History WesternAnimation / LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons

* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu: Ming Li-Foo.

* AsianBuckTeeth: Ming Li-Foo has huge front teeth.
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Ming Li-Foo attacks Luke with martial arts and his RazorSharpHand when the Daltons make it clear they're here to kill him.

* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Ming Li-Foo.

* RazorSharpHand: [[ChineseLaunderer Ming Li Foo]] responds to the threat to his life the Daltons stupidly uttered a minute earlier while undressing to have him clean their clothes by attacking Luke (who just wants to talk to him and save his life) with [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts kung fu]]. Foo chops everything in his path with his hand to get to Luke, including a wooden barrel, a mannequin's head, a wooden ladder and even an ''anvil''.

* LazyMexican: A running Rantanplan and the [[TrackTrouble derailed train]] of Bud Bugman behind him pass through a Mexican-style village with two Mexicans with big hats named Juan and Pepe having a nap against a wall (a recurring imagery in the comics). Juan lifts his hat a bit and tells Pepe about "the dog running like crazy". Pepe asks why he runs like crazy, Juan tells him it would be "too long to explain" and they go back to napping. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight They don't even bring up the train that just passed in front of them]].

* DubInducedPlotHole: The Swedish dub cut 15 seconds of content from the movie for being too violent or scary, including the Daltons shooting up Mathias Bones' dummy when they ambush his carriage, which for all intents and purposes actually makes the Daltons' assassination of him look ''successful''... only for the character to show up alive and well at the end of the movie with zero explanation.

* DubInducedPlotHole: The Swedish dub cut 15 seconds of content from the movie for being too violent or scary, including the Daltons shooting up Mathas Bones' dummy when they ambush his carriage, which for all intents and purposes actually makes the Daltons' assassination of him look ''successful''... only for the character to show up alive and well at the end of the movie with zero explanation.

''Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons'' (''Lucky Luke: La ballade des Dalton'' in French) is the second animated film based off the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' series by Creator/{{Morris}} and Creator/ReneGoscinny after 1971's ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]''. The film was directed by the authors themselves and released in 1978 by Studios Idéfix, the same company that made ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' with a script written by Goscinny himself (who did the best known ''Lucky Luke'' stories), which might explain why the plot is kind of similar. Studios Idéfix was closed down in April 1978 after the passing of Goscinny in late 1977.

3. Snake Feather – A Native American witch doctor. He gives the Daltons some magic mushrooms, causing them to hallucinate a bizarre dream sequence. When they awake, Luke informs them that they have already killed him.

* ChineseLaunderer: Ming Li-Foo owns a laundry. Averell is dumb enough to think it's a restaurant and drinks a basket of water mixed with washing powder (granted, he can't read Chinese but he surely saw the piles of clothes).

** Ming Li-Foo is a short, yellow Chinese man with an imbecilic grin, long pony tail, who speaks {{Engrish}} and is a proprietor of laundry who happens to [[AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu know kung-fu]]. He is even referred to as a "Chinaman" in the English language dub.

* ChineseLaunderer: Ming Li-Foo owns a laundry. Averell is dumb enough to think it's a restaurant and eats some soap (granted, he can't read Chinese but he surely saw the piles of clothes).

The film starts with a FramingDevice in a saloon with a singer and banjo player who narrates the story with his song.

The Dalton brothers are informed that their uncle Henry Dalton has died. They will inherit his fortune if they murder the judge and all the jury members that sentenced him to the gallows. To make sure that they fulfill this, they will be accompanied by Lucky Luke, seeing that he is the only honest man that he has ever known. Shall they fail their mission, all the money will go to charity.

The next animated ''Lucky Luke'' entry, the [[WesternAnimation/LuckyLuke1983 1983 series]], went for a straight adaptation of the Goscinny comics.

The film got two album [[ComicBookAdaptation adaptations]] in the comics series, one in the form of a {{picture book|s}} with stills from the film around its release in 1978 and one in comic book form proper in 1986, ''Ballad of the Daltons & Other Stories''.

''Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons'' (''Lucky Luke: La ballade des Dalton'' in French) is the second animated film based off the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' series by Creator/{{Morris}} and Creator/ReneGoscinny after 1971's ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]''. The film was directed by the authors themselves and released in 1978 by Studios Idéfix, the same company that made ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' with a script written by Goscinny himself (who did the best known ''Lucky Luke'' stories), which might explain why the plot is kind of similar. Studios Idéfix was closed down in April 1978 after the passing of Goscinny in late 1977. The film got two album [[ComicBookAdaptation adaptations]] in the comics series, one in the form of a {{picture book|s}} with stills from the film around its release in 1978 and one in comic book form proper in 1986, ''Ballad of the Daltons & Other Stories''.

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''Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons'' (''Lucky Luke: La ballade des Dalton'' in French) is the second animated film based off the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' series by Creator/{{Morris}} and Creator/ReneGoscinny after 1971's ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]''. The film was directed by the authors themselves and released in 1978 by Studios Idéfix, the same company that made ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' with a script written by Goscinny himself (who did the best known ''Lucky Luke'' stories), which might explain why the plot is kind of similar. Studios Idéfix was closed down in April 1978 after the passing of Goscinny in late 1977. The film got two album adaptations in the series, one in the form of a {{picture book|s}} with stills from the film around its release in 1978 and one in comic book form proper in 1986, ''Ballad of the Daltons & Other Stories''.

''Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons'' (''Lucky Luke: La ballade des Dalton'' in French) is the second animated film based off the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' series by Creator/{{Morris}} and Creator/ReneGoscinny after 1971's ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]''. The film was directed by the authors themselves and released in 1978 by Studios Idéfix, the same company that made ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' with a script written by Goscinny himself (he wrote the best known ''Lucky Luke'' stories), which might explain why the plot is kind of similar. Studios Idéfix was closed down in April 1978 after the passing of Goscinny in late 1977.

The next ''Lucky Luke'' entry, the [[WesternAnimation/LuckyLuke1983 1983 animated series]], went for a straight adaptation of the Goscinny comics.

* StockSoundEffects: At the end, when Joe tries to escape, ends up on Jolly Jumper's back and get kocked off the horse by a tree branch, the sound he makes as he hits the branch is the same sound the Greek sprinter made when crashing head first in a tree in ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' (by the same studio).

* SuicideAsComedy: Sam Game decides to play a game of Russian roulette.