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* [[As the Good Book Says...]]
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Stockburn, the marshal
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Strongly implied.
* [[Badass Preacher]]
* [[Better as Friends]]: Megan's not too happy with this response.
* [[The Brute]]: Club (played by Richard Kiel) is brought in to intimidate Preacher, but falls to a well-aimed [[Groin Attack]].
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Bison model
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* [[Defeat Means Friendship]] / [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|1=Club ends up helping the Preacher in one of the last fights of the film, grabbing LaHood's son as he's about to shoot Preacher [[In the Back]].}}
* [[Determined Homesteader|Determined]] [[Determined Widow|Prospector]] [[Determined Homesteader's Children|Family]]
* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: Preacher and Sarah.
* [[The Dragon]]: Stockburn
* [[The Drifter]]
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Hey look! It's [[James Bond|Jaws]]!
* [[Hired Guns]]
* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]: See [[Title Drop]].
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: {{spoiler|Narrowly averted.}}
* [[It's All My Fault]]: When Preacher suddenly disappears, Megan is convinced that he'd left because of their fight earlier.
* [[It's Personal]]: Implied, between Stockburn and the Preacher
* [[Kick the Dog]]: The thugs [[Anvilicious|shoot a girl's pet puppy]] in the opening scene. Later on, Stockburn's gang {{spoiler|kills one of the miners}}
* [[Love Confession]]
* [[Love Triangle]]: Both Megan and her mother have romantic interest in the Preacher, oddly enough. But [[Celibate Hero|he doesn't seem to return the feelings for either of them]].
** {{spoiler|He was discrete with Sarah. He shut the door of the stable and put the light out.}}
** Of course, being that he's probably a ghost, it's possible that he can't return their feelings, physically or otherwise.
* [[Mysterious Past]]
* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]: Megan to Preacher at the end
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* [[No Name Given]]
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Megan
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Megan to Preacher.
* [[Prospector]]
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]: The raping is absent, but pillaging and burning appear in the beginning of the film, courtesy of the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Mook|mooks]].
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* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Done all the time by Preacher to imply his supernatural nature.
* [[Stock Quotes]]: See [[Title Drop]]
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] Hull
* [[Title Drop]]: "[[As the Good Book Says...|I looked and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named Death.]]"
* [[The Un-Reveal]]