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** ''[[The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' has a three-way showdown. In a cemetery. With [[Crowning Music of Awesome|incredible music.]] It also provides a [[Standard Snippet]] for these sorts of scenes.
** ''[[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
* Most films about the gunfight at the OK Corral usually turn this bloody ambush into a [[Showdown At High Noon]].
* ''[[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.
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* The endings of the western spoofs ''[[Support Your Local Sheriff]]'' and ''[[Support Your Local Gunfighter]]'' are both extended parodies of this trope.
* ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]''. While in a firefight in some ruins, Spyros Pappadimos and a German officer find themselves facing off, each armed with a machine gun. They advance slowly toward each other and eventually start firing. {{spoiler|Both are killed in the gun battle}}.
* The film ''[[Posse (Film)|Posse]]'' had a scene where the two combatants advanced slowly, attacking with [[Throw
* ''[[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."
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* Subverted in ''[[Wayne and Shuster]]'''s Fist Full of Dollars sketch where, after the climactic gunfight in which dozens of bullets are fired at Schuster with no effect, he reveals that he was using the old "brick wall under the poncho" trick.
* Happens in ''[[Psych]]'', between a policeman and... a cowboy (not a real cowboy - this is the one at those little re-enactment tourist traps), after it's uncovered he's been whacking people to try and keep a gold cache under the town secret. The cowboy's SAA, however, was real. {{spoiler|Cop wins.}}
* In the episode of ''[[The Prisoner]]'' where Number 6 is an old-west sheriff, he has a [[Single
* Parodied in ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'' "Bun Fight at the OK Tearooms".
* For a bizarre non-Western example, the final showdown between John Sheppard and Acastus Kolya on ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' goes just like this.
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== Music ==
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome|The Megaman remix-band]] [[The Megas]] make the battle between Megaman and Quickman sound like an embodiment of this trope. It's all built up with Quickman as the "sheriff"; with lines such as "Quick on the draw, in this town I am the law. Is what they say true? Does death wear blue? Can he fall?" The conclusion comes with "My circuits slow. I'm not scared anymore. Reach for my weapon and in turn you're reaching for yours. My circuits slow. What they said is a lie. The shots are heard and the bullets scream death as they fly", essentially also making this an example of a [[Single
* Panther of [[The Protomen (Music)|The Protomen]] made such a song to promote the member Turbo Lover's band [[Cheer Up Charlie Daniels (Music)|Cheer Up Charlie Daniels]], about the band competing with a similarly-named group for rights to the band name. The song was called ''The Duel''. The song's also getting a sequel, ''The Duel: Part 2'', about the band's showdown at The Road to Bonnaroo.
* ''Big Iron'' is this trope in spirit, when the Arizona Ranger and Texas Red have their showdown.
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* There was a Nintendo Light Gun game called ''[[Wild Gunman]],'' and a version of it appeared in ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II''.
** ''Wild Gunman'' was recreated as a microgame for the first ''[[Wario Ware (Video Game)|Wario Ware]]'' game. ''Smooth Moves'' also features an original western quick-draw microgame.
* Used as a [[Mini Game]] in ''[[Kirby]]'s Adventure'' for the NES. Amusingly, the same Mini Game was recycled using [[Single
* The PC game ''[[Gun (Video Game)|Gun]]'' has you pull this off a few times as well.
* 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.
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