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* ''Film/TheHarderTheyFall'' is a rootin' tootin' revenge story, with the hero gathering up a posse to bring down the bandit who killed his parents. There's also a marshal character who reluctantly joins up with the hero, but he's fairly secondary.
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* ''Film/TheHarderTheyFall'' ''Film/TheHarderTheyFall2021'' is a rootin' tootin' revenge story, with the hero gathering up a posse to bring down the bandit who killed his parents. There's also a marshal character who reluctantly joins up with the hero, but he's fairly secondary.
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# ''Cavalry and Indian story'' - the plot revolves around "taming" the wilderness for white settlers. A DiscreditedTrope nowadays due to the obvious UnfortunateImplications.
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* ''Film/ToyStory2'' has an in-universe example with the [[ShowWithinAShow fictional TV show]] ''Woody's Round-Up'', which - from what we see - appears to be a marshal story with elements of ranch story.
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* ''Film/TheProposition''. Charlie's arc is an outlaw story, while Captain Stanley's is both a straightforward marshal story and a deconstruction of the cavalry vs. native people story.
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* ''Film/TheProposition''. ''Film/TheProposition'' is an Australian western that blends a few of the subcategories. Charlie's arc is an outlaw story, story that is structured like a revenge story (although his target hasn't wrong him, and is, indeed, someone he loves), while Captain Stanley's is both a straightforward arc blends the marshal story and a deconstruction of the cavalry Cavalry vs. native people story.
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* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': The prequel, on the other hand, is a deconstructed outlaw story. It chronicles the final days of the Van der Linde gang as Dutch [[SanitySlippage becomes increasingly insane]] and Arthur becomes increasingly disillusioned with the outlaw life, eventually culminating in him openly defying Dutch and [[spoiler: doing everything he can to get John and his family out of the gang before he succumbs to his tuberculosis]].
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# ''Ranch story'' - the plot follows a ranch and the people working on it, and often concerns threats to the ranch from rustlers or large landowners attempting to force out the proper owners. It often stars a DeterminedHomesteader and/or [[DeterminedHomesteadersWife his wife]] [[DeterminedHomesteadersChildren and children]] and features a CattleBaron or a RailroadBaron as antagonists.
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* ''Film/{{Shane}}'' is an archetypal ranch story, where the title character - a mysterious hired hand - helps his DeterminedHomesteader employers fight off a hostile takeover by a larger landowner and his goons.
* ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'' is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] take on the ranch story, with Max wandering into a small desert community under siege from bandits.
* ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'' and [[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai the many stories that follow in its footsteps]] are fusions of the outlaw story and the ranch story, with heroic gunslingers helping the townsfolk fight off bandits.
* ''Film/TheProposition''. Charlie's arc is an outlaw story, while Captain Stanley's is both a straightforward marshal story and a deconstruction of the cavalry vs. native people story.
* ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'' is a pretty straightforward marshal vs. outlaws movie.
* ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' is an empire story with a VillainProtagonist oil baron.
* ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'' is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] take on the ranch story, with Max wandering into a small desert community under siege from bandits.
* ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'' and [[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai the many stories that follow in its footsteps]] are fusions of the outlaw story and the ranch story, with heroic gunslingers helping the townsfolk fight off bandits.
* ''Film/TheProposition''. Charlie's arc is an outlaw story, while Captain Stanley's is both a straightforward marshal story and a deconstruction of the cavalry vs. native people story.
* ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'' is a pretty straightforward marshal vs. outlaws movie.
* ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' is an empire story with a VillainProtagonist oil baron.
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* Being something of a Western pastiche, ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' works in elements of different Western plots for the sake of allusion. For example, Marty's arrival in 1885 has him seeing a Cavalry and Indian story playing out, but it's never brought up again after that. Ultimately, however, the majority of the film is an Outlaw story, with Buford Tannen and his gang serving as the primary antagonists.
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* ''Literature/DeadOfWinter'' by Lee Collins is a oddball calvary and indian story mixed with a marshal story in that it is about Cora and her husband Ben as they set out to hunt down a Wendigo. It is subverted in that all of the villains are actually Western supernaturals.
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* ''Crow Jane'' is a revenge story, focusing on a Native American girl with a HealingFactor who is gunned down by her fiance and after shooting him seeks revenge against the guy who put him up to it.
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* ''Blood Riders'' by Michael Spradlin is a mixture of revenge and marshal story with the protagonist being recruited by the US government to hunt down a bunch of vampires. The RagtagBandOfMisfits includes a mixed black/Native American/Chinese man, Doctor Van Helsing, a vampire, Mr. Winchester, and Mr. Pinkerton.
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* ''Blood Riders'' ''Literature/BloodRiders'' by Michael Spradlin is a mixture of revenge and marshal story with the protagonist being recruited by the US government to hunt down a bunch of vampires. The RagtagBandOfMisfits includes a mixed black/Native American/Chinese man, Doctor Van Helsing, a vampire, Mr. Winchester, and Mr. Pinkerton.
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* ''Dead of Winter'' ''Literature/DeadOfWinter'' by Lee Collins is a oddball calvary and indian story mixed with a marshal story in that it is about Cora and her husband Ben as they set out to hunt down a Wendigo. It is subverted in that all of the villains are actually Western supernaturals.
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* ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'' and ''WesternAnimation/RicochetRabbitAndDroopAlongCoyote'' are two Creator/HannaBarbera shows that parody the marshal story, respectively starring an inept horse and a rabbit who wrote the book on AbnormalAmmo as the sheriff.
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* The ''ComicBook/JonahHex2005'' series was largely composed of done-in-ones so by it's nature it covered quite a few of these plots, sometimes repeatedly. Issues #13 - 15 for example are mainly a revenge story of Hex tracking down some corrupt ex-Union officers who crucified him during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar.
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* ''Film/{{Rango}}'' is a Marshal story, where the titular character becomes the sheriff of [[UnfortunateNames Dirt]] and [[MilesGloriosus tries to uphold his image as a badass gunslinger when he's really just a former housepet in over his head]].
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* ''Film/{{Rango}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' is a Marshal story, where the titular character becomes the sheriff of [[UnfortunateNames Dirt]] and [[MilesGloriosus tries to uphold his image as a badass gunslinger when he's really just a former housepet in over his head]].
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* ''Blood Riders'' by Michael Spradlin is a mixture of revenge and marshal story with the protagonist being recruited by the US government to hunt down a bunch of vampires. The RagtagBandOfMisfits includes a mixed black/Native American/Chinese man, Doctor Van Helsing, a vampire, Mr. Winchester, and Mr. Pinkerton.
* ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' by Creator/CTPhipps is a revenge story about how the protagonist is on a mission to find out who massacred his Ranger squad. The sequel is a MagnificentSevenSamurai plot with seven gunslingers recruited to stop a Great Old One's rise with WordOfGod even saying he was inspired by the movies.
* ''Dead of Winter'' by Lee Collins is a oddball calvary and indian story mixed with a marshal story in that it is about Cora and her husband Ben as they set out to hunt down a Wendigo. It is subverted in that all of the villains are actually Western supernaturals.
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* ''Blood Riders'' by Michael Spradlin is a mixture of revenge and marshal story with the protagonist being recruited by the US government to hunt down a bunch of vampires. The RagtagBandOfMisfits includes a mixed black/Native American/Chinese man, Doctor Van Helsing, a vampire, Mr. Winchester, and Mr. Pinkerton.
* ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' by Creator/CTPhipps is a revenge story about how the protagonist is on a mission to find out who massacred his Ranger squad. The sequel is a MagnificentSevenSamurai plot with seven gunslingers recruited to stop a Great Old One's rise with WordOfGod even saying he was inspired by the movies.
* ''Dead of Winter'' by Lee Collins is a oddball calvary and indian story mixed with a marshal story in that it is about Cora and her husband Ben as they set out to hunt down a Wendigo. It is subverted in that all of the villains are actually Western supernaturals.
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* ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' by Creator/CTPhipps is a revenge story about how the protagonist is on a mission to find out who massacred his Ranger squad. The sequel is a MagnificentSevenSamurai plot with seven gunslingers recruited to stop a Great Old One's rise with WordOfGod even saying he was inspired by the movies.
* ''Dead of Winter'' by Lee Collins is a oddball calvary and indian story mixed with a marshal story in that it is about Cora and her husband Ben as they set out to hunt down a Wendigo. It is subverted in that all of the villains are actually Western supernaturals.
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* ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' by Creator/CTPhipps is a revenge story about how the protagonist is on a mission to find out who massacred his Ranger squad. The sequel is a MagnificentSevenSamurai plot with seven gunslingers recruited to stop a Great Old One's rise with WordOfGod even saying he was inspired by the movies.
* ''Dead of Winter'' by Lee Collins is a oddball calvary and indian story mixed with a marshal story in that it is about Cora and her husband Ben as they set out to hunt down a Wendigo. It is subverted in that all of the villains are actually Western supernaturals.
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* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' wears its western influence on its sleeve by starting with a textbook revenge plot: Tracking down the bastard that robbed [[PlayerCharacter the Courier]] and left them for dead, and returning the favor. As the story progresses, it either [[PlayerChoice concludes or outgrows]] the revenge plot and turns into a post-apocalyptic KingmakerScenario.
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* ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' by Creator/CTPhipps is a revenge story about how the protagonist is on a mission to find out who massacred his Ranger squad. The sequel is a MagnificentSevenSamurai plot with seven gunslingers recruited to stop a Great Old One's rise with WordOfGod even saying he was inspired by the movies.
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* ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' by Creator/CTPhipps is a revenge story about how the protagonist is on a mission to find out who massacred his Ranger squad. The sequel is a MagnificentSevenSamurai plot with seven gunslingers recruited to stop a Great Old One's rise with WordOfGod even saying he was inspired by the movies.
* ''Dead of Winter'' by Lee Collins is a oddball calvary and indian story mixed with a marshal story in that it is about Cora and her husband Ben as they set out to hunt down a Wendigo. It is subverted in that all of the villains are actually Western supernaturals.
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* ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' by Creator/CTPhipps is a revenge story about how the protagonist is on a mission to find out who massacred his Ranger squad. The sequel is a MagnificentSevenSamurai plot with seven gunslingers recruited to stop a Great Old One's rise with WordOfGod even saying he was inspired by the movies.
* ''Dead of Winter'' by Lee Collins is a oddball calvary and indian story mixed with a marshal story in that it is about Cora and her husband Ben as they set out to hunt down a Wendigo. It is subverted in that all of the villains are actually Western supernaturals.
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* The B Western ''Film/TheBeastOfHollowMountain'' starts out as a standard ranch story about a rancher's business and romantic rivalry with the less scrupulous owner of a neighboring ranch. Then a dinosaur walks into the plot for some reason.
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# ''Empire story'' - the plot involves building a ranch empire or an oil empire from scratch, a classic RagsToRiches plot. This is the kind of story where a RailroadBaron, CattleBaron, etc., is an HonestCorporateExecutive rather than a corrupt one, if this isn’t an AntiHero or a VillainProtagonist.
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* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' is a revenge story as Vash the Stampede hunts down his brother Millions Knives who sabotaged humanity's [[SpaceWestern space colonizing ships]] and killed their mother surrogate Rem Sabrem.
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* ''Film/{{Silverado}}'' combines the Outlaw and Ranch plots as a group of implied {{Retired Outlaw}}s fight to save the titular town's honest homesteaders from a wealthy, corrupt rancher and a sheriff who was once an outlaw himself.
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* ''Film/WildWestDays'' is a 1937 Universal serial that offers a pure example of #2, the "Ranch" plot. A brave cowboy fights to save his old buddy's ranch from the villainous speculators who want to buy up all the land on that stretch of the border with Mexico. Things get more complicated when platinum deposits are found on the ranch.
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* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': The prequel, on the other hand, is a deconstructed outlaw story. It chronicles the final days of the Van der Linde gang as Dutch [[SanitySlippage becomes increasingly insane]] and Arthur becomes increasingly disillusioned with the outlaw life, eventually culminating in him openly defying Dutch and [[spoiler: doing everything he can to get John and his family out of the gang before he succumbs to his tuberculosis.]]
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* ''Series/Justified'' is a marshal story set in the modern day, dealing with USMarshal Raylan Givens dealing with his duties as a marshal, his ex-wife, his criminal father, and criminal clans like the Crowder family and the Bennett clan.
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TheWestern has many tropes and traditions that make it unique amongst adventure story genres, and has developed many different conventions. Just as [[WesternCharacters many character archetypes developed just for the Wild West]], so too did archetypal plots. Author and screenwriter Frank Gruber codified seven such basic plots for TheWestern:
# ''Union Pacific story'' - the plot concerns either the construction of a railroad, a telegraph line, or some other type of modern technology or transportation, or follows an event happening at a pre-existing railroad. Wagon train stories fall into this category.
# ''Ranch story'' - the plot follows a ranch and the people working on it, and often concerns threats to the ranch from rustlers or large landowners attempting to force out the proper owners. It often stars a DeterminedHomesteader and/or [[DeterminedHomesteadersWife his wife]] [[DeterminedHomesteadersChildren and children]] and features a CattleBaron or a RailroadBaron as antagonists.
# ''Empire story'' - the plot involves building a ranch empire or an oil empire from scratch, a classic RagsToRiches plot. This is the kind of story where a RailroadBaron, CattleBaron, etc., is an HonestCorporateExecutive rather than a corrupt one, if they're not an AntiHero or a VillainProtagonist.
# ''Revenge story'' - the plot often involves an elaborate chase and pursuit of a villain by an individual he wronged, but it may also include elements of the classic mystery story.
# ''Cavalry and Indian story'' - the plot revolves around "taming" the wilderness for white settlers. A DiscreditedTrope nowadays due to the obvious UnfortunateImplications.
# ''Outlaw story'' - outlaw gangs dominate the action, either as {{Lovable Rogue}}s, {{Villain Protagonist}}s, or [[TheAntagonist the bad guys]].
# ''Marshal story'' - the lawman, his deputies, and the challenges they face drive the plot.
See also WesternCharacters for another important Western trope, TheMagnificentSevenSamurai and AFistfulOfRehashes for other common Western plots, and Literature/TheSevenBasicPlots for seven basic plots that aren't restricted to Westerns.
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* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' is an empire story chronicling Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s rise to becoming the richest duck in the world, and much of the early story is actually set in the old west where Scrooge works on a riverboat in Louisville, as a cowboy in Montana, and in copper mining when the cattle boom ends.
* ''ComicBook/{{Varmints}}'' is a revenge story chronicling the misadventures of young kids Opie and Ned trying to find the man who shot their mother.
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* ''Film/{{Rango}}'' is a Marshal story, where the titular character becomes the sheriff of [[UnfortunateNames Dirt]] and [[MilesGloriosus tries to uphold his image as a badass gunslinger when he's really just a former housepet in over his head]].
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* ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery'' and ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}'', the respective UrExample and the TropeCodifier of the modern Western, are both railroad stories, making that particular story the oldest of the Western plots.
* ''Film/TheIronHorse'' chronicles the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s, making it a railroad story.
* ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma1957'' is a hybrid of the Ranch story and Marshal story. Rancher Dan Evans is struggling financially due to a three-year drought. So when the local sheriff offers a $200 reward to anyone who'll help transport the recently arrested outlaw Ben Wade to the prison train, Evans jumps at the opportunity. [[Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007 The 2007 remake]] also mixes in the Outlaw story, as it gives increased screen time to Ben Wade, as well as his gang's attempts to free him.
* ''Film/HighNoon'' is a hybrid marshal/outlaw/revenge story, where the marshal has to face a band of outlaws who want revenge on him for arresting them previously.
* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' and ''Film/LastManStanding'', both adaptations of ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' focus on two gangs terrorizing a town and one lone badass who plays both sides in order to save the few innocents caught in the middle of it, making both movies and the entire AFistfulOfRehashes plot an outlaw story. However, ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' takes place in the actual old west while ''Film/LastManStanding'' [[NewOldWest updates the setting]] to TheRoaringTwenties.
* ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'': Colonel Mortimer's character arc is a revenge story, as he's hunting down [[BigBad El Indio]] [[spoiler: for killing his brother-in-law and raping his sister [[DrivenToSuicide who killed herself in remorse]].]] In their climactic duel, Indio taunts him by playing [[spoiler: his sister's]] musical pocketwatch and daring him to draw his weapon by the time the music ends, [[spoiler: and [[BigDamnHeroes Manco]] plays Mortimer's own musical pocketwatch and throws him his gunbelt, [[HeroicSecondWind allowing Mortimer to finish Indio off.]]]]
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': Despite the film being a deconstruction of the genre, the film itself is largely a mixture of a revenge and outlaw story, following Blondie ([[AntiHero the Good]]), [[HiredGuns Angel Eyes]] ([[BigBad the Bad]]), and [[{{Bandito}} Tuco]] ([[AntiVillain the Ugly]]), as they pursue a chest of Confederate gold while constantly betraying and trying to kill each other along the way.
* ''Film/TheWildBunch'' is a {{Deconstructed|trope}} outlaw story, starring a gang of aging outlaws in the TwilightOfTheOldWest getting caught up in the Mexican Revolution.
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' follows the enigmatic Harmonica, who, after repeated attempts to meet with Frank failed, decides to aid Jill [=McBain=] alongside notorious outlaw Cheyenne in keeping Jill as the land owner of a ranch the local railroad company, owned by [[BigBad Mr. Morton]] (whom Frank [[TheDragon works for]]), seeks to purchase from; ownership of the land itself is dictated based on if [=McBain=]'s late husband (and any living inheritors like herself) could build a station by the time the railroad reaches them. While [=McBain=] and Cheyenne have their own agendas with Mr. Morton, the former desiring to honor her late husband's wishes by building a new town on their land while the latter was a scapegoat for the deaths of [=McBain=]'s husband and children, Harmonica's motivations are much more mysterious, and more focused on Frank, who, for most of the film, can't quite remember who Harmonica is and why they know each other. [[spoiler: It isn't until the final duel between Harmonica and Frank that it's revealed that Harmonica has a [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon deeply personal vendetta]] against Frank, who is revealed in a flashback to have killed Harmonica's brother many years before. Frank only finally remembers who Harmonica is just before succumbing to his gunshot wound (having drawn too slow against Harmonica), revealing that film was truly a revenge story the entire time.]]
* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' is an AffectionateParody Western that combines Union Pacific and Marshall stories with a satire on racism. Unscrupulous railroad baron Hedley Lamarr wants to build his railway through the town of Rock Ridge and plots to run the townsfolk out, first by sending his goons to terrorize them, then by making African-American Bart their new sheriff, hoping the racist populace will leave in disgust. Bart catches on to his plan and after winning the people over, plots to defeat Lamarr.
* ''Film/TheWarriors'' and ''Film/StreetsOfFire'', both directed by Creator/WalterHill, bring the outlaw story to the modern day. The former deals with [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters the Coney Island Warriors]] chased by every other street gang in New York, while the latter is about war veteran Tom Cody rescuing his ex-girlfriend from violent street gang the Bombers.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' is the [[TropeCodifier definitive]] ranch story, following the Cartwright family's running of the Ponderosa, a huge ranch. It would also qualify as an empire story given the sheer amount of land they own except for the fact that Ben [[HonorBeforeReason refuses to control the local cattle farming industry despite having the resources to.]]
* ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'', likewise, is the [[TropeCodifier definitive]] ''marshal'' story, following the exploits of Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies as they try to keep the peace in Dodge City, Kansas.
* ''Series/Justified'' is a marshal story set in the modern day, dealing with USMarshal Raylan Givens dealing with his duties as a marshal, his ex-wife, his criminal father, and criminal clans like the Crowder family and the Bennett clan.
* ''Series/TheRifleman'' is a ranch story chronicling Lucas [=McCain=]'s trials in raising his son Mark on his own and running a ranch in North Fork, New Mexico.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' is a {{Deconstructed|Trope}} revenge story, as [[BoxedCrook John Marston]] is enlisted to help bring in his former gang that left him for dead. John makes it clear that he wouldn't even go after the Van der Linde gang if [[LawfulEvil Edgar Ross]] wasn't forcing him to, planning to [[CallToAgriculture go back to his family and farm once it's all over]]. [[spoiler: After he succeeds, Ross double-crosses him, leading an army to capture him and successfully kills him. His son Jack swears revenge, which turns him into everything John [[GiveHimANormalLife didn't want him to become]]: an outlaw with little to live for, and to add insult to injury even though he does kill Ross, ultimately history will remember [[WrittenByTheWinners Ross as a hero who tamed the West and brought criminals to justice and John as an outlaw who couldn't escape justice]].]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': The prequel, on the other hand, is a deconstructed outlaw story. It chronicles the final days of the Van der Linde gang as Dutch [[SanitySlippage becomes increasingly insane]] and Arthur becomes increasingly disillusioned with the outlaw life, eventually culminating in him openly defying Dutch and [[spoiler: doing everything he can to get John and his family out of the gang before he succumbs to his tuberculosis.]]
* ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger'' takes quite a bit of time to get to its main plot (which is initially deliberately obscured by the protagonist Silas' {{Tall Tale}}s), but when it does, it turns out to be a classic Revenge story, detailing Silas' pursuit of the three outlaws who murdered his brothers and left him for dead. [[spoiler:The last of said outlaws is actually among the audience he tells his story to, and it is [[LastSecondEndingChoice up to the player to decide]] whether Silas kills him, too, or lets go of his past.]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/NextTownOver'' is a GaslampFantasy take on the outlaw and revenge stories, featuring ruthless BountyHunter Vane Black relentlessly chasing [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic outlaw]] John Henry Hunter for having wronged her in the past.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebAnimation/{{Cliffside}}'' is a WeirdWest take on the outlaw story, with outlaw wannabe [[SmallNameBigEgo "Two-Bit Jerry" Waylon]], [[BrutalHonesty Honest Jo]], and [[CuteMonsterGirl spider-girl Cordie]] meeting and fighting monsters like a Wendigo and [[TheGrimReaper Death Itself]] (who becomes the sheriff at the end after Waylon points out that law and order = less death = less work).
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' is a marshal story in the vein of ''Gunsmoke,'' focusing on [[MagicalNativeAmerican Marshal Bravestarr]] and [[CoolHorse Thirty-Thirty]] as they fight outlaws and keep the peace on [[SpaceWestern New Texas.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' have done satires of the various plots.
** "WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy" spoofs the Marshall story, with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck taking the role of Sheriff but failing to subdue outlaw Nasty Canasta; it's actually HypercompetentSidekick WesternAnimation/PorkyPig who saves the day and is made sheriff.
** "WesternAnimation/InjunTrouble1938" and its color remake "WesternAnimation/WagonHeels" is a Cavalry and Indian story, pitting Porky against Injun Joe, the Superchief.
** The various cartoons pitting WesternAnimation/BugsBunny against WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam are classic Outlaw stories, whenever Sam is [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs actually playing a Western outlaw]], that is.
** "WesternAnimation/BuckarooBugs" is an Outlaw story, with Bugs as the outlaw (he mostly steals carrots, of course).
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]" is a G-rated interpretation of the taming-the-frontier story. The settlers of Appleloosa have built a town in the desert and established and apple orchard for food, and the episode itself focuses on a conflict between them and the native buffaloes (who serve as generic Plains Tribes stand-ins) over land rights.
* ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'' and ''WesternAnimation/RicochetRabbitAndDroopAlongCoyote'' are two Creator/HannaBarbera shows that parody the marshal story, respectively starring an inept horse and a rabbit that wrote the book on AbnormalAmmo as the sheriff.
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# ''Union Pacific story'' - the plot concerns either the construction of a railroad, a telegraph line, or some other type of modern technology or transportation, or follows an event happening at a pre-existing railroad. Wagon train stories fall into this category.
# ''Ranch story'' - the plot follows a ranch and the people working on it, and often concerns threats to the ranch from rustlers or large landowners attempting to force out the proper owners. It often stars a DeterminedHomesteader and/or [[DeterminedHomesteadersWife his wife]] [[DeterminedHomesteadersChildren and children]] and features a CattleBaron or a RailroadBaron as antagonists.
# ''Empire story'' - the plot involves building a ranch empire or an oil empire from scratch, a classic RagsToRiches plot. This is the kind of story where a RailroadBaron, CattleBaron, etc., is an HonestCorporateExecutive rather than a corrupt one, if they're not an AntiHero or a VillainProtagonist.
# ''Revenge story'' - the plot often involves an elaborate chase and pursuit of a villain by an individual he wronged, but it may also include elements of the classic mystery story.
# ''Cavalry and Indian story'' - the plot revolves around "taming" the wilderness for white settlers. A DiscreditedTrope nowadays due to the obvious UnfortunateImplications.
# ''Outlaw story'' - outlaw gangs dominate the action, either as {{Lovable Rogue}}s, {{Villain Protagonist}}s, or [[TheAntagonist the bad guys]].
# ''Marshal story'' - the lawman, his deputies, and the challenges they face drive the plot.
See also WesternCharacters for another important Western trope, TheMagnificentSevenSamurai and AFistfulOfRehashes for other common Western plots, and Literature/TheSevenBasicPlots for seven basic plots that aren't restricted to Westerns.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' is an empire story chronicling Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s rise to becoming the richest duck in the world, and much of the early story is actually set in the old west where Scrooge works on a riverboat in Louisville, as a cowboy in Montana, and in copper mining when the cattle boom ends.
* ''ComicBook/{{Varmints}}'' is a revenge story chronicling the misadventures of young kids Opie and Ned trying to find the man who shot their mother.
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[[folder:Films - Animated]]
* ''Film/{{Rango}}'' is a Marshal story, where the titular character becomes the sheriff of [[UnfortunateNames Dirt]] and [[MilesGloriosus tries to uphold his image as a badass gunslinger when he's really just a former housepet in over his head]].
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[[folder:Films - Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery'' and ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}'', the respective UrExample and the TropeCodifier of the modern Western, are both railroad stories, making that particular story the oldest of the Western plots.
* ''Film/TheIronHorse'' chronicles the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s, making it a railroad story.
* ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma1957'' is a hybrid of the Ranch story and Marshal story. Rancher Dan Evans is struggling financially due to a three-year drought. So when the local sheriff offers a $200 reward to anyone who'll help transport the recently arrested outlaw Ben Wade to the prison train, Evans jumps at the opportunity. [[Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007 The 2007 remake]] also mixes in the Outlaw story, as it gives increased screen time to Ben Wade, as well as his gang's attempts to free him.
* ''Film/HighNoon'' is a hybrid marshal/outlaw/revenge story, where the marshal has to face a band of outlaws who want revenge on him for arresting them previously.
* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' and ''Film/LastManStanding'', both adaptations of ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' focus on two gangs terrorizing a town and one lone badass who plays both sides in order to save the few innocents caught in the middle of it, making both movies and the entire AFistfulOfRehashes plot an outlaw story. However, ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' takes place in the actual old west while ''Film/LastManStanding'' [[NewOldWest updates the setting]] to TheRoaringTwenties.
* ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'': Colonel Mortimer's character arc is a revenge story, as he's hunting down [[BigBad El Indio]] [[spoiler: for killing his brother-in-law and raping his sister [[DrivenToSuicide who killed herself in remorse]].]] In their climactic duel, Indio taunts him by playing [[spoiler: his sister's]] musical pocketwatch and daring him to draw his weapon by the time the music ends, [[spoiler: and [[BigDamnHeroes Manco]] plays Mortimer's own musical pocketwatch and throws him his gunbelt, [[HeroicSecondWind allowing Mortimer to finish Indio off.]]]]
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': Despite the film being a deconstruction of the genre, the film itself is largely a mixture of a revenge and outlaw story, following Blondie ([[AntiHero the Good]]), [[HiredGuns Angel Eyes]] ([[BigBad the Bad]]), and [[{{Bandito}} Tuco]] ([[AntiVillain the Ugly]]), as they pursue a chest of Confederate gold while constantly betraying and trying to kill each other along the way.
* ''Film/TheWildBunch'' is a {{Deconstructed|trope}} outlaw story, starring a gang of aging outlaws in the TwilightOfTheOldWest getting caught up in the Mexican Revolution.
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' follows the enigmatic Harmonica, who, after repeated attempts to meet with Frank failed, decides to aid Jill [=McBain=] alongside notorious outlaw Cheyenne in keeping Jill as the land owner of a ranch the local railroad company, owned by [[BigBad Mr. Morton]] (whom Frank [[TheDragon works for]]), seeks to purchase from; ownership of the land itself is dictated based on if [=McBain=]'s late husband (and any living inheritors like herself) could build a station by the time the railroad reaches them. While [=McBain=] and Cheyenne have their own agendas with Mr. Morton, the former desiring to honor her late husband's wishes by building a new town on their land while the latter was a scapegoat for the deaths of [=McBain=]'s husband and children, Harmonica's motivations are much more mysterious, and more focused on Frank, who, for most of the film, can't quite remember who Harmonica is and why they know each other. [[spoiler: It isn't until the final duel between Harmonica and Frank that it's revealed that Harmonica has a [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon deeply personal vendetta]] against Frank, who is revealed in a flashback to have killed Harmonica's brother many years before. Frank only finally remembers who Harmonica is just before succumbing to his gunshot wound (having drawn too slow against Harmonica), revealing that film was truly a revenge story the entire time.]]
* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' is an AffectionateParody Western that combines Union Pacific and Marshall stories with a satire on racism. Unscrupulous railroad baron Hedley Lamarr wants to build his railway through the town of Rock Ridge and plots to run the townsfolk out, first by sending his goons to terrorize them, then by making African-American Bart their new sheriff, hoping the racist populace will leave in disgust. Bart catches on to his plan and after winning the people over, plots to defeat Lamarr.
* ''Film/TheWarriors'' and ''Film/StreetsOfFire'', both directed by Creator/WalterHill, bring the outlaw story to the modern day. The former deals with [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters the Coney Island Warriors]] chased by every other street gang in New York, while the latter is about war veteran Tom Cody rescuing his ex-girlfriend from violent street gang the Bombers.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' is the [[TropeCodifier definitive]] ranch story, following the Cartwright family's running of the Ponderosa, a huge ranch. It would also qualify as an empire story given the sheer amount of land they own except for the fact that Ben [[HonorBeforeReason refuses to control the local cattle farming industry despite having the resources to.]]
* ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'', likewise, is the [[TropeCodifier definitive]] ''marshal'' story, following the exploits of Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies as they try to keep the peace in Dodge City, Kansas.
* ''Series/Justified'' is a marshal story set in the modern day, dealing with USMarshal Raylan Givens dealing with his duties as a marshal, his ex-wife, his criminal father, and criminal clans like the Crowder family and the Bennett clan.
* ''Series/TheRifleman'' is a ranch story chronicling Lucas [=McCain=]'s trials in raising his son Mark on his own and running a ranch in North Fork, New Mexico.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' is a {{Deconstructed|Trope}} revenge story, as [[BoxedCrook John Marston]] is enlisted to help bring in his former gang that left him for dead. John makes it clear that he wouldn't even go after the Van der Linde gang if [[LawfulEvil Edgar Ross]] wasn't forcing him to, planning to [[CallToAgriculture go back to his family and farm once it's all over]]. [[spoiler: After he succeeds, Ross double-crosses him, leading an army to capture him and successfully kills him. His son Jack swears revenge, which turns him into everything John [[GiveHimANormalLife didn't want him to become]]: an outlaw with little to live for, and to add insult to injury even though he does kill Ross, ultimately history will remember [[WrittenByTheWinners Ross as a hero who tamed the West and brought criminals to justice and John as an outlaw who couldn't escape justice]].]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': The prequel, on the other hand, is a deconstructed outlaw story. It chronicles the final days of the Van der Linde gang as Dutch [[SanitySlippage becomes increasingly insane]] and Arthur becomes increasingly disillusioned with the outlaw life, eventually culminating in him openly defying Dutch and [[spoiler: doing everything he can to get John and his family out of the gang before he succumbs to his tuberculosis.]]
* ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger'' takes quite a bit of time to get to its main plot (which is initially deliberately obscured by the protagonist Silas' {{Tall Tale}}s), but when it does, it turns out to be a classic Revenge story, detailing Silas' pursuit of the three outlaws who murdered his brothers and left him for dead. [[spoiler:The last of said outlaws is actually among the audience he tells his story to, and it is [[LastSecondEndingChoice up to the player to decide]] whether Silas kills him, too, or lets go of his past.]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/NextTownOver'' is a GaslampFantasy take on the outlaw and revenge stories, featuring ruthless BountyHunter Vane Black relentlessly chasing [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic outlaw]] John Henry Hunter for having wronged her in the past.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebAnimation/{{Cliffside}}'' is a WeirdWest take on the outlaw story, with outlaw wannabe [[SmallNameBigEgo "Two-Bit Jerry" Waylon]], [[BrutalHonesty Honest Jo]], and [[CuteMonsterGirl spider-girl Cordie]] meeting and fighting monsters like a Wendigo and [[TheGrimReaper Death Itself]] (who becomes the sheriff at the end after Waylon points out that law and order = less death = less work).
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' is a marshal story in the vein of ''Gunsmoke,'' focusing on [[MagicalNativeAmerican Marshal Bravestarr]] and [[CoolHorse Thirty-Thirty]] as they fight outlaws and keep the peace on [[SpaceWestern New Texas.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' have done satires of the various plots.
** "WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy" spoofs the Marshall story, with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck taking the role of Sheriff but failing to subdue outlaw Nasty Canasta; it's actually HypercompetentSidekick WesternAnimation/PorkyPig who saves the day and is made sheriff.
** "WesternAnimation/InjunTrouble1938" and its color remake "WesternAnimation/WagonHeels" is a Cavalry and Indian story, pitting Porky against Injun Joe, the Superchief.
** The various cartoons pitting WesternAnimation/BugsBunny against WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam are classic Outlaw stories, whenever Sam is [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs actually playing a Western outlaw]], that is.
** "WesternAnimation/BuckarooBugs" is an Outlaw story, with Bugs as the outlaw (he mostly steals carrots, of course).
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]" is a G-rated interpretation of the taming-the-frontier story. The settlers of Appleloosa have built a town in the desert and established and apple orchard for food, and the episode itself focuses on a conflict between them and the native buffaloes (who serve as generic Plains Tribes stand-ins) over land rights.
* ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'' and ''WesternAnimation/RicochetRabbitAndDroopAlongCoyote'' are two Creator/HannaBarbera shows that parody the marshal story, respectively starring an inept horse and a rabbit that wrote the book on AbnormalAmmo as the sheriff.
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