History Characters / LuckyLuke

!!Mainline Comics Characters:

The characters featured in the Creator/{{Morris}} comic book series ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' and its adaptations.

!!Adaptations:

* ''Characters/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''
* ''Characters/TheDaltons''

!!Mainline Comics Characters:
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Separate pages:

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!Main Characters

* [[Characters/LuckyLukeTheDaltonFamily The Dalton Family]]

!Recurring antagonists

!!!'''The Dalton Family'''


!!!'''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.
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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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!One-Shot antagonists

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
[[/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.
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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: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.

* 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]]''.

[[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.

* {{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.

[[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."

* 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.

[[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".

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[folder:Ma Dalton]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/PerrettePradier (1983 animated series), Creator/VeroniqueAugereau (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/BarbaraTissier (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')

The aged mother of Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton.

* 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".

[[folder:Pa Dalton]]
The father of the Dalton Cousins, who died some time before the comics began.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

!!!'''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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

!One-Shot antagonists

[[folder:Elliot Belt]]
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One of the most infamous and tenacious bounty hunters of the West.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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".

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[folder:Emilio Espuelas]]
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A Mexican ''bandito'' who terrorizes the area just south of the Rio Grande.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* {{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"

[[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.

* {{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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[folder:Denver Miles and Colorado Bill]]
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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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* {{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.

[[folder:Cards Devon]]
The first of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious gambler and con man.

* 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.

[[folder:Hardhead Wilson]]
The second of Lowriver's hired goons, a notorious brawler.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[folder:Pistol Pete]]
The fourth and final goon hired by Lowriver, a gunman and hired killer.

* 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.

[[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.
----
* 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.
----
* 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.
[[/folder]]

[[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.
----
* 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.
[[/folder]]

* Characters/LuckyLukeProtagonists

!Allies
[[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]].

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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".

[[folder:Don Doroteo Prieto]]
A wealthy Spanish aristocrat and ''hacienda'' owner that Luke encounters during his search for the Daltons in Mexico.

* 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.

[[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''.

* 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: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''.

* 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: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.

* 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.

!Recurring antagonists

!!!'''The Dalton Family'''

[[folder:The Daltons]]
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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.

* 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]]''.

[[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.

* {{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.

[[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."

* 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.

[[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".

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[folder:Ma Dalton]]
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!!!'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/PerrettePradier (1983 animated series), Creator/VeroniqueAugereau (''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke''), Creator/BarbaraTissier (''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'')

The aged mother of Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton.

* 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".

[[folder:Pa Dalton]]
The father of the Dalton Cousins, who died some time before the comics began.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

!!!'''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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

!One-Shot antagonists

[[folder:Elliot Belt]]
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One of the most infamous and tenacious bounty hunters of the West.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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".

[[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.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.