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12	->''"If God didn't want them sheared he would not have made them sheep."''
13	-->-- '''Calvera''', ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960''
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15	A subset of the {{Outlaw}} in TheWildWest, with a Mexican flavor. Most often found in stories set in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} Mexico]] or near the border in UsefulNotes/NewMexico or UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}.
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17	Stereotypically, the bandito has a thick Mexican accent, wears a sombrero and poncho or serape, and in later time periods a [[BadassBandolier bandolier of ammunition]]. A [[MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico thick mustache]] is common, but not mandatory. Many Banditos are designed after the real-life Bandito and Revolutionary general [[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution Pancho Villa]].
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19	Usually the villains of a [[TheWestern Western]], but if portrayed sympathetically will have a Myth/RobinHood code of honor, or be [[LaResistance revolutionaries]] fighting against the corrupt government.
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21	As with the outlaw, the bandito often overlaps with TheGunslinger and {{Cowboy}} roles, with the latter being called vaqueros. A bandito might also use a knife or [[ImprobableWeaponUser lariat]] and is often TriggerHappy. SombreroEqualsMexican usually applies to banditos.
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23	Compare TheCartel, its modern variant.
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25	Note that bandito is the [[ElSpanishO English spelling]]. In Spanish it is ''bandido''. In a similar case, we get desperado from the Spanish ''desesperado''.
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28	!!Examples:
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32	[[folder:Advertising]]
33	* Because Mexicans were easy targets, Frito-Lay had the Frito Bandito as a commercial mascot at one point.
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36	[[folder:Comic Books]]
37	* Multiple times in ''ComicBook/BatLash'', Bat crosses paths with the flamboyant and comical Mexican bandit Sergio (an AuthorAvatar of series writer Creator/SergioAragones). And every time they meet, Sergio somehow manages to make Bat's complicated life even more complicated.
38	* ComicBook/JonahHex's greatest recurring foe, ''El Papagayo'', is a flamboyant bandito leader with a parrot.
39	* Naturally, ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' has a few of these, from the murderous crook Pedro Cucaracha to the head honcho of a band of kidnappers, Don Emilio Espuelas.
40	* ''A Man Called Frank'' (''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' in the Wild West) has Frank take on a job preventing rustlers from stealing his employer's cattle. One night, he violently interrupts the boss' NumberTwo handing over cattle with Mexican revolutionaries, and runs back to the ranch, where it turns out the boss was in on the deal. Then the Mexicans (who think they're been double-crossed) attack, just as Frank recognizes the NumberTwo as the man who'd murdered his family.
41	* ''ComicBook/APeoplesHistoryOfTheAmericanEmpire'' features an unusual portrayal that is both heroic and not Mexican: the historical Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto Sandino. A brief biography of Sandino's life is given, with particular attention to his war against foreign capitalists and domestic corruption.
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44	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
45	* El Toro and his bandit gang from the ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'' arc "A Few Flowers for the Colonel" are modern day banditos.
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48	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
49	* A group of them serve as secondary antagonists in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''.
50	* The [[EasternEuropeanAnimation Hungarian]] animated film ''Animation/CatCity'' has a gang of vampire bat banditos.
51	* ComicBook/LuckyLuke fights a few of them in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]''.
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54	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
55	* In the Disney film ''Film/TheAppleDumplingGang'', there was a single bandito among the otherwise homogeneous-white bad guys.
56	* The main antagonists of ''Film/{{Blindman}}'' are a group of Mexican bandits who are plotting to assassinate a general.
57	* Volonte's character Chuncho in ''Film/ABulletForTheGeneral'' is a sort of LovableRogue type, who again redefined the archetype as a complex, sympathetic figure.
58	* Several Banditos are part of Hedley Lamarr's army in ''Film/BlazingSaddles''.
59	* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' had Mexican banditos in Bolivia (reportedly, you can tell by the accents).
60	* ''Film/DayOfTheEvilGun'': The FauxAffablyEvil Jose Luis Gomez de la Tierra y Cordoba [=DeLeon=] leads a bandito gang who deal with the Apaches, including buying slaves of them.
61	* The bandits in ''Film/{{Django}}''.
62	* A rather pathetic bandito gang--who have only two horse and two guns between the five of them--attempt to ambush Sam and Wally on their way out of Mexico in ''Film/{{Draw}}''.
63	* El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté) of ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'' cranks up the worst traits of the bandito. A drug-addicted LargeHam who stalks women, murders families, rigs duels, and takes trophies from his victims, he spends most of the film in an opium-induced haze, while plotting to use [[AntiHero Monco]] and [[BestServedCold Colonel Mortimer]] to do his dirty work, wiping out his gang and leaving all the money from his robberies for him. In a departure from some of the stereotypes of the time, he was easily as smart, or smarter, than the film's protagonists.
64	* Juan Miranda and his band of outlaws from Leone's ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite'' are also worth a mention.
65	* The [[SiblingsInCrime Rojo brothers]] of ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' are banditos-turned-bootleggers, who sell alcohol on both sides of the border, and have an ugly rivalry with the Baxters, a family of white-collar American gunrunners. While two of the brothers are absolutely stereotypical, Ramon (also Gian Maria Valonte) subverts it somewhat by being totally evil, but [[EvilGenius very bright]].
66	* Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez (known as "The Rat") of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', re-invented the Bandito character and set the trend for the "lovable underdog" variation of the trope.
67	** His two {{Expies}}, Cacopoulos of ''Film/AceHigh'' and Max Lozoya of ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'', are cheekier, slightly smarter and more good-natured variations on the character.
68	* In ''Film/GoWestYoungLady'', Killer Pete dresses and talks like a bandito, but he is actually an Anglo in disguise.
69	* An inept gang of these are among those targeting a Texas bank in ''Film/TheGreatBankRobbery''.
70	* ''Film/HannieCaulder'': Price and Hannie travel to Mexico to have gunsmith Bailey build her a specialized revolver, to be a fast draw specialist. When bandidos surround the house, a gun battle erupts but Hannie is unable to kill a man face to face.
71	* Calvera and his band of outlaws in ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960''.
72	* Cheyenne in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' is a particularly sympathetic example.
73	* Revolutionary banditos make up one of the bad guy groups in the movie ''Film/TheProfessionals''.
74	* ''Film/ThreeAmigos'', as a parody of ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'' has an Expy of Calvera as its main antagonist.
75	* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' would give us our page quote, if we needed one.
76	* At the start of ''Film/TheWarWagon'', Levi Walking Bear is riding with a bandito gang on the border. When Taw and Lomax arrive to recruit, they discover they have to rescue him from the banditos.
77	* One of the most absurd casting decisions of all time has Creator/HumphreyBogart playing a Mexican bandito in ''Film/VirginiaCity'', complete with pencil mustache and terrible accent.
78	* ''Film/TheWildBunch'' has examples of both. On the villain side, we have Mapache, the primary villain and his army of bandits. On the (anti-)heroic side, we have Angel, one of the Bunch.
79	* In ''Film/YellowHairAndTheFortressOfGold'', Flores and his band of comancheros are a gang of banditos working for Colonel Torres.
80	* Filpino "goon" actors Paquito and Romy Diaz, Max Alavrado, and their contemporaries made entire careers out of playing the Filipino equivalent, and typically had [[https://scontent.fxds1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/65785644_10157608358154728_4976156749892419584_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=gEXM5k36Ut0AX9GWRup&_nc_ht=scontent.fxds1-1.fna&oh=8dc0a31d0e27c2beb80c97a29de152bd&oe=617EF819 the perfect matching mustaches to boot.]]
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83	[[folder:Literature]]
84	* In the Literature/BenSnow story "The Trail of the Golden Cross", Ben fights to protect the cross from the bandito Zanja [[spoiler:who turns out to be a gringo]] and his gang.
85	* Banditos feature in several of Creator/JTEdson's novels. They play an especially prominent role in ''The Quest for Bowie's Blade''.
86	* ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' features a number of these, most notably Juan Miguel (or "John Mcgill") who rides with Glanton's men and also the gang that The Kid and Sproule encounter following the battle with the Comanches.
87	-->When the lambs is lost in the mountain he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
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90	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
91	* A gang of these turns up in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]".
92	* ''Series/FrontierCircus'': Ben and a group of stagecoach passengers are captured by a gang of banditos in "Naomi Champagne".
93	* One of the most memorable Swedish Chef sketches on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' involves the Chef about to make a lobster, before hearing a cavalry charge and his kitchen is invaded by Spanish-speaking lobster banditos.
94	* Lucas [=McCain=] runs afoul of banditos in ''Series/TheRifleman'' episode "The Vaqueros".
95	* Subject of a gag in an episode of ''Series/TheWildWildWest'', wherein the FastestGunInTheWest, "Lighnin' [=McCoy=]", is eventually revealed to be one of these.
96	* A 16-year-old Indiana Jones was captured by Mexican revolutionaries in ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles''.
97	* One such person holds up a train in the middle of 20th Century England in the "Bambi" episode of ''Series/TheYoungOnes''.
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100	[[folder:Music]]
101	* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "El Bandito"]] in "Cross the Brazos at Waco". He tries to become a RetiredOutlaw, but is found and killed by the {{posse}} [[{{Retirony}} moments after discarding his guns in the river]].
102	* ''Pistolero,'' by Music/JunoReactor featuring Music/{{Sugizo}} is this trope in instrumental electronic dance... with a Japanese guitarist.
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105	[[folder:Pinballs]]
106	* One of the Bart Brothers {{Outlaw}}s in ''Pinball/CactusCanyon'' is Bandelero Bart, complete with thick Mexican accent.
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109	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
110	* Crazy Rudy and Bandido, better known as "[[TagTeam Bad Guys]]", who make mischief in WWC, New Wrestling Stars, World Wrestling Stars, and IWA Puerto Rico.
111	* Bandita of Wrestling/{{Wrestlicious}}, the manager of Bull Fighter [[Wrestling/MercedesMartinez Maria Toro]]
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114	[[folder:Radio]]
115	* ''Radio/TheVeryWorldOfMiltonJones'' has an episode where Milton somehow ends up freeing a Mexican village of these. They finally go away when Milton makes them rich by cutting one's arm off, thus making him a [[RuleOfFunny one-armed bandit]]. Admittedly a radio comedy, but the accents and behaviours are very much there.
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118	[[folder:Theatre]]
119	* In ''Theatre/TheGirlOfTheGoldenWest'', Ramerrez's men fit the stereotype, though "Ramerrez" himself turns out to be the complete opposite.
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122	[[folder:Video Games]]
123	* In ''Videogame/EighteenSixtySixAMountAndBladeWestern'', there are several factions of them (the minor scalphunters faction, as well as a random number of the bandit armies, refered as "X Banda"), and any party deserter party counting an important number of soldiers from the Mexico faction (or from the Bandas) fits this trope. Peyote Pablo is a hirable stoned bandito. Also, the mod allows to hire prisoners and to choose which type of soldiers (American army, American lawmen, American outlaws, Mexican army, Mexican outlaws, Comanche, Apache) can be recruited in the settlements owned by the player. This and the possibility to play as a outlaw allows a player to lead a full bandito party.
124	* Renegados, Pistoleros and Comancheros appear as mercenaries and treasure guardians in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII''.
125	* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock\|1}}'' has ammo vending machines with a cartoon/period picture of a bandito's masked face, which spouts recorded messages with an outrageously thick accent. "¡[[GratuitousSpanish Bienvenidos al Ammo Bandito]]!"
126	* [[BigBad Juarez's]] gang (including himself) in ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' and ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood''.
127	* ''VideoGame/{{Desperados}}'' features a lots of banditos as mooks. The playable character Sanchez (who begins the game as the designated antagonist) is himself a stereotypical one.
128	* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndHisDesktopAdventures'' has these as human enemies (other than Nazis). Some of them are the typical sombrero-wearin', ammo bandolier-toting moustached guys, while others go without hats.
129	* ''VideoGame/{{Outlaws}}'': has "Spittin'" Jack Sánchez.
130	* Part of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' takes place in Mexico, where the protagonist contends with both banditos and revolutionaries.
131	** The player can also get a bandito outfit.
132	* There were few of them in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver''.
133	* The fourth outlaw in ''VideoGame/WildGunman'' contrasts the other, more stereotypically "cowboy"-looking gunslingers by being pretty short and sporting a large white poncho and matching sombrero.
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136	[[folder:Web Comics]]
137	* Gordito is a heroic variant of this (mixed in with {{Sidekick}}) in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''. Gordito's uncle Pedro would be a straighter example of this, except Pedro uses a [[RuleOfCool velociraptor]] as his [[HorseOfADifferentColor steed]].
138	* ParodiedTrope (InSpace) in ''Webcomic/{{Runners}}''. A bunch of very bandito-ish aliens give our heroes some grief. And root beetles.
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141	[[folder:Western Animation]]
142	* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'': Duckula, Igor and Nanny encounter some banditos on arriving...[[{{Spexico}} in Spain]]! Other than that, they fit the trope complete with sombreros, firearms and even with a BadassBandolier.
143	* Puma Loco from ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera''.
144	* Some of the ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'' villains were sillier versions of this.
145	* Salty Mike becomes a bandito in the ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'' episode "Gumfight at the S'Okay Corral".
146	* Yosemite Sam appears as bandito 'Pancho Vanilla' in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short "Pancho's Hideaway".
147	** Also Nasty Canasta in "Drip-Along Daffy".
148	* ''WesternAnimation/WillieWhopper'': "Viva Willie" features Willie taking on Pancho Villa.
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