History ComicBook / LuckyLuke

* CoolHorse: Exaggerated/parodied with Jolly Jumper; he can even play chess! Better yet, he can fish... and bait his own fishhook with a worm. Luke asks him how does he do it, and he replies "Like everybody: with disgust." When Luke's hired by to find a stolen horse, he wonders if it didn't simply escape. The owner then shows him the empty stall and asks him if he knows any horses that can pick locks. "Yes, my own. But he's one of a kind..." A few stories have Jolly Jumper stolen or unavailable, causing Luke to find replacements horses. They are inferior replacements, reinforcing Luke's determination to locate Jolly Jumper.

* ChasteHero: Lucky Luke is not romantically interested in anyone although women tend to be sweet on him. Enforced, as comic book heroes had to be at the time; UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode[[note]]To be precise, it was the French equivalent of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode: "Law #49-956 of 1949-07-16 on the Publications destined to the Youth", as a protectionist measure, which is one of the many reasons comics flourished more in Belgium than in France at that time.[[/note]] was ridiculously afraid of anything resembling love, in case it led to something inappropriate. In many cases that "anything" included ''women''. Of course, to today's people it tends to suggest something else about those guys' sexuality... By FridgeLogic it might also be justified in-universe: being a cowboy means spending most of the year on the move after all, even if you herd the Daltons more than cattle. The irony is that while Luke is indeed celibate, the series didn't shy away from depicting saloon girls. In the end of the story ''Bride of Lucky Luke'', the full version of his "lonesome cowboy" song is about him not getting steady with women.

* CanadaEh: Mounties, blizzards and lumberjacks. And all of them love tea, with a drop of milk. And did we mention Music/CelineDion?
** CanadianWestern: "Les Daltons dans le blizzard", where they flee to Canada. Contains this immortal line by Joe on seeing a Mountie: "Hooray, a policeman!".

There were also three LiveActionAdaptation on film: one starring Creator/TerenceHill (which spawned a series, too), another one centered on the Dalton brothers starring French comedy duo Eric Judor & Creator/RamzyBedia and Creator/TilSchweiger, and one other starring Creator/JeanDujardin.

* ThouShallNotKill: Lucky Luke has the reputation of never killing his enemies, and several media refer to him as never having killed anyone, a theory supported by Goscinny's daughter, Anne. However, Luke has canonically killed EvilTwin Mad Jim, and this story was in the ''first album of the series''. This fact is acknowledged by Joe Dalton in the album ''Belle Star''. In the original run of ''Lucky Luke vs. Phil Defer'' story, Luke kills Defer at the end in a duel. This was later [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] in the album releases by Defer only being injured but rendered crippled for life. Also, the original Daltons gang was hanged after Luke caught them. In first publication, Luke actually ''kills'' Bob Dalton by headshot... and it's [[http://www.actuabd.com/IMG/jpg/Morris-Bob-Dalton.jpg onscreen]]. In the album version, it is censored and replaced by a simple caught with a barrel -- before their hanging.

* QuickDraw: Luke of course but a few other characters are shown to be fast on the draw too. Bob Dalton was fast enough to shoot hanging from a branch and catch himself back.
* RainDance

* AdultsDressedAsChildren

** One townsfolk remarks to another that Jolly Jumper is playing chess with Luke the other simply answers: Yes he is taking way too long to make a move but we have more pressing matter to take care of.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Averell Dalton
-->'''Averell:''' What's this delicious crust around the tamales?\\
'''Espuelas:''' It's called a bowl, amigo.

** In early stories, Luke is far from invincible, facing opponents who have similar skills in shooting and hand-to-hand combat. For example, in his first appearance, Averell Dalton fights Lucky to a draw in a fistfight, both of them too exhausted to continue fighting. Lucky's life often seemed to be in genuine danger, and he had to find ways in escape. As he gradually gained his InvincibleHero status, Luke is often depicted defeating entire armies of opponents without real effort.

After Goscinny's death, lots of writers took over penning the stories, with very irregular results. Now Morris has passed away too, Creator/{{Achde}} is in charge of the art, restricting himself to strict Morris imitation because his style was so particular. French comedian Laurent Gerra was for a while in charge of the storyline, with at-best-lukewarm results; however reactions seem to be more positive to the latest album, scripted by novelists Daniel Pennac and script-writer/novelist Tonino Benacquista (co-writer of ''Film/TheBeatThatMyHeartSkipped'', among others), so whether or not the series has become a bit of a FranchiseZombie at this point is open to question.

2016 saw the beginning of a line of {{Homage}} [[GuestStrip issues by guest artists and writers]]. These stories have never been considered {{Canon}} in the first place, so the writers have much more liberties as long as they don't deviate too much from the mainline stories. Artists may also draw the comics in or closer to their own style.

After Goscinny's death, lots of writers took over penning the stories, with very irregular results. Now Morris has passed away too, Achdé is in charge of the art, restricting himself to strict Morris imitation because his style was so particular. French comedian Laurent Gerra was for a while in charge of the storyline, with at-best-lukewarm results; however the early reactions seems to be more positive to the latest album, scripted by novelists Daniel Pennac and script-writer/novelist Tonino Benacquista (co-writer of ''Film/TheBeatThatMyHeartSkipped'', among others), so whether or not the series has become a bit of a FranchiseZombie at this point is open to question.

''Lucky Luke'' is a [[FrancoBelgianComics Franco-Belgian]] [[TheWestern Western]] comic book series created in 1946 by graphic artist Creator/{{Morris}}, who at first did both art and writing. It began as a semi-serious comic with a rugged cowboy hero, lots of gunplay and occasional almost-onscreen deaths. Then, from 1955 to 1977, the writing was taken over by ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' co-creator Creator/ReneGoscinny and the comic turned into an unabashed AffectionateParody of the whole western genre. Around the same time, the authors dropped all pretense of portraying the protagonist as a realistic cowboy and turned him into a [[TheDrifter Drifter]]/[[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] type whose fame and skill often made him [[BigDamnHeroes the US Government's last resort when it came to particularly tricky situations]] ([[ReluctantHero much to his annoyance]]).

''Lucky Luke'' is a Franco-Belgian School [[TheWestern Western]] comic book series created in 1946 by graphic artist Creator/{{Morris}}, who at first did both art and writing. It began as a semi-serious comic with a rugged cowboy hero, lots of gunplay and occasional almost-onscreen deaths. Then, from 1955 to 1977, the writing was taken over by ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' creator Creator/ReneGoscinny and the comic turned into an unabashed AffectionateParody of the whole western genre. Around the same time, the authors dropped all pretense of portraying the protagonist as a realistic cowboy and turned him into a [[TheDrifter Drifter]]/[[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] type whose fame and skill often made him [[BigDamnHeroes the US Government's last resort when it came to particularly tricky situations]] ([[ReluctantHero much to his annoyance]]).

''Lucky Luke'' is a Franco-Belgian School [[TheWestern Western]] comic book series created in 1946 by graphic artist Morris, who at first did both art and writing. It began as a semi-serious comic with a rugged cowboy hero, lots of gunplay and occasional almost-onscreen deaths. Then, from 1955 to 1977, the writing was taken over by ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' creator Creator/ReneGoscinny and the comic turned into an unabashed AffectionateParody of the whole western genre. Around the same time, the authors dropped all pretense of portraying the protagonist as a realistic cowboy and turned him into a [[TheDrifter Drifter]]/[[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] type whose fame and skill often made him [[BigDamnHeroes the US Government's last resort when it came to particularly tricky situations]] ([[ReluctantHero much to his annoyance]]).

!!The ''Lucky Luke'' movies provide examples of:

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* BallisticDiscount: In ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure'', the Dalton brothers hold up a gun store in New York City after escaping the Supreme Court of New York with only a single revolver in their possession at the time.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Edgar Crook insists that his deals aren't "fraud", and that he isn't a "swindler" or a "liar". It's just "business", being an "opportunist" and "marketing".
* ButNowIMustGo: In ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure'', [[spoiler:Lucky Luke brings his group to California but decides not to stay]].
* ConMan: Edgar Crook's schtick in ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure''. He sells lands in California to prospective settlers, but they have to pay in advance and reach the lands within eighty days or the purchase is made null and void, and he keeps the settlers' money.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: The animated movie ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'' is title ''Tous à l'Ouest : Une aventure de Lucky Luke'' in the original French. It means "everybody to the West", which describes correctly the plot of the characters traveling toward the West coast of America, but this is also a slang term that can mean "everybody's crazy!" Which is again not too far from the truth.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure'', most of the men leave their caravans in the middle of the night to go see the saloon dancers at their caravan. They spend the rest of the night being chased and assaulted by their angry wives with frying pans, boots, rolling pins, pots and at one point, [[GrievousHarmWithABody William Dalton and his ball and chain]].
* IFoughtTheLawAndTheLawWon: In ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure'', while in New York City, the Daltons cause chaos, blow up a bank and hold up a gun store and several other banks. Though they were initially ecstatic at the conveniences of an urban metropolis, they quickly learned that it comes with the law enforcement to match, forcing them to escape [[HammerspacePoliceForce a literal army of [=NYPD=] officers]] that chase them across the city.
* MinoredInAsskicking: [[BadassTeacher Miss Littletown]] from ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure''. In addition to her standard curriculum, she also teaches gymnastics and knocks out Joe with a roundhouse kick when [[VillainousBreakdown he starts going off the deep end]], and then shields her students when Edgar Crook throws a stick of dynamite at the group in the finale.
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* OnOneCondition: In ''Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons'', the Dalton brothers learn that their Uncle Henry Dalton died by hanging (which Joe considered a "natural" death) and left them their fortune on the condition that they kill the judge and the jurors who sentenced him to death and that Lucky Luke provides testimony confirming the fulfillment of the condition. [[spoiler:The judge and the jury convicted the Daltons for attempting to murder them and Lucky Luke provided testimony. The money went to charity.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Edgar Crook from ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure'' calls the settlers "stupid foreigners" when he's outwitted once and for all and [[spoiler:gold is found beneath the worthless-looking land he sold them]].
* RevengeIsNotJustice: After the settlers from ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure'' find out that Crook lied to them about the lands they were promised, they start beating him up, tie him up and plan on hanging him. Luke, however, insists on bringing him to trial.
* TuckAndCover: In ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure'', Miss Littletown shields her schoolchildren when Edgar Crook tosses a lit stick of dynamite at the group in the finale.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: A variation, in that Luke is mistaken for Belgian by a Frenchwoman due to his wearing the colors of the flag (yellow shirt, black jacket, red scarf).
* WrongGenreSavvy: When the circus lion Nelson escapes, Luke says he and the circus clown will find him, and shrugs it off as Nelson is fifty-six years old and vegetarian. The circus clown points out it's still a lion that is not used to being out of the circus at all. Sure enough, Nelson is aggressive and growls at the town sheriff so he can take the grub that the sheriff serves prisoners. He even attacks Lucky Luke for interrupting his meal.
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* TheCameo: The cockroaches from ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' make a brief cameo in ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure''.

* FakingTheDead: Major plot point. In the 2009 movie, [[spoiler:Pat Poker smuggled duds into Lukes colt and gets "shot".]]

* LiveActionAdaptation: Three of them:
** ''Lucky Luke'', 1991: stars Terrence Hill as the title character and is infamous for being an InNameOnly adaptation.
** ''Les Dalton'', 2004: is centered on the Dalton brothers and star French comedian duo Éric and Ramzy as Joe and Averell. Lucky Luke is played by German actor Creator/TilSchweiger.
** ''Lucky Luke'', 2009: stars Creator/JeanDujardin as the title character. Got ''much'' better reception than the two previous adaptations.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Belle]] in the 2009 live-action film.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** [[spoiler:Cooper]] in the 2009 live-action film, when he makes a racist remark on [[spoiler:Luke's Native American mother]].
** Edgar Crook from ''Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure'' calls the settlers "stupid foreigners" when he's outwitted once and for all and [[spoiler:gold is found beneath the worthless-looking land he sold them]].
* PolkaDotPaint: An Indian camouflaging his horse in ''Daisy Town'' swipes his brush back and forth on the horse, and behold! the horse is coated in an elaborate landscape.
* RefugeInAudacity: Referencing drug use in a children's movie? Horrible! Devoting more than five minutes in a eighty minute children's movie to a musical number that is very clearly an extended drug trip by characters (after explicitly having their drink spiked with "mushrooms" by a snake doctor), including a desecration of Jingle Bells ("Shooting guns, shooting guns, shooting all the way")? Awesome!

* TakingTheBullet: In the 2009 live-action film, happens with [[spoiler:Luke's mother]] and [[spoiler:Belle]].
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: When Luke kills Pat Poker (even in a fair duel and as revenge for the murder of his parents), he is DrivenToSuicide and Jolly Jumper has to talk him out of it. [[spoiler: Poker faked his death to enforce the trope, since he knew "no bullet would ever kill Luke". Only when Luke is shot with his own revolver by Billy The Kid... with blanks, he realizes he has been had.]]
* ThouShallNotKill: In the 2009 live-action-film, one of the main plot elements is about Lucky Luke's oath to never kill anyone.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailers of the 2009 live-action film give away the facts that [[spoiler:Jolly Jumper talks to Luke]] (which is meant to be a surprise in the film) and that [[spoiler:Jesse James and Billy the Kid go EnemyMine with Luke]].

!!The animated series provides examples of:
* AdaptedOut: The adaptation of ''Sarah Bernhardt'' replaces the title character with a generic opera singer from Boston for some reason. (The German dub is still called "Sarah Bernhardt", [[ArtifactTitle inconsistently]].)
* AscendedExtra: In the 1980s' animated series, Rantanplan was frequently added as an extra character to episodes based on comics in which he did not appear.
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: In "Phantom and Pipes", Lucky Luke gets a bagpiper to follow his lead, waking up the whole town at night with his playing.
* GratuitousEnglish: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTdMPRGdZWI The opening credit song of the French version]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'' mixes French and English words in the same lines. For instance, the first verse is:
-->''In the poussière of Ohio[[note]]In the dust of Ohio[[/note]]\\
Wearing his beautiful chapeau[[note]]Wearing his beautiful hat[[/note]]\\
But who's this caballero ?''
* LighterAndSofter: Some of the darker plots of the earlier Lucky Luke comics are toned down severely in the animated adaption. For example; in the animated adaption of '' L'Élixir du Dr Doxey'' the titular elixir merely gives people a green skin but no other ill effects, while in the original comic it was a lethal poison.
* RaceLift: In the animated adaption of the comic ''Le Pied-tendre'', the Native-American servant of Waldo Badmington is replaced by a Caucasian man.
* RunningGag: Whenever a scene ends in the Saloon in "Martian Theory", it always ends with a BarBrawl.
* ShoutOut: In "Martian Theory", when the town is mobilizing a defense against martians, one newspaper seller in the background yells that "We may be facing a [[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898 war of the worlds]]".
* SnakeOilSalesman: "Martian Theory" features [[MeaningfulName Wily Weasel, a member of the Snake Oil tribe]]. He capitalizes on the current scare about Martians to sell his magic amulets to protect the townsfolk from beings from the sky. He's also the one responsible for [[CropCircles stamped-down grass circles that everyone attributed to the Martians]], and planned to skip town when everyone else left just because it's not profitable.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Averted. The Daltons are still alive at the end of the 1980's animated adaptation of "Hors-la-loi"... because these are the ''fictional'' Daltons, not their real-life "cousins".
* ViolentGlaswegian: Some Scottish people appear in "Phantom and Pipes", being the ones responsible for the bar fight that happens early in the episode and refuse to respond to attacks with anything but violence of their own, even when escalating the situation is unnecessary.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Luke, a very talented gunslinger, naturally uses his gun to fix most problems. "The Commodore" best exemplifies this: he uses his gun to shoot holes in a sabotaged water tower to stop it from dispensing molasses into a train, shoots it to break a lever that bandits were using to drop a boulder onto train tracks, blasts the leader's stirrup to get him off his horse, and shoots a shot into the air to get the train to stop.

* AdaptationalBadass: Pat Poker in the 2009 live-action film, his gambling motif also has magic trick and is far more cunninng than his comic-book counterpart, who was never a threat to Luke even in times where Luke weren't flanderized into being invincible.
* BadassLongcoat: Worn by Jesse James in the 2009 live-action film. ExaggeratedTrope: his coat is ''really'' long.

* CompositeCharacter: Jesse James's character in the 2009 movie has taken on several character traits of his brother Frank from the comic, most notably the [[LargeHam obsession with Shakespeare.]]

* CreditsGag: [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235536/crazycredits?ref_=tttrv_sa_2 Too many to list here]] for the 2009 movie.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Warning -- if you expect a standard list of running gags, the 2009 movie is PlayedForDrama instead.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The animated film ''Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons'' has one of these. Although it is caused by MushroomSamba.

* EnemyMine: In the 2009 movie, [[spoiler:Jesse James and Billy the Kid are on Luke's side]]... but only because they want the honor of having killed Luke for themselves. It's postponed.

As the series has been so successful for over fifty years, it has also known several {{Animated Adaptation}}s, both with stories directly adapted from the comics and with original stories. The first two such adaptations, the animated films ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]'' (1971) and ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'' (1978), were directed and written by Goscinny himself.

There were also three LiveActionAdaptation films: one starring Creator/TerenceHill (which spawned a series, too), another one centered on the Dalton brothers starring French comedy duo Eric Judor & Creator/RamzyBedia, and one starring Creator/JeanDujardin.

As the series has been so successful for over fifty years, it has also known several {{Animated Adaptation}}s, both with stories directly adapted from the comics and with original stories. The first two such adaptations, the animated films ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]'' (1971) and ''WesternAnimation/LaBalladeDesDalton'' (1978), were directed and written by Goscinny himself.

As the series has been so successful for over fifty years, it has also known several {{Animated Adaptation}}s, both with stories directly adapted from the comics and with original stories. The best and most well known are ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown'' (1971) and ''WesternAnimation/LaBalladeDesDalton'' (1978) which were made by the same animation studio that directed ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' (1976) and thus share a similar comedic style. It also helped that Creator/ReneGoscinny wrote the script and directed them.