YMMV / No Name on the Bullet

• Jerkass Woobie: Pierce the banker is a coward and was involved in a shady, although not illegal, business deal to try and take Ben Chaffee's mine (although he later claims that he had qualms about it from the beginning). Still, watching him succumb to complete terror and despair due to his wrongful belief that Gant has come to kill him isn't fun to watch.
• Magnificent Bastard: John Gant is a polite but menacing paid assassin notorious for getting his targets to draw on him first, one way or another, once going as far as to falsely imply he raped a target's daughter to trigger the man's fury. He always outdraws them, no matter how great his disadvantage, and is always able to claim self-defense. He prefers not to wound or intimidate anyone who picks a fight with him who he isn't being paid to kill, despite his bleak worldview. Gant feels that almost everyone has enough enemies to justify killing them and that since everyone dies eventually, killing some people a bit sooner isn't too heinous. Living by his own code, Gant refuses to be bribed into abandoning a job. When Gant's gun arm is shattered in a fight with a man he holds a strange respect for, Gant accepts this philosophically, doesn't seek revenge, and declines an offer to treat his injury while there's time by saying "Everything comes to a finish" and then riding away.