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When his original series ended, Jonah was thrown into a post-Apocalyptic future ala [[Mad Max]] in a title called simply ''Hex''. He had a few miniseries in [[Vertigo Comics]] with a supernatural bent, went on to a new DCU series that, with the [[Comics Code]] having lost any meaningful power, was even [[Darker and Edgier]] and [[Bloodier and Gorier|Gorier]] than before, and eventually came full circle, returning to the pages of ''All-Star Western'' in the [[New 52]] as the main character.
The character has appeared in ''[[Batman:
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* [[Can't Bathe Without a Weapon]]: Jonah is often shown bathing with his trusty bowie knife concealed in the tub.
* [[Carnival of Killers]]: "6 Gun War"
* [[Chained to
* [[Cigar Chomper]]
* [[Cigar Fuse-Lighting]]: A favourite trick of Jonah's.
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* [[Crusading Widower]]
* [[Cut Himself Shaving]]
* [[Dead Guy
* [[Deadly Distant Finale]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Jonah.
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* [[Disguised Hostage Gambit]]: More than once Jonah has captured an enemy, dressed the bad guy in his trademark jacket and hat, gagged him and bound him to the saddle before sending the horse galloping into the outlaw camp to draw fire.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Tallulah Black is pretty much a female version of Jonah Hex.
* [[Do
* [[Evil Albino]]: The Autumn Brothers
* [[Expy]]: jonah of any [[Clint Eastwood]] Western [[Anti-Hero]] you care to name.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Tallulah Black
* [[Fastest Gun in
* [[Genre Savvy]]: In [[Justice League Unlimited]], he immediately deduces that Batman, [[Green Lantern]] and [[Wonder Woman]] are time travellers. How?
{{quote| "Experience. I've had an interesting life."}}
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* [[Instant Death Bullet]]: Most of the time.
* [[Inevitable Waterfall]]: In issue #39 of the original series.
* [[Jerk
* [[Joker Jury]]: Jonah is subjected to one in ''Weird Western Tales'' #30. Quentin Turnbull captures him and puts him on 'trial' for "treason and other high crimes against the Confederate States of America". The 'jury' consists of "your former comrades in arms, some of them survivors of the very massacre you perpetrated".
* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: Railroad Bill
* [[Knife-Throwing Act]]: In "Sawdust and Slow Death" in ''Jonah Hex'' #15 (original series), Jonah joins a circus and becomes the unwilling target of an armless knife-thrower (possibly inspired by the silent movie ''The Unknown'').
* [[Libation for
* [[Lodged Blade Recycling]]: In the graphic novel ''Jonah Hex: No Way Back'', Jonah stabs el Papagayo with the same knife Papagayo just stabbed him with: ''while its still stuck through his arm!''
* [[Mad Doctor]]: Sawbones
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* [[Moe Greene Special]]: Tallulah Black.
* [[Monowheel Mayhem]]: In ''Hex'', Reinhold Borsten's forces had armoured monowheels; sort of like miniature, one-man [[Blackhawk|War Wheels]].
* [[Murder
* [[My Horse Is a Motorbike]]: Jonah swaps his horse for a motorcycle in ''Hex''. Ads for the new series even showed Jonah on a motorcycle with the tagline "This is Jonah Hex's new horse".
* [[The Native Rival]]: Jonah's saving of the Apache chief he was sold into slavery to earned him this trope.
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