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Line 1: {{trope}} ~~<!-- %%Image removed per Image Pickin' thread: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1331255020089468300 -->~~ ~~<!-- %%Please see thread to suggest a new image. -->~~ {{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"}} ~~<!-- %% One quote is sufficient. Please place additional entries on the quotes page. -->~~ 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. Line 35 ⟶ 32: * ''[[Shane]]'' * Parodied in ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' (1974), with the Waco Kid. {{quote\| '''Waco Kid:''' Well, it got so that every piss-ant prairie punk who thought he could shoot a gun would ride into town to try out the Waco Kid. I must have killed more men than [[Cecil B. DeMille]]. It got pretty gritty. I started to hear the word "draw" in my sleep. Then one day I was just walking down the street and I heard a voice behind me say "Reach for it, mister!" I spun around. And there I was face to face...with a 6-year-old kid! Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. The little bastard shot me in the ass! So I limped to the nearest saloon, crawled inside a whiskey bottle and I've been there ever since.}} ** 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]]? Line 62 ⟶ 59: == [[Video Games]] == * ''[[Arcanum: ofOf Steamworks and Magick Obscura]]'' has a "retired" gunslinger in one sidequest who has got religion and cut off his index and middle fingers to make sure he can never use a gun again. 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 with the Golden Gun]]'' there was a weapon manifacturer who created a rifle, meant to be used by an assassin who was also lacking in the finger department. He used a pressure based trigger in the stock. Coincidence? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nUFiqqgtEy8#t=510s 8:30.] Line 76 ⟶ 73: [[Category:Western Characters]] [[Category:Retired Gunfighter]] [[Category:~~Pages~~Hidden ~~with comment tags~~Badass]] [[Category:Tropes in Retirement]]