Showdown At High Noon: Difference between revisions

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A [[Dead Horse Trope]] (no pun intended) right up there with [[Chained to A Railway]], but many works that featured it before it became cliche are still around. Its familiarity, of course, makes it a favorite [[The Parody|parody]]. In said parody, one character is required to say, "This town ain't big enough for the two of us." Quite rarely will it occur to them that some urban expansion could solve all their problems.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* The ancient [[ZX Spectrum]] western-themed adventure ''The Wild Bunch'' used version B if you decided you wanted to kill the bad guys, rather than just bring them in to the sheriff (killing them was more rewarding). The trick was that you had to let the bad guy move first, so that's it's self-defence to shoot him rather than just plain old murder.

* ''[[Billy Frontier]]'' has an unusual spin on this where rather than simply being the first to draw after a signal, you also have to play a LITERAL [[Simon Says Mini Game]] during the “glare at each other sullenly” stage.

* ''[[Live a Live]]'' has one of the A variety in its Wild West chapter. The protagonist and his nemesis each take five steps (on account of the small viewing area), draw and shoot... at two different outlaws hiding on the sidelines.

* Parodied in ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'': After Guybrush has rearranged the mysterious wind idol near the Vaycaylian Wind Control Device, De Singe arrives with a rifle and demands that Guybrush surrender his Poxed hand. A brief period of staring silence follows, complete with close-ups of both Guybrush's and De Singe's faces in a style parody of ''[[The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' before the former breaks the silence with "Make me!" and the latter pulls out the rifle and shoots him sky-high. Of course, Guybrush is still alive when he lands on the ground and gets up.