History YMMV / LuckyLuke

!!YMMV items from the comics:

!!YMMV items from the movies:

!!YMMV items from the games:

!!YMMV items from the 1980s animated series:
* AdaptationDisplacement: For quite many people, this was their first introduction to the series, before they realised that it was based on a comic.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7T5ycOX6ZE The opening from the 1983 cartoon]], which starts with an electric guitar, has become almost as iconic as "I'm a Poor Lonesome Cowboy" and it sounds awesome to every language it has been translated to.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
** Despite being co-produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, the series was a huge failure in the [[UsefulNotes/UnitedStates USA]]. In UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, however, it was a big hit and it helped skyrocket the comics' popularity.
** It was also popular in UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}} and it's the main reason why Lucky Luke is known in this country.

* CultClassic: Among the people who grew up with this show and being their first introduction to TheWestern genre.

** Despite being co-produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, the series was a huge failure in UsefulNotes/{{America}}. In UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, however, it was a big hit and it helped skyrocket the comics' popularity.
** It was also popular in Turkey and it's the main reason why Lucky Luke is known in this country.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]''

* CultClassic: From the animated movies, ''Daisy Town'' and ''WesternAnimation/LaBalladeDesDalton''.
* SignatureScene:
** From ''Daisy Town'', the scene where Lucky Luke plays chess with Jolly Jumper, which is used in many generic gifs and images.
** From the same movie, Luke taking a sip of his cigarette and the smoke having the shape of skulls, which is also used quite often.
* TearJerker: Oddly enough, not the sad kind, but because of StatusQuoIsGod, the ending of ''Daisy Town'' has Lucky Luke being a "lonesome cowboy" once more when the townsfolk decide to up and abandon the titular town for some gold that was found in the hills. The once lively Daisy Town quickly takes on the look of a {{ghost town}}, [[ShaggyDogStory rendering all efforts to protect it and put some order into it meaningless]]. Even if Lucky Luke is as placid as always with his [[TheDrifter drifter]] status, it's still hard not to hold back tears when he rides off into the sunset while the emotionally sweeping "I'm a Poor Lonesome Cowboy" starts playing. The slight melancholic twang in the vocals doesn't help either.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The 2009 movie is scored by [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} Bruno Coulais]]. This is inevitable.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XStbIfIQFM "I'm a Poor Lonesome Cowboy"]] in its full glory which served as the theme song for ''Daisy Town'' (and later truncated for the 80s animated series co-produced by Creator/HannaBarbera) has become a classic tune for the title character and its franchise.

** This being an AffectionateParody comic that started in the 1950s and is set in 19th-century America, there are depictions of black people, Chinese people and Native Americans that can be considered highly offensive (though the Americans are also given their own stereotypes that are treated humorously enough). Some recent editions of the comic need a foreword from the writers that explains that this was how things were in those times, and no insult was intended from a comic book.

** When it comes to the various animated adaptions, fans don’t care much for the '90s series. Despite each episode being a very faithful adaption of various comics, a lot of the comedy was heavily undermined by the [[NoBudget cheap]] [[LimitedAnimation production values]] and clunky pacing. Hot helping matters is that each episode had to cut out a lot of content from the original to fit it in a 22-minute episode.

** In ''A Cowboy in High Cotton'', Luke inherits a large cotton farm, including the recently-freed African-American workforce. When he arrives, one of the workers speaks up to him, demanding payment for the months they've gone unpaid since the previous owner died. Two of the workers in the crowd are utterly terrified, certain that Luke will shoot her dead any moment. It's a sober reminder of the realities of slavery. While the audience know that Luke would never harm anyone, the former slaves know all too well how cruel white men can be, and have no reason to expect Luke to be any different.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Lucky Luke drawing his gun noticeably faster than his own shadow is a mighty impressive feat--the emphasis being on the word "noticeably". Since your shadow always moves a fraction of a second later than your yourself do, it's physically impossible ''not'' to draw your gun at least a little bit faster than your own shadow.

* TearJerker: Oddly enough, not the sad kind, but because of StatusQuoIsGod, the ending of ''Daisy Town'' has Lucky Luke being a "lonesome cowboy" once more when the townsfolk decide to up and abandon the titular town for some gold that was found in the hills. The once lively Daisy Town quickly takes on the look of a {{ghost town}}, [[ShaggyDogStory rendering all efforts to protect Daisy Town and put some order into it meaningless]]. Even if Lucky Luke is as placid as always with his [[TheDrifter drifter]] status, it's still hard not to hold back tears when he rides off into the sunset while the emotionally sweeping "I'm a Poor Lonesome Cowboy" starts playing. The slight melancholic twang in the vocals doesn't help either.

* StockParodyJokes: Lucky Luke is often joked as being a mediocre lover due to his ability to "[[SpeedSex shoot faster than his shadow]]", giving birth to countless jokes about Lucky Luke being a premature ejaculator.[[note]]It actually comes (he he he) from fans seeing a DoubleEntendre in said catchphrase: "l'homme qui tire plus vite que son ombre" does literally mean "the man who shoots faster than his shadow", but can also technically be translated as "the man who fucks faster than his shadow"[[/note]]

* NarmCharm: The shot that [[spoiler: injured Jolly Jumper in ''Rantaplan's Ark'' and made Luke MistakenHimForDead]] is a pretty heavy thing to put in a light and comedic comic like ''Lucky Luke''. Yet, it still comes across as shocking and it leads into [[SugarWiki/{{HeartwarmingMoments}} a last panel where Luke choses not to ride Jolly so he won't burden him.]]

* {{Anvilicious}}: General criticism against Jul's stories is that he tends to hammer TheAesop to the readers' face, like in ''A Cowboy In High Cotton'' which tackled racism and ''Rantaplan's Arc'', about veganism.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler: Killing off Jolly Jumper in ''Rantaplan's Arc''. We, the audience, are quickly informed that the shot of the bandit merely injured him.]]

* NarmCharm: The shot that [[spoiler: injured Jolly Jumper in ''Rantaplan's Arc'' and made Luke MistakenHimForDead]] is a pretty heavy thing to put in a light and comedic comic like ''Lucky Luke''. Yet, it still comes across as shocking and it leads into [[SugarWiki/{{HeartwarmingMoments}} a last panel where Luke choses not to ride Jolly so he won't burden him.]]

* {{Anvilicious}}: Once you read ''A Cowboy in High Cotton'', you will wish that Jul would find a more subtle way to deliver his anti-racist message.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Once you read ''"A cowboy in high cotton"'', you will wish that Jul would find a more subtle way to deliver his anti-racist message.

** In "A Cowboy in High Cotton", Luke inherits a large cotton farm, including the recently-freed African-American workforce. When he arrives, one of the workers speaks up to him, demanding payment for the months they've gone unpaid since the previous owner died. Two of the workers in the crowd are utterly terrified, certain that Luke will shoot her dead any moment. It's a sober reminder of the realities of slavery. While the audience know that Luke would never harm anyone, the former slaves know all too well how cruel white men can be, and have no reason to expect Luke to be any different.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''"A Cowboy in Paris"'' is the first story where Luke travels across the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, this happens in the second half of the plot and when the cowboy arrives at the french capital, we don't get to see much of it.

** ''"The Bride of Lucky Luke"''/''"Lucky Luke's fiance"'' is full of gender stereotypes ([[DrivesLikeCrazy women being terrible drivers]], afraid of mice, the hairdresser being an obvious CampGay etc.) that can come across as sexist in today's society and one would think that they were sexist even back when the story was published. In all these stereotypes, you can still spot a sense of {{Irony}} however…

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XStbIfIQFM "I'm a Poor Lonesome Cow-boy"]] in its full glory which served as the theme song for ''Daisy Town'' (and later truncated for the 80s animated series co-produced by Creator/HannaBarbera) has become a classic tune for the title character and its franchise.

* CultClassic: From the animated movies, ''"Daisy Town"'' and ''"WesternAnimation/LaBalladeDesDalton"''.

** From ''"Daisy Town"'', the scene where Lucky Luke plays chess with his horse, which is used in many generic gifs and images.

* TearJerker: Oddly enough, not the sad kind, but because of StatusQuoIsGod, the ending of ''Daisy Town'' has Lucky Luke being a "lonesome cowboy" once more when the townsfolk decide to up and abandon the titular town for some gold that was found in the hills. The once lively Daisy Town quickly takes on the look of a {{ghost town}}, [[ShaggyDogStory rendering all efforts to protect Daisy Town and put some order into it meaningless]]. Even if Lucky Luke is as placid as always with his [[TheDrifter drifter]] status, it's still hard not to hold back tears when he rides off into the sunset while the emotionally sweeping "I'm a Poor Lonesome Cow-boy" starts playing. The slight melancholic twang in the vocals doesn't help either.

* NightmareFuel: The GBC title ''"Lucky Luke Desperado Train"'' can get pretty creepy at times. Case in point:
** The BGM for the aforementioned "Explosive Mine".

* AdaptationDisplacement: For quite many people, this was their first introduction to the series, before they realised that it was based from a comic.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7T5ycOX6ZE The opening from the 1983 cartoon]], which starts with an electric guitar, has become almost as iconic as "I'm A Poor Lonesome Cow-boy" and it sounds awesome to every language it has been translated to.

* FanDiscontinuity: Some fans completely ignore every story written after Morris' death, others do the same with every story written after Goscinny's death and then there's a third camp who explicitly read only the stories that Goscinny wrote.

** When it comes to the various animated adaptions, fans don’t care much for the '90s series. Despite each episode being a very faithful adaption of various comics (unlike the [[PragmaticAdaptation Pragmatic Adaptations]] in the earlier Creator/HannaBarbera adaption), a lot of the comedy was heavily undermined by the [[NoBudget cheap]] [[LimitedAnimation production values]] and clunky pacing. Hot helping matters is that each episode had to cut out a lot of content from the original to fit it in a 22-minute episode.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://youtu.be/jORXmgwop8o/ The opening from the 1983 cartoon]], which starts with an electric guitar, has become almost as iconic as "I'm A Poor Lonesome Cow-boy" and it sounds awesome to every language it has been translated to.

** The Lucky Luke fanbass is split into two sections; the first section likes the Daltons and prefers them to Lucky Luke, even [[RootingForTheEmpire hoping that they'll beat him one day]], while the second section, although they do find them funny in some stories, also thinks that they're overused and boring. The Daltons' base-breaking status was the result of the WolverinePublicity they received in plenty post-Goscinny stories, where they'd appear even when the plot had nothing to do with them, just because they're the series' most iconic villains and for cheap laughs.

---> '''Averell''': I know it's bad to steal, but I couldn't help myself! [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Go ahead and eat without me, I'm not hungry...]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Bass Reeves was the first major black cowboy to appear in the comic and being put on an equal term with Lucky Luke (with Luke even confirming that he learnt plenty of things from him), so it was a bit disappointing when he was only featured in the beginning and reappearing later [[spoiler: at the end, when the heroes are in major danger]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Bass Reeves was the first major black cowboy to appear in the comic and being put on an equal term with Lucky Luke (with Luke evwn confirming that he learnt plenty of things from him), so it was a bit disappointing when he was only featured in the beginning and reappearing later [[spoiler: at the end, when the heroes are in major danger]].

** Post-Morris era may be full of problems, but Achdé's style is definitely not one of them. The current artist does a great job mimicking Morris' style, as well as being extremely detailed and expressive, without crossing the UncannyValley.

** The Lucky Luke fanbass is split into two sections; the first section likes the Daltons and prefer them more than Lucky Luke, even [[RootingForTheEmpire hoping that they'll beat him one day]], while the second section, although they do find them funny in some stories, also thinks that they're overused and boring. The Daltons' base-breaking status was the result of the WolverinePublicity they received in plenty post-Goscinny stories, where they'd appear even when the plot had nothing to do with them, just because they're the series' most iconic villains and for cheap laughs.

* As noted above in the BrokenBase section, Dolly (the Greek name of Jolly Jumper) having his gender changed to male, which didn't sit well with the Greek fans who have grown up with Dolly as female. Then again, they're also those who don't like the original decision to make the horse female and rename "her" Dolly.

** The Lucky Luke fanbass is split into two sections; the first section likes the Daltons and prefer them more than Lucky Luke, even [[RootingForTheEmpire hoping that they'll beat him one day]], while the second section, although they do find them funny in some stories, also thinks that they're overused and boring. The Daltons' base-breaking status was the result of the WolverinePublicity they received in plenty post-Goscinny stories, where they'd appear even when the plot had nothing to do about them, just because they're the series' most iconic villains and for cheap laughs.

* NightmareFuel:
** Bob Dalton's ''on-screen'' [[http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/sfigures3/luckyluke/horslaloi1.jpg death via headshot]]. The one panel in which he calls out for his mother as he dies hanging from the lantern showing only his feet suspended and ''[[BlackBlood something]]'' (it's probably the oil from the lamp but [[SymbolicBlood with the way it's portrayed like forming a pool underneath him the next panel]]) dripping below makes a chilling image. It's no wonder Dupuis asked Morris to change it.
** The dream sequences from ''The Bride of Lucky Luke'', Luke is having CountingSheep dreams after being roped into helping a wagon train of single woman across half the frontier to a town of single men. The sheeps' heads suddenly turn into the women's heads, leading to a CatapultNightmare for poor Luke. It's repeated later in the story when he's forced to stay in the town to chaperone one of the women, an Irish girl named Jenny, whose fiancee got himself jailed for several months after trashing the saloon in celebration of his marriage. This time it's just Jenny's face, but equally unsettling.
** One bizarre short story revolves around Luke looking for a man who has apparently stolen Jolly Jumper, with the theft having taken place over a year ago. His only clue is a pants button the thief left behind, but after finding a man wearing said pants it turns out they were part of a ChainOfDeals, and when Luke finally tracks down the man who sold them, it turns out he got them from the body of a man who was hanged for selling '''horsemeat,''' making him faint dead out of shock. [[spoiler: Thankfully, it was AllJustADream]]
** The Daltons coming within seconds of getting hanged when their sentences are changed to execution. It's especially disturbing how the whole town treats it like a public event, complete with little kids asking to be held up so they can watch (which is completely historically accurate by the way).

* NightmareFuel:
** In the movie ''Daisy Town'' the showdown between Luke and the Daltons starts of as rather sinister with ominous music playing, the Daltons ready to kill and the whole town pausing at whatever they were doing to listen to the sound of the approaching combatants.[[spoiler: And then the whole thing ventures to purely comedic NightmareRetardant thanks to Lucky Luke's plan.]]
** In ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'', Edgar Crook gleefully admits to having manipulated other groups of settlers to their dooms with his fraudulent scheme. He then tosses a stick of dynamite while he runs off with the Daltons' loot, which would blow up Luke, Miss Littletown, [[WouldHurtAChild the schoolchildren]], all the other settlers and the Daltons. Even throughout their journey, some of his attempts at sabotage are mundane at best, such as blowing up a bridge or trying to force Luke to split from the group by kidnapping the Daltons, whereas at another point he tries to ''unleash alligators on them''.
--->'''Luke:''' You knew there was no way they'd get here in eighty days. Crook, how many settlers have you put in peril?\\
'''Crook:''' A dozen, give or take. It's a small business, but it does ''very well''.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Rantanplan. He was popular enough to have his own spin-off series, but there're also those who find him annoying and believe he makes things worse.
* BrokenBase: Jolly Jumper's gender in UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} is a huge topic for the following reason: for many decades, Jolly Jumper was written as a female mare called Dolly. That was until the 73th issue was released, whose plot had to do with Jolly Jumper falling in love with a beautiful mare named Province. To avoid making her a lesbian, the publishers changed Dolly's gender to male, something that was followed in the next albums. [[TheyChangedItSoItSucks Those who protest this change]], mainly for being familiar with Dolly as a mare, state that her gender doesn't affect the story at all, that the horse's blonde mane and sassy personality fit her more as a female and like the idea of her being the only female companion in [[CelibateHero Lucky Luke]]'s life. Those, on the other hand, who are actually welcomed to that change, say it's for the better, since the next generation will grow up being familiar with Dolly's correct gender.

** Calamity Jane, for being just as CrazyAwesome as Lucky Luke, constantly defying the DamselInDistress trope, as well as being one of the few prominent badass female characters in the series.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Once you read ''"A cowboy in high cotton"'', you will wish that Jul would find a more subtle way to deliver his anti-racist message. Then again, considering the events that led to the creation of this story, some readers may see it as a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Calamity Jane, for being just as CrazyAwesome as Lucky Luke, as well as being one of the few prominent badass female characters in the series.

* ReplacementScrappy: A rare inversion; the second set of Daltons have ended up becoming much more famous and iconic than the original.

* ValuesDissonance: This being an AffectionateParody comic that started in the 1950s and is set in 19th-century America, there are depictions of black people, Chinese people and Native Americans that can be considered highly offensive (though the Americans are also given their own stereotypes that are treated humorously enough). Some recent editions of the comic need a foreword from the writers that explains that this was how things were in those times, and no insult was intended from a comic book.

* EstrogenBrigade: It's not uncommon to hear from women who grew up with the series/franchise that they had a crush on the titular character himself, mainly helped from the fact that Luke is drawn in a pretty appealing caricatured way.