Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 6 - The Gunslinger

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

Yesterday's trope, Arc Words, was a tie between You have failed this city! (Arrow) and Bad Wolf (Doctor Who), which scored 3 votes each.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)

Today's trope is The Gunslinger. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGunslinger

It should be noted that for a while, guns and bullets were considered vulgar. Point, fire, they drop dead. This is so mundane that monsters and heroes who were cool enough became Immune to Bullets. After all, if it were that easy, the police would be able to deal with it.

However, certain genres have put the "cool" back into guns. It's all about style, so expect a lot of flourishes that wouldn't work in real life, such as using Guns Akimbo.

The Gunslinger is this hero. They might be from The Western, Film Noir, Heroic Bloodshed or just plain scenery-destroying action flicks. A wandering gunslinger is often The Drifter, one specifically out to do good is also the Knight Errant. But overall for some reason, alongside the Cowboy, gunslingers have also become a cultural image of American people and American warrior culture abroad.

The Gunslinger comes in a few styles:

The Trick Shot: Can shoot the wings off the back of a fly while hanging upside down and having to ricochet off a wall or two. Will occasionally interact with surroundings using same pistol.
The Vaporizer: Who cares if one bullet misses when some of the 2,000 rounds will inevitably hit? And explode? This version relies on BFGs and lots and lots of dakka.
The Woo: Tends to be an expert with Bullet Time and Gun Fu, with an emphasis on pistols, very close combat, and the ability to move faster than a million different pieces of supersonic lead. Alternatively, a master of Gun Kata. The version most likely to use two guns at once.
The Quick Draw: There's a hole in your head where that thought of squaring up against this guy used to be. And what shots others happen to sneak are intercepted mid-flight.

TL,DR: A character who fights with guns, and does so in a very skilled and stylish manner.

Nominations:
Deadshot (DC Comics)
Erron Black (Mortal Kombat)
Inspector Tequila (Hardboiled)

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I mean

I'm not even doing this as part of the running gag

It's just the best possible choice here

Revolver Ocelot
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Deadshot (DC Comics)
Dante (Devil May Cry)
Max Payne

HMs:
McCree (Overwatch)
Lady (Devil May Cry)
Bayonetta
Tommy Monaghan (DC Comics)
Saint of Killers (Preacher)
Jonah Hex (DC Comics)
Django Freeman (Django Unchained)
John Marston (REd Dead Redemption)
Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid)
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Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
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DeathChicken posted...

Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

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John Marston
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Gatarix posted...

DeathChicken posted...

Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

DoctorBIind posted...

Gatarix posted...

DeathChicken posted...

Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

This is who I first thought of when I saw the topic. So....
DoctorBIind posted...

Gatarix posted...

DeathChicken posted...

Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

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Doc Holliday (Tombstone)
John Preston (Equilibrium)
Deadpool

John Marston
Deadpool
Wesley Gibson (Wanted)
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Revolver Ocelot (Last Days of FOXHOUND)
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Clive (Gunman Clive)
Irvine Kinneas (Final Fantasy VIII)
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Revolver Ocelot
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Revolver Ocelot
Dante
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DeathChicken posted...

Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

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Deadpool
Doomguy (Doom)
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Rankings so far:
Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower) 5 votes
Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid) 4 votes
Deadpool 3 votes
Deadshot (DC Comics) 2 votes
Dante (Devil May Cry) 2 votes
John Marston (Red Dead Redemption) 2 votes
Erron Black (Mortal Kombat)
Inspector Tequila (Hardboiled)
Max Payne
Doc Holliday (Tombstone)
John Preston (Equilibrium)
Wesley Gibson (Wanted)
Clive (Gunman Clive)
Irvine Kinneas (Final Fantasy VIII)
Doomguy (Doom)

The Man With No Name
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NFUN posted...

The Man With No Name

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