Averell Dalton

### **Personality**

Accident-prone, artsy, bumbling, childish, clumsy, dim-witted, easy-going, endurer, energetic, erratic, funny, friendly, gluttonous, happy, immature, innocent, jealous, kind-hearted, lazy (sometimes), optimistic, seemingly dumb, scattered-brained, talkative, talented

### **Birthday**

Unknown (According to Morris, he is 18 years old)

### **Occupation**

Bank robber;
Painter;
Pizzaiolo (in Lone riders)

### **Alignment**

Neutral (Lucky Luke series);
Good (The Daltons)

### **Goal**

Showing off his talents as an artist,
Enjoy life
Helping people unconditionally

### **Home**

Frightful Gulch (The Daltons' Cousins);
Ma's lair
Nevada Penitentiary

### **Relatives**

Joe, Jack and William Dalton (older brother);
Bob, Gratt, Bill and Emmett Dalton (Cousins);
Ma Dalton (Mother);
Henry Dalton (Uncle);
Marcel Dalton (Uncle)
Bill Dalton (Uncle);
Joseline, Jacqueline, Williamine and Ava Dalton (Cousins)

### **Pets**

Rintindumb (Also known as Rintincan, Bushwag and Rantanplan);
Roger the cockroach;
Atagualpa (Called by him Raimond)

### **Likes**

Eating, sleeping, painting, make friends, helping others, especially Ma with the chores, acting, boxing, using his "magic powers", behaving in a tom-foolish kind of way

### **Dislikes**

Joe showing affection to somebody else rather than him

### **Powers and abilities**

Strength;
Artistic vein;
Endurance

### **Fate**

Failing to escape due to his clumsiness at times, but turning out to be talented in many ways

### **Quote**

"When are we having dinner?"

**Averell Dalton** is one of the main antagonists of the Lucky Luke series and the deuteragonist of the animated series "*The Daltons*".

## Background

Averell is the youngest of the Dalton brothers and definitely the one who has the least negative relationship with the aforementioned cowboy "Who shoots faster than his own shadow", often considered to be the solo nice guy of the Dalton gang, or at least the\ one who wouldn't deliberately hurt Lucky Luke unless he's on an empty stomach.

### Personality

In a gang of four criminals, and a family of ruthless criminals, Averell's definitely the odd one out of the group. He is by no means a bad person but actually a gullible and dim-witted but innocent, sensitive, and selfless individual.

This is expressively displayed in the difference between the rest of the brothers' goals and his. While they pursuit criminal deeds such as bank robberies, stage coach ambushes, he feels the need of enjoying life throught instant gratification, most notably the only thoughts he has in mind revolve around food, trait best summarized by his catchphrase "When are we going to eat, uh?". This is usually the main driving force of his impulsive behaviour which makes act erratically and in the meantime predictably, which actually does make him more dangerous, but more to his fellow brothers than whoever else happens to confront him.

His tendency to get emotional, his underdeveloped intellect and his complete lack of charisma and common sense prevents him from being capable of having the upper hand in certain situations. Other than that, Averell's clumsiness and incompetence as a criminal tend to hamper the team's progress in their efforts to escape and get away with the law, resulting in him being sadly underestimated and unanimously depicted as "The dumb one", trait often emphasized by his confused facial expressions and awkward way of moving around. This, however, does not stop Averell from learning new ways to prove his potential and fit in the quartet, as he often tries to show off his talent as an artist to impress his brothers.

Like Joe, he is one of the characters who are the most prone to slapstick, in some episodes he's seen suffering alone, although less then his oldest brother. Unlike him, however, he can endure most of the pain without even being aware of being hit, like Joe's constant slaps. This is also apparent when the Daltons receive bad news. He might be the only one who wouldn't be really concerned about the situation, but just because he understands less than half of the informations he is told of more often than not since his attention span is very limited.

That's mostly due to his peculiar perception of reality. Averell is often one or two footsteps away from it, tipically described as an oddball who lives in his own little world. A clear example of this specific character trait being hinted can be seen in the episode "*Size-wise*", in which he would like if his brothers and him escaped from the Penitentiary by dressing up as socks, as he somehow thinks that they would be allowed to go outside.

In the same episode, as lampshaded by Joe, he would act like their cell was their home. Speaking of which, he has a remarkable artistic taste, which he usually takes advantage of in many areas, such as sewing, crafting terracotta vases, combining colors and fabrics and **especially** painting.

With that said he never has a deliberately mean or malicious bone towards anyone unless he was motivated to do so by his brothers in the escape plans. Usually he redeems himself by obligingly try to help others without a particular personal benefit with the exception of making the others feel happy. He easily shows affection towards babies and animals, especially towards Rantanplan/Bushwag/Rintindumb, the guarding dog of the prison.

*to be continued...*

## Appearence

OriginalRecoloredHe is the tallest, as he is 7 feet tall. He has short black hair with a clump which hangs in front of his forehead, brown eyes with yellowish pupils, a big button nose from which a pair of pointy mustaches stick out, and a long and squared chin. Inside of the penitentiary he wears a yellow prison uniform with stripes, but usually, in other occasions in which he sports the same clothes as their brothers, he wears in yellow, since it's his favourite colour.

He looks identical to his brothers, the only difference is the height and the fact that Averell has a bemused, sleepy and confused expression.

## Powers

Because of his huge proportions, Averell is the toughest and most phisically capable of the Daltons strengthwise. Although this isn't his primary trait anymore, as it's his elder brother Jack who takes care of the hard job in the Daltons schemes, it's shown in multiple occasions, like in his first appearence "*The Daltons' cousins*", in which he encountered Lucky Luke in a fistfight, or in the episode "*Chain of Misfortune",* in which he lift a giant boulder of his size.

In some situations, he proves to be smarter than he lets on, like that time he was the only one who understood that the door that led to a shelter was open while the others were charging at it.

However he has proved to be spontaneously inclined at many talents, including being an artist, a gardener, a fakir and more.

*to be continued...*

## Relationships with other characters

### Joe Dalton

While every one of the brothers poses a different challenge to Joe's patience, Averell unintentionally makes him lose it the most, mostly due to his impulsiveness and childish temperament opposed to Joe's rational conclusions.

Thanks to his kind, polite, naive, joyful, caring for others regardless of who they are and simpathetic attitude, which creates a nice opposite to Joe's rough, grumpy, malicious and snarky behaviour, Averell has always been Ma Dalton's favorite son. That's mostly the reason why Joe openly debunks Averell, other than finding him a lot inferior compared to the others and labeling him with nicknames "Imbecile!", "Idiot!" and "Ninny!", which is something Jack and William used to do as well in their early days.

The two bicker and fight constantly, as Averell annoys Joe with his nosense and the latter smacks and yells at the former in exchange, however, moving on with the appearences they made, there are times in which the two show to share a significant bond, especially in "*The Daltons*". A best example of this is in the Season finale "*The Dalton's vacation*", in which they will eventually miss each other once the tallest Dalton reaches Paris while the other escapes from prison with the rest.