Daltonite! is an upcoming French work produced by Xilam based off Morris' Lucky Luke comics. Unlike the previous Lucky Luke based cartoons, this one will be a fully CGI animated series.
Similar to its predecessor, The Daltons, the show focuses on the four Dalton brothers, only with a different tone and a bigger emphasis towards its main characters. This time around Joe, Jack, William and Averell are seen taking on adventures that don't take place solely on the penitentiary, but they spread to the wild west committing crimes running away scot-free from the law... or not!
Daltonite provides examples of:
- Adaptational Badass: This could apply to all brothers. They regain their original abilities, such as Jack being crafty and stealthy, William great at sniping and Averell knocking people out in a fist-fight.
- Adaptational Dumbass: Downplayed, While William is still smarter than Averell, he is scarcely outdone in terms of intelligence by Joe and Jack, thus losing his The Smart Guy trait.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Joe is actually the cleverest of the brothers this time around, although marginally, instead of constantly bragging about being the most practical.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Yet again with William. From a Generic Guy at first and a Book Smart then, he is now depicted as a Casanova.
- Ascended Extra: At last, Jack and William escape from their Out of Focus status and they are almost as fleshed-out as the antipodes of the group, Joe and Averell.
- Butt-Monkey: All four of the Daltons, but unexpectedly Averell the most. Despite being a well-natured guy and thus not deserving it, he is the one who has to endure the most pain compared to his brothers, who do get a fair share of Amusing Injuries as well.
- The Casanova: William, more outgoing than previous iterations and often seen flirting with women in many opportunities.
- Cloudcuckoolander: The biggest one in this show. Like in the previous series, he is very eccentric and you don't know what he is going to do next, making him very unpredictable and insane.
- Color-Coded Characters: Downplayed in The Daltons, but played straight here. Joe wears a Red uniform, matched with his hot-tempered attitude, Jack and William wear respectively blue and green, leaving Averell with the yellow one, color associated with a kind and pure attitude.
- Darker and Edgier: While the slapstick component it's still there, the Daltons actually manage to commit murders other than robbing banks and ambushing stage coaches. Not to mention, William's Adaptational Personality Change often leads to more jokes aimed at adults;
- Deadpan Snarker: Surprisingly all four Daltons. While each member of the quartet is great at snarking at one another, including Averell of all people, Jack easily tops them all. However...
- Dope Slap: ... When Joe doesn't act snarky, he delivers a lot of these to his brothers, mostly Averell, of course.
- Enraged by Idiocy: The main reason why Joe gets often so worked up, with Averell especially.
- Four-Man Band: Joe is the conceited Smart Guy, Jack is the Only Sane Man, often calling out his brothers for their misbehaviour, William is The Casanova, dropping the "Wannabe" component entirely and Averell is the Butt-Monkey, the most prone to slapstick due to his clumsiness.
- Idiot Ball: While he became the official mastermind of the crew, Joe often tends to commit some ludicrous mistakes.
- Insufferable Genius: Downplayed, while far from being an actual genius perse, Joe is the brains of the gang and can be rather condescending to those who are not as practical as him.
- Jack of All Trades: Ironically, Jack. He may not be as smart as Joe, athletic as Averell and easygoing as William, but when it comes to making suspects, steering in the right direction and especially repairing vehicles, you can always count on him.
- The Klutz:
- As usual, Averell's clumsiness can make him get himself and the others' in trouble and thwart unwittingly the Daltons' plans;
- Downplayed with William, who does have his moments far and far between too, but he doesn't get hurt in his antics, just those around him, making him a little luckier and less destructive.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: In three occasions, similar to their first appearance, they split up. In the first one each Brother travels by himself, while the second and last time they come in pairs: respectively Joe and Averell and Jack and William and Joe and William and Jack and Averell
- Only Sane Man: With William, the other rational member of the group, turned into a more lustful and immoral individual, Jack's solo role as the sensible one within the group, such as calling out the others' misbehaviour and, like the previous series, calling out Joe's flaws in his plans, feels a lot more justified.
- Shorter Means Smarter: Where their degree of intelligence are inward proportional to their heights. Joe may still be the one who brags about being smarter than the others, but here actually shows to be slightly more competent than his brothers, although "slightly" is the keyword here.
- The Slacker: Downplayed, William still contributes to Joe's plans, but he isn't above kicking off at times.
