History Main / ShowdownAtHighNoon

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* When ''Comicstrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' parody this, the urban expansion solution actually ''does'' occur to them.
-->'''Hobbes''': I get to be the zoning board!
** His mom didn't let them play with guns.
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' parodied this numerous times:
** One strip mentions that before its replacement by its sharper cousin, duels in the West involved fighting with Bowie... spoons.
** Another has cowboys playing ping pong instead, with the duel still being treated with the same level of gravity.
** A cowboy gets beaten to the draw by a sloth (which is naked except for its guns and cowboy hat.)
** A shooter wins against his "opponent", this time a chicken who just threw eggs at him.
** "Anytime you're ready, Slim". Judging by his shadow, Slim is literally a stick-figure.
** "Shoe's untied!"
* ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' in the 1960s parodied this trope in a cartoon showing a samurai movie in which [[SamuraiCowboy two samurai with swords drawn]] are facing each other prepared for this sort of showdown with the subtitle "Kyushu isn't big enough for the both of us!"
** The Nov 17, 2003 issue also parodied it by having the cowboys draw caricatures of each other instead, but with bystanders reacting to it with the same amount of horror as a more violent duel. Of course, it was done by Gary Larson himself.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Any confronatation with [[SpaceWestern space cowboy]] Terra-Man is almost guaranteed to end in one of these. In ''ComicBook/{{Worlds Finest|1961}}'' #261, he and ComicBook/ThePenguin hypnotise Superman and ComicBook/{{Batman}} into having one.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hitman}}'' has Tommy go up against a telepathic gunslinger who can and will outdraw anyone due to reading their minds. The BigBad mockingly asks how Tommy's going to beat that, Nat obligingly provides the answer: [[spoiler:have your buddy blow his head off while he's not looking]].
* The "Luna-1" arc of ''ComicBook/{{JudgeDredd}}'' had Judge Dredd working as the sheriff of the very western themed Luna-1 colony on the moon. An assassination attempt had Dredd facing off against a Robo-Slinger, a cowboy looking robot who could draw and fire at lightning speeds. Dredd, despite having to drawn from his boot holster and not his hip, still manages to outdraw the robot and fire a kill shot. The robot, being a sore loser, then tries to blow Dredd away with a missile before being destroyed.

* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' had a few variations on the theme.

* A variant near the end of ''ComicBook/SerenityLeavesOnTheWind''. The crew drops the Operative off on a planet, and Zoe follows him into the woods and throws him a pistol, telling him that despite him helping save her, he still killed her husband and that debt can't be repaid. The scene ends with them standing under the trees waiting to draw. Next panel Zoe comes back to the ship, but it's not stated whether she killed the Operative.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': Any confronatation with [[SpaceWestern space cowboy]] Terra-Man is almost guaranteed to end in one of these. In ''World's Finest'' #261, he and ComicBook/ThePenguin hypnotise Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}} into having one.

* The Stage 3 boss in ''[[VideoGame/LethalEnforcers Lethal Enforcers II: Gunfighters]]'' is a quick draw between you and three mooks (six if you have two players). The duel starts with your opponents telling you "When we draw, start shootin'." But if you even try shooting them before they draw, you'll be told, [[WhatTheHellPlayer "I said you can't shoot 'til we draw!"]]

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/LiveALive''. The Wild West chapter features a showdown between the Sundown Kid and Mad Dog... only for them to both shoot into some hay barrels instead of at each other to take out some of the Crazy Bunch hiding there, as Mad Dog doesn't want anybody to interfere with their duel. [[spoiler:Played straight at the end of the chapter -- the Sundown Kid wins.]]