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{{quote|''I was good. I was'' real ''good. I was so good that once a day someone would ride into town to make me prove it. And every day I'd start my drinking a few minutes earlier. Until one morning, a guy who asked me to prove it turned out to be 16 years old. I left him there on his face, right there in front of the saloon. I left him there bleeding to death with my bullet in him.''|''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS, "Mr. Denton on Doomsday"}}
A version of [[Retired Badass]] common in the [[Western]] genre. This fellow used to be [[The Gunslinger]], but has decided to settle down and hang up his guns. This can be because he's gotten older and slower, but more often it's because he's either gotten married and wants to live to raise a family or his conscience bothers him about the people he's killed. Thus he can be considerably younger than the average Retired Badass.
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* ''[[Shane]]''
* Parodied in ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' (1974), with the Waco Kid.
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** Note the similarity between this example and the ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' Page Quote.
* Borderline: [[Clint Eastwood]] in ''[[Pale Rider]].'' Yes, his guns were in storage while he acted as a priest, but that might have been more of a vacation than a retirement. The whole movie is meant to play him up as supernatural, not merely human. [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]?
** Not borderline at all: Eastood as Will Munny, in ''[[Unforgiven]]'', along with [[Morgan Freeman|Ned Logan]].
* ''[[Tombstone]]'', a 1993 Western movie, starts with Wyatt Earp, a well-known peace officer, settling down in Tombstone city. He refuses to get into any trouble saying he's retired. Of course, things soon get messy as {{spoiler|the leader of a local gang kills the town marshal, so Wyatt's two brothers take his place. As one of them is maimed by criminals, and another is killed, this [[It's Personal|gets personal]], so Wyatt confronts the outlaws}}.
* {{spoiler|Ronald}} in ''[[The
* Captain Oren Hayes and his retired Texas Rangers in ''[[Once Upon a Texas Train]]''.
* Cort in ''[[The Quick and
* Wyatt Earp in ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The title character in ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode ''[
* JD Smith from ''[[The Dakotas]]''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Arcanum:
** What I found weird about this is that even though he can't use guns any more, and won't attack you if you attack him, and gave up his title, he still carries a rifle with him. He won't say so, but you can check his inventory, and he's got one.
*** Really now? In ''[[The Man
* Landon Ricketts from ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' fits this archetype for the most part, although he still functions as an unofficial lawkeeper protecting the folks of Chuparosa.
** John Marston himself, to an extent. Well....at least he tries to be.
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