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* One of the enemies of ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (Comic Book)|Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'' was "Armordillo", an armor-plated armadillo with a dangerous tail, who came from the Earth-C US state of "Taxes" (nicknamed the "Lone Stork State"). As such, Armordillo spoke like an Old West gunslinger/outlaw.
** Several Earth-C versions of Texas cities were also mentioned in the series, including "San Antoadio" (San Antonio) and "Hogston" (Houston). Taxes also was the home of historical landmark the Alamole (Alamo).
* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]''. Jesse Custer makes a point of refusing to steal horses, as some obscure Texan point of honor.
** [[Truth in Television]]: in a culture centered around free-range cattle ranching, like in the old West, cattle and horse thieving were more likely to get you hanged than murder, rape and bank robbing. Some of those old laws are still on the books, although mostly ignored these days.
* '[[Blue Beetle]]''. Jaime Reyes, the third Blue Beetle, lives and works in a reasonably-accurate version of [[Other Cities in Texas|El Paso]]. One storyline on [[The Illegal|immigration along the Texas border]] was met with [[Internet Backdraft|mixed reactions]].
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** On the DVD commentary for ''[[Secondhand Lions]]'', [[Michael Caine]] describes a Texas accent as a bunch of words all leaning on each other.
* Part of the ''[[X-Files]]: Fight for the Future'' movie is set in Dallas. There is one scene which takes place in a desert and shows [[Special Effects Failure|the Dallas skyline in the background]]. In reality the area surrounding Dallas is a prairie; if you want to get really techical it's [[DFW Metroplex|just more cities]].
* ''[[Whip It]]'' takes place in [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|Bodeen, Texas]] and Austin. Amusingly it was mostly filmed in Michigan.
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** Quincey and his Texas descendants show up in other vampire-killing media surprisingly frequently. The [[Castlevania]] series is one particular example.
* Anthony Trollope's ''The Way We Live Now'' has a subplot about a railroad being built in Texas, which, to the primary cast of English aristocrats, might as well be on the surface of the moon. As entrepreneur Paul Montague puts it (in the TV miniseries, at least): "Parties in Texas usually descend into fisticuffs and gunplay." There's also the evil Texan woman Mrs. [[Meaningful Name|Hurt]]le, and [[Funny Foreigner]] Hamilton K. Fisker.
* [[
* David Weber's "The Shadow of Saganami" in the Honorverse has Montana, which deliberately styles everything after what they imagined Earth's Texas to be. They also freely acknowledge that some things are inaccurate, but they cheerfully implement everything in Montana as the way things * should* have been in Texas.
* ''For Texas and Zed''
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* Inverted in Texas Hill Country deer, which are tiny.
* [http://health.msn.com/weight-loss/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100257787>1=31036 Five of the top ten fattest cities in America are in Texas.]
* Most of the popular anime you all know...was dubbed right here in this state. That's right, [[Fullmetal Alchemist]], [[Dragonball]], [[Ouran High School Host Club]], [[Yu Yu Hakusho]], slews of a bunch of others, the recent [[
** Most of the ''other'' popular anime you all know was also dubbed in Texas, by [[ADV Films]]. (Although after ADV's financial troubles, many of their titles were transferred to FUNimation.)
* Four words: [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]].
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