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* DisposableSexWorker: [[spoiler: Prostitute Jenny has enough screen time and interaction with Colton in the game to make her look like she's going to be the LoveInterest, but she gets killed by Reed.]]

* BeardOfEvil: Magruder.

* BigBad: Magruder

--> [[spoiler:'''Hoodoo Brown''': [[LargeHam I'M HOOOOODOOOOO BRRRROOOOOOOWWWWNNN!]]]]
--> [[spoiler:''(BANG)'']]
--> [[spoiler:'''Colton White''': You ''were''.]]

* BountyHunter: Cole becomes one on some sidequests. In most missions you have the option to take them dead or alive and in some you must take them alive.

* DisposableSexWorker: [[spoiler:Jenny.]]

* EyepatchOfPower: Magruder, received from a case of MoeGreeneSpecial in the past.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Jenny and Sadie.

* ILikeSwords: A calvalry sword is the last and best melee weapon you can get.

* IronicNickname: "Honest" Tom.

* OneWordTitle: All caps, too.

* TheRemnant: Sergeant Hollister and his army of Renegades seems to be this, an entire army platoon that has deserted and become an army of outlaws. Also, Thomas Magruder's army of EliteMooks appear to be the Confederate soldiers that served under him in the Civil War.

* EvilOldFolks: Magruder has gray hair, and has been around since long before the Civil War.

* GutturalGrowler: Both Colton and Ned have rowdy, husky voices that go hand-in-hand with them being MountainMen.

** Dodge City also existed

* LoadBearingBoss: Once Macgruder is defeated Quivira begins to collapse in. Justified in that Colton has blasted a large portion of the cave on top of him and combined with Macgruder's mining operation weakening the structural integrity of the caves.

* TheSheriff: Both Dodge City and Empire City have one and both give you deputy missions where you have to clean the town yourself.

Colton "Cole" White lives a life of a MountainMan with his father Ned. However, after a routine hunting mission, he encounters a SinisterMinister named Reed at a river steamboat where he and Ned sell their game. Reed leads an attack on the ship with help of the local Renegades and just before Colton falls overboard, Ned tells him a startling truth: He isn't Colton's father, and there's a small treasure waiting for him.

After recovering, Colton sets out to find Reed for some good ol' {{revenge}}. He ends up crossing paths with Magruder, Reed's boss, who has closer ties to Colton's past than he knows.

A WideOpenSandbox {{Western}} ThirdPersonShooter.

* MightyWhitey: When Colton joins the Apache tribe, He wields a bow and goes shirtless for a level. [[spoiler:Although, the trope is ultimately averted, Colton is later revealed to have MixedAncestry, see below]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Hoodoo.]]

* BadBoss: Magruder isn't above cruel torture when his subordinates fail him. Best shown when he has Reed's ear cut off for failing him early in the story.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Ned is actually not Colt's father, but has raised him in an attempt to atone for accidentally getting his real parents, along with a Native American tribe, who were killed by Magruder after Ned led him straight to them.]]

* BountyHunter: Colt becomes one on some sidequests. In most missions you have the option to take them dead or alive and in some you must take them alive.

* IAmNotYourFather: Ned's last words to Colt is the revelation that he isn't Colt's real father. [[spoiler:Colt, and the player, finds out much later that Colt's real father was a doctor named Campbell and was murdered by Magruder.]]

** Clay's information about when he believed Ned to have been killed, combined with [[spoiler:Colt being an infant that Ned found during this incident]] means that Colt cannot possibly be older than 12 years old.
** Made even worse by the fact that Colt mentions via a flashback that around a dozen years prior to the game, he was attacked and almost killed by a cougar.

* SlashedThroat: Reed slits [[spoiler:Jenny's]] throat in front of Colton. Colt can do this to enemies he grabs hold of too.

* TokenRomance: Subverted. Though Colt sleeps with Jenny early on and there seems to be chemistry between them, [[spoiler:Reed slits her throat less than halfway into the game.]]

* WritersCannotDoMath: According to Clay, Ned was nearly killed in an incident during the Civil War, during which Ned found Colt, as a baby, ten years prior to the start of the game. [[FridgeLogic No more than a few seconds of thinking about this]] should make it clear what is wrong with that statement. Though, it does explain why everyone refers to Colt as "kid".

* AffablyEvil: Despite looking like Rob Zombie's great grandfather returned from the dead and being a little AxeCrazy, Sergeant Hollister is a pretty accommodating host when he captures Colton and Soapy, offering them drinks and even some captured Native women. Granted, [[FauxAffablyEvil he's doing this while he tries to figure out whether or not to KILL them and gut their corpses]]. But still, can't say he's not a gracious host.

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted. [=MacGruder=] wears a cuirass that protects him from bullets, meaning that Cole is forced to use explosives and geysers to hurt him.
* ArmyScout: A flashback to the Civil War reveals that Ned was hired by [=MacGruder=] to guide his troops in native territory.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Nock Gun and the Cannon Nock Gun. Sure, they're ridiculously powerful weapons, but the only way to get them is to beat the main missions (for the Nock Gun) and all the side missions (for the Cannon Nock Gun), at which point, the only use for them is to wipe out towns or take out random bandit attacks which occur from time to time. There is an easter egg that lets you replay earlier levels with your advanced weapons and skills once you've finished the game.

* TheAtoner: Ned.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Ned is actually not Colt's father, but has raised him in an attempt to atone for accidentally getting his real parents, along with a Native American tribe, who were killed by Magruder after Ned led him straight to them.]]

* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad - Thomas Magruder
** TheDragon - Josiah Reed
** TheEvilGenius - Hoodoo Brown
** TheBrute - Dutchie
** or Alternately
*** BigBad - Magruder
*** TheDragon - Dutchie
*** TheEvilGenius - Josiah Reed
*** TheBrute - Sergeant Hollister

* AffablyEvil: Despite looking like Rob Zombie's great grandfather returned from the dead and being a little AxeCrazy, Sergeant Hollister is a pretty accommodating host when he captures Colton and Soapy, offering them drinks and even some captured Indian women. Granted, [[FauxAffablyEvil he's doing this while he tries to figure out whether or not to KILL them and gut their corpses]]. But still, can't say he's not a gracious host.

* FacialMarkings: Both Indians and Renegades use them.

** You can scalp enemies that have been downed. Originally you could have cashed in the scalps with an Indian trader, but that aspect was removed from the game so there's no reason to scalping other than to hear the screams.

* YouKilledMyFather: The plot kicks off when Ned is killed by Hollister's men during the attack on the steamboat. [[spoiler:Cole's biological father, Doctor Campbell, is killed by Magruder in a flashback as well. His mother died in the aftermath as well.]]

* RecycledInSpace: This game is essentially ''Franchise/GrandTheftAuto'' IN THE OLD WEST!

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Ned is actually not Colt's father, but has raised him in an attempt to atone for accidentally getting his real parents, along with an Native American tribe, killed by leading Magruder to them.]]

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Ned is actually not Colt's father, but has raised him in an attempt to atone for accidentally getting his real parents, along with an indian tribe, killed by leading Magruder to them.]]

** Especially noticeable at one point, when Honest Tom states that Dodge City is a day's ride from where he meets Cole... even though it in fact only takes five minutes of riding on horseback and ferrying to get there.

** Clay Allison, Chavey Y Chavez, Dave Rudabaugh, J.J. Webb, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_Brown Hoodoo Brown]] all existed in reality.

* BaldOfEvil: Sported by Dutchie, Magruder's muscle.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The Dynamite Arrows have this in spades. Hit a civilian with one and they'll run away and a few seconds later, [[StuffBlowingUp *BOOM*]]. Prostitutes, will run ''towards'' you [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment in an attempt to knife you]].

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Averted for Magruder. Crunch!]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Hollister, a gracious host who is well spoken to his guests -- despite planning to gut them.

* GroinAttack: One of the wanted outlaws is a chick who castrated someone.
** This gets a CallBack when the victim of said GroinAttack goes AxeCrazy and tries to burn down a town.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Clay Allison, Chavey Y Chavez, Dave Rudabaugh, J.J. Webb, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_Brown Hoodoo Brown]] all existed in reality.

* PlotHole: Clay's information about when he believed Ned to have been killed, combined with [[spoiler:Colt being an infant that Ned found during this incident]] means that Colt cannot possibly be older than 12 years old.

* SpaceCompression: Especially noticeable at one point, when Honest Tom states that Dodge City is a day's ride from where he meets Cole... even though it in fact only takes five minutes of riding on horseback and ferrying to get there.

* WritersCannotDoMath: According to Clay, Ned was nearly killed in an incident during the Civil War, during which Ned found Colt, as a baby, ten years prior to the start of the game. [[FridgeLogic No more than a few seconds of thinking about this]] should make it clear what is wrong with that statement.
** Though, it does explain why everyone refers to Colt as "kid".

* RecycledInSpace: This game is essentially ''Franchse/GrandTheftAuto'' IN THE OLD WEST!

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Clay Allison, Chavey Y Chavez, Dave Rudabaugh, J.J. Webb, and Hoodoo Brown all existed in reality.

* [[spoiler:IAmNotYourFather: Ned's last words to Colt is the revelation that he isn't Colt's real father. Colt, and the player, finds out much later that Colt's real father was a doctor named Campbell and was murdered by Magruder.]]