History Fanfic / OldWest

* SpeciesSurname: Grace Glossy, who is a glossy snake. Teddy Glossy fits only by half because he's half a glossy snake and half a gopher snake.

* YouGotSpunk: Henry likes Grace's defiance to the point that [[spoiler:he reveals her where Dufayel is keeping Teddy]].
-->'''Grace''': [[GetOut I want you out.]]\\
'''Henry''': Ooh, this one's got bite. I like her.

** Anyone who ends up being at loggerheads with [[TheDreaded Jake]] has this reaction.
** Grace and Ramirez Arvenga have this reaction when they end up [[spoiler:releasing a flood into the underground caverns]] in their struggle.

** Jake himself reacts this way when he realizes that the bad guys have brought a [[spoiler:hawk]].

* OriginalCharacters: Some are the author's own creations, others are borrowed from other writers. Her own characters include Grace Glossy, Teddy, Dufayel and Delilah Rangler. The borrowed ones include Charles/Chuck, Ramirez Arvenga and Henry.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Grace gives Jake one in the 31st chapter for purposefully saying cruel things to her to make her angry and thus, his departure easier.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** As Ramirez Arvenga points out when Rango has him at gunpoint, it's one thing to be ready to kill another being and another to afterwards deal with the resulting guilt.
** Benjamin Hares tries to use his still valid marriage to Grace to sell her property behind her back just like he did ten years ago. However, Melbourne from Mud's bank becomes suspicious of him, for Grace has never mentioned her estranged husband during her time as the bank's client, so he fetches her. When she arrives to confront Benjamin and states that her father left her property solely to her, Catridge the attorney tells them to sort their argument amongst themselves and find legal documents to prove their respective claims.
** After Jake brutally [[spoiler:kills the abovementioned Benjamin Hares]] in front of Grace and Teddy, Grace -- who was just beaten up by [[spoiler:her husband]] -- is so traumatized that [[HatesBeingTouched she doesn't want Jake or any other male to touch her]] or be in her house. It takes time, Beans telling her to pull herself together, and being needed to comfort Teddy and nurse the seriously injured Jake before Grace starts regaining her confidence.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11491153/1/Old-West Old West]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' fanfiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4774853/DONOVAN94 DONOVAN94]].

* GigglingVillain: [[KnifeNut Kepper]] is quick to giggle.

* KnifeNut: Both Ramirez Arvenga and Kepper prefer fighting with knives. The former is fond of collecting {{Creepy Souvenir}}s, while the latter is known by the trope name.

* HypotheticalCasting: The author has revealed they decided to imagine Grace being voiced by Creator/ScarlettJohansson and Dufayel by Creator/MadsMikkelsen.

** Like with Rango, the vices of Benjamin Hares include pretentiousness and cowardness. Rango was exposed as a fraud but returned to save Dirt as a true hero, and even though he hasn't fully lost his vices, he attempts to do the right thing as a sheriff. Benjamin in turn is an incorrigible conman who cares firstly about himself and secondly about his own safety. He charmed Grace to marry him and left her penniless to escape his debt, returning ten years later with false regrets to sell her out again and get said debt covered. In short, Benjamin is what Rango could have become if he didn't care about the well-being of others and had never decided to redeem himself by saving the people of Dirt and instead continued his life as a fraudster on the move. In the climax, Rango does something Benjamin wouldn't have likely done: [[spoiler:[[TakingTheBullet jumping in front of a bullet]] aimed at Grace and Teddy]].

* MixedAncestry: Teddy is half a glossy snake and half a gopher snake.

* NotSoDifferent: Both Jake and Grace have past traumas that make them guard themselves in order to prevent themselves from being hurt by others. Grace admits this to Jake when she finally confesses her feelings toward him. Also, they can both be [[UnstoppableRage utterly terrifying when provoked]], with Grace admitting that as much as she hides it, she has the same capacity to take a life in utter fury as Jake has.

* RealityEnsues:
** As Ramirez Arvenga points out when Rango has him at gunpoint, it's one thing to be ready to kill another being and another to afterwards deal with the resulting guilt.
** Benjamin Hares tries to use his still valid marriage to Grace to sell her property behind her back just like he did ten years ago. However, Melbourne from Mud's bank becomes suspicious of him, for Grace has never mentioned her estranged husband during her time as the bank's client, so he fetches her. When she arrives to confront Benjamin and states that her father left her property solely to her, Catridge the attorney tells them to sort their argument amongst themselves and find legal documents to prove their respective claims.
** After Jake brutally [[spoiler:kills the abovementioned Benjamin Hares]] in front of Grace and Teddy, Grace -- who was just beaten up by [[spoiler:her husband]] -- is so traumatized that [[HatesBeingTouched she doesn't want Jake or any other male to touch her]] or be in her house. It takes time, Beans telling her to pull herself together, and being needed to comfort Teddy and nurse the seriously injured Jake before Grace starts regaining her confidence.

Now with a [[Characters/OldWest Character Sheet]] that NeedsWikiMagicLove.

'''Beans''': Stole your—?\\

[[spoiler:'''Ramirez''']]: [[YouWouldntShootMe You won't do it! You don't have the stomach for—]] ''[[[BoomHeadshot gets the head shot]]]''\\

HypotheticalCasting

** "The Carpenter" Reth is a desert iguana who's known for leaving a little wooden figure for everything he steals. Jake regards him stupid for that.
** Every murder victim of "the Scarlet Kiss" Delilah Rangler gets a bright red lipstick-kiss on their cheeks.

* CloseToHome: Finding Grace [[DomesticAbuse abused by her husband]] causes Jake to [[TroubledBackstoryFlashback remember]] how his mother was in the same situation with his drunk of a father on the last night she was alive. He then attacks Benjamin Hares in utter fury before [[spoiler:giving him a painful death by injecting all his venom into him]].

* CompositeCharacter: Henry, the [[PsychoForHire violent kingsnake minion]] of Dufayel, is an {{Expy}} of Frank from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest''. He also has the [[YouKilledMyFather motive to avenge his brother]] that the character of [[spoiler:Harmonica]] had in the same movie.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Dufayel to Tortoise John. Tortoise John was [[MayorPain the mayor of Dirt's desert town]] who was good at hiding his villainous nature with charisma. His investor Dufayel is a [[ManOfWealthAndTaste wealthy inhabitant of cities]] who, despite [[FauxAffablyEvil his politeness]], never really hides his motivations or condescending nature in-story. They both intend to wipe out the town of Dirt (renamed as Mud) by claiming the land, but for different reasons; Tortoise John was a VisionaryVillain who wanted to create a modern city, but Dufayel's entire motivation is to [[spoiler:claim from underneath the town the gold he was promised and needs to avoid becoming broke]]. They also contrast each other in their relationships with Rango and Rattlesnake Jake. Mayor John turned Rango into his pawn by making him Dirt's sheriff and hired the services of Rattlesnake Jake, pitting them against each other until he tried to kill Jake. Dufayel in turn quickly makes himself an enemy to both Rango and Jake who work together against him right from the beginning.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: After rustles storm Grace's farm and steal half of her livestock, Rango believes them to be the same mercenaries whom he has Jake to keep away from Mud and adds to Jake's duties protection of Grace, Teddy and their home. While Grace thinks the sheriff has too many screws loose to not consider it to be a coincidence, Rango is right.

** Grace was head over heels in love with Benjamin Hares and practically rushed to the altar. One year later after their marriage, he suddenly left without a word, leaving Grace pregnant with his eggs, penniless and homeless. [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest Since then, she hasn't tried anything serious with another man]]. [[spoiler:After she laid her ten eggs, robbers smashed nine of them while trying to rob her, leading her to kill them in blind fury. [[FreudianExcuse That incident left her prejudiced against outlaws like Jake]].]]

* DealWithTheDevil: When Rango hires Jake, the rattlesnake says that the act is pretty much this trope.

* DemotedToExtra: Bad Bill, the most prominent henchman of Tortoise John (after Rattlesnake Jake) in the movie, appears in one single chapter to perform a failed gig for Dufayel.
* DestinationDefenestration: This is done to Henry when [[spoiler:Dufayel decides he's too much of a [[PsychoForHire loose cannon]]]], though he survives.

** Benjamin Hares proves himself to be this [[spoiler:before his death]].

** Two downplayed examples occur during the FinalBattle with [[spoiler:Kepper]] and [[spoiler:Dufayel]]; they're both shot fatally, and then they fall from a heigh.
** Subverted with [[spoiler:Henry]]; he's [[DestinationDefenestration thrown out of the window]] of [[spoiler:Dufayel's office]], but he survives.
* DodgeTheBullet: Jake does this when Johan Quall is firing at him with his two revolvers. It's a {{justified trope}} because Jake has memorized Quall's firing pattern in case of betrayal.

* EvilCounterpart: Benjamin Hares, Grace's estranged husband, is this for Rango. Both of them are cowardly, tend to get into trouble, and are quick to fall to bluffing. This fits their species because Rango is a chameleon while Benjamin is a gopher snake, a species that mimics rattlesnakes to ward off predators. However, the serpentine conman is much more selfish and honorless than the chameleon sheriff. The difference is demonstrated perfectly in the climax when [[spoiler:Rango [[TakingTheBullet takes the bullet]] aimed at the wife and son of the posthumous Hares who didn't really care about either of them]].

** The kingsnake Henry is another one to Jake. They're both big, short-tempered and dangerous snake cowboys for hire who show interest toward Grace. However, Henry is younger than Grace, and his scales are (at first) smooth and vivid with their black and white pattern. Jake in turn is older than Grace, more grizzled, and his scales are darker and rougher. Henry's interest toward Grace is just plain lecherous, while Jake comes to appreciate Grace for more than just her appearance. Their differences are foreshadowed with the way Grace feels their touches on her scales; Henry's touch feels too uncomfortable while Jake's touch feels quite right.
* ForcefulKiss: Kepper gives one to Delilah during their duel. [[spoiler:After he's killed, she [[BondOneLiner comments]] how unwise it was to kiss the Scalet Kiss.]]

* GetOut: Grace attempts to do this to Benjamin following his attempt to sell her out again. Unfortunately for her, she only manages to make him violent. After Jake [[spoiler:kills Benjamin]] for this, the battered and traumatized Grace is so hysterical that she throws Jake out.

* AGlassOfChianti: Dufayel enjoys glasses of brandy in his office. A lot, in fact.

* HandicappedBadass: When Jake was a child, he lost his rattle due to a hawk that almost caught him. Reth operated his [[GatlingGood gatling]] [[ArmCannon gun]] onto [[BewareMyStingerTail his tail]]. Grace finds it admirable for Jake to have overcome his loss.

* HeroicFireRescue: When the Convenient Store of Mud is set ablaze by the Hellhounds, the store owner's wife and baby are trapped inside. With her maternal instincts setting in, Grace rushes inside and saves them. This act of bravery results in most of Mud's residents to become less hostile toward her and Jake's esteem for her to grow.

* HostageSituation: One occurs in the penultimate chapter when [[spoiler:Dufayel -- whose henchmen have all been defeated -- forces Teddy against an edge of a pit with his gun. His demand is to be allowed to leave. Jake makes the fox focused on him while subtly instructing Teddy who suddenly bites the fox in the arm and escapes to his mother]].

** When Grace and Teddy first come to Mud and face distrust from most of the townsfolk, she's angry at them for [[FantasticRacism scorning them just for being snakes]] and having the audacity to consider themselves to be without sin. That being said, Grace herself is very prejudiced toward Jake and other outlaws. [[spoiler:Later she's revealed to have killed a group of outlaws in blind fury for smashing nearly all her unhatched eggs and covering it up. This makes Jake disgusted with her for acting like a law-abiding citizen who's above the outlaws like himself.]]

* IAmNotMyFather: The reason Jake's not a fan of drinking is his AlcoholicParent James who was also a domestic abuser. When he finds Grace beaten by her husband, his following UnstoppableRage inflicted on Benjamin is partly influenced by the memory of his parents and his father's words of Jake becoming a man like him. In the following chapter, Jake continues acting on this trope by ultimately deciding ''not'' to [[DrowningMySorrows drink in order to cope with his strained relationship with Grace]].

* InterspeciesRomance: Jake (rattlesnake) and Grace (glossy snake) in the same way as Rango (chameleon) and Beans (desert iguana); they're the same type of reptiles, but quite different species. Grace also used to have this with Benjamin Hares (gopher snake).

* IOwnThisTown: When he first appears, Dufayel says that since he was Tortoise John's business partner, all the business assets of the late Mayor now belong to him, including Mud. Angelique confirms this later, and even later, a lawyer arrives on Dufayel's behalf. In response, Rango challenges the issue to be dealt in court.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jake proves himself to be this over time.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Ten years earlier, Grace's estranged husband Benjamin Hares left his pregnant wife high and dry to escape the debts he hoarded as a conman. He then appears out of nowhere, acting like he's concerned about Grace and Teddy and wants a chance to make everything up. He then attempts to sell Grace's lands, claiming it to be for their own good. He loses all credibility and proves himself to be worse than just a liar and a coward by starting to [[NeverMyFault guilt-trip Grace again for his own undoings]] and reveals his darker side by unashamedly assaulting her.

* KissOfDeath: Delilah Rangler has earned her nickname -- "the Scarlet Kiss" -- from her habit of leaving a red kiss on her every murder victim. [[spoiler:Kepper gives her a {{forceful kiss}} during their duel. After she kills him, she gives a BondOneLiner about this trope.]]

* MakeUpIsEvil: Delilah Rangler, the third highest in the pecking order of the Gunslinger Court, wears bright red lipstick and uses it to leave a red kiss on the cheek of her every murder victim, earning her nickname "the Scarlet Kiss".
* MamaBear: Grace won't let anyone harm Teddy. The only reason she accepts Rango's request to accept Jake's protection is the possibility that her son might become a target. When Bad Bill's gang beats up Teddy, she reacts [[UnstoppableRage very violently]] and beats them all by herself. [[spoiler:Her backstory plays this to a traumatic extent: robbers killed nine of her ten unhatched children and she killed them all in response.]]

** When Delilah first comes to Grace's property and Beans points her gun at her, the bobcat whips out her revolver and points it at Beans until Jake arrives.
** In his first appearance, Irvin Worst places his ax against Dufayel's throat, but Dufayel is unconcerned because he has placed his revolver against the lizard's gut. Before the stalemate can get messy, the fox starts talking business, prompting Worst to back off.

** Dufayel blames his [[spoiler:imminent bankruptcy]] and his harassment of the heroes on Tortoise John who asked the fox to invest the mayor's EvilPlan in exchange for [[spoiler:the big gold deposit]].

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Had Tomson not told Rango vaguely that he's looking for a snake and caused him to locate and hire Rattlesnake Jake, Dufayel would have had less obstacles in claiming the land.

* NoTrueScotsman: Jake hasn't allowed Ramirez Arvenga to join the Gunslinger Court because he thinks that like the Jenkins Brothers, the coyote [[MilesGloriosus hasn't the credibility]] to be a true outlaw.

** Angelique becomes spitless scared the moment she's informed that her uncle Dufayel is the one behind everything.
** Benjamin Hares realizes how up the creek he is when Jake attacks him in murderous rage for hitting Grace.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Jake accepts Rango's request to protect Mud only because he's been lately between jobs and is offered the belongings of Tortoise John as the reward.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Jake avenges Grace's battering by murdering [[spoiler:Benjamin Hares]].
* PetTheDog: When Jake discovers that Teddy has an impairment in visual perception that causes him to stumble, he feels familiarity despite himself and teaches the boy to use the scents gained from his environment with his tongue in order to navigate.
* PleaseIWillDoAnything: [[spoiler:When both Grace and Teddy are caught by Dufayel in the climax, she resorts to groveling to guarantee her son's safety, promising Dufayel her farm he's been trying to claim. Unfortunately, [[VillainousBreakdown Dufayel is at this point past bargaining]].]]

** Jake gives one to [[spoiler:Benjamin Hares]] before injecting venom into him.

** In the climax, Jake does this again to [[spoiler:Dufayel]] whom he fills with bullets.

** After Jake brutally [[spoiler:kills Benjamin Hares]] in front of Grace and Teddy, Grace -- who was just beaten up by [[spoiler:her husband]] -- is so traumatized that [[HatesBeingTouched she doesn't want Jake or any other male to touch her]] or be in her house. It takes time, Beans telling her to pull herself together, and being needed to comfort Teddy and nurse the seriously injured Jake before Grace starts regaining her confidence.

** After Bad Bill and his gang fail to fulfill the assignment given to them by Dufayel and end up being battered badly by Grace and then Jake, they disappear. It's stated by the author that [[KnowWhenToFoldEm as soon as they were healed, they decided this all to be way over their heads and skipped town]].

** After Grace witnesses Jake remorselessly killing [[spoiler:Benjamin]] in righteous fury, she's terrified of a small part of her relishing in it and her own hidden capacity for doing the same [[spoiler:(which the deceased robbers who killed nearly all of her babies can attest to)]].

** Like with Rango, the vices of Benjamin Hares include pretentiousness and cowardness. Rango was exposed as a fraud but returned to save Dirt as a true hero, and even though he hasn't fully lost his vices, he attempts to do the right thing as a sheriff. Benjamin in turn is an incorrigible conman who cares firstly about himself and his own safety. He charmed Grace to marry him and left her penniless to escape his debts, returning ten years later with false regrets to sell her out again and get his debts covered. In short, Benjamin is what Rango could have become if he didn't care about the well-being of others and had never decided to redeem himself by saving the people of Dirt and instead continued his life as a fraudster on the move. In the climax, Rango does something Benjamin wouldn't have likely done: [[spoiler:[[TakingTheBullet jumping in front of the bullet]] aimed at Grace and Teddy]].

* ShootTheDangerousMinion: [[spoiler:Dufayel decides eventually that Henry is [[PsychoForHire too volatile]] to be kept around and injures the kingsnake with help from Ramirez, sending Henry [[DestinationDefenestration down a window]] several storeys. While they believe the kingsnake to have died, Henry survives and flees to have his revenge another day.]]

* TheSociopath: Benjamin Hares is a short-sighted conman prone to blameshifting and running away from his own troubles. He charmed Grace to marry him against the wishes of her father, then betrayed her by abandoning her without leaving her anything. He returns ten years later just to sell her home in order to save his own hide again. When his flattery, guilt-tripping and feigned concern have failed him, he resorts to beating up his wife without any signs of remorse.

* TeethFlying: This happens to Benjamin when Jake [[UseYourHead bumps his head into his]] while beating the gopher up.

** When Grace reaches Dufayel's hideout [[spoiler:to rescue her son]], she suspects the fox's goons are waiting to ambush her... and she's proven right moments later.

* UnscrupulousHero: Jake is his old [[BloodKnight ruthless]] self from the movie. He doesn't like his contract with Rango, accepting it only because he's been lately between jobs. He also makes it clear that he should just be allowed to do what he's been hired for: getting rid of the offenders. However, [[IGaveMyWord he does honor his contract]] and has enough PetTheDog moments to keep him from being a NominalHero.

** Grace reacts this way when she finds her son being beaten up by Bad Bill's gang. If Teddy had not called out for her, she might have killed them. In fact, [[spoiler:Grace killed years ago the robbers who killed nine for her ten unhatched babies, realizing the bloody deed only afterwards]].
** This is Jake's reaction to seeing Grace battered by Benjamin. [[spoiler:He ends up killing Benjamin.]]

* VisionaryVillain: Dufayel claims himself to be following the same path as the late Tortoise John in modernizing the West, only with [[spoiler:gold]] instead of water. [[spoiler:He's actually trying to avoid becoming broke for investing Tortoise John's plans with his entire fortune.]]
* WatchingTroyBurn: [[spoiler:Beans loses her home to the Hellhounds' arsons in the 31st chapter, and nothing can be done to stop it.]]

* WhamLine: Chapter 20 ends with Dufayel telling that Mon Hellsing has to hunt down and bring him alive [[spoiler:Benjamin Hares]].

** When Dufayel hires Bad Bill's gang to intimidate Grace to sell her lands, they run into Teddy and start beating him up. Unfortunately for them, the act makes [[MamaBear Grace]] royally ticked off to the point that [[CurbStompBattle she doesn't need Jake's help to beat them up]].

* YoureNotMyFather: Teddy outright tells this to Benjamin when the {{disappeared dad}} first shows up in the boy's life.

* YouWouldntShootMe: When Rango holds Ramirez at gunpoint in the 20th chapter, the coyote questions if the sheriff can live with having killed him. Rango sees the point, but doesn't retreat. [[spoiler:Rango eventually shoots Ramirez in the climax [[KilledMidSentence while the coyote is using]] this trope again.]]

** Amos, the previous sheriff of Dirt, was killed by Jake injecting venom into him and allowing it to kill him slowly. It's hard to feel sympathy for Amos because he openly showed contempt toward Jake's abused mother and killed her while she was dying due to one of her husband's domestic beatings.

** [[spoiler:Benjamin Hares]] is killed by Jake the same way he killed Amos after [[spoiler:Benjamin lied to Grace, tried to sell her lands behind her back and battered her when she tried to throw him out]].
** A third posthumous example: the first creature Jake killed (with venom like the previous examples) was [[spoiler:a human who enjoyed skinning and toying with rattlesnakes caught for the rattlesnake round-up Jake ended up in as a child]].

* DomesticAbuser:

* IAmNotMyFather: The reason Jake's not a fan of drinking is his AlcoholicParent James who was also a {{domestic abuser}}. When he finds Grace beaten by her husband, his following UnstoppableRage inflicted on Benjamin is partly influenced by the memory of his parents and his father's words of Jake becoming a man like him. In the following chapter, Jake continues acting on this trope by ultimately deciding ''not'' to [[DrowningMySorrows drink in order to cope with his strained relationship with Grace]].

* DesecratingTheDead: A hero on villain example. [[spoiler:After Jake kills Benjamin Hares for [[DomesticAbuse assaulting Grace]] and the townsfolk learn of this, they dispose of Hares' corpse in the desert as food for buzzards.]]

* DisappearedDad: Teddy has never met his father because Benjamin left Grace on her own before Teddy was even born.

* EvilCounterpart: Benjamin Hares, Grace's estranged husband, is this for Rango. Both of them are cowardly, tend to get into trouble, and are quick to fall to bluffing. However, the serpentine conman is much more selfish and honorless than the chameleon sheriff. The difference's demonstrated perfectly in the climax when [[spoiler:Rango [[TakingTheBullet takes the bullet]] aimed at the wife and son of the posthumous Hares who didn't really care about either of them]].

---> "Teddy watched as Jake beat the life out of [[spoiler:his father]]. Jake didn't care that I saw the killer in him set to work. No matter the fact I'm glad the piece of shit is dead, he murdered someone right in front of me and my son. He showed us how easy it was. How good it felt... He showed me what I could easily become..."
---> An uneven silence fell over the room. Of course, Beans knew nothing of the darker aspects of Grace's life, and so the whispered comment was more for Grace's own benefit. The confession made her feel lighter somehow, to speak the realised words and know they were true. The bulk of the reason she now kept Jake out. ''He'' didn't terrify her. ''She'' terrified ''herself''. She'd seen him murder someone with absolute conviction and sense of righteousness. Hell, a small coherent part of her had even relished it... and that had frightened her.

* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: When Jake finds Grace beaten by Benjamin Hares, he's absolutely incensed because of what was done to Grace and how it reminds him of how his mother suffered because of his father. He proceeds to give Benjamin a bloody battering, which includes [[TeethFlying a loosened tooth]] from a [[UseYourHead headbutt]] and no use of bullets because Jake's ''that'' angry. It ends with [[spoiler:Jake injecting into Benjamin all the venom his fangs can provide, ''much'' more than would have been needed]].

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11491153/1/Old-West Old West]]''' is a ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' fanfiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4774853/DONOVAN94 DONOVAN94]].

** Henry is based on Frank from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest''.

* YouKilledMyFather: A villainous example; Henry's brother was killed by Jake and Henry wants to kill Jake for that.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11491153/1/Old-West Old West]] is a ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' fanfiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4774853/DONOVAN94 DONOVAN94]].

--> "Yer damned lucky the Sheriff's so soft. What's the matter, boy? Yer shakin' a little. How's it feel to be so helpless? In the face of death, it don't matter whether yer rich or poor, we all die in the end. Don't you ever forget that, 'cause one day I'm gonna be the one who comes callin' to claim yer soul. Now look into my eyes... I want you to remember them for the rest of yer life. 'Cause next time you see them ''this'' close, it'll be {{the last thing you ever see}}."

-->'''Delilah''': Should've listened to the stories, [[spoiler:Kepper]]. No one survives a scarlet kiss.

-->'''Delilah''': Surprised you don't know me, honey... and here I thought I was quite infamous. Well, I was until this new Sheriff stole my thunder.
-->'''Beans''': Stole your—?
-->'''Delilah''': Don't worry, sweet-eyes, it went over your head.

* IronicEcho: The PreAsskickingOneLiner Grace gives to Bad Bill's gang is similar to what Jake said to Tomson's mercenaries in the beginning of the story.
--> Chapter 2:
-->'''Tomson''': You're outnumbered Sheriff, and you're outgunned. We ain't afraid of you no more.
-->'''Jake''': It ain't him ya gotta worry about...
--> Chapter 18:
-->'''One of Bad Bill's cohorts''': [[OhCrap The Grim Reaper...]]
-->'''Grace''': It's not him you should be afraid of...

-->'''Rango''': For your own sake, I'm asking you to leave us be.
-->'''Dufayel''': Is that a threat, ''Monsieur'' Rango?
-->'''Rango''': You don't wanna corner a wild animal.
-->'''Dufayel''': And you had best not attempt to outfox a fox. It goes badly for you in your cause.

--> "Ya boys was real stupid in thinkin' you could claim hell without payin' the devil his due. I don't like sloppy work... and you boys just made one hell've'a mess."

-->'''One of the thugs''': [[OhCrap The Grim Reaper...]]
-->'''Grace''': It's not him you should be afraid of...

--> "''Burn'', asshole."

--> "My turn."

--> "Teddy watched as Jake beat the life out of [[spoiler:his father]]. Jake didn't care that I saw the killer in him set to work. No matter the fact I'm glad the piece of shit is dead, he murdered someone right in front of me and my son. He showed us how easy it was. How good it felt... He showed me what I could easily become..."
--> An uneven silence fell over the room. Of course, Beans knew nothing of the darker aspects of Grace's life, and so the whispered comment was more for Grace's own benefit. The confession made her feel lighter somehow, to speak the realised words and know they were true. The bulk of the reason she now kept Jake out. ''He'' didn't terrify her. ''She'' terrified ''herself''. She'd seen him murder someone with absolute conviction and sense of righteousness. Hell, a small coherent part of her had even relished it... and that had frightened her.

-->'''Dufayel''': ''Assez''! I will no longer be patient. ''C'est la guerre'' -- It is war!

-->'''Jake''': [[ShoutOut Them boys are gonna have to think of the]] ''[[Film/TrueGrit wrath]]'' [[Film/TrueGrit that's about to set down on 'em...]]

--> The coldness of death had come over Jake, the unfeeling pit he delved into when a kill such as this overcame him. It was why he was named the Grimm Reaper, it was why he was the devil incarnate of earth. It robbed him of morality, of mercy, it was the ultimate point of no return for him. It was the place that could not be surfaced from until the addiction for blood and violence and death was sated. Years of anger, days of frustration, endless torment and a lifetime of loathing all focused into his entire being, the point of the sword that drove him to it.

-->'''Teddy''': I want what's good for my momma and me.
-->'''Benjamin''': So do I.
-->'''Teddy''': No. You don't. That's why I'm not your son. Momma always said I was a gift from God. I'm gonna believe that instead.