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* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] - Frank always wears black. Harmonica always wears white.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Harmonica uses concealed weapons to get the drop on others.

* {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Brother]]}}

* [[Deconstruction]] - This movie definitively deconstructs [[The Western]] even more than the [[Dollars Trilogy]] did. Sergio Leone filmed much of it in Monument Valley, where the John Ford classics were filmed, and the film bears specific allusions to other films such as Johnny Guitar and Shane. Complete with obvious inclusions of typical western stereotypes being used in a very not-typical manner. It says a lot that Leone intended to use the main cast of his [[Dollars Trilogy]] in this movie, just to have them all be killed in the first ten minutes.

'''Harmonica''': "I {{spoiler|didn't let them kill him}}, and that's not the same thing." }}

* [[Playing Against Type]] - And '''''how'''''. Henry Fonda plays the villain in this one. Just to clarify: there are [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|villains]], [[Anti-Villain|villains]], and [[Complete Monster|villains]]. Fonda's character is very much the third one. Fonda had intended to radically change his usual appearance for the film, growing a mustache and beard and wearing brown contact lenses. Leone talked him out of it, as the shock of seeing good old Henry Fonda as a [[Complete Monster]] was exactly what he wanted.

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] - "''When you hear a strange sound, drop to the ground...''"

** And referenced in a later shootout:

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