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A 1999 [[Made for TV Movie|made for TV]] [[Western]] about a ruthless band of outlaws
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* [[The Atoner]]: Everyone in Refuge, though Lefty Slade fails.
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* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Death is nothing compared to the penalty for violence.
* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]: The entrance to Hell is a river of fire.
* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: The Indian and
* [[God]]: Running the whole show.
* [[God Is Good]]: Gives people a second chance and understands the need to defend your home.
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* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: - Dolly Stone, though she says the dime novels exagerate it.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: People die, but it takes a lot of firing to do it. Except when the plot calls for it, of course.
** Being fair, Wild Bill Hickock was legitimately a legendary marksman in real life. If this trope is ever invoked for anyone ''he's'' shooting at, you're doing it wrong.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: At the final shootout.
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'''Wild Bill''': "I have no mother." }}
* [[Knife Nut]]: Betty McCullough, though her victim deserved it.
* [[Magical Native American]]: More specifcially, St. Peter in Indian form.
** No, that's the Angel of Death. The ''Coachman'' is St. Peter.
* [[The Masquerade]]: None of the townspeople will admit to who
* [[Martial Pacifist]]: The entire cast, at first, as fighting is a violation of the rules of Purgatory and will damn them. Particularly noteworthy when Blackjack's hulking deputy tries to push around the unarmed 'pacifist' sheriff in a fistfight, and Bill defeats him by ducking and sidestepping every punch he throws but never actually raises a hand back.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: Lightning hits the knife thrower.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: No, Blackjack, that's ''not'' some pacifist Quaker you're bullying around. That's ''Wild Bill Hickock''. And the men next to him are Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and Doc Holliday. Nice knowing you!
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Granted he was never really bad, but {{spoiler|Sonny}} did want to join Blackjack's band, knowing fully what they did. Of course, he doesn't have too far to go once he dies.
** Being fair, Blackjack's lieutenant is Sonny's uncle and was encouraging the kid to do it, and Sonny had vastly misestimated the amount of killing the gang actually did. He thought it would be like the dime novels.
* [[Resigned to the Call]]: The townspeople decide to take up arms even though (they think) it'll mean going to hell.
* [[Retirony]]: The Sheriff, who is a few days from going home when Blackjack shows up. [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in that "retiring" means dying, and [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in that he {{spoiler|gets to go to heaven anyway}}.
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Dolly is set up as the romantic interest for Sonny, especially when she ends up in Refuge, but he ends up with Dolly.
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Blackjack's initial glib lie that he and his men are a gang of cattle drovers that got lost in a storm doesn't survive Bill's observation that only a few of Blackjack's men actually have lassos slung on their saddles, when a real group of cow herders would of course all be equipped with them.
* [[The So-Called Coward]]: The entire town, who are actually some of the most dangerous people in [[The Wild West]].
* [[Villain Protagonist]]/[[Decoy Protagonist]]: Blackjack's gang.
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[[Category:Index of Film Westerns]]▼
[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Purgatory]]
[[Category:Film]]
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