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Billy Candle has had a crappy life: [[DisappearedDad his dad is gone]], his mom married a guy who [[DomesticAbuse beat him up regularly]], he was mistreated by other kids for being a Mexican; when he ran away from home to find lost treasures, he didn't make it far; a girl he loved had an OverprotectiveDad and he lost both the girl and his job. He returns to his hometown of Hope, "the most hopeless place on Earth", because he has nowhere left to go... and finds his mother and stepfather shot dead in their home, "[[ArcWords Call of Juarez]]" written in blood above their bodies. Worse even, he is seen by his step-uncle [[BadassPreacher Reverend Ray]] who assumes he is the murderer and [[SternChase gives chase]] to him...

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Billy Candle has had a crappy life: [[DisappearedDad his dad is gone]], his mom married a guy who [[DomesticAbuse beat him up regularly]], he was mistreated by other kids for being a Mexican; when he ran away from home to find lost treasures, he didn't make it far; a girl he loved had an OverprotectiveDad a BoyfriendBlockingDad and he lost both the girl and his job. He returns to his hometown of Hope, "the most hopeless place on Earth", because he has nowhere left to go... and finds his mother and stepfather shot dead in their home, "[[ArcWords Call of Juarez]]" written in blood above their bodies. Worse even, he is seen by his step-uncle [[BadassPreacher Reverend Ray]] who assumes he is the murderer and [[SternChase gives chase]] to him...
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Whatever happened to Susie? Ray burns down the bar/brothel where she works to kill all the town thugs, does that mean he also killed her and all the other working girls? [[AntiHero Almost certainly so.]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Whatever happened to Susie? Suzy? Ray burns down the bar/brothel where she works to kill all the town thugs, does that mean he also killed her and all the other working girls? [[AntiHero Almost certainly so.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Billy's stepfather beats him regularly. [[spoiler:His biological father, Juarez, is even worse.]]
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* AxCrazy: Ray clearly is not alright in the head, even before his brother and sister-in-law are murdered, very obviously showing his disdain for the people he's preaching to for the sin they carry. ''After'' they're murdered, he falls into a delusional quest for what he perceives to be justice, killing everyone in his path under the belief that it's his God-given duty. [[spoiler:Being deceived by two bandits posing as rangers, which causes the death of Molly's father, finally makes him reflect on his actions.]]

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* AxCrazy: Ray clearly is not alright in the head, even before his brother and sister-in-law are murdered, very obviously showing his disdain for the people he's preaching to for the sin they carry. ''After'' they're his brother and sister-in-law are murdered, he falls into a delusional quest for what he perceives to be thinks is justice, killing everyone in his path under the belief that it's his God-given duty. [[spoiler:Being deceived by two bandits posing as rangers, which causes the death of Molly's father, finally makes him reflect on his actions.]]]]
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* AxCrazy: Ray clearly is not alright in the head, even before his brother and sister-in-law are murdered. ''After'' they're murdered, he falls into a delusional quest for what he perceives to be justice, killing everyone in his path under the belief that it's his God-given duty. [[spoiler:Being deceived by two bandits posing as rangers, which causes the death of Molly's father, finally makes him reflect on his actions.]]

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* AxCrazy: Ray clearly is not alright in the head, even before his brother and sister-in-law are murdered.murdered, very obviously showing his disdain for the people he's preaching to for the sin they carry. ''After'' they're murdered, he falls into a delusional quest for what he perceives to be justice, killing everyone in his path under the belief that it's his God-given duty. [[spoiler:Being deceived by two bandits posing as rangers, which causes the death of Molly's father, finally makes him reflect on his actions.]]

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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Juarez initially presents himself as a polite man who frames the deaths of Billy's parents as an altercation that got out of hand. When Billy reveals that he doesn't have what Juarez seeks however, the niceties immediately drop, and Juarez just reveals himself to be worse and worse as the rest of the game goes on.]]



* SinisterMinister: Ray occasionally dips into this trope.

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* SinisterMinister: Ray occasionally dips into is this trope.in the AxCrazy sense rather than the corrupt sense, being a very unhinged man very willing to kill in the name of God.



* SoftWater: Averted.

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* SoftWater: Averted. Falling into a body of water from a far height will kill you just like if you hit solid dirt.
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* SternChase

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* SternChaseSternChase: The central conceit of the story's structure, with Billy as the fugitive and Ray as the pursuer.
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* DomesticAbuse: Thomas Ray has beaten Billy up regularly.

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* DomesticAbuse: Thomas Ray has beaten Billy up regularly.regularly, and Billy initially avoided his home while it was being attacked because he mistook the noises for Thomas going through one of his rages.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent

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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferentAndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You switch between Billy and Ray throughout the game. Billy's sections emphasize stealth and platforming, while Ray's sections are geared towards straightforward action.
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* AxCrazy: Ray clearly is not alright in the head, even before his brother and sister-in-law are murdered. ''After'' they're murdered, he falls into a delusional quest for what he perceives to be justice, killing everyone in his path under the belief that it's his God-given duty. [[spoiler:Being deceived by two bandits posing as rangers, which causes the death of Molly's father, causes him to work his way back up to a more lucid state of mind.]]

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* AxCrazy: Ray clearly is not alright in the head, even before his brother and sister-in-law are murdered. ''After'' they're murdered, he falls into a delusional quest for what he perceives to be justice, killing everyone in his path under the belief that it's his God-given duty. [[spoiler:Being deceived by two bandits posing as rangers, which causes the death of Molly's father, causes finally makes him to work reflect on his way back up to a more lucid state of mind.actions.]]

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* AxCrazy: Ray clearly is not alright in the head, even before his brother and sister-in-law are murdered. ''After'' they're murdered, he falls into a delusional quest for what he perceives to be justice, killing everyone in his path under the belief that it's his God-given duty. [[spoiler:Being deceived by two bandits posing as rangers, which causes the death of Molly's father, causes him to work his way back up to a more lucid state of mind.]]



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%% * FragileSpeedster: Billy.Billy can hardly take damage before dropping dead, but he's far faster than Ray, which is one of the reasons he's able to evade him during Ray's pursuit.
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* LastSecondVillainRecovery: In the finale, Billy defeats the BigBad Juan Juarez ''twice'' (once in a ShowdownAtHighNoon and once with GoodOldFisticuffs) and is reunited with his love interest Molly. While they are tearfully embracing each other, however, Juarez gets up a ''third'' time and tries to stab Billy InTheBack... only to be shot in the head by Billy's [[TheGunslinger mortally-wounded uncle Ray]].
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Ray picks up the habit to quote Literature/TheBible... [[BadassPreacher in all the wrong situations]].
* BadassPreacher: Ray can hold Literature/TheBible in the left hand and [[AsTheGoodBookSays read passages]] from it ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome even as he guns down mooks with a revolver in his right]]''.

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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Ray picks up the habit to quote Literature/TheBible...''Literature/TheBible''... [[BadassPreacher in all the wrong situations]].
* BadassPreacher: Ray can hold Literature/TheBible in the left hand and [[AsTheGoodBookSays read passages]] from it ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome even as he guns down mooks with a revolver in his right]]''.right.

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* FriendlyFireproof: Enforced by the game--trying to shoot a civilian will result in the character saying no (and if you ''do'' manage to harm them somehow, you'll get [[NonstandardGameOver kicked out of the game]].)



* GuideDangIt: It's not immediately obvious that [[spoiler:you have to make the final shot on Juarez as a duel - i.e. flick the control stick to draw - because every previous duel was announced openly]].

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* GrapplingHookPistol: Billy's whip can act as this.
* GuideDangIt: It's not immediately obvious that [[spoiler:you have to make the final shot on Juarez as a duel - i.e. flick the control stick to draw - because every previous duel was announced openly]]. All the more frustrating because you only have a split-second, and must watch a long unskippable cutscene before every attempt.



* NoobBridge: A certain jump near the beginning of episode VII requires you to grapple a branch with the whip, then shorten the whip to bring yourself upwards before swinging across to the ledge. The in-game tutorial never mentions that you can shorten or lengthen the whip when grappling, so players who don't bother to read manuals will likely get stuck on that part for a while.



* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Some of the bosses.

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* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Some of the bosses.bosses deliver fairly long speeches before you begin fighting them; of course, the protagonist just stands there and waits for them to finish.


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* VideogameCrueltyPunishment: Harming civilians or horses will quickly result in an unceremonious NonstandardGameOver.
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* ThrowAwayGuns: All guns have limited durability and will explode after enough shots, so you never hold onto a particular gun for long. Higher quality guns do last longer, but will break down eventually.
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* HandCannon: The pair of lever-action Volcano Pistols you get from Juarez after your duel against him near the end of the game. They're the most powerful pistols in the game and will kill any enemy in one shot, while still having a sizable ammo capacity and rate of fire.
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** In the extra story on the original Call of Juarez [[spoiler: The unnamed sheriff kills his corrupt boss, County Commissioner Grizzwald, and the bandit, Vasquez, is executed leaving Round Rock in peace... but the whole town saw him gun down Grizzwald and Vasquez was the only person who knew he was corrupt, forcing the sheriff to flee to Mexico, or get hung by the citizens.]]

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** In the extra story on the original Call of Juarez [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:the unnamed sheriff kills his corrupt boss, County Commissioner Grizzwald, and the bandit, Vasquez, is executed leaving Round Rock in peace... but the whole town saw him gun down Grizzwald and Vasquez was the only person who knew he was corrupt, forcing the sheriff to flee to Mexico, or get hung by the citizens.]]

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* UnexpectedGameplayChange: After several levels of linear cowboy slaying, Billy wakes up from a headshot to the face to find himself dumped into a WideOpenSandbox spirit quest taking place in a ''huge'' continuous forest and lake map.

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* UnexpectedGameplayChange: UnexpectedGameplayChange:
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After several levels of linear cowboy slaying, Billy wakes up from a headshot to the face to find himself dumped into a WideOpenSandbox spirit quest taking place in a ''huge'' continuous forest and lake map.map.
** Happens whenever the game shifts from Billy to Ray and vice versa. Billy's levels are more stealth orientated, due to him being a FragileSpeedster, whereas Ray's are more about brute force.
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* RuleOfCool: The main reason you can use ''Literature/TheBible'' to spout [[BadassPreacher quotes while gunning people down]].
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''Call of Juarez'' is a fast-paced, adrenaline-driven {{Western}} FirstPersonShooter, where the player [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent alternatingly assumes the roles of Billy and Reverend Ray]], who is after his head. Billy is more of a FragileSpeedster with heavy emphasis on [[StealthBasedGame stealth]], whereas Ray is a MightyGlacier ''and'' TheGunslinger, which allows for an interesting twist: revisiting [[RemixedLevel the same level]] (Ray is chasing after Billy, after all) never grows boring, thanks to the vastly different gameplay styles of the two.

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''Call of Juarez'' is a fast-paced, adrenaline-driven fast-paced {{Western}} FirstPersonShooter, where the player [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent alternatingly assumes the roles of Billy and Reverend Ray]], who is after his head. Billy is more of a FragileSpeedster with heavy emphasis on [[StealthBasedGame stealth]], whereas Ray is a MightyGlacier ''and'' TheGunslinger, which allows for an interesting twist: revisiting [[RemixedLevel the same level]] (Ray is chasing after Billy, after all) never grows boring, thanks to the vastly different gameplay styles of the two.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Reverend Ray is voiced by [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Gul Dukat]].
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* FragileSpeedster: Billy.

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* {{Expy}}: Ray is essentially ClintEastwood's character in ''Film/PaleRider''

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* {{Expy}}: Ray is essentially ClintEastwood's Creator/ClintEastwood's character in ''Film/PaleRider''
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The original game started the eponymous series, currently consisting of three more titles:

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The original game (2006) started the eponymous series, currently consisting of three more titles:
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* InjunCountry: The Native Americans in ''Call Of Juarez'' and ''Bound In Blood'' are identified as Apache, Comanche, and Navajo, but they all live in tipis, use totem poles, and wear BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins.

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* InjunCountry: The Native Americans in ''Call Of Juarez'' and ''Bound In Blood'' are identified as Apache, Comanche, and Navajo, Navajo; but they all live in tipis, use totem poles, and wear BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins.
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* InjunCountry: The Native Americans in [I]Call Of Juarez[/I] and [I]Bound In Blood[/I] are identified as Apache, Comanche, and Navajo, but they all live in tipis, use totem poles, and wear BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins.

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* InjunCountry: The Native Americans in [I]Call ''Call Of Juarez[/I] Juarez'' and [I]Bound ''Bound In Blood[/I] Blood'' are identified as Apache, Comanche, and Navajo, but they all live in tipis, use totem poles, and wear BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins.
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* InjunCountry: The Native Americans in [I]Call Of Juarez[/I] and [I]Bound In Blood[/I] are identified as Apache, Comanche, and Navajo, but they all live in tipis, use totem poles, and wear BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins.
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* AscendedMeme: A famous video from ''Bound in Blood'' discusses "Ladder Goat", a goat that, due to some odd coding, can levitate up and down ladders. In ''The Cartel'' you get an achievement for finding a hidden DVD: "Ladder Goat - The Movie".
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* AscendedMeme: A famous video from the first game discusses "Ladder Goat", a goat that, due to some odd coding, can levitate up and down ladders. In the sequel, you get an achievement for finding a hidden DVD: "Ladder Goat - The Movie".

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* AscendedMeme: A famous video from the first game ''Bound in Blood'' discusses "Ladder Goat", a goat that, due to some odd coding, can levitate up and down ladders. In the sequel, ''The Cartel'' you get an achievement for finding a hidden DVD: "Ladder Goat - The Movie".

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