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* ''WetsernAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' cartoon "Hare Trigger" has Yosemite Sam (in his debut) challenging Bugs to draw a gun in one second. Bugs does--on a sketch pad. In his western adventures, Sam has a penchant for saying how quick he is on the trigger.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'''s Nuka-World add-on features a Wild West-styled theme park zone, complete with a nigh-invulnerable robot challenging the player to a stereotypical gunslinger duel. Beating him leads to the player being referred to as this trope verbatim.
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger'':
--> '''Steve''': Who was George Curry?
--> '''Silas''': Fastest gun in the Hole-In-The-Wall Gang. Except Butch and Sundance, o' course. And Kid Curry... and maybe Elzy Lay...
* In ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder'', Billy the Kid's Noble Phantasm isn't his weapon (which aside from it belonging to a Heroic Spirit is just a Colt [=M1877=]) so much as it is the conceptualization of him always being the one to shoot first.
* In ''Videogame/LiveALive'', [[TheExpyWithNoName The Sundown Kid's]] backstory was that he was a legendary gunslinger whose skill led to many people challenging him. Eventually this ended up leading to his hometown being ruined and him deciding to wander the West, setting a bounty on himself in hopes of finding someone capable of killing him.

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* A variation appears in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': In the "Maxim buys a hat"-arc, Maxim manages to [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable Defeat The Undefeatable]] and make off with [[TheDreaded Old Man Death's]] hat. Fast forward a few books, and it turns out the list of Jägers trying to take the hat off Maxim has over three hundred names on it.

* Two examples from Creator/HannaBarbera:
** ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'' is billed as the fastest gun in the west. That he is, but he just doesn't know where to aim it.
** ''WesternAnimation/HuckleberryHound'' appeared in a cartoon where he's the fastest gun. Trouble is, nobody will socialize with him from intimidation. When Huck bests an outlaw aiming for the title of fastest gun, he offers to surrender his title and guns and give it to the outlaw.
** A third (though [[ComicBook/LuckyLuke not invented by them]]) with ''WesternAnimation/{{Lucky Luke|1983}}'' (at least in 1983-1984), who shoots faster than his own shadow.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' cartoon "Hare Trigger" has Yosemite Sam (in his debut) challenging Bugs to draw a gun in one second. Bugs does--on a sketch pad. In his western adventures, Sam has a penchant for saying how quick he is on the trigger.

* Vash the Stampede from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''. He is able to fire three shots so fast, that they sound like just one.
* A ''football'' example is featured in ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}''. The best quarterback in Kanto is Musyanokoji Shien, otherwise known as "The Quick-Draw Kid", due to having the quickest passing ability among all the players. His team's name is "The Wild Gunmans" and they, of course, have a cowboy theme. Kid himself has the typical attitude of a heroic gunslinger; calm, wise, and non confrontational. The series later explains his speed and accuracy is due to being a former competitive pistol shooter.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeRiders'', an {{Elseworld}} with Western versions of the ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'', had, of course, [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wallace "Kid Flash" West]] as the fastest gun in the West.
* ComicBook/JonahHex has this reputation. Jonah himself allows that USMarshal J.D. Hart (an occasional ally of Jonah's) ''might'' be a fraction faster.

* ComicBook/TexWiller is incredibly fast, to the point the only one who could beat him had a trick holster that allowed to shoot without drawing... And Tex, having been shot in the right arm, challenged him again and won with his off hand ''before going to be cured''.

* A ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' comic parodied this with a strip about the best ''ping-pong player'' in the West.
-->'''Veteran''': Well kid, ya beat me -- and now every punk packin' a paddle and tryin' to make a name for himself will come lookin' for ''you''! ...Welcome to Hell, kid.

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* Arguably subverted in the opening vignette of ''Film/TheBalladOfBusterScruggs'', in which [[spoiler:Buster is bested by a young man who challenges him]]
-->"I should have seen this coming. Can't be Top Dog forever."
* Ned Nederlander from ''Film/ThreeAmigos'' appears to be inhumanly fast in his movies. A disillusioned fan accuses him of using trick photography and challenges him to a duel to put it to the test. [[spoiler:Turns out Ned was the real thing all along.]] For bonus points, he did it with a gun much heavier than the one he was used to.

* In ''Film/SupportYourLocalGunfighter'', it's a man named "Swifty" Morgan.
* In ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007'', Ben Wade is noted as a startlingly fast draw. He even [[spoiler:beats out all six members of his gang at the end of the movie at the same time]].
* The title character from the movie ''Film/TheGunfighter''.
* The movie ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'' (the newer one) revolves around a fast draw competition to determine who is the fastest gun in the West. It is implied that this is John Herod's way of weeding out any potential threats to his power over the town, as the final rounds are always played to the death and he has never lost.
* In Creator/SergioLeone's SpaghettiWestern comedy ''Film/MyNameIsNobody'', the title character Nobody is the fastest gun in the West. He can fire three shots so that the bandits hear only one, and can draw and reholster his gun after letting go of a saddle on his shoulder before the saddle can slide. And he does this several times in a row, too, causing the bad guys' eyes to go popping out of their heads.
** Henry Fonda's character Jack Beauregard matches the trope better than Nobody. While nobody knows Nobody, everyone recognizes Beauregard, who is always having to deal with people who want to kill the fastest gun in the west,[[spoiler: even when having a shave]], and if Nobody is faster than you, you must be the fastest, right??!!

* In ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', Schultz tells Django that one day he'll be called "The Fastest Gun In The South".
* ''Film/DollarsTrilogy'': The Man With No Name. Slightly subverted in that, while he is undoubtedly quick, [[CombatPragmatist he will use mirrors, decoys and improvised body armor to his advantage]] to get the drop on his opponents.
* Marty [=McFly's=] skill at the arcade title "Wild Gunman" translates to [[IKnowMortalKombat actual gunfighting]] in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''.
* ''Franchise/{{RoboCop}}'' might be the fastest gun in Detroit TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, thanks to his predictive software and cybernetic reflexes. Your move, creep.
* Deconstructed in ''Film/{{Silverado}}'' when one of the protagonists faces off with a quick-drawer who pulls and shoots his gun so ridiculously fast — without even trying to aim — that [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy he misses every single shot]]. Meanwhile, our OlderAndWiser hero simply stays calm, loads his pistol as bullets zip around him, takes aim, and kills his opponent with [[OneHitKill one shot]].
* In ''Film/TheFastestGunAlive'', Vinnie Harold is obsessed with being the fastest gun alive and hunts down anyone rumoured to be faster than him and challenges them to gunfights. While hiding in Cross Creek,he hears that local storekeeper George Temple might be faster than him and becomes determined to force him into a gunfight. The trouble is [[spoiler:while his father taught him the quick draw art, George has never been in a gunfight or killed a man before.]]

* Jon Shannow, The Jerusalem Man, from Creator/DavidGemmell's ''Literature/StonesOfPower'' books. Note, however, that while incredibly fast, Shannow meets several men who are faster. When these men fight him, they die anyway -- they may be faster, but he's far more badass (and businesslike; one man rides up to him, tells Shannow his death has been ordered, and asks if he has anything to say. Shannow shoots him, then says no). It's also notable that Shannow has a way of drawing that whilst not strictly as fast as some of his enemies, is smooth, calm, unhurried ''and easy to overlook.'' He basically draws without his opponents noticing.
* Morgan Kane, from Louis Masterson's book series. To the point that when other famous (outlaw) gunslingers such as John Wesley Hardin or Johnny Ringo start trouble, the authorities send Kane after them, knowing the outlaws will not be able to resist the challenge.
%%* ''Film/{{Shane}}'', obviously.
* Dusty Fog from ''The Floating Outfit'' novels of Creator/JTEdson has this reputation. In reality, Doc Leroy is a hairsbreadth faster with a single gun versus Dusty's ambidextrous pair; but Dusty is the one whose name always gets mentioned. Mark Counter is a fraction slower than either and Waco a similar distance behind him; none of the four have ever been beaten

* In Rob Grant's solo ''Literature/RedDwarf'' novel, ''Backwards'', in addition to The Cat's example (see Live-Action TV below), Death in the western simulation is an ''extremely'' quick draw. While talking, he draws, fires, and reholsters his revolver in the middle of saying a single syllable word. He hits The Cat in the head.

* JD Smith from ''Series/TheDakotas'' has this reputation. It causes him some heartbreak when he is quicker to the draw than his [[BrokenPedestal one time mentor]]

* Deconstructed in the Creator/PhilSilvers[=-=]Creator/JackBenny special TheSlowestGunInTheWest
* "Wild" Bill Hickok in ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'' shows off his skill at quickdrawing when a murderer tries to draw on him and gets gunned down before he can clear the holster. Seth Bullock also beats the man to the draw and comes close enough to Hickok's speed that they're not exactly sure who shot first.
* In an episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'', we have an interesting play with this trope. A crook shoots and kills the Sheriff, but finds the town empty when he gets back. He seems to go insane with loneliness, but eventually finds he was shot and killed by a posse, and his ghost is stuck. When he realizes this, the Sheriff and the posse show up, now as friends, and lead him to the light.
* On ''Series/{{Justified}}'' US Marshal Raylan Givens has a well deserved reputation for quickdraws. This leads to many criminals deciding to test if he really is that good. However, only one of them actually stages a duel [[spoiler:(he cheats)]] while the others would have been much happier if they could have surprised Raylan and simply shot him in the back. In the series finale he finally faces a bad guy who is just as fast as him and narrowly escapes getting killed [[spoiler: because the other guy prefers to go for head shots which means that the chest-aiming Raylan beats him to the trigger pull]]

* Kid Curry was the heroic variety in ''Series/AliasSmithAndJones''. He occasionally tried to talk kids out of taking up gunslinging, citing all the drawbacks to being the fastest draw.

* Texas Red in "Big Iron" by Music/MartyRobbins is convinced he's this, having killed 20 men sent after him in various duels. Unfortunately for him, the nameless Ranger with the "[[HandCannon big iron]]" proves to be his better.

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', one of the companions, Raul Tejada, if encouraged to return to the life of a vaquero, gains a bonus to firerate with revolvers and lever-action rifles.

* The title character star of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Woody's Roundup]]'' of ''Franchise/ToyStory'' is repeatedly described as such. Woody the toy never uses any kind of gun, and early in the first film he is defeated ''by an Etch-a-Sketch''.
-->"You've been working on that [[{{Pun}} draw]]!"

* In Film/DjangoUnchained, Schultz tells Django that one day he'll be called "The Fastest Gun In The South."

''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'':

** From the Prequel, Arthur Morgan - his skills are just as good, ''[[SerialEscalation if not better than]]'', John's.
** The absolute king of this trope, though, would be [[TheSociopath Micah Bell]] - he's such a quick draw, he can NoSell '''[[BeyondTheImpossible DEAD-EYE.]]'''