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* '''TheWildWest''': The general setting for most classic Westerns. This area is synonymous with the American Old West, set in various US states and territories west of the Mississippi River, during most of the 19th century (typically between the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar and the 1890s).
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* '''TheWildWest''': The general setting for most classic Westerns. This area is synonymous with the American Old West, set in various US states and territories west of the Mississippi River, during most of the 19th (and sometimes early 20th) century.
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* '''TheWestern''': Any story set in the American West during the frontier era, generally from about 1865 (the end of the American Civil War) to 1890 (the year the US Census Bureau declared the frontier closed).
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* '''TheWestern''': Any story '''TheWestern''': The basic genre of Westerns, typically set in the [[TheWildWest American West during the frontier era, generally from about 1865 (the end of the American Civil War) to 1890 (the year the US Census Bureau declared the frontier closed).Old West]].
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* TheWestern: Any story set in the American West during the frontier era, generally from about 1865 (the end of the American Civil War) to 1890 (the year the US Census Bureau declared the frontier closed).
!!Plots
* BankRobbery
* CattleDrive: A working cowboy brings his cattle from the ranch to the market.
* CleanUpTheTown: A new person (or an old inhabitant returning after years away) takes position of responsibility, in this case usually a Sheriff, and makes things better.
* AFistfulOfRehashes: A character walks into a town with two rival factions, plays them both for suckers, and eliminates them when the fighting weakens them.
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: A helpless community under attack hires heroes (usually seven) to protect them.
* ProtectThisHouse: A horror/thriller plot about intruders breaking into a home and the occupants having to fight them off.
* QuestToTheWest: A character has to head west for symbolic or significant purposes, e.g. a new life, a quest, or an adventure of some sort.
* RailroadPlot: Something gets in the way of a big construction project (often a railroad in Westerns); this something must be destroyed to complete the project.
* RunForTheBorder: A criminal tries to escape prosecution or persecution by fleeing the country; whether into Mexico or Canada (or vice-versa) or across Union/Confederate lines, needing to cross the border to safety (or arrest someone before they do) comes up fairly often in Westerns.
* SettlingTheFrontier: Moving to new lands, in this case the Western United States, provides new opportunities and dangers.
* TheSevenWesternPlots
* TrainJob: A criminal boards a train to rob from it.
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!!Plots
* BankRobbery
* CattleDrive: A working cowboy brings his cattle from the ranch to the market.
* CleanUpTheTown: A new person (or an old inhabitant returning after years away) takes position of responsibility, in this case usually a Sheriff, and makes things better.
* AFistfulOfRehashes: A character walks into a town with two rival factions, plays them both for suckers, and eliminates them when the fighting weakens them.
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: A helpless community under attack hires heroes (usually seven) to protect them.
* ProtectThisHouse: A horror/thriller plot about intruders breaking into a home and the occupants having to fight them off.
* QuestToTheWest: A character has to head west for symbolic or significant purposes, e.g. a new life, a quest, or an adventure of some sort.
* RailroadPlot: Something gets in the way of a big construction project (often a railroad in Westerns); this something must be destroyed to complete the project.
* RunForTheBorder: A criminal tries to escape prosecution or persecution by fleeing the country; whether into Mexico or Canada (or vice-versa) or across Union/Confederate lines, needing to cross the border to safety (or arrest someone before they do) comes up fairly often in Westerns.
* SettlingTheFrontier: Moving to new lands, in this case the Western United States, provides new opportunities and dangers.
* TheSevenWesternPlots
* TrainJob: A criminal boards a train to rob from it.
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!!Plots
* BankRobbery
* CattleDrive: A working cowboy brings his cattle from the ranch to the market.
* CleanUpTheTown: A new person (or an old inhabitant returning after years away) takes position of responsibility, in this case usually a Sheriff, and makes things better.
* AFistfulOfRehashes: A character walks into a town with two rival factions, plays them both for suckers, and eliminates them when the fighting weakens them.
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: A helpless community under attack hires heroes (usually seven) to protect them.
* ProtectThisHouse: A horror/thriller plot about intruders breaking into a home and the occupants having to fight them off.
* QuestToTheWest: A character has to head west for symbolic or significant purposes, e.g. a new life, a quest, or an adventure of some sort.
* RailroadPlot: Something gets in the way of a big construction project (often a railroad in Westerns); this something must be destroyed to complete the project.
* RunForTheBorder: A criminal tries to escape prosecution or persecution by fleeing the country; whether into Mexico or Canada (or vice-versa) or across Union/Confederate lines, needing to cross the border to safety (or arrest someone before they do) comes up fairly often in Westerns.
* SettlingTheFrontier: Moving to new lands, in this case the Western United States, provides new opportunities and dangers.
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* TrainJob: A criminal boards a train to rob from it.
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* CattleDrive: A working cowboy brings his cattle from the ranch to the market.
* CleanUpTheTown: A new person (or an old inhabitant returning after years away) takes position of responsibility, in this case usually a Sheriff, and
* AFistfulOfRehashes: A character walks into a town with two rival factions, plays them both for suckers, and eliminates them when the fighting weakens them.
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: A helpless community under attack hires heroes (usually seven) to protect them.
* ProtectThisHouse: A horror/thriller plot about intruders breaking into a home and the occupants having to fight them off.
* QuestToTheWest: A character has to head west for symbolic or significant purposes, e.g. a new life, a quest, or an adventure of some sort.
* RailroadPlot: Something gets in the way of a big construction project (often a railroad in Westerns); this something must be destroyed to complete the project.
* RunForTheBorder: A criminal tries to escape prosecution or persecution by fleeing the country; whether into Mexico or Canada (or vice-versa) or across Union/Confederate lines, needing to cross the border to safety (or arrest someone before they do) comes up fairly often in Westerns.
* SettlingTheFrontier: Moving to new lands, in this case the Western United States, provides new opportunities and dangers.
* TheSevenWesternPlots
* TrainJob: Outlaws board a train to steal its cargo or rob passengers at gunpoint.
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CanadianWestern: The Canadian equivalent of a Western, usually set in snowy northern Canada and featuring Mounties.
*CattlePunk
CattlePunk: A {{Steampunk}}-style Western.
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DawnOfTheWildWest: Stories set in the western part of North America between the late 1700s and the 1840s.
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SpaghettiWestern: DarkerAndEdgier {{deconstruction}}s of TheWestern made in Europe, mainly consisting of Italian productions.
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TwilightOfTheOldWest: Stories set in the western part of North America between the 1890s and 1920.
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WeirdWest: A Western with supernatural elements.
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TheWestern: Any story set in the American West during the frontier era, generally from about 1865 (the end of the American Civil War) to 1890 (the year the US Census Bureau declared the frontier closed).
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CleanUpTheTown: A new person (or an old inhabitant returning after years away) takes position of responsibility, in this case usually a Sheriff, and makes things better.
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AFistfulOfRehashes: A character walks into a town with two rival factions, plays them both for suckers, and eliminates them when the fighting weakens them.
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TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: A helpless community under attack hires heroes (usually seven) to protect them.
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ProtectThisHouse: A horror/thriller plot about intruders breaking into a home and the occupants having to fight them off.
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QuestToTheWest: A character has to head west for symbolic or significant purposes, e.g. a new life, a quest, or an adventure of some sort.
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RailroadPlot: Something gets in the way of a big construction project (often a railroad in Westerns); this something must be destroyed to complete the project.
* RunForTheBorder:Whether A criminal tries to escape prosecution or persecution by fleeing the country; whether into Mexico or Canada (or vice-versa) or across Union/Confederate lines, needing to cross the border to safety (or arrest someone before they do) comes up fairly often.
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BleakBorderBase: A fortress at the farthest corner of the country.
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BoomTown: A newly established settlement (town or city) with high population growth, usually due to rare riches being found there (gold, silver, water in an arid region, etc.).
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GhostTown: A town or village where no one (or next to no one) lives.
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InjunCountry: An area where Native Americans, First Nations, or other Indigenous peoples can be found; in the heyday of the Wild West, settlers often clash with these peoples during American expansion.
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KirksRock: A distinctive set of striated sandstone slabs, dozens to hundreds of feet tall, sharply-angled and pointed at their tops, that often appear in Westerns.
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OutlawTown: A settlement run by and exclusively inhabited by criminals and outlaws.
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TheSavageSouth: The Wild West is often stereotyped to barbaric and threatening, or at least more-so than the East.
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!!Genres/subgenres:
* CanadianWestern
* CattlePunk
* DawnOfTheWildWest
* NewOldWest
* SamuraiCowboy
* SpaceWestern
* SpaghettiWestern
* TwilightOfTheOldWest
* WeirdWest
* TheWestern
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* BankRobbery
* CattleDrive
* CleanUpTheTown
* AFistfulOfRehashes
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai
* ProtectThisHouse
* QuestToTheWest
* RailroadPlot
* RunForTheBorder: Whether into Mexico or Canada (or vice-versa) or across Union/Confederate lines, needing to cross the border to safety (or arrest someone before they do) comes up fairly often.
* SettlingTheFrontier
* TheSevenWesternPlots
* TrainJob
!!Settings
* BleakBorderBase
* BoomTown
* CloseKnitCommunity
* FriendlyLocalChinatown: A massive number of Chinese immigrants worked on the railroads and in mines, and were forced into their own camps and towns elsewhere. This is the time period when a lot of Chinatowns were founded.
* GhostTown
* InjunCountry
* KirksRock
* OutlawTown
* TheSavageSouth
* SouthOfTheBorder
* TheWildWest
!!Costume and Appearance Tropes
* BadassBandolier
* BadassBeard
* BadassMustache
* BadassLongcoat
* BootsOfToughness
* DashinglyDapperDerby
* EvilWearsBlack: Bad guys wear black hats.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: The good guy always wears a white cowboy hat, [[EvilWearsBlack the bad guy always a black hat]].
* NiceHat: Stetsons compulsory.
* OverallsAndGingham: Dress code for the DeterminedHomesteader.
* PermaStubble
* WaistcoatOfStyle
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* BangBangBang
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands
* BottomlessMagazines: Many old westerns had characters firing a six-shooter more than six times without reloading.
* BulletDancing
* DeliberatelyJumpingTheGun (*)
* DuelToTheDeath (*)
* FiringInTheAirALot
* FiringOneHanded
* GunsAkimbo: Many westerns have characters firing with a gun in each hand.
* GunTwirling
* ImprobableAimingSkills (*)
* InstantDeathBullet
* MexicanStandoff (*)
* MoreDakka
* QuickDraw
* RevolversAreJustBetter
* SawedOffShotgun: In the actual time and place, probably a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coach_gun cut-down shotgun or coach gun]] rather than what we'd think of as a sawed-off, but the latter is common in the genre whether or not it's historically accurate.
* ShowdownAtHighNoon
* SmokingBarrelBlowout
* ThrowAwayGuns: Generally somewhat downplayed, but needing to pick up fresh guns from the gunmen you just shot comes up now and again.
* ShootTheRope (*)
* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar
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* AllDesertsHaveCacti
* AutomatonHorses
* AwkwardSilenceEntrance
* BarBrawl
* BarSlide
* BetweenMyLegs
* BloodlessCarnage
* TheCavalry
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl
* ChevalierVsRogue: Usually between TheHero or TheSheriff against the vandals or outlaws, or the cowboys against the Indians.
* ClintSquint
* CoolHorse
* CowboyEpisode
* DeadMansHand
* DirtForcefield: Common in pre-SpaghettiWestern works.
* DramaticWind
* EnnioMorriconePastiche
* GamblingBrawl
* GoldFever
* GrievousBottleyHarm
* InvulnerableHorses
* KnowsTheRopes: Covers lasso skills.
* LandInTheSaddle
* MobileKiosk
* TheMostWanted
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight
* NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs
* ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping
* PriceOnTheirHead
* RailingKill
* RidingIntoTheSunset
* RollercoasterMine
* SmokingIsCool
* TarAndFeathers
* TraintopBattle
* WantedPoster
* WhiteStallion
* WildWestArmadillo
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!!Genres/subgenres:
* CanadianWestern
* CattlePunk
* DawnOfTheWildWest
* NewOldWest
* SamuraiCowboy
* SpaceWestern
* SpaghettiWestern
* TwilightOfTheOldWest
* WeirdWest
* TheWestern
!!Plots
* BankRobbery
* CattleDrive
* CleanUpTheTown
* AFistfulOfRehashes
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai
* ProtectThisHouse
* QuestToTheWest
* RailroadPlot
* RunForTheBorder: Whether into Mexico or Canada (or vice-versa) or across Union/Confederate lines, needing to cross the border to safety (or arrest someone before they do) comes up fairly often.
* SettlingTheFrontier
* TheSevenWesternPlots
* TrainJob
!!Settings
* BleakBorderBase
* BoomTown
* CloseKnitCommunity
* FriendlyLocalChinatown: A massive number of Chinese immigrants worked on the railroads and in mines, and were forced into their own camps and towns elsewhere. This is the time period when a lot of Chinatowns were founded.
* GhostTown
* InjunCountry
* KirksRock
* OutlawTown
* TheSavageSouth
* SouthOfTheBorder
* TheWildWest
!!Costume and Appearance Tropes
* BadassBandolier
* BadassBeard
* BadassMustache
* BadassLongcoat
* BootsOfToughness
* DashinglyDapperDerby
* EvilWearsBlack: Bad guys wear black hats.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: The good guy always wears a white cowboy hat, [[EvilWearsBlack the bad guy always a black hat]].
* NiceHat: Stetsons compulsory.
* OverallsAndGingham: Dress code for the DeterminedHomesteader.
* PermaStubble
* WaistcoatOfStyle
!!Guns and Gunplay
* BangBangBang
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands
* BottomlessMagazines: Many old westerns had characters firing a six-shooter more than six times without reloading.
* BulletDancing
* DeliberatelyJumpingTheGun (*)
* DuelToTheDeath (*)
* FiringInTheAirALot
* FiringOneHanded
* GunsAkimbo: Many westerns have characters firing with a gun in each hand.
* GunTwirling
* ImprobableAimingSkills (*)
* InstantDeathBullet
* MexicanStandoff (*)
* MoreDakka
* QuickDraw
* RevolversAreJustBetter
* SawedOffShotgun: In the actual time and place, probably a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coach_gun cut-down shotgun or coach gun]] rather than what we'd think of as a sawed-off, but the latter is common in the genre whether or not it's historically accurate.
* ShowdownAtHighNoon
* SmokingBarrelBlowout
* ThrowAwayGuns: Generally somewhat downplayed, but needing to pick up fresh guns from the gunmen you just shot comes up now and again.
* ShootTheRope (*)
* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar
(* not necessarily gun-specific, but very commonly involve guns in westerns)
!!Others
* AllDesertsHaveCacti
* AutomatonHorses
* AwkwardSilenceEntrance
* BarBrawl
* BarSlide
* BetweenMyLegs
* BloodlessCarnage
* TheCavalry
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl
* ChevalierVsRogue: Usually between TheHero or TheSheriff against the vandals or outlaws, or the cowboys against the Indians.
* ClintSquint
* CoolHorse
* CowboyEpisode
* DeadMansHand
* DirtForcefield: Common in pre-SpaghettiWestern works.
* DramaticWind
* EnnioMorriconePastiche
* GamblingBrawl
* GoldFever
* GrievousBottleyHarm
* InvulnerableHorses
* KnowsTheRopes: Covers lasso skills.
* LandInTheSaddle
* MobileKiosk
* TheMostWanted
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight
* NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs
* ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping
* PriceOnTheirHead
* RailingKill
* RidingIntoTheSunset
* RollercoasterMine
* SmokingIsCool
* TarAndFeathers
* TraintopBattle
* WantedPoster
* WhiteStallion
* WildWestArmadillo
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