History Film / Tombstone

** Wyatt finishes off his confrontation with Johnny Tyler:
--> '''Wyatt''': You gonna do somethin', or just stand there and bleed?

-->'''Cowboy''': (pointing a gun at Holliday) I got you now, you sonofabitch!\\

-->''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]]

** The ending text notes that Virgil Earp became a sheriff despite only being able to use one arm.

* RatedMForManly: Russel, Kilmer, Elliot, and so on...each with a [[ManlyFacialHair moustache]] and skill with a gun. So much macho it ''hurts''.

--->'''Johnny Behan:''' ''(to the Earps who are {{Power Walk}}ing to the OK Corral)'' Gentlemen, [[BlatantLies I'm not going to allow any trouble]]! ''([[BoisterousWeakling Immediately runs off to hide inside the nearest building]])''

* PowerWalk: The Earps with Holliday walking towards the OK Corral. They did make that walk in RealLife. It's so awesome that this movie replays the PowerWalk during the end credits.

* ThrowItIn: According to the director, all of Creator/BillyBobThornton's lines were ad-libbed, as he was told to just sound like a bully.

* MemeticBadass: Doc Holiday. From his incredible skills, unique personality and laundry list of awesome lines (not to mention Val Kilmer's incredible performance), the internet and the movie made him this pretty quickly.

* BottomlessMagazines: The gunfight at the OK Corral is really guilty of this. Notably, Doc somehow manages to fire a dozen rounds each from both of his six shooters. Some of it is admittedly due to editing; Doc blasting Tom McLaury with a shotgun (after firing a round into the air to scare his horse) is likely the same moment from two different angles, but in context it looks like Doc somehow manages to fire three rounds from a double-barreled weapon.

The film is [[TruthInTelevision somewhat accurate]], although it does portray an idealized version of the Earps while also making the whole story a lot more dramatic. In reality, [[GreyAndGrayMorality the conflict between the Earps and the Cowboys is not entirely clear-cut]]; the Earps are generally regarded as the "good guys" only because they happened to be the ones wearing badges at the time.

* StockFootage[=/=]SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: A cowboy near the beginning of the film shoots at the camera/audience. The footage is straight from ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery''; the actor is Justus D. Barnes.

* SissyVillain: Deputy Billy Breakenridge is on the take from the Cowboys (which was true) and is also portrayed as an effeminate weakling (which was almost certainly not true - he had a reputation as a skilled gunslinger).

* AmbiguouslyGay: Cochise County Sheriff's Deputy Billy Breakenridge, who seems to have a crush on the actor. Based on Earp's recollections, this might be true, though this is unreliable given the mutual hatred between Breakenridge and Earp. "Curly Bill" Brocious has a few possible hints as well, though would be an invention.

* TheCameo: Charlton Heston appears briefly as Henry Hooker, the rancher who takes in a sick Doc Holliday.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Cochise County Sheriff's Deputy Billy Breckinridge, who seems to have a crush on the actor. Based on Earp's recollections, this might be true, though this is unreliable given the mutual hatred between Breckinridge and Earp. "Curly Bill" Brocious has a few possible hints as well, though would be an invention.

* SissyVillain: Deputy Billy Breakenridge is on the take from the Cowboys (which was true) and is also portrayed as an effeminate weakling (which probably was not true).

* AdaptationalWimp: Deputy Billy Breakenridge is portrayed as an effeminate and cowardly weakling. Since Breckinridge's portrayal is based on Wyatt Earp's account, this is almost certainly untrue given the history of mutual slander between Breakenridge and Earp. In reality, Breakenridge had a reputation as a skilled and widely feared gunfighter.

* AdaptationalWimp: Deputy Billy Breckinridge is portrayed as an effeminate and cowardly weakling. Since Breckinridge's portrayal is based on Wyatt Earp's account, this is probably unreliable and untrue given the history of mutual slander between Breckinridge and Earp.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Cochise County Sheriff's Deputy Billy Breckinridge, who seems to have a crush on the actor. Based on Earp's recollections, this might be true. "Curly Bill" Brocious has a few possible hints as well, though would be an invention.

* ImmuneToBullets: Wyatt Earp. With all the gunfights he ends up being in, he walks away from ''each one'' without so much as a flesh wound, while all the other heroes, Doc included, get hit at least once. This is remarked on as borderline miraculous after the fight at the Iron Springs waterhole where he walked out of cover into the middle of a crossfire and picked off the Cowboys one by one with bullets flying past the whole time. Massively TruthInTelevision because [[AluminumChristmasTrees in the shootouts at the O.K. Corral and at Iron Springs, Wyatt]] ''[[AluminumChristmasTrees did]]'' [[AluminumChristmasTrees walk away from them without a scratch.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards / TokenGoodTeammate: Sherman [=McMasters=]--drops his red sash in front of Wyatt and fall in with the Earp brothers after someone fires a gun into the Earp household, nearly killing the brothers' wives; [=McMasters=] flatly states that attacking defenseless women was something he simply couldn't stomach. (This is foreshadowed during the implied rape scene at the Mexican wedding in the introduction.) He even joins Earp in his vendetta against the Cowboys.
** Though he laughs about it immediately afterwards, Curly Bill is visibly shocked when Johnny Ringo shoots the Mexican priest at the beginning. He also repeatedly tells Ringo to cool down and--[[MirrorCharacter parallel with Earp]]--tries to maintain what passes for peace in the town. In addition, Curly Bill's shooting of marshal Fred White is a [[AccidentalMurder complete accident]] while high off his ass on opium, and can be heard begging "C'mon, Fred, get up!" in a horrified tone of voice.
-->'''Curly Bill:''' I tell you boys, even I'm worried about what's gonna happen once [[AxCrazy Ringo]] runs this outfit, God have ''mercy!''

* BoisterousWeakling: Many of the Cowboys are fond of making violent threats but few of them have the stones to back it up. Ike Clanton, Johnny Tyler, Johnny Behan...take your pick.

Wiki/TheOtherWiki has articles of interest [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral here]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earp_Vendetta_Ride here]] if you want to see the differences between RealLife and film. IMDB has a fairly complete compilation of differences [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108358/faq#.2.1.17 here]]

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday, as was TruthInTelevision: John Peters Ringo and Doctor (of dentistry) John Holliday, respectively.

-->'''Doc Holliday:''' (''pulls out another pistol and [[GunTwirling spins them both]] [[UpToEleven in opposite directions while still holding his drinking cup]]'') I have two guns, one for each of you.

** Ike Clanton was not a full fledged Cowboy, but just a rancher who had a close friendship with them and bought their stolen cattle.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the beginning, the Mexican priest condemns the Cowboys in Spanish until Ringo shoots him. Curly Bill asks Florentino what he said, and Florentino says a "sick horse" will get them. Ringo corrects him, saying that the priest was quoting the Bible, referring to the "pale horse" ridden by Death. [[spoiler:Of course, "pale" and "sick" can both refer to Doc Holliday, who kills Ringo.]]