History Main / NewOldWest

* Creator/JohnCarpenter said that he chose to direct ''Film/JohnCarpentersVampires'' because he thought the script resembled a Western (and even described as a "Western disguised as a horror film"). The film itself is full of Western landscapes and ghost towns with a vintage feel.
** The same with his earlier film Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976 as well it should be, considering it's a remake of ''Film/RioBravo''.

* ''Film/ThreeNinjas:'' ''Knuckle Up'' features the brothers going up against a greedy, influential Caucasian businessman with lots of {{Cowboy}} {{Mook}}s trying to avoid justice for his crimes against the local Native Americans. The setting is more rural than in the other films, and the climatic fight takes place in a western GhostTown.

Of course, this means that it's harder to do stories about outlaws because advances in technology mean that it's much easier for law enforcement agents to pursue and capture criminals. As a result, many New Old West stories are about the perceived loss of freedom in America now that such days are gone.

* Bon Jovi's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho "Wanted Dead or Alive,"]] featuring the quote for this page.

* In ''Film/BroncoBilly'', Bronco Billy and his troupe are nostalgic of the Wild West. Their show is an attempt to revive the Old West. At some point, they even try to rob a train.

* The Swedish film ''Film/BabasCars'' depicts the battle between a used car salesman and his apprentice vs TheMafiya. It's set in the northern town of Kiruna, which is portrayed exactly like the Old West, with wide open plains, canyons, etc, only they're covered with snow and ice instead of sand.

A less popular choice is the New Old West, in which Western traditions and tropes are shifted forward a hundred or so years into the modern day. Now the bandits drive pick-up trucks or [[MyHorseIsAMotorbike ride motorcycles]], the outlaws hole up in grungy {{No Tell Motel}}s at highway rest stops, the sheriff has a modern handgun and rifle (possibly a revolver and lever-action rifle if the creators want to contrast, in a GoodGunsBadGuns way, against crooks' submachine guns and assault rifles), and the great plains of America are surrounded on all sides by airports, highways, and cities.

* The modern ''Amazing Fantasy'' anthology series was headlined for a few issues by Vegas, a shiftless luck-stealing bounty hunter on the trail of the old mutant gang he used to run with after they hospitalized his sister.
* Franchise/TheDCU comic ''Cinnamon: El Ciclo'' was an updating of a female BountyHunter from the 1970s book ''Weird Western Tales'' to the present day, where she was a security operative for hire. In the miniseries, she tangles with people smugglers (a.k.a. 'coyotes') along the US/Mexico border.
** Several other DC Western characters have [[LegacyCharacter modern day counterparts]], although how Western their stories are varies considerably.
* Two of DC's licensed comics of the late [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeofComicBooks Golden Age]], ''Dale Evans Comics'' and ''Jimmy Wakely'', starred the two then-popular celebrities in western adventures set in the present day of the early 1950s.

* The Rafael Sandoval version of Creator/DCComics' ComicBook/ElDiablo, who had his own short-lived title in the early 90s, patrolled a modern day border town while confronting issues that face Mexican-Americans.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Hitman}}'' annual is a modern-day Western, right down to the coffin full of money.
** Several other Creator/DCComics Annuals that year were modern westerns (the "theme" being pulp fiction genres). These included Franchise/{{Superman}} as the Mysterious Stranger [[strike: riding]] flying into town; Comicbook/{{Impulse}} teaming with the original Vigilante, now running a dude ranch; and Comicbook/{{Robin|1993}} facing down the modern day Trigger Twins, alongside the modern day Pow-Wow Smith and Nighthawk.

* Parodied in a ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' {{Elseworlds}} annual in which Lobo takes the role of various Western characters (Geroni-bo, The Main Man With No Name, Anne Bo-kley, etc). The final story is about "The Last Despera-bo" ... who promptly gets hit by a truck.
* UsefulNotes/{{The Golden Age|of Comic Books}} Creator/DCComics characters Pow-Wow Smith (Native American sheriff) and Vigilante (singing cowboy) were 1940s Western characters, although sometimes DC forgot and put them in the real Old West. This was eventually explained as Pow-Wow having an [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Grandfather]] and Vigilante getting TrappedInThePast during an adventure with the ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' has several aspects of this despite (or perhaps because of) being a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Especially the second game, in which the New California Republic was spreading its influence north and east resulting in several "frontier towns" (although many did exist before the NCR). This would have been explored further in the cancelled ''[[VideoGame/FalloutVanBuren Van Buren]]'' version of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' which had a major sub-plot about the NCR establishing railways. There's a good reason for it: the ''Fallout'' universe [[RetroUniverse never left the]] [=1950s=] [[RetroUniverse USA aesthetic behind]], and [=1950s=] America ''adored'' cowboys.

* ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'' is a spiritual sequel of Fallout that takes place in the far-flung future of an alternate universe where robber barons conquered the world in the 1800's, and centuries later corporations are near-absolutely unregulated (even by our standards). As a result, everything is a retro-futuristic version of the old west; colonies are stuck between surviving in a dog-eat-dog world or serving the whims of the warring megacorporations.