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* AnimalMotifs: Known as The Rat, Tuco is a greedy, foul and vulgar criminal and despite his limited knowledge, he's a very resourceful and cunning survivor who literally has the guts to digest a cigar and his nasty and rude behavior makes a social outcast in society with so many people wanting him dead.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Like most characters in the film, he carries a Colt 1851 Navy with him having three separate pistols at different points in the film, including a frankengun assembled with parts from various different guns.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Because this film is set before the invention of the Colt Single Action Army, Blondie is armed with a Colt 1851 Navy with the same silver snake on the grips as in the other two films. However, he also makes much more frequent use of rifles, mostly to ShootTheRope.
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* BadassLongcoat: Wears three differe badass longcoats (one of which is in the form of a Confederate Army greatcoat) for most of the film until he gives his coat to a dying soldier. Rather than disturb the corpse, he picks up a nice-looking patterned serape lying nearby, which had become part of the Man With No Name's trademark outfit by that film.

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* BadassLongcoat: Wears three differe different badass longcoats (one of which is in the form of a Confederate Army greatcoat) for most of the film until he gives his coat to a dying soldier. Rather than disturb the corpse, he picks up a nice-looking patterned serape lying nearby, which had become part of the Man With No Name's trademark outfit by that film.
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* BadassLongcoat: Wears a badass longcoat (in the form of a Confederate Army greatcoat) for most of the film until he gives his coat to a dying soldier. Rather than disturb the corpse, he picks up a nice-looking patterned serape lying nearby, which had become part of the Man With No Name's trademark outfit by that film.

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* BadassLongcoat: Wears a three differe badass longcoat (in longcoats (one of which is in the form of a Confederate Army greatcoat) for most of the film until he gives his coat to a dying soldier. Rather than disturb the corpse, he picks up a nice-looking patterned serape lying nearby, which had become part of the Man With No Name's trademark outfit by that film.
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->Voiced by: TBA

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->Voiced by: TBAGlauco Onorato (Italian), Ray Owens (English)



->Voiced by: Mario Pisu (Italian)

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->Voiced by: Mario Pisu (Italian)
(Italian), Peter Fernandez (English)



->Voiced by: Pino Locchi (Italian)

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->Voiced by: Pino Locchi (Italian)
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->Voiced by: George Gonneau (English)

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->Voiced by: Luigi Pavese (Italian), George Gonneau (English)

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%%* {{Sadist}}[=/=]SoftSpokenSadist:
* SoftSpokenSadist: Never raises his voice because he knows that his victims have heard him the first time.



* SoftSpokenSadist: Never raises his voice because he knows that his victims have heard him the first time.



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* TheSouthpaw: Lost his right arm to Tuco at the beginning of the film and learns to shoot with his left, which, after catching up to Tuco, he squanders by bragging about it instead of just killing him.

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* TheSouthpaw: SituationalHandSwitch: Lost his right arm to Tuco at the beginning of the film and learns to shoot with his left, which, after catching up to Tuco, he squanders by bragging about it instead of just killing him.
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* GenreSavvy: Blondie is spared the same ColdBloodedTorture that Tuco got because Angel Eyes knows he'd never talk. Blondie's smart enough to know that talking wouldn't save him.

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* BadassBeard: Stevens is a man with a full face of hair who is brave and calm when facing a man sent to kill him and was also involved in whatever happened with the gold coins to kick off the plot.



* DadTheVeteran: He's an older man with teenaged sons who fought in the war then came back home to live with his family.

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* DadTheVeteran: He's an older a middle-aged man with two teenaged sons who fought in the war then came back home to live with his family.
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* AntiVillain: He's just a bounty hunter after a legitimately wanted criminal, no worse than Blondie (and possibly even a little better considering the racket Blondie pulls once he catches Tuco), and his confrontation with Tuco afterwards isn't entirely unjustified.


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* DadTheVeteran: He's an older man with teenaged sons who fought in the war then came back home to live with his family.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He's calm when confronted with an assassin, attempting to bargain with him for his life (or at least to kill Baker to) but never quavering or showing weakness.
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* OverlyLongName: His full name is Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez.

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* OverlyLongName: His full name is Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez.Ramirez, "known as the Rat".
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* OverlyLongSpanishName: His full name is Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez.

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* OverlyLongSpanishName: OverlyLongName: His full name is Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez.

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* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The straight man to Tuco's wise guy. Throughout their misadventures, he takes things every bit as seriously as he should, with the brutally honest snark to match.



* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: His way of getting the name of the cemetery out of Tuco involves getting Corporal Wallace to rough him up until he spills the beans. Averted with Blondie, who he doesn't treat any similarly because he knows that, unlike Tuco, he's no idiot.



* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After torturing the name of the cemetery out of Tuco, he turns him over to Corporal Wallace to be delivered to the proper authorities. He then compliments Blondie on being smart enough to understand that he'd similary dispose of him, too, upon learning the name of the grave.



* SirSwearsALot: Unleashes quite a tirade on [[AntiHero Blondie]] when Blondie turns him in for the bounty for the 1st time. It's understandable, though.

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* SirSwearsALot: Unleashes quite a tirade on [[AntiHero Blondie]] when Blondie turns him in for the bounty for the 1st first time. It's understandable, though.


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* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The wise guy to Blondie's straight man. The opinion that he's an idiot is just about the only thing Blondie and Angel Eyes solidly agree upon. That said, he's not a complete idiot--just ask Elam, who caught him with more than his holster off but stupidly took the opportunity to gloat about it before Tuco disposes of him with a hidden gun.
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[[folder:Union Captain]][[folder:Captain Clinton]]



->Voiced by: Pino Locchi (Italian), Bernie Grant (English)

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->Voiced by: Pino Locchi (Italian), Bernie Grant (English)
(English), Tom Wyner (English, extended edition, new scenes)



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* TheSociopath: Downplayed in the extended cut, where he appears to show sympathy for the wounded Confederate troops at an isolated fort.

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* TheSociopath: Is the most evil of the trio. He betrays his own employers for cash, tortures people for info, LackOfEmpathy and is notoriously sadistic.
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* BookDumb: In some scenes he is seen having a hard time to read. This does NOT mean that he is stupid however, as he can still be quite cunning at times.

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* BookDumb: In some scenes he is seen having a hard time to read. This does NOT mean that read, but he is not stupid however, as he and can still be quite cunning at times.
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* TheSociopath: Less so in the extended cut, where he appears to show sympathy for the wounded Confederate troops at an isolated fort.

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* TheSociopath: Less so Downplayed in the extended cut, where he appears to show sympathy for the wounded Confederate troops at an isolated fort.
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* BookDumb: In some scenes he is seen having a hard time to read. This does NOT mean that he is stupid however, as he can still be quite cunning at times.
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* {{Flanderization}}: In the spinoff novel ''A Dollar to Die For'', his more complex qualities were mostly omitted in favour of his greed and opportunism. His vulnerable side remains, though.
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* ListOfTransgressions: And it gets longer every time it's read out. Apparently (if you believe at least half of it), he has raped, killed, stolen money from ''both'' sides of the Civil War, ''and'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking gambled with marked cards]].

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* ListOfTransgressions: And it gets longer every time it's read out. Apparently (if you believe at least half of it), he has raped, killed, stolen money from ''both'' sides of the Civil War, ''and'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking gambled with marked cards]]. It's likely that some of these were added on to boost his bounty, as his initial transgressions is much briefer.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Has a civilized, gentlemanly manner about him even when talking to people he's about to kill.

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* FauxAffablyEvil: Has He's a civilized, gentlemanly manner about him even when talking greedy assassin who will kill people, torture others, and beat up women to people he's about to kill.get money, but he talks very politely with people.

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* BadassLongcoat: Goes through three of them, until he leaves his coat as a cover for the dying soldier and finds his trademark poncho.

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* BadassLongcoat: Goes through three Wears a badass longcoat (in the form of them, a Confederate Army greatcoat) for most of the film until he leaves gives his coat as to a cover for the dying soldier and finds his soldier. Rather than disturb the corpse, he picks up a nice-looking patterned serape lying nearby, which had become part of the Man With No Name's trademark poncho.outfit by that film.



* NominalHero: Subverted by the end. He does comes off as a ruthless renegade for about a third of the film, but gets better with CharacterDevelopment.

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* NominalHero: Blondie is "The Good", but only because the other two main characters are even worse. Subverted by the end. He does comes off as a ruthless renegade for about a third of the film, but gets better with CharacterDevelopment.



* ProfessionalKiller: Is equal parts bounty hunter, mercenary, and assassin.

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* ProfessionalKiller: Is equal parts bounty hunter, mercenary, a soulless mercenary who hunts down and assassin.executes targets for the money. He's portrayed as an utterly cold-blooded sociopath who doesn't so much as bat an eye while having a man tortured in front of him, extorts money from prisoners of war, and always sees a job through to the end once he's been paid.



* WouldHitAGirl: In order to show how evil The Bad is, he relentlessly beats up a girl towards the beginning of the film. However, according to an interview with Creator/LeeVanCleef, he refused to actually hit her, so they had to use his stunt man for that scene.

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* WouldHitAGirl: In Has no problem beating a hooker in order to show extract information, and prove how evil he is. Despite the film being made decades ago, this still holds up rather well, as it is set in The Bad is, he relentlessly beats up American Civil War, a time period when hitting a girl towards the beginning would have been proof of the film. However, according to an interview with Creator/LeeVanCleef, just how bad you were.
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he refused to actually hit her, so they had to use his stunt man for that scene. even stage slap a woman.



* AntiVillain: He confesses to his brother that he chose to be a bandit so he could support himself after living in poverty for so long. (And in the final duel, despite his personal animosity toward Blondie, he notably tries to shoot Angel Eyes.)

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* AntiVillain: Tuco is the most morally ambiguous of the trio. He confesses has an extensive rap list of crimes including rape, murder and embezzlement, but he's also the most likable and sympathetic character in the entire movie, and is sort of an underdog loser, who's LaughablyEvil to boot. He also has a strong love for family, shown in the scene where he gets into a fight with his brother that he chose to be a bandit so he could support himself after living in poverty finding out about the deaths of his parents, whom he supposedly turned to a life of crime to care for and whose passing he was genuinely thunderstruck by. It's shown that while he's a bad man, he's also terribly misguided, which is what makes him so long. (And in the final duel, despite his personal animosity toward Blondie, he notably tries to shoot Angel Eyes.)"Ugly" inside.



* ButtMonkey: He isn't successful for more than 20 onscreen minutes. Although, considering that Tuco is a scheming and opportunistic bandit, he probably deserves most of what happens to him.
* CantBatheWithoutAWeapon: He was probably expecting Blondie rather than [[spoiler:the one-armed bounty hunter, but it still came in handy...]]

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* ButtMonkey: He isn't successful for any more than 20 onscreen minutes. Although, considering twenty consecutive minutes in the film. The sum of Tuco's troubles? Nearly hanged twice, left alone in the desert, sent crashing through a floor, getting distracted from killing Blondie, getting the dying Bill Carson water and come back to find that Tuco Blondie got information to the gold first, accidentally getting them both arrested, getting beaten up by Wallace twice, gets hit full-on with cannonfire, and then nearly getting hanged a third time, before being left by himself in the cemetery, alive but stranded. Of course, he is a scheming and vengeful, opportunistic bandit, he bandit who probably deserves most of deserved what happens to him.
he got in the end.
* CantBatheWithoutAWeapon: A vengeful man, whom Tuco had previously shot in the arm and permanently disabled, catches him naked in a bathtub. He was probably expecting Blondie rather than [[spoiler:the one-armed bounty hunter, but it still came in handy...]]delivers a long speech about how he tracked Tuco down, and how he had lots of time to learn to shoot with his left hand... which is cut off when Tuco shoots him with a gun hidden under the bathtub bubbles.
-->'''Tuco''': When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.



* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He seems like a buffoon, but is quite the opposite. He is extremely skilled and very crafty.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He seems like Is a buffoon, hairy, goofy, scruffy, slovenly klutz compared to the more mature, soft-spoken and reserved Man With No Name and Angel Eyes (not unlike WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, actually), but is quite capable of shooting with incredible speed and accuracy, escaping from an armed guard by cunning use of the opposite. He is extremely skilled and very crafty.train tracks, as well as nearly killing Blondie several times only for him to be saved by luck (or cannonfire). When he first meets said armed guard, he threatens to take him down. We think he's just blowing smoke until it actually happens.



* DashingHispanic: Funny, charismatic, charming and looks like a scruffy Creator/PedroInfante.

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* DashingHispanic: Funny, charismatic, charming and Despite being called "The Ugly", he's a charismatic UnkemptBeauty; he looks like a scruffy Creator/PedroInfante. Pedro Infante. "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."



* LovableRogue: He's a murderer, thief and alcoholic, but very personable.

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* LovableRogue: He's a Is even more roguish than Blondie, and several times more lovable. A murderer, thief and alcoholic, but very personable.



* PluckyComicRelief: Can be seen as this, as the movie's funniest moments involve him one way or another.

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* PluckyComicRelief: Can be seen as this, as Might qualify, given that most, if not all of the movie's funniest humorous moments in the film involve him in one way form or another.another. Unlike most examples, Tuco is the protagonist instead of a side character.



* ThirdPersonPerson: Frequently refers to himself this way.

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* ThirdPersonPerson: Frequently refers Refers to himself in this way.manner several times to demonstrate his egotism.



* AloofBigBrother: Assuming that Pablo is the older brother, since Luigi Pistilli was 14 years younger than Eli Wallach. He certainly has the attitude.

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* AloofBigBrother: Assuming that Pablo is the older brother, since Luigi Pistilli was 14 years younger than Eli Wallach. He certainly has the attitude.When they re-unite, Tuco is open and affectionate while Pablo is more distant and impassive.



* AlmostDeadGuy: Lives long enough to tell Blondie which grave he buried the gold in.

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* AlmostDeadGuy: Lives long enough Reveals to tell Blondie which grave Tuco that he buried knows where the gold in.is, but needs water, and while Tuco looks for water Blondie is told by the dying man the actual location, after which the man promptly dies, requiring Tuco to save Blondie's life in order to find the gold (Tuco had been forcing Blondie to cross a desert with no water in an effort to kill him).
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* AntiHero: he is an UnscrupulousHero. The main reason he's "The Good" is because his two opponents are worse. He also has the highest on-screen body count of the trio: 11. Contrast with Angel Eyes "The Bad", who has the least: 3.

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* AntiHero: he He is an UnscrupulousHero. The main reason he's "The Good" is because his two opponents are worse. He also has the highest on-screen body count of the trio: 11. Contrast with Angel Eyes "The Bad", who has the least: 3.
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*** Tuco absolutely tanks the beating Wallace gives him, going so far as to grab Wallace by the throat and giving choking the life out of his tormentor a [[IncrediblyLamePun decent squeeze]]. It's only when Wallace pushes his thumbs into his eyes that Tuco caves in, which is [[PrimalFear pretty understandable.]] Lampshaded by Angel Eyes who later tells Blondie that while Blondie himself wouldn't have talked ''at all'', it's not because he's actually tougher.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's known only as Angel Eyes, though [[AllThereInTheScript apparently]], he goes by the name of Sentenza.

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's known only as Angel Eyes, though [[AllThereInTheScript apparently]], he goes by the name of Sentenza.Sentenza (meaning "sentence", presumably alluding to a death sentence, which he pretty much ''is'').
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* DubNameChange: Known as Sentenza in the original Italian.
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->Voiced by: Nando Gazzolo (Italian), Ray Owens (English)

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->Voiced by: Nando Gazzolo (Italian), Ray Owens Lloyd Battista (English)



->Portrayed by: Livo Lorenzon

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->Portrayed by: Livo Livio Lorenzon
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* NominalHero: He can be considered this, his backstory involves running away to become a bandit so he can provide for his family. Although he did eventually [[FaceHeelTurn abandon that goal to pursue his own vendettas,]] but the scene in the monastery makes it clear he still loves his family.
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* LaughablyEvil: He's far from a good guy, and he's absolutely hilarious. It's no coincidence that the funniest movie of the Franchise/DollarsTrilogy is the only one to have a VillainProtagonist.

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* LaughablyEvil: He's far from a good guy, and he's absolutely hilarious. It's no coincidence that the funniest movie of the Franchise/DollarsTrilogy Film/DollarsTrilogy is the only one to have a VillainProtagonist.

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