History Film / Tombstone

* GraveHumor: Seen in Boot Hill. "Here lies Lester Moore, took four slugs from a .44. No [[IncrediblyLamePun Les]], no more." In fact, this is a real gravestone at the cemetery.

** Johnny Tyler, who despite talking a big game doesn't have the guts to draw on Wyatt to his face, even though Wyatt is ''unarmed''. Instead, Tyler tries to sneak up on Wyatt with a shotgun and shoot him unaware. That doesn't work either; when he [[OhCrap realizes that he's up against the three Earp brothers ''and'' Doc Holliday,]] he drops his scattergun and scurries away, ''thanking them'' for the chance to do so.

** The Cowboys in general are portrayed as an organized gang of vicious killers who are tearing the town apart and ruthlessly persecuting the heroic Earp family. In reality, the Cowboys were a loose association of cattle rustlers who primarily stole cattle in Mexico (then moved their activities stateside once the Mexican government began cracking down on them). They had a lot of local support and helped consolidate local resistance against northern industrialists, with whom the Earps allied themselves. Their feud with the Earps, however, ''was'' quite bloody and the Cowboys weren't above murdering the Earps and their supporters after the OK Corral gunfight.
*** Oddly enough, the film does portray a public and politically charged funeral for the victims of the OK Corral shootout, which conflicts with the rest of the film's characterization of the cowboys as HatedByAll. This somewhat accurately reflects the fact that the citizens of Tombstone were very divided over what happened in the gunfight due to politics, with the Earps being condemned by Democratic-leaning farmers, cowboys and ranchers and the ''Tombstone Daily Nugget'' as murderers, while the Republican-leaning businessmen, miners, and the ''Tombstone Epitaph'' praising the Earps as heroes.

* TheDragon [=/=] DragonAscendant: Johnny Ringo to Curly Bill Brocius. After the latter's death he takes up command of the Cowboys.

* TheDreaded: '''Nobody''' wants to dance with Doc Holliday. Ed Bailey only tries for it when Doc puts his guns on the table, and he gets a knife to the gut for that assumption. Johnny Tyler [[OhCrap immediately surrenders]] the moment he realizes who he's dealing with rather than risk a gunfight with Doc Holliday, despite the fact that Doc doesn't have his gun at the ready and Johnny ''already has his shotgun out and aimed at Doc.'' One of the Cowboys at the OK Corral only does it when he thinks Doc's out of ammo (only for one revolver, by the way) and he himself is already fatally wounded. Even [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Johnny Ringo]]]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness totally]] [[OhCrap freaks out]] when he realizes that Doc's come for him.

* BondOneLiner: After Doc has killed Johnny Ringo, we get this exchange:
-->"It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear."

* ShoutOut: The excerpt from ''Theatre/HenryV'' that is recited by Mr. Fabian is the same passage that Dutton Peabody speaks to himself while walking down the street in ''Film/TheManWhoShotLibertyValance''.

-->''Ringo'': ''(to the Earps)'' Don't any of you have the guts to play for blood?\\
''Holliday'': ''(holding a gun behind his back)'' I'm your huckleberry.[[note]]Historically, this meant "the right man for the job".[[/note]]

** Johnny Ringo. And then memorably parodied by Doc Holliday with a tin cup in place of a gun.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: John Henry Holliday is only ever referred to by his nickname 'Doc'.