criticizing his meals as seen in ''Daltons City''. However, in ''Lone Riders'', he is able to cook perfectly
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his training
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one, and his
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he will
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: One episode of the Rantanplan series has two scientists kidnapping him and using him as a test subject for a formula attempted to make him intelligent. This ends up turning him into an {{Evil|Genius}} GeniusBruiser who
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showed
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after the
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and
* PetTheDog: Literally;
* SarcasmBlind: He often interprets Joe's snarky comments about him literally. For example, when they are trying to figure out who is using which fake identity:
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanted
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The aged mother of Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton.
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The aged mother of Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton.
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A group of ex-confederate soldiers who struck out on their own as outlaws after the end of the American Civil War. The
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* AffablyEvil: Unlike her sons, she is a genuinely nice and kind person... as long as her boys aren't in danger.
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and any times she will play an antagonistic role, it usually is out of love for her children. Luke actually is in decently good terms with her otherwise.
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain as the rest of her family. She is proud of raising her sons to be a bunch of scoundrels, and is more annoyed by their swearing and stupidity.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the AffablyEvil variety.
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first pages has her kindly thanking Luke for helping her cross the street, then makes a fake hold-up for her meat and right after the butcher muses that her rusty old gun is probably empty we cut to a panel where she shoots a rattlesnake dead from a long distance with her revolver.
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.
* MamaBear: And ''how''! She was ready to challenge Luke to a duel for her kids and likely would have won (Lucky Luke being unwilling to even hurt her and Ma being a great shot).
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possibly the most well-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referred to as "Ma", but since her sons are explicitly referred to as the cousins of the real-life Dalton brothers, Ma is a sibling of either Lewis or Adeline Dalton.
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convicted and she told her children she used to break their father out of jail before they were even born.
* RetiredOutlaw: She was mostly an accomplice until her husband died. Afterwards, she lives off the charity of the townsfolk.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Dalton family, Ma Dalton is also loosely based on criminal matriarch [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used to go with her mock hold up and give her groceries for free since she was a kindly old woman who colored the Wild West with her eccentricity. Then she showed them that her rusty gun ''was'' actually loaded the whole time.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: While she very much loves her real sons, Ma has expressed admiration for Luke's skills, wit and determination, stating that he'd make a wonderful son... if only he wasn't so insistent on bothersome things like "the law" and "justice".
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and any times she will play an antagonistic role, it usually is out of love for her children. Luke actually is in decently good terms with her otherwise.
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain as the rest of her family. She is proud of raising her sons to be a bunch of scoundrels, and is more annoyed by their swearing and stupidity.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the AffablyEvil variety.
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first pages has her kindly thanking Luke for helping her cross the street, then makes a fake hold-up for her meat and right after the butcher muses that her rusty old gun is probably empty we cut to a panel where she shoots a rattlesnake dead from a long distance with her revolver.
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.
* MamaBear: And ''how''! She was ready to challenge Luke to a duel for her kids and likely would have won (Lucky Luke being unwilling to even hurt her and Ma being a great shot).
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possibly the most well-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referred to as "Ma", but since her sons are explicitly referred to as the cousins of the real-life Dalton brothers, Ma is a sibling of either Lewis or Adeline Dalton.
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convicted and she told her children she used to break their father out of jail before they were even born.
* RetiredOutlaw: She was mostly an accomplice until her husband died. Afterwards, she lives off the charity of the townsfolk.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Dalton family, Ma Dalton is also loosely based on criminal matriarch [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used to go with her mock hold up and give her groceries for free since she was a kindly old woman who colored the Wild West with her eccentricity. Then she showed them that her rusty gun ''was'' actually loaded the whole time.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: While she very much loves her real sons, Ma has expressed admiration for Luke's skills, wit and determination, stating that he'd make a wonderful son... if only he wasn't so insistent on bothersome things like "the law" and "justice".
to:
* AffablyEvil: Unlike her sons, she AdaptedOut: Sam the Farmer did not appear in the animated version, his role mostly taken over by Steve.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who isa genuinely nice stated to have switched sides between the Union and kind person... as long as her boys aren't in danger.
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and anythe Confederacy dozens of times she will play an antagonistic role, it usually is out of love for her children. Luke actually is in decently good terms with her otherwise.
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain asover the rest course of her family. She is proud of raising her sons to be a bunch of scoundrels, and is more annoyed by their swearing and stupidity.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ofthe AffablyEvil variety.
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first pages has her kindly thanking Luke for helping her cross the street, then makes a fake hold-up for her meat and right after the butcher muses that her rusty old gun is probably empty we cut to a panel where she shoots a rattlesnake dead from a long distance with her revolver.
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.war, depending on who was winning.
*MamaBear: And ''how''! She was ready DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages tochallenge pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke to a duel for her kids and likely would have won (Lucky by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang, and Luke only narrowly avoids being unwilling hanged by promising to even hurt her and Ma being a great shot).
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possiblybring the most well-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referredreal criminals back to as "Ma", but since her sons are explicitly referred to the town.
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as thecousins corrupt mayor of the real-life Dalton brothers, Ma is a sibling of either Lewis or Adeline Dalton.
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convictedFrontier City, and she told her children she used gives cabinet positions to break their father out of jail before they were even born.
his henchmen.
*RetiredOutlaw: She was mostly an accomplice until her husband died. Afterwards, she lives off the charity of the townsfolk.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Dalton family, Ma Dalton is also loosely based on criminal matriarch [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used to goOpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with her mock hold up whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and give her groceries for free since she join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a kindly old woman who colored the Wild West with her eccentricity. Then she showed them that her rusty gun ''was'' actually loaded the whole time.
on him to force him to stay.
*WhyAreYouNotMySon: While she very much loves her real sons, Ma has expressed admiration for Luke's skills, wit and determination, stating that he'd TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a wonderful son... if return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the entire album, onlyhe wasn't so insistent on bothersome things like "the law" and "justice".for him to suddenly deliver an eloquent monologue after the gang is cornered, including latin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one who isn't white.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and any
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain as
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first pages has her kindly thanking Luke for helping her cross the street, then makes a fake hold-up for her meat and right after the butcher muses that her rusty old gun is probably empty we cut to a panel where she shoots a rattlesnake dead from a long distance with her revolver.
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.
*
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possibly
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referred
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convicted
*
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Dalton family, Ma Dalton is also loosely based on criminal matriarch [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used to go
*
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the entire album, only
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one who isn't white.
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The father of the Dalton Cousins, who died some time before the comics began.
The father of the Dalton Cousins, who died some time before the comics began.
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* GenerationXerox: According to Ma Dalton, he looked exactly like Joe, and his WantedPoster does confirm that. However, that means he also looks exactly like his other kids, and since the poster doesn't show height, it's not confirmed if he was as short as Joe as well.
* NoNameGiven: His first name is never revealed, he's simply referred to as the father of the Dalton Cousins.
* PrisonEscapeArtist: According to Ma, she helped Pa escape from prison several times long before their children were born.
* SafeCracking: This was his specialty when he was alive, until one fateful day [[HoistByHisOwnPetard when he used too much dynamite...]]
* WantedPoster: He's already dead by the time the series begins, so his only appearance is through one of these.
* NoNameGiven: His first name is never revealed, he's simply referred to as the father of the Dalton Cousins.
* PrisonEscapeArtist: According to Ma, she helped Pa escape from prison several times long before their children were born.
* SafeCracking: This was his specialty when he was alive, until one fateful day [[HoistByHisOwnPetard when he used too much dynamite...]]
* WantedPoster: He's already dead by the time the series begins, so his only appearance is through one of these.
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* GenerationXerox: According to Ma Dalton, he looked exactly like Joe, AltarDiplomacy: How the feud is finally settled for good, with intermarriage between the two clans. The son produced by this union, Aloysius O'Timmins-O'Hara (who had both the family traits), eventually became mayor of Painful Gulch and his WantedPoster does confirm that. However, that means he also looks exactly like his went on to become a Texas congressman.
* BerserkButton: The otherkids, family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara should get water from the O'Timmins' river, and since had to flee the poster doesn't show height, it's not confirmed if O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that he was as short as Joe as well.
* NoNameGiven: His first name is never revealed, he's simply referredwent to as the father O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
* FeudingFamilies: A parody of theDalton Cousins.
* PrisonEscapeArtist: Accordingreal-life feud between the Hatfield and [=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it that they've never managed to Ma, she helped Pa escape from prison several times long before actually kill any of their children were born.
enemies.
*SafeCracking: This was his specialty HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least whenhe was alive, until they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one fateful day [[HoistByHisOwnPetard case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at him for fifteen minutes. Despite this, they only managed to produce a bullet outline.
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however whenhe used too much dynamite...]]
* WantedPoster: He's already deadthey learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the time other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the series begins, so his only appearance is through one other of these.being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and huge ears for the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.
* BerserkButton: The other
* NoNameGiven: His first name is never revealed, he's simply referred
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
* FeudingFamilies: A parody of the
* PrisonEscapeArtist: According
*
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when
* WantedPoster: He's already dead
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and huge ears for the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.
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The illegitimate son of Emmett Dalton and an unnamed saloon girl, Junior was left under the custodianship of his uncle Averell and his chaperone, Lucky Luke.
The illegitimate son of Emmett Dalton and an unnamed saloon girl, Junior was left under the custodianship of his uncle Averell and his chaperone, Lucky Luke.
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The illegitimate son of Emmett Dalton and an unnamed saloon girl, Junior was left under
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A Mexican ''bandito'' who terrorizes the
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* CanonForeigner: Emmett Dalton did not have any known children.
* DisappearedDad: Emmett survived the Coffeyville shootout due to a RetCon, but never returned to his girlfriend, and it's unknown if he even knew about his son.
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat and bully, but all he needed was a proper role model, as Luke managed to turn him around.
* WhiteSheep: Like Marcel Dalton, he's not inherently evil like his father and uncles, just in the need of someone to raise him right.
* DisappearedDad: Emmett survived the Coffeyville shootout due to a RetCon, but never returned to his girlfriend, and it's unknown if he even knew about his son.
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat and bully, but all he needed was a proper role model, as Luke managed to turn him around.
* WhiteSheep: Like Marcel Dalton, he's not inherently evil like his father and uncles, just in the need of someone to raise him right.
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* CanonForeigner: Emmett Dalton did not have any known children.AccidentalKidnapping: He and his gang accidentally steal an armored wagon that was transporting the Daltons to a new prison, thinking it was a gold or money transport.
*DisappearedDad: Emmett survived HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners since the Coffeyville shootout natives are too poor to bother with for the most part and the rich landowners too well protected, and demanding ransom.
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the Daltons how to sing with disastrous results, and stops him from hanging himself to escape their terrible singing.
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due toa RetCon, but never returned not finding any usefulness for them to his girlfriend, and it's unknown if he begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a reason good enough to convince even knew about his son.
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat and bully, but all he needed was a proper role model, as Luke managed to turnhim around.
* WhiteSheep: Like Marcel Dalton, he's not inherently evil like his father and uncles, just in the need of someoneto raise him right.reconsider.
*
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the Daltons how to sing with disastrous results, and stops him from hanging himself to escape their terrible singing.
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due to
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat and bully, but all he needed was a proper role model, as Luke managed to turn
* WhiteSheep: Like Marcel Dalton, he's not inherently evil like his father and uncles, just in the need of someone
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!!!'''Other recurring antagonists'''
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Guy Piérauld (1983 animated series) and Creator/DonaldReignoux (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'')
A teenaged outlaw who's been a criminal since he was 6 years old.
[[folder:Billy the Kid]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Guy Piérauld (1983 animated series) and Creator/DonaldReignoux (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'')
A teenaged outlaw who's been a criminal since he was 6 years old.
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A travelling group of actors, Whittaker Baltimore, Gladys Whimple, Barnaby Float and
A teenaged outlaw who's been
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* ArchEnemy: Lucky Luke's greatest and most recurring enemy after The Daltons.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brat that he is, rather than for the greatest outlaw he believes himself to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as a hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front of the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version of the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
* KidsAreCruel: Committed his first robbery at the age of 6, and when he was punished for it by his father, he ran away from home and embarked on a life of crime.
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but the comic still tends to play up his childish antics as ComedicSociopathy. He forbids a Saloon owner to sell anything else than lemonades and threatens a man with a gun so he would tell him a bedtime story, amongst other things.
* TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete with each other over who's the better outlaw and who is Lucky Luke's greatest enemy.
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By the time of the comics present, he's 14 and a sadistic, thieving monster.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that could stop him from crying was using his dad's revolver as a sucker (wasn't loaded). At 6, he committed his first robbery and at his current age, about 14, he terrorized a whole town.
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud with Lucky Luke far more seriously than Luke does, as Luke just views and treats him as a brat, even completely ignoring him when Billy threatened to shoot him while he was shaving and singing.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brat that he is, rather than for the greatest outlaw he believes himself to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as a hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front of the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version of the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
* KidsAreCruel: Committed his first robbery at the age of 6, and when he was punished for it by his father, he ran away from home and embarked on a life of crime.
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but the comic still tends to play up his childish antics as ComedicSociopathy. He forbids a Saloon owner to sell anything else than lemonades and threatens a man with a gun so he would tell him a bedtime story, amongst other things.
* TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete with each other over who's the better outlaw and who is Lucky Luke's greatest enemy.
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By the time of the comics present, he's 14 and a sadistic, thieving monster.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that could stop him from crying was using his dad's revolver as a sucker (wasn't loaded). At 6, he committed his first robbery and at his current age, about 14, he terrorized a whole town.
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud with Lucky Luke far more seriously than Luke does, as Luke just views and treats him as a brat, even completely ignoring him when Billy threatened to shoot him while he was shaving and singing.
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* ArchEnemy: Lucky Luke's greatest BeneathSuspicion: The one actually committing the robberies is Francis Lusty, the troupes driver and machine operator, while most recurring enemy after The Daltons.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brat that he is, rather than for the greatest outlaw he believes himself to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as a hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in frontof the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version oftown is busy watching the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.play.
*KidsAreCruel: Committed his first robbery at CreepyCrossdresser: After the age of 6, and gang ends up in prison, Francis is forced into playing the Linda role when he was punished they put on shows for it by his father, he ran away from home and embarked on a life of crime.
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, butthe comic still tends to play up his childish antics as ComedicSociopathy. He forbids a Saloon owner to sell anything else than lemonades and threatens a man with a gun so he other inmates, since Gladys wasn't arrested (and even if she was, would tell him have gone to a bedtime story, amongst other things.
women's prison).
*TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete with each other over who's DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to the better outlaw trope namer. Expectedly he isn't quite as theatrical about his villainy in his real life.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money the villains have stolen is hidden inside the doll used to portray Gladys' baby brother in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways andwho is Lucky Luke's greatest enemy.
returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
*SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: ByTheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the time gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of thecomics present, he's 14 and play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in white to show what a sadistic, thieving monster.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that could stop him from crying was using his dad's revolver as a sucker (wasn't loaded). At 6,good guy he committed his first robbery and at his current age, about 14, he terrorized a whole town.
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud with Lucky Luke far more seriously than Luke does, as Luke just views and treats him as a brat, even completely ignoring him when Billy threatened to shoot him while he was shaving and singing.is.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brat that he is, rather than for the greatest outlaw he believes himself to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as a hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front
* EnfantTerrible: This version of
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
*
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but
*
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money the villains have stolen is hidden inside the doll used to portray Gladys' baby brother in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and
*
* TeensAreMonsters: By
* LightIsGood: The title character of the
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that could stop him from crying was using his dad's revolver as a sucker (wasn't loaded). At 6,
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud with Lucky Luke far more seriously than Luke does, as Luke just views and treats him as a brat, even completely ignoring him when Billy threatened to shoot him while he was shaving and singing.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An ex-confederate soldier turned outlaw alongside his brother Frank, obsessed with the myth of Robin Hood.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An ex-confederate soldier turned outlaw alongside his brother Frank, obsessed with the myth of Robin Hood.
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''esse '''J'''ames.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the movie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which may or may not have anything to do with his fanboying of Robin Hood.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid, his earlier portrayal actually did somewhat look like his final design.
* DemotedToExtra: After his album and being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the end of the episode that was about the rivalry of Joe Dalton and Billy the Kid as a third possible candidate for the title of worst desperado.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. He ends up using a LoopholeAbuse to share the money with his brother and his cousin, by having them taking turns in playing the "Poor" role.
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of the Robin Hood book, which is pretty tame by today's standards, but considering he lives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is perceived as one. Played straight in the movie, where he frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his debut album, that was the trademark of his brother Frank.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the movie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which may or may not have anything to do with his fanboying of Robin Hood.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid, his earlier portrayal actually did somewhat look like his final design.
* DemotedToExtra: After his album and being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the end of the episode that was about the rivalry of Joe Dalton and Billy the Kid as a third possible candidate for the title of worst desperado.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. He ends up using a LoopholeAbuse to share the money with his brother and his cousin, by having them taking turns in playing the "Poor" role.
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of the Robin Hood book, which is pretty tame by today's standards, but considering he lives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is perceived as one. Played straight in the movie, where he frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his debut album, that was the trademark of his brother Frank.
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''esse '''J'''ames.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated inBerserkButton:
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To themovie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which maypoint nearby store and diligences refuse to bring the stuff as it will end up with them wrapped in their product.
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle ormay the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he doesn't even seem to know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not haveanything exclusive claims to do with the grasslands, but Casey uses his fanboying of Robin Hood.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Janewealth and Billy influence to basically make him the Kid, his earlier portrayal actually did somewhat look like his final design.
* DemotedToExtra: After his album and being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the endde-facto ruler of the episode that was about area.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than therivalry of Joe Dalton and Billy farmers trying to divy up the Kid as a third possible candidate for the title of worst desperado.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. He ends up using a LoopholeAbuse to share the moneyprairie with his brother and his cousin, by having them taking turns in playing the "Poor" role.
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of the Robin Hood book, which is pretty tame by today's standards, but considering he lives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is perceived as one. Played straight in the movie, where he frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his debut album, that was the trademark of his brother Frank.barbed wire.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To the
* BeardOfEvil: Which may
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he doesn't even seem to know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane
* DemotedToExtra: After his album and being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the end
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than the
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. He ends up using a LoopholeAbuse to share the money
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of the Robin Hood book, which is pretty tame by today's standards, but considering he lives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is perceived as one. Played straight in the movie, where he frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his debut album, that was the trademark of his brother Frank.
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One of the most infamous and tenacious bounty hunters of the West.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henry Djanik (1983 animated series)
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* AscendedExtra: Appears more in the cartoons.
* BountyHunter: His job and a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with a nearby native tribe to get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, and his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and will know what it feels like being on the run for the rest of his life.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him for turning in their friends and loved ones wanted by the law, sometimes for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why Luke isn't interested in teaming up with him.
* HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is the most despised profession in the old west, considered even lower than outlaws, and Belt is the most hated of them all. The dance girls and piano player refuses to perform when he walks into the saloon, and the bartender just pours his drinks right on the table, because while the law says he has to serve Belt, it doesn't say he has to serve him in a glass.
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is technically on the law's side.
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he cares about is his profits, he doesn't even seem to mind he can't really enjoy the money since everyone hates him so much.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like this ever since he was a child, constantly telling on his classmates for preferential treatment and rewards. He also held a child at gunpoint because he mistook a help wanted sign for a bounty.
* BountyHunter: His job and a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with a nearby native tribe to get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, and his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and will know what it feels like being on the run for the rest of his life.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him for turning in their friends and loved ones wanted by the law, sometimes for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why Luke isn't interested in teaming up with him.
* HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is the most despised profession in the old west, considered even lower than outlaws, and Belt is the most hated of them all. The dance girls and piano player refuses to perform when he walks into the saloon, and the bartender just pours his drinks right on the table, because while the law says he has to serve Belt, it doesn't say he has to serve him in a glass.
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is technically on the law's side.
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he cares about is his profits, he doesn't even seem to mind he can't really enjoy the money since everyone hates him so much.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like this ever since he was a child, constantly telling on his classmates for preferential treatment and rewards. He also held a child at gunpoint because he mistook a help wanted sign for a bounty.
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* AscendedExtra: Appears more in {{Bowdlerisation}}: In the cartoons.
* BountyHunter: His job and a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with a nearby native tribe to get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: Atoriginal version of the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', album, Luke decides actually shot him dead. In later editions, he's simply injured and left unable to let Belt go despite all hold a gun again.
* CareerEndingInjury: In thetrouble he caused, and censored version, his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and will know what it feels like being on hitman career is permanently ended by the run for the rest of his life.
shoulder injury Luke inflicts on him.
*EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people hate him for turning in their friends and loved ones wanted by the law, sometimes for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why run. His skills with his guns are also such that O'Hara tries to dissuade Luke isn't interested in teaming up with him.
* HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is the most despised profession in the old west, considered even lower than outlaws, and Belt is the most hated of them all. The dance girls and piano player refuses to perform when he walks into the saloon, and the bartender just pours his drinks right on the table, because while the law says he has to serve Belt, it doesn't say he has to servefrom fighting him in a glass.
duel.
*ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take DubNameChange: In the bounty for himself English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it andleft a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them todie by hanging.
shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick enough to not fall.
*LoopholeAbuse: While they may TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be enemies, an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
* LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for the 19th century, to the point that he's too tall for the bed he sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and his body is thin, like a wire.
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait until Lucky Lukecan't arrest has shot the six bullets in his gun before counterattacking. Unfortunately for him for bounty hunting, since he is technically on had no way of knowing that Luke had the law's side.
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. Theonly thing he cares about is his profits, he doesn't even seem to mind he can't really enjoy seven-shot gun in the money since everyone hates him so much.
west, allowing Luke to defeat him.
*TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds likethis ever since he was a child, constantly telling on his classmates for preferential treatment and rewards. He also held a child at gunpoint because he mistook a help wanted sign for a bounty."fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
* BountyHunter: His job and a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with a nearby native tribe to get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At
* CareerEndingInjury: In the
*
* HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is the most despised profession in the old west, considered even lower than outlaws, and Belt is the most hated of them all. The dance girls and piano player refuses to perform when he walks into the saloon, and the bartender just pours his drinks right on the table, because while the law says he has to serve Belt, it doesn't say he has to serve
*
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them to
*
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
* LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for the 19th century, to the point that he's too tall for the bed he sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and his body is thin, like a wire.
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait until Lucky Luke
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The
*
* PunnyName: His name sounds like
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Jacques Ferrière (1983 animated series)
A travelling medicine salesman and self-proclaimed doctor, whose main product is a fake cure-all elixir.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Jacques Ferrière (1983 animated series)
A travelling medicine salesman and self-proclaimed doctor, whose main product is a fake cure-all elixir.
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* AllNaturalSnakeOil: One of his scams, which he markets as not just all-natural, but tasty as well. It would be, since it's actually just lemonade.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and mustache, and changes his name to Oxide. It works for a while, until his cover is blown by a kid.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a charlatan, he delusionally views himself as a great doctor and benefactor of humanity.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns in the Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, with a bandage only to shoot him with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: While he is a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about the only medicinal thing about it is that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his wagon, giving it the same mustache and beard Doxey had before shaving them off.
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people he's scammed come for revenge, he calls them ungrateful for his "help".
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite being a charlatan and not being much of a fighter, he's not without cunning and he has enough chemical skills to improvise an explosive bottle which he used to knock Luke out and lose him.
* PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he even still wears the same clothes! Somehow, it still works, Luke doesn't recognize him when they meet again.
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trick people into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the first part of the story. The animated version adds a scene where Doxey yells the alarm on Scraggy after they break out of prison to cover his own escape, and Scraggy later turns up again in the ending, now running his own snake oil scam after Doxey is recaptured by Luke.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and mustache, and changes his name to Oxide. It works for a while, until his cover is blown by a kid.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a charlatan, he delusionally views himself as a great doctor and benefactor of humanity.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns in the Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, with a bandage only to shoot him with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: While he is a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about the only medicinal thing about it is that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his wagon, giving it the same mustache and beard Doxey had before shaving them off.
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people he's scammed come for revenge, he calls them ungrateful for his "help".
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite being a charlatan and not being much of a fighter, he's not without cunning and he has enough chemical skills to improvise an explosive bottle which he used to knock Luke out and lose him.
* PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he even still wears the same clothes! Somehow, it still works, Luke doesn't recognize him when they meet again.
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trick people into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the first part of the story. The animated version adds a scene where Doxey yells the alarm on Scraggy after they break out of prison to cover his own escape, and Scraggy later turns up again in the ending, now running his own snake oil scam after Doxey is recaptured by Luke.
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* AllNaturalSnakeOil: One {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, and has his cowboys wear army uniforms and even issues edicts and currency for Grass Town to use.
* DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that with him gone, no one is paying them to keep up with this nonsense, and disperse, ending the rebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-life self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated and not truly a villain, he was still far more antagonistic than his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately didn't do any harm and was popular with the citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who nearly went to war.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of hisscams, which delusion, but after his defeat, he markets as seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does notjust all-natural, but tasty as well. It would be, since it's actually just lemonade.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and mustache, and changes his name to Oxide. It works for a while, until his cover is blown by a kid.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a charlatan, he delusionally views himself as a great doctor and benefactor of humanity.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns in the Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, with a bandage only to shoot him with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: Whilebelieve he is Napoleon himself, but takes a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about the only medicinal thing about it is that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the sidelot of his wagon, giving it the same mustache mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and beard Doxey had before shaving them off.
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people he's scammed come for revenge, he calls them ungrateful for his "help".
other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain:Despite being a charlatan and not being much of a fighter, he's not without cunning and he has enough chemical skills to improvise an explosive bottle which he used to knock Luke out and lose him.
* PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, heHe didn't even still wears really start out as a criminal, since the same clothes! Somehow, it still works, Luke people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn'trecognize him when they meet again.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Inknowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trick people into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the first partlegitimate ruler of the story. The animated version adds a scene where Doxey yells U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and thealarm on Scraggy after they break out of prison to cover his own escape, and Scraggy later turns up again in the ending, now running his own snake oil scam after Doxey is recaptured by Luke.U.S, behind for good, disappearing into Mexico.
* DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that with him gone, no one is paying them to keep up with this nonsense, and disperse, ending the rebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-life self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated and not truly a villain, he was still far more antagonistic than his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately didn't do any harm and was popular with the citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who nearly went to war.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and mustache, and changes his name to Oxide. It works for a while, until his cover is blown by a kid.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a charlatan, he delusionally views himself as a great doctor and benefactor of humanity.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns in the Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, with a bandage only to shoot him with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: While
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about the only medicinal thing about it is that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people he's scammed come for revenge, he calls them ungrateful for his "help".
* NotSoHarmlessVillain:
* PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't
* SnakeOilSalesman: In
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the first part
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the
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The self-proclaimed "law west of the Pecos" who runs a makeshift courtroom out of his bar in Langtry, Texas, despite not being an actual judge, nor a lawman of any kind.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henri Labussière (1991 animated series)
The self-proclaimed "law west of the Pecos" who runs a makeshift courtroom out of his bar in Langtry, Texas, despite not being an actual judge, nor a lawman of any kind.
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The self-proclaimed "law west
A corrupt rancher and long-time rival of
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* BearsAreBadNews: Has a tame bear who doubles as a bodyguard and enforcer.
* CoolOldGuy: Despite his old age he's a great gunslinger, who survived and escaped an encounter with an Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and knocked Luke out with a civil code book.
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one, and his real-life counterpart was possibly an UrExample, but ultimately averted in-universe, as Bean never actually sentences anyone to death, mostly limiting himself to confiscating illegal bets (that he himself encouraged people to make) and cattle, though he also likes handing out prison and labor sentences for crimes he mostly make up on the spot. Bad Ticket, the judge who briefly replaces him, turns out to ''really'' be one of these. Bonus material explain that the real Roy Bean was mostly known to just fine people and charging five dollars a wedding.
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after the cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean is still the closest thing to an actual judge the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only punishment is hanging up his outdated lawbook for good, and settles down as a bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".
* CoolOldGuy: Despite his old age he's a great gunslinger, who survived and escaped an encounter with an Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and knocked Luke out with a civil code book.
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one, and his real-life counterpart was possibly an UrExample, but ultimately averted in-universe, as Bean never actually sentences anyone to death, mostly limiting himself to confiscating illegal bets (that he himself encouraged people to make) and cattle, though he also likes handing out prison and labor sentences for crimes he mostly make up on the spot. Bad Ticket, the judge who briefly replaces him, turns out to ''really'' be one of these. Bonus material explain that the real Roy Bean was mostly known to just fine people and charging five dollars a wedding.
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after the cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean is still the closest thing to an actual judge the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only punishment is hanging up his outdated lawbook for good, and settles down as a bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".
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* BearsAreBadNews: Has a tame bear who doubles as a bodyguard DirtyCoward: After he seemingly misses during the duel with Waldo at the end, Ready falls to his knees and enforcer.
* CoolOldGuy: Despitebegs for mercy, promising Waldo his old age lands if he's a great gunslinger, who survived and escaped an encounter allowed to just walk away with an Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and knocked Luke out his life.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European style of ten paces, using flintlock pistols witha civil code book.
only one bullet.
*HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one, FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his real-life counterpart was possibly an UrExample, but ultimately averted in-universe, as Bean never murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actuallysentences anyone to death, mostly limiting himself to confiscating illegal bets (that he himself encouraged people to make) and cattle, though he also likes handing out prison and labor sentences for crimes he mostly make up on hit him in the spot. Bad Ticket, the judge who briefly replaces him, turns out to ''really'' be one of these. Bonus material explain that the real Roy Bean was mostly known to just fine people and charging five dollars a wedding.
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtryarm which is why he didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is stillthe closest thing to an actual judge alive and the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only punishment bartender is hanging up his outdated lawbook for good, and settles down as a bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously,in on it, because the bottle in the saloon keeps decreasing despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading Ready being the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later only person who can afford it.
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he'sseen reading the book in full, tarred and is amazed to find that it's full feathered before being chased out of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".town.
* CoolOldGuy: Despite
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European style of ten paces, using flintlock pistols with
*
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously,
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".
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A group of ex-confederate soldiers who struck out on their own as outlaws after the end of the American Civil War. The group was led by Joss Jamon, and consisted of Bill The Cheater, Joe The Indian, Jack The Muscle, Steve The Wishy-Washy, and Sam The Farmer. The gang ends up on Luke's radar after they plunder the small town of Los Palitos and frame him for their crimes.
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A group of ex-confederate soldiers who struck out on their own as outlaws after the end of the American Civil War. The group was led by Joss Jamon, and consisted of Bill The Cheater, Joe The Indian, Jack The Muscle, Steve The Wishy-Washy, and Sam The Farmer. The gang ends up on Luke's radar after they plunder the small town of Los Palitos and frame him for their crimes.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Idiotically bet his saloon in an arm-wrestling contest between Jane and
* ArmsDealer: His true profession, the saloon just being a valuable cover since selling guns to the indians is insanely illegal.
* TheDandy: While they were certainly around in the Old West, you wouldn't expect to find this kind of character in a frontier town like El Plomo.
* DryCrusader: After he loses the saloon to Jane, he lies to the local women's teetotaler group about having a change of heart, and giving up his former life of vice and sin, hoping to use the group to get the saloon shut down so he can resume smuggling.
* SissyVillain: In direct contrast to Calamity Jane, Oyster is a ridiculous dandy who dresses in a pink suit and douses himself in perfume. He's also not much of an action guy, relying on his DumbMuscle minion for
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[[folder:Frank Malone]]
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Originally the guide for a caravan of pioneers heading to California, Malone tried to extort the groups leader, Andrew Boston, for more money when they were barely halfway, and when Boston refused, tried to shoot him, only to be disarmed by Lucky Luke who happened to be nearby. Humiliated, Malone swore revenge and hid himself in the caravan disguised as an old woman, waiting for an opportunity to strike back.
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* AdaptedOut: Sam the Farmer did not appear in the animated version, his role mostly taken over by Steve.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to have switched sides between the Union and the Confederacy dozens of times over the course of the war, depending on who was winning.
* DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang, and Luke only narrowly avoids being hanged by promising to bring the real criminals back to the town.
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the corrupt mayor of Frontier City, and gives cabinet positions to his henchmen.
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the entire album, only for him to suddenly deliver an eloquent monologue after the gang is cornered, including latin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one who isn't white.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to have switched sides between the Union and the Confederacy dozens of times over the course of the war, depending on who was winning.
* DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang, and Luke only narrowly avoids being hanged by promising to bring the real criminals back to the town.
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the corrupt mayor of Frontier City, and gives cabinet positions to his henchmen.
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the entire album, only for him to suddenly deliver an eloquent monologue after the gang is cornered, including latin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one who isn't white.
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* AdaptedOut: Sam BeneathSuspicion: There's no hint that the Farmer did not appear old woman is anything other than one of the unnamed members of the caravan.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined that the caravan fail, or even better, all die out in theanimated version, his role mostly taken over by Steve.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to have switched sides between the Union and the Confederacy dozens of times over the course of the war, depending on whowilderness, all because he was winning.
* DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos onangry at Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang, and Luke only narrowly avoids being hanged by promising to bring the real criminals back to the town.
Boston.
*MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the corrupt mayor of Frontier City, and gives cabinet positions to his henchmen.
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" forHiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almost the entire album, only story in disguise on one of the wagons, appearing on-panel several times throughout, but it's not revealed it's him until the climax.
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them forhim to suddenly deliver even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an eloquent monologue after experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during thegang is cornered, climax... and promptly missed all six bullets in his gun. Justified as he himself points out, since he's been sitting in a bumpy wagon knitting for weeks on end, so his hands were shaking like leaves.
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, includinglatin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joesawing through a wheel axel, cutting the Indian is harness for the only one who isn't white.horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter two which could easily have resulted in his ''own'' death.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined that the caravan fail, or even better, all die out in the
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to have switched sides between the Union and the Confederacy dozens of times over the course of the war, depending on who
* DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on
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* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including
* TokenMinority: Joe
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A pair of feuding families whose incompetence and stubbornness might not lead to many fatalities on their rivals, but is slowly destroying their hometown of Painful Gulch.
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A pair of feuding families whose incompetence and stubbornness might not lead to many fatalities on their rivals, but is slowly destroying their hometown of Painful Gulch.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An outlaw working of
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* AltarDiplomacy: How the feud is finally settled for good, with intermarriage between the two clans. The son produced by this union, Aloysius O'Timmins-O'Hara (who had both the family traits), eventually became mayor of Painful Gulch and went on to become a Texas congressman.
* BerserkButton: The other family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara should get water from the O'Timmins' river, and had to flee the O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that he went to the O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
* FeudingFamilies: A parody of the real-life feud between the Hatfield and [=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it that they've never managed to actually kill any of their enemies.
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at him for fifteen minutes. Despite this, they only managed to produce a bullet outline.
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and huge ears for the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.
* BerserkButton: The other family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara should get water from the O'Timmins' river, and had to flee the O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that he went to the O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
* FeudingFamilies: A parody of the real-life feud between the Hatfield and [=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it that they've never managed to actually kill any of their enemies.
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at him for fifteen minutes. Despite this, they only managed to produce a bullet outline.
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and huge ears for the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.
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* AltarDiplomacy: How AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Tries to prove that the feud is finally settled for good, with intermarriage between "firewater" he's been selling the two clans. The son produced Indians is perfectly fine by drinking a whole bottle of it by himself, then drunkenly slurring about how he can "take on any man in this union, Aloysius O'Timmins-O'Hara (who had both here saloon" (they're in an Indian camp in the family traits), middle of nowhere at the time). He then tries fighting Lucky Luke, and can't even land a single hit on him, even though Luke is standing still right in front of him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy for ''The Black Hills''.
* NonActionGuy: He does eventuallybecame mayor of Painful Gulch and went on to become a Texas congressman.
* BerserkButton: The other family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara shouldget water from the O'Timmins' river, and had to flee the O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that his hands dirty, but only as an absolute last resort. Normally, he went to the O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit fromprefers using sneakier tactics such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the traps, ambushes, theft, and hiring other people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where to do the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
* FeudingFamilies: A parody of the real-life feud between the Hatfield and [=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it that they've never managed to actually kill any of their enemies.
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at himwork for fifteen minutes. Despite this, they only managed to produce a bullet outline.
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and huge ears for the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy for ''The Black Hills''.
* NonActionGuy: He does eventually
* BerserkButton: The other family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara should
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from
* FeudingFamilies: A parody of the real-life feud between the Hatfield and [=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it that they've never managed to actually kill any of their enemies.
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at him
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and huge ears for the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.
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A Mexican ''bandito'' who terrorizes the area just south of the Rio Grande.
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A Mexican ''bandito'' who terrorizes the area just south of the Rio Grande.
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The chief of an Apache tribe that is feuding with the
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* AccidentalKidnapping: He and his gang accidentally steal an armored wagon that was transporting the Daltons to a new prison, thinking it was a gold or money transport.
* HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners since the natives are too poor to bother with for the most part and the rich landowners too well protected, and demanding ransom.
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the Daltons how to sing with disastrous results, and stops him from hanging himself to escape their terrible singing.
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due to not finding any usefulness for them to begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a reason good enough to convince even him to reconsider.
* HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners since the natives are too poor to bother with for the most part and the rich landowners too well protected, and demanding ransom.
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the Daltons how to sing with disastrous results, and stops him from hanging himself to escape their terrible singing.
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due to not finding any usefulness for them to begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a reason good enough to convince even him to reconsider.
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* AccidentalKidnapping: He AscendedExtra: The AnimatedAdaptation feature him in some other episodes than his own, sometimes as an ally to Lucky Luke.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite his hatred for the white man, Patronimo is actually half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child andhis gang accidentally steal an armored wagon reared among the Apaches as one of them. He had grown tired of the endless bloodshed years ago and returned to Europe, but Patronimo refused to follow him.
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out thatwas transporting the Daltons to a new prison, thinking it was a gold or money transport.
* HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreignerstribe's medicine man is actually O'Nolan's long lost son, having been reared by the Indians since the natives are too poor childhood, he wants to bother with execute him immediately just for being white, despite having spent his life as an Indian.
* TheSavageIndian: He acts like a normal person for the mostpart part, but wholeheartedly embraces the stereotype when dealing with the cavalry in his desire for revenge against the white man.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping boulders on their wagons, and therich landowners too well protected, cavalry always destroys their camp in retaliation afterwards. Both sides know that the traps are coming, and demanding ransom.
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the Daltonsknow how to sing with disastrous results, and stops him from hanging himself avoid it, but refuse to escape their terrible singing.
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due to not finding any usefulness for them to begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a reason good enough to convince even him to reconsider.stop.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite his hatred for the white man, Patronimo is actually half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child and
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that
* HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners
* TheSavageIndian: He acts like a normal person for the most
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping boulders on their wagons, and the
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the Daltons
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due to not finding any usefulness for them to begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a reason good enough to convince even him to reconsider.
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[[folder:The Whittaker Theater Troupe]]
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A travelling group of actors, Whittaker Baltimore, Gladys Whimple, Barnaby Float and Francis Lusty, who specialize in melodramas, especially their own creation, ''The Dashing White Cowboy''. Secretly, the actors uses the troupe as a cover to commit robberies in the towns they visit.
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A travelling group of actors, Whittaker Baltimore, Gladys Whimple, Barnaby Float and Francis Lusty, who specialize in melodramas, especially their own creation, ''The Dashing White Cowboy''. Secretly, the actors uses the troupe as a cover to commit robberies in the towns they visit.
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* BeneathSuspicion: The one actually committing the robberies is Francis Lusty, the troupes driver and machine operator, while most of the town is busy watching the play.
* CreepyCrossdresser: After the gang ends up in prison, Francis is forced into playing the Linda role when they put on shows for the other inmates, since Gladys wasn't arrested (and even if she was, would have gone to a women's prison).
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to the trope namer. Expectedly he isn't quite as theatrical about his villainy in his real life.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money the villains have stolen is hidden inside the doll used to portray Gladys' baby brother in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in white to show what a good guy he is.
* CreepyCrossdresser: After the gang ends up in prison, Francis is forced into playing the Linda role when they put on shows for the other inmates, since Gladys wasn't arrested (and even if she was, would have gone to a women's prison).
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to the trope namer. Expectedly he isn't quite as theatrical about his villainy in his real life.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money the villains have stolen is hidden inside the doll used to portray Gladys' baby brother in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in white to show what a good guy he is.
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* BeneathSuspicion: The one actually committing BurnTheWitch: One of their plans to get rid of Powell is convincing the robberies townsfolk they saw Powell performing black magic and try to get him lynched.
* CardSharp: Both of them, though Miles isFrancis Lusty, better at it than Bill.
* TheCon: Their plan is to buy Powell's seemingly worthless mine, salt it with gold, and then cash in on thetroupes driver and machine operator, while most resultant inflated value. Problem is, Powell refuses to sell it.
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out ofthe town is busy watching the play.
* CreepyCrossdresser: After the gang ends up in prison, Francis is forced into playing the Linda roleboth of them when they put have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in Daisy Town as the last member of a bunch of tougher thugs, as they break their bottles to gang up onshows and stab Lucky aaand [[EpicFail he fails and keeps trying to for the other inmates, since Gladys wasn't arrested (and even if she was, would have gone to a women's prison).
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical toentirety of the trope namer. Expectedly he isn't quite as theatrical about brawl]], until Lucky Luke helpfully breaks it for him, on his villainy in his real life.
head.
*HiddenInPlainSight: The money TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the villains have stolen is hidden inside the doll used last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves toportray Gladys' baby brother make him a mark in Denver's eyes, to rob blind in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title characterdead of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in white to show what a good guy he is.night.
* CardSharp: Both of them, though Miles is
* TheCon: Their plan is to buy Powell's seemingly worthless mine, salt it with gold, and then cash in on the
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of
* CreepyCrossdresser: After the gang ends up in prison, Francis is forced into playing the Linda role
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in Daisy Town as the last member of a bunch of tougher thugs, as they break their bottles to gang up on
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to
*
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character
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[[folder:Cass Casey]]
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A rich and influential cattle baron who demands total control of the prairie grasslands for himself and his cattle, harassing and attacking the farmers who try to set up their own homes there.
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A rich and influential cattle baron who demands total control of the prairie grasslands for himself and his cattle, harassing and attacking the farmers who try to set up their own homes there.
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* BerserkButton:
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To the point nearby store and diligences refuse to bring the stuff as it will end up with them wrapped in their product.
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he doesn't even seem to know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims to the grasslands, but Casey uses his wealth and influence to basically make him the de-facto ruler of the area.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than the farmers trying to divy up the prairie with barbed wire.
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To the point nearby store and diligences refuse to bring the stuff as it will end up with them wrapped in their product.
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he doesn't even seem to know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims to the grasslands, but Casey uses his wealth and influence to basically make him the de-facto ruler of the area.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than the farmers trying to divy up the prairie with barbed wire.
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* BerserkButton:
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. ToAllPsychologyIsFreudian: Despite predating Freud himself, the ending even mentions that Hiimbergeist's work will go on to influence Freud (who's still a child by this point nearby store and diligences refuse to bring the stuff as it will end up with them wrapped in their product.
-->'''Store owner:'''time).
* BerserkButton: He[barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, hedoesn't even seem take being called crazy well at all.
* FaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the start, but spending enough time around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than his chosen profession and decides toknow what vegetables are.
become a criminal himself.
*ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims FreudianExcuse: Ironically as he tries to cure others of theirs, he has his own. It's implied that he always wanted to become a rich man, but that his strict intellectual father prevented from going into business as he wanted, which was only made worse by him being penniless after university. Exposition to the grasslands, but Casey Daltons and their backstory reawakened his frustrations and greed, and caused him to become a criminal.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses hiswealth and influence psychology techniques to basically great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the de-facto ruler of Daltons the area.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more thanmoney. He later uses it in prison to make the farmers trying guards do his work while he rests.
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides todivy up the prairie with barbed wire.become a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques for crime.
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To
-->'''Store owner:'''
* BerserkButton: He
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he
* FaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the start, but spending enough time around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than his chosen profession and decides to
*
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henry Djanik (1983 animated series)
Also known as "The Spider", Defer is a very tall, gangly hitman hired by O'Sullivan, the corrupt owner of the Ace of Spades saloon, to kill his competitor O'Hara, only to come in conflict with O'Hara's friend Lucky Luke.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henry Djanik (1983 animated series)
Also known as "The Spider", Defer is a very tall, gangly hitman hired by O'Sullivan, the corrupt owner of the Ace of Spades saloon, to kill his competitor O'Hara, only to come in conflict with O'Hara's friend Lucky Luke.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henry Djanik (1983 animated series)
Also known
An unnamed anarchist assassin who serves as
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* {{Bowdlerisation}}: In the original version of the album, Luke actually shot him dead. In later editions, he's simply injured and left unable to hold a gun again.
* CareerEndingInjury: In the censored version, his hitman career is permanently ended by the shoulder injury Luke inflicts on him.
* TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also such that O'Hara tries to dissuade Luke from fighting him in a duel.
* DubNameChange: In the English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them to shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick enough to not fall.
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
* LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for the 19th century, to the point that he's too tall for the bed he sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and his body is thin, like a wire.
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait until Lucky Luke has shot the six bullets in his gun before counterattacking. Unfortunately for him he had no way of knowing that Luke had the only seven-shot gun in the west, allowing Luke to defeat him.
* ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
* CareerEndingInjury: In the censored version, his hitman career is permanently ended by the shoulder injury Luke inflicts on him.
* TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also such that O'Hara tries to dissuade Luke from fighting him in a duel.
* DubNameChange: In the English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them to shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick enough to not fall.
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
* LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for the 19th century, to the point that he's too tall for the bed he sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and his body is thin, like a wire.
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait until Lucky Luke has shot the six bullets in his gun before counterattacking. Unfortunately for him he had no way of knowing that Luke had the only seven-shot gun in the west, allowing Luke to defeat him.
* ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
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* {{Bowdlerisation}}: In the original version BombThrowingAnarchist: An almost exact replica of 19th century caricatures of anarchists, right down to his clothes and weapons.
* ButtMonkey: He might be a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As a member of thealbum, Luke actually shot him dead. In later editions, anti-tsarist movement, he's simply injured and left unable to hold a gun again.
* CareerEndingInjury: Invery much in favor of violently murdering the censored version, his hitman career is permanently ended by the shoulder injury Luke inflicts rich, nobility especially.
* MadBomber: His preferred weapon, even though they have a tendency to backfire on him.
*TheDreaded: Is SheatheYourSword: Has a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also such that O'Hara tries to dissuade Luke from fighting him in a duel.
* DubNameChange: In the English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them to shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick enough to not fall.
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets withperfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
* LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially forshot at taking out the 19th century, Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the point success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that he's too tall the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing up his original target in exchange for a much higher-profile one.
* ThrowTheDogABone: In thebed animated adaptation, he sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire"eventually becomes rich when one of his failed attempts to blow up the grand duke reveals that a seemingly exhausted gold mine in fact still contains gold. With his new fortune, he decides to let the Duke be and starts a new life.
* UnknownRival: Due to hisbody is thin, like a wire.
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait untilridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke has shot the six bullets in his gun before counterattacking. Unfortunately for him he had no way of knowing ever even notice that Luke had the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... onlyseven-shot gun in the west, allowing Luke for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to defeat him.
* ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"happen.
* ButtMonkey: He might be a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As a member of the
* CareerEndingInjury: In
* MadBomber: His preferred weapon, even though they have a tendency to backfire on him.
*
* DubNameChange: In the English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them to shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick enough to not fall.
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with
* LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for
* ThrowTheDogABone: In the
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire"
* UnknownRival: Due to his
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait until
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only
* ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
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A wealthy rancher whose success and riches has made him delusional, making him believe he's the Emperor of the United States.
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A wealthy rancher whose success and riches has made him delusional, making him believe he's the Emperor of the United States.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, and has his cowboys wear army uniforms and even issues edicts and currency for Grass Town to use.
* DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that with him gone, no one is paying them to keep up with this nonsense, and disperse, ending the rebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-life self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated and not truly a villain, he was still far more antagonistic than his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately didn't do any harm and was popular with the citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who nearly went to war.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the U.S, behind for good, disappearing into Mexico.
* DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that with him gone, no one is paying them to keep up with this nonsense, and disperse, ending the rebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-life self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated and not truly a villain, he was still far more antagonistic than his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately didn't do any harm and was popular with the citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who nearly went to war.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the U.S, behind for good, disappearing into Mexico.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler AmoralAttorney: He was debarred and is technically not a lawyer anymore, but he's certainly still a scumbag who uses his extensive knowledge of the U.S, and has his cowboys wear army uniforms and even issues edicts and currency laws to avoid openly breaking any. That makes it incredibly difficult for Grass Town to use.
* DecapitatedArmy: AfterLuke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that with him gone, no one is paying them to keep up with this nonsense, and disperse, ending pin anything on him.
* ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, therebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Whenman who first discovered the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: Due toexecution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence lack of authority in the town, Blunt is able to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting toessentially conquer the United States for real.
it with his gang since there's no organized authority to stop him.
*{{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-life self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated and not truly a villain,TooDumbToLive: Keeps rehiring his henchman Bingle, despite Bingles insistence on getting re-arrested, because he found oil under his cell when he was still far more antagonistic than his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately didn't do any harm and was popular with in prison the citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who nearly went to war.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the U.S, behind for good, disappearing into Mexico.last time.
* DecapitatedArmy: After
* ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When
* IOwnThisTown: Due to
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated and not truly a villain,
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the U.S, behind for good, disappearing into Mexico.
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[[folder:Jack Ready]]
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A corrupt rancher and long-time rival of Luke's friend Baddy. After Baddy's death, Ready had hoped to finally buy up Baddy's land and add them to his own, only for Baddy's nephew Waldo, a "tenderfoot" from England, show up to claim his inheritance, something Ready has no intention of allowing.
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A corrupt rancher and long-time rival of Luke's friend Baddy. After Baddy's death, Ready had hoped to finally buy up Baddy's land and add them to his own, only for Baddy's nephew Waldo, a "tenderfoot" from England, show up to claim his inheritance, something Ready has no intention of allowing.
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* DirtyCoward: After he seemingly misses during the duel with Waldo at the end, Ready falls to his knees and begs for mercy, promising Waldo his lands if he's allowed to just walk away with his life.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European style of ten paces, using flintlock pistols with only one bullet.
* FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the town bartender is in on it, because the bottle in the saloon keeps decreasing despite Ready being the only person who can afford it.
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's tarred and feathered before being chased out of town.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European style of ten paces, using flintlock pistols with only one bullet.
* FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the town bartender is in on it, because the bottle in the saloon keeps decreasing despite Ready being the only person who can afford it.
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's tarred and feathered before being chased out of town.
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* DirtyCoward: After he seemingly misses during ArmsDealer: Has been selling weapons to the duel with Waldo at the end, Ready falls to his knees and begs for mercy, promising Waldo his lands if he's allowed to just walk away with his life.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European styleIndians on top of ten paces, using flintlock pistols with only one bullet.
* FakingTheDead: Afterall his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes other crimes.
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smuggler and murderer who thinks nothing of assisting the Cheyenne in massacring hisown death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the town bartender is in on it, because the bottle in the saloon keeps decreasing despite Ready being the only person who can afford it.
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's tarred and feathered before being chased out of town.former comrades.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European style
* FakingTheDead: After
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smuggler and murderer who thinks nothing of assisting the Cheyenne in massacring his
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the town bartender is in on it, because the bottle in the saloon keeps decreasing despite Ready being the only person who can afford it.
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's tarred and feathered before being chased out of town.
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[[folder:August Oyster]]
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The owner of the local saloon in the town of El Plomo. Unbeknownst to the townsfolk or the nearby cavalry base, the saloon contains a secret tunnel that Oyster uses for smuggling weapons to a local Apache tribe. That is, until he runs afoul of Calamity Jane.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Idiotically bet his saloon in an arm-wrestling contest between Jane and his GiantMook, not realizing that Jane is ''much'' stronger than she looks, even holding back at first just so she could rake it in from anyone else dumb enough to bet against her.
* ArmsDealer: His true profession, the saloon just being a valuable cover since selling guns to the indians is insanely illegal.
* TheDandy: While they were certainly around in the Old West, you wouldn't expect to find this kind of character in a frontier town like El Plomo.
* DryCrusader: After he loses the saloon to Jane, he lies to the local women's teetotaler group about having a change of heart, and giving up his former life of vice and sin, hoping to use the group to get the saloon shut down so he can resume smuggling.
* SissyVillain: In direct contrast to Calamity Jane, Oyster is a ridiculous dandy who dresses in a pink suit and douses himself in perfume. He's also not much of an action guy, relying on his DumbMuscle minion for most physical tasks.
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[[folder:Frank Malone]]
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Originally the guide for a caravan of pioneers heading to California, Malone tried to extort the groups leader, Andrew Boston, for more money when they were barely halfway, and when Boston refused, tried to shoot him, only to be disarmed by Lucky Luke who happened to be nearby. Humiliated, Malone swore revenge and hid himself in the caravan disguised as an old woman, waiting for an opportunity to strike back.
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The owner of the local saloon in the town of El Plomo. Unbeknownst to the townsfolk or the nearby cavalry base, the saloon contains a secret tunnel that Oyster uses for smuggling weapons to a local Apache tribe. That is, until he runs afoul of Calamity Jane.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Idiotically bet his saloon in an arm-wrestling contest between Jane and his GiantMook, not realizing that Jane is ''much'' stronger than she looks, even holding back at first just so she could rake it in from anyone else dumb enough to bet against her.
* ArmsDealer: His true profession, the saloon just being a valuable cover since selling guns to the indians is insanely illegal.
* TheDandy: While they were certainly around in the Old West, you wouldn't expect to find this kind of character in a frontier town like El Plomo.
* DryCrusader: After he loses the saloon to Jane, he lies to the local women's teetotaler group about having a change of heart, and giving up his former life of vice and sin, hoping to use the group to get the saloon shut down so he can resume smuggling.
* SissyVillain: In direct contrast to Calamity Jane, Oyster is a ridiculous dandy who dresses in a pink suit and douses himself in perfume. He's also not much of an action guy, relying on his DumbMuscle minion for most physical tasks.
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[[folder:Frank Malone]]
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Originally the guide for a caravan of pioneers heading to California, Malone tried to extort the groups leader, Andrew Boston, for more money when they were barely halfway, and when Boston refused, tried to shoot him, only to be disarmed by Lucky Luke who happened to be nearby. Humiliated, Malone swore revenge and hid himself in the caravan disguised as an old woman, waiting for an opportunity to strike back.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Idiotically bet his saloon in an arm-wrestling contest between Jane
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* ArmsDealer: His true profession,
* TheDandy: While they were certainly around in the Old West, you wouldn't expect to find this kind of character in a frontier town like El Plomo.
* DryCrusader: After he loses the saloon to Jane, he lies to the local women's teetotaler group about having a change of heart, and giving up his former life of vice and sin, hoping to use the group to get the saloon shut down so he can resume smuggling.
* SissyVillain: In direct contrast to Calamity Jane, Oyster is a ridiculous dandy who dresses in a pink suit and douses himself in perfume. He's also not much of an action guy, relying on his DumbMuscle minion for most physical tasks.
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* BeneathSuspicion: There's no hint that the old woman is anything other than one of the unnamed members of the caravan.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined that the caravan fail, or even better, all die out in the wilderness, all because he was angry at Luke and Boston.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almost the entire story in disguise on one of the wagons, appearing on-panel several times throughout, but it's not revealed it's him until the climax.
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the climax... and promptly missed all six bullets in his gun. Justified as he himself points out, since he's been sitting in a bumpy wagon knitting for weeks on end, so his hands were shaking like leaves.
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the harness for the horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter two which could easily have resulted in his ''own'' death.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined that the caravan fail, or even better, all die out in the wilderness, all because he was angry at Luke and Boston.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almost the entire story in disguise on one of the wagons, appearing on-panel several times throughout, but it's not revealed it's him until the climax.
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the climax... and promptly missed all six bullets in his gun. Justified as he himself points out, since he's been sitting in a bumpy wagon knitting for weeks on end, so his hands were shaking like leaves.
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the harness for the horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter two which could easily have resulted in his ''own'' death.
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* BeneathSuspicion: There's no hint CardSharp: While Double-Six can't be trusted to play a game of solitaire by himself, The Boss is a card cheat through and through, to the point that the old woman when Luke shakes him upside-down to disarm him, his jacket turns out to be full of ace cards.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss isanything other than a caricature of famous French actor Creator/LouisDeFunes, while Double-Six is one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pr%C3%A9jean Patrick Préjean]].
* DumbMuscle: Double-Six might as well be theunnamed members guys IQ score.
* EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
* HeelFaceTurn: In what is likely the most abrupt one in the history of thecaravan.
series, the Boss is offered employment by the Pony Express after one of their managers see how fast he can get around while riding Double-Six. With the promise of a fair wage and three meals a day, the Boss immediately decides to abandon his former life as a cheating gambler, and instead turns over a new leaf as a Pony Express deliveryman, using Double-Six as his mount.
*DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point that he's able to ''outrun Jolly Jumper'', much to the caravan fail, or even better, all die out shock of Jolly and Luke.
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
* SapientSteed: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness,all because he was angry at Luke and Boston.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almostthe entire story in disguise on one of the wagons, appearing on-panel several times throughout, but it's not revealed it's him until the climax.
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the climax... and promptly missed all six bullets inBoss starts using Double-Six as his gun. Justified as he himself points out, since he's been sitting in a bumpy wagon knitting for weeks on end, so his hands were shaking like leaves.
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the harness for the horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter twonew steed, which could easily have resulted in his ''own'' death.surprisingly turns out to be very effective.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss is
* DumbMuscle: Double-Six might as well be the
* EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
* HeelFaceTurn: In what is likely the most abrupt one in the history of the
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* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
* SapientSteed: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness,
* HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almost
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the climax... and promptly missed all six bullets in
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the harness for the horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter two
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[[folder:Bull Bullets]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An outlaw working of Senator Orwell Stormwind, a corrupt U.S Senator, living high off his employers dime and serving as a go-between for Stormwinds illegal alcohol and weapon sales to the indians in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. When a project to open up the Hills for settlement is proposed, Bullets is tasked with making sure the expedition fails by any means necessary.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An outlaw working of Senator Orwell Stormwind, a corrupt U.S Senator, living high off his employers dime and serving as a go-between for Stormwinds illegal alcohol and weapon sales to the indians in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. When a project to open up the Hills for settlement is proposed, Bullets is tasked with making sure the expedition fails by any means necessary.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An outlaw working
A notorious gang of
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Tries to prove that the "firewater" he's been selling the Indians is perfectly fine by drinking a whole bottle of it by himself, then drunkenly slurring about how he can "take on any man in this here saloon" (they're in an Indian camp in the middle of nowhere at the time). He then tries fighting Lucky Luke, and can't even land a single hit on him, even though Luke is standing still right in front of him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy for ''The Black Hills''.
* NonActionGuy: He does eventually get his hands dirty, but only as an absolute last resort. Normally, he prefers using sneakier tactics such as traps, ambushes, theft, and hiring other people to do the work for him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy for ''The Black Hills''.
* NonActionGuy: He does eventually get his hands dirty, but only as an absolute last resort. Normally, he prefers using sneakier tactics such as traps, ambushes, theft, and hiring other people to do the work for him.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Tries to prove that AdaptationalBadass: Like a lot of legends from the "firewater" Old West, the Daltons' reputation was heavily embellished over the years, while contemporary records showed them to be fairly incompetent, albeit not to the extent of their fictional cousins. Here, they're just as dangerous and vicious as their legends made them out to be.
* AdaptedOut: The reason the real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did not die in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end of the album, he's said to have beenselling the Indians is perfectly fine by drinking a whole bottle of it by himself, then drunkenly slurring about how he can "take on any man in hanged with his brothers -- though this here saloon" (they're in an Indian camp is {{Retcon}}ned in the middle of nowhere at the time). He then tries fighting Lucky Luke, and can't even land a single hit on him, even though Luke is standing still right in front of him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy forlater album ''The Black Hills''.
Dalton Uncles,'' where Emmet's fate is changed to be more in line with his historical counterpart.
*NonActionGuy: He does DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In real life, the Daltons (with the exception of Emmett) were killed in a shootout with a posse of townspeople after their bank heist in Coffeyville failed. Here, they're defeated by Luke, taken to prison, and eventually get hanged.
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original version of the comic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from hishands dirty, suspenders from a lamp. For obvious reasons, this was changed for the finished version as him just being captured in a barrel.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, butonly as an absolute last resort. Normally, he prefers using sneakier tactics such as traps, ambushes, theft, their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and hiring other people to do their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate is retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't actually a member of thework for him.gang in real life.
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.
* AdaptedOut: The reason the real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did not die in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end of the album, he's said to have been
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy for
*
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original version of the comic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from his
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate is retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't actually a member of the
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.
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[[folder:Patronimo]]
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The chief of an Apache tribe that is feuding with the cavalry garrison led by Colonel O'Nolan, Patronimo is intent on continuing the Indian Wars, and blames the colonel for the loss of his father Bisteco, the tribe's original chief.
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The chief of an Apache tribe that is feuding with the cavalry garrison led by Colonel O'Nolan, Patronimo is intent on continuing the Indian Wars, and blames the colonel for the loss of his father Bisteco, the tribe's original chief.
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The chief
Captain of
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* AscendedExtra: The AnimatedAdaptation feature him in some other episodes than his own, sometimes as an ally to Lucky Luke.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite his hatred for the white man, Patronimo is actually half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child and reared among the Apaches as one of them. He had grown tired of the endless bloodshed years ago and returned to Europe, but Patronimo refused to follow him.
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that the tribe's medicine man is actually O'Nolan's long lost son, having been reared by the Indians since childhood, he wants to execute him immediately just for being white, despite having spent his life as an Indian.
* TheSavageIndian: He acts like a normal person for the most part, but wholeheartedly embraces the stereotype when dealing with the cavalry in his desire for revenge against the white man.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping boulders on their wagons, and the cavalry always destroys their camp in retaliation afterwards. Both sides know that the traps are coming, and know how to avoid it, but refuse to stop.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite his hatred for the white man, Patronimo is actually half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child and reared among the Apaches as one of them. He had grown tired of the endless bloodshed years ago and returned to Europe, but Patronimo refused to follow him.
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that the tribe's medicine man is actually O'Nolan's long lost son, having been reared by the Indians since childhood, he wants to execute him immediately just for being white, despite having spent his life as an Indian.
* TheSavageIndian: He acts like a normal person for the most part, but wholeheartedly embraces the stereotype when dealing with the cavalry in his desire for revenge against the white man.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping boulders on their wagons, and the cavalry always destroys their camp in retaliation afterwards. Both sides know that the traps are coming, and know how to avoid it, but refuse to stop.
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* AscendedExtra: The AnimatedAdaptation feature {{Pirate}}: Captain Barrows calls him in some other episodes than this, and he certainly has the methods of one. At one point he forces his own, sometimes as an ally passengers at gunpoint to Lucky Luke.
* BoomerangBigot: Despitedig his hatred stranded boat out, and in the final stretch he dumps all his remaining passengers in Memphis, even those that had paid for the white man, Patronimo is actually half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child and reared among the Apaches as one of them. He had grown tired full trip to St. Louis.
* TheRival: Of captain Barrows of theendless bloodshed years ago and returned "Daisy Belle", a straightforward honest captain.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries toEurope, but Patronimo refused to follow him.
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out thatwin the tribe's medicine man is actually O'Nolan's long lost son, having been reared boatrace by disabling the Indians since childhood, he wants to execute him immediately just safety valve of his steam engine. [[StuffBlowingUp This does not end well for being white, despite having spent his life as an Indian.
him.]]
*TheSavageIndian: TheUnfought: He acts like a normal person for the most part, but wholeheartedly embraces the stereotype when dealing with the cavalry in his desire for revenge against the white man.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping bouldersnever confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on their wagons, and the cavalry always destroys their camp in retaliation afterwards. Both sides know that the traps are coming, and know how to avoid it, but refuse to stop.hired goons instead.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite
* TheRival: Of captain Barrows of the
* TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries to
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that
*
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping boulders
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[[folder:Denver Miles and Colorado Bill]]
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[[caption-width-right:160:Denver Miles]]
A pair of card cheats and scam artists who have a tendency of getting themselves tarred and feathered for their crimes, only to immediately go right back to their craft in the next town over. When they accompany Luke to the abandoned boom town Gold Hill, they see yet another business opportunity.
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[[caption-width-right:160:Denver Miles]]
A pair of card cheats and scam artists who have a tendency of getting themselves tarred and feathered for their crimes, only to immediately go right back to their craft in the next town over. When they accompany Luke to the abandoned boom town Gold Hill, they see yet another business opportunity.
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The first of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious gambler and
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[[caption-width-right:160:Denver Miles]]
A pair of card cheats and scam artists who have a tendency of getting themselves tarred and feathered for their crimes, only to immediately go right back to their craft in the next town over. When they accompany Luke to the abandoned boom town Gold Hill, they see yet another business opportunity.
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* BurnTheWitch: One of their plans to get rid of Powell is convincing the townsfolk they saw Powell performing black magic and try to get him lynched.
* CardSharp: Both of them, though Miles is better at it than Bill.
* TheCon: Their plan is to buy Powell's seemingly worthless mine, salt it with gold, and then cash in on the resultant inflated value. Problem is, Powell refuses to sell it.
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of both of them when they have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in Daisy Town as the last member of a bunch of tougher thugs, as they break their bottles to gang up on and stab Lucky aaand [[EpicFail he fails and keeps trying to for the entirety of the brawl]], until Lucky Luke helpfully breaks it for him, on his head.
* TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to make him a mark in Denver's eyes, to rob blind in the dead of the night.
* CardSharp: Both of them, though Miles is better at it than Bill.
* TheCon: Their plan is to buy Powell's seemingly worthless mine, salt it with gold, and then cash in on the resultant inflated value. Problem is, Powell refuses to sell it.
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of both of them when they have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in Daisy Town as the last member of a bunch of tougher thugs, as they break their bottles to gang up on and stab Lucky aaand [[EpicFail he fails and keeps trying to for the entirety of the brawl]], until Lucky Luke helpfully breaks it for him, on his head.
* TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to make him a mark in Denver's eyes, to rob blind in the dead of the night.
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* TheCon: Their plan is
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of both of them when they have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fight with Lucky Luke, which is over before anyone can place their bets.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Lucky Luke
* TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to make
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[[folder:Otto Von Hiimbergeist]]
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A visiting scientist from Austria, who's a pioneer in the fledgling field of psychology and psychiatry, Von Hiimbergeist has theorized that crime is a mental disorder that can be cured through therapy, and has come to the United States in the hopes of testing his theories on some of the worlds most notorious outlaws -- the Daltons.
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A visiting scientist from Austria, who's a pioneer in the fledgling field of psychology and psychiatry, Von Hiimbergeist has theorized that crime is a mental disorder that can be cured through therapy, and has come to the United States in the hopes of testing his theories on some of the worlds most notorious outlaws -- the Daltons.
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A visiting scientist from Austria, who's a pioneer in the fledgling field
The second of
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* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Despite predating Freud himself, the ending even mentions that Hiimbergeist's work will go on to influence Freud (who's still a child by this point in time).
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.
* FaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the start, but spending enough time around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than his chosen profession and decides to become a criminal himself.
* FreudianExcuse: Ironically as he tries to cure others of theirs, he has his own. It's implied that he always wanted to become a rich man, but that his strict intellectual father prevented from going into business as he wanted, which was only made worse by him being penniless after university. Exposition to the Daltons and their backstory reawakened his frustrations and greed, and caused him to become a criminal.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guards do his work while he rests.
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to become a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques for crime.
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.
* FaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the start, but spending enough time around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than his chosen profession and decides to become a criminal himself.
* FreudianExcuse: Ironically as he tries to cure others of theirs, he has his own. It's implied that he always wanted to become a rich man, but that his strict intellectual father prevented from going into business as he wanted, which was only made worse by him being penniless after university. Exposition to the Daltons and their backstory reawakened his frustrations and greed, and caused him to become a criminal.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guards do his work while he rests.
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to become a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques for crime.
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* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Despite predating Freud himself, AchillesHeel: He's ticklish, which is what ultimately defeats him.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature. His sole presence is enough to make theending even mentions Daisy Belle's crew wants to desert until Luke promises to protect them.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough thatHiimbergeist's work will go on Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard to influence Freud (who's still a child by this the point in time).
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.that it can damage machines and deflect bullets.
*FaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the start, but spending enough time around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than UseYourHead: As his chosen profession name implies, his head is nearly invulnerable and decides to become a criminal himself.
* FreudianExcuse: Ironically ashe tries to cure others of theirs, he has his own. It's implied that he always wanted to become a rich man, but that his strict intellectual father prevented from going into business as he wanted, which was only made worse by him being penniless after university. Exposition to the Daltons and their backstory reawakened his frustrations and greed, and caused him to become a criminal.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guardscan do his work while he rests.
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to becomeserious damage with a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques for crime.headbutt.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature. His sole presence is enough to make the
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.
*
* FreudianExcuse: Ironically as
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guards
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to become
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[[folder:The Anarchist]]
An unnamed anarchist assassin who serves as the main threat in ''The Grand Duke'', having followed Grand Duke Leonid from Russia to the United States with the intention of murdering him for political reasons while the Duke is unprotected on foreign soil during his diplomatic trip.
An unnamed anarchist assassin who serves as the main threat in ''The Grand Duke'', having followed Grand Duke Leonid from Russia to the United States with the intention of murdering him for political reasons while the Duke is unprotected on foreign soil during his diplomatic trip.
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An unnamed anarchist assassin who serves as the main threat
The third of Lowriver's hired goons, a saboteur specializing in
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* BombThrowingAnarchist: An almost exact replica of 19th century caricatures of anarchists, right down to his clothes and weapons.
* ButtMonkey: He might be a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As a member of the anti-tsarist movement, he's very much in favor of violently murdering the rich, nobility especially.
* MadBomber: His preferred weapon, even though they have a tendency to backfire on him.
* SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing up his original target in exchange for a much higher-profile one.
* ThrowTheDogABone: In the animated adaptation, he eventually becomes rich when one of his failed attempts to blow up the grand duke reveals that a seemingly exhausted gold mine in fact still contains gold. With his new fortune, he decides to let the Duke be and starts a new life.
* UnknownRival: Due to his ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.
* ButtMonkey: He might be a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As a member of the anti-tsarist movement, he's very much in favor of violently murdering the rich, nobility especially.
* MadBomber: His preferred weapon, even though they have a tendency to backfire on him.
* SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing up his original target in exchange for a much higher-profile one.
* ThrowTheDogABone: In the animated adaptation, he eventually becomes rich when one of his failed attempts to blow up the grand duke reveals that a seemingly exhausted gold mine in fact still contains gold. With his new fortune, he decides to let the Duke be and starts a new life.
* UnknownRival: Due to his ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.
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* BombThrowingAnarchist: An almost exact replica of 19th century caricatures of anarchists, right down to AscendedExtra: In the original, he appears in just a few pages, but the animated version expanded his clothes and weapons.
role.
*ButtMonkey: He might be a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Lucky Luke calmly returns his 'lost' suitcase to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right orders a drink, sits around for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: Asa member of bit and unhurriedly leaves, he becomes convinced that Luke already found and disabled the anti-tsarist movement, he's very much in favor of violently murdering bomb inside. Turns out this was not the rich, nobility especially.
case.
* MadBomber:His preferred weapon, even though they have a tendency to backfire on him.
* SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing upAs his original target in exchange for a much higher-profile one.
name implies.
*ThrowTheDogABone: In the animated adaptation, he eventually becomes rich when one of his failed attempts to blow up the grand duke reveals that a seemingly exhausted gold mine in fact still contains gold. With his new fortune, he decides to let the Duke be and starts a new life.
* UnknownRival: Due to his ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.
*
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As
* MadBomber:
* SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing up
*
* UnknownRival: Due to his ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.
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[[folder:Barry Blunt]]
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A Texas lawyer turned would-be oil baron, Barry Blunt is the leader of a gang of claim jumpers trying to seize control over the oil wells in the small town of Titusville through force, and there is no one around who can stop him because almost every person in authority has deserted their jobs to look for oil.
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A Texas lawyer turned would-be oil baron, Barry Blunt is the leader of a gang of claim jumpers trying to seize control over the oil wells in the small town of Titusville through force, and there is no one around who can stop him because almost every person in authority has deserted their jobs to look for oil.
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A Texas lawyer turned would-be oil baron, Barry Blunt is the leader of a gang of claim jumpers trying to seize control over the oil wells in the small town of Titusville through force,
The fourth and
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* AmoralAttorney: He was debarred and is technically not a lawyer anymore, but he's certainly still a scumbag who uses his extensive knowledge of the laws to avoid openly breaking any. That makes it incredibly difficult for Luke to pin anything on him.
* ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the man who first discovered the oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: Due to the lack of authority in the town, Blunt is able to essentially conquer it with his gang since there's no organized authority to stop him.
* TooDumbToLive: Keeps rehiring his henchman Bingle, despite Bingles insistence on getting re-arrested, because he found oil under his cell when he was in prison the last time.
* ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the man who first discovered the oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: Due to the lack of authority in the town, Blunt is able to essentially conquer it with his gang since there's no organized authority to stop him.
* TooDumbToLive: Keeps rehiring his henchman Bingle, despite Bingles insistence on getting re-arrested, because he found oil under his cell when he was in prison the last time.
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* AmoralAttorney: AlliterativeName: '''P'''istol '''P'''ete.
* BerserkButton: Hewas debarred and is technically not a lawyer anymore, but he's certainly still a scumbag who uses can't stand having his extensive knowledge gunman skills being questioned, which is how Luke defeats him by questioning his skills so he would waste his bullets into proving his aiming abilities.
* CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: All the other clients of thelaws to avoid openly breaking any. That makes it incredibly difficult hotel where he resides have left because of his presence and people fear for Luke Lucky Luke's life when he goes to pin anything on him.
confront him and run when he orders them to leave him alone with Luke.
*ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the man who first discovered the oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: DueTheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the lack of authority point that captain Lowriver and many others believe that he can actually kill Lucky Luke. However Luke outplay him by tricking him into wasting his ammo on trick shots.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in thetown, Blunt is able to essentially conquer it air with his gang since there's no organized authority to stop him.
bullets.
*TooDumbToLive: Keeps rehiring MuggingTheMonster: Even without his henchman Bingle, despite Bingles insistence on getting re-arrested, because gun he found oil under his cell when he was proves to be too tough for an alligator.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been inprison the last time.game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.
* BerserkButton: He
* CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: All the other clients of the
*
* IOwnThisTown: Due
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the
*
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in
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[[folder:Derek Flood]]
A disgraced former soldier and deserter from the 20th U.S Cavalry Regiment, Flood has set himself up as an arms dealer and allied himself with the local Cheyenne tribes led by Yellow Dog.
A disgraced former soldier and deserter from the 20th U.S Cavalry Regiment, Flood has set himself up as an arms dealer and allied himself with the local Cheyenne tribes led by Yellow Dog.
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A disgraced former soldier and deserter from the 20th U.S Cavalry Regiment, Flood has set himself up as an arms dealer and allied himself with the local Cheyenne tribes led by Yellow Dog.
An early enemy of Lucky Luke who happens to look exactly like him.
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* ArmsDealer: Has been selling weapons to the Indians on top of all his other crimes.
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smuggler and murderer who thinks nothing of assisting the Cheyenne in massacring his former comrades.
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smuggler and murderer who thinks nothing of assisting the Cheyenne in massacring his former comrades.
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* ArmsDealer: Has been selling weapons to CriminalDoppelganger: Not only does he look just like Luke, but he dresses just like him too.
* EvilDetectingDog: Jolly Jumper immediately can tell Mad Jim is not theIndians on top of all his other crimes.
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smugglerreal Luke as he tries to ride him. In fact, he is used to tell Jim and murderer who thinks nothing of assisting Luke apart later on.
* KilledOffForReal: He's theCheyenne in massacring his former comrades.only villain Luke is known to have actually killed (Phil Defer was SparedByTheAdaptation, and Bob Dalton's death was dropped at the sketching stage).
* StarterVillain: One of the earliest enemies ever faced by Luke, and the first notable one. He was preceded only by the somewhat forgettable Cactus Kid, Big Belly, and Cigarette Caesar.
* EvilDetectingDog: Jolly Jumper immediately can tell Mad Jim is not the
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smuggler
* KilledOffForReal: He's the
* StarterVillain: One of the earliest enemies ever faced by Luke, and the first notable one. He was preceded only by the somewhat forgettable Cactus Kid, Big Belly, and Cigarette Caesar.
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[[folder:The Boss and Double-Six]]
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A diminutive card cheat and his dim-witted henchman from Poker Gulch, The Boss and Double-Six realize that the newly invented "one-armed bandit" (aka the slot machine), a creation by the gadget-obsessed Caille brothers, will put the livelihoods of crooked gamblers like themselves in jeopardy, since machines can't be hustled, and set out to destroy the machine by any means necessary.
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A diminutive card cheat and his dim-witted henchman from Poker Gulch, The Boss and Double-Six realize that the newly invented "one-armed bandit" (aka the slot machine), a creation by the gadget-obsessed Caille brothers, will put the livelihoods of crooked gamblers like themselves in jeopardy, since machines can't be hustled, and set out to destroy the machine by any means necessary.
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* CardSharp: While Double-Six can't be trusted to play a game of solitaire by himself, The Boss is a card cheat through and through, to the point that when Luke shakes him upside-down to disarm him, his jacket turns out to be full of ace cards.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss is a caricature of famous French actor Creator/LouisDeFunes, while Double-Six is one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pr%C3%A9jean Patrick Préjean]].
* DumbMuscle: Double-Six might as well be the guys IQ score.
* EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
* HeelFaceTurn: In what is likely the most abrupt one in the history of the series, the Boss is offered employment by the Pony Express after one of their managers see how fast he can get around while riding Double-Six. With the promise of a fair wage and three meals a day, the Boss immediately decides to abandon his former life as a cheating gambler, and instead turns over a new leaf as a Pony Express deliveryman, using Double-Six as his mount.
* HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point that he's able to ''outrun Jolly Jumper'', much to the shock of Jolly and Luke.
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
* SapientSteed: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness, the Boss starts using Double-Six as his new steed, which surprisingly turns out to be very effective.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss is a caricature of famous French actor Creator/LouisDeFunes, while Double-Six is one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pr%C3%A9jean Patrick Préjean]].
* DumbMuscle: Double-Six might as well be the guys IQ score.
* EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
* HeelFaceTurn: In what is likely the most abrupt one in the history of the series, the Boss is offered employment by the Pony Express after one of their managers see how fast he can get around while riding Double-Six. With the promise of a fair wage and three meals a day, the Boss immediately decides to abandon his former life as a cheating gambler, and instead turns over a new leaf as a Pony Express deliveryman, using Double-Six as his mount.
* HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point that he's able to ''outrun Jolly Jumper'', much to the shock of Jolly and Luke.
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
* SapientSteed: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness, the Boss starts using Double-Six as his new steed, which surprisingly turns out to be very effective.
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* CardSharp: While Double-Six can't be trusted to play a game of solitaire by himself, AllForNothing: The Boss is a card cheat through and through, to the point that when Luke shakes him upside-down to disarm him, his jacket villains scheming turns out to be full completely pointless as the poor land and arid climate of ace cards.
Oklahoma isn't suited for traditional settlements. It ''is'' rich in oil, but it wasn't a useful resource at the time.
*ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss is a caricature of famous French actor Creator/LouisDeFunes, while Double-Six is CreepyMortician: After Dopey's heel-face turn, the local undertaker replaces him. He's one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pr%C3%A9jean Patrick Préjean]].
the few undertakers in the series to actually join the bad guys instead of merely hoping that they will be good for business.
* DumbMuscle:Double-Six might Both Blubber and Dopey serve as well be the guys IQ score.
this for Coyote Will. Dopey gets better.
*EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
GrewASpine: Dopey after being elected mayor.
* HeelFaceTurn: Inwhat is likely one of the most abrupt one in the history best arcs of the series, the Boss is offered employment Dopey goes from a DumbMuscle mook to an honest politician with Luke's support. He completes it by the Pony Express after one of their managers see how fast he can get around while riding Double-Six. With the promise of a fair wage and three meals a day, the Boss immediately decides to abandon turning on his former life boss even after everything falls apart.
* MayorPain: Coyote Will was depending on Dopey serving asa cheating gambler, and instead turns over a new leaf as a Pony Express deliveryman, using Double-Six as his mount.
* HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point thatthis for him after he's able elected mayor of Boomtown, but Luke convinces Dopey to ''outrun Jolly Jumper'', much to be an honest leader.
* NominatedAsAPrank: Dopey's candidacy for mayor is considered hilarious by everyone. But since half theshock of Jolly town is running and Luke.
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employerthere are no clear favorites, people vote for him as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
joke. He wins in a landslide.
*SapientSteed: YouKeepUsingThatWord: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness, the Boss starts things start going downhill, Coyote Will's newspaper keeps using Double-Six as his new steed, which surprisingly turns out the word "infamous" to be very describe Mayor Dopey. Will admits that people not knowing what it means is what makes it so effective.
*
* DumbMuscle:
*
* HeelFaceTurn: In
* MayorPain: Coyote Will was depending on Dopey serving as
* HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point that
* NominatedAsAPrank: Dopey's candidacy for mayor is considered hilarious by everyone. But since half the
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer
*
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[[folder:The Original Dalton Gang]]
A notorious gang of outlaws, consisting of brothers Bob, Grat, Emmett and Bill Dalton, who spread terror throughout the West long before their inept cousins ever did.
A notorious gang of outlaws, consisting of brothers Bob, Grat, Emmett and Bill Dalton, who spread terror throughout the West long before their inept cousins ever did.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Like a lot of legends from the Old West, the Daltons' reputation was heavily embellished over the years, while contemporary records showed them to be fairly incompetent, albeit not to the extent of their fictional cousins. Here, they're just as dangerous and vicious as their legends made them out to be.
* AdaptedOut: The reason the real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did not die in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end of the album, he's said to have been hanged with his brothers -- though this is {{Retcon}}ned in the later album ''The Dalton Uncles,'' where Emmet's fate is changed to be more in line with his historical counterpart.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In real life, the Daltons (with the exception of Emmett) were killed in a shootout with a posse of townspeople after their bank heist in Coffeyville failed. Here, they're defeated by Luke, taken to prison, and eventually hanged.
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original version of the comic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from his suspenders from a lamp. For obvious reasons, this was changed for the finished version as him just being captured in a barrel.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate is retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't actually a member of the gang in real life.
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.
* AdaptedOut: The reason the real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did not die in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end of the album, he's said to have been hanged with his brothers -- though this is {{Retcon}}ned in the later album ''The Dalton Uncles,'' where Emmet's fate is changed to be more in line with his historical counterpart.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In real life, the Daltons (with the exception of Emmett) were killed in a shootout with a posse of townspeople after their bank heist in Coffeyville failed. Here, they're defeated by Luke, taken to prison, and eventually hanged.
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original version of the comic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from his suspenders from a lamp. For obvious reasons, this was changed for the finished version as him just being captured in a barrel.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate is retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't actually a member of the gang in real life.
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.
to:
* AdaptationalBadass: Like a lot of legends from the Old West, the Daltons' reputation TheArtifact: The name "Soapy" was heavily embellished over the years, while contemporary records showed them a nickname given to be fairly incompetent, albeit not to the extent of their fictional cousins. Here, they're just as dangerous and vicious as their legends made them out to be.
* AdaptedOut: The reasonthe real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated Smith thanks to his prize soap racket in Denver in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along late 1870's, where he sold bars of soap with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have dollar bills supposedly hidden in the wrapping as prizes (and the only people who ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton didgot these "prizes" were his henchmen). This is not die explained in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 the story, which takes place almost 20 years later after Smith set up shop in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end Klondike to take advantage of the album, he's said to have been hanged with gold rush.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Luke manipulates him into admitting hisbrothers -- though this telegraph is {{Retcon}}ned fake in front of the later album ''The Dalton Uncles,'' where Emmet's fate is changed to be more in line with his historical counterpart.
gold diggers.
*DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In real life, the Daltons (with the exception of Emmett) were killed in a shootout with a posse of townspeople after their bank heist in Coffeyville failed. Here, they're defeated by Luke, taken to prison, and eventually hanged.
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The originalHistoricalDomainCharacter: A comic-book version of con artist and gangster [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith Jefferson Randolph Smith II]], aka "Soapy" Smith.
* NotMeThisTime: Although he did sell Jasper a worthless claim and serves as thecomic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from his suspenders from a lamp. For obvious reasons, this was changed for the finished version as him just being captured in a barrel.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a membermain antagonist of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, story, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fateis retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn'tactually a member of not responsible for Jasper's ultimate disappearance.
* RunningGag: During every confrontation Luke forces him to twirl his gun around his finger, in thegang in real life.
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousinsend making his trigger finger too swollen to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.actually operate his gun.
* AdaptedOut: The reason
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Luke manipulates him into admitting his
*
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original
* NotMeThisTime: Although he did sell Jasper a worthless claim and serves as the
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't
* RunningGag: During every confrontation Luke forces him to twirl his gun around his finger, in the
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins
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[[folder:Captain Lowriver]]
Captain of the riverboat "Asbestos D. Plower", with a questionable past and more than willing to use every low-down trick to get rid of the competition so he will have the Mississippi to himself.
Captain of the riverboat "Asbestos D. Plower", with a questionable past and more than willing to use every low-down trick to get rid of the competition so he will have the Mississippi to himself.
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Captain
Also known as Q.Q., he's a rich asshole and Grand Wizard of the
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* {{Pirate}}: Captain Barrows calls him this, and he certainly has the methods of one. At one point he forces his passengers at gunpoint to dig his stranded boat out, and in the final stretch he dumps all his remaining passengers in Memphis, even those that had paid for the full trip to St. Louis.
* TheRival: Of captain Barrows of the "Daisy Belle", a straightforward honest captain.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries to win the boatrace by disabling the safety valve of his steam engine. [[StuffBlowingUp This does not end well for him.]]
* TheUnfought: He never confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on hired goons instead.
* TheRival: Of captain Barrows of the "Daisy Belle", a straightforward honest captain.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries to win the boatrace by disabling the safety valve of his steam engine. [[StuffBlowingUp This does not end well for him.]]
* TheUnfought: He never confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on hired goons instead.
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* {{Pirate}}: Captain Barrows calls AlliterativeName: '''Q'''uincy '''Q'''uarterhouse.
* TheDreaded: As a member of the KKK and a psychotic plantation owner, black people are afraid of him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: His racism prevents himthis, and he certainly has the methods of one. At one point he forces his passengers at gunpoint to dig his stranded boat out, and in the final stretch he dumps all his remaining passengers in Memphis, even those from realizing that had paid men like Luke don't view the world the same way he does and thinks that they're mad for not sharing his hatred of black people.
* EvilVersusEvil: He and the other KKK end up in a fight with the Daltons during the climax, with Joe strangling Quincy. It's one of the few times where the audience is expected to root for thefull trip Daltons.
* KilledOffForReal: It's all but stated that he was ''eaten by an alligator'' after the hurricane at the album's climax.
* NearVillainVictory: He is about toSt. Louis.
''burn Luke at the stake'' when [[VillainousRescue the Daltons intervene]], mistaking him and the other Klan members for a Native American tribe and buy Bass Reeves enough time to arrive with TheCavalry.
*TheRival: Of captain Barrows PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a Grand Wizard of the "Daisy Belle", a straightforward honest captain.
KKK and former slave owner.
*TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries SlaveBrand: He used to win brand his slaves with "Q.Q.", which is why he's just called that by the boatrace by disabling the safety valve of his steam engine. [[StuffBlowingUp This does not end well for him.]]
* TheUnfought: He never confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on hired goons instead.black plantation workers.
* TheDreaded: As a member of the KKK and a psychotic plantation owner, black people are afraid of him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: His racism prevents him
* EvilVersusEvil: He and the other KKK end up in a fight with the Daltons during the climax, with Joe strangling Quincy. It's one of the few times where the audience is expected to root for the
* KilledOffForReal: It's all but stated that he was ''eaten by an alligator'' after the hurricane at the album's climax.
* NearVillainVictory: He is about to
*
*
* TheUnfought: He never confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on hired goons instead.
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[[folder:Cards Devon]]
The first of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious gambler and con man.
The first of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious gambler and con man.
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The first
One of
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* CardSharp: Is a cheater and crook, which is why Lowriver hired him to delay the "Daisy Belle", by playing with Bang, the Daisy Belle's mechanic, and making him lose all of his money so he would be too busy trying to get his money back instead of helping the "Daisy Belle" catch up with the "Asbestos D. Plower".
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fight with Lucky Luke, which is over before anyone can place their bets.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Lucky Luke uses on him to get him to admit he was hired by Lowriver.
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fight with Lucky Luke, which is over before anyone can place their bets.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Lucky Luke uses on him to get him to admit he was hired by Lowriver.
to:
* CardSharp: Is AdaptedOut: He's not in the AnimatedAdaptation, his role being subsumed by Sinclair Rawlins.
* AffablyEvil: He's very polite for acheater gangster, and crook, which is why Lowriver hired him even grants Jeremiah Fallings' request to delay take a photo of him.
* TheDreaded: Is far more feared by the"Daisy Belle", by playing with Bang, Wells Fargo than any other outlaw, to the Daisy Belle's mechanic, and making him lose all of his money so he would be too busy trying to get his money back instead of helping the "Daisy Belle" catch up with the "Asbestos D. Plower".
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fightpoint that even with Lucky Luke's protection Hank Bully fears a confrontation with him and that the Wells Fargo has [[spoiler: the gold transported in secret in another diligence]]. Even Luke himself treats him with more caution than the other criminals.
* EvilGenius: He's actually just a grade school teacher, but considering that the average western outlaw can't even read, Black Bart's education puts him far ahead of the curve. He makes a dummy of himself in the middle of the road, allowing him to ambush Luke,which is over and likes to compose poetry for his crimes.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real-life Black Bart, AKA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw) Charles E. Boles]].
* KarmaHoudini: Flees when Luke disarms him, and manages to escape the heroes since he knows the area better than they do. It would be several years beforeanyone can place their bets.
the law caught up with him.
*JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Lucky Luke uses on him SecretIdentity: Black Bart is in reality a mild-mannered teacher named Charles Boles, though none of the characters find this out.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Wears a hood and robe toget him to admit he was hired by Lowriver.disguise his real identity.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Underneath his mask, Black Bart is a skinny, middle-aged man with a moustache and a receeding hairline.
* AffablyEvil: He's very polite for a
* TheDreaded: Is far more feared by the
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fight
* EvilGenius: He's actually just a grade school teacher, but considering that the average western outlaw can't even read, Black Bart's education puts him far ahead of the curve. He makes a dummy of himself in the middle of the road, allowing him to ambush Luke,
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real-life Black Bart, AKA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw) Charles E. Boles]].
* KarmaHoudini: Flees when Luke disarms him, and manages to escape the heroes since he knows the area better than they do. It would be several years before
*
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Wears a hood and robe to
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Underneath his mask, Black Bart is a skinny, middle-aged man with a moustache and a receeding hairline.
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[[folder:Hardhead Wilson]]
The second of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious brawler.
The second of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious brawler.
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The second
A humble, travelling minister who joins the characters on their journey to San Francisco in ''The Stagecoach'', hoping to spread the Good Word on the way - or so he claims. In reality, Rawlins is an outlaw, and the leader of
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* AchillesHeel: He's ticklish, which is what ultimately defeats him.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature. His sole presence is enough to make the Daisy Belle's crew wants to desert until Luke promises to protect them.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard to the point that it can damage machines and deflect bullets.
* UseYourHead: As his name implies, his head is nearly invulnerable and he can do serious damage with a headbutt.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature. His sole presence is enough to make the Daisy Belle's crew wants to desert until Luke promises to protect them.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard to the point that it can damage machines and deflect bullets.
* UseYourHead: As his name implies, his head is nearly invulnerable and he can do serious damage with a headbutt.
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* AchillesHeel: He's ticklish, which is what ultimately defeats him.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature.AdaptationExpansion: His sole presence role is enough to make the Daisy Belle's crew wants to desert until Luke promises to protect them.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw himexpanded in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thingAnimatedAdaptation, where he's the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard tobiggest threat faced by the point that it can damage machines and deflect bullets.characters instead of Black Bart.
* AllForNothing: The gold wasn't even on the stagecoach in the first place, being transported to San Francisco by other means while all the attention as on the coach, making all of his efforts pointless.
*UseYourHead: As BookSafe: His bible is hollowed out and hides a gun.
* ConvictionByContradiction: Luke figures out he's fake by the fact that he only has some basic surface knowledge about hisname implies, his head is nearly invulnerable own religion and he can do serious damage with doesn't know what he's talking about.
* PreacherMan: Pretends to be one, and even dresses the part. It's all aheadbutt.lie.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard to
* AllForNothing: The gold wasn't even on the stagecoach in the first place, being transported to San Francisco by other means while all the attention as on the coach, making all of his efforts pointless.
*
* ConvictionByContradiction: Luke figures out he's fake by the fact that he only has some basic surface knowledge about his
* PreacherMan: Pretends to be one, and even dresses the part. It's all a
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[[folder:Explosion Harris]]
The third of Lowriver's hired goons, a saboteur specializing in making bombs. The AnimatedAdaptation renames him to "Slag" and makes him Lowriver's permanent sidekick.
The third of Lowriver's hired goons, a saboteur specializing in making bombs. The AnimatedAdaptation renames him to "Slag" and makes him Lowriver's permanent sidekick.
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The third of Lowriver's hired goons, a saboteur specializing in making bombs. The AnimatedAdaptation renames him to "Slag"
A psychopathic prison warden obsessed with locking people and
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* AscendedExtra: In the original, he appears in just a few pages, but the animated version expanded his role.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Lucky Luke calmly returns his 'lost' suitcase to him, orders a drink, sits around for a bit and unhurriedly leaves, he becomes convinced that Luke already found and disabled the bomb inside. Turns out this was not the case.
* MadBomber: As his name implies.
* StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Lucky Luke calmly returns his 'lost' suitcase to him, orders a drink, sits around for a bit and unhurriedly leaves, he becomes convinced that Luke already found and disabled the bomb inside. Turns out this was not the case.
* MadBomber: As his name implies.
* StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.
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* AscendedExtra: In {{Expy}}: A very blatant expy of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
-->Darn taco-munchers. We oughtta build a wall between our countries.
* HateSink: One of theoriginal, he appears in just a very few pages, but the animated version expanded his role.
villains to make Lucky Luke himself genuinely angry.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:When Lucky Luke calmly returns He ends up locked up in his 'lost' suitcase own prison.
* NonActionBigBad: He leaves all the dirty work tohim, orders a drink, sits around for a bit hired hands.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He is openly racist, andunhurriedly leaves, he becomes convinced that Luke already found and disabled hates the bomb inside. Turns out this was not the case.
* MadBomber: As his name implies.
* StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.very concept of freedom.
-->Darn taco-munchers. We oughtta build a wall between our countries.
* HateSink: One of the
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
* NonActionBigBad: He leaves all the dirty work to
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He is openly racist, and
* MadBomber: As his name implies.
* StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.
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[[folder:Pistol Pete]]
The fourth and final goon hired by Lowriver, a gunman and hired killer.
The fourth and final goon hired by Lowriver, a gunman and hired killer.
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The fourth
A wealthy businessman and
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* AlliterativeName: '''P'''istol '''P'''ete.
* BerserkButton: He can't stand having his gunman skills being questioned, which is how Luke defeats him by questioning his skills so he would waste his bullets into proving his aiming abilities.
* CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: All the other clients of the hotel where he resides have left because of his presence and people fear for Lucky Luke's life when he goes to confront him and run when he orders them to leave him alone with Luke.
* TheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the point that captain Lowriver and many others believe that he can actually kill Lucky Luke. However Luke outplay him by tricking him into wasting his ammo on trick shots.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the air with his bullets.
* MuggingTheMonster: Even without his gun he proves to be too tough for an alligator.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in the game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.
* BerserkButton: He can't stand having his gunman skills being questioned, which is how Luke defeats him by questioning his skills so he would waste his bullets into proving his aiming abilities.
* CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: All the other clients of the hotel where he resides have left because of his presence and people fear for Lucky Luke's life when he goes to confront him and run when he orders them to leave him alone with Luke.
* TheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the point that captain Lowriver and many others believe that he can actually kill Lucky Luke. However Luke outplay him by tricking him into wasting his ammo on trick shots.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the air with his bullets.
* MuggingTheMonster: Even without his gun he proves to be too tough for an alligator.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in the game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.
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* AlliterativeName: '''P'''istol '''P'''ete.
* BerserkButton: He can't stand havingElmuhFuddSyndwome: Zilch has a large gap in his gunman skills being questioned, upper front teeth, which is how Luke defeats him by questioning his skills so he would waste his bullets into proving his aiming abilities.
covers with a large diamond. Unfortunately, it has a tendency to get knocked loose, and he talks like this without it.
*CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: AllHeelFaceTurn: Zilch and Mulligan end up as business partners after the other clients of the hotel where he resides have left because of his presence and people fear for Lucky Luke's life climax, when he a visiting French businessman proposes that the rodeo and the circus merge together as a travelling Western show. The album ends with the group preparing for a tour through Europe.
* RemovingTheRival: Zilch goes toconfront him extremes to get rid of Mulligan and run when he orders his circus, including sending a hitman after them to leave him alone with Luke.
* TheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the point that captain Lowriverand many others believe that he can actually kill Lucky Luke. However Luke outplay him by tricking him into wasting his ammo on trick shots.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the air with his bullets.
* MuggingTheMonster: Even without his gun he proves to be too tough forinciting an alligator.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in the game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.Indian attack.
* BerserkButton: He can't stand having
*
* TheDreaded: All
* RemovingTheRival: Zilch goes to
* TheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the point that captain Lowriver
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the air with his bullets.
* MuggingTheMonster: Even without his gun he proves to be too tough for
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in the game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.
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[[folder:Mad Jim]]
An early enemy of Lucky Luke who happens to look exactly like him.
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* CriminalDoppelganger: Not only does he look just like Luke, but he dresses just like him too.
* EvilDetectingDog: Jolly Jumper immediately can tell Mad Jim is not the real Luke as he tries to ride him. In fact, he is used to tell Jim and Luke apart later on.
* KilledOffForReal: He's the only villain Luke is known to have actually killed (Phil Defer was SparedByTheAdaptation, and Bob Dalton's death was dropped at the sketching stage).
* StarterVillain: One of the earliest enemies ever faced by Luke, and the first notable one. He was preceded only by the somewhat forgettable Cactus Kid, Big Belly, and Cigarette Caesar.
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[[folder:Coyote Will, Beastly Blubber and Dopey]]
A trio of opportunistic criminals and land grabbers, using the colonization of Oklahoma as an opportunity to illegally grab all the best land for themselves.
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* AllForNothing: The villains scheming turns out to be completely pointless as the poor land and arid climate of Oklahoma isn't suited for traditional settlements. It ''is'' rich in oil, but it wasn't a useful resource at the time.
* CreepyMortician: After Dopey's heel-face turn, the local undertaker replaces him. He's one of the few undertakers in the series to actually join the bad guys instead of merely hoping that they will be good for business.
* DumbMuscle: Both Blubber and Dopey serve as this for Coyote Will. Dopey gets better.
* GrewASpine: Dopey after being elected mayor.
* HeelFaceTurn: In one of the best arcs of the series, Dopey goes from a DumbMuscle mook to an honest politician with Luke's support. He completes it by turning on his former boss even after everything falls apart.
* MayorPain: Coyote Will was depending on Dopey serving as this for him after he's elected mayor of Boomtown, but Luke convinces Dopey to be an honest leader.
* NominatedAsAPrank: Dopey's candidacy for mayor is considered hilarious by everyone. But since half the town is running and there are no clear favorites, people vote for him as a joke. He wins in a landslide.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: After things start going downhill, Coyote Will's newspaper keeps using the word "infamous" to describe Mayor Dopey. Will admits that people not knowing what it means is what makes it so effective.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Soapy Smith]]
A con man who runs the saloon in Skagway, sells worthless claims to the gold diggers there and operates a fake telegraph line, almost exactly like his historical counterpart. Luke encounters him when he and Waldo come looking for Waldo's old friend Jasper who went missing after finding gold.
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* TheArtifact: The name "Soapy" was a nickname given to the real-life Smith thanks to his prize soap racket in Denver in the late 1870's, where he sold bars of soap with dollar bills supposedly hidden in the wrapping as prizes (and the only people who ever got these "prizes" were his henchmen). This is not explained in the story, which takes place almost 20 years later after Smith set up shop in Klondike to take advantage of the gold rush.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Luke manipulates him into admitting his telegraph is fake in front of the gold diggers.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A comic-book version of con artist and gangster [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith Jefferson Randolph Smith II]], aka "Soapy" Smith.
* NotMeThisTime: Although he did sell Jasper a worthless claim and serves as the main antagonist of the story, he is actually not responsible for Jasper's ultimate disappearance.
* RunningGag: During every confrontation Luke forces him to twirl his gun around his finger, in the end making his trigger finger too swollen to actually operate his gun.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Quincy Quarterhouse]]
Also known as Q.Q., he's a rich asshole and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Lucky Luke comes into conflict with after inheriting a plantation.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Q'''uincy '''Q'''uarterhouse.
* TheDreaded: As a member of the KKK and a psychotic plantation owner, black people are afraid of him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: His racism prevents him from realizing that men like Luke don't view the world the same way he does and thinks that they're mad for not sharing his hatred of black people.
* EvilVersusEvil: He and the other KKK end up in a fight with the Daltons during the climax, with Joe strangling Quincy. It's one of the few times where the audience is expected to root for the Daltons.
* KilledOffForReal: It's all but stated that he was ''eaten by an alligator'' after the hurricane at the album's climax.
* NearVillainVictory: He is about to ''burn Luke at the stake'' when [[VillainousRescue the Daltons intervene]], mistaking him and the other Klan members for a Native American tribe and buy Bass Reeves enough time to arrive with TheCavalry.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a Grand Wizard of the KKK and former slave owner.
* SlaveBrand: He used to brand his slaves with "Q.Q.", which is why he's just called that by the black plantation workers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Black Bart]]
One of several outlaws that try to rob the Wells Fargo gold shipment in ''The Stagecoach'', and the one who came the closest to doing so, Black Bart is an unusually intelligent and sophisticated outlaw, and one of ''very'' few villains to get the drop on Lucky Luke.
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* AdaptedOut: He's not in the AnimatedAdaptation, his role being subsumed by Sinclair Rawlins.
* AffablyEvil: He's very polite for a gangster, and even grants Jeremiah Fallings' request to take a photo of him.
* TheDreaded: Is far more feared by the Wells Fargo than any other outlaw, to the point that even with Lucky Luke's protection Hank Bully fears a confrontation with him and that the Wells Fargo has [[spoiler: the gold transported in secret in another diligence]]. Even Luke himself treats him with more caution than the other criminals.
* EvilGenius: He's actually just a grade school teacher, but considering that the average western outlaw can't even read, Black Bart's education puts him far ahead of the curve. He makes a dummy of himself in the middle of the road, allowing him to ambush Luke, and likes to compose poetry for his crimes.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real-life Black Bart, AKA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw) Charles E. Boles]].
* KarmaHoudini: Flees when Luke disarms him, and manages to escape the heroes since he knows the area better than they do. It would be several years before the law caught up with him.
* SecretIdentity: Black Bart is in reality a mild-mannered teacher named Charles Boles, though none of the characters find this out.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Wears a hood and robe to disguise his real identity.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Underneath his mask, Black Bart is a skinny, middle-aged man with a moustache and a receeding hairline.
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[[folder:Sinclair Rawlins]]
A humble, travelling minister who joins the characters on their journey to San Francisco in ''The Stagecoach'', hoping to spread the Good Word on the way - or so he claims. In reality, Rawlins is an outlaw, and the leader of the criminals that try to ambush the stagecoach at several points, hoping to steal the gold shipment it carries.
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* AdaptationExpansion: His role is expanded in the AnimatedAdaptation, where he's the biggest threat faced by the characters instead of Black Bart.
* AllForNothing: The gold wasn't even on the stagecoach in the first place, being transported to San Francisco by other means while all the attention as on the coach, making all of his efforts pointless.
* BookSafe: His bible is hollowed out and hides a gun.
* ConvictionByContradiction: Luke figures out he's fake by the fact that he only has some basic surface knowledge about his own religion and doesn't know what he's talking about.
* PreacherMan: Pretends to be one, and even dresses the part. It's all a lie.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Abraham Locker]]
A psychopathic prison warden obsessed with locking people and animals up, he wants to use the site of the Statue of Liberty for a high-security prison instead and thus has the attempts to transport the statue to the US from France sabotaged.
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* {{Expy}}: A very blatant expy of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
-->Darn taco-munchers. We oughtta build a wall between our countries.
* HateSink: One of the very few villains to make Lucky Luke himself genuinely angry.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He ends up locked up in his own prison.
* NonActionBigBad: He leaves all the dirty work to hired hands.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He is openly racist, and he hates the very concept of freedom.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:D.T Zilch]]
A wealthy businessman and organizer of the popular Fort Coyote Annual Rodeo, Zilch is willing to resort to drastic measures to ensure that ringmaster Erasmus Mulligan and his Western Circus won't be any competition for his rodeo.
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* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Zilch has a large gap in his upper front teeth, which he covers with a large diamond. Unfortunately, it has a tendency to get knocked loose, and he talks like this without it.
* HeelFaceTurn: Zilch and Mulligan end up as business partners after the climax, when a visiting French businessman proposes that the rodeo and the circus merge together as a travelling Western show. The album ends with the group preparing for a tour through Europe.
* RemovingTheRival: Zilch goes to extremes to get rid of Mulligan and his circus, including sending a hitman after them and inciting an Indian attack.
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SylvieTestud ([[Film/LuckyLuke2009 2009 film]])
The legendary female [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]].
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SylvieTestud ([[Film/LuckyLuke2009 2009 film]])
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* ActionGirl: Which helps a lot in dealing with the trouble in a Wild West setting.
* AdaptedOut: Since she had been firmly established as an ally of Lucky Luke by the time the comics were adapted for the animated series, the adaptation of ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'' (in which she was featured as a villain, see HistoricalVillainUpgrade below) replaces her with Ma Dalton.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect women in her presence if you value your life.
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from a bunch of Natives of her own.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied all the time. At multiple points characters will try to attack or kidnap her, assuming she is just a harmless woman, only to be in for a very bad surprise.
* TheDreaded: She's feared by cowboys and natives alike, with a tribe of natives retreating once they recognize her. A group of bandits exploit this, by creating a hoax story about her being a witch and ghost, and using a dummy of to scare away intruders.
* TheGunslinger: She aims superbly and she's a quick shot even with a Winchester.
* FieryRedhead: Her temper is more fiery than her hair.
* HappilyMarried: She claims to have been married to Wild Bill Hickok, a famous real-life gunslinger, until he was killed.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted; while not ''exactly'' portrayed as identical to her real life counterpart, she is still pretty close (the biggest difference is that she is skinnier), and the comic does not make her particularly prettier, instead settling for a plain look.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/CalamityJane.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In her first (cameo) appearance in ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'', she is mistakenly portrayed as a villainess, also [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference with a completely different design]]. This was eventually corrected and she was introduced as an ally of Luke in her first leading role.
** One of the later album deals with her suffering an in-universe example of the trope, when a legend that she is supposedly a witch and demoness who came BackFromTheDead as a ghost to haunt a city spreads throughout the west. It however turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax created by a group of bandits who wanted to keep unwanted people away from a deserted town where they discovered a new gold mine. Naturally, Calamity Jane is ''not'' amused about her likeness being used as a "scarecrow" (as she puts it).
* TheLadette: A G-Rated version of the trope; notably, her real life self played this trope straight.
* LethalChef: Her cooking skills are so bad that at one point, a cowboy was willing to die rather than eat her cakes.
* TheNotLoveInterest: She is one of the few non-antagonist characters to appear as a {{Deuteragonist}} in more than one book (as well as one movie and at least two animated appearances), and the only female character Luke has actually developed interactions with, excluding Ma Dalton. However, their relationship is platonic and they treat each other like good friends with no real hint of romance.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to have become this with Luke. They do not seem to have romantic interest for each other, but they get along pretty well whenever they meet, and Luke is one of the few people who can convince her to calm down without suffering a violent reaction.
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons are filled with [[SymbolSwearing skulls and stars]] if it any indication.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Like Luke, she can go toe to toe with men bigger than her, and even arm wrestle them with little effort.
* {{Tomboy}}: She was a clear-cut example from childhood. Flashbacks reveal she enjoyed playing rodeo at home (wrecking her entire house as a result) and would occasionally try to play with boys.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed; she couldn't act less feminine and her tastes are completely boyish, but when she becomes the owner of a saloon in her first story, one of her main ambitions was to create a small area reserved to ladies, where she would serve them tea and cakes. Later in the same story, Lucky Luke manages to have her trained into at least ''pretending'' to be a lady, though her true personality is still there and doesn't take long to show up again. She also blushes when Lucky Luke kisses her hand.
* TomboyishVoice: In the French version of the 1983 cartoon series, she has a low and raspy voice courtesy of Creator/MichelineDax.
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories about her life, with a different version each time. She admits this when telling those stories to Luke.
* AdaptedOut: Since she had been firmly established as an ally of Lucky Luke by the time the comics were adapted for the animated series, the adaptation of ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'' (in which she was featured as a villain, see HistoricalVillainUpgrade below) replaces her with Ma Dalton.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect women in her presence if you value your life.
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from a bunch of Natives of her own.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied all the time. At multiple points characters will try to attack or kidnap her, assuming she is just a harmless woman, only to be in for a very bad surprise.
* TheDreaded: She's feared by cowboys and natives alike, with a tribe of natives retreating once they recognize her. A group of bandits exploit this, by creating a hoax story about her being a witch and ghost, and using a dummy of to scare away intruders.
* TheGunslinger: She aims superbly and she's a quick shot even with a Winchester.
* FieryRedhead: Her temper is more fiery than her hair.
* HappilyMarried: She claims to have been married to Wild Bill Hickok, a famous real-life gunslinger, until he was killed.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted; while not ''exactly'' portrayed as identical to her real life counterpart, she is still pretty close (the biggest difference is that she is skinnier), and the comic does not make her particularly prettier, instead settling for a plain look.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/CalamityJane.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In her first (cameo) appearance in ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'', she is mistakenly portrayed as a villainess, also [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference with a completely different design]]. This was eventually corrected and she was introduced as an ally of Luke in her first leading role.
** One of the later album deals with her suffering an in-universe example of the trope, when a legend that she is supposedly a witch and demoness who came BackFromTheDead as a ghost to haunt a city spreads throughout the west. It however turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax created by a group of bandits who wanted to keep unwanted people away from a deserted town where they discovered a new gold mine. Naturally, Calamity Jane is ''not'' amused about her likeness being used as a "scarecrow" (as she puts it).
* TheLadette: A G-Rated version of the trope; notably, her real life self played this trope straight.
* LethalChef: Her cooking skills are so bad that at one point, a cowboy was willing to die rather than eat her cakes.
* TheNotLoveInterest: She is one of the few non-antagonist characters to appear as a {{Deuteragonist}} in more than one book (as well as one movie and at least two animated appearances), and the only female character Luke has actually developed interactions with, excluding Ma Dalton. However, their relationship is platonic and they treat each other like good friends with no real hint of romance.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to have become this with Luke. They do not seem to have romantic interest for each other, but they get along pretty well whenever they meet, and Luke is one of the few people who can convince her to calm down without suffering a violent reaction.
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons are filled with [[SymbolSwearing skulls and stars]] if it any indication.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Like Luke, she can go toe to toe with men bigger than her, and even arm wrestle them with little effort.
* {{Tomboy}}: She was a clear-cut example from childhood. Flashbacks reveal she enjoyed playing rodeo at home (wrecking her entire house as a result) and would occasionally try to play with boys.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed; she couldn't act less feminine and her tastes are completely boyish, but when she becomes the owner of a saloon in her first story, one of her main ambitions was to create a small area reserved to ladies, where she would serve them tea and cakes. Later in the same story, Lucky Luke manages to have her trained into at least ''pretending'' to be a lady, though her true personality is still there and doesn't take long to show up again. She also blushes when Lucky Luke kisses her hand.
* TomboyishVoice: In the French version of the 1983 cartoon series, she has a low and raspy voice courtesy of Creator/MichelineDax.
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories about her life, with a different version each time. She admits this when telling those stories to Luke.
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* ActionGirl: Which helps a lot in dealing with the trouble in a Wild West setting.
* AdaptedOut: Since she had been firmly established as an ally of Lucky Luke by the time the comics were adapted for theAdaptationDistillation: Pretty much every animated series, adaption of the adaptation of ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'' (in which she was featured as a villain, see HistoricalVillainUpgrade below) replaces her with Ma Dalton.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect women in her presence if you value your life.
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from a bunch of Natives of her own.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied allfranchise (sans the time. At multiple points characters will try '90s cartoon), ignores their original backstory of being the identical cousins of the “real-life” Dalton brothers trying to attack or kidnap her, assuming she is just a harmless woman, avenge their deceased relatives, and instead presents them as the one and only to be in for a very bad surprise.
* TheDreaded: She's feared by cowboys and natives alike, with a tribe of natives retreating once they recognize her. A group of bandits exploit this, by creating a hoaxDalton gang. The Creator/HannaBarbera series even adapts the ''Outlaws'' story about her being a witch for one episode but with them instead of Bob, Grat, Bill, and ghost, and using a dummy of Emmett like the original comic version (and needless to scare away intruders.say, they survive it).
*TheGunslinger: She aims superbly AdaptationDyeJob: In the '90s cartoon, they sport brown hair instead of their usual black.
* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attempt to avenge the real Dalton Brothers' death at the hands of Luke. Their hate of Luke has become more personal as the story goes on, though.
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks, with pudgier faces andshe's a quick shot their mustaches were simple tuffs of hair. As the overall art style of the comics became more detailed and polished, so did the Daltons’ design, and they gained more angular faces and long pencil mustaches, which is how they have been depicted ever since, including in all their animated appearance going as far back as 1971’s ''Daisy Town''.
* BackupTwin: Or cousins in that case. After the "real" Daltons were killed in ''Outlaws'', they got replaced by the more iconic gang who became recurring villains.
* BigLittleBrother: To the point where all their respective heights are inward proportional to their age. Joe is the oldest brother, William is younger, Jack is even younger, and Averell is the youngest.
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethal but one-shot villains who died at the end of their album; they ended up so popular that a new set of them were introduced, and ended up becoming as iconic as Luke himself.
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take it to such extreme that their uncle, Marcel Dalton, is considered a BlackSheep just because he is the only honest member of the family.
* CharacterExaggeration: In their first story, they came across as a little different; Joe as the hard-boiled leader, William as a TriggerHappy {{Gunslinger}}, Jack as a MasterOfDisguise, and Averell as a strong and athletic -- if dense and food-obsessed -- [[TheBrute Brute]]. In subsequent stories, Joe remained mostly the same (though his HairTriggerTemper was enhanced quite a bit), Jack and William pretty much lost their individual traits and became full-time CoDragons to Joe, while Averell lost his strength and whatever competence he had and became more like a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
* ChronicVillainy: Any story about someone trying to redeem the Daltons (the ''Marcel Dalton'' story being the most notable example) is doomed to end up as a ShaggyDogStory.
* ContinuitySnarl: Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, William and Jack swap names. It happens first in their début story (for the first half, William is the shorter and Jack the taller; then it switches in the second half, making William taller and Jack shorter), and in some stories afterwards. In the 2006 movie and the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]], the two brothers' names are likewise swapped.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]] witha Winchester.Lucky Luke ([[MoodWhiplash until its abrupt and comical resolution]]). From their second screen appearance in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' onward, they would go back to their purely comedic personalities.
*FieryRedhead: Her temper is more fiery than her hair.
* HappilyMarried: She claimsDisappearedDad: It's not clear what happened to have been married to Wild Bill Hickok, a famous real-life gunslinger, until their father, but he was killed.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted;clearly isn't around anymore. ''Belle Starr'' has Ma Dalton mentioning a NoodleIncident about him using dynamite, suggesting he might be dead. ''Ma Dalton'' implies that he accidentally killed himself while not ''exactly'' portrayed using dynamite to force a safe.
* TheDreaded: As incompetent asidentical they can be when they are pitted against Luke, they are dangerous enough to her real life counterpart, she is still pretty close (the biggest difference is that she is skinnier), and scare the comic does not make her particularly prettier, instead settling crap of almost everyone else.
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas fora plain look.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based onthe real life UsefulNotes/CalamityJane.Daltons'', their training to infiltrate as a mariachi band goes so badly their instructor (a hardened bandito) tries to ''hang himself''.
*HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In her first (cameo) appearance EnfantTerrible: According to their mama, some wanted posters in ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'', she is mistakenly portrayed as a villainess, also [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference with a completely different design]]. This was eventually corrected Daisy Town and she was introduced a spin-off they were pretty mean (and pretty backwards) even as an ally of Luke in her first leading role.kids. Joe surpassed them all, by far, however.
** One of the later album deals with her suffering an in-universe example of the trope, when a legend that she is supposedly a witch and demoness who came BackFromTheDead as a ghost to haunt a city spreads throughout the west. It however turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax created by a group of bandits who wanted to keep unwanted people away from a deserted town where * EscapeArtist: Whatever prison they discovered a new gold mine. Naturally, Calamity Jane is ''not'' amused about her likeness being used as a "scarecrow" (as she puts it).
end up in, they will always break out.
*TheLadette: A G-Rated version of the trope; notably, her real life self played this trope straight.
* LethalChef: Her cooking skills are so bad that at one point, a cowboy was willing to die rather than eat her cakes.
* TheNotLoveInterest: She is one of the few non-antagonist characters to appear as a {{Deuteragonist}} in more than one book (as well as one movieEvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: They honestly love Ma Dalton, and at least two animated appearances), and the only female character Luke has actually developed interactions with, excluding Ma Dalton. However, their relationship is platonic and no point do they treat turn against her. Not even [[TheUnfavourite Joe]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each otherlike good friends with no real hint of romance.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems toand Joe abuses his brothers, they always stick together and have become this with Luke. They do not seem to have romantic interest for each other, but they get along pretty well whenever they meet, and Luke is other's backs. In one book of the few people who can convince her to calm down without suffering a violent reaction.
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons are filled with [[SymbolSwearing skullsRantanplan spin-off, when Averell gets abducted, Joe is genuinely outraged at the Warden, and stars]] if it they escape for the sole purpose of rescuing him.
** This extends to anyindication.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Like Luke, she can go toe to toe with men biggerand all relatives they have. To the Daltons, family is more important than her, ''anything'' else -- they can argue and even arm wrestle them with little effort.
* {{Tomboy}}: She was a clear-cut example from childhood. Flashbacks reveal she enjoyed playing rodeo at home (wrecking her entire house as a result)fight and would occasionally try to play trick each other, sure, but if a family member is in need, the Daltons are there. Even CardCarryingVillain Joe is sympathetic towards WhiteSheep Marcel Dalton, reassuring him that he's heard living an honest life isn't ''that'' terrible.
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (while he does get tired of always having to be the one capturing them when they escape) and tends to treat them fairly nicely, especially in later albums. When they get sentenced to death, he even tries everything he can to save them, down to trying to convince the ''President''.
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them, like in ''Ma Dalton'' (where Joe, William, and Jack shave them to better impersonate their mother).
* GreekChorus: After being introduced withboys.
different skill sets, William and Jack [[{{Flanderization}} soon settled down to become interchangeable middle brothers who function this way]] between their more fleshed-out siblings Joe and Averell. Which helps to explain why even their creators Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
*TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed; she couldn't act HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: They're not the real Dalton brothers, but their identical cousins. However, their general incompetence was inspired by the lackluster record of the real Dalton gang, in particular their incredibly bungled final raid.
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits lessfeminine frequently, especially in later animated adaptions, like the 2007 movie ''Go West!'' and her tastes are completely boyish, but when she becomes their own spin-off series.
* IdiotBall: While Averell is theowner default holder, it gets passed around ''a lot'' among the four of them.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of asaloon threat, and will probably just as easily foil their own schemes with their stupidity as they will get captured by Luke.
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death inher a later album, but take advantage on an old law saving them from the sentence if they get married. Their marriage is cancelled at the end of the book and their former father-in-law, an indian chief, makes the authorities promise to not sentence them to death.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When firststory, introduced, the new Daltons were portrayed as so incompetent Luke was actually eager to meet them again because he found them entertaining. They eventually took lessons and became as dangerous as the original Daltons, as long as they weren't confronted with Luke himself.
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one ofher main ambitions was to create a small area reserved to ladies, where she would serve them tea their typical poses.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest andcakes. Later the leader of the gang, while Averell is the tallest and the most dimwitted. However, it is actually a subversion in that Joe may think he's the brains of the gang (rather in the same story, way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most malevolent or evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Lukemanages to have her trained into but there has been at least ''pretending'' to be a lady, though her true personality is still there one time when he, William and Jack cheated at a poker game which would determine who gets to off him. Also William was offered once the chance to kill Luke as consolation for Joe marrying the woman that he liked.
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn'ttake long change and remains their weak point which Lucky uses to show up again. She also blushes when defeat them.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merely shaving their mustache and wearing her clothes.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminate him at first chance. It extends to civilians too. In the ''Daltons in the Blizzard'' they thank the Indians who saved them from drowning by violently stealing from them their sled.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Lukekisses her hand.
* TomboyishVoice: Inthan it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the French version focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the 1983 cartoon series, she has a low and raspy voice courtesy of Creator/MichelineDax.
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories about her life, with a different version each time. She admits this when telling those stories to Luke.Daltons]]''.
* AdaptedOut: Since she had been firmly established as an ally of Lucky Luke by the time the comics were adapted for the
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect women in her presence if you value your life.
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from a bunch of Natives of her own.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied all
* TheDreaded: She's feared by cowboys and natives alike, with a tribe of natives retreating once they recognize her. A group of bandits exploit this, by creating a hoax
*
* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attempt to avenge the real Dalton Brothers' death at the hands of Luke. Their hate of Luke has become more personal as the story goes on, though.
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks, with pudgier faces and
* BackupTwin: Or cousins in that case. After the "real" Daltons were killed in ''Outlaws'', they got replaced by the more iconic gang who became recurring villains.
* BigLittleBrother: To the point where all their respective heights are inward proportional to their age. Joe is the oldest brother, William is younger, Jack is even younger, and Averell is the youngest.
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethal but one-shot villains who died at the end of their album; they ended up so popular that a new set of them were introduced, and ended up becoming as iconic as Luke himself.
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take it to such extreme that their uncle, Marcel Dalton, is considered a BlackSheep just because he is the only honest member of the family.
* CharacterExaggeration: In their first story, they came across as a little different; Joe as the hard-boiled leader, William as a TriggerHappy {{Gunslinger}}, Jack as a MasterOfDisguise, and Averell as a strong and athletic -- if dense and food-obsessed -- [[TheBrute Brute]]. In subsequent stories, Joe remained mostly the same (though his HairTriggerTemper was enhanced quite a bit), Jack and William pretty much lost their individual traits and became full-time CoDragons to Joe, while Averell lost his strength and whatever competence he had and became more like a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
* ChronicVillainy: Any story about someone trying to redeem the Daltons (the ''Marcel Dalton'' story being the most notable example) is doomed to end up as a ShaggyDogStory.
* ContinuitySnarl: Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, William and Jack swap names. It happens first in their début story (for the first half, William is the shorter and Jack the taller; then it switches in the second half, making William taller and Jack shorter), and in some stories afterwards. In the 2006 movie and the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]], the two brothers' names are likewise swapped.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]] with
*
* HappilyMarried: She claims
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted;
* TheDreaded: As incompetent as
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas for
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on
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* LethalChef: Her cooking skills are so bad that at one point, a cowboy was willing to die rather than eat her cakes.
* TheNotLoveInterest: She is one of the few non-antagonist characters to appear as a {{Deuteragonist}} in more than one book (as well as one movie
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each other
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons are filled with [[SymbolSwearing skulls
** This extends to any
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Like Luke, she can go toe to toe with men bigger
* {{Tomboy}}: She was a clear-cut example from childhood. Flashbacks reveal she enjoyed playing rodeo at home (wrecking her entire house as a result)
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (while he does get tired of always having to be the one capturing them when they escape) and tends to treat them fairly nicely, especially in later albums. When they get sentenced to death, he even tries everything he can to save them, down to trying to convince the ''President''.
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them, like in ''Ma Dalton'' (where Joe, William, and Jack shave them to better impersonate their mother).
* GreekChorus: After being introduced with
*
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits less
* IdiotBall: While Averell is the
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of a
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death in
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one of
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Luke
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn't
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merely shaving their mustache and wearing her clothes.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminate him at first chance. It extends to civilians too. In the ''Daltons in the Blizzard'' they thank the Indians who saved them from drowning by violently stealing from them their sled.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke
* TomboyishVoice: In
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories about her life, with a different version each time. She admits this when telling those stories to Luke.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
The eponymous tenderfoot in the episode ''Tenderfoot'', and the nephew of Luke's old friend Baddie, this British gentleman may be new to the West but he turns out to be just as badass as Lucky Luke himself. In ''Klondike'', he teams up with Lucky Luke again to find his old butler Jasper, who has mysteriously disappeared while trying to find gold.
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
The eponymous tenderfoot in the episode ''Tenderfoot'', and the nephew of Luke's old friend Baddie, this British gentleman may be new to the West but he turns out to be just as badass as Lucky Luke himself. In ''Klondike'', he teams up with Lucky Luke again to find his old butler Jasper, who has mysteriously disappeared while trying to find gold.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:'''
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Johan Hedenberg
!!!'''Played by:''' Ron Carey (1991 film) and Éric Judor (''Les Dalton'', 2004 film)
The
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* TheAce: Every bit as tough as Luke himself; he was a boxing champ at Oxford, a very good shot, and a skilled horseman due to years of fox hunting.
* DeadlyDodging: He and Luke do this during a bar brawl in the AnimatedAdaptation.
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.
* NotSoStoic: While normally unflappable, there are a few moments where his façade breaks, such as when he shows his determination at not folding over Jack Ready's intimidation, and when he joins in at hazing the latest "tenderfoot" arrival, because said tenderfood happens to be an old rival from his Oxford days.
* NotSoAboveItAll: At the end of "The Tenderfoot", Waldo and Luke overhears the crowd planning to meet the latest "tenderfoot" arrival in town with the same humiliating hazing as they did Waldo (and every other immigrant who winds up there), and Waldo initially rushes over, hoping to protect them... only to discover that said arrival is one of his old Oxford rivals, and decides to join in the hazing instead. This convinces Luke that Waldo has successfully adapted to the West, and rides off into the sunset.
* SelfMadeMan: Though it's implied his family was already wealthy, Waldo intends to follow in his uncle's footsteps and make his own way in the West.
* StiffUpperLip: To the point that even being shot in the arm doesn't faze him.
* DeadlyDodging: He and Luke do this during a bar brawl in the AnimatedAdaptation.
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.
* NotSoStoic: While normally unflappable, there are a few moments where his façade breaks, such as when he shows his determination at not folding over Jack Ready's intimidation, and when he joins in at hazing the latest "tenderfoot" arrival, because said tenderfood happens to be an old rival from his Oxford days.
* NotSoAboveItAll: At the end of "The Tenderfoot", Waldo and Luke overhears the crowd planning to meet the latest "tenderfoot" arrival in town with the same humiliating hazing as they did Waldo (and every other immigrant who winds up there), and Waldo initially rushes over, hoping to protect them... only to discover that said arrival is one of his old Oxford rivals, and decides to join in the hazing instead. This convinces Luke that Waldo has successfully adapted to the West, and rides off into the sunset.
* SelfMadeMan: Though it's implied his family was already wealthy, Waldo intends to follow in his uncle's footsteps and make his own way in the West.
* StiffUpperLip: To the point that even being shot in the arm doesn't faze him.
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* TheAce: Every bit as tough as Luke himself; {{Angrish}}: Pretty much his most frequent state.
* ArchEnemy: What the Joker is to Batman, Joe is to Lucky Luke. At least in his mind.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The most adherent about the outlaw's life he was raised in, to the point he considers being called honest citizen an insult. While the other brothers could learn aboxing champ at Oxford, a very good shot, trade or have other hobbies (cards for William and a skilled horseman due to years of fox hunting.
* DeadlyDodging: Hereading for Jack) Joe is all about robbery and Luke do this during a bar brawl revenge.
* BerserkButton:
** Any mention of Lucky Luke's name is sure to make him go completely crazy. Same goes for seeing him inthe AnimatedAdaptation.
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.person, for that matter.
* NotSoStoic: While normally unflappable, there ** [[EnragedByIdiocy Averell's antics]] are a few moments where close second.
* BigBad: The closest thing the series has to a recurring one. He is the leader of the Daltons, the most recurring villain in the franchise, and he has a sworn hatred towards Luke.
* BigBrotherBully: To Averell. Though to be fair, hisfaçade breaks, such as anger and brutality usually is provoked by Averell's stupidity more than anything. Otherwise, it has been shown he does care about all his brothers, Averell included.
* BookDumb: In his own mind he is by far the smartest of his brothers, but he is completely uneducated and unfamiliar with anything you would learn in school. To give an example, he thinks UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus was the first authentic American. His one area of expertise is crime.
* ButtMonkey: He is often subject to slapstick, things almost never go his way, and he is TheUnfavourite to his mother.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Out of all the Daltons, he is by far the most proud to be a criminal, to the point that when heshows was pardoned once (due to the telegraph operator screwing up a message telling the prison to release an inmate named Joe ''Milton'') Joe refused to leave, feeling insulted, and had to be thrown out.
* CosmicPlaything: He is probably as unlucky as Luke is lucky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ok not deadpan per se, but even he can get snarky considering how stupid people around him are.
* EnragedByIdiocy: He has zero tolerance for the antics of hisdetermination at not folding over Jack Ready's intimidation, dumbass brother Averell and regularly enrages (and usually beats him up) because of them.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs, but Joe becomes sick when hejoins in at hazing gets money that he didn't steal himself, becoming terrified and even collapsing once when he discovers that money that wasn't stolen by him was added to his loot. Lucky Luke even lampshades this, saying that Joe deep down is honest for not keeping money that he didn't rob himself.
* EvilGenius: When he is not carrying thelatest "tenderfoot" arrival, because said tenderfood happens to be an old rival from his Oxford days.
IdiotBall, he is the smartest of the four. Ahem, by comparison.
*NotSoAboveItAll: At EvilIsPetty: He has no trouble going for revenge where there's no gain in it, or will forsake whatever advantage/gain he has for revenge. In the end of "The Tenderfoot", Waldo Daltons Stash", when he found out he'd been lied to about hidden treasure, he broke out of prison to get to another prison to beat up the prisoner who gave him that lie.
* FatalFlaw:
** Wrath. His temper and resentment are just as much a detriment to him as his bad luck.
** Pride. His pride has often prevented him from thinking rationally and Lukeoverhears the crowd planning has used it against him plenty of times.
** Greed. Whenever there is money tomeet the latest "tenderfoot" arrival in town be taken, Joe will always go for it. He always attempts to rob a bank, even when it always ends with him and his brothers arrested by Lucky Luke and he will grab any money in the same humiliating hazing as general vicinity, even when the situation required him not to steal the money. He admits that the last thing is a problem though.
* ForTheEvulz: He loves the outlaw life and not just for the money. In fact considering that the idea of legally buying something seems like a bad habit to him, the loot is treated more like a trophy and its the infamy and terror that really drives him. This stands out in at least two cases. Once when their new leader said that theydid Waldo (and every other immigrant who winds up there), would go on a bloodless crime-spree he expressed a desire to bring dynamite and Waldo initially rushes over, hoping for at least some blood to protect them... be spilled. He also planned on hanging the first sheriff that arrested him and his brothers on his wedding day.
* GunNut: Anytime he has a gun, he threatens to shoot people just to calm his nerves.
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Regularly verbally and physically abuses his brothers, especially Averell, and out of the four he is the most inclined to commit crime.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** When he explains to the Natives the effect the people of Daisy Town will have on them.
** Also, in the Rantanplan spin-off, he at one point calls out the Warden for failing not only todiscover that said arrival is one of his old Oxford rivals, and decides prevent them from escaping, but also to join prevent people from entering in the hazing instead. This Penitentiary to abduct prisoners. While the scene is played for laughs, the Wardens ''do'' suck at their job.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Ma Dalton he's the one who's the most like his late father, explaining that it's why she always had a soft spot for him despite being hard on him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Has his moments, like when he convinces the Natives to attack Daisy Town.
* MisterBig: Shortest of the brothers and also the one in charge.
* TheNapoleon: Jack even compares the two at one point.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He occasionally comes up with good plans, such as the one of passing himself and their brothers as Ma Dalton to rob banks, knowing that bankers wouldn't expect Ma to be dangerous and that reports of Ma Dalton being everywhere would disorientate Lucky Luke and the authorities. The plan works smoothly, even more when Ma joins in, with Luke and the authorities being unable of catching them until Luke formulates a trap involving "Mother's Day" to catch Joe's brothers using their desire to please Ma.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He often insists on killing Luke himself. He's even saved him a few times, just so he could have the chance to kill Luke himself.
* PsychopathicManchild: When all the other kids liked to play cowboys and Indians he liked to play cops and robbers most likely without the cops, a game thatWaldo has successfully adapted to he never stopped. There is much tantrum-throwing when either his Ma or Lucky Luke spoil his playing.
* TheResenter: Out of all his brothers, he is theWest, one who hates Luke the most.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest andrides off into the sunset.
* SelfMadeMan: Though it's implied his family was already wealthy, Waldo intends to followleader of the gang, but it is actually a subversion in his uncle's footsteps and make his own way that he thinks he's the brains of the gang (rather in the West.
* StiffUpperLip: To the pointway that even being shot Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the arm doesn't faze most evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', in an attempt to buy time to find the loot he and his brothers stole from the New York City banks and hid in one of several wagons, he manipulates a group of settlers into thinking that the journey to California would be much more perilous than they believed, forcing Luke to accompany them and bring them along, giving them eighty days to find the loot. In doing so, he foiled Edgar Crook's plan to cheat the settlers out of their money and their lands by having Luke overcome every attempt at sabotage Crook threw the settlers' way.
* TriggerHappy: His answer for the slightest provocation is to shoot it.
* TheUnfavourite: He has a big issue with Ma Dalton liking Averell more than him. However, she eventually reveals that Joe is actually her favorite because he is just like his father. The reason she is so hard on him is because he is the smartest and toughest of his brothers and needs to be able to look after them, since they would likely get themselves killed without him.
* ArchEnemy: What the Joker is to Batman, Joe is to Lucky Luke. At least in his mind.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The most adherent about the outlaw's life he was raised in, to the point he considers being called honest citizen an insult. While the other brothers could learn a
* DeadlyDodging: He
* BerserkButton:
** Any mention of Lucky Luke's name is sure to make him go completely crazy. Same goes for seeing him in
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.
* BigBad: The closest thing the series has to a recurring one. He is the leader of the Daltons, the most recurring villain in the franchise, and he has a sworn hatred towards Luke.
* BigBrotherBully: To Averell. Though to be fair, his
* BookDumb: In his own mind he is by far the smartest of his brothers, but he is completely uneducated and unfamiliar with anything you would learn in school. To give an example, he thinks UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus was the first authentic American. His one area of expertise is crime.
* ButtMonkey: He is often subject to slapstick, things almost never go his way, and he is TheUnfavourite to his mother.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Out of all the Daltons, he is by far the most proud to be a criminal, to the point that when he
* CosmicPlaything: He is probably as unlucky as Luke is lucky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ok not deadpan per se, but even he can get snarky considering how stupid people around him are.
* EnragedByIdiocy: He has zero tolerance for the antics of his
* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs, but Joe becomes sick when he
* EvilGenius: When he is not carrying the
*
* FatalFlaw:
** Wrath. His temper and resentment are just as much a detriment to him as his bad luck.
** Pride. His pride has often prevented him from thinking rationally and Luke
** Greed. Whenever there is money to
* ForTheEvulz: He loves the outlaw life and not just for the money. In fact considering that the idea of legally buying something seems like a bad habit to him, the loot is treated more like a trophy and its the infamy and terror that really drives him. This stands out in at least two cases. Once when their new leader said that they
* GunNut: Anytime he has a gun, he threatens to shoot people just to calm his nerves.
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Regularly verbally and physically abuses his brothers, especially Averell, and out of the four he is the most inclined to commit crime.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** When he explains to the Natives the effect the people of Daisy Town will have on them.
** Also, in the Rantanplan spin-off, he at one point calls out the Warden for failing not only to
* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Ma Dalton he's the one who's the most like his late father, explaining that it's why she always had a soft spot for him despite being hard on him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Has his moments, like when he convinces the Natives to attack Daisy Town.
* MisterBig: Shortest of the brothers and also the one in charge.
* TheNapoleon: Jack even compares the two at one point.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He occasionally comes up with good plans, such as the one of passing himself and their brothers as Ma Dalton to rob banks, knowing that bankers wouldn't expect Ma to be dangerous and that reports of Ma Dalton being everywhere would disorientate Lucky Luke and the authorities. The plan works smoothly, even more when Ma joins in, with Luke and the authorities being unable of catching them until Luke formulates a trap involving "Mother's Day" to catch Joe's brothers using their desire to please Ma.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He often insists on killing Luke himself. He's even saved him a few times, just so he could have the chance to kill Luke himself.
* PsychopathicManchild: When all the other kids liked to play cowboys and Indians he liked to play cops and robbers most likely without the cops, a game that
* TheResenter: Out of all his brothers, he is the
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and
* SelfMadeMan: Though it's implied his family was already wealthy, Waldo intends to follow
* StiffUpperLip: To the point
* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', in an attempt to buy time to find the loot he and his brothers stole from the New York City banks and hid in one of several wagons, he manipulates a group of settlers into thinking that the journey to California would be much more perilous than they believed, forcing Luke to accompany them and bring them along, giving them eighty days to find the loot. In doing so, he foiled Edgar Crook's plan to cheat the settlers out of their money and their lands by having Luke overcome every attempt at sabotage Crook threw the settlers' way.
* TriggerHappy: His answer for the slightest provocation is to shoot it.
* TheUnfavourite: He has a big issue with Ma Dalton liking Averell more than him. However, she eventually reveals that Joe is actually her favorite because he is just like his father. The reason she is so hard on him is because he is the smartest and toughest of his brothers and needs to be able to look after them, since they would likely get themselves killed without him.
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[[folder:Sarah Bernhardt]]
A world famous French actress, whose controversial visit to the United States in 1880 would require the equally famed cowboy and gunslinger Lucky Luke to protect her.
A world famous French actress, whose controversial visit to the United States in 1880 would require the equally famed cowboy and gunslinger Lucky Luke to protect her.
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A world famous
!!!'''Voiced in French
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Peter Sjöquist
!!!'''Played by:''' Dominic Barto (1991 film) and Romain Berger (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second oldest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations mistakenly named "Jack."
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* EuropeansAreKinky: There's absolutely nothing sexual about her performance, but to the puritanical Americans, this applies to her.
* HotterAndSexier: Despite her act being positively tame compared to what you'd see in a saloon on a Friday night, the fact that as an actress, her singing and performance was done in broad daylight meant she's constantly accused of this.
* MoralGuardians: Is constantly beset by these, especially by Lucy Hayes, the First Lady of the United States.
* ShipTease: It's implied she has a thing for Luke at the end, leaving him with a farewell note, stating him to be a Lonesome Cowboy "only because he chooses to".
* HotterAndSexier: Despite her act being positively tame compared to what you'd see in a saloon on a Friday night, the fact that as an actress, her singing and performance was done in broad daylight meant she's constantly accused of this.
* MoralGuardians: Is constantly beset by these, especially by Lucy Hayes, the First Lady of the United States.
* ShipTease: It's implied she has a thing for Luke at the end, leaving him with a farewell note, stating him to be a Lonesome Cowboy "only because he chooses to".
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* EuropeansAreKinky: There's absolutely nothing sexual about her performance, BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent he and Jack admire Joe and follow him out of respect. They have their limits however.
* TheCasino: In ''Lone Riders'', he shows that he can be quite TheGambler and end ups winning the entire money. He then buys the Casino and tries to make 1 million $ as fast as possible.
* CatchPhrase: "Calm down, Joe!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with Jack).
* CoDragons: With Jack. The only ones that think highly of Joe and the only ones that he considers accomplishes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he so eloquently put it, [[MoralMyopia killing Lucky Luke is fine]] but wanting [[WouldntHurtAChild tothe puritanical Americans, kill a baby is just not nice.]]
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as thisapplies to her.
* HotterAndSexier: Despite her act being positively tame compared to what you'd see in a saloon on a Friday night,most of the fact time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* GunNut: To the extent thatas he treats his guns like his best friends, has a whole hotel room [[WallOfWeapons turned into an actress, her singing arsenal]] and performance was done in broad daylight meant she's considers death by Russian Roulette as the most poetic and touching way to go. Unless it is his time to go...
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with Jack. As such, they constantlyaccused of this.
need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
*MoralGuardians: Is constantly beset HoistByHisOwnPetard: In his confrontation with Luke, having only one bullet left, he tried to defeat him by these, especially by Lucy Hayes, playing the First Lady of Russian Roulette with him. Needless to say, Luke, being BornLucky, easily survived the United States.
first round and easily tricked him into believing he was losing so he could take him without killing him.
*ShipTease: It's implied she MoreDakka: If in doubt and Luke still stands, shoot some more!
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance, but since Bill is also the name of one of his deceased cousins he has since always been addressed and referred to as William Dalton.
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Town where he has athing for Luke at the end, leaving him habit of pointing his gun instead of his finger, and shooting with a farewell note, stating him his gun instead of touching with his hand both in order to be feel natural and to make a Lonesome Cowboy "only because he chooses to".point.
* TheCasino: In ''Lone Riders'', he shows that he can be quite TheGambler and end ups winning the entire money. He then buys the Casino and tries to make 1 million $ as fast as possible.
* CatchPhrase: "Calm down, Joe!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with Jack).
* CoDragons: With Jack. The only ones that think highly of Joe and the only ones that he considers accomplishes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he so eloquently put it, [[MoralMyopia killing Lucky Luke is fine]] but wanting [[WouldntHurtAChild to
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this
* HotterAndSexier: Despite her act being positively tame compared to what you'd see in a saloon on a Friday night,
* GunNut: To the extent that
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with Jack. As such, they constantly
*
*
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance, but since Bill is also the name of one of his deceased cousins he has since always been addressed and referred to as William Dalton.
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Town where he has a
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[[folder:Don Doroteo Prieto]]
A wealthy Spanish aristocrat and ''hacienda'' owner that Luke encounters during his search for the Daltons in Mexico.
A wealthy Spanish aristocrat and ''hacienda'' owner that Luke encounters during his search for the Daltons in Mexico.
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A wealthy Spanish aristocrat
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jacques Jouanneau (''Daisy Town''), Creator/GerardHernandez (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and
!!!'''Voiced in
!!!'''Played by:''' Bo Gray (1991 film) and Saïd Serrari (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second youngest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations accidentally named "William".
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* HeroesLoveDogs: Is always accompanied by his intelligent and loyal ''chihuhaua'', Rodriguez.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: A good man who genuinely wants to use his wealth to improve the lives of the peasants, but his hands are tied as long as Emilio Espuelas is loose, as any money he invested would simply be stolen, and he doesn't have the men to guard the whole area.
* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed; his jaw is more chiseled and he has a moustache, but he's similar enough to allow Luke to dress up like him and lure the outlaws into a trap.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to take town Emilio Espuelas once and for all, putting an end to the ''banditos'' reign of terror. He even takes part of the charge against Espuelas stronghold during the climax.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: A good man who genuinely wants to use his wealth to improve the lives of the peasants, but his hands are tied as long as Emilio Espuelas is loose, as any money he invested would simply be stolen, and he doesn't have the men to guard the whole area.
* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed; his jaw is more chiseled and he has a moustache, but he's similar enough to allow Luke to dress up like him and lure the outlaws into a trap.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to take town Emilio Espuelas once and for all, putting an end to the ''banditos'' reign of terror. He even takes part of the charge against Espuelas stronghold during the climax.
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* HeroesLoveDogs: Is always accompanied by BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent, he and William admire Joe and follow him out of respect. Their limits are often broken despite that.
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with William).
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.
* CorruptPolitician: In ''Lone Riders'', Jack tries to kidnap and ransom a bank director for 1 million $ but finds out that he can't give him money. However, [[DragonInChief that same director is looking for someone who will become a puppet mayor that will serve his interests]]. He went so far as to give Jack an Mayor Impunity to prevent Lucky Luke from arresting him.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: He believes he is the most sophisticated in the family. Being the only one that can read to an elementary school level technically makes him this by default.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby", he objects along with William and Averell to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with William. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good student for as long as he was at school. His father pulled him out when he got a merit for good behavior and he is the most litterate of the group.
* MasterOfDisguise: In his original appearance. This was dropped in later books, removing one of his unique traits.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Any pretense of him being cultured or super intelligent comes mainly from being from a family (and era) where almost no one knows how to read.
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost as much as Joe, delighting in his own cunning andloyal ''chihuhaua'', Rodriguez.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: A good man who genuinely wantsbelieving that he will be the one to use trick Luke.
* WickedCultured: Compared to hiswealth to improve brothers, anyway. In the lives ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' cartoon (one of the peasants, but his hands are tied as long as Emilio Espuelas is loose, as any money he invested would simply be stolen, and he doesn't have the men to guard the whole area.
* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed; his jaw is more chiseled and he has a moustache, butadaptations where he's similar enough to allow Luke to dress up the one named "William"), he's portrayed as a big reader, which means he's the most knowledgeable about things like him history and lure different cultures, sometimes acting as MrExposition to his brothers. This trait was given a few nods in subsequent comics, such as "A Cowboy in Cotton," where Jack is the outlaws into a trap.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to take town Emilio Espuelas oncemost enthused about reading and for all, putting an end to the ''banditos'' reign of terror. He even takes part spends much of the charge against Espuelas stronghold during album with his nose in a book, providing trivia and exposition about the climax.circumstances the brothers end up in.
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with William).
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.
* CorruptPolitician: In ''Lone Riders'', Jack tries to kidnap and ransom a bank director for 1 million $ but finds out that he can't give him money. However, [[DragonInChief that same director is looking for someone who will become a puppet mayor that will serve his interests]]. He went so far as to give Jack an Mayor Impunity to prevent Lucky Luke from arresting him.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: He believes he is the most sophisticated in the family. Being the only one that can read to an elementary school level technically makes him this by default.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby", he objects along with William and Averell to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with William. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good student for as long as he was at school. His father pulled him out when he got a merit for good behavior and he is the most litterate of the group.
* MasterOfDisguise: In his original appearance. This was dropped in later books, removing one of his unique traits.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Any pretense of him being cultured or super intelligent comes mainly from being from a family (and era) where almost no one knows how to read.
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost as much as Joe, delighting in his own cunning and
* HonestCorporateExecutive: A good man who genuinely wants
* WickedCultured: Compared to his
* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed; his jaw is more chiseled and he has a moustache, but
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to take town Emilio Espuelas once
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[[folder:Hank Bully]]
A rough but kind-hearted stagecoach driver who joins Luke on a few of his adventures involving stagecoaches, starting with the album ''The Stagecoach''.
A rough but kind-hearted stagecoach driver who joins Luke on a few of his adventures involving stagecoaches, starting with the album ''The Stagecoach''.
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A rough but kind-hearted stagecoach driver who joins Luke on a few
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Pierre Tornade (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Mattias Knave
!!!'''Played by:''' Fritz Sperberg (1991 film) and Creator/RamzyBedia (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The youngest, tallest and dumbest (or at any rate most obviously dumb) of the Dalton brothers.
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* TheAce: The best "whip" in the west, he can get a stagecoach from going at full speed through the street to a complete stop neatly parked at the side between two other vehicles in exactly 3.6 seconds.
* {{Expy}}: Of Ugly Barrow from ''The Wagon Train'', though Barrow spoke almost entirerly in profanity (except two panels during the ending).
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not exactly the most polite person and is shouting to everyone most of the time, but he ultimately wants what is best for his passengers and horses.
* WeaponSpecialization: He's as good with his whip as Luke is with his gun - when he is sober.
* {{Expy}}: Of Ugly Barrow from ''The Wagon Train'', though Barrow spoke almost entirerly in profanity (except two panels during the ending).
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not exactly the most polite person and is shouting to everyone most of the time, but he ultimately wants what is best for his passengers and horses.
* WeaponSpecialization: He's as good with his whip as Luke is with his gun - when he is sober.
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* TheAce: The best "whip" AdaptationalBadass: While he is still [[TheDitz the stupidest]] in the west, he can get a stagecoach from going at full speed through the street to a complete stop neatly parked at the side between two other vehicles in exactly 3.6 seconds.
* {{Expy}}: Of Ugly Barrow from''The Wagon Train'', though Barrow spoke almost entirerly in profanity (except two panels during Daltons'' TV series, Averell has shown tremendous potential as a RenaissanceMan: he has been a talented artist (painter, sculptor, interior decorator, origami crafter, puppeteer, gardener...); a chef (baker, pastry chef...); an animal trainer (horses, birds); a musician (horn, duck call); and even retained some of his previous athletic prowess (karate master, vine swinger...).
* AntiVillain: He simply follows his family's footsteps. Some gags are even about him not being wanted for his crimes since he is so harmless. Although once he was on probation, he did say it was funnier when they were stealing from banks and having theending).saloon for themselves.
* BigEater: To the point one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "When do we eat?"
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his stupidity, he can be just as dangerous as his brothers when he wants to be.
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jack and William to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
** He also shames Joe for stealing from their uncle Marcel, as Ma taught them to steal only from strangers or the State.
*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ExtremeOmnivore:
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's called a terracotta bowl, amigo.
* FatalFlaw: Gluttony and Sloth. If he wasn't always hungry and if he exercised his brains a bit more, he could be as big a threat as Joe.
* FriendlyEnemies: Of all the Daltons, he has the most cordial relationship with Lucky Luke. He'snot exactly the most polite person only one who's fine just having a conversation with Luke and is shouting mainly opposes him because his brothers do.
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown toeveryone most possess unexpected skills, such as being able to craft a fake but perfect-looking revolver out of soap, but since he needed help to get all the time, but details down he ultimately wants what is best stole a ''real and loaded'' revolver from a negligent guard two weeks before and used it as model. He wanted to use the soap gun for their escape and offer the real one as Joe's birthday gift.
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn't for hispassengers family. When the Daltons briefly went their separate ways to see who could do best on their own, Averell ended up becoming a hugely popular chef (albeit with occasionally unscrupulous business practices which were however not his doing). In comparison, Jack become a corrupt casino boss, William a corrupt mayor and horses.
Joe just went on a huge crime spree.
*WeaponSpecialization: He's LethalChef: Despite being the BigEater, he is horrendous at cooking and will [[BerserkButton react quite violently]] when someone is criticizing his meals as good seen in ''Daltons City''. However, in ''Lone Riders'', he is able to cook perfectly with an Italian pizzaiolo. Furthermore, in the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' series, he has been a proficient Baker (''Bread War''), French fryer (''Fries for free'') and Pastry Chef (''A Piece of Cake'')
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his training with hiswhip brothers, but later books turn him back into a borderline StupidGood character.
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he will never amount to much.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: One episode of the Rantanplan series has two scientists kidnapping him and using him as a test subject for a formula attempted to make him intelligent. This ends up turning him into an {{Evil|Genius}} GeniusBruiser who actually was ''even more'' dangerous and competent than Joe, to the point the leading scientist ended up turning him back to normal and destroying his formula.
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showed himself to be more dangerous than one would expect like ''The Dalton Cousins'' where he actually fought Lukeis with his gun - to a tie and the ''Dalton's Escape'' where he came the closest to simply shooting Lucky Luke dead, stopped only by Joe's decision to take him as a prisoner and slave.
* PetTheDog: Literally; he has a soft spot for Rantanplan and is, on the whole, quite kind to him.
* SarcasmBlind: He often interprets Joe's snarky comments about him literally. For example, when they are trying to figure out who is using which fake identity:
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanted to know.
** Taken up several notches as heis sober.spends the rest of the story introducing himself as "Idiot Jones" as if it was his name.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: In a twist of this role, he may be the largest and strongest of his family but he always comes last in repeating the thoughts, words and actions of the group and he often screws them up anyway, earning himself some scowls from his three brothers for ruining their style.
* {{Expy}}: Of Ugly Barrow from
* AntiVillain: He simply follows his family's footsteps. Some gags are even about him not being wanted for his crimes since he is so harmless. Although once he was on probation, he did say it was funnier when they were stealing from banks and having the
* BigEater: To the point one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "When do we eat?"
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his stupidity, he can be just as dangerous as his brothers when he wants to be.
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jack and William to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
** He also shames Joe for stealing from their uncle Marcel, as Ma taught them to steal only from strangers or the State.
*
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's called a terracotta bowl, amigo.
* FatalFlaw: Gluttony and Sloth. If he wasn't always hungry and if he exercised his brains a bit more, he could be as big a threat as Joe.
* FriendlyEnemies: Of all the Daltons, he has the most cordial relationship with Lucky Luke. He's
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown to
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn't for his
*
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his training with his
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he will never amount to much.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: One episode of the Rantanplan series has two scientists kidnapping him and using him as a test subject for a formula attempted to make him intelligent. This ends up turning him into an {{Evil|Genius}} GeniusBruiser who actually was ''even more'' dangerous and competent than Joe, to the point the leading scientist ended up turning him back to normal and destroying his formula.
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showed himself to be more dangerous than one would expect like ''The Dalton Cousins'' where he actually fought Luke
* PetTheDog: Literally; he has a soft spot for Rantanplan and is, on the whole, quite kind to him.
* SarcasmBlind: He often interprets Joe's snarky comments about him literally. For example, when they are trying to figure out who is using which fake identity:
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanted to know.
** Taken up several notches as he
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: In a twist of this role, he may be the largest and strongest of his family but he always comes last in repeating the thoughts, words and actions of the group and he often screws them up anyway, earning himself some scowls from his three brothers for ruining their style.
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[[folder:Bass Reeves]]
A former slave who tried his luck in the West after the civil war and became a marshal, he is Luke's main ally in ''A Cowboy in Cotton''.
A former slave who tried his luck in the West after the civil war and became a marshal, he is Luke's main ally in ''A Cowboy in Cotton''.
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A former slave who tried his luck
[[quoteright:264:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wmw3u8so_4551.jpg]]
!!!'''Voiced in
The aged mother of Joe, William, Jack and
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* TheAce: When he is first introduced he has caught the Dalton brothers by himself. He's also shown to be an excellent shot. He is just as revered as Lucky Luke himself.
* BigDamnHeroes: He ends up saving Luke from both the KKK and the Daltons in the finale, bring an army of ex-slaves to help him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real Bass Reeves was the first black marshal west of the Mississippi and arrested more than 3,000 outlaws.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He cuts the bonds of a tied up Luke with a bullet.
* MentorArchetype: Luke claims to have learned a lot from him, to which he laughingly notes that shooting faster than his own shadow was not one of them.
* BigDamnHeroes: He ends up saving Luke from both the KKK and the Daltons in the finale, bring an army of ex-slaves to help him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real Bass Reeves was the first black marshal west of the Mississippi and arrested more than 3,000 outlaws.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He cuts the bonds of a tied up Luke with a bullet.
* MentorArchetype: Luke claims to have learned a lot from him, to which he laughingly notes that shooting faster than his own shadow was not one of them.
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* TheAce: When he AffablyEvil: Unlike her sons, she is a genuinely nice and kind person... as long as her boys aren't in danger.
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and any times she will play an antagonistic role, it usually is out of love for her children. Luke actually is in decently good terms with her otherwise.
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain as the rest of her family. She is proud of raising her sons to be a bunch of scoundrels, and is more annoyed by their swearing and stupidity.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the AffablyEvil variety.
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her firstintroduced he pages has caught her kindly thanking Luke for helping her cross the street, then makes a fake hold-up for her meat and right after the butcher muses that her rusty old gun is probably empty we cut to a panel where she shoots a rattlesnake dead from a long distance with her revolver.
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.
* MamaBear: And ''how''! She was ready to challenge Luke to a duel for her kids and likely would have won (Lucky Luke being unwilling to even hurt her and Ma being a great shot).
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possibly the most well-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referred to as "Ma", but since her sons are explicitly referred to as the cousins of the real-life Dalton brothers, Ma is a sibling of either Lewis or Adeline Dalton.
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convicted and she told her children she used to break their father out of jail before they were even born.
* RetiredOutlaw: She was mostly an accomplice until her husband died. Afterwards, she lives off the charity of the townsfolk.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Daltonbrothers by himself. He's family, Ma Dalton is also shown loosely based on criminal matriarch [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used tobe an excellent shot. He is just as revered as Lucky Luke himself.
* BigDamnHeroes: He endsgo with her mock hold up saving Luke from both and give her groceries for free since she was a kindly old woman who colored the KKK and Wild West with her eccentricity. Then she showed them that her rusty gun ''was'' actually loaded the Daltons in the finale, bring an army of ex-slaves to help him.
whole time.
*HistoricalDomainCharacter: The WhyAreYouNotMySon: While she very much loves her real Bass Reeves was the first black marshal west of the Mississippi sons, Ma has expressed admiration for Luke's skills, wit and arrested more than 3,000 outlaws.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He cuts the bonds of a tied up Luke with a bullet.
* MentorArchetype: Luke claims to have learned a lot from him, to which he laughingly notesdetermination, stating that shooting faster than his own shadow was not one of them.he'd make a wonderful son... if only he wasn't so insistent on bothersome things like "the law" and "justice".
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and any times she will play an antagonistic role, it usually is out of love for her children. Luke actually is in decently good terms with her otherwise.
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain as the rest of her family. She is proud of raising her sons to be a bunch of scoundrels, and is more annoyed by their swearing and stupidity.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the AffablyEvil variety.
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.
* MamaBear: And ''how''! She was ready to challenge Luke to a duel for her kids and likely would have won (Lucky Luke being unwilling to even hurt her and Ma being a great shot).
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possibly the most well-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referred to as "Ma", but since her sons are explicitly referred to as the cousins of the real-life Dalton brothers, Ma is a sibling of either Lewis or Adeline Dalton.
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convicted and she told her children she used to break their father out of jail before they were even born.
* RetiredOutlaw: She was mostly an accomplice until her husband died. Afterwards, she lives off the charity of the townsfolk.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Dalton
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used to
* BigDamnHeroes: He ends
*
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He cuts the bonds of a tied up Luke with a bullet.
* MentorArchetype: Luke claims to have learned a lot from him, to which he laughingly notes
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[[folder:Frederick Remington]]
A talented artist from New York who's become famous for his paintings of the Wild West during the last few years of the Frontier era, Remington's latest journey into the West has him accompanied by Lucky Luke as a bodyguard.
A talented artist from New York who's become famous for his paintings of the Wild West during the last few years of the Frontier era, Remington's latest journey into the West has him accompanied by Lucky Luke as a bodyguard.
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A talented artist from New York who's become famous for his paintings
The father of the
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* BigEater: Really loves his food and drink, much to the annoyance of the owner of his favorite restaurant, since Remington keeps paying off his tab with his paintings, which take up a lot of space in the building.
* BoisterousBruiser: Enters a saloon and politely asks a patron at what time the brawl is because he wants in.
* EccentricArtist: The reason why Lucky Luke is serving as bodyguard. Remington is a great artist but his love of food, fight and exploring TheWildWest to paint leads to potential dangers. He also has no real problem with people burning his paintings and sometime does it himself if he feels unhappy with the result.
* GentleGiant: He enjoys the occasional bar brawl, but otherwise, he's a very big man who wouldn't hurt a fly.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A humorous fictional version of the great [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Remington Frederick Sackrider Remington]]
* OneTrackMindedArtist: Remington REALLY loves TheWildWest, and all his work showcases things like cowboys, Indians, the Cavalry, outlaws, etc. He ''can'' paint other subjects, he just doesn't want to.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Roast turkey.
* BoisterousBruiser: Enters a saloon and politely asks a patron at what time the brawl is because he wants in.
* EccentricArtist: The reason why Lucky Luke is serving as bodyguard. Remington is a great artist but his love of food, fight and exploring TheWildWest to paint leads to potential dangers. He also has no real problem with people burning his paintings and sometime does it himself if he feels unhappy with the result.
* GentleGiant: He enjoys the occasional bar brawl, but otherwise, he's a very big man who wouldn't hurt a fly.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A humorous fictional version of the great [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Remington Frederick Sackrider Remington]]
* OneTrackMindedArtist: Remington REALLY loves TheWildWest, and all his work showcases things like cowboys, Indians, the Cavalry, outlaws, etc. He ''can'' paint other subjects, he just doesn't want to.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Roast turkey.
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* BigEater: Really loves GenerationXerox: According to Ma Dalton, he looked exactly like Joe, and his food WantedPoster does confirm that. However, that means he also looks exactly like his other kids, and drink, much to the annoyance of the owner of his favorite restaurant, since Remington keeps paying off his tab with his paintings, which take up a lot of space in the building.
* BoisterousBruiser: Enters a saloon and politely asks a patron at what time the brawl is because he wants in.
* EccentricArtist: The reason why Lucky Luke is serving as bodyguard. Remington is a great artist but his love of food, fight and exploring TheWildWest to paint leads to potential dangers. He also has no real problem with people burning his paintings and sometime does it himself if he feels unhappy with the result.
* GentleGiant: He enjoys the occasional bar brawl, but otherwise, he's a very big man who wouldn't hurt a fly.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A humorous fictional version of the great [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Remington Frederick Sackrider Remington]]
* OneTrackMindedArtist: Remington REALLY loves TheWildWest, and all his work showcases things like cowboys, Indians, the Cavalry, outlaws, etc. He ''can'' paint other subjects, he justposter doesn't want to.
show height, it's not confirmed if he was as short as Joe as well.
*TrademarkFavoriteFood: Roast turkey.NoNameGiven: His first name is never revealed, he's simply referred to as the father of the Dalton Cousins.
* PrisonEscapeArtist: According to Ma, she helped Pa escape from prison several times long before their children were born.
* SafeCracking: This was his specialty when he was alive, until one fateful day [[HoistByHisOwnPetard when he used too much dynamite...]]
* WantedPoster: He's already dead by the time the series begins, so his only appearance is through one of these.
* BoisterousBruiser: Enters a saloon and politely asks a patron at what time the brawl is because he wants in.
* EccentricArtist: The reason why Lucky Luke is serving as bodyguard. Remington is a great artist but his love of food, fight and exploring TheWildWest to paint leads to potential dangers. He also has no real problem with people burning his paintings and sometime does it himself if he feels unhappy with the result.
* GentleGiant: He enjoys the occasional bar brawl, but otherwise, he's a very big man who wouldn't hurt a fly.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A humorous fictional version of the great [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Remington Frederick Sackrider Remington]]
* OneTrackMindedArtist: Remington REALLY loves TheWildWest, and all his work showcases things like cowboys, Indians, the Cavalry, outlaws, etc. He ''can'' paint other subjects, he just
*
* PrisonEscapeArtist: According to Ma, she helped Pa escape from prison several times long before their children were born.
* SafeCracking: This was his specialty when he was alive, until one fateful day [[HoistByHisOwnPetard when he used too much dynamite...]]
* WantedPoster: He's already dead by the time the series begins, so his only appearance is through one of these.
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!Recurring antagonists
!!!'''The Dalton Family'''
[[folder:The Daltons]]
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daltons_lucky_luke_8255.gif]]
Lucky Luke's most featured adversaries and the most iconic outlaws of the series. They are, in fact, not the "real" Daltons (Bob, Grat, Bill and Emmett, who appeared in one early story and were killed off at the end of it), but their identical, if more incompetent cousins, Joe, William, Jack and Averell.
!!!'''The Dalton Family'''
[[folder:The Daltons]]
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daltons_lucky_luke_8255.gif]]
Lucky Luke's most featured adversaries and the most iconic outlaws of the series. They are, in fact, not the "real" Daltons (Bob, Grat, Bill and Emmett, who appeared in one early story and were killed off at the end of it), but their identical, if more incompetent cousins, Joe, William, Jack and Averell.
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!!!'''The
The illegitimate son of Emmett Dalton
[[folder:The Daltons]]
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daltons_lucky_luke_8255.gif]]
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* AdaptationDistillation: Pretty much every animated adaption of the franchise (sans the '90s cartoon), ignores their original backstory of being the identical cousins of the “real-life” Dalton brothers trying to avenge their deceased relatives, and instead presents them as the one and only Dalton gang. The Creator/HannaBarbera series even adapts the ''Outlaws'' story for one episode but with them instead of Bob, Grat, Bill, and Emmett like the original comic version (and needless to say, they survive it).
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the '90s cartoon, they sport brown hair instead of their usual black.
* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attempt to avenge the real Dalton Brothers' death at the hands of Luke. Their hate of Luke has become more personal as the story goes on, though.
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks, with pudgier faces and their mustaches were simple tuffs of hair. As the overall art style of the comics became more detailed and polished, so did the Daltons’ design, and they gained more angular faces and long pencil mustaches, which is how they have been depicted ever since, including in all their animated appearance going as far back as 1971’s ''Daisy Town''.
* BackupTwin: Or cousins in that case. After the "real" Daltons were killed in ''Outlaws'', they got replaced by the more iconic gang who became recurring villains.
* BigLittleBrother: To the point where all their respective heights are inward proportional to their age. Joe is the oldest brother, William is younger, Jack is even younger, and Averell is the youngest.
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethal but one-shot villains who died at the end of their album; they ended up so popular that a new set of them were introduced, and ended up becoming as iconic as Luke himself.
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take it to such extreme that their uncle, Marcel Dalton, is considered a BlackSheep just because he is the only honest member of the family.
* CharacterExaggeration: In their first story, they came across as a little different; Joe as the hard-boiled leader, William as a TriggerHappy {{Gunslinger}}, Jack as a MasterOfDisguise, and Averell as a strong and athletic -- if dense and food-obsessed -- [[TheBrute Brute]]. In subsequent stories, Joe remained mostly the same (though his HairTriggerTemper was enhanced quite a bit), Jack and William pretty much lost their individual traits and became full-time CoDragons to Joe, while Averell lost his strength and whatever competence he had and became more like a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
* ChronicVillainy: Any story about someone trying to redeem the Daltons (the ''Marcel Dalton'' story being the most notable example) is doomed to end up as a ShaggyDogStory.
* ContinuitySnarl: Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, William and Jack swap names. It happens first in their début story (for the first half, William is the shorter and Jack the taller; then it switches in the second half, making William taller and Jack shorter), and in some stories afterwards. In the 2006 movie and the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]], the two brothers' names are likewise swapped.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]] with Lucky Luke ([[MoodWhiplash until its abrupt and comical resolution]]). From their second screen appearance in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' onward, they would go back to their purely comedic personalities.
* DisappearedDad: It's not clear what happened to their father, but he clearly isn't around anymore. ''Belle Starr'' has Ma Dalton mentioning a NoodleIncident about him using dynamite, suggesting he might be dead. ''Ma Dalton'' implies that he accidentally killed himself while using dynamite to force a safe.
* TheDreaded: As incompetent as they can be when they are pitted against Luke, they are dangerous enough to scare the crap of almost everyone else.
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas for the Daltons'', their training to infiltrate as a mariachi band goes so badly their instructor (a hardened bandito) tries to ''hang himself''.
* EnfantTerrible: According to their mama, some wanted posters in Daisy Town and a spin-off they were pretty mean (and pretty backwards) even as kids. Joe surpassed them all, by far, however.
* EscapeArtist: Whatever prison they end up in, they will always break out.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: They honestly love Ma Dalton, and at no point do they turn against her. Not even [[TheUnfavourite Joe]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each other and Joe abuses his brothers, they always stick together and have each other's backs. In one book of the Rantanplan spin-off, when Averell gets abducted, Joe is genuinely outraged at the Warden, and they escape for the sole purpose of rescuing him.
** This extends to any and all relatives they have. To the Daltons, family is more important than ''anything'' else -- they can argue and fight and occasionally try to trick each other, sure, but if a family member is in need, the Daltons are there. Even CardCarryingVillain Joe is sympathetic towards WhiteSheep Marcel Dalton, reassuring him that he's heard living an honest life isn't ''that'' terrible.
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (while he does get tired of always having to be the one capturing them when they escape) and tends to treat them fairly nicely, especially in later albums. When they get sentenced to death, he even tries everything he can to save them, down to trying to convince the ''President''.
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them, like in ''Ma Dalton'' (where Joe, William, and Jack shave them to better impersonate their mother).
* GreekChorus: After being introduced with different skill sets, William and Jack [[{{Flanderization}} soon settled down to become interchangeable middle brothers who function this way]] between their more fleshed-out siblings Joe and Averell. Which helps to explain why even their creators Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: They're not the real Dalton brothers, but their identical cousins. However, their general incompetence was inspired by the lackluster record of the real Dalton gang, in particular their incredibly bungled final raid.
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits less frequently, especially in later animated adaptions, like the 2007 movie ''Go West!'' and their own spin-off series.
* IdiotBall: While Averell is the default holder, it gets passed around ''a lot'' among the four of them.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of a threat, and will probably just as easily foil their own schemes with their stupidity as they will get captured by Luke.
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death in a later album, but take advantage on an old law saving them from the sentence if they get married. Their marriage is cancelled at the end of the book and their former father-in-law, an indian chief, makes the authorities promise to not sentence them to death.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, the new Daltons were portrayed as so incompetent Luke was actually eager to meet them again because he found them entertaining. They eventually took lessons and became as dangerous as the original Daltons, as long as they weren't confronted with Luke himself.
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one of their typical poses.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, while Averell is the tallest and the most dimwitted. However, it is actually a subversion in that Joe may think he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most malevolent or evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Luke but there has been at least one time when he, William and Jack cheated at a poker game which would determine who gets to off him. Also William was offered once the chance to kill Luke as consolation for Joe marrying the woman that he liked.
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn't change and remains their weak point which Lucky uses to defeat them.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merely shaving their mustache and wearing her clothes.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminate him at first chance. It extends to civilians too. In the ''Daltons in the Blizzard'' they thank the Indians who saved them from drowning by violently stealing from them their sled.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the '90s cartoon, they sport brown hair instead of their usual black.
* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attempt to avenge the real Dalton Brothers' death at the hands of Luke. Their hate of Luke has become more personal as the story goes on, though.
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks, with pudgier faces and their mustaches were simple tuffs of hair. As the overall art style of the comics became more detailed and polished, so did the Daltons’ design, and they gained more angular faces and long pencil mustaches, which is how they have been depicted ever since, including in all their animated appearance going as far back as 1971’s ''Daisy Town''.
* BackupTwin: Or cousins in that case. After the "real" Daltons were killed in ''Outlaws'', they got replaced by the more iconic gang who became recurring villains.
* BigLittleBrother: To the point where all their respective heights are inward proportional to their age. Joe is the oldest brother, William is younger, Jack is even younger, and Averell is the youngest.
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethal but one-shot villains who died at the end of their album; they ended up so popular that a new set of them were introduced, and ended up becoming as iconic as Luke himself.
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take it to such extreme that their uncle, Marcel Dalton, is considered a BlackSheep just because he is the only honest member of the family.
* CharacterExaggeration: In their first story, they came across as a little different; Joe as the hard-boiled leader, William as a TriggerHappy {{Gunslinger}}, Jack as a MasterOfDisguise, and Averell as a strong and athletic -- if dense and food-obsessed -- [[TheBrute Brute]]. In subsequent stories, Joe remained mostly the same (though his HairTriggerTemper was enhanced quite a bit), Jack and William pretty much lost their individual traits and became full-time CoDragons to Joe, while Averell lost his strength and whatever competence he had and became more like a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
* ChronicVillainy: Any story about someone trying to redeem the Daltons (the ''Marcel Dalton'' story being the most notable example) is doomed to end up as a ShaggyDogStory.
* ContinuitySnarl: Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, William and Jack swap names. It happens first in their début story (for the first half, William is the shorter and Jack the taller; then it switches in the second half, making William taller and Jack shorter), and in some stories afterwards. In the 2006 movie and the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]], the two brothers' names are likewise swapped.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]] with Lucky Luke ([[MoodWhiplash until its abrupt and comical resolution]]). From their second screen appearance in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' onward, they would go back to their purely comedic personalities.
* DisappearedDad: It's not clear what happened to their father, but he clearly isn't around anymore. ''Belle Starr'' has Ma Dalton mentioning a NoodleIncident about him using dynamite, suggesting he might be dead. ''Ma Dalton'' implies that he accidentally killed himself while using dynamite to force a safe.
* TheDreaded: As incompetent as they can be when they are pitted against Luke, they are dangerous enough to scare the crap of almost everyone else.
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas for the Daltons'', their training to infiltrate as a mariachi band goes so badly their instructor (a hardened bandito) tries to ''hang himself''.
* EnfantTerrible: According to their mama, some wanted posters in Daisy Town and a spin-off they were pretty mean (and pretty backwards) even as kids. Joe surpassed them all, by far, however.
* EscapeArtist: Whatever prison they end up in, they will always break out.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: They honestly love Ma Dalton, and at no point do they turn against her. Not even [[TheUnfavourite Joe]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each other and Joe abuses his brothers, they always stick together and have each other's backs. In one book of the Rantanplan spin-off, when Averell gets abducted, Joe is genuinely outraged at the Warden, and they escape for the sole purpose of rescuing him.
** This extends to any and all relatives they have. To the Daltons, family is more important than ''anything'' else -- they can argue and fight and occasionally try to trick each other, sure, but if a family member is in need, the Daltons are there. Even CardCarryingVillain Joe is sympathetic towards WhiteSheep Marcel Dalton, reassuring him that he's heard living an honest life isn't ''that'' terrible.
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (while he does get tired of always having to be the one capturing them when they escape) and tends to treat them fairly nicely, especially in later albums. When they get sentenced to death, he even tries everything he can to save them, down to trying to convince the ''President''.
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them, like in ''Ma Dalton'' (where Joe, William, and Jack shave them to better impersonate their mother).
* GreekChorus: After being introduced with different skill sets, William and Jack [[{{Flanderization}} soon settled down to become interchangeable middle brothers who function this way]] between their more fleshed-out siblings Joe and Averell. Which helps to explain why even their creators Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: They're not the real Dalton brothers, but their identical cousins. However, their general incompetence was inspired by the lackluster record of the real Dalton gang, in particular their incredibly bungled final raid.
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits less frequently, especially in later animated adaptions, like the 2007 movie ''Go West!'' and their own spin-off series.
* IdiotBall: While Averell is the default holder, it gets passed around ''a lot'' among the four of them.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of a threat, and will probably just as easily foil their own schemes with their stupidity as they will get captured by Luke.
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death in a later album, but take advantage on an old law saving them from the sentence if they get married. Their marriage is cancelled at the end of the book and their former father-in-law, an indian chief, makes the authorities promise to not sentence them to death.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, the new Daltons were portrayed as so incompetent Luke was actually eager to meet them again because he found them entertaining. They eventually took lessons and became as dangerous as the original Daltons, as long as they weren't confronted with Luke himself.
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one of their typical poses.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, while Averell is the tallest and the most dimwitted. However, it is actually a subversion in that Joe may think he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most malevolent or evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Luke but there has been at least one time when he, William and Jack cheated at a poker game which would determine who gets to off him. Also William was offered once the chance to kill Luke as consolation for Joe marrying the woman that he liked.
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn't change and remains their weak point which Lucky uses to defeat them.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merely shaving their mustache and wearing her clothes.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminate him at first chance. It extends to civilians too. In the ''Daltons in the Blizzard'' they thank the Indians who saved them from drowning by violently stealing from them their sled.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''.
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* AdaptationDistillation: Pretty much every animated adaption of the franchise (sans the '90s cartoon), ignores their original backstory of being the identical cousins of the “real-life” CanonForeigner: Emmett Dalton brothers trying to avenge their deceased relatives, and instead presents them as the one and only Dalton gang. The Creator/HannaBarbera series even adapts the ''Outlaws'' story for one episode but with them instead of Bob, Grat, Bill, and Emmett like the original comic version (and needless to say, they survive it).did not have any known children.
*AdaptationDyeJob: In DisappearedDad: Emmett survived the '90s cartoon, they sport brown hair instead of their usual black.
* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attemptCoffeyville shootout due to avenge the real Dalton Brothers' death at the hands of Luke. Their hate of Luke has become more personal as the story goes on, though.
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks, with pudgier facesa RetCon, but never returned to his girlfriend, and their mustaches were simple tuffs of hair. As the overall art style of the comics became more detailed and polished, so did the Daltons’ design, and they gained more angular faces and long pencil mustaches, which is how they have been depicted ever since, including in all their animated appearance going as far back as 1971’s ''Daisy Town''.
* BackupTwin: Or cousins in that case. After the "real" Daltons were killed in ''Outlaws'', they got replaced by the more iconic gang who became recurring villains.
* BigLittleBrother: To the point where all their respective heights are inward proportional to their age. Joe is the oldest brother, William is younger, Jack isit's unknown if he even younger, knew about his son.
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat andAverell is the youngest.
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethalbully, but one-shot villains who died at the end of their album; they ended up so popular that all he needed was a new set of them were introduced, and ended up becoming as iconic proper role model, as Luke himself.
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take itmanaged to such extreme that their uncle, Marcel Dalton, is considered a BlackSheep just because he is the only honest member of the family.
* CharacterExaggeration: In their first story, they came across as a little different; Joe as the hard-boiled leader, William as a TriggerHappy {{Gunslinger}}, Jack as a MasterOfDisguise, and Averell as a strong and athletic -- if dense and food-obsessed -- [[TheBrute Brute]]. In subsequent stories, Joe remained mostly the same (though his HairTriggerTemper was enhanced quite a bit), Jack and William pretty much lost their individual traits and became full-time CoDragons to Joe, while Averell lost his strength and whatever competence he had and became more like a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
* ChronicVillainy: Any story about someone trying to redeem the Daltons (the ''Marcel Dalton'' story being the most notable example) is doomed to end up as a ShaggyDogStory.
* ContinuitySnarl: Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, William and Jack swap names. It happens first in their début story (for the first half, William is the shorter and Jack the taller; then it switches in the second half, making William taller and Jack shorter), and in some stories afterwards. In the 2006 movie and the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]], the two brothers' names are likewise swapped.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]] with Lucky Luke ([[MoodWhiplash until its abrupt and comical resolution]]). From their second screen appearance in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' onward, they would go back to their purely comedic personalities.turn him around.
*DisappearedDad: It's not clear what happened to their father, but he clearly isn't around anymore. ''Belle Starr'' has Ma Dalton mentioning a NoodleIncident about him using dynamite, suggesting he might be dead. ''Ma Dalton'' implies that he accidentally killed himself while using dynamite to force a safe.
* TheDreaded: As incompetent as they can be when they are pitted against Luke, they are dangerous enough to scare the crap of almost everyone else.
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas for the Daltons'', their training to infiltrate as a mariachi band goes so badly their instructor (a hardened bandito) tries to ''hang himself''.
* EnfantTerrible: According to their mama, some wanted posters in Daisy Town and a spin-off they were pretty mean (and pretty backwards) even as kids. Joe surpassed them all, by far, however.
* EscapeArtist: Whatever prison they end up in, they will always break out.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: They honestly love Ma Dalton, and at no point do they turn against her. Not even [[TheUnfavourite Joe]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each other and Joe abuses his brothers, they always stick together and have each other's backs. In one book of the Rantanplan spin-off, when Averell gets abducted, Joe is genuinely outraged at the Warden, and they escape for the sole purpose of rescuing him.
** This extends to any and all relatives they have. To the Daltons, family is more important than ''anything'' else -- they can argue and fight and occasionally try to trick each other, sure, but if a family member is in need, the Daltons are there. Even CardCarryingVillain Joe is sympathetic towards WhiteSheepWhiteSheep: Like Marcel Dalton, reassuring him that he's heard living an honest life isn't ''that'' terrible.
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (while he does get tired of always having to be the one capturing them when they escape) and tends to treat them fairly nicely, especially in later albums. When they get sentenced to death, he even tries everything he can to save them, down to trying to convince the ''President''.
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them,not inherently evil like in ''Ma Dalton'' (where Joe, William, his father and Jack shave them to better impersonate their mother).
* GreekChorus: After being introduced with different skill sets, William and Jack [[{{Flanderization}} soon settled down to become interchangeable middle brothers who function this way]] between their more fleshed-out siblings Joe and Averell. Which helps to explain why even their creators Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: They're not the real Dalton brothers, but their identical cousins. However, their general incompetence was inspired by the lackluster record of the real Dalton gang, in particular their incredibly bungled final raid.
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits less frequently, especially in later animated adaptions, like the 2007 movie ''Go West!'' and their own spin-off series.
* IdiotBall: While Averell is the default holder, it gets passed around ''a lot'' among the four of them.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of a threat, and will probablyuncles, just as easily foil their own schemes with their stupidity as they will get captured by Luke.
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death in a later album, but take advantage on an old law saving them from the sentence if they get married. Their marriage is cancelled at the end of the book and their former father-in-law, an indian chief, makes the authorities promise to not sentence them to death.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, the new Daltons were portrayed as so incompetent Luke was actually eager to meet them again because he found them entertaining. They eventually took lessons and became as dangerous as the original Daltons, as long as they weren't confronted with Luke himself.
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one of their typical poses.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, while Averell is the tallest and the most dimwitted. However, it is actually a subversion in that Joe may think he's the brains of the gang (ratherin the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself need of someone to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most malevolent or evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Luke but there has been at least one time when he, William and Jack cheated at a poker game which would determine who gets to off him. Also William was offered once the chance to kill Luke as consolation for Joe marrying the woman that he liked.
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn't change and remains their weak point which Lucky uses to defeat them.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merely shaving their mustache and wearing her clothes.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminateraise him at first chance. It extends to civilians too. In the ''Daltons in the Blizzard'' they thank the Indians who saved them from drowning by violently stealing from them their sled.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''.right.
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* AvengingTheVillain: They started their career in an attempt
* ArtEvolution: In their first few appearances, they had more simplistic looks, with pudgier faces
* BackupTwin: Or cousins in that case. After the "real" Daltons were killed in ''Outlaws'', they got replaced by the more iconic gang who became recurring villains.
* BigLittleBrother: To the point where all their respective heights are inward proportional to their age. Joe is the oldest brother, William is younger, Jack is
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat and
* {{Breakout Villain}}s: The original Daltons were lethal
* CardCarryingVillain: Their ''whole family'' considers crime as a tradition in the family. They take it
* CharacterExaggeration: In their first story, they came across as a little different; Joe as the hard-boiled leader, William as a TriggerHappy {{Gunslinger}}, Jack as a MasterOfDisguise, and Averell as a strong and athletic -- if dense and food-obsessed -- [[TheBrute Brute]]. In subsequent stories, Joe remained mostly the same (though his HairTriggerTemper was enhanced quite a bit), Jack and William pretty much lost their individual traits and became full-time CoDragons to Joe, while Averell lost his strength and whatever competence he had and became more like a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
* ChronicVillainy: Any story about someone trying to redeem the Daltons (the ''Marcel Dalton'' story being the most notable example) is doomed to end up as a ShaggyDogStory.
* ContinuitySnarl: Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, William and Jack swap names. It happens first in their début story (for the first half, William is the shorter and Jack the taller; then it switches in the second half, making William taller and Jack shorter), and in some stories afterwards. In the 2006 movie and the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]], the two brothers' names are likewise swapped.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed in the film ''Daisy Town'', which was the first animated appearance of Lucky Luke and the Daltons. While still comical, both Joe’s HairTriggerTemper and Averell’s stupidity are dialed back and all four brothers are slightly more serious and intimidating, including sporting CreepyShadowedUndereyes. They even have an intense [[ShowdownAtHighNoon showdown]] with Lucky Luke ([[MoodWhiplash until its abrupt and comical resolution]]). From their second screen appearance in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' onward, they would go back to their purely comedic personalities.
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* TheDreaded: As incompetent as they can be when they are pitted against Luke, they are dangerous enough to scare the crap of almost everyone else.
* DreadfulMusician: In ''Tortillas for the Daltons'', their training to infiltrate as a mariachi band goes so badly their instructor (a hardened bandito) tries to ''hang himself''.
* EnfantTerrible: According to their mama, some wanted posters in Daisy Town and a spin-off they were pretty mean (and pretty backwards) even as kids. Joe surpassed them all, by far, however.
* EscapeArtist: Whatever prison they end up in, they will always break out.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: They honestly love Ma Dalton, and at no point do they turn against her. Not even [[TheUnfavourite Joe]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** For all the times they argue with each other and Joe abuses his brothers, they always stick together and have each other's backs. In one book of the Rantanplan spin-off, when Averell gets abducted, Joe is genuinely outraged at the Warden, and they escape for the sole purpose of rescuing him.
** This extends to any and all relatives they have. To the Daltons, family is more important than ''anything'' else -- they can argue and fight and occasionally try to trick each other, sure, but if a family member is in need, the Daltons are there. Even CardCarryingVillain Joe is sympathetic towards WhiteSheep
* FreudianExcuse: They come from a loving family of outlaws, their best memories come from their parents taking them to attack banks and stagecoaches.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Lucky Luke, though Joe wouldn't agree. But, while Joe absolutely ''hates'' Lucky Luke, to the point where the mere mention of Luke's name is enough to send him into a rage, the three others don't share this extreme animosity, and will generally be quite civil to him -- Averell especially. Luke on his side bears the Daltons no ill will (while he does get tired of always having to be the one capturing them when they escape) and tends to treat them fairly nicely, especially in later albums. When they get sentenced to death, he even tries everything he can to save them, down to trying to convince the ''President''.
* GoodHairEvilHair: They all sport classic DastardlyWhiplash mustaches, in contrast to the clean-shaven Lucky Luke. It is such an iconic part of their appearance that it can be rather jarring to see them without them,
* GreekChorus: After being introduced with different skill sets, William and Jack [[{{Flanderization}} soon settled down to become interchangeable middle brothers who function this way]] between their more fleshed-out siblings Joe and Averell. Which helps to explain why even their creators Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: They're not the real Dalton brothers, but their identical cousins. However, their general incompetence was inspired by the lackluster record of the real Dalton gang, in particular their incredibly bungled final raid.
* IconicOutfit: Over time, their [[InstitutionalApparel striped prison uniforms]] became this, and we saw them donning their green and black cowboy outfits less frequently, especially in later animated adaptions, like the 2007 movie ''Go West!'' and their own spin-off series.
* IdiotBall: While Averell is the default holder, it gets passed around ''a lot'' among the four of them.
* {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Most of the time, it's pretty obvious they aren't that much of a threat, and will probably
* JokerImmunity: Averted with the original Daltons, but played straight hilariously with their cousins; no matter how many crimes they commit, or how many times Luke arrests them, they will always be merely sent to jail with a ridiculously high prison sentence (hundreds to thousands of years), where they will usually [[CardboardPrison escape]] from nearly as soon as they arrive due to [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the wardens being complete morons]]; this takes such proportions that it gets more and more lampshaded as the series goes on. In later albums, Luke ends up sick of having to run after them again and again, and calls out the wardens for their incompetence.
** They actually get sentenced to death in a later album, but take advantage on an old law saving them from the sentence if they get married. Their marriage is cancelled at the end of the book and their former father-in-law, an indian chief, makes the authorities promise to not sentence them to death.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, the new Daltons were portrayed as so incompetent Luke was actually eager to meet them again because he found them entertaining. They eventually took lessons and became as dangerous as the original Daltons, as long as they weren't confronted with Luke himself.
** And even now, despite their stupidity, they are shown to be actually quite dangerous. They ''did'' come close to killing Luke on occasions.
** Their incompetence is mostly when dealing with Lucky Luke, against other people their aim is great and they show more cunning, such as jumping out of their train a few minutes before it arrives so they can ambush the sheriff that was waiting for them.
* ScoobyStack: Their peculiar size difference makes this one of their typical poses.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, while Averell is the tallest and the most dimwitted. However, it is actually a subversion in that Joe may think he's the brains of the gang (rather
* SiblingsInCrime: They even provide the trope picture.
* SmugSnake: God, are they convinced about their own genius especially Joe.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s: For the original Daltons. Morris regretted killing off the original Daltons, and Creator/ReneGoscinny had liked the original Dalton Gang story so much that when he took over the writing for the comic, he introduced another quartet of Daltons and billed them as the cousins of the original Daltons.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Joe is mostly the obsessed one with killing Lucky Luke but there has been at least one time when he, William and Jack cheated at a poker game which would determine who gets to off him. Also William was offered once the chance to kill Luke as consolation for Joe marrying the woman that he liked.
* ThinChinOfSin: All four have ridiculously long chins and are outlaws.
* TrainingFromHell: The Dalton Brothers start out as incompetent villains incapable to do ''anything'' right so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime. They end up [[TookALevelInBadass becoming great riders, deadly shooters and very competent in general]] apart from their stupidity which unfortunately for them doesn't change and remains their weak point which Lucky uses to defeat them.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Apart from their height, the four brothers look very much identical. And apart from the moustaches and hair their mother's face looks just like her sons'; Joe and William in fact have successfully impersonated her by merely shaving their mustache and wearing her clothes.
* UngratefulBastard: No matter how many times Luke saves their varying sized hides, they will still attempt to eliminate
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''.
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[[folder:Joe Dalton]]
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Pierre Trabaud (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and 1983 animated series), Patrice Baudrier (1991 animated series), Gérard Surugue (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/ClovisCornillac (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Creator/ChristopheLemoine (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Johan Hedenberg
!!!'''Played by:''' Ron Carey (1991 film) and Éric Judor (''Les Dalton'', 2004 film)
The oldest, but shortest, of the brothers and the mastermind of their various schemes and prison breaks.
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Pierre Trabaud (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and 1983 animated series), Patrice Baudrier (1991 animated series), Gérard Surugue (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/ClovisCornillac (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Creator/ChristopheLemoine (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Johan Hedenberg
!!!'''Played by:''' Ron Carey (1991 film) and Éric Judor (''Les Dalton'', 2004 film)
The oldest, but shortest, of the brothers and the mastermind of their various schemes and prison breaks.
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[[folder:Billy the Kid]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:'''
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Johan Hedenberg
!!!'''Played by:''' Ron Carey (1991 film) and Éric Judor (''Les Dalton'', 2004 film)
The oldest, but shortest, of the brothers and the mastermind of their various schemes and prison breaks.
A teenaged outlaw who's been a criminal since he was 6 years old.
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* {{Angrish}}: Pretty much his most frequent state.
* ArchEnemy: What the Joker is to Batman, Joe is to Lucky Luke. At least in his mind.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The most adherent about the outlaw's life he was raised in, to the point he considers being called honest citizen an insult. While the other brothers could learn a trade or have other hobbies (cards for William and reading for Jack) Joe is all about robbery and revenge.
* BerserkButton:
** Any mention of Lucky Luke's name is sure to make him go completely crazy. Same goes for seeing him in person, for that matter.
** [[EnragedByIdiocy Averell's antics]] are a close second.
* BigBad: The closest thing the series has to a recurring one. He is the leader of the Daltons, the most recurring villain in the franchise, and he has a sworn hatred towards Luke.
* BigBrotherBully: To Averell. Though to be fair, his anger and brutality usually is provoked by Averell's stupidity more than anything. Otherwise, it has been shown he does care about all his brothers, Averell included.
* BookDumb: In his own mind he is by far the smartest of his brothers, but he is completely uneducated and unfamiliar with anything you would learn in school. To give an example, he thinks UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus was the first authentic American. His one area of expertise is crime.
* ButtMonkey: He is often subject to slapstick, things almost never go his way, and he is TheUnfavourite to his mother.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Out of all the Daltons, he is by far the most proud to be a criminal, to the point that when he was pardoned once (due to the telegraph operator screwing up a message telling the prison to release an inmate named Joe ''Milton'') Joe refused to leave, feeling insulted, and had to be thrown out.
* CosmicPlaything: He is probably as unlucky as Luke is lucky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ok not deadpan per se, but even he can get snarky considering how stupid people around him are.
* EnragedByIdiocy: He has zero tolerance for the antics of his dumbass brother Averell and regularly enrages (and usually beats him up) because of them.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs, but Joe becomes sick when he gets money that he didn't steal himself, becoming terrified and even collapsing once when he discovers that money that wasn't stolen by him was added to his loot. Lucky Luke even lampshades this, saying that Joe deep down is honest for not keeping money that he didn't rob himself.
* EvilGenius: When he is not carrying the IdiotBall, he is the smartest of the four. Ahem, by comparison.
* EvilIsPetty: He has no trouble going for revenge where there's no gain in it, or will forsake whatever advantage/gain he has for revenge. In the end of "The Daltons Stash", when he found out he'd been lied to about hidden treasure, he broke out of prison to get to another prison to beat up the prisoner who gave him that lie.
* FatalFlaw:
** Wrath. His temper and resentment are just as much a detriment to him as his bad luck.
** Pride. His pride has often prevented him from thinking rationally and Luke has used it against him plenty of times.
** Greed. Whenever there is money to be taken, Joe will always go for it. He always attempts to rob a bank, even when it always ends with him and his brothers arrested by Lucky Luke and he will grab any money in the general vicinity, even when the situation required him not to steal the money. He admits that the last thing is a problem though.
* ForTheEvulz: He loves the outlaw life and not just for the money. In fact considering that the idea of legally buying something seems like a bad habit to him, the loot is treated more like a trophy and its the infamy and terror that really drives him. This stands out in at least two cases. Once when their new leader said that they would go on a bloodless crime-spree he expressed a desire to bring dynamite and for at least some blood to be spilled. He also planned on hanging the first sheriff that arrested him and his brothers on his wedding day.
* GunNut: Anytime he has a gun, he threatens to shoot people just to calm his nerves.
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Regularly verbally and physically abuses his brothers, especially Averell, and out of the four he is the most inclined to commit crime.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** When he explains to the Natives the effect the people of Daisy Town will have on them.
** Also, in the Rantanplan spin-off, he at one point calls out the Warden for failing not only to prevent them from escaping, but also to prevent people from entering in the Penitentiary to abduct prisoners. While the scene is played for laughs, the Wardens ''do'' suck at their job.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Ma Dalton he's the one who's the most like his late father, explaining that it's why she always had a soft spot for him despite being hard on him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Has his moments, like when he convinces the Natives to attack Daisy Town.
* MisterBig: Shortest of the brothers and also the one in charge.
* TheNapoleon: Jack even compares the two at one point.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He occasionally comes up with good plans, such as the one of passing himself and their brothers as Ma Dalton to rob banks, knowing that bankers wouldn't expect Ma to be dangerous and that reports of Ma Dalton being everywhere would disorientate Lucky Luke and the authorities. The plan works smoothly, even more when Ma joins in, with Luke and the authorities being unable of catching them until Luke formulates a trap involving "Mother's Day" to catch Joe's brothers using their desire to please Ma.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He often insists on killing Luke himself. He's even saved him a few times, just so he could have the chance to kill Luke himself.
* PsychopathicManchild: When all the other kids liked to play cowboys and Indians he liked to play cops and robbers most likely without the cops, a game that he never stopped. There is much tantrum-throwing when either his Ma or Lucky Luke spoil his playing.
* TheResenter: Out of all his brothers, he is the one who hates Luke the most.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, but it is actually a subversion in that he thinks he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', in an attempt to buy time to find the loot he and his brothers stole from the New York City banks and hid in one of several wagons, he manipulates a group of settlers into thinking that the journey to California would be much more perilous than they believed, forcing Luke to accompany them and bring them along, giving them eighty days to find the loot. In doing so, he foiled Edgar Crook's plan to cheat the settlers out of their money and their lands by having Luke overcome every attempt at sabotage Crook threw the settlers' way.
* TriggerHappy: His answer for the slightest provocation is to shoot it.
* TheUnfavourite: He has a big issue with Ma Dalton liking Averell more than him. However, she eventually reveals that Joe is actually her favorite because he is just like his father. The reason she is so hard on him is because he is the smartest and toughest of his brothers and needs to be able to look after them, since they would likely get themselves killed without him.
* ArchEnemy: What the Joker is to Batman, Joe is to Lucky Luke. At least in his mind.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The most adherent about the outlaw's life he was raised in, to the point he considers being called honest citizen an insult. While the other brothers could learn a trade or have other hobbies (cards for William and reading for Jack) Joe is all about robbery and revenge.
* BerserkButton:
** Any mention of Lucky Luke's name is sure to make him go completely crazy. Same goes for seeing him in person, for that matter.
** [[EnragedByIdiocy Averell's antics]] are a close second.
* BigBad: The closest thing the series has to a recurring one. He is the leader of the Daltons, the most recurring villain in the franchise, and he has a sworn hatred towards Luke.
* BigBrotherBully: To Averell. Though to be fair, his anger and brutality usually is provoked by Averell's stupidity more than anything. Otherwise, it has been shown he does care about all his brothers, Averell included.
* BookDumb: In his own mind he is by far the smartest of his brothers, but he is completely uneducated and unfamiliar with anything you would learn in school. To give an example, he thinks UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus was the first authentic American. His one area of expertise is crime.
* ButtMonkey: He is often subject to slapstick, things almost never go his way, and he is TheUnfavourite to his mother.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Out of all the Daltons, he is by far the most proud to be a criminal, to the point that when he was pardoned once (due to the telegraph operator screwing up a message telling the prison to release an inmate named Joe ''Milton'') Joe refused to leave, feeling insulted, and had to be thrown out.
* CosmicPlaything: He is probably as unlucky as Luke is lucky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ok not deadpan per se, but even he can get snarky considering how stupid people around him are.
* EnragedByIdiocy: He has zero tolerance for the antics of his dumbass brother Averell and regularly enrages (and usually beats him up) because of them.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs, but Joe becomes sick when he gets money that he didn't steal himself, becoming terrified and even collapsing once when he discovers that money that wasn't stolen by him was added to his loot. Lucky Luke even lampshades this, saying that Joe deep down is honest for not keeping money that he didn't rob himself.
* EvilGenius: When he is not carrying the IdiotBall, he is the smartest of the four. Ahem, by comparison.
* EvilIsPetty: He has no trouble going for revenge where there's no gain in it, or will forsake whatever advantage/gain he has for revenge. In the end of "The Daltons Stash", when he found out he'd been lied to about hidden treasure, he broke out of prison to get to another prison to beat up the prisoner who gave him that lie.
* FatalFlaw:
** Wrath. His temper and resentment are just as much a detriment to him as his bad luck.
** Pride. His pride has often prevented him from thinking rationally and Luke has used it against him plenty of times.
** Greed. Whenever there is money to be taken, Joe will always go for it. He always attempts to rob a bank, even when it always ends with him and his brothers arrested by Lucky Luke and he will grab any money in the general vicinity, even when the situation required him not to steal the money. He admits that the last thing is a problem though.
* ForTheEvulz: He loves the outlaw life and not just for the money. In fact considering that the idea of legally buying something seems like a bad habit to him, the loot is treated more like a trophy and its the infamy and terror that really drives him. This stands out in at least two cases. Once when their new leader said that they would go on a bloodless crime-spree he expressed a desire to bring dynamite and for at least some blood to be spilled. He also planned on hanging the first sheriff that arrested him and his brothers on his wedding day.
* GunNut: Anytime he has a gun, he threatens to shoot people just to calm his nerves.
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Regularly verbally and physically abuses his brothers, especially Averell, and out of the four he is the most inclined to commit crime.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** When he explains to the Natives the effect the people of Daisy Town will have on them.
** Also, in the Rantanplan spin-off, he at one point calls out the Warden for failing not only to prevent them from escaping, but also to prevent people from entering in the Penitentiary to abduct prisoners. While the scene is played for laughs, the Wardens ''do'' suck at their job.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Ma Dalton he's the one who's the most like his late father, explaining that it's why she always had a soft spot for him despite being hard on him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Has his moments, like when he convinces the Natives to attack Daisy Town.
* MisterBig: Shortest of the brothers and also the one in charge.
* TheNapoleon: Jack even compares the two at one point.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He occasionally comes up with good plans, such as the one of passing himself and their brothers as Ma Dalton to rob banks, knowing that bankers wouldn't expect Ma to be dangerous and that reports of Ma Dalton being everywhere would disorientate Lucky Luke and the authorities. The plan works smoothly, even more when Ma joins in, with Luke and the authorities being unable of catching them until Luke formulates a trap involving "Mother's Day" to catch Joe's brothers using their desire to please Ma.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He often insists on killing Luke himself. He's even saved him a few times, just so he could have the chance to kill Luke himself.
* PsychopathicManchild: When all the other kids liked to play cowboys and Indians he liked to play cops and robbers most likely without the cops, a game that he never stopped. There is much tantrum-throwing when either his Ma or Lucky Luke spoil his playing.
* TheResenter: Out of all his brothers, he is the one who hates Luke the most.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, but it is actually a subversion in that he thinks he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually just as stupid as his brothers, only in a different way. Goscinny himself once pointed out that Joe is merely the most evil of the Daltons and that evil does not equal smart.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', in an attempt to buy time to find the loot he and his brothers stole from the New York City banks and hid in one of several wagons, he manipulates a group of settlers into thinking that the journey to California would be much more perilous than they believed, forcing Luke to accompany them and bring them along, giving them eighty days to find the loot. In doing so, he foiled Edgar Crook's plan to cheat the settlers out of their money and their lands by having Luke overcome every attempt at sabotage Crook threw the settlers' way.
* TriggerHappy: His answer for the slightest provocation is to shoot it.
* TheUnfavourite: He has a big issue with Ma Dalton liking Averell more than him. However, she eventually reveals that Joe is actually her favorite because he is just like his father. The reason she is so hard on him is because he is the smartest and toughest of his brothers and needs to be able to look after them, since they would likely get themselves killed without him.
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* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The most adherent about the outlaw's life he was raised in, to the point he considers being called honest citizen an insult. While the other brothers could learn a trade or have other hobbies (cards for William and reading for Jack) Joe is all about robbery and revenge.
* BerserkButton:
** Any mention of
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brat that he is, rather than for the greatest outlaw he believes himself to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front of the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version of the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
* BigBrotherBully: To Averell. Though to be fair,
* BookDumb: In his own mind he is by far the smartest of his brothers, but he is completely uneducated and unfamiliar with anything you would learn in school. To give an example, he thinks UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus was the
* ButtMonkey: He is often subject to slapstick, things almost never go his way,
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Out of all the Daltons, he is by far the most proud to be a criminal, to the point that
* CosmicPlaything: He is probably as unlucky as Luke is lucky.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ok not deadpan per se, but even he can get snarky considering how stupid people around him are.
* EnragedByIdiocy: He has zero tolerance
* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs, but Joe becomes sick when he gets money that he didn't steal himself, becoming terrified and even collapsing once when he discovers that money that wasn't stolen by him was added to his loot. Lucky Luke even lampshades this, saying that Joe deep down is honest for not keeping money that he didn't rob himself.
* EvilGenius: When he is not carrying the IdiotBall, he is the smartest of the four. Ahem, by comparison.
* EvilIsPetty: He has no trouble going for revenge where there's no gain in it, or will forsake whatever advantage/gain he has for revenge. In the end of "The Daltons Stash", when he found out he'd been lied to about hidden treasure, he broke out of prison to get to another prison to beat up the prisoner who gave him that lie.
* FatalFlaw:
** Wrath. His temper and resentment are just as much a detriment to him as his bad luck.
** Pride. His pride has often prevented him from thinking rationally and Luke has used it against him plenty of times.
** Greed. Whenever there is money to be taken, Joe will always go for it. He always attempts to rob a bank, even when it always ends with him and his brothers arrested by Lucky Luke and he will grab any money in the general vicinity, even when the situation required him not to steal the money. He admits that the last thing is a problem though.
* ForTheEvulz: He loves the outlaw life and not just for the money. In fact considering that the idea of legally buying something seems like a bad habit to him, the loot is treated more like a trophy and its the infamy and terror that really drives him. This stands out in at least two cases. Once when their new leader said that they would go on a bloodless crime-spree he expressed a desire to bring dynamite and for at least some blood to be spilled. He also planned on hanging the first sheriff that arrested him and his brothers on his wedding day.
* GunNut: Anytime he has a gun, he threatens to shoot people just to calm his nerves.
* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Regularly verbally and physically abuses his brothers, especially Averell, and out of the four he is the most inclined to commit crime.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** When he explains to the Natives the effect the people of Daisy Town will have on them.
** Also, in the Rantanplan spin-off, he at one point calls out the Warden for failing not only to prevent them from escaping, but also to prevent people from entering in the Penitentiary to abduct prisoners. While the scene is played for laughs, the Wardens ''do'' suck at their job.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Ma Dalton he's the one who's the most like his late
* ManipulativeBastard: Has his moments, like when
* MisterBig: Shortest of the brothers
* TheNapoleon: Jack even compares the two at one point.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He occasionally comes up with good plans, such as the one
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He often insists on killing Luke himself. He's even saved him a few times, just so he could have the chance to kill Luke himself.
* PsychopathicManchild:
* TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete with each other over who's the better outlaw and
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By the
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud with Lucky Luke
* TheResenter: Out of all his brothers, he is the one who hates
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Joe is both the shortest and the leader of the gang, but it is actually a subversion in that he thinks he's the brains of the gang (rather in the way that Oliver Hardy's character believed himself to be much smarter than Stan Laurel's), but he's actually
* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', in an attempt to buy time to find the loot he and his brothers stole from the New York City banks and hid in one of several wagons, he manipulates
* TriggerHappy: His answer for the slightest provocation is
* TheUnfavourite: He has a big issue with Ma Dalton liking Averell more than him. However, she eventually reveals that Joe is actually her favorite because he is just like his father. The reason she is so hard on
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[[folder:William Dalton]]
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Jacques Balutin (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and the 1983 animated series), Michel Tugot-Doris (1991 animated series), Éric Legrand (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/AlexisTomassian (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Julien Cafaro (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Peter Sjöquist
!!!'''Played by:''' Dominic Barto (1991 film) and Romain Berger (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second oldest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations mistakenly named "Jack."
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Jacques Balutin (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and the 1983 animated series), Michel Tugot-Doris (1991 animated series), Éric Legrand (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/AlexisTomassian (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Julien Cafaro (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Peter Sjöquist
!!!'''Played by:''' Dominic Barto (1991 film) and Romain Berger (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second oldest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations mistakenly named "Jack."
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:'''
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Peter Sjöquist
!!!'''Played by:''' Dominic Barto (1991 film) and Romain Berger (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second oldest Dalton brother. In a number
An ex-confederate soldier turned outlaw alongside his brother Frank, obsessed with the myth of
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* BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent he and Jack admire Joe and follow him out of respect. They have their limits however.
* TheCasino: In ''Lone Riders'', he shows that he can be quite TheGambler and end ups winning the entire money. He then buys the Casino and tries to make 1 million $ as fast as possible.
* CatchPhrase: "Calm down, Joe!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with Jack).
* CoDragons: With Jack. The only ones that think highly of Joe and the only ones that he considers accomplishes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he so eloquently put it, [[MoralMyopia killing Lucky Luke is fine]] but wanting [[WouldntHurtAChild to kill a baby is just not nice.]]
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* GunNut: To the extent that he treats his guns like his best friends, has a whole hotel room [[WallOfWeapons turned into an arsenal]] and considers death by Russian Roulette as the most poetic and touching way to go. Unless it is his time to go...
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with Jack. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In his confrontation with Luke, having only one bullet left, he tried to defeat him by playing the Russian Roulette with him. Needless to say, Luke, being BornLucky, easily survived the first round and easily tricked him into believing he was losing so he could take him without killing him.
* MoreDakka: If in doubt and Luke still stands, shoot some more!
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance, but since Bill is also the name of one of his deceased cousins he has since always been addressed and referred to as William Dalton.
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Town where he has a habit of pointing his gun instead of his finger, and shooting with his gun instead of touching with his hand both in order to feel natural and to make a point.
* TheCasino: In ''Lone Riders'', he shows that he can be quite TheGambler and end ups winning the entire money. He then buys the Casino and tries to make 1 million $ as fast as possible.
* CatchPhrase: "Calm down, Joe!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with Jack).
* CoDragons: With Jack. The only ones that think highly of Joe and the only ones that he considers accomplishes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he so eloquently put it, [[MoralMyopia killing Lucky Luke is fine]] but wanting [[WouldntHurtAChild to kill a baby is just not nice.]]
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* GunNut: To the extent that he treats his guns like his best friends, has a whole hotel room [[WallOfWeapons turned into an arsenal]] and considers death by Russian Roulette as the most poetic and touching way to go. Unless it is his time to go...
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with Jack. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In his confrontation with Luke, having only one bullet left, he tried to defeat him by playing the Russian Roulette with him. Needless to say, Luke, being BornLucky, easily survived the first round and easily tricked him into believing he was losing so he could take him without killing him.
* MoreDakka: If in doubt and Luke still stands, shoot some more!
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance, but since Bill is also the name of one of his deceased cousins he has since always been addressed and referred to as William Dalton.
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Town where he has a habit of pointing his gun instead of his finger, and shooting with his gun instead of touching with his hand both in order to feel natural and to make a point.
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* BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent he and Jack admire Joe and follow him out of respect. They have their limits however.
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*TheCasino: In ''Lone Riders'', he shows that he can be quite TheGambler and end ups winning BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the entire money. He then buys the Casino and tries to make 1 million $ as fast as possible.
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*CatchPhrase: "Calm down, Joe!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with Jack).
* CoDragons: With Jack. The only ones that think highly of Joe and the only ones that he considers accomplishes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he so eloquently put it, [[MoralMyopia killing Lucky Luke is fine]] but wanting [[WouldntHurtAChild to kill a baby is just not nice.]]
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time.BeardOfEvil: Which helps may or may not have anything to explain why even Goscinny do with his fanboying of Robin Hood.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane andMorris on several occasions mixed up Billy the two.
* GunNut: To the extent that he treatsKid, his guns earlier portrayal actually did somewhat look like his best friends, has a whole hotel room [[WallOfWeapons turned into an arsenal]] final design.
* DemotedToExtra: After his album andconsiders death by Russian Roulette as being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the end of the episode that was about the rivalry of Joe Dalton and Billy the Kid as a third possible candidate for the title of worst desperado.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to mostpoetic characters in the comic, and touching way most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept togo. Unless it is "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his time eyes, causing him to go...
* TheHeart: Another role he sharessteal from him. He ends up using a LoopholeAbuse to share the money with Jack. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Inhis confrontation with Luke, brother and his cousin, by having only one bullet left, he tried to defeat him by them taking turns in playing the Russian Roulette with him. Needless to say, Luke, being BornLucky, easily survived "Poor" role.
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of thefirst round and easily tricked him into believing he was losing so he could take him without killing him.
* MoreDakka: If in doubt and Luke still stands, shoot some more!
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance,Robin Hood book, which is pretty tame by today's standards, but since Bill considering he lives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is also perceived as one. Played straight in the name of one of his deceased cousins he has since always been addressed and referred to as William Dalton.
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Townmovie, where he has a habit of pointing frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his gun instead debut album, that was the trademark of his finger, and shooting with his gun instead of touching with his hand both in order to feel natural and to make a point.brother Frank.
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* CoDragons: With Jack. The only ones that think highly of Joe and the only ones that he considers accomplishes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he so eloquently put it, [[MoralMyopia killing Lucky Luke is fine]] but wanting [[WouldntHurtAChild to kill a baby is just not nice.]]
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane and
* GunNut: To the extent that he treats
* DemotedToExtra: After his album and
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to
* TheHeart: Another role he shares
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of the
* MoreDakka: If in doubt and Luke still stands, shoot some more!
* OneSteveLimit: Signed as "Dalton, Bill" in his first appearance,
* TriggerHappy: Displayed in full in his first appearance. There are only traces of this in later stories such as Daisy Town
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[[folder:Jack Dalton]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jacques Jouanneau (''Daisy Town''), Creator/GerardHernandez (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and 1983 animated series), Olivier Hémon (1991 animated series), Éric Legrand (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/ChristopheLemoine (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Bruno Flender (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Tommy Nilsson
!!!'''Played by:''' Bo Gray (1991 film) and Saïd Serrari (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second youngest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations accidentally named "William".
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jacques Jouanneau (''Daisy Town''), Creator/GerardHernandez (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and 1983 animated series), Olivier Hémon (1991 animated series), Éric Legrand (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/ChristopheLemoine (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), and Bruno Flender (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Tommy Nilsson
!!!'''Played by:''' Bo Gray (1991 film) and Saïd Serrari (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second youngest Dalton brother. In a number of stories and adaptations accidentally named "William".
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jacques Jouanneau (''Daisy Town''), Creator/GerardHernandez (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad
[[folder:Elliot Belt]]
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One of the
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Tommy Nilsson
!!!'''Played by:''' Bo Gray (1991 film) and Saïd Serrari (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The second youngest Dalton brother. In a number
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* BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent, he and William admire Joe and follow him out of respect. Their limits are often broken despite that.
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with William).
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.
* CorruptPolitician: In ''Lone Riders'', Jack tries to kidnap and ransom a bank director for 1 million $ but finds out that he can't give him money. However, [[DragonInChief that same director is looking for someone who will become a puppet mayor that will serve his interests]]. He went so far as to give Jack an Mayor Impunity to prevent Lucky Luke from arresting him.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: He believes he is the most sophisticated in the family. Being the only one that can read to an elementary school level technically makes him this by default.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby", he objects along with William and Averell to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with William. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good student for as long as he was at school. His father pulled him out when he got a merit for good behavior and he is the most litterate of the group.
* MasterOfDisguise: In his original appearance. This was dropped in later books, removing one of his unique traits.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Any pretense of him being cultured or super intelligent comes mainly from being from a family (and era) where almost no one knows how to read.
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost as much as Joe, delighting in his own cunning and believing that he will be the one to trick Luke.
* WickedCultured: Compared to his brothers, anyway. In the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' cartoon (one of the adaptations where he's the one named "William"), he's portrayed as a big reader, which means he's the most knowledgeable about things like history and different cultures, sometimes acting as MrExposition to his brothers. This trait was given a few nods in subsequent comics, such as "A Cowboy in Cotton," where Jack is the most enthused about reading and spends much of the album with his nose in a book, providing trivia and exposition about the circumstances the brothers end up in.
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared with William).
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.
* CorruptPolitician: In ''Lone Riders'', Jack tries to kidnap and ransom a bank director for 1 million $ but finds out that he can't give him money. However, [[DragonInChief that same director is looking for someone who will become a puppet mayor that will serve his interests]]. He went so far as to give Jack an Mayor Impunity to prevent Lucky Luke from arresting him.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: He believes he is the most sophisticated in the family. Being the only one that can read to an elementary school level technically makes him this by default.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby", he objects along with William and Averell to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with William. As such, they constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good student for as long as he was at school. His father pulled him out when he got a merit for good behavior and he is the most litterate of the group.
* MasterOfDisguise: In his original appearance. This was dropped in later books, removing one of his unique traits.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Any pretense of him being cultured or super intelligent comes mainly from being from a family (and era) where almost no one knows how to read.
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost as much as Joe, delighting in his own cunning and believing that he will be the one to trick Luke.
* WickedCultured: Compared to his brothers, anyway. In the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' cartoon (one of the adaptations where he's the one named "William"), he's portrayed as a big reader, which means he's the most knowledgeable about things like history and different cultures, sometimes acting as MrExposition to his brothers. This trait was given a few nods in subsequent comics, such as "A Cowboy in Cotton," where Jack is the most enthused about reading and spends much of the album with his nose in a book, providing trivia and exposition about the circumstances the brothers end up in.
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* BigBrotherWorship: To a certain extent, he AscendedExtra: Appears more in the cartoons.
* BountyHunter: His job andWilliam admire Joe and follow him out of respect. Their limits are often broken despite that.
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shareda really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with William).
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.
* CorruptPolitician: In ''Lone Riders'', Jack triesa nearby native tribe to kidnap and ransom get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over abank director for 1 million $ measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but finds out that he can't give him money. However, [[DragonInChief that same director is looking for someone who help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, and his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and willbecome a puppet mayor that will serve know what it feels like being on the run for the rest of his interests]]. He went so far as to give Jack an Mayor Impunity to prevent Lucky life.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him for turning in their friends and loved ones wanted by the law, sometimes for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why Lukefrom arresting isn't interested in teaming up with him.
*DelusionsOfEloquence: He believes he HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is the most sophisticated despised profession in the family. Being old west, considered even lower than outlaws, and Belt is the only one that can read most hated of them all. The dance girls and piano player refuses to an elementary school level perform when he walks into the saloon, and the bartender just pours his drinks right on the table, because while the law says he has to serve Belt, it doesn't say he has to serve him in a glass.
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is technicallymakes on the law's side.
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he cares about is his profits, he doesn't even seem to mind he can't really enjoy the money since everyone hates him so much.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like thisby default.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby",ever since he objects along with William and Averell to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with William. As such, theywas a child, constantly need to keep Joe off Averell's throat.
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good studenttelling on his classmates for as long as preferential treatment and rewards. He also held a child at gunpoint because he was at school. His father pulled him out when he got mistook a merit help wanted sign for good behavior and he is the most litterate of the group.
* MasterOfDisguise: In his original appearance. This was dropped in later books, removing one of his unique traits.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Any pretense of him being cultured or super intelligent comes mainly from being froma family (and era) where almost no one knows how to read.
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost as much as Joe, delighting in his own cunning and believing that he will be the one to trick Luke.
* WickedCultured: Compared to his brothers, anyway. In the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' cartoon (one of the adaptations where he's the one named "William"), he's portrayed as a big reader, which means he's the most knowledgeable about things like history and different cultures, sometimes acting as MrExposition to his brothers. This trait was given a few nods in subsequent comics, such as "A Cowboy in Cotton," where Jack is the most enthused about reading and spends much of the album with his nose in a book, providing trivia and exposition about the circumstances the brothers end up in.bounty.
* BountyHunter: His job and
* CatchPhrase: "Joe, calm down!" and "Shut up, Averell!" (shared
* CoDragons: With William. It's in that role where they act as one person.
* CorruptPolitician: In ''Lone Riders'', Jack tries
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, and his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and will
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him for turning in their friends and loved ones wanted by the law, sometimes for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why Luke
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* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is technically
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he cares about is his profits, he doesn't even seem to mind he can't really enjoy the money since everyone hates him so much.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like this
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Surprisingly. In the ''New Adventures'' episode "The Daltons' Baby",
* GreekChorus: Between their more fleshed-out brothers, William and Jack function as this most of the time. Which helps to explain why even Goscinny and Morris on several occasions mixed up the two.
* TheHeart: Another role he shares with William. As such, they
* HiddenDepths: He was apparently a good student
* MasterOfDisguise: In his original appearance. This was dropped in later books, removing one of his unique traits.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Any pretense of him being cultured or super intelligent comes mainly from being from
* SmugSnake: All three are this to some extent (Averell not so much), but he is almost as much as Joe, delighting in his own cunning and believing that he will be the one to trick Luke.
* WickedCultured: Compared to his brothers, anyway. In the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' cartoon (one of the adaptations where he's the one named "William"), he's portrayed as a big reader, which means he's the most knowledgeable about things like history and different cultures, sometimes acting as MrExposition to his brothers. This trait was given a few nods in subsequent comics, such as "A Cowboy in Cotton," where Jack is the most enthused about reading and spends much of the album with his nose in a book, providing trivia and exposition about the circumstances the brothers end up in.
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[[folder:Averell Dalton]]
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Pierre Tornade (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and the 1983 and 1991 animated series) and Bernard Alane (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'', ''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Mattias Knave
!!!'''Played by:''' Fritz Sperberg (1991 film) and Creator/RamzyBedia (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The youngest, tallest and dumbest (or at any rate most obviously dumb) of the Dalton brothers.
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Pierre Tornade (''Daisy Town'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', and the 1983 and 1991 animated series) and Bernard Alane (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'', ''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Mattias Knave
!!!'''Played by:''' Fritz Sperberg (1991 film) and Creator/RamzyBedia (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The youngest, tallest and dumbest (or at any rate most obviously dumb) of the Dalton brothers.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:'''
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!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Mattias Knave
!!!'''Played by:''' Fritz Sperberg (1991 film) and Creator/RamzyBedia (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film)
The youngest, tallest and dumbest (or at any rate most obviously dumb) of the Dalton brothers.
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* AdaptationalBadass: While he is still [[TheDitz the stupidest]] in the ''The Daltons'' TV series, Averell has shown tremendous potential as a RenaissanceMan: he has been a talented artist (painter, sculptor, interior decorator, origami crafter, puppeteer, gardener...); a chef (baker, pastry chef...); an animal trainer (horses, birds); a musician (horn, duck call); and even retained some of his previous athletic prowess (karate master, vine swinger...).
* AntiVillain: He simply follows his family's footsteps. Some gags are even about him not being wanted for his crimes since he is so harmless. Although once he was on probation, he did say it was funnier when they were stealing from banks and having the saloon for themselves.
* BigEater: To the point one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "When do we eat?"
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his stupidity, he can be just as dangerous as his brothers when he wants to be.
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jack and William to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
** He also shames Joe for stealing from their uncle Marcel, as Ma taught them to steal only from strangers or the State.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's called a terracotta bowl, amigo.
* FatalFlaw: Gluttony and Sloth. If he wasn't always hungry and if he exercised his brains a bit more, he could be as big a threat as Joe.
* FriendlyEnemies: Of all the Daltons, he has the most cordial relationship with Lucky Luke. He's the only one who's fine just having a conversation with Luke and mainly opposes him because his brothers do.
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown to possess unexpected skills, such as being able to craft a fake but perfect-looking revolver out of soap, but since he needed help to get all the details down he stole a ''real and loaded'' revolver from a negligent guard two weeks before and used it as model. He wanted to use the soap gun for their escape and offer the real one as Joe's birthday gift.
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn't for his family. When the Daltons briefly went their separate ways to see who could do best on their own, Averell ended up becoming a hugely popular chef (albeit with occasionally unscrupulous business practices which were however not his doing). In comparison, Jack become a corrupt casino boss, William a corrupt mayor and Joe just went on a huge crime spree.
* LethalChef: Despite being the BigEater, he is horrendous at cooking and will [[BerserkButton react quite violently]] when someone is criticizing his meals as seen in ''Daltons City''. However, in ''Lone Riders'', he is able to cook perfectly with an Italian pizzaiolo. Furthermore, in the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' series, he has been a proficient Baker (''Bread War''), French fryer (''Fries for free'') and Pastry Chef (''A Piece of Cake'')
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his training with his brothers, but later books turn him back into a borderline StupidGood character.
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he will never amount to much.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: One episode of the Rantanplan series has two scientists kidnapping him and using him as a test subject for a formula attempted to make him intelligent. This ends up turning him into an {{Evil|Genius}} GeniusBruiser who actually was ''even more'' dangerous and competent than Joe, to the point the leading scientist ended up turning him back to normal and destroying his formula.
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showed himself to be more dangerous than one would expect like ''The Dalton Cousins'' where he actually fought Luke to a tie and the ''Dalton's Escape'' where he came the closest to simply shooting Lucky Luke dead, stopped only by Joe's decision to take him as a prisoner and slave.
* PetTheDog: Literally; he has a soft spot for Rantanplan and is, on the whole, quite kind to him.
* SarcasmBlind: He often interprets Joe's snarky comments about him literally. For example, when they are trying to figure out who is using which fake identity:
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanted to know.
** Taken up several notches as he spends the rest of the story introducing himself as "Idiot Jones" as if it was his name.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: In a twist of this role, he may be the largest and strongest of his family but he always comes last in repeating the thoughts, words and actions of the group and he often screws them up anyway, earning himself some scowls from his three brothers for ruining their style.
* AntiVillain: He simply follows his family's footsteps. Some gags are even about him not being wanted for his crimes since he is so harmless. Although once he was on probation, he did say it was funnier when they were stealing from banks and having the saloon for themselves.
* BigEater: To the point one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "When do we eat?"
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his stupidity, he can be just as dangerous as his brothers when he wants to be.
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jack and William to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
** He also shames Joe for stealing from their uncle Marcel, as Ma taught them to steal only from strangers or the State.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's called a terracotta bowl, amigo.
* FatalFlaw: Gluttony and Sloth. If he wasn't always hungry and if he exercised his brains a bit more, he could be as big a threat as Joe.
* FriendlyEnemies: Of all the Daltons, he has the most cordial relationship with Lucky Luke. He's the only one who's fine just having a conversation with Luke and mainly opposes him because his brothers do.
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown to possess unexpected skills, such as being able to craft a fake but perfect-looking revolver out of soap, but since he needed help to get all the details down he stole a ''real and loaded'' revolver from a negligent guard two weeks before and used it as model. He wanted to use the soap gun for their escape and offer the real one as Joe's birthday gift.
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn't for his family. When the Daltons briefly went their separate ways to see who could do best on their own, Averell ended up becoming a hugely popular chef (albeit with occasionally unscrupulous business practices which were however not his doing). In comparison, Jack become a corrupt casino boss, William a corrupt mayor and Joe just went on a huge crime spree.
* LethalChef: Despite being the BigEater, he is horrendous at cooking and will [[BerserkButton react quite violently]] when someone is criticizing his meals as seen in ''Daltons City''. However, in ''Lone Riders'', he is able to cook perfectly with an Italian pizzaiolo. Furthermore, in the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' series, he has been a proficient Baker (''Bread War''), French fryer (''Fries for free'') and Pastry Chef (''A Piece of Cake'')
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his training with his brothers, but later books turn him back into a borderline StupidGood character.
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he will never amount to much.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: One episode of the Rantanplan series has two scientists kidnapping him and using him as a test subject for a formula attempted to make him intelligent. This ends up turning him into an {{Evil|Genius}} GeniusBruiser who actually was ''even more'' dangerous and competent than Joe, to the point the leading scientist ended up turning him back to normal and destroying his formula.
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showed himself to be more dangerous than one would expect like ''The Dalton Cousins'' where he actually fought Luke to a tie and the ''Dalton's Escape'' where he came the closest to simply shooting Lucky Luke dead, stopped only by Joe's decision to take him as a prisoner and slave.
* PetTheDog: Literally; he has a soft spot for Rantanplan and is, on the whole, quite kind to him.
* SarcasmBlind: He often interprets Joe's snarky comments about him literally. For example, when they are trying to figure out who is using which fake identity:
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanted to know.
** Taken up several notches as he spends the rest of the story introducing himself as "Idiot Jones" as if it was his name.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: In a twist of this role, he may be the largest and strongest of his family but he always comes last in repeating the thoughts, words and actions of the group and he often screws them up anyway, earning himself some scowls from his three brothers for ruining their style.
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* AdaptationalBadass: While he is still [[TheDitz the stupidest]] in the ''The Daltons'' TV series, Averell has shown tremendous potential as a RenaissanceMan: he has been a talented artist (painter, sculptor, interior decorator, origami crafter, puppeteer, gardener...); a chef (baker, pastry chef...); an animal trainer (horses, birds); a musician (horn, duck call); and even retained some AllNaturalSnakeOil: One of his previous athletic prowess (karate master, vine swinger...).
* AntiVillain: He simply follows his family's footsteps. Some gags are even about himscams, which he markets as not being wanted for his crimes just all-natural, but tasty as well. It would be, since he is so harmless. Although once he was on probation, he did say it was funnier when they were stealing it's actually just lemonade.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping frombanks prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and having the saloon mustache, and changes his name to Oxide. It works for themselves.
* BigEater: To the point one ofa while, until his {{Catch Phrase}}s cover is "When do we eat?"
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his stupidity, he can be just as dangerous as his brothers when he wants to be.
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jack and William to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.blown by a kid.
** He also shames Joe for stealing from their uncle Marcel, * BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a charlatan, he delusionally views himself as Ma taught them to steal only from strangers or the State.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's calleda terracotta bowl, amigo.
* FatalFlaw: Gluttonygreat doctor and Sloth. If he wasn't always hungry and if he exercised his brains a bit more, he could be as big a threat as Joe.benefactor of humanity.
*FriendlyEnemies: Of all TheBusCameBack: He returns in the Daltons, he has the most cordial relationship Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, withLucky Luke. He's a bandage only to shoot him with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: While he is a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about the onlyone who's fine just having a conversation with medicinal thing about it is that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his wagon, giving it the same mustache andmainly opposes him because his brothers do.
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown to possess unexpected skills, such as being able to craft a fake but perfect-looking revolver out of soap, but since he needed help to get all the details down he stole a ''real and loaded'' revolver from a negligent guard two weeksbeard Doxey had before and used it as model. He wanted to use the soap gun shaving them off.
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people he's scammed come fortheir escape and offer the real one as Joe's birthday gift.
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn'trevenge, he calls them ungrateful for his family. When the Daltons briefly went their separate ways to see who could do best on their own, Averell ended up becoming a hugely popular chef (albeit with occasionally unscrupulous business practices which were however not his doing). In comparison, Jack become a corrupt casino boss, William a corrupt mayor and Joe just went on a huge crime spree.
* LethalChef: Despite being the BigEater, he is horrendous at cooking and will [[BerserkButton react quite violently]] when someone is criticizing his meals as seen in ''Daltons City''. However, in ''Lone Riders'', he is able to cook perfectly with an Italian pizzaiolo. Furthermore, in the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' series, he has been a proficient Baker (''Bread War''), French fryer (''Fries for free'') and Pastry Chef (''A Piece of Cake'')
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his training with his brothers, but later books turn him back into a borderline StupidGood character.
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he will never amount to much.]]
"help".
* NotSoHarmlessVillain:One episode of the Rantanplan series has two scientists kidnapping him Despite being a charlatan and using him as not being much of a test subject for a formula attempted to make him intelligent. This ends up turning him into an {{Evil|Genius}} GeniusBruiser who actually was ''even more'' dangerous fighter, he's not without cunning and competent than Joe, to the point the leading scientist ended up turning him back to normal and destroying his formula.
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showed himself to be more dangerous than one would expect like ''The Dalton Cousins'' where he actually fought Luke to a tie and the ''Dalton's Escape'' where he came the closest to simply shooting Lucky Luke dead, stopped only by Joe's decision to take him as a prisoner and slave.
* PetTheDog: Literally;he has a soft spot for Rantanplan enough chemical skills to improvise an explosive bottle which he used to knock Luke out and is, on the whole, quite kind to lose him.
*SarcasmBlind: He often interprets Joe's snarky comments about PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he even still wears the same clothes! Somehow, it still works, Luke doesn't recognize him literally. For example, when they are trying meet again.
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything tofigure trick people into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, whois using which fake identity:
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanted to know.
** Taken up several notches as he spendsdisappears after the rest first part of the story introducing himself as "Idiot Jones" as if it was story. The animated version adds a scene where Doxey yells the alarm on Scraggy after they break out of prison to cover his name.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: In a twist of this role, he may beown escape, and Scraggy later turns up again in the largest and strongest of ending, now running his family but he always comes last in repeating the thoughts, words and actions of the group and he often screws them up anyway, earning himself some scowls from his three brothers for ruining their style. own snake oil scam after Doxey is recaptured by Luke.
* AntiVillain: He simply follows his family's footsteps. Some gags are even about him
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from
* BigEater: To the point one of
* BigLittleBrother: The tallest and the youngest Dalton brother.
* TheBrute: He originally was introduced as the physically strongest of the the four. He still displays shades of this occasionally in later books, but for the most part, he is essentially portrayed as just the stupidest.
* ButtMonkey: He usually is the one who takes hits when Joe is pissed off.
* CatchPhrase: "When are we eating?". In ''Tortillas for the Daltons" he learns to say it in Spanish.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his stupidity, he can be just as dangerous as his brothers when he wants to be.
* TheDitz: Big time. According to his brothers he only learned to walk when he was ''seven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Not surprisingly. In the new adventures episode ''The Daltons' Baby'' he objects along with Jack and William to Joe's decision to leave the baby to the vultures, demonstrating that killing babies is off-limits for them.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
-->'''Averell:''' ''*crunch*'' I really like foreign cooking! What's this delicious crust around the frijoles?\\
'''Emilio Espuelas:''' That's called
* FatalFlaw: Gluttony
*
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, with
* EvilGenius: While he is a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about the only
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his wagon, giving it the same mustache and
* GeniusDitz: Occasionally shown to possess unexpected skills, such as being able to craft a fake but perfect-looking revolver out of soap, but since he needed help to get all the details down he stole a ''real and loaded'' revolver from a negligent guard two weeks
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people he's scammed come for
* HarmlessVillain: His occasional bouts of competency aside, Averell isn't a very motivated criminal and probably wouldn't be one if it wasn't
* LethalChef: Despite being the BigEater, he is horrendous at cooking and will [[BerserkButton react quite violently]] when someone is criticizing his meals as seen in ''Daltons City''. However, in ''Lone Riders'', he is able to cook perfectly with an Italian pizzaiolo. Furthermore, in the ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' series, he has been a proficient Baker (''Bread War''), French fryer (''Fries for free'') and Pastry Chef (''A Piece of Cake'')
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: To the point that when first introduced, he had a "Not Wanted" poster instead of a "Wanted" one. He did act a bit meaner after his training with his brothers, but later books turn him back into a borderline StupidGood character.
* MommasBoy: He has always been Ma Dalton's favourite son. [[spoiler:Technically Joe is her favorite, but she treats him with ToughLove because she has higher expectations of Joe. She dotes on Averell because she knows he will never amount to much.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain:
** And even in his normal state, there have been moments where he showed himself to be more dangerous than one would expect like ''The Dalton Cousins'' where he actually fought Luke to a tie and the ''Dalton's Escape'' where he came the closest to simply shooting Lucky Luke dead, stopped only by Joe's decision to take him as a prisoner and slave.
* PetTheDog: Literally;
*
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who
--->'''Averell''': And who am I supposed to be?\\
'''Joe''': You are an idiot!\\
'''Averell''': Oh, okay, that's all I wanted to know.
** Taken up several notches as he spends
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: In a twist of this role, he may be
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The aged mother of Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton.
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The aged mother of Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton.
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* AffablyEvil: Unlike her sons, she is a genuinely nice and kind person... as long as her boys aren't in danger.
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and any times she will play an antagonistic role, it usually is out of love for her children. Luke actually is in decently good terms with her otherwise.
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain as the rest of her family. She is proud of raising her sons to be a bunch of scoundrels, and is more annoyed by their swearing and stupidity.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the AffablyEvil variety.
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first pages has her kindly thanking Luke for helping her cross the street, then makes a fake hold-up for her meat and right after the butcher muses that her rusty old gun is probably empty we cut to a panel where she shoots a rattlesnake dead from a long distance with her revolver.
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.
* MamaBear: And ''how''! She was ready to challenge Luke to a duel for her kids and likely would have won (Lucky Luke being unwilling to even hurt her and Ma being a great shot).
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possibly the most well-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referred to as "Ma", but since her sons are explicitly referred to as the cousins of the real-life Dalton brothers, Ma is a sibling of either Lewis or Adeline Dalton.
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convicted and she told her children she used to break their father out of jail before they were even born.
* RetiredOutlaw: She was mostly an accomplice until her husband died. Afterwards, she lives off the charity of the townsfolk.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Dalton family, Ma Dalton is also loosely based on criminal matriarch [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used to go with her mock hold up and give her groceries for free since she was a kindly old woman who colored the Wild West with her eccentricity. Then she showed them that her rusty gun ''was'' actually loaded the whole time.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: While she very much loves her real sons, Ma has expressed admiration for Luke's skills, wit and determination, stating that he'd make a wonderful son... if only he wasn't so insistent on bothersome things like "the law" and "justice".
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and any times she will play an antagonistic role, it usually is out of love for her children. Luke actually is in decently good terms with her otherwise.
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain as the rest of her family. She is proud of raising her sons to be a bunch of scoundrels, and is more annoyed by their swearing and stupidity.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the AffablyEvil variety.
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first pages has her kindly thanking Luke for helping her cross the street, then makes a fake hold-up for her meat and right after the butcher muses that her rusty old gun is probably empty we cut to a panel where she shoots a rattlesnake dead from a long distance with her revolver.
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.
* MamaBear: And ''how''! She was ready to challenge Luke to a duel for her kids and likely would have won (Lucky Luke being unwilling to even hurt her and Ma being a great shot).
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possibly the most well-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referred to as "Ma", but since her sons are explicitly referred to as the cousins of the real-life Dalton brothers, Ma is a sibling of either Lewis or Adeline Dalton.
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convicted and she told her children she used to break their father out of jail before they were even born.
* RetiredOutlaw: She was mostly an accomplice until her husband died. Afterwards, she lives off the charity of the townsfolk.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Dalton family, Ma Dalton is also loosely based on criminal matriarch [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used to go with her mock hold up and give her groceries for free since she was a kindly old woman who colored the Wild West with her eccentricity. Then she showed them that her rusty gun ''was'' actually loaded the whole time.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: While she very much loves her real sons, Ma has expressed admiration for Luke's skills, wit and determination, stating that he'd make a wonderful son... if only he wasn't so insistent on bothersome things like "the law" and "justice".
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* AffablyEvil: Unlike her sons, she is BearsAreBadNews: Has a genuinely nice tame bear who doubles as a bodyguard and kind person... enforcer.
* CoolOldGuy: Despite his old age he's a great gunslinger, who survived and escaped an encounter with an Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and knocked Luke out with a civil code book.
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation aslong one, and his real-life counterpart was possibly an UrExample, but ultimately averted in-universe, as her boys Bean never actually sentences anyone to death, mostly limiting himself to confiscating illegal bets (that he himself encouraged people to make) and cattle, though he also likes handing out prison and labor sentences for crimes he mostly make up on the spot. Bad Ticket, the judge who briefly replaces him, turns out to ''really'' be one of these. Bonus material explain that the real Roy Bean was mostly known to just fine people and charging five dollars a wedding.
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after the cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean is still the closest thing to an actual judge the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only punishment is hanging up his outdated lawbook for good, and settles down as a bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren'tin danger.
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and any times she will play an antagonistic role, it usually is out of love for her children. Luke actuallyones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in decently good terms with her otherwise.
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain as the rest of her family. She is proud of raising her sons to be a bunch of scoundrels, and is more annoyed by their swearing and stupidity.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the AffablyEvil variety.
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first pages has her kindly thanking Luke for helping her cross the street, then makes a fake hold-up for her meat and right after the butcher muses that her rusty old gun is probably empty we cut to a panel where she shoots a rattlesnake dead from a long distance with her revolver.
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.
* MamaBear: And ''how''! She was ready to challenge Luke to a duel for her kids and likely would have won (Lucky Luke being unwilling to even hurt her and Ma being a great shot).
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possibly the most well-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referred to as "Ma", but since her sons are explicitly referred to as the cousins of the real-life Dalton brothers, Ma is a sibling of either Lewis or Adeline Dalton.
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convicted and she told her children she used to break their father out of jail before they were even born.
* RetiredOutlaw: She was mostly an accomplice until her husband died. Afterwards, she lives off the charity of the townsfolk.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Dalton family, Ma Dalton is also loosely based on criminal matriarch [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used to go with her mock hold up and give her groceries for free since she was a kindly old woman who colored the Wild West with her eccentricity. Then she showed them that her rusty gun ''was'' actually loaded the whole time.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: While she very much loves her real sons, Ma has expressedadmiration for Luke's skills, wit and determination, stating that he'd make a wonderful son... if only he wasn't so insistent on bothersome things like "the law" and "justice".toward Roy's "predator instinct".
* CoolOldGuy: Despite his old age he's a great gunslinger, who survived and escaped an encounter with an Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and knocked Luke out with a civil code book.
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after the cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean is still the closest thing to an actual judge the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only punishment is hanging up his outdated lawbook for good, and settles down as a bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't
* AntiVillain: She isn't actually villainous, and any times she will play an antagonistic role, it usually is out of love for her children. Luke actually
* BadassBoast: Once delivered a great one to Lucky Luke:
-->"[[WhileYouWereInDiapers You were nothing but a newborn when I learnt how to use a weapon!]]"
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Surprisingly despite her nice behaviour she is as much a CardCarryingVillain as the rest of her family. She is proud of raising her sons to be a bunch of scoundrels, and is more annoyed by their swearing and stupidity.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Of the AffablyEvil variety.
* CardCarryingVillain: Not quite to the same extent as Joe, but she has quite a bit of pride in her villainous heritage. She got quite mad when a photographer said her kids didn't look scary in formal wear.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first pages has her kindly thanking Luke for helping her cross the street, then makes a fake hold-up for her meat and right after the butcher muses that her rusty old gun is probably empty we cut to a panel where she shoots a rattlesnake dead from a long distance with her revolver.
* KindheartedCatLover: She really loves Sweetie, her cat. She dislikes dogs, however, and finds Rantanplan particularly annoying.
* MamaBear: And ''how''! She was ready to challenge Luke to a duel for her kids and likely would have won (Lucky Luke being unwilling to even hurt her and Ma being a great shot).
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Which makes her even similar to her sons in looks.
* MyBelovedSmother: Is perfectly fine learning her boys were let out on bail, until it turns out Belle Starr paid for it. She immediately goes to get them out of her clutches.
-->'''Ma:''' A ''woman''! How horrible!\\
'''Sweety:''' Hsssss!\\
'''Ma:''' This is outrageous! My little boys aren't old enough to be consorting with women!
* NeverMessWithGranny: Possibly the most well-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* NoNameGiven: She's only ever referred to as "Ma", but since her sons are explicitly referred to as the cousins of the real-life Dalton brothers, Ma is a sibling of either Lewis or Adeline Dalton.
* RetiredBadass: Never went to prison since no one was able to have her convicted and she told her children she used to break their father out of jail before they were even born.
* RetiredOutlaw: She was mostly an accomplice until her husband died. Afterwards, she lives off the charity of the townsfolk.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Aside from the Dalton family, Ma Dalton is also loosely based on criminal matriarch [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker Kate "Ma" Barker]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Townsfolks used to go with her mock hold up and give her groceries for free since she was a kindly old woman who colored the Wild West with her eccentricity. Then she showed them that her rusty gun ''was'' actually loaded the whole time.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: While she very much loves her real sons, Ma has expressed
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[[folder:Pa Dalton]]
The father of the Dalton Cousins, who died some time before the comics began.
The father of the Dalton Cousins, who died some time before the comics began.
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The father
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A group of ex-confederate soldiers who struck out on their own as outlaws after the end of the
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* GenerationXerox: According to Ma Dalton, he looked exactly like Joe, and his WantedPoster does confirm that. However, that means he also looks exactly like his other kids, and since the poster doesn't show height, it's not confirmed if he was as short as Joe as well.
* NoNameGiven: His first name is never revealed, he's simply referred to as the father of the Dalton Cousins.
* PrisonEscapeArtist: According to Ma, she helped Pa escape from prison several times long before their children were born.
* SafeCracking: This was his specialty when he was alive, until one fateful day [[HoistByHisOwnPetard when he used too much dynamite...]]
* WantedPoster: He's already dead by the time the series begins, so his only appearance is through one of these.
* NoNameGiven: His first name is never revealed, he's simply referred to as the father of the Dalton Cousins.
* PrisonEscapeArtist: According to Ma, she helped Pa escape from prison several times long before their children were born.
* SafeCracking: This was his specialty when he was alive, until one fateful day [[HoistByHisOwnPetard when he used too much dynamite...]]
* WantedPoster: He's already dead by the time the series begins, so his only appearance is through one of these.
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* GenerationXerox: According AdaptedOut: Sam the Farmer did not appear in the animated version, his role mostly taken over by Steve.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated toMa Dalton, he looked exactly like Joe, have switched sides between the Union and the Confederacy dozens of times over the course of the war, depending on who was winning.
* DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of hisWantedPoster does confirm that. However, that means he also looks exactly like his other kids, humble and since the poster doesn't show height, it's not confirmed if he was as short as Joe as well.
* NoNameGiven: His first name is never revealed,trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's simply referred an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang, and Luke only narrowly avoids being hanged by promising to bring the real criminals back to the town.
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as thefather corrupt mayor of Frontier City, and gives cabinet positions to his henchmen.
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near theDalton Cousins.
* PrisonEscapeArtist: According to Ma, she helped Pa escape from prison several times long before their children were born.
* SafeCracking: Thisend, but Jamon was his specialty when he was alive, until one fateful day [[HoistByHisOwnPetard when he used too much dynamite...expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
*WantedPoster: He's already dead by TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though thetime ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for theseries begins, so his entire album, only appearance for him to suddenly deliver an eloquent monologue after the gang is through cornered, including latin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only oneof these.who isn't white.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to
* DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his
* NoNameGiven: His first name is never revealed,
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang, and Luke only narrowly avoids being hanged by promising to bring the real criminals back to the town.
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the
* PrisonEscapeArtist: According to Ma, she helped Pa escape from prison several times long before their children were born.
* SafeCracking: This
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
*
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one
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[[folder:Junior]]
The illegitimate son of Emmett Dalton and an unnamed saloon girl, Junior was left under the custodianship of his uncle Averell and his chaperone, Lucky Luke.
The illegitimate son of Emmett Dalton and an unnamed saloon girl, Junior was left under the custodianship of his uncle Averell and his chaperone, Lucky Luke.
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The illegitimate son of Emmett Dalton
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A pair of
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* CanonForeigner: Emmett Dalton did not have any known children.
* DisappearedDad: Emmett survived the Coffeyville shootout due to a RetCon, but never returned to his girlfriend, and it's unknown if he even knew about his son.
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat and bully, but all he needed was a proper role model, as Luke managed to turn him around.
* WhiteSheep: Like Marcel Dalton, he's not inherently evil like his father and uncles, just in the need of someone to raise him right.
* DisappearedDad: Emmett survived the Coffeyville shootout due to a RetCon, but never returned to his girlfriend, and it's unknown if he even knew about his son.
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat and bully, but all he needed was a proper role model, as Luke managed to turn him around.
* WhiteSheep: Like Marcel Dalton, he's not inherently evil like his father and uncles, just in the need of someone to raise him right.
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* CanonForeigner: Emmett Dalton did not have any known children.AltarDiplomacy: How the feud is finally settled for good, with intermarriage between the two clans. The son produced by this union, Aloysius O'Timmins-O'Hara (who had both the family traits), eventually became mayor of Painful Gulch and went on to become a Texas congressman.
* BerserkButton: The other family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara should get water from the O'Timmins' river, and had to flee the O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that he went to the O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
*DisappearedDad: Emmett survived FeudingFamilies: A parody of the Coffeyville shootout due to a RetCon, real-life feud between the Hatfield and [=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it that they've never returned to his girlfriend, and it's unknown if he even knew about his son.
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat and bully, but all he needed was a proper role model, as Lukemanaged to turn actually kill any of their enemies.
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at himaround.for fifteen minutes. Despite this, they only managed to produce a bullet outline.
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
*WhiteSheep: Like Marcel Dalton, he's SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not inherently evil like his father very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins anduncles, just in huge ears for the need O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women ofsomeone to raise him right.each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.
* BerserkButton: The other family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara should get water from the O'Timmins' river, and had to flee the O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that he went to the O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
*
* InTheBlood: Seemed to be the case at first, as Junior was quite a SpoiledBrat and bully, but all he needed was a proper role model, as Luke
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at him
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
*
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and
* WomenAreWiser: The women of
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!!!'''Other recurring antagonists'''
[[folder:Billy the Kid]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Guy Piérauld (1983 animated series) and Creator/DonaldReignoux (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'')
A teenaged outlaw who's been a criminal since he was 6 years old.
[[folder:Billy the Kid]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Guy Piérauld (1983 animated series) and Creator/DonaldReignoux (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'')
A teenaged outlaw who's been a criminal since he was 6 years old.
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* ArchEnemy: Lucky Luke's greatest and most recurring enemy after The Daltons.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brat that he is, rather than for the greatest outlaw he believes himself to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as a hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front of the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version of the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
* KidsAreCruel: Committed his first robbery at the age of 6, and when he was punished for it by his father, he ran away from home and embarked on a life of crime.
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but the comic still tends to play up his childish antics as ComedicSociopathy. He forbids a Saloon owner to sell anything else than lemonades and threatens a man with a gun so he would tell him a bedtime story, amongst other things.
* TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete with each other over who's the better outlaw and who is Lucky Luke's greatest enemy.
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By the time of the comics present, he's 14 and a sadistic, thieving monster.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that could stop him from crying was using his dad's revolver as a sucker (wasn't loaded). At 6, he committed his first robbery and at his current age, about 14, he terrorized a whole town.
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud with Lucky Luke far more seriously than Luke does, as Luke just views and treats him as a brat, even completely ignoring him when Billy threatened to shoot him while he was shaving and singing.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brat that he is, rather than for the greatest outlaw he believes himself to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as a hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front of the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version of the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
* KidsAreCruel: Committed his first robbery at the age of 6, and when he was punished for it by his father, he ran away from home and embarked on a life of crime.
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but the comic still tends to play up his childish antics as ComedicSociopathy. He forbids a Saloon owner to sell anything else than lemonades and threatens a man with a gun so he would tell him a bedtime story, amongst other things.
* TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete with each other over who's the better outlaw and who is Lucky Luke's greatest enemy.
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By the time of the comics present, he's 14 and a sadistic, thieving monster.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that could stop him from crying was using his dad's revolver as a sucker (wasn't loaded). At 6, he committed his first robbery and at his current age, about 14, he terrorized a whole town.
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud with Lucky Luke far more seriously than Luke does, as Luke just views and treats him as a brat, even completely ignoring him when Billy threatened to shoot him while he was shaving and singing.
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* ArchEnemy: Lucky Luke's greatest AccidentalKidnapping: He and most recurring enemy after The Daltons.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brathis gang accidentally steal an armored wagon that he is, rather than for was transporting the greatest outlaw he believes himself Daltons to be.
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him asa hero ended up putting him in a VillainousBreakdown.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually thisnew prison, thinking it was dropped, and he was reintroduced as a slimier EnfantTerrible PsychopathicManchild.
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting himgold or putting him on trial. Later, in one book, he manages to rob people just by leaving a sign stating he is around. This causes people to ''leave their goods in front of the sign for him to take when he will be back''.
* EnfantTerrible: This version of the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.money transport.
*KidsAreCruel: Committed his first robbery at HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners since the age of 6, and when he was punished for it by his father, he ran away from home and embarked on a life of crime.
* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but the comic still tendsnatives are too poor to play up his childish antics as ComedicSociopathy. He forbids a Saloon owner to sell anything else than lemonades and threatens a man bother with a gun so he would tell him a bedtime story, amongst other things.
for the most part and the rich landowners too well protected, and demanding ransom.
*TheRival: With Joe Dalton, both compete VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with each other over his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the better outlaw Daltons how to sing with disastrous results, and who is Lucky Luke's greatest enemy.
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By the time of the comics present, he's 14 and a sadistic, thieving monster.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that could stopstops him from crying was using hanging himself to escape their terrible singing.
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to hisdad's revolver as a sucker (wasn't loaded). At 6, he committed later regret, since it leads directly to his first robbery downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy andat his current age, about 14, he terrorized a whole town.
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud withpoorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke far more seriously (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier thanLuke does, as Luke just views and treats him as that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due to not finding any usefulness for them to begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a brat, reason good enough to convince even completely ignoring him when Billy threatened to shoot him while he was shaving and singing.reconsider.
* BerserkButton: Being treated like the brat
* BrattyHalfPint: For all his villainous actions and how feared he is, in the end he really is just as immature as you'd expect from his age.
* CardCarryingVillain: So much that people acclaiming him as
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much like Calamity Jane, he made earlier cameos with a completely different design, portraying him as a FatBastard adult. Eventually this
* ComedicSpanking: Luke can't exactly shoot him, so his go-to punishment before hauling Billy to jail is a thorough spanking.
* TheDreaded: Exaggerated; in his first appearance, he scared the crap out of people so much that nobody dared complaining about his actions, arresting him
* EnfantTerrible: This version of the character literally started his outlaw career as a child, and is still very young by the time he meets with Luke.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. He says that it's indecent to be nude in public, though his definition of nude means being without a gun.
* EvilRedhead: He is very evil, very evil-looking and very redheaded.
* EvilIsPetty: When Luke was taking him to New Mexico to stand trial for crimes he comitted there, he's warned to avoid the [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]] at a restaurant, ignores the cook, and drenches his food in the sauce. He ends up draining three water troughs afterwards. After he manages to escape Luke and gets his hands on a gun, he goes back to the restaurant and forces the cook at gunpoint to drink two whole bottles of hot sauce before moving on.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He was this to Luke at first, due to being amused by the fact Luke wasn't afraid of him. It quickly disappears when Luke gets the better of him.
* GreenEyedMonster: He cannot stand being overshadowed by another outlaw, becoming jealous and hostile toward Lucky Luke after Luke feigns becoming a bandit and becomes more feared than him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, albeit a literal interpretation of his nickname.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Well, he is a real child, but the comic still tends
*
* SweetTooth: Unsurprisingly for a child, he loves candy.
* TeensAreMonsters: By the time of the comics present, he's 14 and a sadistic, thieving monster.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red toffees.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a baby the only thing that could stop
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and
* UnknownRival: He takes his feud with
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than
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An ex-confederate soldier turned outlaw alongside his brother Frank, obsessed with the myth of Robin Hood.
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An ex-confederate soldier turned outlaw alongside his brother Frank, obsessed with the myth of Robin Hood.
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''esse '''J'''ames.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the movie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which may or may not have anything to do with his fanboying of Robin Hood.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid, his earlier portrayal actually did somewhat look like his final design.
* DemotedToExtra: After his album and being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the end of the episode that was about the rivalry of Joe Dalton and Billy the Kid as a third possible candidate for the title of worst desperado.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. He ends up using a LoopholeAbuse to share the money with his brother and his cousin, by having them taking turns in playing the "Poor" role.
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of the Robin Hood book, which is pretty tame by today's standards, but considering he lives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is perceived as one. Played straight in the movie, where he frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his debut album, that was the trademark of his brother Frank.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the movie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which may or may not have anything to do with his fanboying of Robin Hood.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid, his earlier portrayal actually did somewhat look like his final design.
* DemotedToExtra: After his album and being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the end of the episode that was about the rivalry of Joe Dalton and Billy the Kid as a third possible candidate for the title of worst desperado.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. He ends up using a LoopholeAbuse to share the money with his brother and his cousin, by having them taking turns in playing the "Poor" role.
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of the Robin Hood book, which is pretty tame by today's standards, but considering he lives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is perceived as one. Played straight in the movie, where he frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his debut album, that was the trademark of his brother Frank.
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''esse '''J'''ames.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the movie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which may or may not have anything to do with his fanboying of Robin Hood.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid, his earlier portrayalBeneathSuspicion: The one actually did somewhat look like his final design.
* DemotedToExtra: After his albumcommitting the robberies is Francis Lusty, the troupes driver and being the MonsterOfTheWeek, he never again became the main threat and was always a minor recurring player. Even in the new animated series he only made a cameo at the end machine operator, while most of the episode that was about town is busy watching the rivalry of Joe Dalton and Billy the Kid as a third possible candidate for the title of worst desperado.
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*HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/JesseJames.
* {{Hypocrite}}:CreepyCrossdresser: After he started using the LoopholeAbuse.
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. Hegang ends up using a LoopholeAbuse to share the money with his brother and his cousin, by having them taking turns in prison, Francis is forced into playing the "Poor" role.
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan ofLinda role when they put on shows for the Robin Hood book, which is pretty tame by today's standards, but considering other inmates, since Gladys wasn't arrested (and even if she was, would have gone to a women's prison).
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to the trope namer. Expectedly helives in a setting where literature isn't exactly common amongst outlaws, he is perceived quite as one. Played straight theatrical about his villainy in his real life.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money themovie, where he frequently quotes Shakespeare. In his debut album, that was villains have stolen is hidden inside the trademark of his doll used to portray Gladys' baby brother Frank.in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in white to show what a good guy he is.
* BadassLongcoat: Exaggerated in the movie.
* BeardOfEvil: Which may or may not have anything to do with his fanboying of Robin Hood.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though unlike Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid, his earlier portrayal
* DemotedToExtra: After his album
*
* {{Hypocrite}}:
* JustLikeRobinHood: He ''tries'' to be this, but his approach of it is... a bit too literal.
* LeanAndMean: Very skinny compared to most characters in the comic, and most definitely a bad guy.
* LiteralMinded: He took the concept to "steal from the rich to give to the poor" a bit too literally; whenever he gives money to a poor, that person instantly becomes rich in his eyes, causing him to steal from him. He
* WickedCultured: Downplayed; he is a big fan of
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to the trope namer. Expectedly he
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money the
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in white to show what a good guy he is.
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One of the most infamous and tenacious bounty hunters of the West.
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One of the most infamous and tenacious bounty hunters of the West.
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* AscendedExtra: Appears more in the cartoons.
* BountyHunter: His job and a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with a nearby native tribe to get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, and his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and will know what it feels like being on the run for the rest of his life.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him for turning in their friends and loved ones wanted by the law, sometimes for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why Luke isn't interested in teaming up with him.
* HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is the most despised profession in the old west, considered even lower than outlaws, and Belt is the most hated of them all. The dance girls and piano player refuses to perform when he walks into the saloon, and the bartender just pours his drinks right on the table, because while the law says he has to serve Belt, it doesn't say he has to serve him in a glass.
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is technically on the law's side.
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he cares about is his profits, he doesn't even seem to mind he can't really enjoy the money since everyone hates him so much.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like this ever since he was a child, constantly telling on his classmates for preferential treatment and rewards. He also held a child at gunpoint because he mistook a help wanted sign for a bounty.
* BountyHunter: His job and a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with a nearby native tribe to get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, and his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and will know what it feels like being on the run for the rest of his life.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him for turning in their friends and loved ones wanted by the law, sometimes for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why Luke isn't interested in teaming up with him.
* HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is the most despised profession in the old west, considered even lower than outlaws, and Belt is the most hated of them all. The dance girls and piano player refuses to perform when he walks into the saloon, and the bartender just pours his drinks right on the table, because while the law says he has to serve Belt, it doesn't say he has to serve him in a glass.
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is technically on the law's side.
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he cares about is his profits, he doesn't even seem to mind he can't really enjoy the money since everyone hates him so much.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like this ever since he was a child, constantly telling on his classmates for preferential treatment and rewards. He also held a child at gunpoint because he mistook a help wanted sign for a bounty.
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* AscendedExtra: Appears more in BerserkButton:
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To thecartoons.
* BountyHunter: His job and a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with apoint nearby native tribe store and diligences refuse to get his bounty.
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: Atbring the end of ''The Bounty Hunter'', Luke decides to let Belt go despite all the trouble he caused, and his repeated attempts at murdering him, because Belt now has a high price on his own head, and stuff as it will know what it feels like being on the run for the rest of his life.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him for turningend up with them wrapped in their friends product.
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight andloved ones wanted by a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after thelaw, sometimes farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for pathetic amounts of money, he doesn't understand why Luke isn't interested in teaming up with him.
* HatedByAll: Bounty hunting isthe most despised profession in cattle, winning over the old west, considered even lower than outlaws, other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and Belt is tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the most hated of them all. farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: Thedance girls drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and piano player refuses Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to perform when he walks into have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to thesaloon, cattle, and the bartender just pours his drinks right cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at thetable, because while peace dinner at the law says he has to serve Belt, it doesn't say he has to serve him in a glass.
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is technically on the law's side.
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he cares about is his profits,end, he doesn't even seem to mind he can't really enjoy know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims to themoney since everyone hates grasslands, but Casey uses his wealth and influence to basically make him so much.
the de-facto ruler of the area.
*TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He's been like this ever since he was a child, constantly telling on his classmates for preferential treatment and rewards. He also held a child at gunpoint because he mistook a help wanted sign for a bounty.ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than the farmers trying to divy up the prairie with barbed wire.
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To the
* BountyHunter: His job and a really unscrupulous one at that, ready to start a war with a
* ChronicVillainy: Even he knows he wasted time turning over a measly bounty while he has a a bigger bounty to track but he can't help himself.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/LeeVanCleef in his many western roles.
* CruelMercy: At
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not only does he not understand, nor does he care, why people hate him for turning
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the
* HatedByAll: Bounty hunting is
* IGaveMyWord: The
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the
* ILied: Tricked The Dalton into turning themselves in to take the bounty for himself and left them to die by hanging.
* LoopholeAbuse: While they may be enemies, Lucky Luke can't arrest him for bounty hunting, since he is technically on the law's side.
* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. The only thing he cares about is his profits,
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims to the
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A travelling medicine salesman and self-proclaimed doctor, whose main product is a fake cure-all elixir.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Jacques Ferrière (1983 animated series)
A travelling medicine salesman and self-proclaimed doctor, whose main product is a fake cure-all elixir.
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* AllNaturalSnakeOil: One of his scams, which he markets as not just all-natural, but tasty as well. It would be, since it's actually just lemonade.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and mustache, and changes his name to Oxide. It works for a while, until his cover is blown by a kid.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a charlatan, he delusionally views himself as a great doctor and benefactor of humanity.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns in the Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, with a bandage only to shoot him with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: While he is a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about the only medicinal thing about it is that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his wagon, giving it the same mustache and beard Doxey had before shaving them off.
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people he's scammed come for revenge, he calls them ungrateful for his "help".
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite being a charlatan and not being much of a fighter, he's not without cunning and he has enough chemical skills to improvise an explosive bottle which he used to knock Luke out and lose him.
* PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he even still wears the same clothes! Somehow, it still works, Luke doesn't recognize him when they meet again.
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trick people into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the first part of the story. The animated version adds a scene where Doxey yells the alarm on Scraggy after they break out of prison to cover his own escape, and Scraggy later turns up again in the ending, now running his own snake oil scam after Doxey is recaptured by Luke.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping from prison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and mustache, and changes his name to Oxide. It works for a while, until his cover is blown by a kid.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a charlatan, he delusionally views himself as a great doctor and benefactor of humanity.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns in the Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, with a bandage only to shoot him with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: While he is a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about the only medicinal thing about it is that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his wagon, giving it the same mustache and beard Doxey had before shaving them off.
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people he's scammed come for revenge, he calls them ungrateful for his "help".
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite being a charlatan and not being much of a fighter, he's not without cunning and he has enough chemical skills to improvise an explosive bottle which he used to knock Luke out and lose him.
* PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he even still wears the same clothes! Somehow, it still works, Luke doesn't recognize him when they meet again.
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trick people into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the first part of the story. The animated version adds a scene where Doxey yells the alarm on Scraggy after they break out of prison to cover his own escape, and Scraggy later turns up again in the ending, now running his own snake oil scam after Doxey is recaptured by Luke.
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* AllNaturalSnakeOil: One {{Bowdlerisation}}: In the original version of his scams, which he markets as not just all-natural, but tasty as well. It would be, since it's the album, Luke actually just lemonade.
shot him dead. In later editions, he's simply injured and left unable to hold a gun again.
*BeardnessProtectionProgram: After escaping CareerEndingInjury: In the censored version, his hitman career is permanently ended by the shoulder injury Luke inflicts on him.
* TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also such that O'Hara tries to dissuade Luke fromprison following his first defeat by Luke, Doxey shaves off his beard and mustache, and changes his name to Oxide. It works for fighting him in a while, until his cover is blown by a kid.duel.
*BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being DubNameChange: In the English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting acharlatan, he delusionally views himself as black cat, a great doctor skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and benefactor a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable ofhumanity.standing on his arms then draw them to shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick enough to not fall.
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
*TheBusCameBack: He returns in LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for the Animated Series episode, "Battle of The Doctors".
* CombatPragmatist: He tries19th century, to surprise and eliminate Luke by feigning to have a broken arm, with a bandage only to shoot him with his arm hidden in it. Though it fails as Luke saw it coming and dodged before neutralizing Doxey.
* EvilGenius: While he is a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", aboutthe only medicinal thing about it is point that it doesn't outright kill whoever drinks it, and not for lack of trying.
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his wagon, giving it the same mustache and beard Doxey had before shaving them off.
* NeverMyFault: When any of they peoplehe's scammed come too tall for revenge, the bed he calls them ungrateful for sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and his"help".
body is thin, like a wire.
*NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite being a charlatan and not being much of a fighter, he's not without cunning and he has enough chemical skills to improvise an explosive bottle which he used to knock OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke out and lose he chooses to wait until Lucky Luke has shot the six bullets in his gun before counterattacking. Unfortunately for him he had no way of knowing that Luke had the only seven-shot gun in the west, allowing Luke to defeat him.
*PaperThinDisguise: After escaping from prison, Doxey decides to change his identity... by shaving off his beard and changing his name to "Oxide", and nothing else, he even still wears the same clothes! Somehow, it still works, Luke doesn't recognize him when they meet again.
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trick people into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after theProfessionalKiller: The first part of the story. The animated version adds a scene where Doxey yells the alarm on Scraggy after they break out of prison to cover his own escape, and Scraggy later turns up again hitman in the ending, now running his own snake oil scam after Doxey is recaptured by Luke.series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
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* TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also such that O'Hara tries to dissuade Luke from
*
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
*
* CombatPragmatist: He tries
* EvilGenius: While he is a charlatan, he is still an intellectual by western standards.
* GargleBlaster: His original "miracle elixir", about
* MustacheVandalism: Luke realizes who "Oxide" is when a child Doxey scammed draws a moustache on Doxey's picture on the side of his wagon, giving it the same mustache and beard Doxey had before shaving them off.
* NeverMyFault: When any of they people
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and his
*
*
* SnakeOilSalesman: In the classic western tradition, Doxey's "elixir" is 100% nonsense, and he'll do anything to trick people into buying it, including poisoning the local water to make everyone sick.
* UngratefulBastard: Certainly, saying thank you to the passer-by who kindly lent you his horse to get you out of a sticky spot hardly exemplifies gratitude, when you run away with it immediately afterwards.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not Doxey himself, but his assistant Scraggy, who disappears after the
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henri Labussière (1991 animated series)
The self-proclaimed "law west of the Pecos" who runs a makeshift courtroom out of his bar in Langtry, Texas, despite not being an actual judge, nor a lawman of any kind.
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The self-proclaimed "law west of the Pecos" who runs a makeshift courtroom out of his bar in Langtry, Texas, despite not being an actual judge, nor a lawman of any kind.
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The self-proclaimed "law west
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* BearsAreBadNews: Has a tame bear who doubles as a bodyguard and enforcer.
* CoolOldGuy: Despite his old age he's a great gunslinger, who survived and escaped an encounter with an Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and knocked Luke out with a civil code book.
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one, and his real-life counterpart was possibly an UrExample, but ultimately averted in-universe, as Bean never actually sentences anyone to death, mostly limiting himself to confiscating illegal bets (that he himself encouraged people to make) and cattle, though he also likes handing out prison and labor sentences for crimes he mostly make up on the spot. Bad Ticket, the judge who briefly replaces him, turns out to ''really'' be one of these. Bonus material explain that the real Roy Bean was mostly known to just fine people and charging five dollars a wedding.
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after the cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean is still the closest thing to an actual judge the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only punishment is hanging up his outdated lawbook for good, and settles down as a bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".
* CoolOldGuy: Despite his old age he's a great gunslinger, who survived and escaped an encounter with an Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and knocked Luke out with a civil code book.
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one, and his real-life counterpart was possibly an UrExample, but ultimately averted in-universe, as Bean never actually sentences anyone to death, mostly limiting himself to confiscating illegal bets (that he himself encouraged people to make) and cattle, though he also likes handing out prison and labor sentences for crimes he mostly make up on the spot. Bad Ticket, the judge who briefly replaces him, turns out to ''really'' be one of these. Bonus material explain that the real Roy Bean was mostly known to just fine people and charging five dollars a wedding.
* KarmaHoudini: Is never really punished for his crimes, as Langtry didn't have any official judicial system set up, so even after the cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean is still the closest thing to an actual judge the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only punishment is hanging up his outdated lawbook for good, and settles down as a bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".
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* BearsAreBadNews: Has a tame bear who doubles as a bodyguard {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, and enforcer.
* CoolOldGuy: Despitehas his old age he's a great gunslinger, who survived cowboys wear army uniforms and escaped an encounter even issues edicts and currency for Grass Town to use.
* DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that withan Amerindian tribe, who captured Lucky Luke twice, and knocked Luke out him gone, no one is paying them to keep up with a civil code book.
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one,this nonsense, and disperse, ending the rebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-lifecounterpart self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith waspossibly an UrExample, but manipulated and not truly a villain, he was still far more antagonistic than his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately averted in-universe, as Bean never actually sentences anyone to death, mostly limiting himself to confiscating illegal bets (that he himself encouraged people to make) didn't do any harm and cattle, though he also likes handing out prison and labor sentences for crimes he mostly make up on was popular with the spot. Bad Ticket, the judge citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who briefly replaces him, turns out nearly went to ''really'' be one of these. Bonus material explain that the real Roy Bean was mostly known to just fine people and charging five dollars a wedding.
war.
*KarmaHoudini: Is MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really punished for snaps out of his crimes, as Langtry delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn'thave any even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his officialjudicial system set up, so even after abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the cavalry shows up to restore order, Bean is still the closest thing to an actual judge the town has, and gets to sentence ''himself''. He does admittedly judge himself guilty of corruption and "being a no-good scoundrel", but his only punishment is hanging up his outdated lawbook U.S, behind for good, and settles down as a bartender.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".disappearing into Mexico.
* CoolOldGuy: Despite
* DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that with
* HangingJudge: Has a reputation as one,
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-life
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was
*
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official
* NeverLearnedToRead: Humorously, despite constantly quoting from an old civic code book, Bean is actually almost illiterate, and is just making everything up or accusing people of random terms he manages to decipher (like casus belli, leading the accused to claim they've never heard of Cassius Belly). Later he's seen reading the book in full, and is amazed to find that it's full of things that are interesting and even useful for a judge to know.
* TheNoseKnows: He can smell cattle coming from miles away and know they aren't ones he had confiscated yet. His own bear is in admiration toward Roy's "predator instinct".
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A group of ex-confederate soldiers who struck out on their own as outlaws after the end of the American Civil War. The group was led by Joss Jamon, and consisted of Bill The Cheater, Joe The Indian, Jack The Muscle, Steve The Wishy-Washy, and Sam The Farmer. The gang ends up on Luke's radar after they plunder the small town of Los Palitos and frame him for their crimes.
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A group of ex-confederate soldiers who struck out on their own as outlaws after the end of the American Civil War. The group was led by Joss Jamon, and consisted of Bill The Cheater, Joe The Indian, Jack The Muscle, Steve The Wishy-Washy, and Sam The Farmer. The gang ends up on Luke's radar after they plunder the small town of Los Palitos and frame him for their crimes.
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* AdaptedOut: Sam the Farmer did not appear in the animated version, his role mostly taken over by Steve.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to have switched sides between the Union and the Confederacy dozens of times over the course of the war, depending on who was winning.
* DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang, and Luke only narrowly avoids being hanged by promising to bring the real criminals back to the town.
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the corrupt mayor of Frontier City, and gives cabinet positions to his henchmen.
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the entire album, only for him to suddenly deliver an eloquent monologue after the gang is cornered, including latin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one who isn't white.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to have switched sides between the Union and the Confederacy dozens of times over the course of the war, depending on who was winning.
* DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang, and Luke only narrowly avoids being hanged by promising to bring the real criminals back to the town.
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the corrupt mayor of Frontier City, and gives cabinet positions to his henchmen.
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the entire album, only for him to suddenly deliver an eloquent monologue after the gang is cornered, including latin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one who isn't white.
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* AdaptedOut: Sam DirtyCoward: After he seemingly misses during the Farmer did not appear in duel with Waldo at the animated version, end, Ready falls to his role mostly taken over knees and begs for mercy, promising Waldo his lands if he's allowed to just walk away with his life.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel bySteve.
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, inWaldo, but unlike the typical western style.
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to have switched sides between"high noon" affair, it's in the Union traditional European style of ten paces, using flintlock pistols with only one bullet.
* FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and theConfederacy dozens of times over town bartender is in on it, because the course of bottle in the war, depending on saloon keeps decreasing despite Ready being the only person who was winning.
can afford it.
*DumbMuscle: Jack, serving as Jamon's enforcer and eventually a CorruptCop.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone thinkTarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's an honest farmer, while in reality he's a vicious criminal.
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang,tarred and Luke only narrowly avoids feathered before being hanged by promising to bring the real criminals back to the town.
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the corrupt mayorchased out of Frontier City, and gives cabinet positions to his henchmen.
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the entire album, only for him to suddenly deliver an eloquent monologue after the gang is cornered, including latin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one who isn't white.town.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by
* CardSharp: Bill The Cheater, in
* DirtyCoward: Steve The Wishy-Washy, who is stated to have switched sides between
* FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the
*
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sam takes full advantage of his humble and trustworthy looks, making everyone think
* FrameUp: The gang manages to pin their attack on Los Palitos on Luke by having Sam claim he recognizes Luke as a member of the gang,
* MayorPain: Jamon sets himself up as the corrupt mayor
* OpportunisticBastard: Again, Steve, constantly joining up with whoever seems to be winning. Even tries to surrender and join Luke near the end, but Jamon was expecting this and just pulls a gun on him to force him to stay.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:The gang make a return in a one-shot, ''Wanted Luck Luke''.]]
* TheRemnant: Ex-Confederate's turned outlaws.
* TheSavageIndian: Joe The Indian, though the ending implies at least part of it might just be an act.
* SelfDeprecation: Steve is a caricature of Goscinny himself.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Joe's dialogue consists entirely of "Ugh" for the entire album, only for him to suddenly deliver an eloquent monologue after the gang is cornered, including latin phrases.
* TokenMinority: Joe the Indian is the only one who isn't white.
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A pair of feuding families whose incompetence and stubbornness might not lead to many fatalities on their rivals, but is slowly destroying their hometown of Painful Gulch.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Idiotically bet his saloon in an arm-wrestling contest between Jane and
* ArmsDealer: His true profession, the saloon just being a valuable cover since selling guns to the indians is insanely illegal.
* TheDandy: While they were certainly around in the Old West, you wouldn't expect to find this kind of character in a frontier town like El Plomo.
* DryCrusader: After he loses the saloon to Jane, he lies to the local women's teetotaler group about having a change of heart, and giving up his former life of vice and sin, hoping to use the group to get the saloon shut down so he can resume smuggling.
* SissyVillain: In direct contrast to Calamity Jane, Oyster is a ridiculous dandy who dresses in a pink suit and douses himself in perfume. He's also not much of an action guy, relying on
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* AltarDiplomacy: How the feud is finally settled for good, with intermarriage between the two clans. The son produced by this union, Aloysius O'Timmins-O'Hara (who had both the family traits), eventually became mayor of Painful Gulch and went on to become a Texas congressman.
* BerserkButton: The other family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara should get water from the O'Timmins' river, and had to flee the O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that he went to the O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
* FeudingFamilies: A parody of the real-life feud between the Hatfield and [=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it that they've never managed to actually kill any of their enemies.
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at him for fifteen minutes. Despite this, they only managed to produce a bullet outline.
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and huge ears for the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.
* BerserkButton: The other family or anything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested that the O'Hara should get water from the O'Timmins' river, and had to flee the O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that he went to the O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
* FeudingFamilies: A parody of the real-life feud between the Hatfield and [=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it that they've never managed to actually kill any of their enemies.
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against a wall and shot at him for fifteen minutes. Despite this, they only managed to produce a bullet outline.
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other during the rodéo contest, and also mock the other for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what the feud was about in the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses for the O'Timmins and huge ears for the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.
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* AltarDiplomacy: How BeneathSuspicion: There's no hint that the feud old woman is finally settled for good, with intermarriage between the two clans. The son produced by this union, Aloysius O'Timmins-O'Hara (who had both the family traits), eventually became mayor of Painful Gulch and went on to become a Texas congressman.
* BerserkButton: The other family oranything related to it. Lucky Luke was chased from other than one of the O'Hara's farm just for having accidentally suggested unnamed members of the caravan.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined that theO'Hara should get water from the O'Timmins' river, and had to flee the O'Timmins' farm with bullets flying around him, for saying that he went to the O'Hara's farm.
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotagingcaravan fail, or blowing up buildings and progresses that the other family can benefit from such as a bridge that gives a shortcut to the people of Painful Gulch. Also during a great drought where the O'Hara suffered the O'Timmins taunted them by swimming in their river, even with a sneeze.
better, all die out in the wilderness, all because he was angry at Luke and Boston.
*FeudingFamilies: A parody HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almost the entire story in disguise on one of the real-life feud between wagons, appearing on-panel several times throughout, but it's not revealed it's him until the Hatfield climax.
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and[=McCoy=] families, but the O'Timmins and O'Hara's are so bad at it tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they've never managed to actually kill any they'd have no way of their enemies.
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy:At least when they are firing guns at each other, neither family actually manages to hit their intended target. In one case that the mayor shows to Luke, three of one family caught one of the other family, put the poor sap against Has Luke in a wall and shot at him for fifteen minutes. Despite this, they only managed to produce a bullet outline.
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the otherperfect ambush position during the rodéo contest, climax... and also mock promptly missed all six bullets in his gun. Justified as he himself points out, since he's been sitting in a bumpy wagon knitting for weeks on end, so his hands were shaking like leaves.
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of theother for their huge nose/ears.
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers whatwagons throughout the feud was about in journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the first place, but they refuse to stop fighting.
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red nosesharness for the O'Timmins horses, destroying the water barrels and huge ears for blowing up the O'Haras.
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick ofweapon supplies before entering indian territory, the endless feud, and are the main force behind eventually settling it.latter two which could easily have resulted in his ''own'' death.
* BerserkButton: The other family or
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined that the
* TheClan: Both families are ridiculously large, each having at least dozens of members, which is helped by the fact that they are too poor shots to actually cause casualties to each other in their war. Both families are also led by their respective grandfather.
* EvilIsPetty: They take their rivalry so seriously that they do very petty things for it. For example they keep sabotaging
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* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and
* HeelFaceTurn: The families eventually settle the feud after working together to put out a fire at the O'Hara ranch.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy:
* LethallyStupid: The real problem with their feud is that all their sabotage and shoot outs only ends up hurting innocents because of how dumb and poor shots they are.
* MoralMyopia: They are perfectly willing to blow up building and other things that the other clan use or can benefit from, however when they learn that one building they tried to blow up was destroyed by the other clan first they treat it as an unforgivable crime. Both clans also accuse the other of being cheaters at the feast organised by Luke, even if both sabotaged the other
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the
* MotiveDecay: Neither side even remembers what
* {{Pride}}: At first they refuse to take part in Lucky Luke's feast for Painful Gulch, but Luke just have to insinuate that they are just afraid of losing contests to the other farmers and they agree to participate.
* SoreLoser: To say that they take losing contests to the other family during the feast organised by Lucky Luke not very well would be a huge understatement.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Each family has a distinguishing physical trait for all their members; huge red noses
* WomenAreWiser: The women of each clan are understandably sick of
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A Mexican ''bandito'' who terrorizes the area just south of the Rio Grande.
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A Mexican ''bandito'' who terrorizes the area just south of the Rio Grande.
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A Mexican ''bandito'' who terrorizes
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An outlaw working of Senator Orwell Stormwind, a corrupt U.S Senator, living high off his employers dime and serving as a go-between for Stormwinds illegal alcohol and weapon sales to the
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* AccidentalKidnapping: He and his gang accidentally steal an armored wagon that was transporting the Daltons to a new prison, thinking it was a gold or money transport.
* HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners since the natives are too poor to bother with for the most part and the rich landowners too well protected, and demanding ransom.
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the Daltons how to sing with disastrous results, and stops him from hanging himself to escape their terrible singing.
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due to not finding any usefulness for them to begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a reason good enough to convince even him to reconsider.
* HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners since the natives are too poor to bother with for the most part and the rich landowners too well protected, and demanding ransom.
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's been reduced to tears after trying to teach the Daltons how to sing with disastrous results, and stops him from hanging himself to escape their terrible singing.
* VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised as the real target) and finds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares to hang the Daltons simply due to not finding any usefulness for them to begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a reason good enough to convince even him to reconsider.
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* AccidentalKidnapping: He and his gang accidentally steal an armored wagon AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Tries to prove that was transporting the Daltons to a new prison, thinking it was a gold or money transport.
* HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners since the natives are too poor to bother with for the most part and the rich landowners too well protected, and demanding ransom.
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's"firewater" he's been reduced to tears after trying to teach selling the Daltons Indians is perfectly fine by drinking a whole bottle of it by himself, then drunkenly slurring about how he can "take on any man in this here saloon" (they're in an Indian camp in the middle of nowhere at the time). He then tries fighting Lucky Luke, and can't even land a single hit on him, even though Luke is standing still right in front of him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how tosing with disastrous results, and stops him from hanging himself to escape their terrible singing.
pull a few strings on someone else's account.
*VillainTeamUp: Joe Dalton manages to talk him into one of these, much to his later regret, since it leads directly to his downfall.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted atTheDragon: Bullets is really just the Daltons clumsy and poorly thought out approach to crime, culminating in when they kidnap Lucky Luke (disguised right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the real target) TheHeavy for ''The Black Hills''.
* NonActionGuy: He does eventually get his hands dirty, but only as an absolute last resort. Normally, he prefers using sneakier tactics such as traps, ambushes, theft, andfinds out ''they didn't bother disarming him!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepareshiring other people to hang do the Daltons simply due to not finding any usefulness work for them to begin with. Fortunately for them, Joe finds a reason good enough to convince even him to reconsider.him.
* HostageForMacguffin: Espuelas preferred mode of operation; kidnapping people, usually foreigners since the natives are too poor to bother with for the most part and the rich landowners too well protected, and demanding ransom.
* VillainousFriendship: He genuinely care for and gets along with his men as he comforts one of his men who's
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Is increasingly flabbergasted at
* NonActionGuy: He does eventually get his hands dirty, but only as an absolute last resort. Normally, he prefers using sneakier tactics such as traps, ambushes, theft, and
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In a step a little hastier than that, he prepares
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[[folder:The Whittaker Theater Troupe]]
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A travelling group of actors, Whittaker Baltimore, Gladys Whimple, Barnaby Float and Francis Lusty, who specialize in melodramas, especially their own creation, ''The Dashing White Cowboy''. Secretly, the actors uses the troupe as a cover to commit robberies in the towns they visit.
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A travelling group of actors, Whittaker Baltimore, Gladys Whimple, Barnaby Float and Francis Lusty, who specialize in melodramas, especially their own creation, ''The Dashing White Cowboy''. Secretly, the actors uses the troupe as a cover to commit robberies in the towns they visit.
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A travelling group
The chief of
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* BeneathSuspicion: The one actually committing the robberies is Francis Lusty, the troupes driver and machine operator, while most of the town is busy watching the play.
* CreepyCrossdresser: After the gang ends up in prison, Francis is forced into playing the Linda role when they put on shows for the other inmates, since Gladys wasn't arrested (and even if she was, would have gone to a women's prison).
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to the trope namer. Expectedly he isn't quite as theatrical about his villainy in his real life.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money the villains have stolen is hidden inside the doll used to portray Gladys' baby brother in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in white to show what a good guy he is.
* CreepyCrossdresser: After the gang ends up in prison, Francis is forced into playing the Linda role when they put on shows for the other inmates, since Gladys wasn't arrested (and even if she was, would have gone to a women's prison).
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to the trope namer. Expectedly he isn't quite as theatrical about his villainy in his real life.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money the villains have stolen is hidden inside the doll used to portray Gladys' baby brother in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in white to show what a good guy he is.
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* BeneathSuspicion: AscendedExtra: The one AnimatedAdaptation feature him in some other episodes than his own, sometimes as an ally to Lucky Luke.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite his hatred for the white man, Patronimo is actuallycommitting half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child and reared among the robberies is Francis Lusty, the troupes driver and machine operator, while most Apaches as one of them. He had grown tired of the town is busy watching endless bloodshed years ago and returned to Europe, but Patronimo refused to follow him.
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that theplay.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Aftertribe's medicine man is actually O'Nolan's long lost son, having been reared by the gang ends up in prison, Francis is forced into playing the Linda role when they put on shows Indians since childhood, he wants to execute him immediately just for being white, despite having spent his life as an Indian.
* TheSavageIndian: He acts like a normal person for theother inmates, since Gladys wasn't arrested (and even if she was, would have gone to a women's prison).
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical tomost part, but wholeheartedly embraces the trope namer. Expectedly he isn't quite as theatrical about his villainy stereotype when dealing with the cavalry in his real life.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The moneydesire for revenge against the villains have stolen is hidden inside the doll used to portray Gladys' baby brother in the play.
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely inwhite man.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses toshow what deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a good guy he is.trap there by dropping boulders on their wagons, and the cavalry always destroys their camp in retaliation afterwards. Both sides know that the traps are coming, and know how to avoid it, but refuse to stop.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite his hatred for the white man, Patronimo is actually
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that the
* CreepyCrossdresser: After
* TheSavageIndian: He acts like a normal person for the
* DastardlyWhiplash: Barnaby Float, who specializes in villain characters. He looks virtually identical to
* HiddenInPlainSight: The money
* HeelFaceTurn: Gladys Whimple, who eventually gets sick of her compatriots' criminal ways and returns to her old job as a saloon dancer.
* TheHero: Whittaker Baltimore, the gangs leader, specializes in these roles.
* LightIsGood: The title character of the play, who wears an entire cowboy outfit entirely in
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to
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A rich and influential cattle baron who demands total control of the prairie grasslands for himself and his cattle, harassing and attacking the farmers who try to set up their own homes there.
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A rich and influential cattle baron who demands total control of the prairie grasslands for himself and his cattle, harassing and attacking the farmers who try to set up their own homes there.
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* BerserkButton:
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To the point nearby store and diligences refuse to bring the stuff as it will end up with them wrapped in their product.
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he doesn't even seem to know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims to the grasslands, but Casey uses his wealth and influence to basically make him the de-facto ruler of the area.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than the farmers trying to divy up the prairie with barbed wire.
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To the point nearby store and diligences refuse to bring the stuff as it will end up with them wrapped in their product.
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweight and a real asshole at first.
* HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after the farmers agree to share their well water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems to realize what a jerk he's been and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he doesn't even seem to know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims to the grasslands, but Casey uses his wealth and influence to basically make him the de-facto ruler of the area.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than the farmers trying to divy up the prairie with barbed wire.
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* BerserkButton:
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To the point nearby store and diligences refuse to bring the stuff as it will end up with them wrapped in their product.
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the qualityBurnTheWitch: One of their meat.
* FatBastard: Massively overweightplans to get rid of Powell is convincing the townsfolk they saw Powell performing black magic and a real asshole try to get him lynched.
* CardSharp: Both of them, though Miles is better atfirst.
it than Bill.
*HeelFaceTurn: An unusually sudden one; after TheCon: Their plan is to buy Powell's seemingly worthless mine, salt it with gold, and then cash in on the farmers agree resultant inflated value. Problem is, Powell refuses to share sell it.
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of both of them when they have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in Daisy Town as the last member of a bunch of tougher thugs, as they break theirwell water during the drought for the cattle, winning over the other cattle barons, Casey reluctantly seems bottles to realize what a jerk he's been gang up on and tells his mooks they just have to own up to it stab Lucky aaand [[EpicFail he fails and hope the farmers are willing to forgive.
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he doesn't even seem to know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims to the grasslands, but Casey uses his wealth and influence to basically make him the de-facto ruler of the area.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than the farmerskeeps trying to divy up for the prairie with barbed wire.entirety of the brawl]], until Lucky Luke helpfully breaks it for him, on his head.
* TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to make him a mark in Denver's eyes, to rob blind in the dead of the night.
** As Luke explains cattle barons like Cass see barbed wire as a personal insult. To the point nearby store and diligences refuse to bring the stuff as it will end up with them wrapped in their product.
-->'''Store owner:''' He [barbed wire vendor] sells only silk ropes now.
** Also, insulting his cattle or the quality
* FatBastard: Massively overweight
* CardSharp: Both of them, though Miles is better at
*
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of both of them when they have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in Daisy Town as the last member of a bunch of tougher thugs, as they break their
* IGaveMyWord: The drought ends minutes after a peace agreement is reached, and Casey could just have ignored it, but at that point, he seems to have decided to change his ways.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "The prairie belongs to the cattle, and the cattle, that's me!"
* RealMenEatMeat: Seems to subsist entirely on steaks, at the peace dinner at the end, he doesn't even seem to know what vegetables are.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The cattle barons absolutely do not have exclusive claims to the grasslands, but Casey uses his wealth and influence to basically make him the de-facto ruler of the area.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Villainous example, nothing infuriates him more than the farmers
* TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to make him a mark in Denver's eyes, to rob blind in the dead of the night.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henry Djanik (1983 animated series)
Also known as "The Spider", Defer is a very tall, gangly hitman hired by O'Sullivan, the corrupt owner of the Ace of Spades saloon, to kill his competitor O'Hara, only to come in conflict with O'Hara's friend Lucky Luke.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Henry Djanik (1983 animated series)
Also known as "The Spider", Defer is a very tall, gangly hitman hired by O'Sullivan, the corrupt owner of the Ace of Spades saloon, to kill his competitor O'Hara, only to come in conflict with O'Hara's friend Lucky Luke.
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Also known as "The Spider", Defer
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* {{Bowdlerisation}}: In the original version of the album, Luke actually shot him dead. In later editions, he's simply injured and left unable to hold a gun again.
* CareerEndingInjury: In the censored version, his hitman career is permanently ended by the shoulder injury Luke inflicts on him.
* TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also such that O'Hara tries to dissuade Luke from fighting him in a duel.
* DubNameChange: In the English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them to shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick enough to not fall.
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
* LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for the 19th century, to the point that he's too tall for the bed he sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and his body is thin, like a wire.
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait until Lucky Luke has shot the six bullets in his gun before counterattacking. Unfortunately for him he had no way of knowing that Luke had the only seven-shot gun in the west, allowing Luke to defeat him.
* ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
* CareerEndingInjury: In the censored version, his hitman career is permanently ended by the shoulder injury Luke inflicts on him.
* TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also such that O'Hara tries to dissuade Luke from fighting him in a duel.
* DubNameChange: In the English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them to shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick enough to not fall.
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning than his skills to beat him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on his hands.
* LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for the 19th century, to the point that he's too tall for the bed he sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and his body is thin, like a wire.
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait until Lucky Luke has shot the six bullets in his gun before counterattacking. Unfortunately for him he had no way of knowing that Luke had the only seven-shot gun in the west, allowing Luke to defeat him.
* ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
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* {{Bowdlerisation}}: In AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Despite predating Freud himself, the original version of the album, Luke actually shot him dead. In later editions, he's simply injured and left unable to hold a gun again.
* CareerEndingInjury: In the censored version, his hitman career is permanently ended by the shoulder injury Luke inflicts on him.
* TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also suchending even mentions that O'Hara tries Hiimbergeist's work will go on to dissuade Luke from fighting him influence Freud (who's still a child by this point in a duel.time).
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.
*DubNameChange: In the English version, his name is Phil Wire.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shootFaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the other side. He is also capable of standing on his arms then draw them to shoot a target before putting his arms on the ground quick start, but spending enough to not fall.
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunningtime around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than his skills chosen profession and decides to beat him.
become a criminal himself.
*ImprobableAimingSkills: Enough FreudianExcuse: Ironically as he tries to shoot targets with perfect accuracy despite standing on cure others of theirs, he has his hands.own. It's implied that he always wanted to become a rich man, but that his strict intellectual father prevented from going into business as he wanted, which was only made worse by him being penniless after university. Exposition to the Daltons and their backstory reawakened his frustrations and greed, and caused him to become a criminal.
*LeanAndMean: Shown as almost comically tall and skinny, especially for the 19th century, HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to the point that he's too tall for the bed he sleeps in.
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" andcure Averell of his body is thin, like a wire.
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait untiloutlaw ways, which Lucky Luke has shot uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and thesix bullets Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guards do his gun before counterattacking. Unfortunately work while he rests.
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to become a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques forhim he had no way of knowing that Luke had the only seven-shot gun in the west, allowing Luke to defeat him.
* ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"crime.
* CareerEndingInjury: In the censored version, his hitman career is permanently ended by the shoulder injury Luke inflicts on him.
* TheDreaded: Is a very famous hitman whose reputation alone is enough to make most people run. His skills with his guns are also such
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.
*
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JackPalance villain Jack Wilson from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.
* FatalFlaw: He is very superstitious which Luke uses against him by putting a black cat, a skeleton, a old calendar with a friday the 13th on it and a bell which rings 13 times in O'Hara's saloon to terrify him.
* GunFu: He uses his thinness to his advantage by drawing his hand behind his back only to shoot
* TheGunslinger: He's an exceptionally fast and good gunman, actually enough to be an actual challenge to Luke. As a result Luke rather uses his cunning
*
*
* MeaningfulName: His punny name means "iron wire" and
* OutGambitted: In his duel against Luke he chooses to wait until
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to become a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques for
* ProfessionalKiller: The first hitman in the series.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "fil de fer", meaning "iron wire".
* RedBaron: "The Spider"
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[[folder:Dean Smith, Emperor Of the United States]]
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A wealthy rancher whose success and riches has made him delusional, making him believe he's the Emperor of the United States.
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A wealthy rancher whose success and riches has made him delusional, making him believe he's the Emperor of the United States.
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An unnamed anarchist assassin who serves as the main threat in ''The Grand Duke'', having followed Grand Duke Leonid from Russia to the United
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, and has his cowboys wear army uniforms and even issues edicts and currency for Grass Town to use.
* DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that with him gone, no one is paying them to keep up with this nonsense, and disperse, ending the rebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-life self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated and not truly a villain, he was still far more antagonistic than his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately didn't do any harm and was popular with the citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who nearly went to war.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the U.S, behind for good, disappearing into Mexico.
* DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes that with him gone, no one is paying them to keep up with this nonsense, and disperse, ending the rebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him that if he becomes an accomplice to his unlawful murder that his will soon follow and he will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton, the real-life self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated and not truly a villain, he was still far more antagonistic than his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately didn't do any harm and was popular with the citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who nearly went to war.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the U.S, behind for good, disappearing into Mexico.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Genuinely believes himself BombThrowingAnarchist: An almost exact replica of 19th century caricatures of anarchists, right down to his clothes and weapons.
* ButtMonkey: He might bethe legitimate ruler a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As a member of theU.S, and has his cowboys wear army uniforms and anti-tsarist movement, he's very much in favor of violently murdering the rich, nobility especially.
* MadBomber: His preferred weapon, evenissues edicts and currency for Grass Town though they have a tendency to use.
backfire on him.
*DecapitatedArmy: After Luke kidnaps Smith, his army realizes SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that with him gone, no one is paying them thanks to keep up with this nonsense, and disperse, ending the rebellion.
* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Whensuccess of the judge is tried for "treason" and condemned to execution by firing squad by Gates, he directly addresses Smith and warns him trip, the Duke will recommend that if the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing up his original target in exchange for a much higher-profile one.
* ThrowTheDogABone: In the animated adaptation, he eventually becomesan accomplice rich when one of his failed attempts to blow up the grand duke reveals that a seemingly exhausted gold mine in fact still contains gold. With his new fortune, he decides to let the Duke be and starts a new life.
* UnknownRival: Due to hisunlawful murder ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his will soon follow constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try andhe will be hanged. Smith promptly reduces take out the sentence to life-imprisonment.
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquerDuke through the United States for real.
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton,use of explosives. At the real-life self-proclaimed Emperor end of the United States.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulatedstory, he ''finally'' wises up and not truly a villain, he was still far more antagonistic than tries his real life counterpart. Whereas Joshua Norton was considered a lovable coot who ultimately didn't do any harm and was popular with the citizens of San Francisco, Dean Smith is an antagonist who nearly went to war.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional manluck with a fortune and an army can be a real threat.
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the U.S, behindfirearm... only for good, disappearing into Mexico.what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.
* ButtMonkey: He might be
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As a member of the
* MadBomber: His preferred weapon, even
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* TheDragon: Gates, Smith's former cook and currently second-in-command, who's just as delusional as his boss is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When
* ThrowTheDogABone: In the animated adaptation, he eventually becomes
* UnknownRival: Due to his
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and
* EvilChancellor: Buck Ritchie, a notorious outlaw, who drives Smith from a harmless eccentric to attempting to conquer
* {{Expy}}: Of Joshua Norton,
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Smith was manipulated
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Smith never really snaps out of his delusion, but after his defeat, he seems to at least grasp that his actions were "a kind of madness", and agrees to formally abdicate and go into exile.
* NapoleonDelusion: Does not actually believe he is Napoleon himself, but takes a lot of his mannerisms, including his costume, his hand-in-jacket pose and other aesthetics.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He didn't even really start out as a criminal, since the people of Grass Town mostly just humored him and his edicts, but once Buck Ritchie started influencing him, Smith quickly proved why a delusional man
* RoyalWe: Refers to himself with the "we" pronoun.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He doesn't knowingly do this since he genuinely believes himself to be the legitimate ruler of the U.S, but effectively does this since his wealth is why his men humor him and what allows him to take over Grass Town.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Knowing that Smith is genuinely mentally ill rather than evil, Luke kidnaps him and hides him away while he finishes up dealing with Ritchie. Afterwards, rather than arresting him, he lets Smith go, telling him that his "reign" is over and he has to go into exile. Smith agrees, hands Luke his official abdication declaration and leaves Grass Town, and the U.S, behind
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[[folder:Jack Ready]]
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A corrupt rancher and long-time rival of Luke's friend Baddy. After Baddy's death, Ready had hoped to finally buy up Baddy's land and add them to his own, only for Baddy's nephew Waldo, a "tenderfoot" from England, show up to claim his inheritance, something Ready has no intention of allowing.
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A corrupt rancher and long-time rival of Luke's friend Baddy. After Baddy's death, Ready had hoped to finally buy up Baddy's land and add them to his own, only for Baddy's nephew Waldo, a "tenderfoot" from England, show up to claim his inheritance, something Ready has no intention of allowing.
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* DirtyCoward: After he seemingly misses during the duel with Waldo at the end, Ready falls to his knees and begs for mercy, promising Waldo his lands if he's allowed to just walk away with his life.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European style of ten paces, using flintlock pistols with only one bullet.
* FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the town bartender is in on it, because the bottle in the saloon keeps decreasing despite Ready being the only person who can afford it.
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's tarred and feathered before being chased out of town.
* DuelToTheDeath: After his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European style of ten paces, using flintlock pistols with only one bullet.
* FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the town bartender is in on it, because the bottle in the saloon keeps decreasing despite Ready being the only person who can afford it.
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's tarred and feathered before being chased out of town.
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* DirtyCoward: After he seemingly misses during the duel with Waldo at the end, Ready falls to his knees AmoralAttorney: He was debarred and begs for mercy, promising Waldo his lands if is technically not a lawyer anymore, but he's allowed certainly still a scumbag who uses his extensive knowledge of the laws to just walk away avoid openly breaking any. That makes it incredibly difficult for Luke to pin anything on him.
* ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the man who first discovered the oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: Due to the lack of authority in the town, Blunt is able to essentially conquer it with hislife.
gang since there's no organized authority to stop him.
*DuelToTheDeath: After TooDumbToLive: Keeps rehiring his scheme is exposed, Ready is challenged to a duel by Waldo, but unlike the typical western "high noon" affair, it's in the traditional European style of ten paces, using flintlock pistols with only one bullet.
* FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the town bartender is inhenchman Bingle, despite Bingles insistence on it, getting re-arrested, because he found oil under his cell when he was in prison the bottle in the saloon keeps decreasing despite Ready being the only person who can afford it.
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's tarred and feathered before being chased out of town.last time.
* ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the man who first discovered the oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: Due to the lack of authority in the town, Blunt is able to essentially conquer it with his
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* FakingTheDead: After all his efforts to terrorize Waldo fails, Ready fakes his own death and frames Waldo for his murder, hoping that Waldo will either flee the territory or get lynched by the townspeople.
* GaveUpTooSoon: Thinking he had missed with his only bullet during the duel, Ready quickly gives up and begs for his miserable life. As Waldo reveals, Ready had actually hit him in the arm which is why he didn't shoot back, but his British StiffUpperLip meant he didn't show the slightest amount of discomfort at the injury.
* GloveSlap: Gets one courtesy of Waldo as part of his challenge.
* LuxuriousLiquor: Only drinks expensive whisky imported from Scotland just for him, which tips off Luke that Ready is still alive and the town bartender is in
* TarAndFeathers: After he loses, he's tarred and feathered before being chased out of town.
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The owner of the local saloon in the town of El Plomo. Unbeknownst to the townsfolk or the nearby cavalry base, the saloon contains a secret tunnel that Oyster uses for smuggling weapons to a local Apache tribe. That is, until he runs afoul of Calamity Jane.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Idiotically bet his saloon in an arm-wrestling contest between Jane and his GiantMook, not realizing that Jane is ''much'' stronger than she looks, even holding back at first just so she could rake it in from anyone else dumb enough to bet against her.
* ArmsDealer: His true profession, the saloon just being a valuable cover since selling guns to the indians is insanely illegal.
* TheDandy: While they were certainly around in the Old West, you wouldn't expect to find this kind of character in a frontier town like El Plomo.
* DryCrusader: After he loses the saloon to Jane, he lies to the local women's teetotaler group about having a change of heart, and giving up his former life of vice and sin, hoping to use the group to get the saloon shut down so he can resume smuggling.
* SissyVillain: In direct contrast to Calamity Jane, Oyster is a ridiculous dandy who dresses in a pink suit and douses himself in perfume. He's also not much of an action guy, relying on his DumbMuscle minion for most physical tasks.
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The owner of the local saloon in the town of El Plomo. Unbeknownst to the townsfolk or the nearby cavalry base, the saloon contains a secret tunnel that Oyster uses for smuggling weapons to a local Apache tribe. That is, until he runs afoul of Calamity Jane.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Idiotically bet his saloon in an arm-wrestling contest between Jane and his GiantMook, not realizing that Jane is ''much'' stronger than she looks, even holding back at first just so she could rake it in from anyone else dumb enough to bet against her.
* ArmsDealer: His true profession, the saloon just being a valuable cover since selling guns to the indians is insanely illegal.
* TheDandy: While they were certainly around in the Old West, you wouldn't expect to find this kind of character in a frontier town like El Plomo.
* DryCrusader: After he loses the saloon to Jane, he lies to the local women's teetotaler group about having a change of heart, and giving up his former life of vice and sin, hoping to use the group to get the saloon shut down so he can resume smuggling.
* SissyVillain: In direct contrast to Calamity Jane, Oyster is a ridiculous dandy who dresses in a pink suit and douses himself in perfume. He's also not much of an action guy, relying on his DumbMuscle minion for most physical tasks.
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A disgraced former soldier and deserter from the 20th U.S Cavalry Regiment, Flood has set himself up as an arms dealer and allied himself with the local
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Idiotically bet his saloon in an arm-wrestling contest between Jane and his GiantMook, not realizing that Jane is ''much'' stronger than she looks, even holding back at first just so she could rake it in from anyone else dumb enough to bet against her.
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* ArmsDealer:
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* DryCrusader: After he loses the saloon to Jane, he lies to the local women's teetotaler group about having a change of heart, and giving up
* SissyVillain: In direct contrast to Calamity Jane, Oyster is a ridiculous dandy who dresses in a pink suit and douses himself in perfume. He's also not much of an action guy, relying on his DumbMuscle minion for most physical tasks.
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[[folder:Frank Malone]]
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Originally the guide for a caravan of pioneers heading to California, Malone tried to extort the groups leader, Andrew Boston, for more money when they were barely halfway, and when Boston refused, tried to shoot him, only to be disarmed by Lucky Luke who happened to be nearby. Humiliated, Malone swore revenge and hid himself in the caravan disguised as an old woman, waiting for an opportunity to strike back.
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Originally the guide for a caravan of pioneers heading to California, Malone tried to extort the groups leader, Andrew Boston, for more money when they were barely halfway, and when Boston refused, tried to shoot him, only to be disarmed by Lucky Luke who happened to be nearby. Humiliated, Malone swore revenge and hid himself in the caravan disguised as an old woman, waiting for an opportunity to strike back.
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* BeneathSuspicion: There's no hint that the old woman is anything other than one of the unnamed members of the caravan.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined that the caravan fail, or even better, all die out in the wilderness, all because he was angry at Luke and Boston.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almost the entire story in disguise on one of the wagons, appearing on-panel several times throughout, but it's not revealed it's him until the climax.
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the climax... and promptly missed all six bullets in his gun. Justified as he himself points out, since he's been sitting in a bumpy wagon knitting for weeks on end, so his hands were shaking like leaves.
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the harness for the horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter two which could easily have resulted in his ''own'' death.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined that the caravan fail, or even better, all die out in the wilderness, all because he was angry at Luke and Boston.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almost the entire story in disguise on one of the wagons, appearing on-panel several times throughout, but it's not revealed it's him until the climax.
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the climax... and promptly missed all six bullets in his gun. Justified as he himself points out, since he's been sitting in a bumpy wagon knitting for weeks on end, so his hands were shaking like leaves.
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the harness for the horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter two which could easily have resulted in his ''own'' death.
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* BeneathSuspicion: There's no hint CardSharp: While Double-Six can't be trusted to play a game of solitaire by himself, The Boss is a card cheat through and through, to the point that the old woman when Luke shakes him upside-down to disarm him, his jacket turns out to be full of ace cards.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss isanything other than a caricature of famous French actor Creator/LouisDeFunes, while Double-Six is one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pr%C3%A9jean Patrick Préjean]].
* DumbMuscle: Double-Six might as well be theunnamed members guys IQ score.
* EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
* HeelFaceTurn: In what is likely the most abrupt one in the history of thecaravan.
series, the Boss is offered employment by the Pony Express after one of their managers see how fast he can get around while riding Double-Six. With the promise of a fair wage and three meals a day, the Boss immediately decides to abandon his former life as a cheating gambler, and instead turns over a new leaf as a Pony Express deliveryman, using Double-Six as his mount.
*DisproportionateRetribution: Is absolutely determined HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point that he's able to ''outrun Jolly Jumper'', much to the caravan fail, or even better, all die out shock of Jolly and Luke.
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
* SapientSteed: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness,all because he was angry at Luke and Boston.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almostthe entire story in disguise on one of the wagons, appearing on-panel several times throughout, but it's not revealed it's him until the climax.
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the climax... and promptly missed all six bullets inBoss starts using Double-Six as his gun. Justified as he himself points out, since he's been sitting in a bumpy wagon knitting for weeks on end, so his hands were shaking like leaves.
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the harness for the horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter twonew steed, which could easily have resulted in his ''own'' death.surprisingly turns out to be very effective.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss is
* DumbMuscle: Double-Six might as well be the
* EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
* HeelFaceTurn: In what is likely the most abrupt one in the history of the
*
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
* SapientSteed: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness,
* HiddenInPlainSight: Malone spends almost
* ILied: Malone had already been paid quite a bit to guide the pioneers to California, but he still called a stop in the middle of nowhere and tried to blackmail them for even more money, knowing that they'd have no way of continuing without an experienced guide.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Has Luke in a perfect ambush position during the climax... and promptly missed all six bullets in
* VehicularSabotage: Malone sabotages several of the wagons throughout the journey, including sawing through a wheel axel, cutting the harness for the horses, destroying the water barrels and blowing up the weapon supplies before entering indian territory, the latter two
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[[folder:Bull Bullets]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An outlaw working of Senator Orwell Stormwind, a corrupt U.S Senator, living high off his employers dime and serving as a go-between for Stormwinds illegal alcohol and weapon sales to the indians in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. When a project to open up the Hills for settlement is proposed, Bullets is tasked with making sure the expedition fails by any means necessary.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An outlaw working of Senator Orwell Stormwind, a corrupt U.S Senator, living high off his employers dime and serving as a go-between for Stormwinds illegal alcohol and weapon sales to the indians in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. When a project to open up the Hills for settlement is proposed, Bullets is tasked with making sure the expedition fails by any means necessary.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
An outlaw working
A notorious gang of
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Tries to prove that the "firewater" he's been selling the Indians is perfectly fine by drinking a whole bottle of it by himself, then drunkenly slurring about how he can "take on any man in this here saloon" (they're in an Indian camp in the middle of nowhere at the time). He then tries fighting Lucky Luke, and can't even land a single hit on him, even though Luke is standing still right in front of him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy for ''The Black Hills''.
* NonActionGuy: He does eventually get his hands dirty, but only as an absolute last resort. Normally, he prefers using sneakier tactics such as traps, ambushes, theft, and hiring other people to do the work for him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy for ''The Black Hills''.
* NonActionGuy: He does eventually get his hands dirty, but only as an absolute last resort. Normally, he prefers using sneakier tactics such as traps, ambushes, theft, and hiring other people to do the work for him.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Tries to prove that AdaptationalBadass: Like a lot of legends from the "firewater" Old West, the Daltons' reputation was heavily embellished over the years, while contemporary records showed them to be fairly incompetent, albeit not to the extent of their fictional cousins. Here, they're just as dangerous and vicious as their legends made them out to be.
* AdaptedOut: The reason the real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did not die in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end of the album, he's said to have beenselling the Indians is perfectly fine by drinking a whole bottle of it by himself, then drunkenly slurring about how he can "take on any man in hanged with his brothers -- though this here saloon" (they're in an Indian camp is {{Retcon}}ned in the middle of nowhere at the time). He then tries fighting Lucky Luke, and can't even land a single hit on him, even though Luke is standing still right in front of him.
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy forlater album ''The Black Hills''.
Dalton Uncles,'' where Emmet's fate is changed to be more in line with his historical counterpart.
*NonActionGuy: He does DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In real life, the Daltons (with the exception of Emmett) were killed in a shootout with a posse of townspeople after their bank heist in Coffeyville failed. Here, they're defeated by Luke, taken to prison, and eventually get hanged.
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original version of the comic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from hishands dirty, suspenders from a lamp. For obvious reasons, this was changed for the finished version as him just being captured in a barrel.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, butonly as an absolute last resort. Normally, he prefers using sneakier tactics such as traps, ambushes, theft, their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and hiring other people to do their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate is retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't actually a member of thework for him.gang in real life.
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.
* AdaptedOut: The reason the real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did not die in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end of the album, he's said to have been
* ArmsDealer: He's the one doing all the selling for Stormwind's operation.
* TheChessmaster: Well, for an outlaw, he sure knows how to pull a few strings on someone else's account.
* TheDragon: Bullets is really just the right-hand man for Stormwind, but he still serves as the TheHeavy for
*
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original version of the comic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from his
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate is retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't actually a member of the
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.
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The chief of an Apache tribe that is feuding with the cavalry garrison led by Colonel O'Nolan, Patronimo is intent on continuing the Indian Wars, and blames the colonel for the loss of his father Bisteco, the tribe's original chief.
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The chief of an Apache tribe that is feuding with the cavalry garrison led by Colonel O'Nolan, Patronimo is intent on continuing the Indian Wars, and blames the colonel for the loss of his father Bisteco, the tribe's original chief.
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Captain of
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* AscendedExtra: The AnimatedAdaptation feature him in some other episodes than his own, sometimes as an ally to Lucky Luke.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite his hatred for the white man, Patronimo is actually half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child and reared among the Apaches as one of them. He had grown tired of the endless bloodshed years ago and returned to Europe, but Patronimo refused to follow him.
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that the tribe's medicine man is actually O'Nolan's long lost son, having been reared by the Indians since childhood, he wants to execute him immediately just for being white, despite having spent his life as an Indian.
* TheSavageIndian: He acts like a normal person for the most part, but wholeheartedly embraces the stereotype when dealing with the cavalry in his desire for revenge against the white man.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping boulders on their wagons, and the cavalry always destroys their camp in retaliation afterwards. Both sides know that the traps are coming, and know how to avoid it, but refuse to stop.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite his hatred for the white man, Patronimo is actually half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child and reared among the Apaches as one of them. He had grown tired of the endless bloodshed years ago and returned to Europe, but Patronimo refused to follow him.
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that the tribe's medicine man is actually O'Nolan's long lost son, having been reared by the Indians since childhood, he wants to execute him immediately just for being white, despite having spent his life as an Indian.
* TheSavageIndian: He acts like a normal person for the most part, but wholeheartedly embraces the stereotype when dealing with the cavalry in his desire for revenge against the white man.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping boulders on their wagons, and the cavalry always destroys their camp in retaliation afterwards. Both sides know that the traps are coming, and know how to avoid it, but refuse to stop.
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* AscendedExtra: The AnimatedAdaptation feature {{Pirate}}: Captain Barrows calls him in some other episodes than this, and he certainly has the methods of one. At one point he forces his own, sometimes as an ally passengers at gunpoint to Lucky Luke.
* BoomerangBigot: Despitedig his hatred stranded boat out, and in the final stretch he dumps all his remaining passengers in Memphis, even those that had paid for the white man, Patronimo is actually half-white, as his father Bisteco was actually a Bohemian named Laslo Byztek, who had been kidnapped as a child and reared among the Apaches as one of them. He had grown tired full trip to St. Louis.
* TheRival: Of captain Barrows of theendless bloodshed years ago and returned "Daisy Belle", a straightforward honest captain.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries toEurope, but Patronimo refused to follow him.
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out thatwin the tribe's medicine man is actually O'Nolan's long lost son, having been reared boatrace by disabling the Indians since childhood, he wants to execute him immediately just safety valve of his steam engine. [[StuffBlowingUp This does not end well for being white, despite having spent his life as an Indian.
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*TheSavageIndian: TheUnfought: He acts like a normal person for the most part, but wholeheartedly embraces the stereotype when dealing with the cavalry in his desire for revenge against the white man.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping bouldersnever confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on their wagons, and the cavalry always destroys their camp in retaliation afterwards. Both sides know that the traps are coming, and know how to avoid it, but refuse to stop.hired goons instead.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite
* TheRival: Of captain Barrows of the
* TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries to
* CategoryTraitor: When he finds out that
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* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Since O'Nolan refuses to deviate from regulations by going around the titular Apache Canyon, because doing so would not be taking the shortest route, Patronimo always stages a trap there by dropping boulders
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A pair of card cheats and scam artists who have a tendency of getting themselves tarred and feathered for their crimes, only to immediately go right back to their craft in the next town over. When they accompany Luke to the abandoned boom town Gold Hill, they see yet another business opportunity.
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A pair of card cheats and scam artists who have a tendency of getting themselves tarred and feathered for their crimes, only to immediately go right back to their craft in the next town over. When they accompany Luke to the abandoned boom town Gold Hill, they see yet another business opportunity.
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The first of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious gambler and
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[[caption-width-right:160:Denver Miles]]
A pair of card cheats and scam artists who have a tendency of getting themselves tarred and feathered for their crimes, only to immediately go right back to their craft in the next town over. When they accompany Luke to the abandoned boom town Gold Hill, they see yet another business opportunity.
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* BurnTheWitch: One of their plans to get rid of Powell is convincing the townsfolk they saw Powell performing black magic and try to get him lynched.
* CardSharp: Both of them, though Miles is better at it than Bill.
* TheCon: Their plan is to buy Powell's seemingly worthless mine, salt it with gold, and then cash in on the resultant inflated value. Problem is, Powell refuses to sell it.
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of both of them when they have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in Daisy Town as the last member of a bunch of tougher thugs, as they break their bottles to gang up on and stab Lucky aaand [[EpicFail he fails and keeps trying to for the entirety of the brawl]], until Lucky Luke helpfully breaks it for him, on his head.
* TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to make him a mark in Denver's eyes, to rob blind in the dead of the night.
* CardSharp: Both of them, though Miles is better at it than Bill.
* TheCon: Their plan is to buy Powell's seemingly worthless mine, salt it with gold, and then cash in on the resultant inflated value. Problem is, Powell refuses to sell it.
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of both of them when they have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in Daisy Town as the last member of a bunch of tougher thugs, as they break their bottles to gang up on and stab Lucky aaand [[EpicFail he fails and keeps trying to for the entirety of the brawl]], until Lucky Luke helpfully breaks it for him, on his head.
* TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to make him a mark in Denver's eyes, to rob blind in the dead of the night.
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* TheCon: Their plan is
* DirtyCoward: Big words come easily out of both of them when they have an even bigger crowd to hide behind.
* ObviouslyEvil: For a supposed ConMan Bill can never resist the impulse to bet, lie and cheat whenever the opportunity seemingly presents itself, even when it turns that it is mostly an opportunity to expose himself even further.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Colorado is seen in
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fight with Lucky Luke, which is over before anyone can place their bets.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Lucky Luke
* TarAndFeathers: They're introduced this way, and it's not the last time.
* UngratefulBastard: Our cowboy offering them a free ride only serves to make
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A visiting scientist from Austria, who's a pioneer in the fledgling field of psychology and psychiatry, Von Hiimbergeist has theorized that crime is a mental disorder that can be cured through therapy, and has come to the United States in the hopes of testing his theories on some of the worlds most notorious outlaws -- the Daltons.
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A visiting scientist from Austria, who's a pioneer in the fledgling field of psychology and psychiatry, Von Hiimbergeist has theorized that crime is a mental disorder that can be cured through therapy, and has come to the United States in the hopes of testing his theories on some of the worlds most notorious outlaws -- the Daltons.
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* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Despite predating Freud himself, the ending even mentions that Hiimbergeist's work will go on to influence Freud (who's still a child by this point in time).
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.
* FaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the start, but spending enough time around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than his chosen profession and decides to become a criminal himself.
* FreudianExcuse: Ironically as he tries to cure others of theirs, he has his own. It's implied that he always wanted to become a rich man, but that his strict intellectual father prevented from going into business as he wanted, which was only made worse by him being penniless after university. Exposition to the Daltons and their backstory reawakened his frustrations and greed, and caused him to become a criminal.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guards do his work while he rests.
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to become a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques for crime.
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.
* FaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the start, but spending enough time around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than his chosen profession and decides to become a criminal himself.
* FreudianExcuse: Ironically as he tries to cure others of theirs, he has his own. It's implied that he always wanted to become a rich man, but that his strict intellectual father prevented from going into business as he wanted, which was only made worse by him being penniless after university. Exposition to the Daltons and their backstory reawakened his frustrations and greed, and caused him to become a criminal.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guards do his work while he rests.
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to become a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques for crime.
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* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Despite predating Freud himself, AchillesHeel: He's ticklish, which is what ultimately defeats him.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature. His sole presence is enough to make theending even mentions Daisy Belle's crew wants to desert until Luke promises to protect them.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough thatHiimbergeist's work will go on Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard to influence Freud (who's still a child by this the point in time).
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.that it can damage machines and deflect bullets.
*FaceHeelTurn: His goals were noble at the start, but spending enough time around the Daltons makes Hiimbergeist decide that the outlaw life is far more exciting than UseYourHead: As his chosen profession name implies, his head is nearly invulnerable and decides to become a criminal himself.
* FreudianExcuse: Ironically ashe tries to cure others of theirs, he has his own. It's implied that he always wanted to become a rich man, but that his strict intellectual father prevented from going into business as he wanted, which was only made worse by him being penniless after university. Exposition to the Daltons and their backstory reawakened his frustrations and greed, and caused him to become a criminal.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guardscan do his work while he rests.
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to becomeserious damage with a criminal himself, it applies. He even uses his psychology techniques for crime.headbutt.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature. His sole presence is enough to make the
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that
* BerserkButton: He doesn't take being called crazy well at all.
*
* FreudianExcuse: Ironically as
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He managed to cure Averell of his outlaw ways, which Lucky Luke uses to have Averell causing him and other Daltons caught.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his psychology techniques to great efficiency after becoming a criminal, using them to make bankers willingly open their safes and giving him and the Daltons the money. He later uses it in prison to make the guards
* PsychoPsychologist: Not at first, but once he decides to become
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[[folder:The Anarchist]]
An unnamed anarchist assassin who serves as the main threat in ''The Grand Duke'', having followed Grand Duke Leonid from Russia to the United States with the intention of murdering him for political reasons while the Duke is unprotected on foreign soil during his diplomatic trip.
An unnamed anarchist assassin who serves as the main threat in ''The Grand Duke'', having followed Grand Duke Leonid from Russia to the United States with the intention of murdering him for political reasons while the Duke is unprotected on foreign soil during his diplomatic trip.
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An unnamed anarchist assassin who serves as the main threat
The third of Lowriver's hired goons, a saboteur specializing in
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* BombThrowingAnarchist: An almost exact replica of 19th century caricatures of anarchists, right down to his clothes and weapons.
* ButtMonkey: He might be a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As a member of the anti-tsarist movement, he's very much in favor of violently murdering the rich, nobility especially.
* MadBomber: His preferred weapon, even though they have a tendency to backfire on him.
* SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing up his original target in exchange for a much higher-profile one.
* ThrowTheDogABone: In the animated adaptation, he eventually becomes rich when one of his failed attempts to blow up the grand duke reveals that a seemingly exhausted gold mine in fact still contains gold. With his new fortune, he decides to let the Duke be and starts a new life.
* UnknownRival: Due to his ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.
* ButtMonkey: He might be a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As a member of the anti-tsarist movement, he's very much in favor of violently murdering the rich, nobility especially.
* MadBomber: His preferred weapon, even though they have a tendency to backfire on him.
* SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing up his original target in exchange for a much higher-profile one.
* ThrowTheDogABone: In the animated adaptation, he eventually becomes rich when one of his failed attempts to blow up the grand duke reveals that a seemingly exhausted gold mine in fact still contains gold. With his new fortune, he decides to let the Duke be and starts a new life.
* UnknownRival: Due to his ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.
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* BombThrowingAnarchist: An almost exact replica of 19th century caricatures of anarchists, right down to AscendedExtra: In the original, he appears in just a few pages, but the animated version expanded his clothes and weapons.
role.
*ButtMonkey: He might be a violent, murderous terrorist, but it's hard not HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Lucky Luke calmly returns his 'lost' suitcase to feel bad for him, ''nothing'' goes right orders a drink, sits around for him.
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: Asa member of bit and unhurriedly leaves, he becomes convinced that Luke already found and disabled the anti-tsarist movement, he's very much in favor of violently murdering bomb inside. Turns out this was not the rich, nobility especially.
case.
* MadBomber:His preferred weapon, even though they have a tendency to backfire on him.
* SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing upAs his original target in exchange for a much higher-profile one.
name implies.
*ThrowTheDogABone: In the animated adaptation, he eventually becomes rich when one of his failed attempts to blow up the grand duke reveals that a seemingly exhausted gold mine in fact still contains gold. With his new fortune, he decides to let the Duke be and starts a new life.
* UnknownRival: Due to his ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.
*
* CatchPhrase: "Missed!", or rather "Неудауа!".
* EatTheRich: As
* MadBomber:
* SheatheYourSword: Has a perfect shot at taking out the Duke right at the end... then overhears that thanks to the success of the trip, the Duke will recommend that the ''Tsar himself'' make a visit to the U.S in person. The Anarchist quickly decides to spare the Duke, passing up
*
* UnknownRival: Due to his ridiculously bad luck, neither the Duke or Lucky Luke ever even notice that the Anarchist is following them on their journey, or his constant attempts at killing them.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: He insists on continuing to try and take out the Duke through the use of explosives. At the end of the story, he ''finally'' wises up and tries his luck with a firearm... only for what's detailed under SheatheYourSword to happen.
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[[folder:Barry Blunt]]
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A Texas lawyer turned would-be oil baron, Barry Blunt is the leader of a gang of claim jumpers trying to seize control over the oil wells in the small town of Titusville through force, and there is no one around who can stop him because almost every person in authority has deserted their jobs to look for oil.
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A Texas lawyer turned would-be oil baron, Barry Blunt is the leader of a gang of claim jumpers trying to seize control over the oil wells in the small town of Titusville through force, and there is no one around who can stop him because almost every person in authority has deserted their jobs to look for oil.
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[[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barry_blunt.jpg]]
A Texas lawyer turned would-be oil baron, Barry Blunt is the leader of a gang of claim jumpers trying to seize control over the oil wells in the small town of Titusville through force,
The fourth and
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* AmoralAttorney: He was debarred and is technically not a lawyer anymore, but he's certainly still a scumbag who uses his extensive knowledge of the laws to avoid openly breaking any. That makes it incredibly difficult for Luke to pin anything on him.
* ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the man who first discovered the oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: Due to the lack of authority in the town, Blunt is able to essentially conquer it with his gang since there's no organized authority to stop him.
* TooDumbToLive: Keeps rehiring his henchman Bingle, despite Bingles insistence on getting re-arrested, because he found oil under his cell when he was in prison the last time.
* ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the man who first discovered the oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: Due to the lack of authority in the town, Blunt is able to essentially conquer it with his gang since there's no organized authority to stop him.
* TooDumbToLive: Keeps rehiring his henchman Bingle, despite Bingles insistence on getting re-arrested, because he found oil under his cell when he was in prison the last time.
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* AmoralAttorney: AlliterativeName: '''P'''istol '''P'''ete.
* BerserkButton: Hewas debarred and is technically not a lawyer anymore, but he's certainly still a scumbag who uses can't stand having his extensive knowledge gunman skills being questioned, which is how Luke defeats him by questioning his skills so he would waste his bullets into proving his aiming abilities.
* CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: All the other clients of thelaws to avoid openly breaking any. That makes it incredibly difficult hotel where he resides have left because of his presence and people fear for Luke Lucky Luke's life when he goes to pin anything on him.
confront him and run when he orders them to leave him alone with Luke.
*ArchEnemy: With Colonel Drake, the man who first discovered the oil deposits.
* IOwnThisTown: DueTheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the lack of authority point that captain Lowriver and many others believe that he can actually kill Lucky Luke. However Luke outplay him by tricking him into wasting his ammo on trick shots.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in thetown, Blunt is able to essentially conquer it air with his gang since there's no organized authority to stop him.
bullets.
*TooDumbToLive: Keeps rehiring MuggingTheMonster: Even without his henchman Bingle, despite Bingles insistence on getting re-arrested, because gun he found oil under his cell when he was proves to be too tough for an alligator.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been inprison the last time.game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.
* BerserkButton: He
* CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: All the other clients of the
*
* IOwnThisTown: Due
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the
*
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in
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[[folder:Derek Flood]]
A disgraced former soldier and deserter from the 20th U.S Cavalry Regiment, Flood has set himself up as an arms dealer and allied himself with the local Cheyenne tribes led by Yellow Dog.
A disgraced former soldier and deserter from the 20th U.S Cavalry Regiment, Flood has set himself up as an arms dealer and allied himself with the local Cheyenne tribes led by Yellow Dog.
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A disgraced former soldier and deserter from the 20th U.S Cavalry Regiment, Flood has set himself up as an arms dealer and allied himself with the local Cheyenne tribes led by Yellow Dog.
An early enemy of Lucky Luke who happens to look exactly like him.
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* ArmsDealer: Has been selling weapons to the Indians on top of all his other crimes.
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smuggler and murderer who thinks nothing of assisting the Cheyenne in massacring his former comrades.
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smuggler and murderer who thinks nothing of assisting the Cheyenne in massacring his former comrades.
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* ArmsDealer: Has been selling weapons to CriminalDoppelganger: Not only does he look just like Luke, but he dresses just like him too.
* EvilDetectingDog: Jolly Jumper immediately can tell Mad Jim is not theIndians on top of all his other crimes.
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smugglerreal Luke as he tries to ride him. In fact, he is used to tell Jim and murderer who thinks nothing of assisting Luke apart later on.
* KilledOffForReal: He's theCheyenne in massacring his former comrades.only villain Luke is known to have actually killed (Phil Defer was SparedByTheAdaptation, and Bob Dalton's death was dropped at the sketching stage).
* StarterVillain: One of the earliest enemies ever faced by Luke, and the first notable one. He was preceded only by the somewhat forgettable Cactus Kid, Big Belly, and Cigarette Caesar.
* EvilDetectingDog: Jolly Jumper immediately can tell Mad Jim is not the
* DangerousDeserter: An unrepentant thief, smuggler
* KilledOffForReal: He's the
* StarterVillain: One of the earliest enemies ever faced by Luke, and the first notable one. He was preceded only by the somewhat forgettable Cactus Kid, Big Belly, and Cigarette Caesar.
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[[folder:The Boss and Double-Six]]
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A diminutive card cheat and his dim-witted henchman from Poker Gulch, The Boss and Double-Six realize that the newly invented "one-armed bandit" (aka the slot machine), a creation by the gadget-obsessed Caille brothers, will put the livelihoods of crooked gamblers like themselves in jeopardy, since machines can't be hustled, and set out to destroy the machine by any means necessary.
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A diminutive card cheat and his dim-witted henchman from Poker Gulch, The Boss and Double-Six realize that the newly invented "one-armed bandit" (aka the slot machine), a creation by the gadget-obsessed Caille brothers, will put the livelihoods of crooked gamblers like themselves in jeopardy, since machines can't be hustled, and set out to destroy the machine by any means necessary.
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* CardSharp: While Double-Six can't be trusted to play a game of solitaire by himself, The Boss is a card cheat through and through, to the point that when Luke shakes him upside-down to disarm him, his jacket turns out to be full of ace cards.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss is a caricature of famous French actor Creator/LouisDeFunes, while Double-Six is one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pr%C3%A9jean Patrick Préjean]].
* DumbMuscle: Double-Six might as well be the guys IQ score.
* EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
* HeelFaceTurn: In what is likely the most abrupt one in the history of the series, the Boss is offered employment by the Pony Express after one of their managers see how fast he can get around while riding Double-Six. With the promise of a fair wage and three meals a day, the Boss immediately decides to abandon his former life as a cheating gambler, and instead turns over a new leaf as a Pony Express deliveryman, using Double-Six as his mount.
* HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point that he's able to ''outrun Jolly Jumper'', much to the shock of Jolly and Luke.
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
* SapientSteed: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness, the Boss starts using Double-Six as his new steed, which surprisingly turns out to be very effective.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss is a caricature of famous French actor Creator/LouisDeFunes, while Double-Six is one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pr%C3%A9jean Patrick Préjean]].
* DumbMuscle: Double-Six might as well be the guys IQ score.
* EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
* HeelFaceTurn: In what is likely the most abrupt one in the history of the series, the Boss is offered employment by the Pony Express after one of their managers see how fast he can get around while riding Double-Six. With the promise of a fair wage and three meals a day, the Boss immediately decides to abandon his former life as a cheating gambler, and instead turns over a new leaf as a Pony Express deliveryman, using Double-Six as his mount.
* HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point that he's able to ''outrun Jolly Jumper'', much to the shock of Jolly and Luke.
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
* SapientSteed: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness, the Boss starts using Double-Six as his new steed, which surprisingly turns out to be very effective.
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* CardSharp: While Double-Six can't be trusted to play a game of solitaire by himself, AllForNothing: The Boss is a card cheat through and through, to the point that when Luke shakes him upside-down to disarm him, his jacket villains scheming turns out to be full completely pointless as the poor land and arid climate of ace cards.
Oklahoma isn't suited for traditional settlements. It ''is'' rich in oil, but it wasn't a useful resource at the time.
*ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Boss is a caricature of famous French actor Creator/LouisDeFunes, while Double-Six is CreepyMortician: After Dopey's heel-face turn, the local undertaker replaces him. He's one of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pr%C3%A9jean Patrick Préjean]].
the few undertakers in the series to actually join the bad guys instead of merely hoping that they will be good for business.
* DumbMuscle:Double-Six might Both Blubber and Dopey serve as well be the guys IQ score.
this for Coyote Will. Dopey gets better.
*EvilLuddite: The Boss wants to destroy the prototype slot machine, because it threatens his career as a cheating gambler, as machines can't be cheated or hustled the way human dealers can.
GrewASpine: Dopey after being elected mayor.
* HeelFaceTurn: Inwhat is likely one of the most abrupt one in the history best arcs of the series, the Boss is offered employment Dopey goes from a DumbMuscle mook to an honest politician with Luke's support. He completes it by the Pony Express after one of their managers see how fast he can get around while riding Double-Six. With the promise of a fair wage and three meals a day, the Boss immediately decides to abandon turning on his former life boss even after everything falls apart.
* MayorPain: Coyote Will was depending on Dopey serving asa cheating gambler, and instead turns over a new leaf as a Pony Express deliveryman, using Double-Six as his mount.
* HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point thatthis for him after he's able elected mayor of Boomtown, but Luke convinces Dopey to ''outrun Jolly Jumper'', much to be an honest leader.
* NominatedAsAPrank: Dopey's candidacy for mayor is considered hilarious by everyone. But since half theshock of Jolly town is running and Luke.
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employerthere are no clear favorites, people vote for him as "Boss", and it's the closest thing to a name he's given.
joke. He wins in a landslide.
*SapientSteed: YouKeepUsingThatWord: After Luke scares off their horses and strands the two in the wilderness, the Boss starts things start going downhill, Coyote Will's newspaper keeps using Double-Six as his new steed, which surprisingly turns out the word "infamous" to be very describe Mayor Dopey. Will admits that people not knowing what it means is what makes it so effective.
*
* DumbMuscle:
*
* HeelFaceTurn: In
* MayorPain: Coyote Will was depending on Dopey serving as
* HiddenDepths: Despite barely being able to walk upright, Double-Six turns out to be incredibly quick on his feet, to the point that
* NominatedAsAPrank: Dopey's candidacy for mayor is considered hilarious by everyone. But since half the
* NoNameGiven: Double-Six only ever refers to his employer
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[[folder:The Original Dalton Gang]]
A notorious gang of outlaws, consisting of brothers Bob, Grat, Emmett and Bill Dalton, who spread terror throughout the West long before their inept cousins ever did.
A notorious gang of outlaws, consisting of brothers Bob, Grat, Emmett and Bill Dalton, who spread terror throughout the West long before their inept cousins ever did.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Like a lot of legends from the Old West, the Daltons' reputation was heavily embellished over the years, while contemporary records showed them to be fairly incompetent, albeit not to the extent of their fictional cousins. Here, they're just as dangerous and vicious as their legends made them out to be.
* AdaptedOut: The reason the real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did not die in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end of the album, he's said to have been hanged with his brothers -- though this is {{Retcon}}ned in the later album ''The Dalton Uncles,'' where Emmet's fate is changed to be more in line with his historical counterpart.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In real life, the Daltons (with the exception of Emmett) were killed in a shootout with a posse of townspeople after their bank heist in Coffeyville failed. Here, they're defeated by Luke, taken to prison, and eventually hanged.
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original version of the comic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from his suspenders from a lamp. For obvious reasons, this was changed for the finished version as him just being captured in a barrel.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate is retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't actually a member of the gang in real life.
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.
* AdaptedOut: The reason the real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did not die in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end of the album, he's said to have been hanged with his brothers -- though this is {{Retcon}}ned in the later album ''The Dalton Uncles,'' where Emmet's fate is changed to be more in line with his historical counterpart.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In real life, the Daltons (with the exception of Emmett) were killed in a shootout with a posse of townspeople after their bank heist in Coffeyville failed. Here, they're defeated by Luke, taken to prison, and eventually hanged.
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original version of the comic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from his suspenders from a lamp. For obvious reasons, this was changed for the finished version as him just being captured in a barrel.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate is retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't actually a member of the gang in real life.
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Like a lot of legends from the Old West, the Daltons' reputation TheArtifact: The name "Soapy" was heavily embellished over the years, while contemporary records showed them a nickname given to be fairly incompetent, albeit not to the extent of their fictional cousins. Here, they're just as dangerous and vicious as their legends made them out to be.
* AdaptedOut: The reasonthe real-life group was known as The Dalton ''Gang'' and not just the Dalton Brothers was because several non-related outlaws were also members; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, "Blackface" Charlie Bryant (neither of whom participated Smith thanks to his prize soap racket in Denver in the Coffeyville robbery), Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, Bill Doolin and Charlie Pierce. Broadwell and Powers died in Coffeyville along late 1870's, where he sold bars of soap with Bob and Grat, while Doolin fled alongside Bill Dalton. None of them have dollar bills supposedly hidden in the wrapping as prizes (and the only people who ever appeared in any Lucky Luke album.
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton didgot these "prizes" were his henchmen). This is not die explained in Coffeyville, instead being sentenced to 14 the story, which takes place almost 20 years later after Smith set up shop in prison, and eventually being released, dying of old age in 1937. Here, at the end Klondike to take advantage of the album, he's said to have been hanged with gold rush.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Luke manipulates him into admitting hisbrothers -- though this telegraph is {{Retcon}}ned fake in front of the later album ''The Dalton Uncles,'' where Emmet's fate is changed to be more in line with his historical counterpart.
gold diggers.
*DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In real life, the Daltons (with the exception of Emmett) were killed in a shootout with a posse of townspeople after their bank heist in Coffeyville failed. Here, they're defeated by Luke, taken to prison, and eventually hanged.
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The originalHistoricalDomainCharacter: A comic-book version of con artist and gangster [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith Jefferson Randolph Smith II]], aka "Soapy" Smith.
* NotMeThisTime: Although he did sell Jasper a worthless claim and serves as thecomic had Bob ''getting shot through the head'' by Luke in a gunfight while hanging from his suspenders from a lamp. For obvious reasons, this was changed for the finished version as him just being captured in a barrel.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a membermain antagonist of the Dalton Gang when his brothers died. After their deaths, story, he would go on to form the Wild Bunch with Bill Doolin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fateis retconned so he survived being repeatedly shot.
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn'tactually a member of not responsible for Jasper's ultimate disappearance.
* RunningGag: During every confrontation Luke forces him to twirl his gun around his finger, in thegang in real life.
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousinsend making his trigger finger too swollen to follow in their footsteps and battle Lucky Luke.actually operate his gun.
* AdaptedOut: The reason
* DeathByAdaptation: The historical Emmett Dalton did
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Luke manipulates him into admitting his
*
* TheDreaded: Regarded as among the most feared criminals in the west, being able to scare folks with a simple boo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The original
* NotMeThisTime: Although he did sell Jasper a worthless claim and serves as the
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Those Daltons temporarily have plastic surgery to look completely different... and easily revert to their original faces soon after.
* SadlyMythtaken: Bill Dalton was not a member
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They appeared once, but their encounter with Lucky Luke would eventually start the feud between him and their cousins Joe, William, Jack and Averral.
* SoleSurvivor: Emmet's fate
* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: As stated above, Bill wasn't
* RunningGag: During every confrontation Luke forces him to twirl his gun around his finger, in the
* VillainousLegacy: Their crimes would inspire their cousins
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[[folder:Captain Lowriver]]
Captain of the riverboat "Asbestos D. Plower", with a questionable past and more than willing to use every low-down trick to get rid of the competition so he will have the Mississippi to himself.
Captain of the riverboat "Asbestos D. Plower", with a questionable past and more than willing to use every low-down trick to get rid of the competition so he will have the Mississippi to himself.
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Captain
Also known as Q.Q., he's a rich asshole and Grand Wizard of the
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* {{Pirate}}: Captain Barrows calls him this, and he certainly has the methods of one. At one point he forces his passengers at gunpoint to dig his stranded boat out, and in the final stretch he dumps all his remaining passengers in Memphis, even those that had paid for the full trip to St. Louis.
* TheRival: Of captain Barrows of the "Daisy Belle", a straightforward honest captain.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries to win the boatrace by disabling the safety valve of his steam engine. [[StuffBlowingUp This does not end well for him.]]
* TheUnfought: He never confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on hired goons instead.
* TheRival: Of captain Barrows of the "Daisy Belle", a straightforward honest captain.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries to win the boatrace by disabling the safety valve of his steam engine. [[StuffBlowingUp This does not end well for him.]]
* TheUnfought: He never confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on hired goons instead.
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* {{Pirate}}: Captain Barrows calls AlliterativeName: '''Q'''uincy '''Q'''uarterhouse.
* TheDreaded: As a member of the KKK and a psychotic plantation owner, black people are afraid of him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: His racism prevents himthis, and he certainly has the methods of one. At one point he forces his passengers at gunpoint to dig his stranded boat out, and in the final stretch he dumps all his remaining passengers in Memphis, even those from realizing that had paid men like Luke don't view the world the same way he does and thinks that they're mad for not sharing his hatred of black people.
* EvilVersusEvil: He and the other KKK end up in a fight with the Daltons during the climax, with Joe strangling Quincy. It's one of the few times where the audience is expected to root for thefull trip Daltons.
* KilledOffForReal: It's all but stated that he was ''eaten by an alligator'' after the hurricane at the album's climax.
* NearVillainVictory: He is about toSt. Louis.
''burn Luke at the stake'' when [[VillainousRescue the Daltons intervene]], mistaking him and the other Klan members for a Native American tribe and buy Bass Reeves enough time to arrive with TheCavalry.
*TheRival: Of captain Barrows PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a Grand Wizard of the "Daisy Belle", a straightforward honest captain.
KKK and former slave owner.
*TimTaylorTechnology: Ultimately tries SlaveBrand: He used to win brand his slaves with "Q.Q.", which is why he's just called that by the boatrace by disabling the safety valve of his steam engine. [[StuffBlowingUp This does not end well for him.]]
* TheUnfought: He never confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on hired goons instead.black plantation workers.
* TheDreaded: As a member of the KKK and a psychotic plantation owner, black people are afraid of him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: His racism prevents him
* EvilVersusEvil: He and the other KKK end up in a fight with the Daltons during the climax, with Joe strangling Quincy. It's one of the few times where the audience is expected to root for the
* KilledOffForReal: It's all but stated that he was ''eaten by an alligator'' after the hurricane at the album's climax.
* NearVillainVictory: He is about to
*
*
* TheUnfought: He never confronts Lucky Luke directly, relying on hired goons instead.
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[[folder:Cards Devon]]
The first of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious gambler and con man.
The first of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious gambler and con man.
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The first
One of
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* CardSharp: Is a cheater and crook, which is why Lowriver hired him to delay the "Daisy Belle", by playing with Bang, the Daisy Belle's mechanic, and making him lose all of his money so he would be too busy trying to get his money back instead of helping the "Daisy Belle" catch up with the "Asbestos D. Plower".
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fight with Lucky Luke, which is over before anyone can place their bets.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Lucky Luke uses on him to get him to admit he was hired by Lowriver.
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fight with Lucky Luke, which is over before anyone can place their bets.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Lucky Luke uses on him to get him to admit he was hired by Lowriver.
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* CardSharp: Is AdaptedOut: He's not in the AnimatedAdaptation, his role being subsumed by Sinclair Rawlins.
* AffablyEvil: He's very polite for acheater gangster, and crook, which is why Lowriver hired him even grants Jeremiah Fallings' request to delay take a photo of him.
* TheDreaded: Is far more feared by the"Daisy Belle", by playing with Bang, Wells Fargo than any other outlaw, to the Daisy Belle's mechanic, and making him lose all of his money so he would be too busy trying to get his money back instead of helping the "Daisy Belle" catch up with the "Asbestos D. Plower".
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fightpoint that even with Lucky Luke's protection Hank Bully fears a confrontation with him and that the Wells Fargo has [[spoiler: the gold transported in secret in another diligence]]. Even Luke himself treats him with more caution than the other criminals.
* EvilGenius: He's actually just a grade school teacher, but considering that the average western outlaw can't even read, Black Bart's education puts him far ahead of the curve. He makes a dummy of himself in the middle of the road, allowing him to ambush Luke,which is over and likes to compose poetry for his crimes.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real-life Black Bart, AKA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw) Charles E. Boles]].
* KarmaHoudini: Flees when Luke disarms him, and manages to escape the heroes since he knows the area better than they do. It would be several years beforeanyone can place their bets.
the law caught up with him.
*JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: What Lucky Luke uses on him SecretIdentity: Black Bart is in reality a mild-mannered teacher named Charles Boles, though none of the characters find this out.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Wears a hood and robe toget him to admit he was hired by Lowriver.disguise his real identity.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Underneath his mask, Black Bart is a skinny, middle-aged man with a moustache and a receeding hairline.
* AffablyEvil: He's very polite for a
* TheDreaded: Is far more feared by the
* CurbStompBattle: Gets in a fist fight
* EvilGenius: He's actually just a grade school teacher, but considering that the average western outlaw can't even read, Black Bart's education puts him far ahead of the curve. He makes a dummy of himself in the middle of the road, allowing him to ambush Luke,
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real-life Black Bart, AKA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw) Charles E. Boles]].
* KarmaHoudini: Flees when Luke disarms him, and manages to escape the heroes since he knows the area better than they do. It would be several years before
*
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Wears a hood and robe to
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Underneath his mask, Black Bart is a skinny, middle-aged man with a moustache and a receeding hairline.
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[[folder:Hardhead Wilson]]
The second of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious brawler.
The second of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious brawler.
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The second
A humble, travelling minister who joins the characters on their journey to San Francisco in ''The Stagecoach'', hoping to spread the Good Word on the way - or so he claims. In reality, Rawlins is an outlaw, and the leader of
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* AchillesHeel: He's ticklish, which is what ultimately defeats him.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature. His sole presence is enough to make the Daisy Belle's crew wants to desert until Luke promises to protect them.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard to the point that it can damage machines and deflect bullets.
* UseYourHead: As his name implies, his head is nearly invulnerable and he can do serious damage with a headbutt.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature. His sole presence is enough to make the Daisy Belle's crew wants to desert until Luke promises to protect them.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard to the point that it can damage machines and deflect bullets.
* UseYourHead: As his name implies, his head is nearly invulnerable and he can do serious damage with a headbutt.
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* AchillesHeel: He's ticklish, which is what ultimately defeats him.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature.AdaptationExpansion: His sole presence role is enough to make the Daisy Belle's crew wants to desert until Luke promises to protect them.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw himexpanded in the river, an alligator attacks him. He headbutts it unconscious without a sweat.
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thingAnimatedAdaptation, where he's the Daisy Belle isn't transporting scrap iron. That... hurt.
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard tobiggest threat faced by the point that it can damage machines and deflect bullets.characters instead of Black Bart.
* AllForNothing: The gold wasn't even on the stagecoach in the first place, being transported to San Francisco by other means while all the attention as on the coach, making all of his efforts pointless.
*UseYourHead: As BookSafe: His bible is hollowed out and hides a gun.
* ConvictionByContradiction: Luke figures out he's fake by the fact that he only has some basic surface knowledge about hisname implies, his head is nearly invulnerable own religion and he can do serious damage with doesn't know what he's talking about.
* PreacherMan: Pretends to be one, and even dresses the part. It's all aheadbutt.lie.
* CrushingHandshake: He gives one to Lowriver after agreeing to work for him.
* TheDreaded: Nearly everyone is afraid of him for good reasons due to his strength and aggressive nature.
* MuggingTheMonster: After Luke manages to throw him
* NoSell: Lucky Luke's hardest punches have almost no effect on him.
* SuperStrength: Can throw large bales of cotton hard enough to flatten Lucky Luke against a wall, using only one hand.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': A good thing
* SuperToughness: He's so tough that Luke's best punches can only make him tickle. His head is also extremely hard to
* AllForNothing: The gold wasn't even on the stagecoach in the first place, being transported to San Francisco by other means while all the attention as on the coach, making all of his efforts pointless.
*
* ConvictionByContradiction: Luke figures out he's fake by the fact that he only has some basic surface knowledge about his
* PreacherMan: Pretends to be one, and even dresses the part. It's all a
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[[folder:Explosion Harris]]
The third of Lowriver's hired goons, a saboteur specializing in making bombs. The AnimatedAdaptation renames him to "Slag" and makes him Lowriver's permanent sidekick.
The third of Lowriver's hired goons, a saboteur specializing in making bombs. The AnimatedAdaptation renames him to "Slag" and makes him Lowriver's permanent sidekick.
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The third of Lowriver's hired goons, a saboteur specializing in making bombs. The AnimatedAdaptation renames him to "Slag"
A psychopathic prison warden obsessed with locking people and
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* AscendedExtra: In the original, he appears in just a few pages, but the animated version expanded his role.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Lucky Luke calmly returns his 'lost' suitcase to him, orders a drink, sits around for a bit and unhurriedly leaves, he becomes convinced that Luke already found and disabled the bomb inside. Turns out this was not the case.
* MadBomber: As his name implies.
* StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Lucky Luke calmly returns his 'lost' suitcase to him, orders a drink, sits around for a bit and unhurriedly leaves, he becomes convinced that Luke already found and disabled the bomb inside. Turns out this was not the case.
* MadBomber: As his name implies.
* StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.
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* AscendedExtra: In {{Expy}}: A very blatant expy of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
-->Darn taco-munchers. We oughtta build a wall between our countries.
* HateSink: One of theoriginal, he appears in just a very few pages, but the animated version expanded his role.
villains to make Lucky Luke himself genuinely angry.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:When Lucky Luke calmly returns He ends up locked up in his 'lost' suitcase own prison.
* NonActionBigBad: He leaves all the dirty work tohim, orders a drink, sits around for a bit hired hands.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He is openly racist, andunhurriedly leaves, he becomes convinced that Luke already found and disabled hates the bomb inside. Turns out this was not the case.
* MadBomber: As his name implies.
* StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.very concept of freedom.
-->Darn taco-munchers. We oughtta build a wall between our countries.
* HateSink: One of the
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
* NonActionBigBad: He leaves all the dirty work to
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He is openly racist, and
* MadBomber: As his name implies.
* StuffBlowingUp: Naturally.
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[[folder:Pistol Pete]]
The fourth and final goon hired by Lowriver, a gunman and hired killer.
The fourth and final goon hired by Lowriver, a gunman and hired killer.
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The fourth
A wealthy businessman and
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* AlliterativeName: '''P'''istol '''P'''ete.
* BerserkButton: He can't stand having his gunman skills being questioned, which is how Luke defeats him by questioning his skills so he would waste his bullets into proving his aiming abilities.
* CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: All the other clients of the hotel where he resides have left because of his presence and people fear for Lucky Luke's life when he goes to confront him and run when he orders them to leave him alone with Luke.
* TheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the point that captain Lowriver and many others believe that he can actually kill Lucky Luke. However Luke outplay him by tricking him into wasting his ammo on trick shots.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the air with his bullets.
* MuggingTheMonster: Even without his gun he proves to be too tough for an alligator.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in the game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.
* BerserkButton: He can't stand having his gunman skills being questioned, which is how Luke defeats him by questioning his skills so he would waste his bullets into proving his aiming abilities.
* CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: All the other clients of the hotel where he resides have left because of his presence and people fear for Lucky Luke's life when he goes to confront him and run when he orders them to leave him alone with Luke.
* TheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the point that captain Lowriver and many others believe that he can actually kill Lucky Luke. However Luke outplay him by tricking him into wasting his ammo on trick shots.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the air with his bullets.
* MuggingTheMonster: Even without his gun he proves to be too tough for an alligator.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in the game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.
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* AlliterativeName: '''P'''istol '''P'''ete.
* BerserkButton: He can't stand havingElmuhFuddSyndwome: Zilch has a large gap in his gunman skills being questioned, upper front teeth, which is how Luke defeats him by questioning his skills so he would waste his bullets into proving his aiming abilities.
covers with a large diamond. Unfortunately, it has a tendency to get knocked loose, and he talks like this without it.
*CountingBullets: Lucky Luke captures him by tricking him into wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
* TheDreaded: AllHeelFaceTurn: Zilch and Mulligan end up as business partners after the other clients of the hotel where he resides have left because of his presence and people fear for Lucky Luke's life climax, when he a visiting French businessman proposes that the rodeo and the circus merge together as a travelling Western show. The album ends with the group preparing for a tour through Europe.
* RemovingTheRival: Zilch goes toconfront him extremes to get rid of Mulligan and run when he orders his circus, including sending a hitman after them to leave him alone with Luke.
* TheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the point that captain Lowriverand many others believe that he can actually kill Lucky Luke. However Luke outplay him by tricking him into wasting his ammo on trick shots.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the air with his bullets.
* MuggingTheMonster: Even without his gun he proves to be too tough forinciting an alligator.
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in the game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.Indian attack.
* BerserkButton: He can't stand having
*
* TheDreaded: All
* RemovingTheRival: Zilch goes to
* TheGunSlinger: Is an excellent gunman, to the point that captain Lowriver
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can pierce coins and cut cards in the air with his bullets.
* MuggingTheMonster: Even without his gun he proves to be too tough for
-->'''Lucky Luke''': Good riddance. But aren't there alligators around here?\\
'''Captain Barrows''': Yes... Not their lucky day, Pistol Pete is tough.\\
'''Alligator''': I've been bitten by a human...
* ProfessionalKiller: Seems to have been in the game for a long time and with fixed prices one should add.
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[[folder:Mad Jim]]
An early enemy of Lucky Luke who happens to look exactly like him.
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* CriminalDoppelganger: Not only does he look just like Luke, but he dresses just like him too.
* EvilDetectingDog: Jolly Jumper immediately can tell Mad Jim is not the real Luke as he tries to ride him. In fact, he is used to tell Jim and Luke apart later on.
* KilledOffForReal: He's the only villain Luke is known to have actually killed (Phil Defer was SparedByTheAdaptation, and Bob Dalton's death was dropped at the sketching stage).
* StarterVillain: One of the earliest enemies ever faced by Luke, and the first notable one. He was preceded only by the somewhat forgettable Cactus Kid, Big Belly, and Cigarette Caesar.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Coyote Will, Beastly Blubber and Dopey]]
A trio of opportunistic criminals and land grabbers, using the colonization of Oklahoma as an opportunity to illegally grab all the best land for themselves.
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* AllForNothing: The villains scheming turns out to be completely pointless as the poor land and arid climate of Oklahoma isn't suited for traditional settlements. It ''is'' rich in oil, but it wasn't a useful resource at the time.
* CreepyMortician: After Dopey's heel-face turn, the local undertaker replaces him. He's one of the few undertakers in the series to actually join the bad guys instead of merely hoping that they will be good for business.
* DumbMuscle: Both Blubber and Dopey serve as this for Coyote Will. Dopey gets better.
* GrewASpine: Dopey after being elected mayor.
* HeelFaceTurn: In one of the best arcs of the series, Dopey goes from a DumbMuscle mook to an honest politician with Luke's support. He completes it by turning on his former boss even after everything falls apart.
* MayorPain: Coyote Will was depending on Dopey serving as this for him after he's elected mayor of Boomtown, but Luke convinces Dopey to be an honest leader.
* NominatedAsAPrank: Dopey's candidacy for mayor is considered hilarious by everyone. But since half the town is running and there are no clear favorites, people vote for him as a joke. He wins in a landslide.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: After things start going downhill, Coyote Will's newspaper keeps using the word "infamous" to describe Mayor Dopey. Will admits that people not knowing what it means is what makes it so effective.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Soapy Smith]]
A con man who runs the saloon in Skagway, sells worthless claims to the gold diggers there and operates a fake telegraph line, almost exactly like his historical counterpart. Luke encounters him when he and Waldo come looking for Waldo's old friend Jasper who went missing after finding gold.
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* TheArtifact: The name "Soapy" was a nickname given to the real-life Smith thanks to his prize soap racket in Denver in the late 1870's, where he sold bars of soap with dollar bills supposedly hidden in the wrapping as prizes (and the only people who ever got these "prizes" were his henchmen). This is not explained in the story, which takes place almost 20 years later after Smith set up shop in Klondike to take advantage of the gold rush.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Luke manipulates him into admitting his telegraph is fake in front of the gold diggers.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A comic-book version of con artist and gangster [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith Jefferson Randolph Smith II]], aka "Soapy" Smith.
* NotMeThisTime: Although he did sell Jasper a worthless claim and serves as the main antagonist of the story, he is actually not responsible for Jasper's ultimate disappearance.
* RunningGag: During every confrontation Luke forces him to twirl his gun around his finger, in the end making his trigger finger too swollen to actually operate his gun.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Quincy Quarterhouse]]
Also known as Q.Q., he's a rich asshole and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Lucky Luke comes into conflict with after inheriting a plantation.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Q'''uincy '''Q'''uarterhouse.
* TheDreaded: As a member of the KKK and a psychotic plantation owner, black people are afraid of him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: His racism prevents him from realizing that men like Luke don't view the world the same way he does and thinks that they're mad for not sharing his hatred of black people.
* EvilVersusEvil: He and the other KKK end up in a fight with the Daltons during the climax, with Joe strangling Quincy. It's one of the few times where the audience is expected to root for the Daltons.
* KilledOffForReal: It's all but stated that he was ''eaten by an alligator'' after the hurricane at the album's climax.
* NearVillainVictory: He is about to ''burn Luke at the stake'' when [[VillainousRescue the Daltons intervene]], mistaking him and the other Klan members for a Native American tribe and buy Bass Reeves enough time to arrive with TheCavalry.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a Grand Wizard of the KKK and former slave owner.
* SlaveBrand: He used to brand his slaves with "Q.Q.", which is why he's just called that by the black plantation workers.
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[[folder:Black Bart]]
One of several outlaws that try to rob the Wells Fargo gold shipment in ''The Stagecoach'', and the one who came the closest to doing so, Black Bart is an unusually intelligent and sophisticated outlaw, and one of ''very'' few villains to get the drop on Lucky Luke.
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* AdaptedOut: He's not in the AnimatedAdaptation, his role being subsumed by Sinclair Rawlins.
* AffablyEvil: He's very polite for a gangster, and even grants Jeremiah Fallings' request to take a photo of him.
* TheDreaded: Is far more feared by the Wells Fargo than any other outlaw, to the point that even with Lucky Luke's protection Hank Bully fears a confrontation with him and that the Wells Fargo has [[spoiler: the gold transported in secret in another diligence]]. Even Luke himself treats him with more caution than the other criminals.
* EvilGenius: He's actually just a grade school teacher, but considering that the average western outlaw can't even read, Black Bart's education puts him far ahead of the curve. He makes a dummy of himself in the middle of the road, allowing him to ambush Luke, and likes to compose poetry for his crimes.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real-life Black Bart, AKA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw) Charles E. Boles]].
* KarmaHoudini: Flees when Luke disarms him, and manages to escape the heroes since he knows the area better than they do. It would be several years before the law caught up with him.
* SecretIdentity: Black Bart is in reality a mild-mannered teacher named Charles Boles, though none of the characters find this out.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Wears a hood and robe to disguise his real identity.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Underneath his mask, Black Bart is a skinny, middle-aged man with a moustache and a receeding hairline.
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[[folder:Sinclair Rawlins]]
A humble, travelling minister who joins the characters on their journey to San Francisco in ''The Stagecoach'', hoping to spread the Good Word on the way - or so he claims. In reality, Rawlins is an outlaw, and the leader of the criminals that try to ambush the stagecoach at several points, hoping to steal the gold shipment it carries.
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* AdaptationExpansion: His role is expanded in the AnimatedAdaptation, where he's the biggest threat faced by the characters instead of Black Bart.
* AllForNothing: The gold wasn't even on the stagecoach in the first place, being transported to San Francisco by other means while all the attention as on the coach, making all of his efforts pointless.
* BookSafe: His bible is hollowed out and hides a gun.
* ConvictionByContradiction: Luke figures out he's fake by the fact that he only has some basic surface knowledge about his own religion and doesn't know what he's talking about.
* PreacherMan: Pretends to be one, and even dresses the part. It's all a lie.
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[[folder:Abraham Locker]]
A psychopathic prison warden obsessed with locking people and animals up, he wants to use the site of the Statue of Liberty for a high-security prison instead and thus has the attempts to transport the statue to the US from France sabotaged.
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* {{Expy}}: A very blatant expy of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
-->Darn taco-munchers. We oughtta build a wall between our countries.
* HateSink: One of the very few villains to make Lucky Luke himself genuinely angry.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He ends up locked up in his own prison.
* NonActionBigBad: He leaves all the dirty work to hired hands.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He is openly racist, and he hates the very concept of freedom.
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[[folder:D.T Zilch]]
A wealthy businessman and organizer of the popular Fort Coyote Annual Rodeo, Zilch is willing to resort to drastic measures to ensure that ringmaster Erasmus Mulligan and his Western Circus won't be any competition for his rodeo.
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* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Zilch has a large gap in his upper front teeth, which he covers with a large diamond. Unfortunately, it has a tendency to get knocked loose, and he talks like this without it.
* HeelFaceTurn: Zilch and Mulligan end up as business partners after the climax, when a visiting French businessman proposes that the rodeo and the circus merge together as a travelling Western show. The album ends with the group preparing for a tour through Europe.
* RemovingTheRival: Zilch goes to extremes to get rid of Mulligan and his circus, including sending a hitman after them and inciting an Indian attack.
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[[folder:Bill]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Éric Kristy
A singer and banjo player who performs the eponymous ballad in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' (both the film and the ComicBookAdaptation).
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* TheBard: He's a singer and banjo player who tells a story about the Dalton Brothers.
* {{Bluegrass}}: Accompanies his singing with his banjo.
* CanonImmigrant: Originated in the animated film ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and made it to the comics canon via the ComicBookAdaptation.
* GoofyBuckteeth: Not too goofy but he still has prominent front teeth.
* GreekChorus: His ballad's lyrics include comments on what's going on in the story.
* MoralityBallad: The morality of the "Ballad of the Daltons"? Respect the law... and learn QuickDraw.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Marcel Bozzuffi (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]''), Daniel Ceccaldi (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''), Jacques Thébault (''WesternAnimation/{{Lucky Luke|1983}}''), Antoine de Caunes (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/LambertWilson (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), Creator/EmmylouHoms (''Kid Lucky'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Peter Wanngren
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/TerenceHill (1991 film), Creator/TilSchweiger (''The Daltons''; 2004 film), Creator/JeanDujardin ([[Film/LuckyLuke2009 2009 film]])
The title character, a lonesome cowboy far from home, drifting around the West. Being slow on words, but quick on reflexes, he's known to shoot faster than his own shadow.
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* TheAce: Even without taking his ImprobableAimingSkills in account, he is physically strong enough to defeat much bigger opponents than him in a bare hands fight, [[GuileHero cunning and smart enough to manipulate the enemies he can't defeat by force]], BornLucky and [[OnlySaneMan has more common sense than most people he meets]].
* AddictionDisplacement: Late in the Morris series he [[NoSmoking quits smoking]], and takes up a habit of on chewing on a wheatstalk instead.
* AlliterativeName: '''Lu'''cky '''Lu'''ke.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He is selfless, altruistic, and always does the right thing... but you ''don't'' want to make him angry.
-->'''Luke:''' Here, [hands a cigarette] savor it, you don't get to smoke much at the end of a rope.
* BornLucky: Hence the nickname, he has great luck tracking. It serves as PlotArmor in situations where Luke would have been shot dead without ever being able to react to.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Usually subverted for the most part, as he's developed a sweet [[PlatonicLifePartners platonic relationship]] with Calamity Jane and he seems totally fine when he's given the chance, but when any woman tries to make a move on him, he instantly [[FreakOut freaks out]].
* CatchPhrase: "Yep!"
* CelibateHero: While this was frequent at the times in Franco-Belgian comics, Lucky Luke deserves a special mention in that he is explicitly stated to dislike the very concept of being in a relationship. In one book, when asked to escort a group of women to a new town, he [[FreakOut freaks out]] [[AllergicToLove at the mere sight of the women]] and almost refuses to provide his help until being convinced nothing will happen. He's also been quoted as saying "Marriage is nothing but a charming mistake two humans make together," and even his theme song, "I'm A Poor Lonesome Cowboy" includes a verse about not wanting any relationships.
-->I'm a poor lonesome cowboy,\\
But it doesn't bother me,\\
For this poor lonesome cowboy\\
Prefers a horse for company.\\
Got nothing against women,\\
But I wave them all goodbye.\\
My horse and me keep riding;\\
We don't like being tied.
* ChickMagnet: Kinda ironic, considering that he's a CelibateHero, who has made it clear even in his {{Leitmotif}} that he's against the idea of settling down, but quite many female characters (and real life women for that matter) show affection towards him and find him attractive.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome:
** Tends to bring his help to whoever he meets during his journeys. There ''are'' some occasions where he tries to leave them to their fate, frequently out of frustration about their stupidity (particularly when it comes to [[CardboardPrison the Warden's inability to keep the Daltons contained in jail]]), but either [[ChangedMyMindKid he eventually comes back having changed his mind]], or [[GuileHero it turns out he was only faking his departure as part of a manipulation]].
** Averted in The Rivals of Painful Gulch. He wanted out but the bridge he was crossing blew up due to one of the families' antics. He came back solely for revenge.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He is the only one who understands how Rantanplan thinks. One sketch had him ask the dog for various tools and him naturally bringing always the wrong one but Luke was happy because he knew he wouldn't get it right and deliberately asked for the wrong ones in order for Rantanplan to bring the right ones. This implies that he knows which items TheDitz will mistake for which.
* CombatPragmatism: When faced by someone who can legitimately challenge him or by many foes, he prefers to use his cunning to defeat them. For example after one draw with Averell Dalton during their first fist fight, he introduces a mosquito in Averell's room during the night, so Averell will be too tired during their rematch. He also tricks Phil Defer into exposing himself during their duel, by making it look like he shot all his bullets while his gun is in fact a seven shot revolver, and later tricks Pistol Pete into wasting his ammo by playing with Pete's ego.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''Bounty Hunter'', towards titular BountyHunter Elliot Belt. During the album, Belt showed himself willing to provoke a war between the local Indians and settlers to capture a man and tried to kill Luke when the latter proved the man was actually innocent. Because of his actions, [[LaserGuidedKarma Belt ends up a wanted man himself]], but after capturing him Luke asks the sheriff to release him... [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment So that Elliot Belt would have to spend the rest of his life fleeing bounty hunters and would learn what it is like to be hunted down.]] And since the reward on his head is quite big, a lot of bounty hunters are going to chase after Belt. BewareTheNiceOnes indeed!
* DeadpanSnarker: Being one of the few with a sound mind, he's sure to do this from time to time.
* TheDreaded: He is Lucky Luke, THE Lucky Luke. His name brings dread only to outlaws and villains however. In "The Tenderfoot" when he told a lynch mob that surrounded him to stand down, bring Waldo for due process and avoid a bloodbath (Luke only had Waldo and himself against almost ten person), they comply with one simply explaining: Ever saw Lucky Luke shooting?
* TheDrifter: One of the most classic examples of the trope. Almost all his adventures can be summed up as him arriving in a particular place, helping the locals with their current issue, then leaving galloping toward the sunset while singing he is a poor lonesome cowboy.
* FastestGunInTheWest: Enough (and also iconic enough) to be the image for the page.
* GuileHero: Despite being best-known for his skills as a marksman, he actually defeats a lot of his opponents by outsmarting them rather than by force. The Daltons, especially, he usually takes down by outsmarting them rather than actually fighting them.
* TheGunslinger: Well, he ''is'' a cowboy.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: In the 2009 movie, his mother was an American Native, allowing the PoliticallyIncorrectVillain to get in a few racist digs at him. The subject hasn't come up in the comics, though.
* HonorBeforeReason: Has an unfortunate tendency of following this even in life-or-death situations. Eg. in the ''Daltons' Mother'' Ma Dalton came really close to shooting him dead, just because he refused to duel an old lady, despite the fact that he could own the rights to the BlastingItOutOfTheirHands trope! Would not disarm a girl much?
* HumbleHero: He walks away before being thanked, turn down bounties by asking the sheriff to give it to charity and his only replies when someone ask him if he is THE Lucky Luke is a nonchalant "yep".
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Possibly the best-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* LastNameBasis: According to the 2009 movie, his full name is really John Luke.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://youtu.be/6XStbIfIQFM "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy"]], which was introduced in ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown''.
* LivingLegend: Almost everybody in-universe has heard of him.
* MeaningfulName: He was possibly BornLucky.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: He is rather skinny, but he can easily outmatch much bigger and more muscular people than him in brawl.
* NotSoStoic: It is rare to see Luke actually moved and when he does his expression barely changes. A Jewish mom notices he is touched by her grandson's violin performance when he lets his straw hang out of his mouth a bit more and after reading an old friend's last request he is unable to roll a cigarette.
* OnlySaneMan: Quite often, due to him often running in towns full of crazy people. This typically tends to irritate him, as people are unlikely to listen to reason, forcing him to [[GuileHero manipulate them into solving their problems]].
* ParodySue: He can easily face opponents bigger than him ([[MusclesAreMeaningless despite not being drawn as physically strong]]), is a LivingLegend in-universe, a skilled {{Gunslinger}} who is good at everything he does (well, except from [[CannotTalkToWomen talking to women]]) and sometimes he doesn't need to use his reflexes, as he can just outsmart his opponents. Considering that the series is an AffectionateParody of TheWestern genre, it's all PlayedForLaughs.
* PhraseCatcher: "Lucky Luke? Not ''the'' Lucky Luke?"
* RelativeButton: Jolly Jumper is the closest thing he has that passes for friend and family. When he is kidnapped, Luke is shaking down people by threatening to blow their head off.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: There aren't many people so willing to screw money as much as he is. He simply doesn't care. Heck trying to bribe him to do something immoral is a BerserkButton that once pressed activates the punching system.
* SmokingIsCool: [[OralFixation Until he replaced it with a wheatstalk.]] This has been {{Lampshaded}} and made fun of in both comics and adaptations.
** In the 2007 animated movie, ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'' there's a brief scene where he bonds with Native American Chief Crazy Wolf over the hardships of giving up smoking:
--->'''Crazy Wolf:''' Ooooh, Crazy Wolf finally gave up smoking!\\
'''Lucky Luke:''' Yep, me too!\\
'''Crazy Wolf:''' Did you suffer from many cravings?\\
'''Lucky Luke:''' Yep -- I had to chew on a piece of straw for a long time.
** In the 2009 live-action movie, there's a short scene playing during the [[CreativeClosingCredits closing credits]], where Lucky Luke is sitting with his back to the camera, smoking a cigarette. Then he realizes the camera is on him, does a double take, throws away the cigarette and replaces it with the familiar piece of straw before turning back to the audience and saying, somewhat sheepishly: "Hello! My name is Lucky Luke. I quit smoking back in '83. I feel much better now."
** It becomes an important plot point in the 2016 DarkerAndEdgier book ''L'Homme qui tua Lucky Luke'' ("The man who killed Lucky Luke") by Matthieu Bonhomme. In said book, Lucky Luke meets a man named Doc Holiday, himself a chainsmoker whose lungs are starting to get the better of him. [[spoiler: Doc later notices Luke's hands shaking from withdrawal after he was forced to stop smoking for a few days due to a tobacco shortage in town. Worried about Luke getting fatally shot because of this, he impersonates him in a duel and gets shot in the back by his opponent's father, who then brags about being [[TitleDrop the man who killed Lucky Luke]]. He uses his LastWords to beg a distraught Luke to quit smoking before it is too late]]. At the end of the book, Luke is then seen picking up a piece of straw [[spoiler: from Doc's grave]] and starts chewing on it as he leaves the town.
** The comics themselves made a few jokes about Luke having quit smoking. In one album, a politician offered a smoke to Luke before remembering he had quit. He then offered a wheatstalk for Luke to chew on, but Luke politely declined, saying he was trying to cut down on wheatstalks.
** In another album, the Daltons fake amnesia in order to get pardoned, and Luke tries to call their bluff by offering a feast to Averell... who unfortunately is the one brother whose amnesia is genuine, and who states he isn't hungry. Luke tries to tempt him by digging in and praising how excellent the food is, causing an overhearing Jolly Jumper to remark that Luke's appetite has certainly grown since he quit smoking.
* SuperReflexes: Combined with ImprobableAimingSkills, it makes him the deadliest shooter the Old West has ever known. As time went on, he became faster and preferred BlastingItOutOfTheirHands [[CharacterDevelopment over plain killing]].
* SuperSpeed: A RunningGag is that he's consistently faster at drawing his gun than even his own shadow ([[NoodleIncident except for that one time where his shadow was faster]]).
* VagueAge: Much like ComicBook/{{Asterix}}, Luke's age is never told, with the usual lampshading of "he looks good for his age" "what's his age, by the way?" happening from time to time. In ''L'Homme qui tua Lucky Luke'', when asked about it, Luke says he forgot his age.
* AddictionDisplacement: Late in the Morris series he [[NoSmoking quits smoking]], and takes up a habit of on chewing on a wheatstalk instead.
* AlliterativeName: '''Lu'''cky '''Lu'''ke.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He is selfless, altruistic, and always does the right thing... but you ''don't'' want to make him angry.
-->'''Luke:''' Here, [hands a cigarette] savor it, you don't get to smoke much at the end of a rope.
* BornLucky: Hence the nickname, he has great luck tracking. It serves as PlotArmor in situations where Luke would have been shot dead without ever being able to react to.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Usually subverted for the most part, as he's developed a sweet [[PlatonicLifePartners platonic relationship]] with Calamity Jane and he seems totally fine when he's given the chance, but when any woman tries to make a move on him, he instantly [[FreakOut freaks out]].
* CatchPhrase: "Yep!"
* CelibateHero: While this was frequent at the times in Franco-Belgian comics, Lucky Luke deserves a special mention in that he is explicitly stated to dislike the very concept of being in a relationship. In one book, when asked to escort a group of women to a new town, he [[FreakOut freaks out]] [[AllergicToLove at the mere sight of the women]] and almost refuses to provide his help until being convinced nothing will happen. He's also been quoted as saying "Marriage is nothing but a charming mistake two humans make together," and even his theme song, "I'm A Poor Lonesome Cowboy" includes a verse about not wanting any relationships.
-->I'm a poor lonesome cowboy,\\
But it doesn't bother me,\\
For this poor lonesome cowboy\\
Prefers a horse for company.\\
Got nothing against women,\\
But I wave them all goodbye.\\
My horse and me keep riding;\\
We don't like being tied.
* ChickMagnet: Kinda ironic, considering that he's a CelibateHero, who has made it clear even in his {{Leitmotif}} that he's against the idea of settling down, but quite many female characters (and real life women for that matter) show affection towards him and find him attractive.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome:
** Tends to bring his help to whoever he meets during his journeys. There ''are'' some occasions where he tries to leave them to their fate, frequently out of frustration about their stupidity (particularly when it comes to [[CardboardPrison the Warden's inability to keep the Daltons contained in jail]]), but either [[ChangedMyMindKid he eventually comes back having changed his mind]], or [[GuileHero it turns out he was only faking his departure as part of a manipulation]].
** Averted in The Rivals of Painful Gulch. He wanted out but the bridge he was crossing blew up due to one of the families' antics. He came back solely for revenge.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He is the only one who understands how Rantanplan thinks. One sketch had him ask the dog for various tools and him naturally bringing always the wrong one but Luke was happy because he knew he wouldn't get it right and deliberately asked for the wrong ones in order for Rantanplan to bring the right ones. This implies that he knows which items TheDitz will mistake for which.
* CombatPragmatism: When faced by someone who can legitimately challenge him or by many foes, he prefers to use his cunning to defeat them. For example after one draw with Averell Dalton during their first fist fight, he introduces a mosquito in Averell's room during the night, so Averell will be too tired during their rematch. He also tricks Phil Defer into exposing himself during their duel, by making it look like he shot all his bullets while his gun is in fact a seven shot revolver, and later tricks Pistol Pete into wasting his ammo by playing with Pete's ego.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''Bounty Hunter'', towards titular BountyHunter Elliot Belt. During the album, Belt showed himself willing to provoke a war between the local Indians and settlers to capture a man and tried to kill Luke when the latter proved the man was actually innocent. Because of his actions, [[LaserGuidedKarma Belt ends up a wanted man himself]], but after capturing him Luke asks the sheriff to release him... [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment So that Elliot Belt would have to spend the rest of his life fleeing bounty hunters and would learn what it is like to be hunted down.]] And since the reward on his head is quite big, a lot of bounty hunters are going to chase after Belt. BewareTheNiceOnes indeed!
* DeadpanSnarker: Being one of the few with a sound mind, he's sure to do this from time to time.
* TheDreaded: He is Lucky Luke, THE Lucky Luke. His name brings dread only to outlaws and villains however. In "The Tenderfoot" when he told a lynch mob that surrounded him to stand down, bring Waldo for due process and avoid a bloodbath (Luke only had Waldo and himself against almost ten person), they comply with one simply explaining: Ever saw Lucky Luke shooting?
* TheDrifter: One of the most classic examples of the trope. Almost all his adventures can be summed up as him arriving in a particular place, helping the locals with their current issue, then leaving galloping toward the sunset while singing he is a poor lonesome cowboy.
* FastestGunInTheWest: Enough (and also iconic enough) to be the image for the page.
* GuileHero: Despite being best-known for his skills as a marksman, he actually defeats a lot of his opponents by outsmarting them rather than by force. The Daltons, especially, he usually takes down by outsmarting them rather than actually fighting them.
* TheGunslinger: Well, he ''is'' a cowboy.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: In the 2009 movie, his mother was an American Native, allowing the PoliticallyIncorrectVillain to get in a few racist digs at him. The subject hasn't come up in the comics, though.
* HonorBeforeReason: Has an unfortunate tendency of following this even in life-or-death situations. Eg. in the ''Daltons' Mother'' Ma Dalton came really close to shooting him dead, just because he refused to duel an old lady, despite the fact that he could own the rights to the BlastingItOutOfTheirHands trope! Would not disarm a girl much?
* HumbleHero: He walks away before being thanked, turn down bounties by asking the sheriff to give it to charity and his only replies when someone ask him if he is THE Lucky Luke is a nonchalant "yep".
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Possibly the best-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* LastNameBasis: According to the 2009 movie, his full name is really John Luke.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://youtu.be/6XStbIfIQFM "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy"]], which was introduced in ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown''.
* LivingLegend: Almost everybody in-universe has heard of him.
* MeaningfulName: He was possibly BornLucky.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: He is rather skinny, but he can easily outmatch much bigger and more muscular people than him in brawl.
* NotSoStoic: It is rare to see Luke actually moved and when he does his expression barely changes. A Jewish mom notices he is touched by her grandson's violin performance when he lets his straw hang out of his mouth a bit more and after reading an old friend's last request he is unable to roll a cigarette.
* OnlySaneMan: Quite often, due to him often running in towns full of crazy people. This typically tends to irritate him, as people are unlikely to listen to reason, forcing him to [[GuileHero manipulate them into solving their problems]].
* ParodySue: He can easily face opponents bigger than him ([[MusclesAreMeaningless despite not being drawn as physically strong]]), is a LivingLegend in-universe, a skilled {{Gunslinger}} who is good at everything he does (well, except from [[CannotTalkToWomen talking to women]]) and sometimes he doesn't need to use his reflexes, as he can just outsmart his opponents. Considering that the series is an AffectionateParody of TheWestern genre, it's all PlayedForLaughs.
* PhraseCatcher: "Lucky Luke? Not ''the'' Lucky Luke?"
* RelativeButton: Jolly Jumper is the closest thing he has that passes for friend and family. When he is kidnapped, Luke is shaking down people by threatening to blow their head off.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: There aren't many people so willing to screw money as much as he is. He simply doesn't care. Heck trying to bribe him to do something immoral is a BerserkButton that once pressed activates the punching system.
* SmokingIsCool: [[OralFixation Until he replaced it with a wheatstalk.]] This has been {{Lampshaded}} and made fun of in both comics and adaptations.
** In the 2007 animated movie, ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'' there's a brief scene where he bonds with Native American Chief Crazy Wolf over the hardships of giving up smoking:
--->'''Crazy Wolf:''' Ooooh, Crazy Wolf finally gave up smoking!\\
'''Lucky Luke:''' Yep, me too!\\
'''Crazy Wolf:''' Did you suffer from many cravings?\\
'''Lucky Luke:''' Yep -- I had to chew on a piece of straw for a long time.
** In the 2009 live-action movie, there's a short scene playing during the [[CreativeClosingCredits closing credits]], where Lucky Luke is sitting with his back to the camera, smoking a cigarette. Then he realizes the camera is on him, does a double take, throws away the cigarette and replaces it with the familiar piece of straw before turning back to the audience and saying, somewhat sheepishly: "Hello! My name is Lucky Luke. I quit smoking back in '83. I feel much better now."
** It becomes an important plot point in the 2016 DarkerAndEdgier book ''L'Homme qui tua Lucky Luke'' ("The man who killed Lucky Luke") by Matthieu Bonhomme. In said book, Lucky Luke meets a man named Doc Holiday, himself a chainsmoker whose lungs are starting to get the better of him. [[spoiler: Doc later notices Luke's hands shaking from withdrawal after he was forced to stop smoking for a few days due to a tobacco shortage in town. Worried about Luke getting fatally shot because of this, he impersonates him in a duel and gets shot in the back by his opponent's father, who then brags about being [[TitleDrop the man who killed Lucky Luke]]. He uses his LastWords to beg a distraught Luke to quit smoking before it is too late]]. At the end of the book, Luke is then seen picking up a piece of straw [[spoiler: from Doc's grave]] and starts chewing on it as he leaves the town.
** The comics themselves made a few jokes about Luke having quit smoking. In one album, a politician offered a smoke to Luke before remembering he had quit. He then offered a wheatstalk for Luke to chew on, but Luke politely declined, saying he was trying to cut down on wheatstalks.
** In another album, the Daltons fake amnesia in order to get pardoned, and Luke tries to call their bluff by offering a feast to Averell... who unfortunately is the one brother whose amnesia is genuine, and who states he isn't hungry. Luke tries to tempt him by digging in and praising how excellent the food is, causing an overhearing Jolly Jumper to remark that Luke's appetite has certainly grown since he quit smoking.
* SuperReflexes: Combined with ImprobableAimingSkills, it makes him the deadliest shooter the Old West has ever known. As time went on, he became faster and preferred BlastingItOutOfTheirHands [[CharacterDevelopment over plain killing]].
* SuperSpeed: A RunningGag is that he's consistently faster at drawing his gun than even his own shadow ([[NoodleIncident except for that one time where his shadow was faster]]).
* VagueAge: Much like ComicBook/{{Asterix}}, Luke's age is never told, with the usual lampshading of "he looks good for his age" "what's his age, by the way?" happening from time to time. In ''L'Homme qui tua Lucky Luke'', when asked about it, Luke says he forgot his age.
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* TheAce: Even without taking his ImprobableAimingSkills ActionGirl: Which helps a lot in account, he is physically strong enough to defeat much bigger opponents than him dealing with the trouble in a bare hands fight, [[GuileHero cunning and smart enough to manipulate the enemies he can't defeat by force]], BornLucky and [[OnlySaneMan has more common sense than most people he meets]].
Wild West setting.
*AddictionDisplacement: Late in the Morris series he [[NoSmoking quits smoking]], and takes up a habit of on chewing on a wheatstalk instead.
* AlliterativeName: '''Lu'''cky '''Lu'''ke.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He is selfless, altruistic, and always does the right thing... but you ''don't'' want to make him angry.
-->'''Luke:''' Here, [hands a cigarette] savor it, you don't get to smoke much at the end of a rope.
* BornLucky: Hence the nickname, he has great luck tracking. It serves as PlotArmor in situations where Luke would haveAdaptedOut: Since she had been shot dead without ever being able to react to.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Usually subverted for the most part,firmly established as he's developed a sweet [[PlatonicLifePartners platonic relationship]] with Calamity Jane and he seems totally fine when he's given the chance, but when any woman tries to make a move on him, he instantly [[FreakOut freaks out]].
* CatchPhrase: "Yep!"
* CelibateHero: While this was frequent at the times in Franco-Belgian comics,an ally of Lucky Luke deserves a special mention in that he is explicitly stated to dislike by the very concept time the comics were adapted for the animated series, the adaptation of being in ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'' (in which she was featured as a relationship. In one book, when asked to escort a group of villain, see HistoricalVillainUpgrade below) replaces her with Ma Dalton.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect womento in her presence if you value your life.
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from anew town, he [[FreakOut freaks out]] [[AllergicToLove at the mere sight bunch of the women]] and almost refuses to provide his help until being convinced nothing will happen. He's also been quoted as saying "Marriage is nothing but a charming mistake two humans make together," and even his theme song, "I'm A Poor Lonesome Cowboy" includes a verse about not wanting any relationships.
-->I'm a poor lonesome cowboy,\\
But it doesn't bother me,\\
For this poor lonesome cowboy\\
Prefers a horse for company.\\
Got nothing against women,\\
But I wave them all goodbye.\\
My horse and me keep riding;\\
We don't like being tied.
* ChickMagnet: Kinda ironic, considering that he's a CelibateHero, who has made it clear even in his {{Leitmotif}} that he's against the ideaNatives of settling down, but quite many her own.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied all the time. At multiple points characters(and real life women for that matter) show affection towards him and find him attractive.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome:
** Tendswill try to bring his help to whoever he meets during his journeys. There ''are'' some occasions where he tries to leave them to their fate, frequently out of frustration about their stupidity (particularly when it comes to [[CardboardPrison the Warden's inability to keep the Daltons contained in jail]]), but either [[ChangedMyMindKid he eventually comes back having changed his mind]], attack or [[GuileHero it turns out he was kidnap her, assuming she is just a harmless woman, only faking his departure as part of a manipulation]].
** Averted in The Rivals of Painful Gulch. He wanted out but the bridge he was crossing blew up due to one of the families' antics. He came back solely for revenge.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He is the only one who understands how Rantanplan thinks. One sketch had him ask the dog for various tools and him naturally bringing always the wrong one but Luke was happy because he knew he wouldn't get it right and deliberately asked for the wrong ones in order for Rantanplan to bring the right ones. This implies that he knows which items TheDitz will mistake for which.
* CombatPragmatism: When faced by someone who can legitimately challenge him or by many foes, he prefers to use his cunning to defeat them. For example after one draw with Averell Dalton during their first fist fight, he introduces a mosquito in Averell's room during the night, so Averell will be too tired during their rematch. He also tricks Phil Defer into exposing himself during their duel, by making it look like he shot all his bullets while his gun is in fact a seven shot revolver, and later tricks Pistol Pete into wasting his ammo by playing with Pete's ego.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''Bounty Hunter'', towards titular BountyHunter Elliot Belt. During the album, Belt showed himself willing to provoke a war between the local Indians and settlers to capture a man and tried to kill Luke when the latter proved the man was actually innocent. Because of his actions, [[LaserGuidedKarma Belt ends up a wanted man himself]], but after capturing him Luke asks the sheriff to release him... [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment So that Elliot Belt would have to spend the rest of his life fleeing bounty hunters and would learn what it is liketo be hunted down.]] And since the reward on his head is quite big, in for a lot of bounty hunters are going to chase after Belt. BewareTheNiceOnes indeed!
* DeadpanSnarker: Being one of the few with a sound mind, he's sure to do this from time to time.
very bad surprise.
* TheDreaded:He is Lucky Luke, THE Lucky Luke. His name brings dread only to outlaws She's feared by cowboys and villains however. In "The Tenderfoot" when he told natives alike, with a lynch mob that surrounded him to stand down, bring Waldo for due process and avoid a bloodbath (Luke only had Waldo and himself against almost ten person), tribe of natives retreating once they comply with one simply explaining: Ever saw Lucky Luke shooting?
* TheDrifter: Onerecognize her. A group of the most classic examples of the trope. Almost all his adventures can be summed up as him arriving in bandits exploit this, by creating a particular place, helping the locals with their current issue, then leaving galloping toward the sunset while singing he is a poor lonesome cowboy.
* FastestGunInTheWest: Enough (and also iconic enough) to be the image for the page.
* GuileHero: Despitehoax story about her being best-known for his skills as a marksman, he actually defeats witch and ghost, and using a lot dummy of his opponents by outsmarting them rather than by force. The Daltons, especially, he usually takes down by outsmarting them rather than actually fighting them.
to scare away intruders.
* TheGunslinger:Well, he ''is'' She aims superbly and she's a cowboy.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: In the 2009 movie, his mother was an American Native, allowing the PoliticallyIncorrectVillain to get in a few racist digs at him. The subject hasn't come up in the comics, though.
* HonorBeforeReason: Has an unfortunate tendency of following thisquick shot even in life-or-death situations. Eg. in the ''Daltons' Mother'' Ma Dalton came really with a Winchester.
* FieryRedhead: Her temper is more fiery than her hair.
* HappilyMarried: She claims to have been married to Wild Bill Hickok, a famous real-life gunslinger, until he was killed.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted; while not ''exactly'' portrayed as identical to her real life counterpart, she is still pretty closeto shooting him dead, just because he refused to duel an old lady, despite the fact (the biggest difference is that he could own she is skinnier), and the rights to comic does not make her particularly prettier, instead settling for a plain look.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on theBlastingItOutOfTheirHands trope! Would not disarm a girl much?
real life UsefulNotes/CalamityJane.
*HumbleHero: He walks away before being thanked, turn down bounties by asking the sheriff to give it to charity and his only replies when someone ask him if he is THE Lucky HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In her first (cameo) appearance in ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'', she is mistakenly portrayed as a nonchalant "yep".
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Possibly the best-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* LastNameBasis: According to the 2009 movie, his full name is really John Luke.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://youtu.be/6XStbIfIQFM "I'mvillainess, also [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference with a poor lonesome cowboy"]], which completely different design]]. This was eventually corrected and she was introduced as an ally of Luke in ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown''.
* LivingLegend: Almost everybodyher first leading role.
** One of the later album deals with her suffering an in-universehas heard example of him.
the trope, when a legend that she is supposedly a witch and demoness who came BackFromTheDead as a ghost to haunt a city spreads throughout the west. It however turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax created by a group of bandits who wanted to keep unwanted people away from a deserted town where they discovered a new gold mine. Naturally, Calamity Jane is ''not'' amused about her likeness being used as a "scarecrow" (as she puts it).
*MeaningfulName: He TheLadette: A G-Rated version of the trope; notably, her real life self played this trope straight.
* LethalChef: Her cooking skills are so bad that at one point, a cowboy waspossibly BornLucky.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: He iswilling to die rather skinny, but he can easily outmatch much bigger and than eat her cakes.
* TheNotLoveInterest: She is one of the few non-antagonist characters to appear as a {{Deuteragonist}} in moremuscular people than him in brawl.
* NotSoStoic: It is rare to seeone book (as well as one movie and at least two animated appearances), and the only female character Luke has actually moved developed interactions with, excluding Ma Dalton. However, their relationship is platonic and when he does his expression barely changes. A Jewish mom notices he is touched by her grandson's violin performance when he lets his straw hang out they treat each other like good friends with no real hint of his mouth a bit more romance.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to have become this with Luke. They do not seem to have romantic interest for each other, but they get along pretty well whenever they meet, andafter reading an old friend's last request he Luke is unable to roll a cigarette.
* OnlySaneMan: Quite often, due to him often running in towns fullone of crazy people. This typically tends to irritate him, as the few people who can convince her to calm down without suffering a violent reaction.
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons areunlikely to listen to reason, forcing him to [[GuileHero manipulate them into solving their problems]].
filled with [[SymbolSwearing skulls and stars]] if it any indication.
*ParodySue: He StrongerThanTheyLook: Like Luke, she can easily face opponents go toe to toe with men bigger than him ([[MusclesAreMeaningless despite not being drawn as physically strong]]), is her, and even arm wrestle them with little effort.
* {{Tomboy}}: She was aLivingLegend in-universe, a skilled {{Gunslinger}} who is good at everything he does (well, except clear-cut example from [[CannotTalkToWomen talking to women]]) childhood. Flashbacks reveal she enjoyed playing rodeo at home (wrecking her entire house as a result) and sometimes he would occasionally try to play with boys.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed; she couldn't act less feminine and her tastes are completely boyish, but when she becomes the owner of a saloon in her first story, one of her main ambitions was to create a small area reserved to ladies, where she would serve them tea and cakes. Later in the same story, Lucky Luke manages to have her trained into at least ''pretending'' to be a lady, though her true personality is still there and doesn'tneed take long to use his reflexes, as he can just outsmart his opponents. Considering that the series is an AffectionateParody of TheWestern genre, it's all PlayedForLaughs.
* PhraseCatcher: "Lucky Luke? Not ''the'' Lucky Luke?"
* RelativeButton: Jolly Jumper is the closest thing he has that passes for friend and family. When he is kidnapped, Luke is shaking down people by threatening to blow their head off.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: There aren't many people so willing to screw money as much as he is. He simply doesn't care. Heck trying to bribe him to do something immoral is a BerserkButton that once pressed activates the punching system.
* SmokingIsCool: [[OralFixation Until he replaced it with a wheatstalk.]] This has been {{Lampshaded}} and made fun of in both comics and adaptations.
** In the 2007 animated movie, ''Go West! Ashow up again. She also blushes when Lucky Luke Adventure'' there's a brief scene where he bonds with Native American Chief Crazy Wolf over the hardships of giving up smoking:
--->'''Crazy Wolf:''' Ooooh, Crazy Wolf finally gave up smoking!\\
'''Lucky Luke:''' Yep, me too!\\
'''Crazy Wolf:''' Did you suffer from many cravings?\\
'''Lucky Luke:''' Yep -- I had to chew on a piece of straw for a long time.
**kisses her hand.
* TomboyishVoice: In the2009 live-action movie, there's a short scene playing during the [[CreativeClosingCredits closing credits]], where Lucky Luke is sitting with his back to the camera, smoking a cigarette. Then he realizes the camera is on him, does a double take, throws away the cigarette and replaces it with the familiar piece of straw before turning back to the audience and saying, somewhat sheepishly: "Hello! My name is Lucky Luke. I quit smoking back in '83. I feel much better now."
** It becomes an important plot point in the 2016 DarkerAndEdgier book ''L'Homme qui tua Lucky Luke'' ("The man who killed Lucky Luke") by Matthieu Bonhomme. In said book, Lucky Luke meets a man named Doc Holiday, himself a chainsmoker whose lungs are starting to get the better of him. [[spoiler: Doc later notices Luke's hands shaking from withdrawal after he was forced to stop smoking for a few days due to a tobacco shortage in town. Worried about Luke getting fatally shot because of this, he impersonates him in a duel and gets shot in the back by his opponent's father, who then brags about being [[TitleDrop the man who killed Lucky Luke]]. He uses his LastWords to beg a distraught Luke to quit smoking before it is too late]]. At the endFrench version of the book, Luke is then seen picking up 1983 cartoon series, she has a piece of straw [[spoiler: from Doc's grave]] low and starts chewing on it as he leaves the town.
** The comics themselves made a few jokesraspy voice courtesy of Creator/MichelineDax.
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories aboutLuke having quit smoking. In one album, a politician offered a smoke to Luke before remembering he had quit. He then offered a wheatstalk for Luke to chew on, but Luke politely declined, saying he was trying to cut down on wheatstalks.
** In another album, the Daltons fake amnesia in order to get pardoned, and Luke tries to call their bluff by offering a feast to Averell... who unfortunately is the one brother whose amnesia is genuine, and who states he isn't hungry. Luke tries to tempt him by digging in and praising how excellent the food is, causing an overhearing Jolly Jumper to remark that Luke's appetite has certainly grown since he quit smoking.
* SuperReflexes: Combinedher life, with ImprobableAimingSkills, it makes him the deadliest shooter the Old West has ever known. As time went on, he became faster and preferred BlastingItOutOfTheirHands [[CharacterDevelopment over plain killing]].
* SuperSpeed: A RunningGag is that he's consistently faster at drawing his gun than even his own shadow ([[NoodleIncident except for that one time where his shadow was faster]]).
* VagueAge: Much like ComicBook/{{Asterix}}, Luke's age is never told, with the usual lampshading of "he looks good for his age" "what's his age, by the way?" happening from time toa different version each time. In ''L'Homme qui tua Lucky Luke'', She admits this when asked about it, Luke says he forgot his age.telling those stories to Luke.
*
* AlliterativeName: '''Lu'''cky '''Lu'''ke.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He is selfless, altruistic, and always does the right thing... but you ''don't'' want to make him angry.
-->'''Luke:''' Here, [hands a cigarette] savor it, you don't get to smoke much at the end of a rope.
* BornLucky: Hence the nickname, he has great luck tracking. It serves as PlotArmor in situations where Luke would have
* CannotTalkToWomen: Usually subverted for the most part,
* CatchPhrase: "Yep!"
* CelibateHero: While this was frequent at the times in Franco-Belgian comics,
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect women
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from a
-->I'm a poor lonesome cowboy,\\
But it doesn't bother me,\\
For this poor lonesome cowboy\\
Prefers a horse for company.\\
Got nothing against women,\\
But I wave them all goodbye.\\
My horse and me keep riding;\\
We don't like being tied.
* ChickMagnet: Kinda ironic, considering that he's a CelibateHero, who has made it clear even in his {{Leitmotif}} that he's against the idea
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied all the time. At multiple points characters
* ChronicHeroSyndrome:
** Tends
** Averted in The Rivals of Painful Gulch. He wanted out but the bridge he was crossing blew up due to one of the families' antics. He came back solely for revenge.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He is the only one who understands how Rantanplan thinks. One sketch had him ask the dog for various tools and him naturally bringing always the wrong one but Luke was happy because he knew he wouldn't get it right and deliberately asked for the wrong ones in order for Rantanplan to bring the right ones. This implies that he knows which items TheDitz will mistake for which.
* CombatPragmatism: When faced by someone who can legitimately challenge him or by many foes, he prefers to use his cunning to defeat them. For example after one draw with Averell Dalton during their first fist fight, he introduces a mosquito in Averell's room during the night, so Averell will be too tired during their rematch. He also tricks Phil Defer into exposing himself during their duel, by making it look like he shot all his bullets while his gun is in fact a seven shot revolver, and later tricks Pistol Pete into wasting his ammo by playing with Pete's ego.
* CruelMercy: At the end of ''Bounty Hunter'', towards titular BountyHunter Elliot Belt. During the album, Belt showed himself willing to provoke a war between the local Indians and settlers to capture a man and tried to kill Luke when the latter proved the man was actually innocent. Because of his actions, [[LaserGuidedKarma Belt ends up a wanted man himself]], but after capturing him Luke asks the sheriff to release him... [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment So that Elliot Belt would have to spend the rest of his life fleeing bounty hunters and would learn what it is like
* DeadpanSnarker: Being one of the few with a sound mind, he's sure to do this from time to time.
* TheDreaded:
* TheDrifter: One
* FastestGunInTheWest: Enough (and also iconic enough) to be the image for the page.
* GuileHero: Despite
* TheGunslinger:
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: In the 2009 movie, his mother was an American Native, allowing the PoliticallyIncorrectVillain to get in a few racist digs at him. The subject hasn't come up in the comics, though.
* HonorBeforeReason: Has an unfortunate tendency of following this
* FieryRedhead: Her temper is more fiery than her hair.
* HappilyMarried: She claims to have been married to Wild Bill Hickok, a famous real-life gunslinger, until he was killed.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted; while not ''exactly'' portrayed as identical to her real life counterpart, she is still pretty close
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the
*
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Possibly the best-known example in FrancoBelgianComics.
* LastNameBasis: According to the 2009 movie, his full name is really John Luke.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://youtu.be/6XStbIfIQFM "I'm
* LivingLegend: Almost everybody
** One of the later album deals with her suffering an in-universe
*
* LethalChef: Her cooking skills are so bad that at one point, a cowboy was
* MusclesAreMeaningless: He is
* TheNotLoveInterest: She is one of the few non-antagonist characters to appear as a {{Deuteragonist}} in more
* NotSoStoic: It is rare to see
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to have become this with Luke. They do not seem to have romantic interest for each other, but they get along pretty well whenever they meet, and
* OnlySaneMan: Quite often, due to him often running in towns full
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons are
*
* {{Tomboy}}: She was a
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed; she couldn't act less feminine and her tastes are completely boyish, but when she becomes the owner of a saloon in her first story, one of her main ambitions was to create a small area reserved to ladies, where she would serve them tea and cakes. Later in the same story, Lucky Luke manages to have her trained into at least ''pretending'' to be a lady, though her true personality is still there and doesn't
* PhraseCatcher: "Lucky Luke? Not ''the'' Lucky Luke?"
* RelativeButton: Jolly Jumper is the closest thing he has that passes for friend and family. When he is kidnapped, Luke is shaking down people by threatening to blow their head off.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: There aren't many people so willing to screw money as much as he is. He simply doesn't care. Heck trying to bribe him to do something immoral is a BerserkButton that once pressed activates the punching system.
* SmokingIsCool: [[OralFixation Until he replaced it with a wheatstalk.]] This has been {{Lampshaded}} and made fun of in both comics and adaptations.
** In the 2007 animated movie, ''Go West! A
--->'''Crazy Wolf:''' Ooooh, Crazy Wolf finally gave up smoking!\\
'''Lucky Luke:''' Yep, me too!\\
'''Crazy Wolf:''' Did you suffer from many cravings?\\
'''Lucky Luke:''' Yep -- I had to chew on a piece of straw for a long time.
**
* TomboyishVoice: In the
** It becomes an important plot point in the 2016 DarkerAndEdgier book ''L'Homme qui tua Lucky Luke'' ("The man who killed Lucky Luke") by Matthieu Bonhomme. In said book, Lucky Luke meets a man named Doc Holiday, himself a chainsmoker whose lungs are starting to get the better of him. [[spoiler: Doc later notices Luke's hands shaking from withdrawal after he was forced to stop smoking for a few days due to a tobacco shortage in town. Worried about Luke getting fatally shot because of this, he impersonates him in a duel and gets shot in the back by his opponent's father, who then brags about being [[TitleDrop the man who killed Lucky Luke]]. He uses his LastWords to beg a distraught Luke to quit smoking before it is too late]]. At the end
** The comics themselves made a few jokes
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories about
** In another album, the Daltons fake amnesia in order to get pardoned, and Luke tries to call their bluff by offering a feast to Averell... who unfortunately is the one brother whose amnesia is genuine, and who states he isn't hungry. Luke tries to tempt him by digging in and praising how excellent the food is, causing an overhearing Jolly Jumper to remark that Luke's appetite has certainly grown since he quit smoking.
* SuperReflexes: Combined
* SuperSpeed: A RunningGag is that he's consistently faster at drawing his gun than even his own shadow ([[NoodleIncident except for that one time where his shadow was faster]]).
* VagueAge: Much like ComicBook/{{Asterix}}, Luke's age is never told, with the usual lampshading of "he looks good for his age" "what's his age, by the way?" happening from time to
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''olly '''J'''umper.
* AnimalTalk: Can converse freely with any other animal in the series, and talks to himself ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall and by extension, the reader]]) a lot. Humans can't understand him, though Lucky Luke is hinted to at least get the general gist of it for the most part. In the 2009 movie, he's upgraded to TalkingAnimal.
* TheCasanova: Downplayed for the most part, and of course nothing is ever shown that wouldn't be G-rated -- but it's clear that where Lucky Luke is a CelibateHero, Jolly Jumper most definitely is ''not.'' He's got an eye for the lady horses, and several albums has him flirting and getting with a pretty mare.
* CoolHorse: Usually the fastest horse in the West and when other horses tell him that they are trained to show up at their master's whistle Jumper one up them by whistling ''Luke'' to show up.
-->'''Lucky Luke:''' You called old chum?
* DeadpanSnarker: Considering he has to keep up with Luke and deal with Rantanplan.
* TheDragAlong: While he'll always do what Lucky expects of him, that doesn't mean he'll do it quietly.
* DubNameChange:
** In the Turkish version, he's called Düldül.
** In the Greek version, he's called Dolly. Specifically, "Dolly the Jumper". In fact, for quite many decades, he was written as female, until the 73th issue, and from now on, the publishers corrected his gender.
* {{Foil}}: To Lucky Luke's another [[NonHumanSidekick Animal Sidekick]], Rantanplan. Whereas Jolly is a HypercompetentSidekick who can do everything (though he does tend to complain), Rantanplan is a [[DogsAreDumb dumb dog]] who only makes things worse.
* HypercompetentSidekick: He can make ''coffee'', play chess (though badly), pick locks and bite off bindings. And he can climb trees!
* PunnyName: His Turkish name literally means "horse".
* SarcasticDevotee: No matter how much he complains about Luke, he will never abandon him.
* ShesAManInJapan: For many decades, he was written as a mare called Dolly in UsefulNotes/{{Greece}}. Then, ''The Beautiful Province'' was released and "her" gender had to be changed to avoid turning into a "lesbian".
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: You won't find a horse with a sharper tongue anywhere.
* AnimalTalk: Can converse freely with any other animal in the series, and talks to himself ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall and by extension, the reader]]) a lot. Humans can't understand him, though Lucky Luke is hinted to at least get the general gist of it for the most part. In the 2009 movie, he's upgraded to TalkingAnimal.
* TheCasanova: Downplayed for the most part, and of course nothing is ever shown that wouldn't be G-rated -- but it's clear that where Lucky Luke is a CelibateHero, Jolly Jumper most definitely is ''not.'' He's got an eye for the lady horses, and several albums has him flirting and getting with a pretty mare.
* CoolHorse: Usually the fastest horse in the West and when other horses tell him that they are trained to show up at their master's whistle Jumper one up them by whistling ''Luke'' to show up.
-->'''Lucky Luke:''' You called old chum?
* DeadpanSnarker: Considering he has to keep up with Luke and deal with Rantanplan.
* TheDragAlong: While he'll always do what Lucky expects of him, that doesn't mean he'll do it quietly.
* DubNameChange:
** In the Turkish version, he's called Düldül.
** In the Greek version, he's called Dolly. Specifically, "Dolly the Jumper". In fact, for quite many decades, he was written as female, until the 73th issue, and from now on, the publishers corrected his gender.
* {{Foil}}: To Lucky Luke's another [[NonHumanSidekick Animal Sidekick]], Rantanplan. Whereas Jolly is a HypercompetentSidekick who can do everything (though he does tend to complain), Rantanplan is a [[DogsAreDumb dumb dog]] who only makes things worse.
* HypercompetentSidekick: He can make ''coffee'', play chess (though badly), pick locks and bite off bindings. And he can climb trees!
* PunnyName: His Turkish name literally means "horse".
* SarcasticDevotee: No matter how much he complains about Luke, he will never abandon him.
* ShesAManInJapan: For many decades, he was written as a mare called Dolly in UsefulNotes/{{Greece}}. Then, ''The Beautiful Province'' was released and "her" gender had to be changed to avoid turning into a "lesbian".
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: You won't find a horse with a sharper tongue anywhere.
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''olly '''J'''umper.
TheAce: Every bit as tough as Luke himself; he was a boxing champ at Oxford, a very good shot, and a skilled horseman due to years of fox hunting.
*AnimalTalk: Can converse freely with any other animal DeadlyDodging: He and Luke do this during a bar brawl in the series, AnimatedAdaptation.
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.
* NotSoStoic: While normally unflappable, there are a few moments where his façade breaks, such as when he shows his determination at not folding over Jack Ready's intimidation, andtalks when he joins in at hazing the latest "tenderfoot" arrival, because said tenderfood happens to himself ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall be an old rival from his Oxford days.
* NotSoAboveItAll: At the end of "The Tenderfoot", Waldo andby extension, the reader]]) a lot. Humans can't understand him, though Lucky Luke is hinted to at least get overhears the general gist of it for crowd planning to meet the most part. In latest "tenderfoot" arrival in town with the 2009 movie, he's upgraded to TalkingAnimal.
* TheCasanova: Downplayed for the most part,same humiliating hazing as they did Waldo (and every other immigrant who winds up there), and of course nothing is ever shown Waldo initially rushes over, hoping to protect them... only to discover that wouldn't be G-rated -- but said arrival is one of his old Oxford rivals, and decides to join in the hazing instead. This convinces Luke that Waldo has successfully adapted to the West, and rides off into the sunset.
* SelfMadeMan: Though it'sclear that where Lucky Luke is a CelibateHero, Jolly Jumper most definitely is ''not.'' He's got an eye for the lady horses, implied his family was already wealthy, Waldo intends to follow in his uncle's footsteps and several albums has him flirting and getting with a pretty mare.
* CoolHorse: Usually the fastest horsemake his own way in the West and when other horses tell him West.
* StiffUpperLip: To the point thatthey are trained to show up at their master's whistle Jumper one up them by whistling ''Luke'' to show up.
-->'''Lucky Luke:''' You called old chum?
* DeadpanSnarker: Considering he has to keep up with Luke and deal with Rantanplan.
* TheDragAlong: While he'll always do what Lucky expects of him, thateven being shot in the arm doesn't mean he'll do it quietly.
* DubNameChange:
** In the Turkish version, he's called Düldül.
** In the Greek version, he's called Dolly. Specifically, "Dolly the Jumper". In fact, for quite many decades, he was written as female, until the 73th issue, and from now on, the publishers corrected his gender.
* {{Foil}}: To Lucky Luke's another [[NonHumanSidekick Animal Sidekick]], Rantanplan. Whereas Jolly is a HypercompetentSidekick who can do everything (though he does tend to complain), Rantanplan is a [[DogsAreDumb dumb dog]] who only makes things worse.
* HypercompetentSidekick: He can make ''coffee'', play chess (though badly), pick locks and bite off bindings. And he can climb trees!
* PunnyName: His Turkish name literally means "horse".
* SarcasticDevotee: No matter how much he complains about Luke, he will never abandon him.
* ShesAManInJapan: For many decades, he was written as a mare called Dolly in UsefulNotes/{{Greece}}. Then, ''The Beautiful Province'' was released and "her" gender had to be changed to avoid turning into a "lesbian".
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: You won't find a horse with a sharper tongue anywhere.faze him.
*
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.
* NotSoStoic: While normally unflappable, there are a few moments where his façade breaks, such as when he shows his determination at not folding over Jack Ready's intimidation, and
* NotSoAboveItAll: At the end of "The Tenderfoot", Waldo and
* TheCasanova: Downplayed for the most part,
* SelfMadeMan: Though it's
* CoolHorse: Usually the fastest horse
* StiffUpperLip: To the point that
-->'''Lucky Luke:''' You called old chum?
* DeadpanSnarker: Considering he has to keep up with Luke and deal with Rantanplan.
* TheDragAlong: While he'll always do what Lucky expects of him, that
* DubNameChange:
** In the Turkish version, he's called Düldül.
** In the Greek version, he's called Dolly. Specifically, "Dolly the Jumper". In fact, for quite many decades, he was written as female, until the 73th issue, and from now on, the publishers corrected his gender.
* {{Foil}}: To Lucky Luke's another [[NonHumanSidekick Animal Sidekick]], Rantanplan. Whereas Jolly is a HypercompetentSidekick who can do everything (though he does tend to complain), Rantanplan is a [[DogsAreDumb dumb dog]] who only makes things worse.
* HypercompetentSidekick: He can make ''coffee'', play chess (though badly), pick locks and bite off bindings. And he can climb trees!
* PunnyName: His Turkish name literally means "horse".
* SarcasticDevotee: No matter how much he complains about Luke, he will never abandon him.
* ShesAManInJapan: For many decades, he was written as a mare called Dolly in UsefulNotes/{{Greece}}. Then, ''The Beautiful Province'' was released and "her" gender had to be changed to avoid turning into a "lesbian".
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: You won't find a horse with a sharper tongue anywhere.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Bernard Haller (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and 1983 animated series), Creator/RogerCarel (replacement voice in the 1983 animated series), Bernard Demory (1991 animated series), Francis Perrin (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Éric Métayer (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film), and François Morel (''WesternAnimation/{{Rintindumb}}'', ''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')
!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by''': Peter Sjöquist
A dog known for being among the best prison guard dogs in the West -- a reputation that unfortunately is very exaggerated.
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!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by''': Peter Sjöquist
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!!!'''Voiced in Swedish by''': Peter Sjöquist
A dog known for being among the best prison guard dogs in the West -- a reputation that unfortunately is very exaggerated.
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* AffectionateParody: Of legendary HeroicDog and animal actor Rin Tin Tin. Mostly in the name, though.
* AnimalTalk: Talks mostly to himself, since no humans can understand what he says (then again, he has problems understanding what humans say as well).
* BadassOnPaper: Like Luke, his legend has spread in the West, and he's often considered a HeroicDog on the level of Lassie or Rex The Wonder Dog, and to be fair, he's been involved in some very exciting adventures and fought all manner of villains - all of course by complete accident on his part, most of the time he's not even aware he's ''on'' an adventure!
* BigEater: And quite often, he doesn't even care if what he is eating ''isn't'' food.
* BreakoutCharacter: Very popular with the readers; he's starred in his own comics, both short gag stories and album-length adventures. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, he has a larger role than in the comics, and tends to show up even in episodes based on albums where he didn't appear at all. In 2006, he even got his own animated series, and he's a regular character in the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]] about the Daltons.
* CanineCompanion: Sometimes to Lucky Luke (who doesn't mind him tagging along), sometimes to the Daltons (who ''do'' mind, but he never understands this).
* TheDitz: The only character in the comic stupider than Averell Dalton; he can't seem to get ''anything'' right.
* DogsAreDumb: Just as Lucky Luke is faster than his own shadow, Rantanplan is stupider than ''his'' own shadow.
* DubNameChange: In the English translations of the comics, as well as the English dub of ''Ballad of the Daltons'' he's called Rin Tin Can. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, he's named Bushwack. In the English dubs of later animated projects (such as the ''New Adventures,'' ''Go West!'', ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' and his own animated series), he's Rintindumb. In Scandinavia, he's called Ratata.
* ExtremeOmnivore: An even worse case than Averell Dalton. Among other things, he's eaten coal nuggets, bath water and [[LethalChef Averell's cooking]].
* FacePlant: One of his signature gags is to try and leap into someone's, usually Luke's, arms like a loyal dog, only to misjudge the distance and face plant on the ground.
* {{Foil}}: To Lucky Luke's other [[NonHumanSidekick animal sidekick]], Jolly Jumper. Whereas Jolly is a HypercompetentSidekick who can do everything (though he does tend to complain), Rantanplan is a [[DogsAreDumb dumb dog]] who only makes things worse.
* HeroicDog: A parody of the concept. He tries his best, but just isn't smart enough to pull it off. He's never an outright hindrance though, and has saved the day a few times, even if by accident.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: A RunningGag; Joe Dalton couldn't make it clearer that he ''loathes'' Rantanplan, yet the dog remains firmly convinced he is a nice, caring person. [[ForgetfulJones At times, he goes as far as forgetting who the characters are, even mistaking Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper for Santa Claus and his reindeer.]]
* IncompetentGuardAnimal: Despite being known as the best guard dog in the West. Said rumour is, unfortunately, exaggerated.
* ObliviousToHatred: Is seemingly incapable of grasping how much the Daltons, especially Joe, hates him, and keeps mistaking them for caring masters, which couldn't be further from the truth. Downplayed example with Jolly Jumper, who doesn't outright ''hate'' him, but finds him incredibly annoying and wishes he'd go away for good. Rantanplan of course thinks they're good friends.
* SmartBall: Surprisingly! Normally he's borderline TooDumbToLive, but on some ''very'' rare occasions he'll have a flash of brilliance. These instances are almost always played for laughs (in one case he actually fainted after displaying intelligent behavior).
* SuperDrowningSkills: He absolutely can't swim, to the point that even getting sprayed in the face by [[SquirtingFlowerGag a clown's squirting flower]] caused him to pass out and requiring CPR to get rid of the water he inhaled.
* TooDumbToLive: Literally in ''Tortillas For the Daltons'', when the heroes split up to look for the Daltons in the desert because the dogs in the group (the other being the hacienda owner's incredibly intelligent chihuaua) seemed to have found two different tracks. Rantanplan just concluded that the hat he was given to smell wasn't edible and wandered off in a random direction, the rest of the group later found him nearly dead from thirst... a few feet away from a freshwater river.
* AnimalTalk: Talks mostly to himself, since no humans can understand what he says (then again, he has problems understanding what humans say as well).
* BadassOnPaper: Like Luke, his legend has spread in the West, and he's often considered a HeroicDog on the level of Lassie or Rex The Wonder Dog, and to be fair, he's been involved in some very exciting adventures and fought all manner of villains - all of course by complete accident on his part, most of the time he's not even aware he's ''on'' an adventure!
* BigEater: And quite often, he doesn't even care if what he is eating ''isn't'' food.
* BreakoutCharacter: Very popular with the readers; he's starred in his own comics, both short gag stories and album-length adventures. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, he has a larger role than in the comics, and tends to show up even in episodes based on albums where he didn't appear at all. In 2006, he even got his own animated series, and he's a regular character in the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]] about the Daltons.
* CanineCompanion: Sometimes to Lucky Luke (who doesn't mind him tagging along), sometimes to the Daltons (who ''do'' mind, but he never understands this).
* TheDitz: The only character in the comic stupider than Averell Dalton; he can't seem to get ''anything'' right.
* DogsAreDumb: Just as Lucky Luke is faster than his own shadow, Rantanplan is stupider than ''his'' own shadow.
* DubNameChange: In the English translations of the comics, as well as the English dub of ''Ballad of the Daltons'' he's called Rin Tin Can. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, he's named Bushwack. In the English dubs of later animated projects (such as the ''New Adventures,'' ''Go West!'', ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' and his own animated series), he's Rintindumb. In Scandinavia, he's called Ratata.
* ExtremeOmnivore: An even worse case than Averell Dalton. Among other things, he's eaten coal nuggets, bath water and [[LethalChef Averell's cooking]].
* FacePlant: One of his signature gags is to try and leap into someone's, usually Luke's, arms like a loyal dog, only to misjudge the distance and face plant on the ground.
* {{Foil}}: To Lucky Luke's other [[NonHumanSidekick animal sidekick]], Jolly Jumper. Whereas Jolly is a HypercompetentSidekick who can do everything (though he does tend to complain), Rantanplan is a [[DogsAreDumb dumb dog]] who only makes things worse.
* HeroicDog: A parody of the concept. He tries his best, but just isn't smart enough to pull it off. He's never an outright hindrance though, and has saved the day a few times, even if by accident.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: A RunningGag; Joe Dalton couldn't make it clearer that he ''loathes'' Rantanplan, yet the dog remains firmly convinced he is a nice, caring person. [[ForgetfulJones At times, he goes as far as forgetting who the characters are, even mistaking Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper for Santa Claus and his reindeer.]]
* IncompetentGuardAnimal: Despite being known as the best guard dog in the West. Said rumour is, unfortunately, exaggerated.
* ObliviousToHatred: Is seemingly incapable of grasping how much the Daltons, especially Joe, hates him, and keeps mistaking them for caring masters, which couldn't be further from the truth. Downplayed example with Jolly Jumper, who doesn't outright ''hate'' him, but finds him incredibly annoying and wishes he'd go away for good. Rantanplan of course thinks they're good friends.
* SmartBall: Surprisingly! Normally he's borderline TooDumbToLive, but on some ''very'' rare occasions he'll have a flash of brilliance. These instances are almost always played for laughs (in one case he actually fainted after displaying intelligent behavior).
* SuperDrowningSkills: He absolutely can't swim, to the point that even getting sprayed in the face by [[SquirtingFlowerGag a clown's squirting flower]] caused him to pass out and requiring CPR to get rid of the water he inhaled.
* TooDumbToLive: Literally in ''Tortillas For the Daltons'', when the heroes split up to look for the Daltons in the desert because the dogs in the group (the other being the hacienda owner's incredibly intelligent chihuaua) seemed to have found two different tracks. Rantanplan just concluded that the hat he was given to smell wasn't edible and wandered off in a random direction, the rest of the group later found him nearly dead from thirst... a few feet away from a freshwater river.
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* AffectionateParody: Of legendary HeroicDog and animal actor Rin Tin Tin. Mostly in the name, though.
* AnimalTalk: Talks mostly to himself, since no humans can understand what he says (then again, he has problems understanding what humans say as well).
* BadassOnPaper: Like Luke, his legend has spread in the West, and he's often considered a HeroicDog on the level of Lassie or Rex The Wonder Dog, and to be fair, he's been involved in some very exciting adventures and fought all manner of villains - all of course by complete accident on his part, most of the time he's not even aware he's ''on'' an adventure!
* BigEater: And quite often, he doesn't even care if what he is eating ''isn't'' food.
* BreakoutCharacter: Very popular with the readers; he's starred in his own comics, both short gag stories and album-length adventures. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, he has a larger role than in the comics, and tends to show up even in episodes based on albums where he didn't appear at all. In 2006, he even got his own animated series, and he's a regular character in the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]]EuropeansAreKinky: There's absolutely nothing sexual about the Daltons.
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* DubNameChange: In the English translations of the comics, as well as the English dub of ''Ballad of the Daltons'' he's called Rin Tin Can. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, he's named Bushwack. In the English dubs of later animated projects (such as the ''New Adventures,'' ''Go West!'', ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' and his own animated series), he's Rintindumb. In Scandinavia, he's called Ratata.
* ExtremeOmnivore: An even worse case than Averell Dalton. Among other things, he's eaten coal nuggets, bath water and [[LethalChef Averell's cooking]].
* FacePlant: One of his signature gags is to try and leap into someone's, usually Luke's, arms like a loyal dog, only to misjudge the distance and face plant on the ground.
* {{Foil}}: To Lucky Luke's other [[NonHumanSidekick animal sidekick]], Jolly Jumper. Whereas Jolly is a HypercompetentSidekick who can do everything (though he does tend to complain), Rantanplan is a [[DogsAreDumb dumb dog]] who only makes things worse.
* HeroicDog: A parody of the concept. He tries his best, but just isn't smart enough to pull it off. He's never an outright hindrance though, and has saved the day a few times, even if by accident.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: A RunningGag; Joe Dalton couldn't make it clearer that he ''loathes'' Rantanplan, yet the dog remains firmly convinced he is a nice, caring person. [[ForgetfulJones At times, he goes as far as forgetting who the characters are, even mistaking Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper for Santa Claus and his reindeer.]]
* IncompetentGuardAnimal:HotterAndSexier: Despite her act being known as positively tame compared to what you'd see in a saloon on a Friday night, the best guard dog fact that as an actress, her singing and performance was done in the West. Said rumour is, unfortunately, exaggerated.
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*ObliviousToHatred: MoralGuardians: Is seemingly incapable of grasping how much the Daltons, constantly beset by these, especially Joe, hates him, and keeps mistaking them by Lucy Hayes, the First Lady of the United States.
* ShipTease: It's implied she has a thing forcaring masters, which couldn't be further from Luke at the truth. Downplayed example end, leaving him with Jolly Jumper, who doesn't outright ''hate'' him, but finds him incredibly annoying and wishes he'd go away for good. Rantanplan of course thinks they're good friends.
* SmartBall: Surprisingly! Normally he's borderline TooDumbToLive, but on some ''very'' rare occasions he'll havea flash of brilliance. These instances are almost always played for laughs (in one case he actually fainted after displaying intelligent behavior).
* SuperDrowningSkills: He absolutely can't swim, to the point that even getting sprayed in the face by [[SquirtingFlowerGag a clown's squirting flower]] causedfarewell note, stating him to pass out and requiring CPR to get rid of the water he inhaled.
* TooDumbToLive: Literally in ''Tortillas For the Daltons'', when the heroes split up to look for the Daltons in the desertbe a Lonesome Cowboy "only because the dogs in the group (the other being the hacienda owner's incredibly intelligent chihuaua) seemed to have found two different tracks. Rantanplan just concluded that the hat he was given to smell wasn't edible and wandered off in a random direction, the rest of the group later found him nearly dead from thirst... a few feet away from a freshwater river.chooses to".
* AnimalTalk: Talks mostly to himself, since no humans can understand what he says (then again, he has problems understanding what humans say as well).
* BadassOnPaper: Like Luke, his legend has spread in the West, and he's often considered a HeroicDog on the level of Lassie or Rex The Wonder Dog, and to be fair, he's been involved in some very exciting adventures and fought all manner of villains - all of course by complete accident on his part, most of the time he's not even aware he's ''on'' an adventure!
* BigEater: And quite often, he doesn't even care if what he is eating ''isn't'' food.
* BreakoutCharacter: Very popular with the readers; he's starred in his own comics, both short gag stories and album-length adventures. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, he has a larger role than in the comics, and tends to show up even in episodes based on albums where he didn't appear at all. In 2006, he even got his own animated series, and he's a regular character in the [[WesternAnimation/TheDaltons 2010 animated series]]
* CanineCompanion: Sometimes to Lucky Luke (who doesn't mind him tagging along), sometimes
* TheDitz: The only character in the comic stupider than Averell Dalton; he can't seem
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* DubNameChange: In the English translations of the comics, as well as the English dub of ''Ballad of the Daltons'' he's called Rin Tin Can. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, he's named Bushwack. In the English dubs of later animated projects (such as the ''New Adventures,'' ''Go West!'', ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'' and his own animated series), he's Rintindumb. In Scandinavia, he's called Ratata.
* ExtremeOmnivore: An even worse case than Averell Dalton. Among other things, he's eaten coal nuggets, bath water and [[LethalChef Averell's cooking]].
* FacePlant: One of his signature gags is to try and leap into someone's, usually Luke's, arms like a loyal dog, only to misjudge the distance and face plant on the ground.
* {{Foil}}: To Lucky Luke's other [[NonHumanSidekick animal sidekick]], Jolly Jumper. Whereas Jolly is a HypercompetentSidekick who can do everything (though he does tend to complain), Rantanplan is a [[DogsAreDumb dumb dog]] who only makes things worse.
* HeroicDog: A parody of the concept. He tries his best, but just isn't smart enough to pull it off. He's never an outright hindrance though, and has saved the day a few times, even if by accident.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: A RunningGag; Joe Dalton couldn't make it clearer that he ''loathes'' Rantanplan, yet the dog remains firmly convinced he is a nice, caring person. [[ForgetfulJones At times, he goes as far as forgetting who the characters are, even mistaking Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper for Santa Claus and his reindeer.]]
* IncompetentGuardAnimal:
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* ShipTease: It's implied she has a thing for
* SmartBall: Surprisingly! Normally he's borderline TooDumbToLive, but on some ''very'' rare occasions he'll have
* SuperDrowningSkills: He absolutely can't swim, to the point that even getting sprayed in the face by [[SquirtingFlowerGag a clown's squirting flower]] caused
* TooDumbToLive: Literally in ''Tortillas For the Daltons'', when the heroes split up to look for the Daltons in the desert
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[[folder:Calamity Jane]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/MichelineDax (1983 animated series) and Isabelle Mangini (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'')
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SylvieTestud ([[Film/LuckyLuke2009 2009 film]])
The legendary female [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]].
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/MichelineDax (1983 animated series) and Isabelle Mangini (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'')
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SylvieTestud ([[Film/LuckyLuke2009 2009 film]])
The legendary female [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]].
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SylvieTestud ([[Film/LuckyLuke2009 2009 film]])
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* ActionGirl: Which helps a lot in dealing with the trouble in a Wild West setting.
* AdaptedOut: Since she had been firmly established as an ally of Lucky Luke by the time the comics were adapted for the animated series, the adaptation of ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'' (in which she was featured as a villain, see HistoricalVillainUpgrade below) replaces her with Ma Dalton.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect women in her presence if you value your life.
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from a bunch of Natives of her own.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied all the time. At multiple points characters will try to attack or kidnap her, assuming she is just a harmless woman, only to be in for a very bad surprise.
* TheDreaded: She's feared by cowboys and natives alike, with a tribe of natives retreating once they recognize her. A group of bandits exploit this, by creating a hoax story about her being a witch and ghost, and using a dummy of to scare away intruders.
* TheGunslinger: She aims superbly and she's a quick shot even with a Winchester.
* FieryRedhead: Her temper is more fiery than her hair.
* HappilyMarried: She claims to have been married to Wild Bill Hickok, a famous real-life gunslinger, until he was killed.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted; while not ''exactly'' portrayed as identical to her real life counterpart, she is still pretty close (the biggest difference is that she is skinnier), and the comic does not make her particularly prettier, instead settling for a plain look.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/CalamityJane.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In her first (cameo) appearance in ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'', she is mistakenly portrayed as a villainess, also [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference with a completely different design]]. This was eventually corrected and she was introduced as an ally of Luke in her first leading role.
** One of the later album deals with her suffering an in-universe example of the trope, when a legend that she is supposedly a witch and demoness who came BackFromTheDead as a ghost to haunt a city spreads throughout the west. It however turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax created by a group of bandits who wanted to keep unwanted people away from a deserted town where they discovered a new gold mine. Naturally, Calamity Jane is ''not'' amused about her likeness being used as a "scarecrow" (as she puts it).
* TheLadette: A G-Rated version of the trope; notably, her real life self played this trope straight.
* LethalChef: Her cooking skills are so bad that at one point, a cowboy was willing to die rather than eat her cakes.
* TheNotLoveInterest: She is one of the few non-antagonist characters to appear as a {{Deuteragonist}} in more than one book (as well as one movie and at least two animated appearances), and the only female character Luke has actually developed interactions with, excluding Ma Dalton. However, their relationship is platonic and they treat each other like good friends with no real hint of romance.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to have become this with Luke. They do not seem to have romantic interest for each other, but they get along pretty well whenever they meet, and Luke is one of the few people who can convince her to calm down without suffering a violent reaction.
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons are filled with [[SymbolSwearing skulls and stars]] if it any indication.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Like Luke, she can go toe to toe with men bigger than her, and even arm wrestle them with little effort.
* {{Tomboy}}: She was a clear-cut example from childhood. Flashbacks reveal she enjoyed playing rodeo at home (wrecking her entire house as a result) and would occasionally try to play with boys.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed; she couldn't act less feminine and her tastes are completely boyish, but when she becomes the owner of a saloon in her first story, one of her main ambitions was to create a small area reserved to ladies, where she would serve them tea and cakes. Later in the same story, Lucky Luke manages to have her trained into at least ''pretending'' to be a lady, though her true personality is still there and doesn't take long to show up again. She also blushes when Lucky Luke kisses her hand.
* TomboyishVoice: In the French version of the 1983 cartoon series, she has a low and raspy voice courtesy of Creator/MichelineDax.
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories about her life, with a different version each time. She admits this when telling those stories to Luke.
* AdaptedOut: Since she had been firmly established as an ally of Lucky Luke by the time the comics were adapted for the animated series, the adaptation of ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'' (in which she was featured as a villain, see HistoricalVillainUpgrade below) replaces her with Ma Dalton.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect women in her presence if you value your life.
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from a bunch of Natives of her own.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied all the time. At multiple points characters will try to attack or kidnap her, assuming she is just a harmless woman, only to be in for a very bad surprise.
* TheDreaded: She's feared by cowboys and natives alike, with a tribe of natives retreating once they recognize her. A group of bandits exploit this, by creating a hoax story about her being a witch and ghost, and using a dummy of to scare away intruders.
* TheGunslinger: She aims superbly and she's a quick shot even with a Winchester.
* FieryRedhead: Her temper is more fiery than her hair.
* HappilyMarried: She claims to have been married to Wild Bill Hickok, a famous real-life gunslinger, until he was killed.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted; while not ''exactly'' portrayed as identical to her real life counterpart, she is still pretty close (the biggest difference is that she is skinnier), and the comic does not make her particularly prettier, instead settling for a plain look.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/CalamityJane.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In her first (cameo) appearance in ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'', she is mistakenly portrayed as a villainess, also [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference with a completely different design]]. This was eventually corrected and she was introduced as an ally of Luke in her first leading role.
** One of the later album deals with her suffering an in-universe example of the trope, when a legend that she is supposedly a witch and demoness who came BackFromTheDead as a ghost to haunt a city spreads throughout the west. It however turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax created by a group of bandits who wanted to keep unwanted people away from a deserted town where they discovered a new gold mine. Naturally, Calamity Jane is ''not'' amused about her likeness being used as a "scarecrow" (as she puts it).
* TheLadette: A G-Rated version of the trope; notably, her real life self played this trope straight.
* LethalChef: Her cooking skills are so bad that at one point, a cowboy was willing to die rather than eat her cakes.
* TheNotLoveInterest: She is one of the few non-antagonist characters to appear as a {{Deuteragonist}} in more than one book (as well as one movie and at least two animated appearances), and the only female character Luke has actually developed interactions with, excluding Ma Dalton. However, their relationship is platonic and they treat each other like good friends with no real hint of romance.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to have become this with Luke. They do not seem to have romantic interest for each other, but they get along pretty well whenever they meet, and Luke is one of the few people who can convince her to calm down without suffering a violent reaction.
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons are filled with [[SymbolSwearing skulls and stars]] if it any indication.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Like Luke, she can go toe to toe with men bigger than her, and even arm wrestle them with little effort.
* {{Tomboy}}: She was a clear-cut example from childhood. Flashbacks reveal she enjoyed playing rodeo at home (wrecking her entire house as a result) and would occasionally try to play with boys.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed; she couldn't act less feminine and her tastes are completely boyish, but when she becomes the owner of a saloon in her first story, one of her main ambitions was to create a small area reserved to ladies, where she would serve them tea and cakes. Later in the same story, Lucky Luke manages to have her trained into at least ''pretending'' to be a lady, though her true personality is still there and doesn't take long to show up again. She also blushes when Lucky Luke kisses her hand.
* TomboyishVoice: In the French version of the 1983 cartoon series, she has a low and raspy voice courtesy of Creator/MichelineDax.
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories about her life, with a different version each time. She admits this when telling those stories to Luke.
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* ActionGirl: Which helps a lot in dealing with HeroesLoveDogs: Is always accompanied by his intelligent and loyal ''chihuhaua'', Rodriguez.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: A good man who genuinely wants to use his wealth to improve thetrouble in a Wild West setting.
* AdaptedOut: Since she had been firmly established as an ally of Lucky Luke by the time the comics were adapted for the animated series, the adaptation of ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'' (in which she was featured as a villain, see HistoricalVillainUpgrade below) replaces her with Ma Dalton.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect women in her presence if you value your life.
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from a bunch of Natives of her own.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied all the time. At multiple points characters will try to attack or kidnap her, assuming she is just a harmless woman, only to be in for a very bad surprise.
* TheDreaded: She's feared by cowboys and natives alike, with a tribe of natives retreating once they recognize her. A group of bandits exploit this, by creating a hoax story about her being a witch and ghost, and using a dummy of to scare away intruders.
* TheGunslinger: She aims superbly and she's a quick shot even with a Winchester.
* FieryRedhead: Her temper is more fiery than her hair.
* HappilyMarried: She claims to have been married to Wild Bill Hickok, a famous real-life gunslinger, until he was killed.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted; while not ''exactly'' portrayed as identical to her real life counterpart, she is still pretty close (the biggest difference is that she is skinnier), and the comic does not make her particularly prettier, instead settling for a plain look.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/CalamityJane.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In her first (cameo) appearance in ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'', she is mistakenly portrayed as a villainess, also [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference with a completely different design]]. This was eventually corrected and she was introduced as an ally of Luke in her first leading role.
** Onelives of the later album deals with her suffering an in-universe example of the trope, when a legend that she is supposedly a witch and demoness who came BackFromTheDead as a ghost to haunt a city spreads throughout the west. It however turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax created by a group of bandits who wanted to keep unwanted people away from a deserted town where they discovered a new gold mine. Naturally, Calamity Jane is ''not'' amused about her likeness being used as a "scarecrow" (as she puts it).
* TheLadette: A G-Rated version of the trope; notably, her real life self played this trope straight.
* LethalChef: Her cooking skillspeasants, but his hands are so bad that at one point, a cowboy was willing to die rather than eat her cakes.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Shetied as long as Emilio Espuelas is one of the few non-antagonist characters to appear loose, as a {{Deuteragonist}} in more than one book (as well as one movie and at least two animated appearances), and the only female character Luke has actually developed interactions with, excluding Ma Dalton. However, their relationship is platonic and they treat each other like good friends with no real hint of romance.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to have become this with Luke. They do not seem to have romantic interest for each other, but they get along pretty well whenever they meet, and Luke is one of the few people who can convince her to calm down without suffering a violent reaction.
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons are filled with [[SymbolSwearing skulls and stars]] if itany indication.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Like Luke, she can go toe to toe with men bigger than her, and even arm wrestle them with little effort.
* {{Tomboy}}: She was a clear-cut example from childhood. Flashbacks reveal she enjoyed playing rodeo at home (wrecking her entire house as a result) andmoney he invested would occasionally try to play with boys.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed; she couldn't act less femininesimply be stolen, and her tastes are completely boyish, but when she becomes the owner of a saloon in her first story, one of her main ambitions was to create a small area reserved to ladies, where she would serve them tea and cakes. Later in the same story, Lucky Luke manages to have her trained into at least ''pretending'' to be a lady, though her true personality is still there and he doesn't have the men to guard the whole area.
* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed; his jaw is more chiseled and he has a moustache, but he's similar enough to allow Luke to dress up like him and lure the outlaws into a trap.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to takelong town Emilio Espuelas once and for all, putting an end to show up again. She also blushes when Lucky Luke kisses her hand.
* TomboyishVoice: Inthe French version ''banditos'' reign of terror. He even takes part of the 1983 cartoon series, she has a low and raspy voice courtesy of Creator/MichelineDax.
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories about her life, with a different version each time. She admits this when telling those stories to Luke.charge against Espuelas stronghold during the climax.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: A good man who genuinely wants to use his wealth to improve the
* AdaptedOut: Since she had been firmly established as an ally of Lucky Luke by the time the comics were adapted for the animated series, the adaptation of ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'' (in which she was featured as a villain, see HistoricalVillainUpgrade below) replaces her with Ma Dalton.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' disrespect women in her presence if you value your life.
* BigDamnHeroes: She is introduced in her first starring appearance with this, saving Luke from a bunch of Natives of her own.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* DamselInDistress: Epically defied all the time. At multiple points characters will try to attack or kidnap her, assuming she is just a harmless woman, only to be in for a very bad surprise.
* TheDreaded: She's feared by cowboys and natives alike, with a tribe of natives retreating once they recognize her. A group of bandits exploit this, by creating a hoax story about her being a witch and ghost, and using a dummy of to scare away intruders.
* TheGunslinger: She aims superbly and she's a quick shot even with a Winchester.
* FieryRedhead: Her temper is more fiery than her hair.
* HappilyMarried: She claims to have been married to Wild Bill Hickok, a famous real-life gunslinger, until he was killed.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Notably averted; while not ''exactly'' portrayed as identical to her real life counterpart, she is still pretty close (the biggest difference is that she is skinnier), and the comic does not make her particularly prettier, instead settling for a plain look.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on the real life UsefulNotes/CalamityJane.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In her first (cameo) appearance in ''Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon'', she is mistakenly portrayed as a villainess, also [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference with a completely different design]]. This was eventually corrected and she was introduced as an ally of Luke in her first leading role.
** One
* TheLadette: A G-Rated version of the trope; notably, her real life self played this trope straight.
* LethalChef: Her cooking skills
* TheNotLoveInterest: She
* PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to have become this with Luke. They do not seem to have romantic interest for each other, but they get along pretty well whenever they meet, and Luke is one of the few people who can convince her to calm down without suffering a violent reaction.
* SirSwearsALot: And ''how''. Half of her balloons are filled with [[SymbolSwearing skulls and stars]] if it
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Like Luke, she can go toe to toe with men bigger than her, and even arm wrestle them with little effort.
* {{Tomboy}}: She was a clear-cut example from childhood. Flashbacks reveal she enjoyed playing rodeo at home (wrecking her entire house as a result) and
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed; she couldn't act less feminine
* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed; his jaw is more chiseled and he has a moustache, but he's similar enough to allow Luke to dress up like him and lure the outlaws into a trap.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to take
* TomboyishVoice: In
* UnreliableNarrator: Like her real-life counterpart, she enjoys adding lots of juicy details when telling stories about her life, with a different version each time. She admits this when telling those stories to Luke.
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[[folder:Waldo Badminton]]
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
The eponymous tenderfoot in the episode ''Tenderfoot'', and the nephew of Luke's old friend Baddie, this British gentleman may be new to the West but he turns out to be just as badass as Lucky Luke himself. In ''Klondike'', he teams up with Lucky Luke again to find his old butler Jasper, who has mysteriously disappeared while trying to find gold.
!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
The eponymous tenderfoot in the episode ''Tenderfoot'', and the nephew of Luke's old friend Baddie, this British gentleman may be new to the West but he turns out to be just as badass as Lucky Luke himself. In ''Klondike'', he teams up with Lucky Luke again to find his old butler Jasper, who has mysteriously disappeared while trying to find gold.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/FrancisLax (1983 animated series)
The eponymous tenderfoot in the episode ''Tenderfoot'', and the nephew of Luke's old friend Baddie, this British gentleman may be new to the West
A rough but
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* TheAce: Every bit as tough as Luke himself; he was a boxing champ at Oxford, a very good shot, and a skilled horseman due to years of fox hunting.
* DeadlyDodging: He and Luke do this during a bar brawl in the AnimatedAdaptation.
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.
* NotSoStoic: While normally unflappable, there are a few moments where his façade breaks, such as when he shows his determination at not folding over Jack Ready's intimidation, and when he joins in at hazing the latest "tenderfoot" arrival, because said tenderfood happens to be an old rival from his Oxford days.
* NotSoAboveItAll: At the end of "The Tenderfoot", Waldo and Luke overhears the crowd planning to meet the latest "tenderfoot" arrival in town with the same humiliating hazing as they did Waldo (and every other immigrant who winds up there), and Waldo initially rushes over, hoping to protect them... only to discover that said arrival is one of his old Oxford rivals, and decides to join in the hazing instead. This convinces Luke that Waldo has successfully adapted to the West, and rides off into the sunset.
* SelfMadeMan: Though it's implied his family was already wealthy, Waldo intends to follow in his uncle's footsteps and make his own way in the West.
* StiffUpperLip: To the point that even being shot in the arm doesn't faze him.
* DeadlyDodging: He and Luke do this during a bar brawl in the AnimatedAdaptation.
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.
* NotSoStoic: While normally unflappable, there are a few moments where his façade breaks, such as when he shows his determination at not folding over Jack Ready's intimidation, and when he joins in at hazing the latest "tenderfoot" arrival, because said tenderfood happens to be an old rival from his Oxford days.
* NotSoAboveItAll: At the end of "The Tenderfoot", Waldo and Luke overhears the crowd planning to meet the latest "tenderfoot" arrival in town with the same humiliating hazing as they did Waldo (and every other immigrant who winds up there), and Waldo initially rushes over, hoping to protect them... only to discover that said arrival is one of his old Oxford rivals, and decides to join in the hazing instead. This convinces Luke that Waldo has successfully adapted to the West, and rides off into the sunset.
* SelfMadeMan: Though it's implied his family was already wealthy, Waldo intends to follow in his uncle's footsteps and make his own way in the West.
* StiffUpperLip: To the point that even being shot in the arm doesn't faze him.
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* TheAce: Every bit as tough as Luke himself; The best "whip" in the west, he was can get a boxing champ stagecoach from going at Oxford, a very good shot, and a skilled horseman due full speed through the street to years of fox hunting.
a complete stop neatly parked at the side between two other vehicles in exactly 3.6 seconds.
*DeadlyDodging: He and Luke do this {{Expy}}: Of Ugly Barrow from ''The Wagon Train'', though Barrow spoke almost entirerly in profanity (except two panels during a bar brawl in the AnimatedAdaptation.
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.ending).
*NotSoStoic: While normally unflappable, there are a few moments where JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not exactly the most polite person and is shouting to everyone most of the time, but he ultimately wants what is best for his façade breaks, such passengers and horses.
* WeaponSpecialization: He's as good with his whip as Luke is with his gun - when heshows his determination at not folding over Jack Ready's intimidation, and when he joins in at hazing the latest "tenderfoot" arrival, because said tenderfood happens to be an old rival from his Oxford days.
* NotSoAboveItAll: At the end of "The Tenderfoot", Waldo and Luke overhears the crowd planning to meet the latest "tenderfoot" arrival in town with the same humiliating hazing as they did Waldo (and every other immigrant who winds up there), and Waldo initially rushes over, hoping to protect them... only to discover that said arrivalis one of his old Oxford rivals, and decides to join in the hazing instead. This convinces Luke that Waldo has successfully adapted to the West, and rides off into the sunset.
* SelfMadeMan: Though it's implied his family was already wealthy, Waldo intends to follow in his uncle's footsteps and make his own way in the West.
* StiffUpperLip: To the point that even being shot in the arm doesn't faze him.sober.
*
* NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Waldo is actually extremely competent at most things, but his British upper-crust mannerisms clash hard with the mores of the rough-and-tumble West.
*
* WeaponSpecialization: He's as good with his whip as Luke is with his gun - when he
* NotSoAboveItAll: At the end of "The Tenderfoot", Waldo and Luke overhears the crowd planning to meet the latest "tenderfoot" arrival in town with the same humiliating hazing as they did Waldo (and every other immigrant who winds up there), and Waldo initially rushes over, hoping to protect them... only to discover that said arrival
* SelfMadeMan: Though it's implied his family was already wealthy, Waldo intends to follow in his uncle's footsteps and make his own way in the West.
* StiffUpperLip: To the point that even being shot in the arm doesn't faze him.
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[[folder:Sarah Bernhardt]]
A world famous French actress, whose controversial visit to the United States in 1880 would require the equally famed cowboy and gunslinger Lucky Luke to protect her.
A world famous French actress, whose controversial visit to the United States in 1880 would require the equally famed cowboy and gunslinger Lucky Luke to protect her.
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* EuropeansAreKinky: There's absolutely nothing sexual about her performance, but to the puritanical Americans, this applies to her.
* HotterAndSexier: Despite her act being positively tame compared to what you'd see in a saloon on a Friday night, the fact that as an actress, her singing and performance was done in broad daylight meant she's constantly accused of this.
* MoralGuardians: Is constantly beset by these, especially by Lucy Hayes, the First Lady of the United States.
* ShipTease: It's implied she has a thing for Luke at the end, leaving him with a farewell note, stating him to be a Lonesome Cowboy "only because he chooses to".
* HotterAndSexier: Despite her act being positively tame compared to what you'd see in a saloon on a Friday night, the fact that as an actress, her singing and performance was done in broad daylight meant she's constantly accused of this.
* MoralGuardians: Is constantly beset by these, especially by Lucy Hayes, the First Lady of the United States.
* ShipTease: It's implied she has a thing for Luke at the end, leaving him with a farewell note, stating him to be a Lonesome Cowboy "only because he chooses to".
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* EuropeansAreKinky: There's absolutely nothing sexual about her performance, but to TheAce: When he is first introduced he has caught the puritanical Americans, this applies Dalton brothers by himself. He's also shown to her.
be an excellent shot. He is just as revered as Lucky Luke himself.
*HotterAndSexier: Despite her act being positively tame compared to what you'd see in a saloon on a Friday night, BigDamnHeroes: He ends up saving Luke from both the fact that as an actress, her singing KKK and performance the Daltons in the finale, bring an army of ex-slaves to help him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real Bass Reeves wasdone in broad daylight meant she's constantly accused of this.
* MoralGuardians: Is constantly beset by these, especially by Lucy Hayes,the First Lady first black marshal west of the United States.
Mississippi and arrested more than 3,000 outlaws.
*ShipTease: It's implied she has ImprobableAimingSkills: He cuts the bonds of a thing for tied up Luke at the end, leaving him with a farewell note, stating him bullet.
* MentorArchetype: Luke claims tobe have learned a Lonesome Cowboy "only because lot from him, to which he chooses to".laughingly notes that shooting faster than his own shadow was not one of them.
*
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real Bass Reeves was
* MoralGuardians: Is constantly beset by these, especially by Lucy Hayes,
*
* MentorArchetype: Luke claims to
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[[folder:Don Doroteo Prieto]]
A wealthy Spanish aristocrat and ''hacienda'' owner that Luke encounters during his search for the Daltons in Mexico.
A wealthy Spanish aristocrat and ''hacienda'' owner that Luke encounters during his search for the Daltons in Mexico.
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* HeroesLoveDogs: Is always accompanied by his intelligent and loyal ''chihuhaua'', Rodriguez.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: A good man who genuinely wants to use his wealth to improve the lives of the peasants, but his hands are tied as long as Emilio Espuelas is loose, as any money he invested would simply be stolen, and he doesn't have the men to guard the whole area.
* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed; his jaw is more chiseled and he has a moustache, but he's similar enough to allow Luke to dress up like him and lure the outlaws into a trap.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to take town Emilio Espuelas once and for all, putting an end to the ''banditos'' reign of terror. He even takes part of the charge against Espuelas stronghold during the climax.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: A good man who genuinely wants to use his wealth to improve the lives of the peasants, but his hands are tied as long as Emilio Espuelas is loose, as any money he invested would simply be stolen, and he doesn't have the men to guard the whole area.
* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed; his jaw is more chiseled and he has a moustache, but he's similar enough to allow Luke to dress up like him and lure the outlaws into a trap.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to take town Emilio Espuelas once and for all, putting an end to the ''banditos'' reign of terror. He even takes part of the charge against Espuelas stronghold during the climax.
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* HeroesLoveDogs: Is always accompanied by BigEater: Really loves his intelligent food and loyal ''chihuhaua'', Rodriguez.
drink, much to the annoyance of the owner of his favorite restaurant, since Remington keeps paying off his tab with his paintings, which take up a lot of space in the building.
*HonestCorporateExecutive: A good BoisterousBruiser: Enters a saloon and politely asks a patron at what time the brawl is because he wants in.
* EccentricArtist: The reason why Lucky Luke is serving as bodyguard. Remington is a great artist but his love of food, fight and exploring TheWildWest to paint leads to potential dangers. He also has no real problem with people burning his paintings and sometime does it himself if he feels unhappy with the result.
* GentleGiant: He enjoys the occasional bar brawl, but otherwise, he's a very big man whogenuinely wants to use his wealth to improve the lives wouldn't hurt a fly.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A humorous fictional version of thepeasants, but great [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Remington Frederick Sackrider Remington]]
* OneTrackMindedArtist: Remington REALLY loves TheWildWest, and all hishands are tied as long as Emilio Espuelas is loose, as any money work showcases things like cowboys, Indians, the Cavalry, outlaws, etc. He ''can'' paint other subjects, he invested would simply be stolen, and he just doesn't have the men to guard the whole area.
want to.
*IdenticalStranger: Downplayed; his jaw is more chiseled and he has a moustache, but he's similar enough to allow Luke to dress up like him and lure the outlaws into a trap.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to take town Emilio Espuelas once and for all, putting an end to the ''banditos'' reign of terror. He even takes part of the charge against Espuelas stronghold during the climax.TrademarkFavoriteFood: Roast turkey.
*
* EccentricArtist: The reason why Lucky Luke is serving as bodyguard. Remington is a great artist but his love of food, fight and exploring TheWildWest to paint leads to potential dangers. He also has no real problem with people burning his paintings and sometime does it himself if he feels unhappy with the result.
* GentleGiant: He enjoys the occasional bar brawl, but otherwise, he's a very big man who
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A humorous fictional version of the
* OneTrackMindedArtist: Remington REALLY loves TheWildWest, and all his
*
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teams up with Luke to take town Emilio Espuelas once and for all, putting an end to the ''banditos'' reign of terror. He even takes part of the charge against Espuelas stronghold during the climax.
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[[folder:Hank Bully]]
A rough but kind-hearted stagecoach driver who joins Luke on a few of his adventures involving stagecoaches, starting with the album ''The Stagecoach''.
A rough but kind-hearted stagecoach driver who joins Luke on a few of his adventures involving stagecoaches, starting with the album ''The Stagecoach''.
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A rough
!!!'''The Dalton Family'''
[[folder:The Daltons]]
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daltons_lucky_luke_8255.gif]]
Lucky Luke's most featured adversaries and the most iconic outlaws of the series. They are, in fact, not the "real" Daltons (Bob, Grat, Bill and Emmett, who appeared in one early story and were killed off at the end of it), but
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* TheAce: The best "whip" in the west, he can get a stagecoach from going at full speed through the street to a complete stop neatly parked at the side between two other vehicles in exactly 3.6 seconds.
* {{Expy}}: Of Ugly Barrow from ''The Wagon Train'', though Barrow spoke almost entirerly in profanity (except two panels during the ending).
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not exactly the most polite person and is shouting to everyone most of the time, but he ultimately wants what is best for his passengers and horses.
* WeaponSpecialization: He's as good with his whip as Luke is with his gun - when he is sober.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bass Reeves]]
A former slave who tried his luck in the West after the civil war and became a marshal, he is Luke's main ally in ''A Cowboy in Cotton''.
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* TheAce: When he is first introduced he has caught the Dalton brothers by himself. He's also shown to be an excellent shot. He is just as revered as Lucky Luke himself.
* BigDamnHeroes: He ends up saving Luke from both the KKK and the Daltons in the finale, bring an army of ex-slaves to help him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real Bass Reeves was the first black marshal west of the Mississippi and arrested more than 3,000 outlaws.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He cuts the bonds of a tied up Luke with a bullet.
* MentorArchetype: Luke claims to have learned a lot from him, to which he laughingly notes that shooting faster than his own shadow was not one of them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Frederick Remington]]
A talented artist from New York who's become famous for his paintings of the Wild West during the last few years of the Frontier era, Remington's latest journey into the West has him accompanied by Lucky Luke as a bodyguard.
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* BigEater: Really loves his food and drink, much to the annoyance of the owner of his favorite restaurant, since Remington keeps paying off his tab with his paintings, which take up a lot of space in the building.
* BoisterousBruiser: Enters a saloon and politely asks a patron at what time the brawl is because he wants in.
* EccentricArtist: The reason why Lucky Luke is serving as bodyguard. Remington is a great artist but his love of food, fight and exploring TheWildWest to paint leads to potential dangers. He also has no real problem with people burning his paintings and sometime does it himself if he feels unhappy with the result.
* GentleGiant: He enjoys the occasional bar brawl, but otherwise, he's a very big man who wouldn't hurt a fly.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A humorous fictional version of the great [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Remington Frederick Sackrider Remington]]
* OneTrackMindedArtist: Remington REALLY loves TheWildWest, and all his work showcases things like cowboys, Indians, the Cavalry, outlaws, etc. He ''can'' paint other subjects, he just doesn't want to.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Roast turkey.
[[/folder]]
!Recurring antagonists
!!!'''The Dalton Family'''
[[folder:The Daltons]]
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daltons_lucky_luke_8255.gif]]
Lucky Luke's most featured adversaries and the most iconic outlaws of the series. They are, in fact, not the "real" Daltons (Bob, Grat, Bill and Emmett, who appeared in one early story and were killed off at the end of it), but their identical, if more incompetent cousins, Joe, William, Jack and Averell.
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* {{Expy}}: Of Ugly Barrow from ''The Wagon Train'', though Barrow spoke almost entirerly in profanity (except two panels during the ending).
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not exactly the most polite person and is shouting to everyone most of the time, but he ultimately wants what is best for his passengers and horses.
* WeaponSpecialization: He's as good with his whip as Luke is with his gun - when he is sober.
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[[folder:Bass Reeves]]
A former slave who tried his luck in the West after the civil war and became a marshal, he is Luke's main ally in ''A Cowboy in Cotton''.
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* TheAce: When he is first introduced he has caught the Dalton brothers by himself. He's also shown to be an excellent shot. He is just as revered as Lucky Luke himself.
* BigDamnHeroes: He ends up saving Luke from both the KKK and the Daltons in the finale, bring an army of ex-slaves to help him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real Bass Reeves was the first black marshal west of the Mississippi and arrested more than 3,000 outlaws.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He cuts the bonds of a tied up Luke with a bullet.
* MentorArchetype: Luke claims to have learned a lot from him, to which he laughingly notes that shooting faster than his own shadow was not one of them.
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[[folder:Frederick Remington]]
A talented artist from New York who's become famous for his paintings of the Wild West during the last few years of the Frontier era, Remington's latest journey into the West has him accompanied by Lucky Luke as a bodyguard.
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* BigEater: Really loves his food and drink, much to the annoyance of the owner of his favorite restaurant, since Remington keeps paying off his tab with his paintings, which take up a lot of space in the building.
* BoisterousBruiser: Enters a saloon and politely asks a patron at what time the brawl is because he wants in.
* EccentricArtist: The reason why Lucky Luke is serving as bodyguard. Remington is a great artist but his love of food, fight and exploring TheWildWest to paint leads to potential dangers. He also has no real problem with people burning his paintings and sometime does it himself if he feels unhappy with the result.
* GentleGiant: He enjoys the occasional bar brawl, but otherwise, he's a very big man who wouldn't hurt a fly.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A humorous fictional version of the great [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Remington Frederick Sackrider Remington]]
* OneTrackMindedArtist: Remington REALLY loves TheWildWest, and all his work showcases things like cowboys, Indians, the Cavalry, outlaws, etc. He ''can'' paint other subjects, he just doesn't want to.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Roast turkey.
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!Recurring antagonists
!!!'''The Dalton Family'''
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Lucky Luke's most featured adversaries and the most iconic outlaws of the series. They are, in fact, not the "real" Daltons (Bob, Grat, Bill and Emmett, who appeared in one early story and were killed off at the end of it), but their identical, if more incompetent cousins, Joe, William, Jack and Averell.
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* CanonImmigrant: Originated in the animated film ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' and made it to the comics canon via the ComicBookAdaptation.
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* GoofyBuckteeth: Not too goofy but he still has prominent front teeth.
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* {{Bluegrass}}: Accompanies his singing with his banjo.
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A singer and banjo player who performs the eponymous ballad in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' (both the film and the ComicBookAdaptation).
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* TheBard: He's a singer and banjo player who tells a story about the Dalton Brothers.
* GreekChorus: His ballad's lyrics include comments on what's going on in the story.
* MoralityBallad: The morality of the "Ballad of the Daltons"? Respect the law... and learn QuickDraw.
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* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison.
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* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: In several stories the focus is more on their attempts to outwit Lucky Luke than it is on Luke himself. They've also appeared solo in several stories, and like Rantanplan, have starred in their own animated series in 2010, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', where Lucky Luke doesn't even appear and the focus is on the Daltons as they try to escape from prison. Earlier than that, Luke practically shared the protagonist spot with them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''.
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* TomboyishVoice: In the French version of the 1983 cartoon series, she has a low and raspy voice courtesy of Creator/MichelineDax.
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The characters featured in the comic book series ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' and its adaptations.
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The characters featured in the Creator/{{Morris}} comic book series ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' and its adaptations.
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Marcel Bozzuffi (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]''), Daniel Ceccaldi (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''), Jacques Thébault (''WesternAnimation/LuckyLuke1983''), (''WesternAnimation/{{Lucky Luke|1983}}''), Antoine de Caunes (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/LambertWilson (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), Creator/EmmylouHoms (''Kid Lucky'')
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/TerenceHill (1991 film), Creator/TilSchweiger (''Les Dalton''; (''The Daltons''; 2004 film), and Creator/JeanDujardin ([[Film/LuckyLuke2009 2009 film]])
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!!!'''Played by:''' Sylvie Testud Creator/SylvieTestud ([[Film/LuckyLuke2009 2009 film]])
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* BerserkButton: Any mention of Lucky Luke's name is sure to make him go completely crazy. Same goes for seeing him in person, for that matter. Averell's antics are a close second.
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** [[EnragedByIdiocy Averell'santics antics]] are a close second.
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* CatchPhrase: {{Catchphrase}}: "Lucky Luke! I '''hate''' Lucky Luke!". A secondary one (shared with Jack and William) is "Averell, SHUT UP!"
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* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go red, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them and if Averell says something stupid he'll beat him up.
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* HairTriggerTemper: And ''how''. If he sees Luke or hear his name he'll go red, nuts, if someone mocks or disregards him he'll start shooting them them, and if Averell says or does something stupid he'll also [[EnragedByIdiocy go nuts and beat him up.up]].
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The legendary female {{Gunslinger}}.
The legendary female {{Gunslinger}}.
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The legendary female{{Gunslinger}}.[[TheGunslinger gunslinger]].
The legendary female
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/TerenceHill (1991 film), Creator/TilSchweiger (''Les Dalton''; 2004 film), and Creator/JeanDujardin (2009 film)
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Marcel Bozzuffi (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]''), Daniel Ceccaldi (''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]''), Jacques Thébault (''WesternAnimation/LuckyLuke1983''), Antoine de Caunes (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), and Creator/LambertWilson (''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure'')(''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''), Creator/EmmylouHoms (''Kid Lucky'')