The Wild West: Difference between revisions

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See also [[The Western]]. A popular subject of [[The Parody]], and surprisingly popular outside America. Frequently overlaps with [[The Savage South]]. [[Twilight of the Old West]] is a sub-trope about the dying embers of the [[Wild West]] flickering out during the early years of the [[New Old West]].

 

* [[Anti-Hero]]: ...would draw before the villain.

** [[Badass Bandolier]]: Expecially during the Mexican Revolution.

** [[Badass Longcoat]]: One could argue this fashion arose from the long duster coats which were commonly worn in this period, and which mythical cowboys -- and cool guys in general -- have been wearing ever since.

** [[Badass Mustache]]

* [[Bar Brawl]]

* [[Bounty Hunter]]

* [[California Doubling]]: The geography of the American West is varied, but most movies tend to take place in Monument Valley. [[Spaghetti Western|Spaghetti Westerns]] often used the Tabanas Desert in Andalusia, Spain to double for America.

* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Frank & Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Geronimo, Buffalo Bill, among many others.

* [[Humans Are White]]: Although historically about a third of all cowboys were black or Hispanic (And the word "cowboy" itself originally referred specifically to black farmhands), it wasn't until the 1960s that ''any'' black people started showing up in Westerns, and not until the 1970s that they started being main cast members.

* [[Kirk's Rock]]: Frequently used in Westerns due to its convenience to Hollywood.

* [[Race Lift]]: For every time someone says Crazy Horse's father was white, even though he inherited his name from his father.

* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]

 

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* ''[[Blueberry]]''

* ''[[Jonah Hex]]''

 

 

* Pick a Western. ''Any'' Western...

* ''[[Back to The Future]] III''

* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''

* ''[[Broken Trail]]''

* ''[[The Hallelujah Trail]]''

* ''[[High Noon]]''

 

 

* One of the downtime locations in ''[[Time Scout]]'' is Denver, 1885. A lot of people go down there for Wild West shooting competitions.

* Many of the novels of [[J. T. Edson]], including all of ''The Floating Outfit'', ''Waco'' and ''Waxahachie Smith'' series.

 

 

* ''[[The Big Valley]]''

* ''[[Bonanza]]''

* ''[[The Dakotas]]''

* ''[[Deadwood]]'' (Decidedly ''not'' [[The Theme Park Version]].)

* ''[[Elfrego Baca]]''

* ''[[Firefly]]'' was [[The Western]] [[In Space]].

* ''[[Gunsmoke]]''

* ''[[Hec Ramsey]]''

* ''[[Highlander (TV series)|Highlander]]'' had quite a few Western flashbacks of Duncan's earlier history.

 

 

* ''[[The Cisco Kid]]''

* ''[[Gunsmoke]]''

* ''[[The Lone Ranger]]''

* ''[[The Roy Rogers Show]]''

 

 

* ''[[Deadlands]]''

* ''[[Dogs in the Vineyard]]'', although its version of the time period is a lot less Wild, so to speak.

* ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse|Werewolf: The Wild West]]''

 

 

* ''The Girl of the Golden West'', play by David Belasco and opera by Puccini

 

 

* Theme park example: ''Frontierland'' in the [[Disney Theme Parks]]

 

 

* ''[[Call of Juarez]]''

* ''[[Trouble in Terrorist Town]] Technically if you go on the Mogz server hosted in the UK on the maps de_westwood and cs_desperados the modern guns have been replaced by western ones.However they do not have auto reload which means once your clip is dry(Shotgun 7 shells, [[Double Barrel]] 2 shells,[[Lever Rifle]] 5 bullets and 1 bullet for the sharps and six for either the colt or peacemaker) you have to pistol whip your opponent or get out of range and reload.

* ''[[Outlaws (1997 video game)]]''

* ''[[Sunset Riders]]''

* ''[[Bastion]]'' evokes this with its old-timey narrator and most of the soundtrack, which is full of banjos and the occasional voiced song that sounds like a traditional folk song.

* ''[[Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]''

 

 

* ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West''

* ''[[Quick Draw McGraw]]''

* The 1966 ''[[Lone Ranger]]'' series

 

 

* ''[[Next Town Over]]''

 

 

* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'': Virtua-SOTF, a Mini site game, has been confirmed to be a [[Inside a Computer System|Virtual Reality]] game that takes place in a "Old West" setting.

 

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