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Tex Willer, or Tex, is a very popular Italian [[The Western|western]] comic. Created by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galleppini in 1948, it became a success thanks to its beautiful artwork, fine cast of likable characters and engrossing stories, and it is still ongoing.

The comic portrays Native Americans sympathetically and has deep, thought-provoking storylines with a good balance of humour and drama. The story began with Tex's early adventures, and he gradually aged in subsequent years while gaining friends, fathering a son and attracting the attention of many notorious and dangerous [[Rogues Gallery|villains (and villainesses)]] along the way.

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=== ''Tex Willer'' provides examples of: ===

* [[Badass]]

** [[Badass Crew]]: Expecially in the 100th volume, where basically all of Tex's pals are gathered to stop a gang of criminals.

* [[Celibate Hero]]: After the death of his wife Lylith, Tex hasn't had a relationship with any other woman. Carson, on the other hand...

* [[Corrupt Hick]]: Many of Tex's enemies are these.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Tex has lost many people dear to him over the years, including his father, brother, mentor and wife.

** In ''Return To Culver City'', we get to see the graves of his parents in the long-abandoned childhood home of Tex.

* [[Escalating Brawl]]: Several examples, including an epic brawl that ends when Gros Jean kicks all the bad guys out of the inn and then chops the supporting pillars with an axe, wrecking the whole place.

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Mefisto and his son Yama. It also happens in stories concerning voodoo and similar stuff.

** Brennan, the last survivor of Lylith's murderers, was subjected to a nightmarish psychological torture before being eaten by sharks. Differently from Mephisto's death, this was on purpose.

* [[Fastest Gun in The West]]: Tex is pretty much the fastest gunslinger out there... although there have been a few who have bested him.

** Ruby Scott managed to draw faster than Tex in a duel, but he had a custom holster that can be spinned into shooting position, allowing Scott to shoot without even drawing his gun.

** [[The Hero]]: Tex Willer.

** [[The Lancer]]: Kit Carson.

** [[The Big Guy]]: Tiger Jack.

* [[Going Native]]: Partly. Tex spends a lot of his free time with his Navajo tribe although he is often drawn back to civilization to help someone in need.

* [[Guile Hero]]: Although Tex isn't afraid to use his fists or guns to solve problems, he uses his wits and complex plans just as often to outsmart more dangerous opponents.

* [[The Gunslinger]]: Tex's group is very adept at using guns.

* [[Running Gag]]: Every time we see a telegraph office, the employee gets scared, killed or the butt of some joke. Some examples: in The Blood Pact the first telegraph employee to appear is lured into sending a very offending (and fully justified) message to the Ranger headquarter with the excuse 'It's a secret code', while the second one is killed by the mooks while he gives ammo to Tex and Carson besieged in his office; in the story Navajo Blood the employees thinks they're going to be killed by the rebelling Navajos, who are there to escort a journalist who needs to send an enormous report to the Washington Post (the Navajos also escorted the money to pay for the message: it was big enough that the editor of the Post called it a novel upon getting it, and the employees doubted he could pay before seeing the cash); in Son of the Wind the employee decides to get some fun at Tiger Jack, Tex's Navajo companion, who promptly threathens him with a knife, has him send the message and pays for the service with a smile before telling him his female coworker could resume breathing.

** Also, Carson's hat being used as decoy for enemy fire (and him complaining about how he always has to buy a new one after that).

* [[The Seventh Cavalry]]: Both good and evil versions of this.

* [[The Sheriff]]: Plenty of them, ranging from corrupted to law-abiding ones.

* [[Train Job]]: Baddies do this.

** Inverted in ''The Armored Train'' where Tex gathered a team in a mission on Mexico to rob the titular train transporting gold and guns to a rebel general.

** Last time I checked, Yama went into depression and was back doing the stage magician with his mother.

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