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* [[VideoGame/MetalGear Major Ocelot]] matches up to this in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3''.

* [[VideoGame/UndertaleYellow]] has Clover: a young [[ForGreatJustice justice soul]] dressed in stereotypical cowboy attire and equipped with a revolver who jumps into the underground to rescue the missing humans.

* Music/{{Gorillaz}} has a song ''Kids With Guns'', from ''Music/DemonDays'', which is about the dangers of children and teenagers with guns in RealLife.

* In the MarvelUniverse there was Jeff Packard a.k.a. Understudy, one-time sidekick to the Rawhide Kid.

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* Fievel daydreams about being a Young Gun at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'', complete with his hero Wylie Burp telling him to get out while he still can, and Fievel blatantly disobeying him and shooting out a gang of villainous cats.

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' (yeah): This is, out of all people in the world, ''[[ThisLoserIsYou Nobita]]'' whenever the cast travel to a Western-y age/planet/dimension/whatever. Boy might be a total loser in other aspects of life, but when the plot requires that someone be shot, he does the shooting competently. Best exemplified in ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheGalaxySuperExpress'' when the gang travels to a Planet of Cowboys, and must compete in a shooting match firing a loaded six-shooter at six targets. The best record so far is five out of six - Nobita fires six times, hits ''one'' can among the targets, and shows the judge (who just disqualified Nobita) [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt the can he shot at contains six holes and spent bullets]].

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' (yeah): This is, out of all people in the world, ''[[ThisLoserIsYou Nobita]]'' whenever the cast travel to a Western-y age/planet/dimension/whatever. Boy might be a total loser in other aspects of life, but when the plot requires that someone be shot, he does the shooting competently.

* UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid was portrayed this way in Film/TheThreeStooges film ''The Outlaws Is Coming''.

* UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid is portrayed this way in ''Film/TheOutlawsIscoming'': literally throwing a tantrum and storming off calling for his mamma when he can't draw his gun from its holster.

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''

* Yuna of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', who proved herself to be very talented at fighting with GunsAkimbo during the Mages vs Martians game and has continued to wield the guns she used then even after the Mahora Festival. However, she still has a long way to go before she reaches the likes of [[TheGunslinger Mana]] or even the [[ShootTheBullet gun-using mage teacher]].

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' (yeah): This is, out of all people in the world, ''[[ThisLoserIsYou Nobita]]'' whenever the cast travel to a Western-y age/planet/dimension/whatever. Boy might be a total loser in other aspects of life, but when the plot requires that someone be shot, he does the shooting competently.

->''"The graveyards are full of boys who were very young... and very proud."''
-->-- '''Vin''', ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]''

* ''Film/{{Assassins}}'' is a contemporary thriller not a Western, but features psychopathic newcomer Bain challenging ex-ColdWar veteran Rath for the position of number one hitman in the world. And [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne by challenge he means kill]], even when Rath is ready to retire and let Bain walk away with the title.

* Marty [=McFly=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' with the [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] that he ''does'' get out while he still can.

* TheWildWest setting of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' meant that a number of the Van der Linde gang are this, particularly [[TokenBlackFriend Lenny Summers]]. Both John Marston and Arthur Morgan start off as this, with the former committing his first murder at the age of eleven while the latter was inducted to the Van der Linde gang at fourteen.

* Of all of Marvel's western heroes, ComicBook/KidColt was the most impulsive and immature. This did not him being a [[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] on a par with the rest of them. It just meant he was more likely to get himself into scrapes that could have been avoided.

* TheWildWest setting of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' meant that a number of the Van der Linde gang are this, particularly [[BlackBestFriend Lenny Summers]]. Both John Marston and Arthur Morgan start off as this, with the former committing his first murder at the age of eleven while the latter was inducted to the Van der Linde gang at fourteen.

* The Schofield Kid in ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''

* [[Franchise/MetalGear Major Ocelot]] matches up to this in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3''.

** Subverted with the eponymous character, since he [[spoiler:was an adult that was cursed and turned into an infant. He ''is'' the mentor, even in his infant state.]]

* TheWildWest setting of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' meant that a number of the Van der Linde gang are this, particularly [[BlackBestFriend Lenny Summers]]. Both John Marston and Arthur Morgan start off as this, with the former committing his first murder at the age of eleven while the latter was inducted to the Van der Linde gang at fifteen.

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-->'''Inman:''' I will not shoot you, but nor am I walking down that mountain looking over my shoulder for you.
-->'''Bosie:''' That's what you call a conundrum. I tell you what I've got on my side.
-->'''Inman:''' What have you got on your side?
-->'''Bosie:''' The confidence of youth.

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* The WildWest setting of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' meant that a number of the Van der Linde gang are this, particularly [[BlackBestFriend Lenny Summers]]. Both John Marston and Arthur Morgan start off as this, with the former committing his first murder at the age of eleven while the latter was inducted to the Van der Linde gang at fifteen.
** John's son Jack, despite outward appearances, isn't even twenty when [[spoiler:he murders Edgar Ross in revenge of his father's death]].