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{{work}}{{cleanup|Multiple versions of this work -- including but not limited to comic books, films and licensed games -- are documented on this page. Each work should receive its own page with a Franchise page linking them together.}}
[[File:050711_lucky_luke.jpg|frame|He's ''that'' fast on the draw.]]
A Franco-Belgian School [[The Western|Western]] comic, it was 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 ''[[Asterix]]'' creator [[Rene Goscinny]] and the comic turned into an unabashed [[Affectionate Parody]] 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 [[The Drifter|Drifter]]/[[The Gunslinger|Gunslinger]] type whose fame and skill often made him the US Government's last resort when it came to particularly tricky situations (much to his annoyance).
To know about the people and tropes Lucky Luke meets in his adventures, go to the [[Western Characters]] page and start from the top. Seriously, they're all there, gleefully parodied and occasionally played straight. But, while those make for the generic background crowds, one of the main points of the series is the number of historical characters Luke regulary meets and who most of the time take centre space in the story. Over the years they have included Judge Roy Bean (who owns a bar and acts as self-appointed "judge", complete with fake court proceedings, to extort money from locals ... and turns out to be harmless, helping Luke against the actual [[Big Bad]]), Billy the Kid (portrayed as an actual, annoying [[Bratty Half
The most iconic characters of the series, though, weren't historical characters but the fictional ''cousins'' of historical characters. After Morris had Luke fight the real Dalton Brothers and showed their death on the page, Goscinny found this way to bring back a similar group of baddies, since the original Daltons' regularly descending sizes and identical ugly mugs made for lots of fun potential -- and did it work. At first, the Dalton cousins were hopeless bandit wannabes impressed by the fame of their relatives, but they quickly became feared outlaws in their own right in-story, while in the real world (in France and Belgium anyway) they completely [[Weird Al Effect|outshone their real-world counterparts]].
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[[No Export for You|English translations were fairly rare and obscure]], but thankfully British-based publishing firm [[Cinebook]] has to date published 31 of Morris & Goscinny's works, with many more translations on the way.
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* [[The Ace]]: Lucky Luke is good at what he does. Very much so. A lot of the later Goscinny/Morris albums (especially those following the Daltons), tend to focus more on the villains trying to top Lucky Luke than Luke himself saving the day. Many of the movies also do this.
* [[Adults Dressed
* [[Adventure Towns]]
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: In one album, Luke comes across an alienist arrived from Austria to study the psychology of Western outlaws. His methods parody those of the Freudian school, even though Freud's own pioneering work is still some years in the future.
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* [[Boring Invincible Hero]]: This is very much how Luke evolved in the series... An example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]]: Morris and [[Rene Goscinny]] used this to their advantages, by making the villains (especially the Dalton Cousins) the driving force of many stories. The fun is not watching how Luke will win, but how the villains will lose (and, in the Dalton's case, how will Averell and Joe's interaction doom Joe's plans).
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Lampshaded.
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'''Luke:''' Yes, at the end of every episode. }}
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: the book ''[
* [[Breakout Character]]: The Dalton brothers are curious examples, as they are [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Suspiciously Similar Substitutes]] and in fact the cousins of the original (and more competent) Daltons, who appeared in one album and died at the end of the story. When [[Rene Goscinny]] took over the script for the comic, he introduced the new [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] Daltons, who went on to become major characters, sometimes even becoming the [[Villain Protagonist|Villain Protagonists]] of their own stories.
** Rantanplan too got to star in his own comics, even having his own [[Spin
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: At the end of lot of Luke's adventures, the people who wants to thank and honor him for service he has done for them, often finds that he has suddenly disappeared without a trace and asks where he has gone. Cue Luke [[Riding Into the Sunset]] while singing ''"I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, far away from home..."''.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Joe and Averell Dalton, in rather different ways.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Mounties, blizzards and lumberjacks.
** And all of them love tea, with a drop of milk.
** And did we mention Céline Dion?
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* [[Card Sharp]]: There seems to be one in every town.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
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'''Joe/Jack/William:''' Shut up, Averell.
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'''Jack/William:''' Calm down, Joe!
'''Joe:''' I hate Lucky Luke! }}
* [[The Cavalry]]: Acts as [[Only the Author Can Save Them Now]]: the cavalry will come just in time, if and only if there is no other way to save the day anymore.
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* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: And the Daltons are quite right to. Ma Dalton was a fearsome bandit herself, and she still carries a loaded gun in her handbag.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: The Dalton Brothers always stick together, proving that even among criminals blood is thicker than water. There's one time when they start singing the songs they used to sing back when they were kids and their parents brought them along to rob banks.
* [[Evil
* [[Evil Gloating]]: The [[Big Bad]] in the album about oil in Oklahoma. If he hadn't done it, he could've succeeded.
* [[Evil Twin]]: Mad Jim
* [[Exactly What It Says
** Not to mention that he rightly deserves to be called "Lucky".
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Averell Dalton and Rantanplan.
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'''Mexican:''' It's called a bowl, amigo. }}
* [[False Roulette]]
* [[Feuding Families]]: exaggerated [[Up to Eleven]] wit the O'Timminses and the O'Haras in ''The Rivals of Painful Gulch''.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: A reversed version. Lucky Luke starts acting rather friendly to the Dalton brothers after a while.
* [[Friendly Local Chinatown]]: In ''The Inheritance of Rantanplan'', much of the story takes place in the Chinatown of Virginia City, Nv, which is controlled by a [[The Triads and
* [[Funny Animal]]: Rantanplan, of course, by way of his [[The Ditz|ditzy]] status. Jolly Jumper counts as this, too.
* [[Ghost Town]]: Several show up, and one is the setting of an entire episode.
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* [[Happy Rain]]: In ''The Wagon Train'', when the caravan of California-bound settlers was running out of water after crossing a desert; and in ''Barbed Wire on the Prairie'', when a showdown between ranchers and farmers had turned to the latter's advantage because of a drought (the rain came just after an agreement to share water was reached).
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Mr. Flimsy in ''The Stagecoach''. Played with as he gradually becomes more self-assertive once he realizes that he has incredible luck with games of chance.
* [[Hey, That's Mine!]]: All the time in the album ''Fingers''.
* [[Historical
* [[Horsing Around]]: Jolly Jumper, the horse of Lucky Luke, is a textbook example. Besides being able to run impossibly fast and long, even while sleeping, and always coming when Lucky Luke whistles, as the series develops he gets the ability to speak and play Chess with Lucky Luke. Oh, and don't think of stealing him. It will get really painful, when he recognises that you are not his rider.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Most memorably when Luke shoots what seems to be random holes into a roll of waxed paper. Then he puts the roll and a coin into a player piano, and the piano starts playing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEX1dYyvmig Chopin's "Funeral March"].
* [[Interacting
* [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous]]: Luke has met almost every celebrity from the Old West.
* [[Institutional Apparel]]: The striped prison outfits worn by the Daltons and other jail inmates.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Joe Dalton really doesn't like Rantanplan.
* [[Kung Shui]]: The obligatory [[Bar Brawl]]. In one episode the saloon owner routinely removes the mirror behind the bar whenever a brawl is about to begin.
* [[Land in
** Subverted on at least one occasion, when he jumped through the wrong window and fell flat on the ground instead of ending up on his horse, much to the latter's amusement.
** On another occasion, as he didn't know from which window Luke would jump, Jolly Jumper posted a fellow horse under each window of the building.
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** Later lampshaded when a guy offers him a cigarette. Luke refuses, saying he quit. The guy apologizes, and offers a straw of grass. Luke then says, "No thanks, I'm trying to quit."
* [[Made of Iron]]: Ironhead in ''Going Up the Mississippi''.
* [[Minion
** In ''Daisy Town'' he does have a "Wanted" poster like the other brothers. The posters are shown throughout their childhood and teens until adulthood with older faces and larger bounties. Averell's bounty stays at $4... Until it's lowered to ''$3''.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Joe Dalton
* [[Napoleon Delusion]]: The character of Smith, convinced he is the Emperor of the United States, references the historical "Emperor" [
* [[Never Mess
** Luke even says he'd never been so scared as during his quick-draw with her, as there's no way he could shoot an old lady even if she was in fact very much about to kill him. {{spoiler|Good thing Sweetie chose that moment to jump into her arms, allowing Luke to disarm her.}}
* [[Nitro Express]]: One is comic devoted to this. It's just too bad that the Daltons decide to hijack the train, not knowing what's on it, and run close to blowing themselves to kingdom come.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Minor characters are often "played" by famous Western actors or other celebrities, e.g. [[Lee Van Cleef]], Randolph Scott and [[Alfred Hitchcock]].
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Jolly Jumper makes up for his [[Speech
* [[Nothing Up My Sleeve]]: A derringer up the sleeve is the typical armament of gamblers in ''Lucky Luke''.
* [[Once an Episode]]: Luke rides into the sunset, singing ''"I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, far away from home..."''
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** Referenced when a government secretary offers him a cigarette, but Luke tells him he quit. So he offers him a straw of grass... only for Luke to tell him he's trying to quit.
* [[Outlaw Town]]: ''Dalton City''
* [[Paper
* [[Pinball Projectile]]: Used many times to show off Luke's skill.
* [[Pink Elephants]]
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* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: Joe Dalton.
** Smartest of the Daltons, which isn't saying much. Luke calls him the moronic brain of the gang.
* [[Shout
* [[The Shrink]]: [[Herr Doktor|Otto von Himbeergeist]], who tries to cure the Daltons. While his diagnosis is usually right on-spot, he doesn't manage to turn them. And then, he gets the idea that he should've started a career in crime rather than in academics...
* [[Sitting Sexy
* [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: Dr. Doxey
* [[Soap Punishment]]: Done by Ma Dalton to one of her foul-mouthed sons.
* [[Speech
** And occasionally they'll talk to each other as well, but these conversations are extremely spare. Probably because Jolly Jumper ''really'' doesn't like Rantanplan and either ignores him or makes sarcastic comments about him.
* [[Spinoff Babies]]: ''Kid Lucky'', portraying Lucky Luke in his childhood. It had only two albums.
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* [[Sticky Fingers]]: Fingers, [[Shaped Like Itself|from the album]] ''Fingers''.
* [[Strawman Political]]: Infamous case in the last story ''The Man of Washington''. The main villain is a hitman called Sam Palin (YES, Palin, and did I mention it was released around the 2008 American Elections?) who is a violent supporter of gun-owning rights. In a panel, his eye pupils become ''red'', ''foam'' comes out of his mouth as he says ''"Just because we have guns doesn't mean we are dangerous! Grrrr!"''
** Not to mention that the comic was also about a fictional [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|oil millionaire from Texas who wants to become president]] and doesn't coincidentally look like [[George W. Bush]]. Laurent Gerra is just ''that'' subtle.
* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: The Dalton brothers.
* [[Super Window Jump]]: Repeatedly. Usually leads to [[Land in
* [[Tar and Feathers]]: A common form of mob justice for professional gamblers who get caught. Also, in one story the Daltons got tarred and feathered repeatedly, to the point where Averell decided to stay that way.
* [[Telegraph Gag STOP]]
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* [[No Export for You]]: None of these films were released anywhere other than Europe (sans the UK) and Canada and Brazil.
* [[On One Condition]]: 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.}}
* [[Politically
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: In the 2009 live-action film, happens with {{spoiler|Luke's mother}} and {{spoiler|Belle}}.
* [[Thou Shall Not Kill]]: In the 2009 live-action-film, one of the main plot elements is about Lucky Luke's oath to never kill anyone.
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