History Comicbook / Blueberry

When creating the series, Giraud was inspired by the time he had spent in the American West in the 1950s. The physical appearance of the character himself is based on French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. Already fairly realistic in the first episodes, the series took advantage of loosened censorship laws in 1968 to get DarkerAndEdgier, with more overt depictions of violence and sexuality. In 1973, Giraud decided to redefine himself as Moebius, leaving the series to Colin Wilson (the New Zealander who worked on ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', not the British prose writer), who then passed it on to Michel Blanc-Dumont. Giraud later came back to ''Blueberry'' as a scenarist, and after Charlier's death in 1989, took over writing duties until his own death in 2012.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted with the appropriately-named Angel Face, a {{Bishonen}} PsychoForHire. [[spoiler:In a case of LaserGuidedKarma, he ends up disfigured.]]

* TheAlcoholic: [=McClure=].

* FemmeFatale: Chihuahua Pearl.

* GeneralFailure / PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Blueberry usually has to deal with one of these every so often, often trying to make sure [[VillainBall they don't end up riling up the Native Americans for no damn reason]].
** General Allister did the above by declaring war on the Cheyenne and Sioux, right after Blueberry had signed a peace treaty. His army would have been completely annihilated by said Indian tribes had it not been for Blueberry's actions. Blueberry won Allister's undying hatred for this "humiliation" and made a very dangerous enemy for himself in the process.

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%%* BanteringBaddieBuddies: Cole Timbley and Walley Blunt, two secondary villains from ''The Lost Dutchman's Mine'', and ''The Ghost Fires Golden Bullets'', repeatedly interspeak with each other during conversations, finish each others' sentences, and ask each others' opinions. However, when Blueberry shoots Cole in self-defense, Walley steps into action as a much more competent villain, actually matching Luckner, although eventually getting killed by him.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Cole Timbley and Walley Blunt, two secondary villains from ''The Lost Dutchman's Mine'', and ''The Ghost Fires Golden Bullets'', repeatedly interspeak with each other during conversations, finish each others' sentences, and ask each others' opinions. However, when Blueberry shoots Cole in self-defense, Walley steps into action as a much more competent villain, actually matching Luckner, although eventually getting killed by him.

* AllForNothing: In "The Trail Of The Sioux" Bluberry and General Dodge finally manage to mediate a peace between the Sioux, the Union Pacific workers and the army. Unfortunately this peace is doomed as the man ordered by Washington to deal with the problem is none other than General Allister, an ambitious, bigoted, opportunistic and ruthless man who immediately ruins the peace that Blueberry worked so hard to obtain by violating the truce and attacking the Sioux and Cheyenne.

* GeneralFailure / PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Blueberry usually has to deal with one of these every so often, often trying to make sure [[VillainBall they don't end up riling the Native Americans for no damn reason]].

** In Fort Navajo, probably the straightest example to date, a rattlesnake turns up for less than half a page, but kills Colonel Dickson, after which the racist [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Major Bascom]] ends up in charge of the peace negotiations with the natives, causing him to betray them and try to capture the chieftains, after which the Apache declares statewide war against the Americans, leading the Mexican governor of Chihuahua to supply them with weapons, in order to [[YankTheDogsChain drive the Americans out of Texas, and take it for Mexico to become Mexican president.]] Yes, had it not been for that snake, all of this would never had happened.

* ShoutOut : Corporal Blutch and Sergeant Chesterfield of ''ComicBook/LesTuniquesBleues'' make an appearance in one album. ''Blueberry'' also received one from Derib, author of ''Buddy Longway'', with [=McClure=] making a cameo appearance in that series.

* AllForNothing: In the trail of the Sioux album Bluberry finally manages to negociate with the Sioux and of convincing them of making peace with the Union Pacific workers and the army. He and general Dodge manage to obtain a temporary peace for winter. Unfortunately this peace is doomed as the man ordered by Washington charged to deal with the natives is none other than general Allister, an ambitious, biggoted, opportunistic and ruthless man who immediatly ruins the peace that Blueberry worked so hard to obtain by violating the truce and attacking the Sioux and Cheyennes, renewing the conflict with them.

* ShoutOut : Corporal Blutch and Sergeant Chesterfield of ''ComicStrip/LesTuniquesBleues'' make an appearance in one album. ''Blueberry'' also received one from Derib, author of ''Buddy Longway'', with [=McClure=] making a cameo appearance in that series.

* ShoutOut : Corporal Blutch and Sergeant Chesterfield of ''ComiStrip/LesTuniquesBleues'' make an appearance in one album. ''Blueberry'' also received one from Derib, author of ''Buddy Longway'', with [=McClure=] making a cameo appearance in that series.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The early version of the character closely resembles Jean-Paul Belmondo.