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  • Bob Dalton's on-screen 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 something (it's probably the oil from the lamp but 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 Counting Sheep 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 Catapult Nightmare 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 Chain of Deals, 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. Thankfully, it was All Just a Dream
  • 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).

Daisy Town

  • During the duel with the Daltons Lucky Luke sports a Death Glare that non-verbally pretty much states that he shoots to kill a point that is further emphasised by the smoke from his cigarette forming skulls.

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, 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.


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