Specific Entries:
Animated Films:Animated Series:
Live-Action:
Overall Franchise
- Accidentally-Correct Writing: It's actually possible to shoot faster than your own shadow. According to the law of cause and effect, it's impossible not to, no matter how slow you are.
- Cash-Cow Franchise: It's right there alongside Tintin and Asterix as one of the highest selling Franco-Belgian Comics series ever made, even without counting the merch. Specifically, it's second behind Asterix, with Tintin coming third.
- Cross-Dressing Voices: In the French version of Kid Lucky, young Lucky Luke is voiced by Emmylou Homs.
- Fake American:
- A great many French voice actors and actors have played American characters in this franchise set in The Wild West, of course.
- The Italian Terence Hill as the American Luke in the 1991 film and its 1992 series as well.
- The German Til Schweiger as Luke in the 2004 Daltons film.
- Everyone in the 2009 film, including Jean Dujardin as Luke and Sylvie Testud as Calamity Jane.
- No Export for You: None of the animated films were released anywhere other than Europe (sans the UK), Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.
- One-Hit Wonder: Morris only ever did Lucky Luke comics. And boy was it lucrative for him.
- Outlived Its Creator: The series has largely outlived Morris.
- Promoted Fanboy: Achdé, the current illustrator of the comic book series, has admitted in multiple interviews that Lucky Luke was his favourite hero back when he was a kid, and he's very glad to draw comics of him in the art style he loved growing up.
- She's a Man in Japan: Jolly Jumper is a mare called Dolly in Greece. It is interesting that this gender change never conflicted with the stories or caused confusion through the decades and as a result most people in the country consider the horse a female character.... Until the #73th issue (created after Morris' death) was recently translated, which was all about Jolly falling in love with a mare. The publishers decided to correct the horse's gender from that issue and onwards.
- Writer Revolt: Both Morris and Goscinny hated Spaghetti Westerns and their Darker and Edgier, Black-and-Gray Morality approach to The Western genre. But as the Sub-Genre got more and more popular throughout the 60s/early 70s, they started getting more and more "suggestions" from their editors in regards of bringing aspects from it into the comic and, in 1972, they finally "gave up" and made ''The Bounty Hunter''. A story where all these elements was congealed into the most despicable character in the series.
