Jack Dalton

**Not to be confused with Oggy and the Cockroaches's deuteragonist, simply referred as *Jack.***

## Background information

### **Feature films**

Xilam movies:
"Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (2014)"
Others:
"Daisy Town (1971)";
"The Ballad of the Daltons (1978)";
"Les Dalton (2004)"

### **Television shows**

Xilam shows:
Lucky Luke (Hanna-Barbera/Gaumont 1983 animated series);
The New adventures of Lucky Luke (2001)";
The Daltons (2009)
Others:
Lucky Luke (1991 animated series);
Lucky Luke (1992 live-action series)

### **Video games**

Lucky Luke: Western fever (Pre-final boss alongside William)

### **Voice**

Original: Bruno Flender
English: Barry Denmen (same as Melvin Peabody)
Italian: Enrico Di Troia

### **Designer**

Morris;
René Goscinny

## Character information

### **Personality**

Shy, introvert, cowardly, hyperactive, mischievous, trigger-happy, playful, tech-savy, mature, sarcastic, diligent at work, helpful, bright, silent, stealthy

### **Birthday**

Unknown (It's the same as William, they're 19 years old)

### **Occupation**

Bank robber;
Engineer;
Gambler (in Lone Riders)

### **Alignment**

Ranges from bad to neutral (Lucky Luke series);
Good (The Daltons)

### **Goal**

Call out the flaws in Joe's plans;
Helping his brothers out with the escape

### **Home**

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

### **Relatives**

Joe (Eldest brother);
William (Younger twin brother);
Averell (Youngest 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)

### **Enemies**

Lucky Luke, Melvin Peabody, Pete and Emmett, Miss Betty (sometimes), Rintindumb (sometimes).

### **Likes**

Clanging boulders, digging tunnels, helping Joe with his plans, pranking, helping with the chores, reading newspapers

### **Dislikes**

Being in focus for too long, Joe yelling at him and his brothers

### **Powers and abilities**

High agility; Stealthiness; Target accuracy; Being a reliable all-arounder

### **Paraphernalia**

A basement filled with weapons in Killer Gulch

### **Weapons**

Tools made of soft bread, a copper pan, a

### **Fate**

Making Joe change his mind about his plan but eventually failing to escape

### **Quote**

"What are we going to do Joe?"

**Jack Dalton** is a recurring antagonist of the Lucky Luke series and a supporting character from the animated series "*The Daltons*".

## Background

Jack is the elder and shorter one of the middle twins of the Dalton brothers, often misrepresented as William due to their resemblance in their actions and dialogues. Fortunately in his latest appereances, he was given a more fleshed out personality to make him stand out more as the main objector to Joe's plans as well as Joe's main faire-valoire.

### Personality

> Francais: Tu es gentil avec tout le monde. Pour toi l'amitié c'est pour la vie! Tu préferés les sport collectifs et tu es un bon (ne) perdant(e). Tu es tellement génereux que tu oublies parfois de penser à toi.
> English: You're kind to everyone. According to you, frendship lasts for life! You prefer team sports and you're a grateful loser. You're so nice you sometimes forget to think for yourself.
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Calm, peaceful and thoughtful, Jack is the wise one as well as the only sane one of the Daltons: compared to arrogant and erratic Joe, flirtious William and clumsy and gullible Averell, he has a more down-to-earth temperament and his overall job is lampshading and calling out the others flaws with with sarcastic remarks and sharp irony.

He can also get rather skeptical with people he doesn't know. An example of this is seen in the episode "The Daltons' oath", in which he does really trust Frowning Wizard at first since it's a person they have to talk to with caution. In a similar way he does, people often tend to not get along with him, due to his introvert nature, solely sticking out with his younger brother William, who is more sociable and extroverted.

Not to mention how he tends to be quite subtle, as he waits quietly for the very last second so he can vent at you and get the last word or act which best summarizes the grudge and disdain he had towards those who wronged him in a passive-aggressive fashion.

On the surface, he might seem an unemotional, rude and ill-mannered jerk, but, he's actually the polar opposite of that. He is kind to people, especially his brothers , he often respects autority figures like the prison warden, in his opinion, friendship is sacred, but despite this, Jack has no friends, and therefore is afraid of loneliness, so much so that spending a night alone in a separate room is unbearable.

To the detriment of his introvert and insecure nature, he loves sports, most notably teams sports, such as football, on the field he is always the first to enter and the last to leave, similarly to when Joe comes up with a plan, he is always on the front line in order to help the brothers with the escape. With that said, he is considered far too altruistic, so much so that he forgets to think about himself, making him come across as an awkward nice guy.

He suffers from low self-esteem sometimes, which restrains him to often wait for things to happen up until someone gets involved, that's why he often asks Joe "What are we going to do, Joe?", although he mastered the ability of taking apart Joe's plans whenever he finds a flaw to call out.

## Appearance

OriginalRecoloredHe is 5 feet and 6 inches tall, meaning he is taller than Joe, but shorter than the rest of his brothers. 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 blue, since it's his favourite colour.

He looks identical to his brothers, the only difference is the height and the fact that Jack has a concerned and sad expression sometimes. He always keeps his hands behind his back, which is an implication of his shyness.

## Powers

Compared to his brothers, Jack by himself can be quite a threat. By far his most dangerous aspect is his stealthiness, as he sometimes goes offscreen before striking or unpractically pranking someone when they least expect it.

Out of all the Daltons, he is the most balanced qualitywise. While it's clear that he is more prone to handle tasks in which a better speed is required, he doesn't fall flat in overall knowledge and strength, only second to respectively William and Averell.

Since he was a child, Jack has acquired a lot of experience via chores. Like Joe, he is really precise at doing the ironing. When he got sentenced to the Nevada Penitentiary, he learned new ways to work thanks to its many activities, organised by Miss Betty in Ming Lee Foo's laundry.

As seen in "Highly Gifted Daltons", he is exceptionally good at playing soccer, Jack is a pretty quick liner: by himself, he can outrun his opponents and cross the entire field. Not to mention, knows and respects every single rule and knows how to recognize the others' weaknesses almost in the same way as he does with Joe's plans.

*FAKE: In the game "The Daltons: Fight for the breakout", he is the only playable character out of the four Dalton brothers to be a long-ranged fighter. He moves around faster compared to the others, so he can dodge the opponents attacks easier, as well as his attack animation cycle. However he has much less health points and, similarly to Joe, he can be thrown away pretty easily.*

*to be continued...*

## Relationship with other characters

### Joe Dalton

Jack, being the second-born of the family, normally is the one who should take care of the family when Joe, the eldest, is not around. However, to this day, Jack is still not able to guarantee this family duty, since he didn't receive the same education as Joe. In the meantime, Jack supports Joe and draws inspiration from him.

When Joe comes up with the escape plans and criminal plots, usually it's Jack the one who makes sure that his plans follow a logical thread usually asking him questions or calling out his flaws that lead to Joe coming up with a better solution. Viceversa it's Joe who, when he needs a piece of advice, and especially when he is in the mood, he would often consult Jack, as he trusts him and, as, according to him, he knows what he is doing. However Jack's not above disagreeing and declare his emancipation when the shortest of the Daltons acts more arrogant and antagonistic than usual.

### William Dalton

Being twin brothers, Jack and William are technically inseparable, even more so than their other brothers who they go along with. Probably the glue that best solidifies their friendship is the fact that they're often forgotten and regarded as interchangeable extras, despite the fact that their character strengths and traits are symmetrically the opposite to each other: Jack is an awkward, shy but nice, passionate, hard-working guy, while William is more rational, calm, self-confident, with a big ego (though not as much as Joe's that doesn't prevent him from being caring and heartwarming, but at the same time he tends to kick off the most.

Usually the two are always seen back-to-back in fighting scenes, for instance in "*Matador Daltons*". Together they usually take down many of the foes that approach towards them, however they will start bickering when one of them is certain about a sequence of words or sounds while the other tells him he misheard it, like the spell in "*A grain of sands for the Daltons"*, or the defensive game plan in the aforementioned episode. The aftermath may vary: Sometimes it's Jack who gets the better (mostly in the comics), sometimes it's William (mostly in "*The Daltons*" series), sometimes they are both right (if compared with their less cultured brothers who tend to mispell words, especially Averell) or, though rarely, both wrong (if Joe behaves as the only sane one).

In prior appearances, most notably in the 2001 series "The New Adventures Of Lucky Luke" and the 2004 movie "Les Daltons", they seem to have a much more dysfunctional relationship, in the former, one of them will complain about the other taking the lead and making bad decisions, which leads to a fist-fight between them. In the latter, they will often try to unpractically prank each other. Jack, being the stealthy one, often seems to be more successful at tricking William, whose incarnation here is a lot more gullible, almost as much as Averell, than the other way around.

### Averell Dalton

Jack didn't really interact with Averell throught the series. However he not as reprimanding as the others and seems to have a more positive relationship compared to William, who doesn't stand his stupidity. In some plans, he's in charge for him, something that apparently he doesn't mind, as he has more time to spend with the youngest brother.

## Quotes

Despite not being the kind of character that would get many lines, compared to the others in the show, he is still one of the most quotable ones. Highlights include:

* "*Seems promising...* (Translation from both french and italian version)" - **Stormy Weather**
* "*We're through, Joe! Check it out! I can see freedom*!" - **Hostage Havoc**
* "*The fixed point is in your head, you idiot!*" - **The Daltons Go Climbing!**
* "*Your plan fell through!*" - **The Daltons Afloat!**
* "*Pedal!*" "*Fasteeer!*" "*Braaake!*" (To William, for some reason he says It in a higher-pitched tone than usual in the english dubbing, making it sound almost like Joe's voice) - **Buffalo Bluff**
* "*You said: EGH! IH! Grr! MWAH, woh!*" - **The Secret Passage**
* "*Hgh! Back to square 1!*" - **Reincarnation**
* "*Yeah, your plans never take off!* (Translation from both french and italian version)" - **Chicken Soup**
* "*Well, maybe we saw too big at the end...*" - **Giant!**
* "*Say, Joe, did that axe to the face do this to you? Since when are we interested in basket weaving?*" - **Gust of Wind**
* "*It looks like he's having a breakdown... I wonder who'll be the one who's gonna fix him!*" - **Daltons In A Kit**
* "Hey guys, I've got, like, 9 hairs in my chest, heheh-heheh-heheh" - **Teen trouble**
* "*Ah! Don't be big-headed, Joe! Just call your experience a slice of life!*" - **The Daltons Chill Out**
* "*That's a hair-raising scheme!*" - **A Hairy Situation**

## Trivia

* He's the only character, possibile alongside Rintindumb, who doesn't speak to any of the characters in *The Daltons*, with the exception of his brothers. This was presumably meant to emphasize his shy and quiet nature;
* He does share some similarities with Jack from Oggy and the Cockroaches. They're both excellent mechanical minds and they gambled at least once (Jack in "Casino" and Jack Dalton in "Lone riders");
* His current italian voice actor, Enrico Di Troia, also dubbed Stereo from Space Goofs and William in "The New Adventures Of Lucky Luke";
	+ His voice actor from the latter show was Antonio Palumbo, who voices William in *The Daltons*, mostly notably, his impression was raspier and deeper;
* His english voice actor is the same as Melvin Peabody's, only with a different impression.