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Lucky Luke
1984 · TV series · 26 min episodes · 2 seasons
AnimationComedyFamilyWesternKids
Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers (usually his traditional enemies the Dalton Brothers) to justice. "The man who shoots faster than his shadow."
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The Western movies and books are widely known for every Grandpa in Spain except for the actual Far West history.
In the 70's, tons of people bought a-dime novels full of cheap Western like 'pulp' stories written from Spanish authors with English nicknames at the cover.
Later, with the widely spread television, spies and officers/detectives took that role seamlessly, with Charles Bronson et all. Because in the end it's the same story everywhere. Lonely wolf vs the baddies. That stuff sold well everywhere, because every society has its badass hero.
I'm pretty sure tons of French directors set lots of drama/action movies in the US too.
Oh, and not just white officers. The Asian Martial Arts exploitation with Bruce Lee and clones was widely seen from their sons too in late 70's/early 80's.
And these would be surely cloned in the US too.
Ninjas, samurais and exotic Japanese and Chinese fighters were pretty much everywhere too. And, OFC, Dragon Ball in Europe was a huge success in late 80's, even if at the beginning it just was a comedy manga/anime.
Dragon Ball does the same in the end with the Chinese culture being remade from the Japanese as a parody...
The French had Blueberry, Lucky Luke...
I remember reading a Lucky Luke comic as a kid about the Oklahoma Land Run — but I didn’t realize it actually happened like in that comic which parodied Western movies. Wow.
One day, Moon Run and Mars Run? This notion of instant free-for-all “pirate civics” seems to have resonance with ideals of contemporary libertarians.
There’s also Urbit, which to my best understanding is a digital Oklahoma managed by a priest class of computer-scientologists.