History VideoGame / SunsetRiders

* WhipItGood: El Greco. He and Chief Scalpem are the only bosses that don't use guns.

* GunsAkimbo: With a powerup. Two of them, [[UpToEleven even Dual Wield SHOTGUNS]]. Well, {{Sawed Off Shotgun}}s, but still.

* MadBomber: The Smith Brothers. One of them has enough sense to talk, but the other is completely AxeCrazy. Their boss fight (the only one without a preceding stage) could be dangerous to play if the player's epileptic. The brother in blue uses molotovs and the one in green uses regular bombs. When one of them is killed, the other one will start tossing his weapon of choice around like crazy, so it's HIGHLY recommended that you kill the green brother first.

* ItWasAGift: In the arcade version, [[spoiler:if Cormano is involved in the fight with El Greco in stage 5, El Greco takes off his [[NiceHat red sombrero]] upon defeat and tosses it away. Cormano will catch and wear it in place of his own for the rest of the game.]] In the SNES version, he just drops it.

* NiceHat: El Greco has a really, REALLY nice charro-style ''sombrero''. [[spoiler:Which he tosses away before he dies. If Cormano's there, he will catch the ''sombrero'' mid-air, take his own 'charro'' hat off and and promptly put Greco's on, claiming it as his own from then on.]]

* KnifeNut: Chief Scalpem.

* BookEnds: The first boss, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5JtjpH9hbI&t=2m28s Simon Greedwell]], is fought in front of a building's facade. He shoots the players from behind a barrier with mooks appearing from all directions to support him. The final boss, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5JtjpH9hbI&t=19m45s Sir Richard Rose]], is fought under very similar circumstances, that is until you destroy his barrier.

* FluffyFashionFeathers: The saloon girls in the arcade and SNES versions and the kidnapped ladies in the Genesis version wear white feather boas with their outfits.

* AgentPeacock: The final boss and BigBad, Sir Richard Rose. He's a British pretty boy with an affinity for roses. He's also one of the toughest bosses in the whole game (if not ''the'' toughest), due to his agility and the BulletproofVest he wears under his suit.

* BoundAndGagged: All of the rescueable women are tied up and gagged. The Salon girls in both the Arcade and SNES version, and the lady in yellow in the Megadrive version.

* BossOnlyLevel: Stage 4 consists solely of the Smith Bros. boss battle in the saloon.

** At that point his fighting style becomes similar to the second boss, Hawkeye Hank Hatfield. Only cranked UpToEleven. And at one point he sort of borrows a trick from the third boss, Dark Horse. [[spoiler:A hidden plate of metal under his shirt.]] This all still counts for trope purposes.

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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: So you've killed Richard Rose? [[spoiler:Not so fast... He was wearing a body plate!]]

* BadassBeard: Cormano is the only playable character with one. "Hawkeye" Hank Hatfield is the only boss who has a beard.

* GroinAttack: Step on a rake and see what happens.

* SuckMyRose: The final boss, Sir Richard Rose.

A side-scrolling ShootEmUp released for the arcades in 1991, ''Sunset Riders'' is one of several four-player arcade games that {{Creator/Konami}} released in the wake of their success with ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame''. The game centers around four {{bounty hunter}}s (Steve, Bob, Billy, and Cormano) who must hunt down various fugitives during the WildWest to collect monetary rewards. Essentially a [[RecycledInSpace Wild West-themed]] version of ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'', as its director Hideyuki Tsujimoto worked on both arcade ''Contra'' games.

* RecycledInSpace: ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' IN THE {{WILD WEST}}!

--> ''[[FamousLastWords Bury me with my money!]]''

* FlashOfPain: The bosses flash white upon hit and red when in critical health. This also applies to three types of destructible objects: Simon Greedwell's barrels, the wooden gates in the final stage and Richard Rose's balcony.

* ProfessionalKiller: The heroes.
* QuickDraw: The 2nd boss, Hank "Hawkeye" Hatfield. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation In theory, at least.]]
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Sir Richard Rose has quite the modals for the BigBad. Noted specially in his intro:
--> "Cheerio, old chap!"
** He'll make you cry on harder difficulties.

* SquashedFlat: The death sprite used when anyone, be it either player characters or enemies, gets crushed by falling rocks.

* StationaryBoss: Simon Greedwell, the Smith Brothers, Paco Loco, and Richard Rose don't move from their spots. All but Paco Loco have walls that can be destroyed, and [[spoiler: Richard Rose becomes ''very'' mobile when you destroy his balcony]].

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: So you've killed Richard Rose? [[spoiler:Get ready for the real thing... He was wearing a body plate!]]

* DamselInDistress: The saloon dancers in Stage 4 of the arcade and SNES versions.

* KarmaHoudini: Chief Scalpem. See above. The fact that he's considered one of the hardest bosses in the game only makes it worse.
** Of course, let's not forget that the {{Wanted Poster}}s that open each stage have the words "Dead or ''Alive''" on them, and that your player characters are bounty hunters first and foremost.

* NotSoAboveItAll: After defeating the Smith Brothers, the girls of the bar they took hostage put on a dance for the heroes. Steve, Bob, and Cormano stand by the stage cheering, but Billy stands off to the side acting like he's above it, but you can see him give a side glance to the stage and blush.

* BadassNative: Chief Scalpem can deflect waves of bullets with just his two knives and is easily ThatOneBoss of the game. Expect to lose lots of lives and credits fighting him.

* FlashOfPain: The bosses flash white upon hit, and red when in critical health.[[note]]Very few destructible objects in the game like the barrels at the end of stage 1 as well as the wooden gates in the final stage have the same seizure-time concept bosses had.[[/note]]

* FluffyFashionFeathers: The saloon girls in the arcade and SNES versions, and the kidnapped ladies in the Genesis version, wear white feather boas with their outfits.
* FlunkyBoss: All bosses except El Greco and Scalpem summon additional enemies to fight with them.

* {{Greed}}: 1st boss Simon ''[[MeaningfulName Greed]]''well. He even drops a huge bag of gold when he falls out of his door.

* KnifeNut: Chief Scalpem, of course.

* MadBomber: The Smith Brothers. One of them has enough sense to talk, but the other is completely AxeCrazy. Their boss fight (the only one without a preceding stage) could be dangerous to play if the player's epileptic. The brother in blue uses molotovs while the one in red uses regular bombs. When one is killed, the survivor will start tossing bombs around like crazy, so its HIGHLY recommended that you kill the red brother first.

* UpgradedBoss: If you get to Chief Scalpem/Wigwam with 5 lives - the most you can get in the game - in the arcade version (including the PS4 and Switch ports), he will move faster and throw 4 knives each time instead of 3, reverting to his "normal form" once you lose a life.