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** ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]'' has variety B between {{spoiler|the hero, supporting his noose-hanging brother with his shoulders. The eerie harmonica music accompanied by this scene overlapping with the showdown is the harmonica being pushed into the hero's mouth at the time of the execution. It comes together perfectly as the hero guns the bad guy down.}}
** In the unauthorized [[Spaghetti Western]] remake of ''Yojimbo'', ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' (1964), the [[No Name Given|man with no name]] faces down the baddest tough-guy in town. As in the original, the bad guy has the most sophisticated weapon in town, this time a repeating rifle.
* Most films about the gunfight at the OK Corral usually turn this bloody ambush into a
* ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]'' had one of those, complete with cuts between the faces and bad guy throwing the side of his [[Badass Longcoat]] back to reach for his gun more easily... Except that there was no gun - the bad guy was an [[Cosmic Horror|interdimensional demon]] inhabiting the body of an innocent scientist, versus an anthropomorphic duck armed with a [[BFG]] strapped to a golf-cart.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'', in the subway station. It even had newspaper tumbleweed. Of course, given the fact that both combatants could dodge bullets like crazy, it quickly turned into a [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|kung fu showdown]] rather than a gunfight.
* ''[[Yojimbo]]'' (1961), the [[No Name Given|ronin with no name]] prepares for a [[Jidai Geki]] version of the
* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' spoofed this with {{spoiler|Angel and most of the villains at once}} in an idyllic English village. {{spoiler|It quickly turned into a action move shoot-out.}}
* ''[[Tombstone]]'': The duel between Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo. They stand an arm's length from one another, circle slowly, and draw.
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* ''[[Three O'Clock High]]'' transports the trope into a high school, replacing the gunfight with a fistfight scheduled for after school at 3:00. The name of the film is a riff on "high noon" and "high school."
* Inverted in ''[[Blood Rayne|Bloodrayne]] 2: Deliverance''. The vampires controlling the town tell Rayne, "You've got until High Midnight to get out of town."
* ''[[Once Upon a Texas Train]]'' climaxes with a showdown between Cotton's gang of [[Young Gun
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== Real Life ==
* Ironically, in matter of historical fact gun duels have been more common among upper-class "gentlemen" who put great value on personal honor, rather than the lower-class characters who dominate Westerns. Perhaps the most famous example of such a duel is the 1804 duel in which American Vice President Aaron Burr killed Treasury Secretary [[Alexander Hamilton]]. The difference here is that dueling pistols were not at all accurate nor meant to be
** According to the book ''Founding Brothers'', the two witnesses they had brought along agreed in writing that Hamilton fired first and missed, then Burr fired two or three seconds later, fatally wounding Hamilton. Whether Hamilton missed deliberately or Burr intended to miss but hit by accident is a matter for speculation.
** Also, the showdowns happened at high noon (yes, they really did) so that neither participant would have more of the sun in their eyes than the other, and it'd be a fair draw.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Western Animaiton/Avatar The Last Airbender|Avatar The Last Airbender]]'': A portion of Prince Zuko's [[A Day in the Limelight]] is a blatant pastiche of the Western
* Spoofed in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon ''Drip-Along Daffy'': Daffy and Nasty Canasta do version A, but before a single shot is fired, Porky defeats Canasta with a wind-up toy soldier... with a ridiculously powerful musket. The crowd already has Porky up on their shoulders when Daffy, still walking towards the showdown, realizes what happened.
* [[Bugs Bunny]] ''literally'' expands the town for Yosemite Sam in the cartoon ''Bugs Bunny Rides Again''. Sam doesn't care.
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