History Main / WeirdWest

* The setting for several tracks by the Music/BlueOysterCult. '"Then Came The Last Days Of May" on ''Music/BlueOysterCult1972'' sees three buddies die on a trip into the desert border with Mexico. "The Golden Age of Leather" on ''Music/{{Spectres}}'' sees Western desert samds obligingly bury any trace that Hell's Angels fought a battle to the death here.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "A Town Called Mercy" features the Doctor, Amy and Rory dealing with what is essentially a Franchise/{{Terminator}} tormenting the title town in the American old West.

* On ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'', at least two {{Western}} parodies are this: the "galloping saddle" and "My Name is Kathy" sketches.
* ''Series/OuterRange''

* ''Series/{{Preacher|2016}}'' The series is set in the American South, mostly Texas and Louisiana. The main character has an [[spoiler:angelic/demonic power]], and another main character is a vampire. The first season features angels and a [[spoiler: telephone call to heaven]]. In later seasons there are arcs involving undead assassins from hell, vampires, voodoo, and shadowy religious organisations.
* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' episode "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE14LivingInHarmony Living in Harmony]]" has the scifi/espionage action of the main series transposed to an Old West setting.

* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' is an odd case. While it's clearly on the science fiction side of the SpeculativeFiction spectrum, it also clearly isn't a SpaceWestern or CattlePunk. Rather, it's a collision of an AIIsACrapshoot thriller and a classical Western, making it fit more comfortably here than in any of the other speculative Western genres.
** InUniverse, some of the park's story-lines run into this category, such as the horror story involving cultists in the desert who became cannibals.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonCrawlClassics'' spin-off ''Weird Frontiers'' could be described as a more lovecraftian version of ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}''. In 1865, a group of cultists attempt to free the slumbering EldritchAbomination/ElderGods, but the final ritual is stopped by a group of Texas Rangers. While the Elder Gods are still trapped, they were awakened and many lesser entities are able to enter the world through the weakened barriers and begin wreaking havoc across the frontier. The player characters are people who have been empowered by Earth's magical energy, giving them the means to fight back against Elder Gods' evil.

* ''Evil West'' from Flying Wild Hog is set in a version of the Wild West filled with the vampiric monsters called Sanguisuge, your gunslinger protagonist Jesse Rentier is a PowerFist-wielding agent of the 18th century [[MonsterHunterOrganization Rentier Institute]] which was made to protect pioneers from these vampires.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' is an unabashed example of this trope, to the point that it actively ''uses the term Weird West'' to describe its setting. After a vengeful Native Amercian shaman opens the doors to [[SpiritWorld "the Hunting Grounds"]] and unleashes powerful demons during the American Civil War, all sorts of supernatural weirdness is unleashed upon the world, from traditional beasts like zombies and vampires to malicious versions of FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore to demonically-influenced {{Mad Scientist}}s building weird devices powered by [[GreenRocks coal made from the souls of the damned]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' features a lawless American West, mostly free from Coalition control (save Northern Texas and Iowa) but host to a whole mess of other troubles. It's all a self-respecting cowpoke or injun (whether tech- or [[MagicalNativeAmerican magic-inclined]]) or [[MonsterKnight Lyn-Srial Skyknight]] can do to take up arms and clear out all the scum -- [[FantasyKitchenSink cyborg prospectors, dinosaurs, lowlife banditos, cactus men, red skinned desert spirits...]] speaking of, Mexico is pretty much completely overrun by vampires. The Canadian West is basically a northern extension of the American West but has its own problems such as [[BugWar the Xiticix hivelands]], [[HellOnEarth the Calgary Rift and Monster Kingdom]], and of course, {{Wendigo}}.

* ''VideoGame/BountyOfOne'' takes place in a fantasy Wild West with goblins, fireball-throwing mages, as well as flaming skeletal {{Hell Hound}}s as enemies, with one of the [[BossBattle Sheriffs]] being a three-headed, flaming skeletal hellhound. Meanwhile, playable character Ollin is a desert spirit with a MagicStaff that gives him [[GreenThumb cactus powers]].

* ''Evil West'' from Flying Wild Hog is set in a version of the Wild West filled with the vampiric monsters called Sanguisuge, your gunslinger protagonist is a PowerFist-wielding agent of the 18th century [[MonsterHunterOrganization the Rentier Institute]] which was made to protect pioneers from these vampires.

* Creator/{{Gameloft}}'s tablet 3rd person shooter, ''Six-Guns: Gang Showdown'', has Arizona and Oregon haunted by vampires, cultists and other creatures of the night. But that's okay, because your cowboy can beat them back with his trusty revolver or with flamethrowers, gatling guns, HandCannon, {{BFG}}, chainsaws, magic scythes, [[LightningGun Tesla rifles]] and holy energy guns. All while riding a [[MechanicalHorse mechanized]] or [[HellishHorse demonic horse]].

* ''VideoGame/EvilWest'' is set in a version of the Wild West filled with vampires and zombies, where your gunslinger protagonist does battle with the supernatural.

** ''Tex Willer'' is usually more down to earth and tends to feature mostly typical stories, but from time to time has shown magic users (including the warlock Mefisto, Tex' most famous enemy, and Tex' ally El Morisco. Plus, the medicine man of the Navajo village where Tex lives has genuine magical abilities, [[OvershadowedByAwesome just not in the same league as the above two]]), LizardFolk, [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]], ''aliens''... [[ScoobyDooHoax And very convincing scammers]], leading to Tex usually doubting of apparent magic until he can verify it with his own eyes. Also, [[MugglesDoItBetter it's shown that guns kill much faster and better than magic]], with the only exception being the Tibetan monk Padma (who once asked the "Voice of My Land" for permission to deal with Mefisto by making him drop dead but was refused).

* Parodied in one of the short stories published on ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': in the 23rd century they were shooting a western movie that featured such things as fire-breathing cougars, Indians with [[DisintegratorRay disintegrator tomahawks]] terrified by robotic birds and mutant desperados... Because the producer, usually known for [[ShownTheirWork extreme realism]], [[CriticalResearchFailure accidentally documented himself with 20th century tabloids]].

* ''VideoGame/HuntShowdown'': Members of a CreatureHunterOrganization wage a secret war on monsters during the late 1800's using all kinds of weapons that, for all of their bizarre SteamPunk looks, [[AluminumChristmasTrees actually existed during that period]]. The game doesn't happen ''in'' the Wild West (most of the currently available arenas are set [[DeepSouth somewhere deep in Louisiana]]), but everything else fits.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonCrawlClassics'' spin-off ''Weird Frontiers'' could be described as a more lovecraftian version of ''TabletopGame/Deadlands''. In 1865, a group of cultists attempt to free the slumbering EldritchAbomination/ElderGods, but the final ritual is stopped by a group of Texas Rangers. While the Elder Gods are still trapped, they were awakened and many lesser entities are able to enter the world through the weakened barriers and begin wreaking havoc across the frontier. The player characters are people who have been empowered by Earth's magical energy, giving them the means to fight back against Elder Gods' evil.

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' had a {{Time Travel|Episode}}ing CowboyEpisode in which {{Franchise/Batman}}, Franchise/GreenLantern, and Franchise/WonderWoman were all [[TimeTravel sent back in time]] to the Wild West, teamed up with a bunch of Western-era DC characters (including ComicBook/JonahHex); and encountered, among other things, a laser gun that split into six smaller parts, android exoskeletons, and [[MechanicalAnimals robot dinosaurs]]. This is all because the {{villain|OfTheWeek}} [[TimeMaster Chronos]] had been [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit messing around with time travel]], and [[GivingRadioToTheRomans introduced a lot of anachronistic technology to this setting]].

* While the main storyline averts this entirely, the side content in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' features a lot more "abnormal" phenomenon, including sidequests concerning [[spoiler:ghosts, aliens, robots, and giants]], and characters that are heavily implied to be [[spoiler:time travelers, vampires, zombies, and Bigfoot]].

* There was a whole string of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship UFO sightings around the (western) United States in the 1890s]], and even alleged encounters with their AmbiguouslyHuman pilots (who were often claimed to be visitors from Mars). A man from Stockton, California even claimed that three alien beings tried (but failed) to [[AlienAbduction kidnap and drag him back to their spacecraft]].

* ''Unbreakable Iron Ranger'' (and its sequel series ''Crypts & Cowboys'') takes place in a NewOldWest WainscotSociety containing *deep breath* [[FantasyKitchenSink cyborgs, mutants, yokai, sentient robots, vampires, undead, cryptids, aliens, mad scientists, werewolves, various classic movie monsters]], [[spoiler: and at least one Angel]].

* Creator/LarryBlamire's anthology book ''Tales from the Callamo Mountains'' and its sequel ''More Tales From the Callamo Mountains'' are collections of short stories set in the Weird West. The only connecting tissue between them is that they are all set in the same (fictional) mountain range, implied to be some kind of EldritchLocation and/or WeirdnessMagnet.

The Weird West genre and settings tend to heavily overlap with AlternateHistory, FantasyAmericana, and HistoricalFantasy (or UrbanFantasy if it's a Weird version of the NewOldWest). If the story is set in the backdrop of historical military conflicts (such as the American Indian Wars, UsefulNotes/MexicanAmericanWar, UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, or the UsefulNotes/MexicanRevolution), then it becomes a WeirdHistoricalWar.

* Played for laughs in the opening scenes of the first and third ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' films; the scenarios Andy creates when he plays with his toys seemingly start out as Westerns before he starts piling on elements such as forcefield-generating dogs and dinosaurs that eat forcefield dogs.

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' had a {{Time Travel|Episode}}ing CowboyEpisode in which {{Franchise/Batman}}, Franchise/GreenLantern, and Franchise/WonderWoman were all [[TimeTravel sent back in time]] to the Wild West, teamed up with a bunch of Western-era DC characters (including ComicBook/JonahHex); and encountered, among other things, a laser gun that split into six smaller parts, android exoskeletons, and [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot dinosaurs]]. This is all because the {{villain|OfTheWeek}} [[TimeMaster Chronos]] had been [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit messing around with time travel]], and [[GivingRadioToTheRomans introduced a lot of anachronistic technology to this setting]].

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' had a {{Time Travel|Episode}}ing CowboyEpisode in which {{Franchise/Batman}}, Franchise/GreenLantern, and Franchise/WonderWoman were all [[TimeTravel sent back in time]] to the Wild West, teamed up with a bunch of Western-era DC characters (including ComicBook/JonahHex); and encountered, among other things, a laser gun that split into six smaller parts, android exoskeletons, and [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs robot dinosaurs]]. This is all because the {{villain|OfTheWeek}} [[TimeMaster Chronos]] had been [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit messing around with time travel]], and [[GivingRadioToTheRomans introduced a lot of anachronistic technology to this setting]].