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A subset of the {{Outlaw}} in TheWildWest with a Mexican flavor. Most often found in stories set in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} Mexico]] or near the border in UsefulNotes/NewMexico or UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}.

Stereotypically, the bandito has a thick Mexican accent, wears a sombrero and poncho or serape, and in later time periods a [[BadassBandolier bandolier of ammunition]]. A [[MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico thick mustache]] is common, but not mandatory. Many Banditos are designed after the real-life Bandito and Revolutionary general Pancho Villa.

A subset of the {{Outlaw}} with a Mexican flavor. Most often found in stories set in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} Mexico]] or near the border in UsefulNotes/NewMexico or UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}.

A subset of the {{Outlaw}} with a Mexican flavor. Most often found in stories set in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} Mexico]] or near the border.

* Because Mexicans were OnceAcceptableTargets, Frito-Lay had the Frito Bandito as a commercial mascot at one point.

* ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' features a number of these, most notably Juan Miguel (or "John McGill," as he is called) who rides with Glanton's men and also the gang that The Kid and Sproule encounter following the battle with the Comanches.

* ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' features a number of these, most notably the gang that The Kid and Sproule encounter following the battle with the Comanches.

As with the outlaw, the bandito often overlaps with TheGunslinger and {{Cowboy}} roles, with the latter being called vaqueros. A bandito might also use a knife or [[ImprobableWeaponUser lariat]] and is often TriggerHappy.

* El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté) of ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'' takes the worst traits of the bandito UpToEleven. A drug-addicted LargeHam who stalks women, murders families, rigs duels, and takes trophies from his victims, he spends most of the film in an opium-induced haze, while plotting to use [[AntiHero Monco]] and [[BestServedCold Colonel Mortimer]] to do his dirty work, wiping out his gang and leaving all the money from his robberies for him. In a departure from some of the stereotypes of the time, he was easily as smart, or smarter, then the film's protagonists.

* Multiple times in ''ComicBook/BatLash'', Bat crosses paths with the flamboyant and comical Mexican bandit Sergio (an AuthorAvatar of series writer Creator/SergioAragones). And every time they meet, Sergio somehow manages to make Bat's complicated life even more complicated.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

* A group of them serve as secondary antagonists in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' would give us our page quote, if we needed one.
* ''Film/ThreeAmigos'', as a parody of ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'' has an Expy of Calvera as its main antagonist.
* In the Disney film ''Film/TheAppleDumplingGang'', there was a single bandito among the otherwise homogenous-white bad guys.
* Calvera and his band of outlaws in ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960''.
* The bandits in ''Film/{{Django}}''.

* Cheyenne in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' is a particularly sympathetic example.

* His two {{Expies}}, Cacopoulos of ''Film/AceHigh'' and Max Lozoya of ''Don't Turn the Other Cheek'', are cheekier, slightly smarter and more good-natured variations on the character.
* Juan Miranda and his band of outlaws from Leone's ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite'' are also worth a mention.
* El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté) of ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'' takes the worst traits of the bandito UpToEleven. A drug-addicted LargeHam who stalks women, murders families, rigs duels, and takes trophies from his victims, he spends most of the film in an opium-induced haze, while plotting to use [[AntiHero Monco]] and [[BestServedCold Colonel Mortimer]] to do his dirty work, wiping out his gang and leaving all the money from his robberies for him. In a departure from some of the stereotypes of the time, he was easily as smart, or smarter, then the film's protagonists.
* The [[SiblingsInCrime Rojo brothers]] of ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' are banditos-turned-bootleggers, who sell alcohol on both sides of the border, and have an ugly rivalry with the Baxters, a family of white-collar American gunrunners. While two of the brothers are absolutely stereotypical, Ramon (also Gian Maria Valonte) subverts it somewhat by being totally evil, but [[EvilGenius very bright]].
* Volonte's character Chuncho in ''Film/ABulletForTheGeneral'' is a sort of LovableRogue type, who again redefined the archetype as a complex, sympathetic figure.
* ''Film/TheWildBunch'' has examples of both. On the villain side, we have Mapache, the primary villain and his army of bandits. On the (anti-)heroic side, we have Angel, one of the Bunch.
* Revolutionary banditos make up one of the bad guy groups in the movie ''Film/TheProfessionals''.
* Tomas Milian played this type (usually the sympathetic version) in a lot of spaghettis.

* At the start of ''Film/TheWarWagon'', Levi Walking Bear is riding with a bandito gang on the border. When Taw and Lomax arrive to recruit, they discover they have to rescue him from the banditos.
* One of the most absurd casting decisions of all time has Creator/HumphreyBogart playing a Mexican bandito in ''Film/VirginiaCity'', complete with pencil mustache and terrible accent.
* The main antagonists of ''Film/{{Blindman}}'' are a group of Mexican bandits who are plotting to assassinate a general.
* In ''Film/GoWestYoungLady'', Killer Pete dresses and talks like a bandito, but he is actually an Anglo in disguise.

* ''Film/DayOfTheEvilGun'': The FauxAffablyEvil Jose Luis Gomez de la Tierra y Cordoba [=DeLeon=] leads a bandito gang who deal with the Apaches, including buying slaves of them.
* A rather pathetic bandito gang--who have only two horse and two guns between the five of them--attempt to ambush Sam and Wally on their way out of Mexico in ''Film/{{Draw}}''.

* A gang of these turns up in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''The War Games''.

* Subject of a gag in an episode of ''Series/TheWildWildWest'', wherein the FastestGunInTheWest, "Lighnin' [=McCoy=]", is eventually revealed to be one of these.
* ''Series/FrontierCircus'': Ben and a group of stagecoach passengers are captured by a gang of banditos in "Naomi Champagne".

[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* One of the most memorable Swedish Chef sketches on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' involves the Chef about to make a lobster, before hearing a cavalry charge and his kitchen is invaded by Spanish-speaking lobster banditos.
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* Renegados, Pistoleros and Comancheros appear as mercenaries and treasure guardians in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII''.
* [[BigBad Juarez's]] gang (including himself) in ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' and ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood''.
* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndHisDesktopAdventures'' has these as human enemies (other than Nazis). Some of them are the typical sombrero-wearin', ammo bandolier-toting moustached guys, while others go without hats.
* ''VideoGame/{{Desperados}}'' features a lots of banditos as mooks. The playable character Sanchez (who begins the game as the designated antagonist) is himself a stereotypical one.
* In ''Videogame/EighteenSixtySixAMountAndBladeWestern'', there are several factions of them (the minor scalphunters faction, as well as a random number of the bandit armies, refered as "X Banda"), and any party deserter party counting an important number of soldiers from the Mexico faction (or from the Bandas) fits this trope. Peyote Pablo is a hirable stoned bandito. Also, the mod allows to hire prisoners and to choose which type of soldiers (American army, American lawmen, American outlaws, Mexican army, Mexican outlaws, Comanche, Apache) can be recruited in the settlements owned by the player. This and the possibility to play as a outlaw allows a player to lead a full bandito party.

* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'': Duckula, Igor and Nanny encounter some banditos on arriving...[[{{Spexico}} in Spain]]! Other than that, they fit the trope complete with sombreros, firearms and even with a BadassBandolier.

As with the outlaw, the bandito often overlaps with TheGunslinger and {{Cowboy}} roles, with the latter being called vaqueros. A bandito might also be a KnifeNut or [[ImprobableWeaponUser lariat expert]] and often TriggerHappy.