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The Daltons

The Gang

From left to right Joe, Jack, William, and Averell.

Adaptational Intelligence: Every member of the quartet does show bouts of intelligence here and there compared to what we saw before in the comics:
- Joe comes up with wackier and zanier shemes than before, although they vary from being straightforward to reaching Complexity Addiction territory;
- Jack, as the series progresses, becomes a lot more mature and aware of Joe's plans and he will eventually try to call out the most minimal flaw;
- William regains his original status of "family intellectual", which he has lost over the years;
- Averell, despite still being the dumbest of the four, shows off a wide variety of talents he is naturally inclined, like being an excellent artist for example.
Affably Evil: They're bandits, sure, and they have no scruples about robbing the innocent, tricking and using whoever's gullible enough to take their word at something, or threaten with violence if they don't get their way... but they're generally fairly laid-back and easy enough to get along with when not out robbing. The exception is Joe, who can be Faux Affably Evil but is more often just a Jerkass.
Asshole Victim: Considering how abrasive, violent and haughty they can get, it's not hard to see why other prisoners or the Indians treat them the way they do. Joe, being the biggest asshole, gets it the worst.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The Daltons fight and bicker constantly, and especially Joe is constantly smacking around and yelling at Averell. But they always stick together, and if any of the brothers is threatened by an outside force, the other three will back him up.
Color-Coded Characters: Well, usually they all wear the same black and yellow prison uniforms, but on the rare occasions where they're seen in their civilian outfits, they wear differently colored shirts. In the original comics they all wore identical green shirts, but here Joe wears red, Jack wears blue and William wears yellow, leaving Averell with the green.
The Dreaded: They are this, but only to civilians outside of the prison. Miss Betty, the Guards, the Indians or Peabody, don't feel the same.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: All of them deeply love their mother and fondly recall their youth with her. Except for Joe, who seems to fear her more than anything else.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As Jack puts it to Joe: "Family is sacred".
Even Evil Has Standards: Robbing, brutalizing, manipulating, or simply being jerkasses to people? No problems. Abandoning a baby in the middle of the desert? Hell no!
Four-Man Band: While there's no Casanova Wannabe (since William seems to be more of a Charmer), Joe can strand into Comedic Sociopath territory, as he sometimes beats up his brothers when they tic him off. The rest of the group stays the same, with Averell being the ditzy Butt-Monkey who gets snarked at the most, William being The Smart Guy thanks to his knowledge, and Jack being the closest to an Only Sane Man.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: They incarnate this trope perfectly:
- Joe - Choleric, a oversensitive, short-tempered and conceited leader that comes off as a strong-willed overreacher;
- Jack - Melancholic, the hardest worker of the Daltons, very loyal to Joe, but also introverted and quiet most of the time;
- William - Phlegmatic, the one who tries to break up fights, open-minded and rational, but slightly lazier than the others;
- Averell - Sanguine, the nicest, easy-going with everyone, quirky and eccentric but gullible and overly talkative according to Joe.
Pet the Dog: They're villains and proud of it, but Even Evil Has Standards. On a rare occasion they'll do something decent. Averell is particularly prone to this, but even Joe can on occasion show a small bit of decency.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Both Joe and Averell tend to act impulsively and are far more emotional in their ways compared to Jack and William, who are quieter, shyer and more rational, making them the Blue to the former's Red Oni. On his own, Joe is the Red Oni to Averell's Blue, due to a more kind-hearted, empathic and sensitive temperament from the latter.

Joe

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Voiced by: Christophe Lemoine (FR); Paolo Marchese (ITA)

The shortest, oldest, angriest and most malicious of the brothers, Joe Dalton is the leader and self-appointed brains of the gang, who masterminds their prison breaks and various schemes.

Berserk Button: His biggest Berserk Button, Lucky Luke, doesn't really appear in this series — though on the rare cases when Luke is mentioned and makes a roundabout cameo, it's enough to send Joe into a rage. In one episode, when Joe was suffering from depression and had lost all interest in trying to escape, the mere prospect of Luke stopping by for a visit was enough to have him screaming and ranting and deciding to double down on the escape attempts. And even without Luke, there are still a lot of things that can set Joe off. Averell talking, for one thing.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When he wants something out of someone who isn't one of his brothers, he can get quite friendly, but it's all an act.
Book Dumb: Zig-zagged. It's not often clear whether he's illiterate or not. In "Gifted Daltons", he turns out to be terrible at academics, in another episode Joe had an hard time reading a letter. However in "Last Will", Joe attempts to find an idea to escape by reading "The Count of Montecristo". What's sure though, is that he has a brilliant imagination when it comes to escape plans.
Butt-Monkey: The most frequent victim of slapstick in the series, and the one who most consistently ends the episode on an unhappy note. And he deserves every bit of it too.
Complexity Addiction: Some of his plans are unjustly complicated.
Dartboard of Hate: He owns one with Lucky Luke's face on it.
Determinator: In one episode, it's revealed that the Daltons have made 347 escape attempts while at the Nevada penitentiary — and that's only in the first season. If we consider that Joe is the driving force behind every single escape attempt, he definitely qualifies as The Determinator, as he never gives up on getting out of the prison. His brothers can sometimes get resigned, but Joe is always here to remind them.
Faux Affably Evil: He can be quite pleasant and charming whenever he wants something, but it's really all an act which he'll let drop the moment he's reached his goals.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Not as prevalent here as in his comics counterpart, probably because Lucky Luke isn't in the series to push his biggest Berserk Button... but he's still got a nasty temper and is extremely easy to rile up.
Jerkass: With his fellows prisoners and his brothers.
Averell: But Joe, if we anger the buddies, wouldn't we be not buddies anymore?
Joe: Justly Averell, this way we won't miss them once we've escaped.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all of his jerkassery, he still does show to care for his brothers (especially Averell, for better or worse.)
The Leader: The shortest and (at least according to him) most intelligent of the brothers, typically he serves as their leader.
Manipulative Bastard: Though not an true master at this, Joe knows how to pull people's strings to get what he wants. Best exemplified with Peabody, exploiting (multiple times) his greed or desire for fame to advance his agenda.
Shorter Means Smarter: Played with. Joe is the shortest Dalton, and is convinced he's the smartest one... but while he's certainly smarter than Big Little Brother Averell, he's not necessarily smarter than Jack or William — he's just more driven and more ruthless. This certainly reflects the words of his original co-creator René Goscinny, who claimed that Joe was simply the most malicious Dalton, and evil doesn't equal intelligence.
The Napoleon: While the shortest in the gang, he is the most temper-prone in and out of his Asshole Victim element he more often than not shares with the gang.
Never Going Back to Prison: He would rather die in the desert than go back in prison.
Small Name, Big Ego: At least compared to the other Daltons, as he claims to be the smartest and the craftiest of all of them.
Smug Snake: It goes hand-in-hand with Small Name, Big Ego, as his saturared ego and stubborness become two of his biggest banes and two of the reasons why the Daltons plans backfire as a whole.
Too Dumb to Live: His desire to escape can overwhelm his common sense. He once got ran into a giant fan and got cut up.
The Un-Favourite: An aspect of him which was only suggested in previous works, is here expanded upon: the fact that Joe is the one of his brothers that receives the least love from Ma', which could actually explain some aspects of his personality.
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: One of the main characters that is a jerk and literally everything goes wrong in his plans.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: He really wants his mother to acknowledge him as the brilliant mastermind he sees himself as... or barring that, at least show him the same encouragement she does to his brothers.
Zany Scheme: Some of his escape attempts take the form of these. Though he usually prefers a more straightforward approach, some of his plans can get very complicated and convoluted. This is usually a sign that he's getting desperate, or that things have spiraled out of control for him — especially when the schemes begin relying on Insane Troll Logic (such as dressing a cow up in prisoner's garbs so the guards will mistake it for a new prisoner).

Jack

Voiced by: Bruno Flender (FR); Enrico Di Troia (ITA)

One of the middle brothers, who mostly acts as a buffer between Joe and Averell, calming down the former and shutting up the latter. Jack, despite being one of the least characterized brothers, he is often presented as Joe's main sidekick as well as the biggest objector of his plans.

Ascended Extra: Downplayed, while in the Lucky Luke movies he, along with William functioned only as an extra, here he has more depth in terms of personality and screentime, although not by much, considering he's still Out of Focus.
Adaptation Name Change: Kind of. In the original comics, the second shortest brother is usually called William, but on several occasions (including the second half of the Daltons' introduction story), is mistakenly referred to as "Jack." In this show he's consistently named Jack.
Characterization Marches On: In the first few episode, he was almost as accident-prone and clumsy as Averell and there were moments in which he displayed high emotion (like when his foot was hit by a rock). Later on he became much stealthier compared to his brothers, like when he caught Peabody off-guard with a copper pan, quieter and more level-headed.
The Consigliere: In many episodes he manages to highlight flaws in Joe's plans. This leads to Joe changing his mind or, occasionally, the latter, Jack or William coming up with a better solution.
A Day in the Limelight: "Dots and Stripes" and "Les Dalton font la roue", although the latter is not available in english.
Deadpan Snarker: Occasionally. It doesn't happen too often, but if one of the Daltons makes a sarcastic remark it's most often Jack.
Joe: "He's not evacuating the prison, I can't believe it!"
Jack: "Your plan fell through! (From the episode "The Daltons afloat!")
Out of Focus: Together with his brothers, he appeared in every single episode, however he rarely gets the main spotlight, as there have been roughly 2 episodes focused on him.
The Engineer: Jack has served this role a bunch of times in the show, including disassembling a Big Wheel, helping constructing a high-tech car or simply getting involved a lot in the Daltons plans by digging tunnels and doing the hardest work.
The Generic Guy: While William has kind of escaped this role in this show thanks to his status as the "family intellectual," Jack doesn't have a very strong personality and very rarely stands out among his brothers in any way.
The Stoic: If he has an individual trait, it's that he's the calmest of the Daltons, seldom getting worked up about anything. Well, except...
- Not So Stoic: He is very afraid of flying and just being a few inches off the ground is enough to make him queasy.
The Quiet One: Most of the time he is seen in, he doesn't say a word and he almost never interacts with anyone else but his Brothers.
Those Two Guys: With William.

William

Voiced by: Julien Cafaro (FR); Antonio Palumbo (ITA)

The second one of the middle brothers who acts as a buffer between Joe and Averell. William has got a keen interest in reading and has taken up the role as the "family intellectual."

Ascended Extra: Downplayed, while in the Lucky Luke movies he, along with Jack, functioned only as an extra, here he has more depth in terms of personality and screentime, although not by much, considering he is still Out of Focus.
Adaptational Intelligence: William regains his original status as the intellectual member of the group, which he had lost over the years.
Adaptation Name Change: The same deal as Jack here. In the original comics, he's usually Jack, but is sometimes mistakenly referred to as William. Here, he's William full time.
Book Smart: While he doesn't really have any more common sense than his brothers, he does have a lot more general knowledge — unlike them, he does come across as having a basic education.
The Charmer: Implied, He seems to be this to Miss Betty in a few episodes, with "Highly Gifted Daltons" being a perfect example, due to them sharing a common interest about learning and literatire and interacting nicely more than once.
A Day in the Limelight: "Joe Playboy", "Highly Gifted Daltons" and "It's Giant!"
Depending on the Writer: He is either portrayed as the smartest of the brothers, coming up with better ideas than Joe's, or as the clumsy one when Averell is not around.
Mr. Exposition: If some basic historical, scientific or geographical fact needs to be explained, William is generally there to explain it.
Out of Focus: Similar to Jack, he appeared in every single episode, however he rarely gets the main spotlight, as there have been roughly 3/4 episodes focused on him.
The Smart Guy: While Joe is the one with all the plans and Jack is the one with the most common sense, William is the one with all the knowledge.
Those Two Guys: With Jack.
Wicked Cultured: Not by modern standards, perhaps, but in a time and place where very few people read, he certainly comes across as one. Of the four brothers, he's the one with a keen interest in reading, and as a result he'll sometimes play Mr. Exposition to the others on certain topics like literature and basic physics.

Averell

Voiced by: Bernard Alane (FR); Andrea Lavagnino (ITA)

The tallest, youngest and stupidest of the Daltons.

Adaptational Badass: While Averell is still the brainless screw-up who keeps annoying Joe with his inane comments and penchant for Comically Missing the Point, this series paints him more as a Genius Ditz with a multitude of talents. He's a phenomenal artist (painting, sculpture, gardening, you name it), a brilliant cook, and a great athlete. Too bad his lack of common sense tends to stop him from actually utilizing those talents in any meaningful way.
Big Eater: Even more so than in previous adaptations.
The Big Guy: To the rest of the Daltons.
Big Little Brother: The youngest, but the tallest of the Daltons.
Butt-Monkey: Downplayed, Probably thanks to his well-meaning nature, he isn't as unlucky as Joe, but he is also the one who undergoes the most pain after his eldest brother.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While he is obviously the least intelligent of the brothers, he can occasionally display unexpected bouts of competence, or completely random (and useful) knowledge.
Dumb Is Good: He is the least intelligent of his brother, but he is as well as the kindest, the most innocent and the most easy-going.
Friend to All Living Things: Which can also explain why the animals love him.
Genius Ditz: Still the least intelligent of the brothers and incredibly low on common sense, but as several episodes show he's a man of many talents. (See Renaissance Man below).
Green-Eyed Monster: Averell is prone to fits of jealousy if one of his brothers — particularly Joe — makes a new friend or otherwise gives any sort of affection to an outsider.
Hypocrite: In "Gigi the Giraffe", Averell resents the titular giraffe for stealing Joe's affection away from him. While it's quite understandable given that Joe shows more love towards Gigi than he has ever shown towards his brothers, one has to recall all the times Averell has bonded with an animal and neglected Joe the same way.
Keet: Downplayed, while he is not hyperactive, he is still a lot more enthusiastic and cheerful compared to his Brothers.
The Klutz: Due to his occasional clumsiness when/while helping the Daltons escape, Averell is prone to be more of an Spanner in the Works because of this.
Manchild: The youngest of the Daltons, Averell is mostly just a big kid in a nutshell.
Momma's Boy: All the Daltons love their Ma, but Averell, who is the "baby" of the family, has a special bond with her.
Renaissance Man: Averell has shown to be the most skilled of the Daltons outside of crime: artist (painter, sculptor, interior decorator, puppeteer, origami crafter), cook (baker, pastry chef, french fryer...), gardener, karate master and many other skills.
Too Dumb to Live: More often than not.. Special mention goes to the time he and his brothers were about to be pardoned, only for him to ruin it by stealing the president's briefcase.
Use Your Head: His brothers like to use him as a battering ram.

Ma Dalton

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Voiced by: Barbara Tissier (FR)

The single mother of the Daltons.

Adaptational Villainy: Still the strict-but-loving mother to her boys, but she's less affable and more directly villainous here than in the comics and previous adaptations. Whenever she appears in an episode, it's to try and break her boys out of prison, and she'll happily resort to fraud, kidnapping, and threats of violence against innocents in order to reach her goals.
The Dreaded: To Joe, whom she treats the most harshly out of all her sons. She's probably the only person that Joe actually fears.
Even Evil Has Standards: Although she may be part of the Dalton family and being a Dalton, in "Momma Knows Best", she's disgusted by her sons cheating as she even tells them that Daltons never cheat.
Karma Houdini: In most episodes. She usually breaks several laws in her attempts to help her sons escape, but she's never arrested or punished for it... but it's averted in the episode "Mamma Mia," where she is actually arrested, and at the end of the episode she sends the boys a cake with files from her prison.
Parental Favoritism: She shows Averell a lot more open affection than the other three, probably because he's the baby of the family and she views him as the most "sensitive" of them. Joe, on the other hand, is the Un Favorite who can do nothing right in her eyes — though it's possible that, like in the comics, she mainly treats him the most harshly because she expects the most of him.
Tough Love: She's a big believer in this. While there's no doubt she loves her sons, that doesn't mean she's going to give them a break — especially not Joe, whom she's twice as hard on as the others.

The Penitentiary

Rintindumb (aka Rantanplan)

Rintindumb

Voiced by: François Morel (FR); Franco Mannella (ITA)

An prison guard dog kept in The Penitentiary who is often tasked with watching over the Daltons.

Adaptational Heroism: To an extent, though it's more about attitude than about competence. It's tied to his (very slight) Adaptational Intelligence, since he actually seems to be somewhat aware that he's supposed to be a guard dog. On several occasions, he's actively attempting to do his job, like trying to catch the Daltons when they escape, or come to the rescue when he thinks someone's life is in danger. Mind you, even these acts of heroism are always accompanied by one of his trademark misunderstandings (he chases after the escaping Daltons because he thinks they're alien invaders, he tries to save Joe from drowning when Joe isn't actually drowning, he mistakes a prisoner release for an escape attempt...), so he's still mainly an Accidental Hero.
Adaptational Intelligence: Very slight. Unlike his comic book counterpart he usually gets at least the general gist of what people are saying to him — and on occasion, he even seems to realize that he's supposed to be a guard dog. He's still not a good guard dog, since he's still very much The Ditz who tends to draw the wrong conclusions, but where the Rintindumb of the comics would often stray into Too Dumb to Live territory, this version hardly ever does.
Big Eater: Not to Averell's extent, and kind of downplayed compared to his comics counterpart, but Rintindumb still has a very healthy appetite and can pack away large amounts of food.
Cloudcuckoolander: Paradoxically enough, even with his Adaptational Intelligence he's an even bigger Cloud Cuckoolander than ever, with some seriously creative leaps of logic.
- When the prison is flooded, his reaction is: "The penitentiary's sinking! We must have hit an iceberg during the night!"
- In one episode he keeps mistaking a chihuahua for a mouse... and then when he finds an actual mouse he's astonished because "that's the smallest dog I've ever seen!"
- When Joe tricks him into chasing a rubber ball, and the ball vanishes, he immediately decides that "the rubber ball crossed into a parallel world!" He spends the rest of the episode thinking he's in that parallel world.
Comically Missing the Point: One of his main character traits. There isn't a situation, no matter how straightforward, that Rintindumb can't misunderstand in some way.
Dogs Are Dumb: No big surprise there, given that his English dub name is Rintindumb (from his name in French, Rantanplan translating this). Even for growing some new intelligence and imagination.
Dumbass No More: In the "Inside Rintindumb" episode, when the Daltons were shrunk and plugged Rintindumb's plugs into his skull for his neurons to run; he becomes a more competent, devious, graceful, and smarter canine when following Joe's orders. Rintindumb returns back to normal, however.
Gag Nose: Due to him being a typical hound with long snouts and big noses, his cartoony nose would usually squeak pretty loudly like it's a chew-toy whenever he slams himself onto something that'd usually result from his klutziness.
The Klutz: When his Cloud Cuckoo Lander tendencies ensue, this is usually Played for Laughs when he can be incredibly clumsy in an rather zany and cartoonish way either with his Gag Nose or not.
Simpleton Voice: Literally has one in the American dub and was done in an incredibly silly way.
Spanner in the Works: Quite often, the Daltons' escape plan fails, or the episode villain is thwarted, thanks to his misunderstandings and misguided antics. And occasionally they succeed because of him.

Melvin Peabody

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Voiced by: Stéphane Ronchewski (FR); Oliviero Dinelli (ITA)

A former penitentiary warden who is now the Nevada Penitentiary Warden.

Absurd Phobia: He's horrified beyond reason by... french fries. He refuse to serve them in the prison because of this. That is because when he was a baby, his mother used to put them in his bottle since he loved them, but when his father did it, he had cut them too big thus inadvertently choking the baby before his mother saved him.
The Ace: Effortlessly good at stopping the Daltons whether he does this because of him interfering with their plans or his reliable guards/etc taking them back to prison.
Butt-Monkey: At times.
Catchphrase: "The Daltons are escaping! Stop them!!"
Chivalrous Pervert/Covert Pervert: As seen in "The Director's Girlfriend" episode, Peabody can be quite the ludicrous one. However, the fact that he never gets this... insistent towards Miss Betty or any other beautiful woman, respecting them and treating them as colleagues and/ or equals (in opposition to the Daltons or Pete and Emmett who have peeping tom tendencies), proves that he is both of these tropes.
Clock King: In "Model Inmate". Joe ends up exploiting it.
Determinator: Never stops at stopping the Daltons from escaping the prison, especially by his repeated phrase being used whenever he spots the Daltons escaping in any way.
Greed: From time to time his love of money makes him do real stupid mistakes.
Jerkass Ball: While mostly a Reasonable Authority Figure, he will have moments where he gets haughty, unreasonable, or inconsiderate — usually, it's when he's trying to assert his authority, or when his Greed gets the better of him.
Lantern Jaw of Justice: Has an cartoony, big chin and is pretty heroic when it comes to stopping the Daltons.
Nice Guy: Usually a pleasant man to talk to (whenever its a important time at the very least), and can be too nice to others and such to The Dalton's delight at times.
Not So Above It All: When he is usually the Only Sane Man to Betty and everyone, he can be prone to be just as immature as everyone else whenever a problem ensues in some instances.
Only Sane Man: When Miss Betty doesn't figure out that the Daltons are playing her, Peabody serves as this.
Verbal Tic: Downplayed, although occasionally, he tends to add the suffix "-ism" at the end of many words. Lampshaded by Pete in "French Fries".
Pete: "Honestism and Sinceritism, like you always say!"

Miss Betty

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Voiced by: Edwige Lemoine (FR)

The distracted and positive red-haired woman who is the prison educator and as such, she always tries to educate and entertain the inmates with activities that she defines as ludo-educational. In practice, she is the well-meaning teacher of history, if she tries in every way to make Joe socialize with the other prisoners but, needless to say, she is not successful.

All Girls Want Bad Boys: Invoked and quoted in one episode, where the Daltons try to make an ally out of her and romancing her, though it doesn't really work when Joe comes onto her. Nevertheless, there's the occasional hint that she finds male outlaws... a little more fascinating that what might be entirely proper. Definitely a case of Everyone Has Standards, though, as she was not impressed with General Santa Anna's attempts at wooing her.
Badass Adorable: She's very cute and sweet-natured, but definitely should not be underestimated; this woman can take care of herself.
Dude Magnet: She gets a lot of attention from the males of the series.
Fiery Redhead: Downplayed. She's usually very cheery and hard to anger, but you can only push her so far before she's had enough.
Hidden Depths: She might seem prim, proper, and extremely easy to fool because she wants to see the good in everyone... but several episodes show that she has a bit of a wild side, and that if she just embraced that wild side she'd be an amazing outlaw. She's certainly better than average at sneaking around and committing criminal acts. In one episode she along with the Daltons is de-aged to a teenager. She immediately decides that they're much more fun and exciting than the boring old law-abiders, joins their gang, and while they do tease her a little for her "girly" idea of robbing the rich and giving to the poor, she's an enthusiastic member of the gang who holds her own in the shenanigans that follow.
Hot Librarian: The prison librarian, and without doubt the best-looking of the regular characters.
Innocent Fanservice Girl: She's usually very properly dressed, but there are the odd occasions when she dresses a little more skimpily, like the two-piece bathing suit she puts on when the penitentiary gets flooded. She doesn't even seem to notice the very positive reaction this gets from the prisoners.
Nice Girl: Wild streak aside, she's a very sweet-natured and sympathetic person who genuinely wants good things for people. Push her too far, though, and it can turn into a Beware the Nice Ones situation.
White Sheep: Her parents and twin sister are notorious criminals. She's is the only law-abiding member of the family, and doesn't keep in touch with the rest.
Womanchild: Pretty much everything she does, she approaches with a childlike enthusiasm seldom seen in other characters other than Averell.
Only Sane Woman: At times, this usually happens when Peabody falls victim into being immature like the "Marshmellow Trap" episode for example.

Pete and Emmett

Pete (left) and Emmett (right)

Pete voiced by: Bruno Magne (FR); Stefano Santerini (ITA)
Emmett voiced by: Michel Dodane (FR); Mino Caprio (ITA)

Melvin's prison guards, who mainly just stand around and comment on everything that's going on, occasionally making bets on the outcome.

Batman Gambit: "What a Ball"has Peabody buy new high-tech prison balls that prevent the Daltons from escaping. Unhappy with this new arrangement taking their jobs, Pete and Emmett trick their boss into showing them the workings of the system, obtain its code (wriiten on the back of Peabody's right hand), and discretely bust the Daltons out themselves by shutting it down long enough for them to escape. Melvin is not only forced to turn to them for help, but he never finds out they were the ones pulling the strings behind the brothers' escape.
Fat and Skinny: Pete is the fat to Emmett's skinny.
Those Two Guys: They seldom get involved in the plots, usually just standing on the sidelines and playing Greek Chorus.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. "Emmett" was also the name of one of the original Dalton brothers, though this isn't really commented upon. Emmett the guard has nothing in common with Emmett Dalton other than the name, anyway.

Ming Lee Foo

Voiced by: Marco Mete (ITA)

The penitentiary launderer.

A Day in the Limelight: Usually a minor character, but he gets the occasional episode where he gets more focus and attention, like Mamma Mia where Ma Dalton kidnaps his mother.
Chinese Launderer: Like his counterpart from the comics and the Ballad of the Daltons movie. The difference is that here he's the prison launderer.
You Don't Look Like You: Whereas the Daltons and Rintindumb in this show mostly look like their classic counterparts with only minor design tweaks to them, Ming Lee Foo looks almost nothing like he did in the comics.

Others

Fabulous Falcon (aka Vrai Faucon)

Fabulous Falcon

Voiced by: Jérémy Prévost (FR); Luca Dal Fabbro (ITA)

The medicine man from the Broken Wings tribe, who often comes to the penitentiary to act as a guest lecturer, mainly on Native American customs and culture.

Expressive Mask: His mask covers most of his body and changes expression almost as much as a real face would.
Magical Native American: He's a powerful sorcerer who specializes in potions and rain dances... though he's not always so good at controlling the outcome.
Snake Oil Salesman: A variation. While his magical cures and concoctions do work, they often don't work quite as advertised or have side effects he "forgot" to mention. He also isn't above cheating a little in order to make a sale.

Crazy Wolf (aka Loup Cinglé)

Crazy Wolf

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Voiced by: Bruno Magne (FR)

The chief of the Broken Wings tribe. Generally on good terms with the people at the penitentiary, but can get suspicious and quarrelsome if he encounters some escaped prisoners.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's grouchy, temperamental, a bit of a lech, and sometimes a little too eager to take vengeance for real or imagined slights... but he seems to be a Reasonable Authority Figure to his tribe and will generally apologize and try to make amends if he realizes he's in the wrong.
Pintsized Powerhouse: He's barely taller than Joe, but he's not to be underestimated in a fight.
The Stoic: Parodied. He appears to be stoic and unshakeable, and always speaks in a calm voice, but he's actually quite touchy and impulsive.

Characters / The Daltons

The Daltons

Joe

Jack

William

Averell

Ma Dalton