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Reno Jones, formerly one half of the duo known as the ComicBook/{{Gunhawks}}, rides out of town alongside the fur trapper Marcel Fournier to recruit allies to save Wonderment. The Rawhide Kid, ComicBook/KidColt, ComicBook/TwoGunKid and ComicBook/TheOutlawKid all add their guns to Reno's cause. The indian ComicBook/RedWolf as well as the mysterious phantom known as the ComicBook/GhostRider also join the fight, and together they will protect the town, or die in a [[TitleDrop Blaze of Glory]]. [[PyrrhicVictory Maybe both]].
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Reno Jones, formerly one half of the duo known as the ComicBook/{{Gunhawks}}, rides out of town alongside the fur trapper Marcel Fournier to recruit allies to save Wonderment. The Rawhide Kid, ComocBook/RawhideKid, ComicBook/KidColt, ComicBook/TwoGunKid and ComicBook/TheOutlawKid all add their guns to Reno's cause. The indian Indian ComicBook/RedWolf as well as the mysterious phantom known as the ComicBook/GhostRider also join the fight, and together they will protect the town, or die in a [[TitleDrop Blaze of Glory]]. [[PyrrhicVictory Maybe both]].
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* EleventhHourRanger: The Ghost Rider is only mentioned in the DramatisPersonae until his appearance at the very end of Issue #3, though [[spoiler: he's not really a new ally so much as an old one in a new outfit.]] better examples are Gunhawk and Caleb Hammer.
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* EleventhHourRanger: The Ghost Rider is only mentioned in the DramatisPersonae until his appearance at the very end of Issue #3, though [[spoiler: he's not really a new ally so much as an old one in a new outfit.]] better Better examples are Gunhawk and Caleb Hammer.
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* MythologyGag: Kid Colt's description page in Issue #3 calls him ''Kid Colt, Outlaw'', which was the name of one of his ongoings.
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** Kid Colt's description page in Issue #3 calls him ''Kid Colt, Outlaw'', which was the name of one of hisongoings.ongoings.
** Matt Hawk's new identity Clay Harder is the same name as as an earlier version of the Two-Gun Kid published by Marvel's predecessor Atlas in the 1950s.
** Kid Colt's description page in Issue #3 calls him ''Kid Colt, Outlaw'', which was the name of one of his
** Matt Hawk's new identity Clay Harder is the same name as as an earlier version of the Two-Gun Kid published by Marvel's predecessor Atlas in the 1950s.
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* CallForward: Two-Gun Kid states that the time of the Wild West is over and that [[SuperHero a new kind of hero]] is on its way. "They'll come. I've seen them", he says. He's not being metaphorical - through TimeTravel, Two-Gun has indeed seen [[ComicBook/TheAvengers them]], and fought alongside them.
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* EndOfAnAge: The end of the old western heroes, soon to be replaced by the costumed crimefighters we know today.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Caleb expresses this sentiment to Rawhide in the ending. Indeed, [[spoiler: half of Wonderment and the majority of the cast are now dead,]] so the reader may be left with this sensation as well.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Caleb expresses this sentiment to Rawhide in the ending. Indeed, [[spoiler: half of Wonderment and the majority of the cast are now dead,]] so dead, so]] the reader may be left with this sensation as well.
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* DeadGuyJunior: This is what Reno tried to invoke when he named his son 'Cass', after Kid Cassidy. [[spoiler: He really ought to have made sure he was dead.]]
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* DeadGuyJunior: This is what Reno tried to invoke when he named his son 'Cass', after Kid Cassidy. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope He really ought to have made sure he was dead.]]]]]]
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* ContinuityNod: In Issue #2 Clay Harder mentions how he [[FakingTheDead buried Matt Hawk and the Two-Gun Kid]], and asks Marcel about what became of the other Sunset Riders.
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* ContinuityNod: In Issue #2 #2, Clay Harder mentions how he [[FakingTheDead buried Matt Hawk and the Two-Gun Kid]], and asks Marcel about what became of the other Sunset Riders.Riders. Both of those are events that occurred in the series of the same name, though its canonicity to ''this'' one is [[LooseCanon debatable]].
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* AsYouKnow: Clay Harder spends a panel talking about his past lives as Matt Hawk and the Two-Gun Kid, and how he buried them both so he could live a normal life. This is for the reader's sake, as Marcel is quick to point out he was there when it happened.
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* PutOnABus: When asked what became of the other Sunset Riders, Marcel Fournier explains that Walking Fish is with his tribe and Hijiro went to San Francisco, so they can't participate in [[KillEmAll the events to come]]. Granted, this could have easily been [[spoiler: Marcel lying out of his ass]].
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** A visual gag in issue #4 has all four heroic Kids in the story respond to hearing the yell "Hey, Kid!". Kid Cassidy also counts[[spoiler:, though he ain't what you'd call heroic any more]].
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* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: If you exclude Red Wolf, there are exactly seven main characters helping to defend Wonderment from a gang of remorseless bandits. [[LampshadeHanging Marcel even notes]] in the first issue that [[WholePlotReference he's seen this sort of thing before]].
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* GrandFinale: The story can be seen as this for the western side of the marvel universe.
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* LooseCanon: It's left ambiguous how much of the [[DirectLineToTheAuthor dime novels]] is accurate. We're meant to assume that [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory it's not much.]]
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* BadassCrew: Half the story is getting one of those together to save Wonderment.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Caleb expresses this sentiment to Rawhide in the ending. Indeed, [[spoiler: half of Wonderment and the majority of the cast are now dead,]] so the reader may be left with this sensation as well.
* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: A former slave, a criminal running away from the law, a crazed gunfighter running away from ''himself'', an unscrupulous BountyHunter and a PinkertonDetective chasing after the aforementioned criminal, a lawyer who moonlights as a vigilante, a NobleSavage indian, a creepy guy in a ghost outfit, and TheTeamNormal, ComicBook/RawhideKid. [[BadassCrew What a crew.]]
* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: A former slave, a criminal running away from the law, a crazed gunfighter running away from ''himself'', an unscrupulous BountyHunter and a PinkertonDetective chasing after the aforementioned criminal, a lawyer who moonlights as a vigilante, a NobleSavage indian, a creepy guy in a ghost outfit, and TheTeamNormal, ComicBook/RawhideKid. [[BadassCrew What a crew.]]
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* SplitPersonalityTeam: Lance manages to deal with his issues ''just'' enough to let the Outlaw Kid ride shotgun in the final battle.
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* LegacyCharacter: A certain Frontier Phantom's costume is appropriated by [[spoiler: Reno Jones]] in latter half of the story.
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* InspectorJavert: PinkertonDetective Caleb Hammer is hunting down Kid Colt for murdering a sheriff. Colt only manages to [[DiggingYourselfDeeper dig himself deeper]] over the course of the story by gunning down Caleb's friends. [[spoiler: This doesn't stop Caleb from avenging him in the finale.]]
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Two-Gun wants to die likes this. Sadly, [[spoiler: we don't get to see if he got his wish]].
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Two-Gun wants to die likes like this. Sadly, [[spoiler: we don't get to see if he got his wish]].
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Riley could have just sat back and let Wonderment be destroyed, but decides into battle personally just so he can murder his old nemesis the Ghost Rider himself. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a rash decision.]]
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Riley could have just sat back and let Wonderment be destroyed, but decides into to lead the battle personally just so he can murder his old nemesis the Ghost Rider himself. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a rash decision.]]
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* Foreshadowing: After the shootout in Issue #3, the narration describes Red Wolf descending into the gorge into which Reno Jones fell. [[spoiler: This is to set up his return as the Ghost Rider.]]
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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: After the shootout in Issue #3, the narration describes Red Wolf descending into the gorge into which Reno Jones fell. [[spoiler: This is to set up his return as the Ghost Rider.]]
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* SpaghettiWestern: Most Creator/MarvelComics stories set in TheWildWest are typical western with very heightened reality. This story is very pointedly ''not''.
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* SpaguettiWestern: Most Creator/MarvelComics stories set in TheWildWest are typical western with very heightened reality. This story is very pointedly ''not''.
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* RetiredGunfighter: The Two-Gun kid is [[ThatManIsDead "dead"]] as the series begins, buried by Clay Harper. [[OneLastJob The burial didn't take.]]
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* AntagonistInMourning: A HeroAntagonist, but Caleb is ''not'' pleased at seeing Gunhawk [[spoiler: shoot down Kid Colt in cold blood].
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* GratuitousSpanish: Rawhide Kid says ''Vaya con dios, mi hermano'' ([[BilingualBonus go with god, my brother]]) to Two-Gun Kid in the ending of Issue #4.
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* CallBack: In Issue #2 Clay Harder mentions how he [[FakingTheDead buried Matt Hawk and the Two-Gun Kid]], and asks Marcel about what became of the other Sunset Riders.
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* AntagonistInMourning: A HeroAntagonist, but Caleb is ''not'' pleased at seeing Gunhawk [[spoiler: shoot down Kid Colt in cold blood].
* BigBad: Clay Riley plots to drive the people of Wonderment out, setting the events of the story into motion.
* BountyHunter: Gunhawk is looking to collect the bounty on Kid Colt. [[spoiler: He does kill him, but Caleb doesn't give him the chance to profit off of it.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: The nightriders force Caleb Hammer and Gunhawk to engage in one, but it is interrupted by Ghost Rider.
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* EleventhHourRanger: The Ghost Rider is only mentioned in the DramatisPersonae until his appearance at the very end of Issue #3, though [[spoiler: he's not really a new ally so much as an old one in a new outfit.]] a better example is Caleb Hammer.
* EvilFormerFriend: Reno Jones describes Kid Cassidy as growing more and more bitter over the course of their adventures together, and it came to a head when Cassidy threatened his life and forced Jones to shoot him and leave him for dead. [[spoiler: Cassidy still lives and searches for Jones to settle the score for good.]]
* EvilFormerFriend: Reno Jones describes Kid Cassidy as growing more and more bitter over the course of their adventures together, and it came to a head when Cassidy threatened his life and forced Jones to shoot him and leave him for dead. [[spoiler: Cassidy still lives and searches for Jones to settle the score for good.]]
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* EleventhHourRanger: The Ghost Rider is only mentioned in the DramatisPersonae until his appearance at the very end of Issue #3, though [[spoiler: he's not really a new ally so much as an old one in a new outfit.]] a better example is examples are Gunhawk and Caleb Hammer.
* EnemyMine: First Caleb Hammer and Gunhawk make a deal to hunt Kid Colt together, then both of them join forces with the protagonists to save Wonderment, Kid Colt included.
* EvilFormerFriend: Reno Jones describes Kid Cassidy as growing more and more bitter over the course of their adventures together, and it came to a head when Cassidy threatened his life and forced Jones to shoot him and leave him for dead. [[spoiler: Cassidy still lives and searches for Jones to settle the score for good.]] Marcel Fournier also counts as one for Two-Gun Kid, as they were once part of the Sunset Riders.]]
--> '''Rawhide Kid:''' Leave him be, Colt. Man just killed what he thought was a friend. Turned out to be no friend at all.
* EnemyMine: First Caleb Hammer and Gunhawk make a deal to hunt Kid Colt together, then both of them join forces with the protagonists to save Wonderment, Kid Colt included.
* EvilFormerFriend: Reno Jones describes Kid Cassidy as growing more and more bitter over the course of their adventures together, and it came to a head when Cassidy threatened his life and forced Jones to shoot him and leave him for dead. [[spoiler: Cassidy still lives and searches for Jones to settle the score for good.
--> '''Rawhide Kid:''' Leave him be, Colt. Man just killed what he thought was a friend. Turned out to be no friend at all.
* Foreshadowing: After the shootout in Issue #3, the narration describes Red Wolf descending into the gorge into which Reno Jones fell. [[spoiler: This is to set up his return as the Ghost Rider.]]
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Caleb gets in some pretty good trash talk while holding Kid Colt at gunpoint.
--> ''I can take you dead or alive.'' I ''got a preference. How about'' you?
* InTheBack: Kid Colt [[spoiler: Is shot in the back by Gunhawk in the finale]].
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: The leader of Riley's gang recognizes Reno Jones, and throughout the series the reader will discover they have quite a bit of reason to hate each other.
--> ''I can take you dead or alive.'' I ''got a preference. How about'' you?
* InTheBack: Kid Colt [[spoiler: Is shot in the back by Gunhawk in the finale]].
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: The leader of Riley's gang recognizes Reno Jones, and throughout the series the reader will discover they have quite a bit of reason to hate each other.
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** The haunted horseman Ghost Rider shares his first and last names with the native girl Ghost Wind Rider.
** The nameless BountyHunter Gunhawk shares his name with an in-universe dime novel about Reno Jones and Kid Cassidy. It isn't confirmed whether the duo ever used the name for themselves in reality, though.
** The nameless BountyHunter Gunhawk shares his name with an in-universe dime novel about Reno Jones and Kid Cassidy. It isn't confirmed whether the duo ever used the name for themselves in reality, though.
* NothingPersonal: Caleb Hammer says these words to Gunhawk in their DuelToTheDeath, and promises to GetItOverWith quickly.
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* PinkertonDetective: Caleb Hammer.
* PinkertonDetective: Caleb Hammer.
* RetiredGunfighter: The Two-Gun kid is [[ThatManIsDead "dead"]] as the series begins, buried by Clay Harper. [[OneLastJob The burial didn't take.]]
* TheReveal: Ghost Rider unmasks in the final issue, revealing [[spoiler: the face of Reno Jones]] underneath.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Riley could have just sat back and let Wonderment be destroyed, but decides into battle personally just so he can murder his old nemesis the Ghost Rider himself. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a rash decision.]]
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Gunhawk calls a certain someone "saddle trash" as justification for why their death shouldn't matter.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Riley could have just sat back and let Wonderment be destroyed, but decides into battle personally just so he can murder his old nemesis the Ghost Rider himself. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a rash decision.]]
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Gunhawk calls a certain someone "saddle trash" as justification for why their death shouldn't matter.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Caleb Hammer is this to Kid Colt.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Caleb Hammer spent a long time chasing after Kid Colt because he murdered a sheriff. During the series, Colt also murders some of Hammer's comrades in anger, and they are not on good terms come Issue #4. But even so, that doesn't mean Caleb wanted [[spoiler: him to go the way he did]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: Caleb Hammer spent a long time chasing after Kid Colt because he murdered a sheriff. During the series, Colt also murders some of Hammer's comrades in anger, and they are not on good terms come Issue #4. But even so, that doesn't mean Caleb wanted [[spoiler: him to go the way he did]].
* TemptingFate: Kid Colt [[spoiler: is shot InTheBack by Gunhawk just he says things look to be working out fine]].
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Kid Colt suggests this in Issue #3, but he draws the line at teaching Reno's son Cass how to fight, because he won't let him go down the same path as he did.
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* WesternTerrorists: Though not fighting for any idealistic cause, the enforcers hired by Clay Riley to drive out Wonderment's residents, who dress like KKK nightriders to scare the city's minority populace, and kill and burn the town and its people indiscriminately solely to scare them into leaving certainly earn the name Terrorists.
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* WesternTerrorists: Though not fighting for any idealistic cause, the enforcers hired by Clay Riley to drive out Wonderment's residents, who dress like KKK nightriders to scare the city's minority populace, and kill and burn the town and its people indiscriminately solely to scare them into leaving certainly earn the name Terrorists.Terrorists.
* WorthyOpponent: Caleb may not show it much, but he displays this opinion about Kid Colt in the finale, yelling at Gunhawk and saying Colt was a better person than he, no matter what he did.
* WorthyOpponent: Caleb may not show it much, but he displays this opinion about Kid Colt in the finale, yelling at Gunhawk and saying Colt was a better person than he, no matter what he did.
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[[caption-width-right:350: The Sensational Seven reunite for [[DyingMomentOfAwesome one last ride]].]]
->''"[[WeAllDieSomeday Men Die]]. Every single one of us. That's a fact and that's our fate."''
-->-- '''ComicBook/RawhideKid'''
It is [[TwilightOfTheOldWest 1885]]. The peace of the quiet town of Wonderment, Montana is broken violently when a group of enforcers dressed as [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan nightriders]] enter the town at night, setting fire to the buildings and shooting many of the residents. They mean to drive the residents out... but the people of Wonderment aren't so easily cowed.
Reno Jones, formerly one half of the duo known as the ComicBook/{{Gunhawks}}, rides out of town alongside the fur trapper Marcel Fournier to recruit allies to save Wonderment. The Rawhide Kid, ComicBook/KidColt, ComicBook/TwoGunKid and ComicBook/TheOutlawKid all add their guns to Reno's cause. The indian ComicBook/RedWolf as well as the mysterious phantom known as the ComicBook/GhostRider also join the fight, and together they will protect the town, or die in a [[TitleDrop Blaze of Glory]]. [[PyrrhicVictory Maybe both]].
''Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes'' is a 4-issue miniseries written by Creator/JohnOstrander and drawn by Creator/LeonardoManco. A more realistic take on [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]]'s western heroes, it retcons some of the original stories (most notably the aforementioned Gunhawks) as simply [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis dime novel retellings of real events]]. The same creative team would go on to make a sucessor to this story for the Creator/MarvelMAX imprint, starring the Rawhide Kid and titled ComicBook/ApacheSkies.
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!Tropes included in ''Blaze of Glory'':
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Lance Temple remembers nothing from his actions as the Outlaw Kid, other than a vague feeling that he had been there.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Reno Jones and his wife comment on the inaccuracy of a dime novel he 'starred' in, and he takes the opportunity to tell the real version.
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Marcel Fournier]] turns out to be a spy for the nightriders.
* BittersweetEnding: The town is saved from those who would harm it, but many of the heroic gunslingers who helped them are dead, and not every one of them went in a blaze of glory.
* TheCavalry: In an inversion of the trope's original form, it is [[spoiler: Red Wolf and his tribe]] who show up to save the day in the last issue.
* DeadGuyJunior: This is what Reno tried to invoke when he named his son 'Cass', after Kid Cassidy. [[spoiler: He really ought to have made sure he was dead.]]
* DoingInTheWizard: If you never read an issue of Carter Slade!Ghost Rider, you might not guess that [[spoiler: there's nothing supernatural about him at all. It's just a phosphorecent costume]].
* DramatisPersonae: There is a page like this in the first issue, all in narrative captions of course. We get another one in Issue #3, after all the heroes have been properly introduced.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Two-Gun wants to die likes this. Sadly, [[spoiler: we don't get to see if he got his wish]].
* EleventhHourRanger: The Ghost Rider is only mentioned in the DramatisPersonae until his appearance at the very end of Issue #3, though [[spoiler: he's not really a new ally so much as an old one in a new outfit.]] a better example is Caleb Hammer.
* EvilFormerFriend: Reno Jones describes Kid Cassidy as growing more and more bitter over the course of their adventures together, and it came to a head when Cassidy threatened his life and forced Jones to shoot him and leave him for dead. [[spoiler: Cassidy still lives and searches for Jones to settle the score for good.]]
* FinalBattle: The ending of the series is one.
* TheHatMakesTheMan: Is Lance Temple wearing his bandanna over his mouth? If yes, that means he's the Outlaw Kid.
* HeelRealization: This is what happens to Lance Temple in the final battle.
--> ''[[TheHatMakesTheMan My mask!]] He'll see... Pa will see... he'll know...!'' \\
''He already knows. I killed him. Pa, I'm so sorry...!''
* HeroicSacrifice: With a name like "Blaze of Glory", was it ever going end any other way?
* HiredToHuntYourself: Lance Temple hired himself to hunt himself.
* TheKillerInMe: Lance Temple hunts the Outlaw Kid to avenge his father's death, oblivious to the fact he ''is'' the Outlaw Kid.
* LegacyCharacter: A certain Frontier Phantom's costume is appropriated by [[spoiler: Reno Jones]] in latter half of the story.
* MythologyGag: Kid Colt's description page in Issue #3 calls him ''Kid Colt, Outlaw'', which was the name of one of his ongoings.
* NamesTheSame:
** A visual gag in issue #4 has all four heroic Kids in the story respond to hearing the yell "Hey, Kid!". Kid Cassidy would also count[[spoiler:, except he's going by Gunhawk now]].
** Two-Gun Kid's new cover identity of Clay Harper shares a first name with Clay Riley, the villain of our story.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Reno Jones]] is left for dead only to come back for the finale.
* OhCrap: This is Riley's face when he sees his old nemesis has come back for him.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Gunhawk is glad to see Reno Jones alive for this reason.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: So, so many. But the best are courtesy of the Outlaw Kid.
--> ''C'mon, you owlhoots! '''C'mon!''' You want a piece of me?! '''C'mon!!!''' I may be bound for hell but I'm TakingYouWithMe!''
* PreBattleBanter: This is how the final issue starts.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Clay Harper rebukes Fournier's request for aid initially, only to join the group later after some soul-searching.
* RetiredMonster: Clay Riley, a.k.a. Tarantula, is looking to break into the white-collar criminal area, and turning Wonderment into a smelting factory is the first step.
* SplitPersonality: The Outlaw Kid became this to Lance Temple after his father discovered he was the Outlaw Kid and died from shock. The trauma made Lance separate that side of himself into a different person entirely.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Caleb Hammer and Kid Colt agree to a temporary truce to save Wonderment. Colt tries to bury the hatchet, but Hammer responds with:
--> ''"I only drink with '''friends''', and because of '''you''', Colt, I got fewer of those. So, no sir, I will '''not''' drink with you."''
* ThatManIsDead: Clay Harper claims to have buried Matt Hawk and the Two-Gun Kid two years ago. Of course, few things ever die in a Marvel Comic...
* TitleDrop: In the last issue's PreBattleBanter: "Me, I'm just looking to go out in a blaze of glory."
* TwilightOfTheOldWest: The story is set in this period. The heroes of the Old West die to make way for a new age. Two-Gun even says in the last issue that the way of the Old West is over, and that new villains require a new breed of hero.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Caleb Hammer asks this question to Rawhide Kid.
* WeAllDieSomeday: And Rawhide responds with this sentiment, shown above as the page quote. It's also the final line of the series.
* WesternTerrorists: Though not fighting for any idealistic cause, the enforcers hired by Clay Riley to drive out Wonderment's residents, who dress like KKK nightriders to scare the city's minority populace, and kill and burn the town and its people indiscriminately solely to scare them into leaving certainly earn the name Terrorists.
[[caption-width-right:350: The Sensational Seven reunite for [[DyingMomentOfAwesome one last ride]].]]
->''"[[WeAllDieSomeday Men Die]]. Every single one of us. That's a fact and that's our fate."''
-->-- '''ComicBook/RawhideKid'''
It is [[TwilightOfTheOldWest 1885]]. The peace of the quiet town of Wonderment, Montana is broken violently when a group of enforcers dressed as [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan nightriders]] enter the town at night, setting fire to the buildings and shooting many of the residents. They mean to drive the residents out... but the people of Wonderment aren't so easily cowed.
Reno Jones, formerly one half of the duo known as the ComicBook/{{Gunhawks}}, rides out of town alongside the fur trapper Marcel Fournier to recruit allies to save Wonderment. The Rawhide Kid, ComicBook/KidColt, ComicBook/TwoGunKid and ComicBook/TheOutlawKid all add their guns to Reno's cause. The indian ComicBook/RedWolf as well as the mysterious phantom known as the ComicBook/GhostRider also join the fight, and together they will protect the town, or die in a [[TitleDrop Blaze of Glory]]. [[PyrrhicVictory Maybe both]].
''Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes'' is a 4-issue miniseries written by Creator/JohnOstrander and drawn by Creator/LeonardoManco. A more realistic take on [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]]'s western heroes, it retcons some of the original stories (most notably the aforementioned Gunhawks) as simply [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis dime novel retellings of real events]]. The same creative team would go on to make a sucessor to this story for the Creator/MarvelMAX imprint, starring the Rawhide Kid and titled ComicBook/ApacheSkies.
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!Tropes included in ''Blaze of Glory'':
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Lance Temple remembers nothing from his actions as the Outlaw Kid, other than a vague feeling that he had been there.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Reno Jones and his wife comment on the inaccuracy of a dime novel he 'starred' in, and he takes the opportunity to tell the real version.
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Marcel Fournier]] turns out to be a spy for the nightriders.
* BittersweetEnding: The town is saved from those who would harm it, but many of the heroic gunslingers who helped them are dead, and not every one of them went in a blaze of glory.
* TheCavalry: In an inversion of the trope's original form, it is [[spoiler: Red Wolf and his tribe]] who show up to save the day in the last issue.
* DeadGuyJunior: This is what Reno tried to invoke when he named his son 'Cass', after Kid Cassidy. [[spoiler: He really ought to have made sure he was dead.]]
* DoingInTheWizard: If you never read an issue of Carter Slade!Ghost Rider, you might not guess that [[spoiler: there's nothing supernatural about him at all. It's just a phosphorecent costume]].
* DramatisPersonae: There is a page like this in the first issue, all in narrative captions of course. We get another one in Issue #3, after all the heroes have been properly introduced.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Two-Gun wants to die likes this. Sadly, [[spoiler: we don't get to see if he got his wish]].
* EleventhHourRanger: The Ghost Rider is only mentioned in the DramatisPersonae until his appearance at the very end of Issue #3, though [[spoiler: he's not really a new ally so much as an old one in a new outfit.]] a better example is Caleb Hammer.
* EvilFormerFriend: Reno Jones describes Kid Cassidy as growing more and more bitter over the course of their adventures together, and it came to a head when Cassidy threatened his life and forced Jones to shoot him and leave him for dead. [[spoiler: Cassidy still lives and searches for Jones to settle the score for good.]]
* FinalBattle: The ending of the series is one.
* TheHatMakesTheMan: Is Lance Temple wearing his bandanna over his mouth? If yes, that means he's the Outlaw Kid.
* HeelRealization: This is what happens to Lance Temple in the final battle.
--> ''[[TheHatMakesTheMan My mask!]] He'll see... Pa will see... he'll know...!'' \\
''He already knows. I killed him. Pa, I'm so sorry...!''
* HeroicSacrifice: With a name like "Blaze of Glory", was it ever going end any other way?
* HiredToHuntYourself: Lance Temple hired himself to hunt himself.
* TheKillerInMe: Lance Temple hunts the Outlaw Kid to avenge his father's death, oblivious to the fact he ''is'' the Outlaw Kid.
* LegacyCharacter: A certain Frontier Phantom's costume is appropriated by [[spoiler: Reno Jones]] in latter half of the story.
* MythologyGag: Kid Colt's description page in Issue #3 calls him ''Kid Colt, Outlaw'', which was the name of one of his ongoings.
* NamesTheSame:
** A visual gag in issue #4 has all four heroic Kids in the story respond to hearing the yell "Hey, Kid!". Kid Cassidy would also count[[spoiler:, except he's going by Gunhawk now]].
** Two-Gun Kid's new cover identity of Clay Harper shares a first name with Clay Riley, the villain of our story.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Reno Jones]] is left for dead only to come back for the finale.
* OhCrap: This is Riley's face when he sees his old nemesis has come back for him.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Gunhawk is glad to see Reno Jones alive for this reason.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: So, so many. But the best are courtesy of the Outlaw Kid.
--> ''C'mon, you owlhoots! '''C'mon!''' You want a piece of me?! '''C'mon!!!''' I may be bound for hell but I'm TakingYouWithMe!''
* PreBattleBanter: This is how the final issue starts.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Clay Harper rebukes Fournier's request for aid initially, only to join the group later after some soul-searching.
* RetiredMonster: Clay Riley, a.k.a. Tarantula, is looking to break into the white-collar criminal area, and turning Wonderment into a smelting factory is the first step.
* SplitPersonality: The Outlaw Kid became this to Lance Temple after his father discovered he was the Outlaw Kid and died from shock. The trauma made Lance separate that side of himself into a different person entirely.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Caleb Hammer and Kid Colt agree to a temporary truce to save Wonderment. Colt tries to bury the hatchet, but Hammer responds with:
--> ''"I only drink with '''friends''', and because of '''you''', Colt, I got fewer of those. So, no sir, I will '''not''' drink with you."''
* ThatManIsDead: Clay Harper claims to have buried Matt Hawk and the Two-Gun Kid two years ago. Of course, few things ever die in a Marvel Comic...
* TitleDrop: In the last issue's PreBattleBanter: "Me, I'm just looking to go out in a blaze of glory."
* TwilightOfTheOldWest: The story is set in this period. The heroes of the Old West die to make way for a new age. Two-Gun even says in the last issue that the way of the Old West is over, and that new villains require a new breed of hero.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Caleb Hammer asks this question to Rawhide Kid.
* WeAllDieSomeday: And Rawhide responds with this sentiment, shown above as the page quote. It's also the final line of the series.
* WesternTerrorists: Though not fighting for any idealistic cause, the enforcers hired by Clay Riley to drive out Wonderment's residents, who dress like KKK nightriders to scare the city's minority populace, and kill and burn the town and its people indiscriminately solely to scare them into leaving certainly earn the name Terrorists.
