History Main / JonahHex

->''But as any man, woman or child knows, he had no friends, this Jonah Hex...but he did have two companions...one was death itself, the other, the arid smell of gunsmoke.''

Since then he had a few miniseries in VertigoComics which had a supernatural bent, and now has a new series that, with the ComicsCode having lost any meaningful power, is even [[DarkerAndEdgier Darker]] and [[BloodierAndGorier Gorier]] than before.

The character has appeared in ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries,'' ''JusticeLeague,'' and ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episodes. Also, a feature film was recently released on June 18 2010 starring Josh Brolin and MeganFox. The results were... [[{{Understatement}} less than auspicious]], with reviews ranging from mixed to horrible, and a box office that suffered heavily (thanks mostly to competition from ''[[ToyStory Toy Story 3]]''). There is also an animated "DC Showcase" short that will serve as a bonus feature for ''Batman: Under The Red Hood''; interestingly, it's written by Joe Lansdale, who wrote the Hex-starring Batman TAS episode "Showdown".

* ButNowIMustGo: Hex comes across a fair few oppurtunities to settle down, but refuses each and every one in favour of his lonely bounty hunting lifestyle.

* FridgeLogic: if you stop and think about it, how is it he doesn't have health problems with that scarred face? with the sanitation conditions and general medical knowledge of the old west that thing must be getting infected CONSTANTLY
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He's a decent enough guy when put to the moral test, but his scarring leads to a lot of assumptions from others.

* AHandfulForAnEye: Jonah does it while fighting mountain scum in ''Hex'' #4. (Given Jonah's penchant for fighting dirty, it would be surprising is this was the only time this trick was used in the various series.)

* ImAHumanitarian: Some of the inhabitants of Casket Canyon seem to have grown very fond of human flesh. See NoPartyLikeADonnerParty below.

* MonowheelMayhem: In ''Hex'', Reinhold Borsten's forces had armoured monowheels; sort of like minature, one-man [[{{Blackhawk}} War Wheels]].

* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: "Casket Canyon" in ''Jonah Hex'' #66.

* VaporTrail: Jonah pulls one in ''Hex'' #18, lighting the fuel with his trusty cigarillo. The {{Mooks}} last words are "That's a fuel hose, right?"

* MyRealDaddy: Michael Fleisher took over writing duties for the character from creator John Albano in 1974 and continued to write the character until 1987, when the character's series was cancelled. Over this thirteen year period he wrote at least 125 Hex stories over three series (''Weird Western Tales'', ''Jonah Hex'' and ''Hex''), more than any other Hex writer. The Justin Gray/Jimmy Palmiotti writing team ''might'' reach comparable status too someday, as they've been writing the character since 2005 and show no signs of stopping.

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!!The movie contains the following tropes:

* AcceptableTargets: Southerners, at least if they're Confederate sympathizers.
* ActionGirl/ DarkActionGirl: Lilah.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics Lilah/[[spoiler:Tallulah Black]] is so hideously scarred that Hex is just about the only man who can stand to bed her. In TheMovie, she's played by MeganFox.
* AndThisIsFor: when Jonah finishes off Turnbull's Irish [[TheDragon Dragon]]. [[spoiler:TWICE.]]
* BadassMustache: Jonah sports one.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment/ NightmareFuelUnleaded: There's a brief scene inside an arena where a street fight is being held, and one of the two fighters looks like - we kid you not - a cross between Gollum from ''TheLordOfTheRings'' and a mountain lion.
* BlackBestFriend: Ben, the gun shop owner.
* [[BlownAcrossTheRoom Blown Out The Window]]
* {{BFG}}: [[ExaggeratedTrope To the point of being a]] DoomsdayDevice. It's a rotary ''bombard cannon'' whose cannonballs are subsequently [[StuffBlowingUp detonated]] by an EnergyBall containing unknown {{Phlebotinum}}. [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Designed by]] EliWhitney, no less. [[CompleteMonster Turnbull tests it on an unsuspecting town.]]
* CaptainErsatz: "Snake-Man" from the arena fights is basically a subscale [[ThreeHundred Uber-Immortal.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: the President's men come for Jonah when he's in Lilah's bedroom. His first response?
--> "Christ, woman, how many men do you see in a day?"
** "[[KilledMidSentence What happened to your faaaAAAAA-]]"
* CrusadingWidower
* CompleteMonster: Quentin Turnbull without a doubt. Burke as well.
* [[ValuesResonance Deliberate Values Resonance]]: An antigovernment terrorist plotting to blow up a federal building? Where have we heard of ''that'' before....?
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Ex-Confederate Quentin Turnbull and his (mostly Southern) men hijack trains while wearing ghostly hoods.
* FailPolish: We're supposed to believe that people find Jonah ugly, but apparently he's good-looking enough to bed Lilah, the town prostitute (free of charge, that is.) Whereas in the comics, he practically looks like "The Cryptkeeper."
** In all fairness, the scar IS disfiguring and quite disgusting to look at. The problem is, Hex is played by [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Josh Brolin]].
* GenreSavvy: President Grant catches on immediately to what Turnbull is up to when he hears exactly what targets have been hit.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[ArrestedDevelopment Gob Bluth]] is a Lieutenant.
** [[strike: [[{{Watchmen}} The Comedian]]]] [[strike: [[{{Supernatural}} John Winchester]]]] [[strike: [[GreysAnatomy Denny Duquette]]]] Jeffery Dean Morgan makes a cameo as Quentin Turnbull's dead son.
** [[ConAir Cyrus Grissom]] is working with [[{{Film/GhostRider}} Blackheart.]]
** [[{{Fringe}} Phillip Broyles]] as the gun shop owner.
** Turnbull has a rather epic [[TheDragon Dragon]] in [[TheXMen Magneto]].
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: No saloon girl in the 1870s could have looked that fashionable. Not even Megan Fox herself would have looked like that.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Duel wielded crossbows that shot sticks of dynamite! Also the horse mounted [[GatlingGood gatling guns]]!
* MonumentalDamage: ''Narrowly'' [[AvertedTrope averted.]] A cannonball from the DoomsdayDevice clips the side of the still-under-construction Washington Monument.
* MuggingTheMonster / BerserkButton: Do ''not'' ask Jonah how he got his scar.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: If terrorist Quentin Turnbull hadn't already been Jonah's mortal enemy, Jonah would probably not have been willing to be pressed into service by the U.S. government to stop him.
* PopStarComposer: Prog Metal band {{Mastodon}} composed the score.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Lilah IS Tallulah Black.]]
* StupidSexyFlanders: Admit it, guys.

* [[{{Ptitle73be69nd}} Awesome McCoolname]]

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. Hex and other characters often have the sort of attitudes you'd expect from the 19th century.

** In all fairness, the scar IS disfiguring and quite disgusting to look at. The problem is, Hex is played by [[EstrogenBridgadeBait Josh Brolin]].

* InstantDeathBullet: Most of the time.

Created in the 1970s "Weird" phase in comics, Jonah Hex was created as a deliberate subversion of every Western hero cliche you can think. He then ended up being the last headline character of the genre in the comic book medium.

* AmenesiaDanger: In one story, Jonah is buried by a rockslide while dressed in the clothes of a preacher. Digging himself out, he cannot remember who he is. Finding a letter addressed to the preacher in his pocket, he assumes that he is the preacher and takes the preacher's new posting as an army chaplain.

* AntiHero: Type IV

-->"Ugghh! Thet rotgut shore do taste nasty! Smells nasty! Tastes nasty! Got an aroma just like kerosene! A man'd have tuh be near crazy tuh drink this stuff!"