History YMMV / JonahHex

* EnsembleDarkhorse: A character with C-tier name recognition even at his best, Hex retains a fan following strong enough that even his abysmal solo movie couldn't dispel it, due to both being one of the [[LastOfHisKind last Western characters left in American comics]] and his uncompromising grittiness, and DC Fans inevitably rejoice whenever a new adaptation of him is announced. His incarnation in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' is particularly popular, and even brought in a new wave of fans who were otherwise unfamiliar with the character.

!!The Comic Books

!!The Film
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvgox8IyPLs Provided by freaking]] ''Music/{{Mastodon}}''!
* CompleteMonster: [[AxCrazy Burke]] is the right-hand man of [[BigBad Quentin Turnbull]], and matches his boss's emotionless cruelty with sheer psychopathic sadism. Assisting Turnbull in all of his crimes, Burke personally, and happily, [[ManOnFire burns]] Jonah Hex's wife and son alive, then holds Hex in place to be branded by Turnbull and left for dead. Fully aware, and approving, of Turnbull's plans to use his super weapon to wipe out thousands of innocents, Burke blows up an entire train to obtain parts for said weapon, killing the dozens of soldiers, citizens, and children on board, and later massacres the population of a small town to acquire the ammunition for Turnbull's super weapon. Kidnapping Hex's LoveInterest Lilah to use as a hostage, Burke takes sadistic glee in smacking her around; threatens innocents with death for kicks; and regularly [[MockingTheMourner taunts Jonah about his family's deaths]]. Dying while laughing at Hex's misfortune, Burke was a homicidal lunatic who seemed to only work with Turnbull to satisfy his lust for sadism and mass murder.
* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the major criticisms against the is its 81 minute runtime (with about nine minutes of that being credits). Probably doesn't help that all of its action movie competitors are closer to 2 hours.
* SpecialEffectFailure: While Jonah's disfigurement is somewhat of an impossibility to recreate through makeup, the film's attempt is pretty unimpressive to say the least.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Creator/JoshBrolin is undoubtedly the highlight of the movie, actually putting in a sincere effort.

* CompleteMonster: [[AxCrazy Burke]] is the psychotic right-hand man of [[BigBad Quentin Turnbull]], and matches his boss's emotionless cruelty with sheer psychopathic sadism. Assisting Turnbull in all of his crimes, Burke personally, and happily, [[ManOnFire burns]] Jonah Hex's wife and son alive, then holds Hex in place to be branded by Turnbull and left for dead. Fully aware, and approving, of Turnbull's plans to use his super weapon to wipe out thousands of innocents, Burke blows up an entire train to obtain parts for said weapon, killing the dozens of soldiers, citizens, and children on board, and later massacres the population of a small town to acquire the ammunition for Turnbull's super weapon. Kidnapping Hex's LoveInterest Lilah to use as a hostage, Burke takes sadistic glee in smacking her around; threatens innocents with death for kicks; and regularly [[MockingTheMourner taunts Jonah about his family's deaths]]. Dying while laughing at Hex's misfortune, Burke was a homicidal lunatic who seemed to only work with Turnbull to satisfy his lust for sadism and mass murder.

* IronWoobie[=/=]JerkassWoobie: Hex is ''not'' a nice guy, but given the sheer amount of horrible things that happen to him throughout his life through no fault of his own, it's not surprising his disposition's so sour.

* AcceptableTargets: Southerners, at least if they're Confederate sympathizers.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment[=/=]NightmareFuel: There's a brief scene inside an arena where a street fight is being held, and one of the two fighters looks like - we kid you not - a cross between Gollum from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and a mountain lion.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: A character with C-tier name recognition even at his best, Hex retains a fan following strong enough that even his abysmal solo movie couldn't dispel, due to both being one of the [[LastOfHisKind last Western characters left in American comics]] and his uncompromising grittiness, and DC Fans inevitably rejoice whenever a new adaptation of him is announced. His incarnation in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' is particularly popular, and even brought in a new wave of fans who were otherwise unfamiliar with the character.

* HilariousInHindsight: Really, nearly the whole damn cast as most of them, especially Creator/JoshBrolin, would go on to do much more critically and commercially successful superhero films regarded as leagues above ''Jonah Hex''.

* ValuesResonance: An anti-government terrorist plotting to blow up a federal building? Where have we heard of ''that'' before....?

** [[ReligousBruiser Molokai]] is a mormon leader who wishes to save his people by any means necessary. Persecuted by the vicious Mr. Dice, Molokai rescues Jonah Hex in the snow and appeals to his human sympathy to have Hex takes a message to Dice. Aware that Dice will [[BatmanGambit force Hex to lead his bounty killers]] to Molokai's people, Molokai lies in wait with his men to slaughter the hunters, surprising even Hex himself. Revealing he helped perpetrate a massacre on innocent pioneers to aid his people, whereupon he adopted the innocent children, Molokai ends by squaring things with Hex by offering him a deed to Dice's property as soon as Dice is dead.

* SugarWikik/DevelopmentHeaven: Creator/MeganFox insisted on doing her own stunts, only using a stunt double for one scene which would've been too dangerous for her to do by herself.

* CompleteMonster: [[AxCrazy Burke]] is the psychotic henchman of [[BigBad Quentin Turnbull]], and matches his boss's emotionless cruelty with sheer psychopathic sadism. Assisting Turnbull in all of his crimes, Burke personally, and happily, [[ManOnFire burns]] Jonah Hex's wife and son alive, then holds Hex in place to be branded by Turnbull and left for dead. Fully aware, and approving, of Turnbull's plans to use his super weapon to wipe out thousands of innocents, Burke blows up an entire train to obtain parts for said weapon, killing the dozens of soldiers, citizens, and children on board, and later massacres the population of a small town to acquire the ammunition for Turnbull's super weapon. Kidnapping Hex's LoveInterest Lilah to use as a hostage, Burke takes sadistic glee in smacking her around; threatens innocents with death for kicks; and regularly [[MockingTheMourner taunts Jonah about his family's deaths]]. Dying while laughing at Hex's misfortune, Burke was a homicidal lunatic who seemed to only work with Turnbull to satisfy his lust for sadism and mass murder.

* CompleteMonster: [[PsychoForHire Burke]] is the psychotic [[TheDragon Dragon]] of [[BigBad Quentin Turnbull]], and matches his boss's emotionless cruelty with sheer psychopathic sadism. Assisting Turnbull in all of his crimes, Burke personally, and happily, [[ManOnFire burns]] Jonah Hex's wife and [[WouldHurtAChild son]] alive, then holds Hex in place to be branded by Turnbull and left for dead. Fully aware, and approving, of Turnbull's plans to use his super weapon to wipe out thousands of innocents, Burke blows up an entire train to obtain parts for said weapon, killing the dozens of soldiers, citizens, and children on board, and later massacres the population of a small town to acquire the ammunition for Turnbull's super weapon. Kidnapping Hex's LoveInterest Lilah to use as a hostage, Burke takes sadistic glee in [[WouldHitAGirl smacking her around]]; threatens innocents with death for kicks; and regularly [[KickTheDog taunts Jonah about his family's deaths]]. Dying while laughing at Hex's misfortune, Burke was a [[AxCrazy homicidal lunatic]] who seemed to only work with Turnbull to satisfy his lust for {{sadis|t}}m and mass murder.

* CompleteMonster:
** [[BigBad Quentin Turnbull]] was once a high-ranking [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate]] general who, after the events of Gettysburg, decided to show how "weak" the Union was by ordering entire hospitals and schools annihilated, leading one of Turnbull's own soldiers, ComicBook/JonahHex, to betray him, kill his son in self-defense, then turn him over to the Union. Escaping custody, Turnbull tracks down Hex and forces him to watch as he has his [[TheDragon Dragon]], Burke, [[ManOnFire burn]] the man's wife and [[WouldHurtAChild son]] alive, before branding Hex's face and leaving him to die. Spending the next years creating a [[{{BFG}} super weapon]], Turnbull hijacks a train shipment after having the occupants killed, and uses the contents of the shipment to finish his weapon, then wiping out an entire town and its hundreds of residents to test it. Turnbull then plans to use his weapon to annihilate Washington, D.C. during the Independence Day celebration, killing the thousands of innocents attending, along with the President of the United States. Though at first seeming to genuinely care for his dead son, Quentin Turnbull quickly shed that aspect of his personality, showing that all he cared for was the complete annihilation of the current government of the United States, no matter how many innocents had to die in the process.
** [[PsychoForHire Burke]] is the psychotic [[TheDragon Dragon]] of Turnbull, and matches his boss's emotionless cruelty with sheer psychopathic sadism. Assisting Turnbull in all of his crimes, Burke personally, and happily, [[ManOnFire burns]] Jonah Hex's wife and [[WouldHurtAChild son]] alive, then holds Hex in place to be branded by Turnbull and left for dead. Fully aware, and approving, of Turnbull's plans to use his super weapon to wipe out thousands of innocents, Burke blows up an entire train to obtain parts for said weapon, killing the dozens of soldiers, citizens, and children on board, and later massacres the population of a small town to acquire the ammunition for Turnbull's super weapon. Kidnapping Hex's LoveInterest Lilah to use as a hostage, Burke takes sadistic glee in [[WouldHitAGirl smacking her around]]; threatens innocents with death for kicks; and regularly [[KickTheDog taunts Jonah about his family's deaths]]. Dying while laughing at Hex's misfortune, Burke was a [[AxCrazy homicidal lunatic]] who seemed to only work with Turnbull to satisfy his lust for {{sadis|t}}m and mass murder.

* CompleteMonster (April-May 2009 issues): [[MadDoctor William "Sawbones" Zimmerman]] was a brief but memorable foe of Jonah Hex. A former doctor during the Civil War, Zimmerman made a name for himself via horrible experiments and live dissections of prisoners of war, with his apprentices and himself also carrying out the same vivisections on blacks. After the war, Sawbones takes to kidnapping and murdering innocent young women without even the pretense it is for [[ForTheEvulz anything but enjoyment]]. When Hex falls into his hands, the doctor attempts to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture him to death]] as well, revealing he has a group of like-minded fellows he's trained that he intends to spread into the country, killing those they can via horrible means all [[ForScience in the name of twisted "science."]]

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: With The Comicbook/{{New 52}} the fan-favorite ''Jonah Hex'' series was cancelled and replaced by ''All-Star Western''. The name change came with a drastically new format and status quo: Instead of being a series of unconnected short stories featuring different artists it became ongoing story with a single artist and backup stories featuring other characters. The bigger change was the fact that Hex is now in Gotham, working with Amadeus Arkham. The fanbase was appropriately split over this. On the one hand, the series was no longer really a Western, and the move to Gotham was criticised as an attempt to shackle the character to the massively selling ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' franchise. Proponents claim that after a [[LongRunners six year run]] a change was welcome and that while it may have been a cash-in it ''worked'', with ''All-Star'' selling much better than ''Jonah Hex'' did. In the end, the fact that Gray and Palmiotti remained on the book was met with widespread relief, and after a brief period [[ExecutiveMeddling of constant Batman tie-ins]] Jonah moved back West and the title regained some of its independence.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: With The Comicbook/{{New 52}} the fan-favorite ''Jonah Hex'' series was cancelled and replaced by ''All-Star Western''. The name change came with a drastically new format and status quo: Instead of being a series of unconnected short stories featuring different artists it became ongoing story with a single artist and backup stories featuring other characters. The bigger change was the fact that Hex is now in Gotham, working with Amadeus Arkham. The fanbase was appropriately split over this. Those opposed claim the new series isn't as unique as the old one, loses the "western" feel (due to the Eastern, urban setting) and is a blatant attempt to cash-in on the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' franchise. Proponents claim that after a [[LongRunners six year run]] a change is welcome and that while it may have been a cash-in it ''worked'', with ''All-Star'' selling much better than ''Jonah Hex'' did. Through all this, the fact that Gray and Palmiotti, at least, remained on the book was met with widespread relief, however.

* CompleteMonster: [[MadDoctor William "Sawbones" Zimmerman]] was a brief but memorable foe of Jonah Hex. A former doctor during the Civil War, Zimmerman made a name for himself via horrible experiments and live dissections of prisoners of war, with his apprentices and himself also carrying out the same vivisections on blacks. After the war, Sawbones takes to kidnapping and murdering innocent young women without even the pretense it is for [[ForTheEvulz anything but enjoyment]]. When Hex falls into his hands, the doctor attempts to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture him to death]] as well, revealing he has a group of like-minded fellows he's trained that he intends to spread into the country, killing those they can via horrible means all [[ForScience in the name of twisted "science."]]

** The aforementioned [[PsychoForHire Burke]] is the psychotic [[TheDragon Dragon]] of Turnbull, and matches his boss's emotionless cruelty with sheer psychopathic sadism. Assisting Turnbull in all of his crimes, Burke personally, and happily, [[ManOnFire burns]] Jonah Hex's wife and [[WouldHurtAChild son]] alive, then holds Hex in place to be branded by Turnbull and left for dead. Fully aware, and approving, of Turnbull's plans to use his super weapon to wipe out thousands of innocents, Burke blows up an entire train to obtain parts for said weapon, killing the dozens of soldiers, citizens, and children on board, and later massacres the population of a small town to acquire the ammunition for Turnbull's super weapon. Kidnapping Hex's LoveInterest Lilah to use as a hostage, Burke takes sadistic glee in [[WouldHitAGirl smacking her around]]; threatens innocents with death for kicks; and regularly [[KickTheDog taunts Jonah about his family's deaths]]. Dying while laughing at Hex's misfortune, Burke was a [[AxCrazy homicidal lunatic]] who seemed to only work with Turnbull to satisfy his lust for {{sadis|t}}m and mass murder.

* HilariousInHindsight: Really, the nearly the whole damn cast as most of them, especially Creator/JoshBrolin, would go on to do much more critically and commercially successful superhero films regarded as leagues above ''Jonah Hex''.