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13->''An old cowboy went riding out, one dark and windy day\
14Upon a ridge he rested, as he went along his way\
15When all at once, a mighty herd of red-eyed cows he saw-\
16Plowing through the ragged skies, and up the cloudy draw...''
17-->-- '''Music/StanJones''', "Ghost Riders in the Sky"
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19TheWildWest is, if you think about it, a logical choice for the SpeculativeFiction treatment. The frontier as a whole was traditionally viewed (and still is viewed, to some extent) as [[LiminalTime the meeting place of civilization and the unknown]]. The lawless setting also meant plenty of violent deaths and unfinished business, [[GhostlyGoals fuel for ghostly tales]]. Many smaller frontier settlements were gradually abandoned over time, becoming (literally haunted) {{Ghost Town}}s. LightIsNotGood is a common element in these tales; in a region where the dry season resembles the ThirstyDesert trope, it is [[TheSacredDarkness shade that is sacred]].
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21Weird West works often invoke horror tropes. Ghosts, zombies, vampires, and werewolves are common elements. {{Indian Burial Ground}}s, {{Magical Native American}}s, and various entities from Myth/NativeAmericanMythology (such as {{skinwalker}}s and {{wendigo}}s[[note]]even though [[TipisAndTotemPoles wendigos actually originated from the Great Lakes region]][[/note]]) also tend to show up as sources of supernatural strangeness. Expect the [[TallTale Tall Tales]] to be just a little bit taller in these parts.
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23Alternatively, this kind of story may lean more on science fiction tropes. After the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars Bone Wars]] linked the West to palaeontology in the public consciousness, having LivingDinosaurs or other prehistoric animals turn up in the region has been a popular option - the first known fictional instance of this is ''Literature/TheMonsterOfLakeLametrie'' (1899), although long before that, Thomas Jefferson was speculating there might still be mastodons lurking somewhere in the interior [[note]]Supposedly, he even instructed Lewis and Clark to keep an eye open for them![[/note]]. If the setting is more like a modernized NewOldWest, then expect to see more relatively recent [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]] such as {{chupacabra}}s, or UrbanLegends such as the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell UFO and aliens]] hidden at Area51.
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25The Weird West genre and settings tend to heavily overlap with AlternateHistory, FantasyAmericana, and HistoricalFantasy (or UrbanFantasy if it's a Weird version of the NewOldWest). If the story is set in the backdrop of historical military conflicts (such as the American Indian Wars, UsefulNotes/MexicanAmericanWar, UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, or the UsefulNotes/MexicanRevolution), then it becomes a WeirdHistoricalWar. If it overlaps with CanadianWestern, expect to see a GrimUpNorth where EvilIsDeathlyCold.
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27Compare and contrast with CattlePunk and SpaceWestern, which take more of a sci-fi approach to the Old West; [[ScienceFantasy although there is some occasional overlap]]. There's also SinisterSouthwest, when a Western United States setting is invoked for (less fantastic and more mundane) horrors. Also see SouthernGothic, LovecraftCountry, CampbellCountry, and {{Uberwald}} for other types of spooky regional settings.
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33* ''Manga/EtCetera''. The Wild West [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', complete with martial arts and Chinese Zodiac-inspired magic. Except that the "West" Mingchao is journeying to is ''[[{{Dissimile}} Hollywood]].''
34* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun''. A cross country race to the finish line where any and every dirty trick is allowed becomes more than just that when [[DismantledMacGuffin mysterious corpse parts]] lead back to [[spoiler: The President of the United States]]. And even before that is revealed, this is after all ''[=JoJo=]'s Bizarre Adventure'', and thus "every dirty trick" in the race includes the trademark [[FightingSpirit weird Stand powers]], along with the all-new weird supernatural power of [[SpectacularSpinning Spin]].
35* ''[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428796.No_Man_s_Land_Volume_1 No Man's Land]]'', an OELManga by Jason [=DeAngelis=], throws TheLegionsOfHell in TheWildWest, and TheHero is a [[TheGunslinger gunslinging]] [[DemonSlaying demon hunter]]. How this works out, we can't tell however, as the series was [[{{Cancellation}} cancelled]] after the second book.
36* Invoked in ''Anime/PorcoRosso''. In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, we see that the [[EagleLand cocky American pilot]] Donald Curtis did indeed fulfill his dream of becoming a big Hollywood star, and we're shown a poster for a movie he made, which seems to involve him as a cowboy who encounters a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' - probably an homage to ''Film/TheGhostOfSlumberMountain'', ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'', and ''Film/TheBeastOfHollowMountain''.
37* Creator/TiteKubo's debut work, the four-volume manga ''Manga/{{Zombiepowder}}'', revolves around "powder hunters" drifting from town to town searching for an ImmortalityInducer in a NewOldWest-inspired setting.
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41* ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'': The vampire VillainProtagonist Skinner Sweet had started out as a Wild West outlaw, and several stories concerning him take place there.
42* ''ComicBook/BillyTheKidsOldTimeyOddities'' starts out this way, with Billy being recruited into a very strange travelling circus. However, the bulk of the series is actually set in Britain, with an arc set in VictorianLondon and a finale set at Loch Ness, where the [[StockNessMonster monster]] is revealed to be [[spoiler: {{Dracula}}]].
43* ''ComicBook/TheChimpWithTheBrownHat'' stars the titular chimp in the wild west circa 1880. Said chimp has a robotic hand, and the wild west is being plagued by space worms.
44* ''ComicBook/CowboysAndAliens'' and its film adaptation.
45* The ''ComicBook/{{Desperadoes}}'' comic book pits a RagtagBunchOfMisfits against a magical SerialKiller in the WildWest.
46* Another DC Comics character, ComicBook/ElDiablo, was basically made of this. Originally, Lazarus Lane was a bank teller but after almost being killed by thieves and then struck by lightning, Lane was revived by the shaman Wise Owl who possessed him with a demon that emerges whenever Lane is asleep.
47* ''ComicBook/EastOfWest'' by Jonathan Hickman is this in spades. Cowboy versions of the four horsemen of the apocalypse bump shoulders with powerful witches from the Endless Nation of the Indians. Also, there are talking eyeballs and living lakes. Weird West indeed.
48* The ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse one-shot ''Generation Hex'' was essentially this, combining the mutants of ''ComicBook/GenerationX'' with the Old West setting of ''ComicBook/JonahHex''.
49** Prior to that, Joe R. Landsdale wrote three limited Jonah Hex series based around this trope. They would, amongst other things, involve voodoo and [[SandWorm giant man-eating desert worms]].
50* Magazine Enterprises had a supernatural Western character the ComicBook/GhostRider, who was later taken over by Creator/MarvelComics, renamed the Phantom Rider, made mundane, and eventually re-supernaturalized.
51* Figures into the backstory of ''ComicBook/TheGoon'', when the [[{{Necromancer}} Zombie Priest]] turned a frontier town into zombies, leaving the sheriff - the only living human left - to kill them all. When the Priest tried to turn the sheriff into a zombie as well, the spell failed - you can't reanimate someone who isn't dead yet - turning the sheriff into a [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoul-like]] being who must feed on the flesh of the dead to survive. In the main story, the semi-undead sheriff - now calling himself The Buzzard, having long forgotten his real name, and driven entirely by his thirst for revenge on the Zombie Priest - shows up as a CreepyGood ally to the main characters.
52* The ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' short comic "Home, Home on Derange".
53* ''ComicBook/IronWest'' by Creator/DougTenNapel would just be plain old CattlePunk, except that it's implied that the Engines (and perhaps the robo-cowboys as well) weren't actually built by anyone.
54* Creator/DCComics ''The Justice Riders'' (Various Justice Leaguers reimagined in a Wild West setting.)
55* ''Legend of Oz: The Wicked West'' gives the Land of Oz this treatment, with a cowgirl Dorothy wielding Ruby Spurs and pistols riding across the land on her loyal steed Toto accompanied by the grizzled sheriff Tin Man, a silent Native American woman Scarecrow, and a Cowardly Lion freed from enslavement as the piano player at a Winged Monkey controlled saloon. Also featured are the disfigured outlaw Jack Pumpkinhead, the Patchwork Girl as a lonely FarmersDaughter, and the underground mining community that is the Emerald City.
56* ''ComicBook/ManifestDestiny'' is about Lewis and Clark meeting all kinds of (usually quite dangerous) weirdness on their expedition to the Pacific Northwest.
57* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 5'' is a zombie western.
58* Parodied in one of the short stories published on ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': in the 23rd century they were shooting a western movie that featured such things as fire-breathing cougars, Indians with [[DisintegratorRay disintegrator tomahawks]] terrified by robotic birds and mutant desperados... Because the producer, usually known for [[ShownTheirWork extreme realism]], accidentally documented himself with 20th century tabloids.
59* Downplayed in ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'', but the issue focussing on the [[AllMythsAreTrue All Pulp Fiction Is True]] universe's {{Expy}} of Franchise/TheLoneRanger heavily implies that there was some powerful multidimensional force working behind the scenes that brought the Ranger back from the dead and turned him into some quasi-supernatural being.
60* While most of ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' is set in the present, the series has a very strong Weird West vibe, and the origin of the Saint of Killers is a pure example of the genre.
61* The first arc of ''ComicBook/PrettyDeadly'' by Creator/KellySueDeConnick and Emma Rios. It stars Deathface Ginny, the Daughter of Death. Later arcs are set in later historical eras, with a TimeSkip in between each.
62* ''ComicBook/RapunzelsRevenge'' is FracturedFairyTale of the ''Literature/{{Rapunzel}}'' story set in a FantasyCounterpartCulture of the Old West. All magical elements are retained, and expanded in the SteamPunk styled sequel.
63* ''ComicBook/RawhideKid'': Although most of Rawhide's adventures were standard horse opera stuff, he did also fight monsters which were not a ScoobyDooHoax. One particularly famous (or infamous) example was the Living Totem: a alien who looked like a totem pole with arms and legs.
64* Creator/DCComics GoldenAge character the ComicBook/{{Vigilante}} turned into this during the ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' "megaseries."
65* After the death of his father, Adam Osidis from ''ComicBook/SevenToEternity'' departs home on a mission to cleanse his family's name and confront the God of Whispers. He carries a rifle and five "nails"--bullets, one of which contains drops of his deceased brother's blood. He teams up with a group of Mosaks, supernatural knights, who are also seeking justice.
66* ''ComicBook/TheSixthGun'' is a Weird western comic book series. Six revolvers with magical powers, when placed into the lock of a special vault, cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, and lets whoever did the wreckin' remake the world in his/ her image. The protagonists must keep them away from an undead confederate general, the remains of his unit, and a thief working for a shadowy organization.
67* ''ComicBook/TexasStrangers'', which is essentially a Western story in a setting with magic and multiple fantasy races. Elves are the Native Americans, and Orcs come from Mexico; they and the humans of various stripes all use magic in their day-to-day lives.
68* Happens in both the two main Italian western comic books, ''ComicBook/TexWiller'' and ''Zagor'' (both published by Bonelli)
69** ''Zagor'' regularly features vampires, werewolves, aliens, mad scientists and a number of other unusual creepy crawlies. Quite fittingly, it shares the same universe with other fantasy-based Bonelli series, such as ''Martin Mystere'' (better known internationally for [[WesternAnimation/MartinMystery its animated adaptation]]), ''ComicBook/DylanDog'', and others, even if set much earlier in time.
70** ''Tex Willer'' is usually more down to earth and tends to feature mostly typical stories, but from time to time has shown magic users (including the warlock Mefisto, Tex' most famous enemy, and Tex' ally El Morisco. Plus, the medicine man of the Navajo village where Tex lives has genuine magical abilities, [[OvershadowedByAwesome just not in the same league as the above two]]), LizardFolk, dinosaurs, ''aliens''... [[ScoobyDooHoax And very convincing scammers]], leading to Tex usually doubting of apparent magic until he can verify it with his own eyes. Also, [[MugglesDoItBetter it's shown that guns kill much faster and better than magic]], with the only exception being the Tibetan monk Padma (who once asked the "Voice of My Land" for permission to deal with Mefisto by making him drop dead but was refused).
71* The DCU's ''Weird Western Tales'' starring ComicBook/JonahHex. Despite the title, Jonah Hex is only ''borderline'' weird, at least in his original and current ongoing series. The two Joe R. Lansdale miniseries and movie have plenty of WeirdWest stuff, though.
72** A later mini-series using the ''Weird Western Tales'' title was a anthology series of western themed horror stories.
73* ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp'' is NewOldWest meets the WeirdWest.
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77* Played for laughs in the opening scenes of the [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 first]] and [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 third]] ''Franchise/ToyStory'' films; the scenarios Andy creates when he plays with his toys seemingly start out as Westerns before he starts piling on elements such as forcefield-generating dogs and dinosaurs that eat forcefield dogs.
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81* The successful and unsuccessful uses of the subgenre in films is discussed with a fair amount of depth in [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/5567908/dear-hollywood-you-absolutely-suck-at-making-weird-westerns this older io9 article]].
82* ''The Aurora Encounter'' is a 1986 film that is loosely inspired by the 1897 UFO sighting in Aurora, Texas and borrows extensively from ''Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial'' for other details. It has an even more BittersweetEnding than the other film with [[spoiler:the peaceful alien being blown away by a U.S. Marshall and given a proper burial at the local Boot Hill.]]
83* ''Film/TheBeastOfHollowMountain'': Cowboys versus a dinosaur.
84* The original script for ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' set the supernatural shenanigans in 1890s San Francisco, just when Chinatown was beginning to develop, but it was eventually decided to give it a modern [[TheEighties 1980s]] setting to be more relatable to the audience. Vestiges of the western setting can still be seen, such as Jack (now a trucker, instead of a cowboy, but still talking in a Creator/JohnWayne impression) riding off into the sunset after the battle is won and walking around with saddle bags over his shoulder on a couple of scenes.
85* ''Film/BillyTheKidVersusDracula'' and its double-bill companion, ''Film/JesseJamesMeetsFrankensteinsDaughter'' are both exactly what you'd think.
86* ''Film/BloodRayneIIDeliverance'' was a movie about vampires set in the old west. Also contained the ridiculous line, "[[ShowdownAtHighNoon Get out of town before]] [[{{Pun}} high midnight]]."[[note]]"High Moon" would have made a ''much'' better pun... or at least a [[SoBadItsGood smarmier]] one, if you believe there's no such thing as a good pun.[[/note]]
87* ''Film/BoneTomahawk'' has a CannibalClan of proto-humans as the villains.
88* ''Film/TheBurrowers'' (2008) -- Western meets subterranean ghouls.
89* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The title should tip you off]].
90* In ''Film/CurseOfTheHeadlessHorseman'', a dude ranch is haunted by the ghost of a headless gunfighter.
91* 1959's ''Film/CurseOfTheUndead'' features a vampire gunslinger, quite possibly the first example of such.
92* ''Film/DeadBirds'': Set in Alabama, where there's gory bank robberies, haunted houses, slavery, human sacrifice, black magic, necromancy, demonic possession, monsters from other worlds...
93* ''Film/DeadInTombstone'': A murdered gang leader is sent back to Earth by the Devil to extract vengeance on the gang members who betrayed him.
94** And ''Film/DeadAgainInTombstone'', where the same gang leader has to stop [[TheRemnant Confederate renegades]] from using a satanic artifact to raise an undead Confederate army.
95* ''Film/DeathValleyTheRevengeOfBloodyBill'': Zombies.
96* ''Film/ElTopo'': Arguably the embodiment of this very trope. A gunman ventures into the desert to slay four gun-masters in his quest for enlightenment. That's the most ''normal'' part about this film.
97* ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': Western meets Tarantino, Rodriguez and vampires.
98* ''Film/{{Gallowwalkers}}'': A gunslinger battles his undead victims.
99* ''Film/TheGhostOfSlumberMountain'' is a 1918 silent film created by Willis O'Brien (best known for his effects work on ''Film/KingKong1933'') involving dinosaurs on the American frontier.
100* ''Film/GhostRock'', but the supernatural element is only revealed at the very end of the film.
101* ''Film/GhostTown1988'' follows a deputy sheriff who finds himself amongst the dead residents of a ghost town while searching for a missing woman.
102* ''Film/GhostTown2009'': An outlaw gang composed of trigger-happy Satanists massacre an entire town and trigger a curse that makes it re-appear occasionally, which then leads to the ghosts of the outlaws killing anybody who wanders into town. The protagonists are a bunch of modern-day high-schoolers that got lost on the way to a game. SyFyMovieOfTheWeek, [[BMovie with everything]] that can be expected of it.
103* ''Film/TheGhoulGoesWest''. An unproduced Creator/EdWood film that would have starred Creator/BelaLugosi as {{Dracula}} [[RecycledInSpace in the Old West]]. The only known footage of it was ultimately worked in ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.
104* The movie ''Film/GreasersPalace,'' a bizarre Christ allegory which features [[spoiler: supernatural resurrection.]]
105* ''Film/GrimPrairieTales'' fits this to a tee: two travellers spend an night swapping horror stories round a campfire.
106* ''Gun Town'' - Psycho cannibals.
107* ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'': Nothing explicitly supernatural happens, but it is strongly implied that the main character is not human.
108* ''Film/HighPlainsInvaders'' (2009) -- Western meets alien invaders
109* The third ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' film was supposed to be this when it was first envisioned.
110* ''Film/JonahHex2010'': After being brought back from the dead, but leaving part of his soul behind, Jonah acquired the ability to, as long as he maintains physical contact with the corpse, temporarily resurrect and communicate with the dead, bringing the corpse physically and mentally back to its condition prior to death.
111* ''Film/LeftForDead'': A desperate criminal and a merciless posse become trapped in a remote Mexican ghost town by a vengeful demon.
112* ''Film/TheLoneRanger2013'' was going to have heavier elements of this, with the villains planned to be werewolves. The final version still has a hint of this, with Tonto saying that the villain is a Windigo. [[spoiler: It turns out he's just a regular guy, but those rabbits...]]
113* ''Film/LoveAndMonsters'' is a post-apocalyptic Western that features giant mutated creatures as the main threat, although HumansAreTheRealMonsters.
114* ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' has the mysterious and menacing man known as the Cowboy who inhabits the Sunset Ranch, speaks with a typical Southern twang, and is strongly implied to be a supernatural creature.
115* ''Film/NearDark'': A vampire coven roam the modern-day west looking for prey to kill and places to lay low.
116* ''Film/NightOfTheLepus'': A modern-day western with '''[[HairRaisingHare Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits]]'''.
117* ''Film/{{Nope}}'' is a SciFiHorror film set on a ranch training horses for Hollywood films, located next to a [[SouvenirLand Wild West-themed amusement park]] that comes under siege from what appears to be an alien spacecraft.
118* ''Film/PaleRider'' frequently associates the hero with Death, the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse.
119* ''Film/Prey2022'' is the first film of the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise to take place in pre-modern times, featuring Comanche warriors and fur trappers pitted against the alien hunter.
120* ''Film/Priest2011'' is set in post apocalyptic-earth with vampires and has many of the trappings of the wild west genre.
121* Some parts of ''Film/TheProphecy'' are reminiscent of this setting, as most of the story takes place in a barely populated Arizona town. The main characters go down a mine shaft that shows them visions and participate in an [[MagicalNativeAmerican Indian exorcism]].
122* ''Film/{{Purgatory}}'' is about a Western town in Purgatory, where the almost-damned are given a second chance.
123* The famous surrealist Western ''Film/ElTopo,'' which features mole people.
124* ''Film/Ravenous1999''. Although it trades the prairies and deserts for the snowy mountains and woods of the Sierra Nevadas (giving it a bit of a HillbillyHorrors flavour), it's very much a supernatural horror story set during the age of Manifest Destiny, dealing with [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty frontier cannibalism]] and the {{wendigo}} legend.
125* Strong elements of mysticism run through the futuristic western movie ''Film/SixReasonsWhy'', especially with regards to The Horse, which is supposed to possess mystic powers.
126* ''Film/TheShadowOfChikara'' -- Confederate veterans search for diamonds on a sacred mountain that might be protected by demons.
127* In ''Film/SilentTongue'', Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't burn her.
128* ''Film/SixGunSavior'': Injured after confronting the outlaw who murdered their family, a cowboy sells his soul to the Devil in a pact to save his dying brother. But the Devil is not known for keeping his word, [[DevilsJobOffer making him a bounty hunter for hell]].
129* ''Film/SundownTheVampireInRetreat'': The main setting is a small desert town inhabited by {{vegetarian vampire}}s who get into a shootout with a lot of {{Mooks}} riding horses in the climax. The {{Big Good}} and his bodyguards also have a {{Cowboy}} vibe, although they show up for the final battle in a limousine.
130* ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' has SandWorm-type monsters attacking a secluded Nevada town, albeit during modern times. ''Tremors 4'', which is a prequel set in the Old West, is a more textbook example of this trope.
131* ''Film/UndeadOrAlive'' (2007) -- Western meets zombies
132* ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' has a group of cowboys discovering a LostWorld full of LivingDinosaurs. When they try to bring an allosaurus back to town for their Wild West show, [[EscapedAnimalRampage disaster strikes]]. One of the best-known examples of this trope.
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136* There was a whole string of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship UFO sightings around the western United States in the 1890s]], and even alleged encounters with their AmbiguouslyHuman pilots (who were often claimed to be visitors from Mars). A man from Stockton, California even claimed that three alien beings tried (but failed) to [[AlienAbduction kidnap and drag him back to their spacecraft]].
137* The belief in {{skinwalker}}s is still widespread among the Navajo people of the Southwestern US, to the point that there's a taboo against openly discussing tales of sightings and encounters with skinwalkers for fear of drawing their attention. Skinwalker-like monsters have also been reported in modern urban legends amongst some non-indigenous people of the region as well.
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141%%* ''Literature/AgeOfSteam'' by Creator/DevonMonk.
142%%* World Fantasy and Nebula award-winning author Cat Rambo's collection of Steampunk and CattlePunk stories, ''Altered America'', includes a few WeirdWest stories.
143* Creator/JohnHodgman's ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'' mention that somewhere in the West is the LostWorld of Hohoq (also known as "Ar"), the 51st state, also a [[FloatingContinent floating plateau]] populated by {{thunderbird}}s, {{Magical Native American}}s, and Germans, who appear to be "simply German". Samples of Ar's soil were combined with samples of Kansas' soil to synthesize the hybrid state of Arkansas.
144* ''Literature/BloodMeridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West'', by Creator/CormacMcCarthy, repeatedly suggests that [[spoiler: the Judge]] is a supernatural being.
145* Michael Spradlin's ''Blood Riders'' novel is a Weird West bughunt which pits vampires against a pair of ex-Union soldiers and their steampunk battle-train.
146* Creator/MikeResnick's ''Literature/BuntlineSpecial'' and its sequels pit SteamPunk science against Indian magic.
147* Arianne 'Tex' Thompson's ''Children of the Drought'' series is a Weird West world set in a supernatural post-apocalypse (there was a war between magically talented races) Wild West where whole towns are haunted by the dead and roaming supernatural beings.
148* ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' is an AfterTheEnd post-apocalypse NewOldWest where humans scrape an existence by in the shadow of the Great Old Ones. Humanity continues to live in frontier towns and tribes but there is a vast monster-filled wasteland between them all.
149* Lee Collins has a duology involving Cora Oglesby, an unstable aging sharp-shooting monster hunter in a WildWest haunted by supernatural activity.
150* ''The Curse of Jacob Tracy'' by Holly Messinger involves Jacob Tracy, a cowboy cursed/blessed with great psychic powers which make him a beacon for ghosts and other beings of the spirit world. Working in an uneasy partnership with the occultist Miss Fairweather to control his powers, Jacob also must contend with Russian circus mesmerist/ master of the black arts, Mereck and the products of his horrific supernatural experiments.
151* ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' series is a sort of western (more so in the first book than in later installments) with elements of fantasy and science fiction. It has demons and magic as well as technology left over from before [[AfterTheEnd the world moved on]].
152* Author Joe Lansdale had his book-length debut with 1986 novel ''Dead in the West'' where a town is haunted by the undead and it's up to a preacher/gunfighter to deal with them.
153* Justine Ireland's post-US Civil War ZombieApocalypse ''Literature/DreadNation'' duology features a United States largely devastated by "shamblers". It also has [[CoolTrain "Iron Ponies" - small armoured trains that go on streets and roads,]] a magical penny, a ghost that keeps haunting the main character and a [[MagneticWeapons rail gun]] used by a town to blow up shamblers. The WildWest vibe ramps up in the latter half of the 2nd book ''Deathless Divide'', as the heroes go to California.
154* The ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' short story "A Fistful of Warlocks" features a young Warden Luccio fighting Warlocks alongside Wyatt Earp in late 1800's Dodge City. ''Creator/JimButcher'' has expressed interest in creating a spin-off series based on it.
155* Eric Scott Fischl has a pair of Weird West/dark fantasy novels ''Dr. Potter's Medicine Show'' and ''The Trials of Solomon Parker''. The first involves a group of travelling entertainer's led by the sadistic body-swapping Lyman, this troupe hawks a snake-oil cure-all known as Chock-a-Saw Sagwa Tonic which is actually a flawed alchemical elixir that can heal or mutate those who imbibe it. The second book follows some of the survivors from the first book, a few decades later, the broken main character meets a medicine man who offers to change his past if he beats the medicine man in a dice game.
156* ''Literature/DustDevils'' is a horror vampire novel set in the Wild West.
157* In R.S Belcher's ''Literature/TheGolgothaSeries'', the background is of the town of Golgotha which is run by a fallen angel and AllMythsAreTrue, features such things as Lilith-worshipping female pirates, a hereditary line of Mormon supernatural defenders, the resident mad scientist, etc.
158%%* Diane Morrison also edited and published an anthology, ''Gunsmoke & Dragonfire'', featuring Weird West, CattlePunk, SpaceWestern and FantasyAmericana [[TheWestern Western]] stories, including ''Riders of the Rainbow Ridge'' by Diana L. Paxson, and the seventh of her own ''Wyrd West Chronicles'' stories.
159* ''Literature/TheHalfMadeWorld'' takes place in a West that is an EldritchLocation. Still in the process of being created, the further west you go, the more unstable the laws of physics become. Supernatural creatures are fairly common; aside from the concept of the MagicalNativeAmerican being merged with TheFairFolk, the entire West is a battleground between [[OrderVsChaos two factions]] of malevolent spirits: the Guns, which are sentient guns that empower their wielders with superhuman abilities as gunslinging outlaws, and the Engines, which are sentient trains that run on/command a Line that's an industrialized empire slowly spreading its oppressive authority across the West.
160* Gemma Files' ''Literature/TheHexslingerSeries'', a post-Civil War trilogy about fallen preacher turned sorcerer Ash Rook, his sharpshooting [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]] [[StraightGay boyfriend]] Chess Pargeter, and the hell they unleash on the West when Rook makes a deal with [[spoiler: a fallen Mayan goddess]] to get the one thing his magic can't give him: [[spoiler: a way to save him and Chess from killing each other when Chess's magic awakes as well, since magicians can't co-exist or cooperate in this universe without sooner or later destroying each other]].
161* ''Literature/HungersAsOldAsThisLand'': The story's a western with Horror elements. In addition to settlers trying to make their way in the frontier and industrialists trying to "tame" it, there are also ancient, eldritch beings lurking in the mountains that hunger for human flesh.
162* Several of the ''Literature/InCryptid'' short stories count as Weird West, especially ''The Flower of Arizona'' (published in the anthology ''Westward Weird''), and ''Stingers and Strangers'' (published in the anthology ''Dead Man's Hand''). These focus on Jonathan and Frances Healy in the 1920s and 30s investigating cryptids in Arizona and Colorado, respectively.
163* S.A Sidor's ''The Institute For Singular Antiquities'' books are Weird West/Horror with a big dollop of archaelogical adventure. A promising young Egyptologist, an orphan Chinese boy, a wealthy occultist heiress and a famed bounty hunter cowboy have an adventure involving mummies brought over from Egypt, [[EldritchAbomination ancient worms]], [[ChineseVampire jiangshi parents]] and [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Mexican ghouls]] in the first novel. The second involves a Wendigo hunt.
164* ''Literature/JillKismet'' is chiefly an UrbanFantasy series, but it ''is'' set in the modern West and draws inspiration from it: Jill buys many of her charms from a Native American medicine woman, and the local flavor of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] seems to take inspiration from skinwalker legends.
165%%* Lots and lots of stories by Creator/JoeRLansdale. Even some of his stories that ''aren't'' weird west still [[Film/BubbaHoTep borrow elements.]]
166%%* Creator/RobertEHoward's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howard_bibliography#Weird_West Weird West stories]]. Most of these stories are included in the collection ''Trails in Darkness''.
167* Although Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs' ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' novels are typically categorized as definitive examples of the PlanetaryRomance, the first novel (''A Princess of Mars'') in particular has elements of this genre. The first chapter has Carter chased by Dene warriors through the Arizona desert before finding himself on Mars somehow, and his adventures on Mars have a very Western feel, with a desert setting, a DamselInDistress, and hordes of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Green Martians]] rallied under the NobleSavage chief Tars Tarkas, who can be seen as kind of an analogue for Geronimo, a man Burroughs respected immensely. As the novels go on and Carter rises in Martian society, however, the action moves away from the Martian frontiers, Tars Tarkas gradually fades into the background, and this flavour becomes more minimal.
168* The ''Literature/JonShannow'' trilogy by Creator/DavidGemmell. An AfterTheEnd setting where most of humanity has access to civil war era technology, but which also has half-beast mutants, devil worshiping sorcerers and [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot gun wielding lizardmen from the past of another dimension invaded by Atlantis]].
169* Creator/AlanDeanFoster's short stories about "Mad Amos" Malone, a giant MountainMan with a vast knowledge of all things arcane and mysterious who battles assorted dragons, ghosts, and other occult goings-on in the Old West.
170%%* "Ghost Town At Sundown" from ''Literature/TheMagicTreeHouse'' series.
171* ''Literature/TheRedNightTrilogy'' by Creator/WilliamSBurroughs: ''The Place of Dead Roads'' centers around a gunfighter in the American West who is also fascinated with magic and occultism, and the story features many supernatural elements.
172* ''Make Me No Grave'' by Hayley Stone is explicitly billed as "a weird west novel" in its subtitle. The plot features a US Marshal and a "flesh witch" known as the Grizzly Queen of the West.
173* The ''Literature/MerkabahRider'' stories are about a Hasidic Jewish mystic who wanders the Old West battling demonic forces of evil.
174* ''Literature/TheMonsterOfLakeLametrie'', a short story originally published in 1899, is a foundational example of the genre, and possibly the first example in fiction to propose that [[LivingDinosaurs otherwise-extinct animals might turn up alive and well]] in the West - in this case, a [[StockNessMonster live Elasmosaurus]] living in a remote Wyoming lake that may connect to [[HollowWorld the Hollow Earth]]. And then one of the human characters [[BrainTransplant has his brain put inside the monster's body.]]
175* Lila Bowen's ''The Shadow'' series is Weird West DarkFantasy - a young cowboy who's fated to be a champion against rogue supernatural forces.
176* ''Literature/SheepsClothing'' is a vampire story set in the United States territories in 1874, while its sequel, ''Literature/HungryAsAWolf'', features flesh-eating zombies by way of the {{Wendigo}} myth.
177%%* Appalachia rather than the West, but the ''Literature/SilverJohn'' stories by Creator/ManlyWadeWellman are if not this trope, related.
178* Despite taking place in the 1950s, ''Literature/AStitchInCrime'' is a pretty pure example of the trope. It's just that most of the cowboys don't have [[HeadlessHorseman heads]].
179%%* The ''Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker'' stories by Creator/OrsonScottCard are all about this.
180%%* Creator/EmmaBull's ''Territory'' is a {{Weird West}} exploration of the Tombstone mythos, and the events surrounding the famous Gunfight at the OK Corral.
181* ''Literature/UnicornWestern'', with its presence of magic and unicorns.
182* The ''Literature/VampireHunterD'' light-novel series by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi is heavily Western-based, even taking place in what is known as "The Frontier".
183* ''Vermilion'' by Molly Tanzer features the adventures of Lou Merriwether, a Taoist exorcist in old San Francisco.
184* ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'': Given Creator/BrandonSanderson and his extensive use of MagicAIsMagicA, this series straddles the line between this and CattlePunk. It's in a WildWest setting with use of magic, but said magic is highly tied into the development of new technologies such as DepletedPhlebotinumShells. Weapons reach to the advancement of dynamite, revolvers and bolt-action rifles, and transportation technology has advanced to the point of making TraintopBattle scenarios feasible, but one such battle includes someone grabbing dynamite and [[GoodThingYouCanHeal blowing it up in his own hand]].
185* Although it's somewhat subtle, ''Literature/TheWillBeDone'' takes place in a western-style setting, along with sorcerers and [[ReligionIsMagic magical priests]] (No, they don't get along).
186* The ''Wyrd West Chronicles'' are a WeirdWest serial by Diane Morrison that takes place in Western Canada AfterTheEnd, following a magical WorldWreckingWave. It might also be considered a FantasyAmericana setting. There are also elements of CattlePunk and SchizoTech, and TheGunslinger trope features prominently. The first six stories were later published as a novel ''Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West'' through a Kickstarter, which received good critical reviews.
187* The ''Literature/LeeNez'' series is a VampireDetectiveSeries focusing on an New Mexico state trooper of Navajo heritage who was turned into a vampire in an encounter with {{Ghostapo}} during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Lee continues to work for the state police in the NewOldWest.
188* The 1908 short story "Literature/TheMonsterOfPartridgeCreek", originally published in ''Je Sais Tout'' magazine, is a tale of the Weird ''[[CanadianWestern North]]''west, describing an encounter with a [[LivingDinosaurs live]] "dinosaurus" in the Yukon Territory of Canada. From the description, the creature sounds like an oversized ''Ceratosaurus''.
189* "Harold", one of the more infamous tales in ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'', is about two cowboys and a [[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]].
190* ''Literature/ShadowsForSilenceInTheForestsOfHell'' is essentially a wild west story of outlaws and bounty hunters set in a frontier region far from established cities, except the frontier is a shadowy ghost-filled forest.
191* Creator/LarryBlamire's anthology book ''Tales from the Callamo Mountains'' and its sequel ''More Tales From the Callamo Mountains'' are collections of short stories set in the Weird West. The only connecting tissue between them is that they are all set in the same (fictional) mountain range, implied to be some kind of EldritchLocation.
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195%%* Some episodes of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr''.
196* ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' dabbled in the weird more than once.
197** In one episode, Little Joe helped an isolated town defend against a gang that killed their sheriff, only to wake up in a ghost town that was destroyed by a gang years earlier.
198** In another, a new priest arrives in town just before Easter. He resolves a bitter custody battle over orphaned twins by counseling their extended family. Moments after their reunion, a man walks in and introduces himself as the new priest. The first one, naturally, has disappeared...
199%%* Xbox is reviving the setting of the ''Deadlands'' RPG (see Tabletop Games, below) for a new live-action TV series.
200* Short-lived series ''Series/DeadMansGun'''s final episode [[TheEndingChangesEverything retroactively changes the whole series]] into this with TheReveal that the eponymous gun[[spoiler:'s original owner is TheGrimReaper]].
201* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy A Town Called Mercy]]" features the Doctor, Amy and Rory dealing with what is essentially a Franchise/{{Terminator}} tormenting the title town in the American old West.
202%%* Used as a challenge in seasons 2 and 4 of ''Series/{{Dragula}}'', with the challenge in the latter season explicitly being named "Weird West."
203%%* In ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'', at least two {{Western}} parodies are this: the "galloping saddle" and "My Name is Kathy" sketches.
204* ''Series/OuterRange'': A mysterious portal appears, like the sinkhole from Hell, in a ranch in Wyoming.
205* ''Series/TheOutpost'' looks like HeroicFantasy at first, but once Talon reaches Gallwood Outpost (a fortified town guarding a mine on the edge of settled lands) it takes on a lot of classic Western character archetypes. To name a few, you've got TheBartender at the local tavern (two of them in fact, one a money-grubber, the other an artist of a brewer), TheSheriff in Gate Marshal Withers, the CavalryOfficer in the dashing Captain Garret, and TheDrifter in the form of main protagonist Talon.
206* Season Three of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' features Ethan's arc in the New Mexico Territory, featuring black magic, werewolves, and a MagicalNativeAmerican. This serves to take a break from the general GaslampFantasy / GothicHorror tone of the series and to explore Ethan's background more thoroughly.
207* ''Series/Preacher2016'' is set in the American South, mostly Texas and Louisiana. The main character has an [[spoiler:angelic/demonic power]], and another main character is a vampire. The first season features angels and a [[spoiler: telephone call to heaven]]. In later seasons there are arcs involving undead assassins from hell, vampires, voodoo, and shadowy religious organizations.
208 * ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'': The episode "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE14LivingInHarmony Living in Harmony]]" has the scifi/espionage action of the main series transposed to an Old West setting.
209* ''{{Series/Rawhide}}'' dabbled in the "Maybe Magic Maybe Mundane" variety of Weird Western territory quite often through its run, with storylines involving ghosts, curses, Bigfoot...
210* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' as a whole could be considered a weird neo-western, but one episode featured Sam and Dean going back to the Old West to hunt down a Phoenix.
211* Even if it doesn't want to admit it, ''Series/TeenWolf'' loves to subtly feature the weird west, especially in later seasons.
212** Season 4 takes the pack to Mexico for the entire first episode, and the rest of the season features Mexican berserkers, who are controlled by the werejaguar of Brazilian mythology. The opening credits even feature a distinctly desert vibe.
213** Season 5 finds Kira going to New Mexico with her mother, to enlist in the help of the Native American Skinwalkers to aid Kira in controlling her powers.
214** Seasons 3, 4, and 5 all feature Malia's storyline where she looks for her parents. Her mother is an assassin who goes by the name of the Desert Wolf. The show's coyote mythology tends to heavily allude to the Weird West, even if it doesn't state it outright.
215** Season 6 features the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt, who wears a cowboy hat, rides a HellishHorse, cracks a whip, and steals people from memory. As one does.
216* The television adaptation of ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'', beyond blatant western references right from the start, is a western story at heart. [[TheGunslinger Gunslingers]] Rick Grimes and Shane Walsh, YoungGun Carl Grimes, {{Hunter Trapper}}s Daryl and Merle Dixon, WastelandElder The Governor, the list goes on.
217* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' is an odd case. While it's clearly on the science fiction side of the SpeculativeFiction spectrum, it also clearly isn't a SpaceWestern or CattlePunk. Rather, it's a collision of an AIIsACrapshoot thriller and a classical Western, making it fit more comfortably here than in any of the other speculative Western genres. InUniverse, some of the park's storylines run into this category, such as the horror story involving cultists in the desert who became cannibals.
218%%* ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' also frequently dabbled in Weird Western territory.
219* ''Series/WynonnaEarp'' is set in modern day, but features a outlaws from the Old West killed by Wyatt Earp who return as demonic revenants due to a curse laid upon the Earp bloodline. The Ghost River Triangle area they're trapped in is a hotspot of supernatural activity and has been for a long time.
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223* ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'': In contrast to the [[InNameOnly movie]], the main story line takes place in the American West, with the protagonist battling fallen angels and zombies with blessed silver weapons, voodoo, and demonically-enhanced strength.
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227* The setting for several tracks by the Music/BlueOysterCult. '"Then Came the Last Days of May" on ''[[Music/BlueOysterCult1972 Blue Öyster Cult]]'' sees three buddies die on a trip into the desert border with Mexico. "The Golden Age of Leather" on ''Music/{{Spectres}}'' sees the shifting Western desert sands obligingly bury any trace that Hell's Angels fought a battle to the death here. And the video to "Take Me Away" from ''Music/TheRevolutionByNight'' moves the action of AlienAbduction and TheMenInBlack to a deserted dude ranch out in the mid-west.
228* Music/TheCatEmpire: "Voodoo Cowboy" conjures up an ''Film/ElTopo''-esque psychedelic dreamscape of an Old West. The chorus of the song riffs on the theme from ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
229-->His mother was a snake\
230His father was a scarecrow\
231Born in the desert with his hat on his head\
232Never missed a shot\
233Sharp as a Pharaoh\
234Tequila in the sunrise\
235The desert was his bed
236* Music/TheCogIsDead: "The Copper War" is a song about a small western mining town defending itself against an outlaw trying to take it over by building {{Steampunk}} mechanical steeds to ride against his posse.
237* Music/TheCranberries: The music video of "Promises" pits a sheriff against a witch that returned from the grave on the local boot hill... [[CurbStompBattle and the witch winning easily]].
238* Music/{{Ghoultown}} fit this trope to a tee, with a horrorpunk/rockabilly country sound, and plenty of songs about undead gunslingers and ghoulish curses. They even stretched into comic book territory briefly with a story about a vampire-cowboy.
239* Music/MurderByDeath have at least their entire album ''Who Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them?'', which is "about the Devil wiping a small town off the map." Portions of Red of Tooth and Claw may qualify as well.
240* Music/OrdenOgan: The album ''Gunmen'' is referred to by frontman Sebastian "Seeb" Levermann as a "DarkFantasy {{Western}}". The album features songs about everything from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm46Qgyn24 "Gunman"]] seeking revenge on his LoveInterest's murderers and escaping his hanging to a "Vampire in a Ghost Town".
241* Music/StanJones: "Ghost Riders in the Sky" ([[CoveredUp most well known]] by the Music/JohnnyCash cover from the '70s or the Film/TheBluesBrothers' version) is about a cowboy who runs afoul of a herd of demonic cattle being herded by damned souls.
242* Music/TomWaits: "Black Wings" (off of ''Music/BoneMachine'') seems to imply this kind of world. The song is a dark, acoustic-guitar driven track in the vein of GothicCountryMusic, describing an AmbiguouslyEvil being, implied to be a HumanoidAbomination or even [[AngelUnaware an angel]], on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
243-->When the moon is a cold chiseled dagger\
244And it's sharp enough to draw blood from a stone\
245He rides through your dreams on a coach and horses\
246And the fenceposts in the moonlight look like bones
247* Music/{{Volbeat}}: ''Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies'' is a ConceptAlbum that is solidly Western but also contains Lovecraftian elements. This is best exemplified by the songs "Dead But Rising," and "Nameless One."
248* Music/{{Voltaire}}: To this genre belongs the song "Fear and Anguish", of the country album ''Hate Lives in a Small Town''. It's about the effect strange ocurrences start having over a town with a ContinuityNod regarding a song of the same album.
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252* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneDust'' is set in the wild-west inspired Crescent Territory, home to all sorts of supernatural creatures, such as werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and demons.
253** Downplayed but present in ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' arc ''The Eleventh Hour''. Set in the frontier mining town of Refuge, complete with saloons, sheriffs, and slide guitar soundtracks, the western setting revolves around a puzzling GroundhogDayLoop that begins hours before the town's cataclysmic destruction. And that's not even mentioning how it all ties into the ''very'' weird broader strokes of ''Balance'''s interdimensional cosmic horror saga.
254* ''Podcast/AintSlayedNobody'' is a ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' online podcast in the "Down Darker Trails" setting, with the first season telling the story of a ragtag posse who set out to seek justice from a notorious outlaw, and end up on a series of nightmarish misadventures.
255* The ''Podcast/TwilightHistories'' miniepisode “Lakota Thunder” takes place in a world where the Ghost Dance allowed the Lakota to access the power of thunder and lightning.
256* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' is set in a desert with extremely hot weather and a Ralph's, and is home to a 5-headed dragon, a two-headed teenage boy, and many other weird people, things, and happenings.
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261* Phantom Manor, [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland Paris]]'s version of Franchise/TheHauntedMansion. It has a distinctly western twist on the original Haunted Mansion concept, as it is located in Frontierland, and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the French have a thing for Spaghetti Westerns]].
262* Also at the Disney Parks, every version of Ride/BigThunderMountainRailroad is a jaunt through this trope. The premise is that you're riding a GhostTrain through an abandoned Gold Rush-era town. Different versions have different backstories explaining how the train became possessed by ghosts, and notably, the Disneyland Paris version ties directly into the Phantom Manor's backstory.
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266* The ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement book ''Blood Brothers 2'' features a one-off adventure, unrelated to the main Franchise/CthulhuMythos, called "The Evil Gun", about an undead gunslinger called The Drifter (explicitly said to look like Creator/ClintEastwood in ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'') who holds a small western town in a reign of terror.
267** The supplement ''Down Darker Trails'' is meant to support [=CoC=] games and campaigns set in the 19th century West, which knowledgeable Franchise/CthulhuMythos fans know is almost as filled with extradimensional horrors as [[LovecraftCountry New England]].
268* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' is an unabashed example of this trope, to the point that it actively ''uses the term Weird West'' to describe its setting. After a vengeful Native American shaman opens the doors to [[SpiritWorld "the Hunting Grounds"]] and unleashes powerful demons during the American Civil War, all sorts of supernatural weirdness is unleashed upon the world, from traditional beasts like zombies and vampires to malicious versions of FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore to demonically-influenced {{Mad Scientist}}s building weird devices powered by [[GreenRocks coal made from the souls of the damned]].
269** The setting was updated with "The Morgan Effect" in ''TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest'' where much of the settings' more controversial elements like a surviving Confederacy were {{Retgone}}d out of existence. It also resulted in the Reckoners' plans being severely affected.
270* ''TabletopGame/DogsInTheVineyard'' may count, depending on how overtly the supernatural aspects are portrayed. It's set in a FantasyCounterpartCulture to the Mormon territory of early Utah, with the [=PCs=] as "God's Watchdogs" who [[WalkingTheEarth ride a circuit among various towns and villages]], sometimes encountering 'demonic corruption' and seeking to root it out before it spreads. This can range anywhere from [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane bad luck and evil behavior]], to sorcerers throwing fireballs while the Dogs' faith turns their patchwork longcoats bulletproof in a pinch.
271* ''Dracula's America'' is a skirmish miniatures game involving Literature/{{Dracula}} emigrating to the New World, vampirizing all major figureheads in Washington D.C. and taking over. TheUnmaskedWorld ensues and people westward struggle to prevent becoming supernatural monster fodder while the AncientConspiracy that forced Dracula to escape Europe starts to establish a foothold in the States to try to finish the job.
272* ''TabletopGame/DungeonCrawlClassics'' spin-off ''Weird Frontiers'' could be described as a more lovecraftian version of ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}''. In 1865, a group of cultists attempt to free the slumbering EldritchAbomination/ElderGods, but the final ritual is stopped by a group of Texas Rangers. While the Elder Gods are still trapped, they were awakened and many lesser entities are able to enter the world through the weakened barriers and begin wreaking havoc across the frontier. The player characters are people who have been empowered by Earth's magical energy, giving them the means to fight back against Elder Gods' evil. As a minor tidbit of trivia, it began its life with the title "Dark Trails", but [[{{Invoked}} was forced]] to change titles [[ScrewedByTheLawyers when Chaosium got iffy about the chance of it being mixed up with their own book]].
273* The ''Ghost Mountain'' setting for ICRPG takes place on and around the titular mountain, which has been torn out of reality and floats over Purgatory. People who die often don't stay dead, but [[CameBackWrong might prefer if they had]], devils make deals for people souls, which can often be found in the form of old gold coins with an odd iridescent sheen, and [[TheDevil Old Scratch himself]] might be found playing cards for the fate of the land.
274* ''TabletopGame/{{Malifaux}}'' combines Weird Western elements with SteamPunk and GothicHorror.
275* ''[[TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}} The Good, the Bad & the Munchkin]]''
276* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' gets in on this act by releasing several flavours of TheGunslinger as a playable class, and the Pale Stranger, a monster that's an undead cowboy. Within the game's default campaign setting of Golarion, the small nation of Alkenstar is a natural fit for this, despite being located in that world's [[FantasyCounterpartCulture equivalent]] to northeastern Africa. It's a technologically advanced nation and the only place where guns are reasonably common (though they're [[FantasyGunControl deliberately manufactured in small numbers to keep the value high, and to keep them from falling into the hands of other nations]]), located on the edges of the Mana Wastes, an EldritchLocation where magic acts very strangely, and roving bands of {{mutants}} are common.
277* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' features a lawless American West, mostly free from Coalition control (save Northern Texas and Iowa) but host to a whole mess of other troubles. It's all a self-respecting cowpoke or injun (whether tech- or [[MagicalNativeAmerican magic-inclined]]) or [[MonsterKnight Lyn-Srial Skyknight]] can do to take up arms and clear out all the scum -- [[FantasyKitchenSink cyborg prospectors, dinosaurs, lowlife banditos, cactus men, red skinned desert spirits...]] Speaking of, Mexico is pretty much completely overrun by vampires. The Canadian West is basically a northern extension of the American West but has its own problems such as [[BugWar the Xiticix hivelands]], [[HellOnEarth the Calgary Rift and Monster Kingdom]], and of course, {{Wendigo}}.
278* ''Shadows Of Brimstone'' is a Western-based boardgame where various stock Western characters venture down into [[DugTooDeep dangerous haunted mine shafts]] to battle {{mutants}}, {{the undead}}, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[AlienInvasion alien invaders]] and [[EldritchAbomination cosmic horrors]]. Notably, the locals have begun using a mysterious otherworldly mineral known as darkstone that has powerful-but-mutagenic properties, including opening portals to other worlds and times such as a dino-filled jungle swamp ruled by SnakePeople, a FireAndBrimstoneHell, or a dying alien world in the throes of a darkstone-powered [[ForeverWar century-long WW1 analog]].
279* ''TabletopGame/{{Spellslinger}}'' is an obscure 3rd party setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3rd edition that takes place in a world where, after TheMagicGoesAway and triggers an industrial revolution for a continent full of the "standard" D&D races, those same races discover an America-like continent and begin settling there. Notable features include elven gunslingers, dwarven prospectors, gnomish rail barons, and the Gray Runners; [[WolfMan humanoid wolves]] who stand in for the Native Americans.
280* ''[[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Werewolf]]: The Wild West'' is a historical spin-off game that revolves around werewolves fighting pseudo-demonic spirits of corruption out on the wild western frontiers.
281* The Red Room's ''TabletopGame/WretchedCountry'' is an Old School Renaissance game all about western adventures. Specifically SpaghettiWestern, with player characters ranging from AntiHero to outright VillainProtagonist who usually find themselves dealing with supernatural horror.
282* ''We Deal in Lead'' can be summed up as a tabletop rpg adaptation of Stephen King's ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' series.
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286* ''VideoGame/AldersBlood'' from Shockwork Games describes itself as a Victorian/Western where your exiled team of hunters fight monsters born of the decaying of your slain God.
287* ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark 3'' is set in a GhostTown in Mojave desert populated by [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead cowboys and outlaws]].
288* ''Bladeslinger'' from Kerosene Games, is an iOS game set in a fantasy Wild West, where you are a [[MagicKnight Bladeslinger]] (an order of gunslinger/mages with a [[BladeBelowTheShoulder wrist blade]] and six-shooter) who's trying to discover why undead and other monsters are infesting his hometown.
289* ''VideoGame/BloodWest'' sees you as an undead cowboy fighting assorted zombie enemies in the Wild West.
290* ''VideoGame/BountyOfOne'' takes place in a fantasy Wild West with goblins, orcs, fireball-throwing mages, as well as flaming skeletal {{Hell Hound}}s as enemies, with one of the [[BossBattle Sheriffs]] being a three-headed, flaming skeletal hellhound, and the BigBad is a skeletal necromancer with a HellishHorse. Meanwhile, playable character Ollin is a desert spirit with a MagicStaff that gives him [[GreenThumb cactus powers]].
291* ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'' began in a desert setting with gunslingers, [[SkeletalMusician a guitar-playing mariachi skeleton]], [[CactusPerson a living cactus]], [[BirdPeople a crow man]], and a vampire {{undertaker}}. However, the game quickly expanded in setting to AnachronismStew levels. Then comes TheReveal that [[spoiler:the whole game takes place in an AmusementParkOfDoom]].
292* The largely forgotten FirstPersonShooter ''VideoGame/{{Darkwatch}}: Curse of the West'' was about an outlaw-turned-vampire named Jericho Cross, who was hired by the titular organization to track down the vampire lord who turned him. It featured, among other things, a HellishHorse named Shadow that served as Jericho's steed.
293* In ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier,'' Hakan [[NamedAfterSomeoneFamous Browning]] hails from "Lost Herencia," which is a post-apocalyptic western populated by mutants and robots and peppered with LostTechnology.
294* ''VideoGame/EvilWest'' from Flying Wild Hog is set in a version of the Wild West filled with the vampiric monsters called Sanguisuge, your gunslinger protagonist Jesse Rentier is a PowerFist-wielding agent of the 18th century [[MonsterHunterOrganization Rentier Institute]] which was made to protect pioneers from these vampires.
295* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' embraced this fully after having briefly played with it in ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout2''. Six-shooters, Winchester-looking carbines, and cow-boy hats are everywhere, while more modern guns are common too. The starting town looks like a typical Old West settlement and one of the first people you encounter here is a security robot with the face of a cowboy displayed on its screen. And things only get weirder from there. Comes almost with the territory of being a '50s-style pulp-fiction sci-fi game set in a post-apocalyptic Mojave desert. The ''Honest Hearts'' DLC, entirely set in Zion Canyon, is basically the story of a war between Native American tribes... where the Natives descend from survivors of a nuclear holocaust, wield firearms from the 1950s-1960s, and the local fauna are giant mutated variants of normal animals. And, if you so choose, you can use the [[SillinessSwitch "Wild Wasteland" trait]], which introduces "the most bizarre and silly elements of post-apocalyptic America".
296* ''VideoGame/GrimDawn'': The setting is rather high fantasy but technologically equivalent to the late 1800s, meaning players and enemies alike can wield enchanted revolvers and lever-action rifles. Act 2 is set in a region of dry hills and canyons that has a very Southwestern feel and the main antagonists are Cronley's Gang, a group of bandits and desperados that experiment with magic-infused super soldiers and lair in abandoned mines that are occasionally haunted. The town of Homestead in Act 3 is populated by determined frontier farmers who are menaced by bug monsters rather than angry natives.
297* ''Gunslingers of the Wasteland vs. The Zombies From Mars''. ''Yes'', that's the title. The game have you playing as a gunslinger in the west fighting a zombie infestation caused by a rogue Martian scientist who destroyed his home planet and is now targeting earth.
298* ''VideoGame/HardWest'' is set in a grim western frontier beset by [[OurDemonsAreDifferent gun-toting demons]], an inexplicable force driving people to madness, ancient curses, and a [[LouisCypher dark-suited stranger]] [[DealWithTheDevil offering wealth and power to those down on their luck]].
299* ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'': The "Showdown in the Badlands" expansion takes place in a setting that would be indistinguishable from TheWildWest if not for the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], [[ElementalEmbodiment elementals]], and [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]].
300* ''VideoGame/HuntShowdown'': Members of a CreatureHunterOrganization wage a secret war on monsters during the late 1800's using all kinds of weapons that, for all of their bizarre SteamPunk looks, actually existed during that period. The game doesn't happen ''in'' the Wild West (most of the currently available arenas are set [[DeepSouth somewhere deep in Louisiana]]), but everything else fits.
301* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has its own hefty, skin-based AlternateUniverse called "High Noon Gothic", transplanting several champions into a fantasy western setting. The backstory involves mortals having accidentally destroyed {{Heaven}} in a land rush and thus allowing [[HellOnEarth the legions of Hell to ravage the west]], resulting in a war between [[TheLegionsOfHell demonic hellbeasts]], [[OurAngelsAreDifferent surviving angel warriors]], and [[BadassNormal the mortal cowboys in between.]]
302* ''VideoGame/Pirate101'' has a world known as Cool Ranch. The setting is western featuring pirates[[note]]This actually makes sense when you stop and think about it. Most outlaws could be looked at as pirates with horse instead of ships and that they robbed trains, coaches, and banks instead of merchant vessels, They make up most of the Spiral's population, having humans populate it would make it [[MakesSenseInContext seem even stranger]][[/note]], and Hoodoo[[note]]It umm... it comes with the pirate theme... okay, you can have that this one is weird even in context[[/note]].
303* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': One of the time periods featured in the game is the Wild West... overrun with appropriately-themed zombies such as cowboys, gold prospectors, saloon pianists, rodeo bulls, and... chicken wranglers.
304* ''VideoGame/PulpAdventures'' has a mission in which the Lone Ranger and Tonto explore a Wild West town which population has been brainwashed by a cursed artifact buried nearby (a golden mask with telepathic abilities).
305* ''[[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare Undead Nightmare]],'' an expansion pack for ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption,'' focuses around the (normal) Western frontier getting overrun with a zombie invasion. [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]], {{chupacabra}}s, and the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse four horses of the apocalypse]] also appear.
306** Though otherwise averted in the main game, the optional sidequest "I Know You" features a mysterious stranger who seems to know [[PlayerCharacter Marston]] even though he doesn't remember ever meeting him. The quest's climax heavily implies this man is some sort of supernatural being, as he's shown to be ImmuneToBullets and your final confrontation with him [[spoiler: takes place at the site of Marston's future grave]]. Players have interpreted him as {{God}}, {{Satan}}, or even {{Death}}, but his true identity is ultimately left [[AngelUnaware ambiguous]].
307* While the main storyline averts this entirely, the side content in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' features a lot more "abnormal" phenomenon, including sidequests concerning [[spoiler:ghosts, aliens, robots, and giants]], and characters that are heavily implied to be [[spoiler:time travelers, vampires, zombies, and Bigfoot]]. There's also a fair bit of mundane, non-supernatural horror on the frontier, though that typically has more of a HillbillyHorrors flavour.
308* ''Six-Guns: Gang Showdown'' from Creator/{{Gameloft}}, has Arizona and Oregon haunted by vampires, cultists and other creatures of the night. But that's okay, because your cowboy Buck can beat them back with a trusty revolver, shotgun or rifle. And then Buck can eventually get flamethrowers, gatling guns, HandCannon, {{BFG}}, chainsaws, magic scythes, AutomaticCrossbow, [[LightningGun Tesla rifles]], WolverineClaws and holy energy guns. All while riding a [[MechanicalHorse mechanized]] or [[HellishHorse demonic horse]] and wearing exotic armor like [[TheGrimReaper Death's]] very own shroud.
309* ''VideoGame/SteamWorldDig'' is set in a Wild West-inspired mining town, populated entirely by SteamPunk robots. That's already reasonably weird, but as you dig deeper below the town, things get weirder and weirder.
310* ''[[VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz]]'' has a wild west themed world... made entirely out of cardboard drawn on with crayon. Don't let the scenery fool you though, [[ThatOneLevel it's levels are bound to give you a headache.]]
311* ''VideoGame/WeirdWest'', from former Creator/ArkaneStudios developers and published by Creator/DevolverDigital, has five protagonists making their way in a very mythical version of the Wild West.
312* ''VideoGame/WestOfDead'', which follows a solemn undead gunslinger on a quest to liberate [[PurgatoryAndLimbo Purgatory]] from dark forces corrupting it. The afterlife is portrayed as [[FantasyKitchenSink an eclectic mixture]] of Judeo-Christian motifs, Native American mysticism, and [[spoiler:old world pagan mythologies like those of ancient Scandinavia and Egypt]], but its all filtered through a SpaghettiWestern vibe. Interestingly, there's a bit of GenreShift going on; the game starts out leaning harder into the "West" part, but emphasizes the "Weird" more and more as it goes on.
313* ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'' is a western themed RPG set in a place based on 1895 California near San Francisco. It features a sorcerer class ("Beanslingers", who throw magic beans of various effects at enemies), demonic cows, a necromancy cult bringing back entire graveyards worth of skeletons back from the dead, and [[EldritchAbomination eldritch-abomination-haunted]] [[PreCursor "El Vibrato"]] ruins driving miners crazy. It's all [[PlayedForLaughs played for laughs]], of course; [[VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing Asymmetric Productions]] being the bunch of jokers that they are.
314* The ''VideoGame/WildArms'' series has a Western-like setting, but includes fantasy and sci-fi elements such as [[FunctionalMagic spellcasting]] and robots.
315* ''VideoGame/WildGuns'' is a RailShooter in a SpaceWestern setting where most of the basic enemies are robots in cowboy gear, your arsenal consists of modern-day firearms and the rerelease allows you to play as a dog who's assisted by an armed drone.
316* ''VideoGame/{{Wildstar}}'' was an MMO that mixed the SpaceOpera and WildWest genres together, and often featured ClarkesThirdLaw-related weirdness, such as dead settlers coming back as holographic ghosts.
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320* ''VisualNovel/WickedLawlessLove'' is a romance game set in a frontier town called Wisp Willow near the Devil's Backbone in the fictional world of Embarca. The heroine is a wanted outlaw at the start of the story, and the cast of love interests include ghost cowboy Nathan Cayde and vampire ranger Cecelia Visconti.
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324* ''WebAnimation/TheBackwaterGospel'' is about what happens when [[TheGrimReaper a creepy undertaker]] shows up in a fearful Southwest frontier town under the thrall of a {{sinister|Minister}} [[TheFundamentalist fire and brimstone pastor]] (hint: it doesn't end well).
325* ''WebAnimation/CliffSide'' is a story about a young man who wants to be a notorious outlaw. While failing to do so, he gets caught in the web of a spider-like CuteMonsterGirl and makes an enemy of [[TheGrimReaper Death Itself]].
326* ''WebAnimation/LongGoneGulch'' involves two wannabe gunslingers becoming the sheriffs of a strange world adrift in an ever-moving dust cloud, where creatures from mythology, folklore, and urban legends all over the world coexist in a Wild West-style town.
327* ''WebAnimation/NomadOfNowhere'' follows two women, the tough-as-nails Captain Toth and her bright-eyed companion Skout, hot on the heels of the most wanted man in the world, the enigmatic [[CuteMute Nomad]], in an anime-esque wild west setting where [[TheMagicComesBack The Magic Came Back]]... to the Nomad, the only person in the world who can use it. In case you're wondering "[[WholePlotReference Say, that sounds a lot like]] ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''", then yes, have a cookie. Even before meeting the Nomad, there's a buzzard with a long lizard tail and a two-headed armadillo.
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331* ''Webcomic/{{Back}}'' is the typical "desperado gains KidSidekick and fights corrupt lawmen" Western, albeit one where the desperado is a omnicidal zombie, the KidSidekick is a witch-in-training, and the corrupt lawmen have been hideously deformed and empowered by a [[AppliedPhlebotinum strange pink liquid]] and the will of their insane king.
332* ''Webcomic/{{Crowfeathers}}''
333* ''[[Webcomic/TheDreadful The Dreadful]]'', which is a cuter than average take, starting with CuteMonsterGirl protagonist Kit.
334* ''Webcomic/TheGunsOfShadowValley'' where the wild west is full of superheroes.
335* ''Webcomic/NextTownOver'' has elements of this as well as CattlePunk.
336* ''{{Webcomic/Plume}}'' has magical artifacts and beings in Wild West setting.
337* ''Webcomic/SixGunMage'' - as the title would suggest.
338* ''Webcomic/UnbreakableIronRanger'' (and its sequel series ''Crypts & Cowboys'') takes place in a NewOldWest WainscotSociety containing *deep breath* [[FantasyKitchenSink cyborgs, mutants, yokai, sentient robots, vampires, undead, cryptids, aliens, mad scientists, werewolves, various classic movie monsters]], [[spoiler: and at least one Angel]].
339* ''Webcomic/ZombieRanch'' is more of a [[NewOldWest Weird New West]], though so far the supernatural elements all seem to be limited to zombies or the products of their existence.
340* Many of the residents of Hell in ''{{Webcomic/Zoophobia}}'' are western-themed. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin That's right]], there are demons and other entities with cowboy hats, boots, guns and saloon dresses. Who can square dance.
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344* [[http://johnsu.deviantart.com/art/Western-Brave-119313170 Behold]] the brave Lawrence Brecker and his... uh... hoverhorse thingy.
345* The [[https://youtu.be/38_rWtZ74rM "Normal Western Movie"]] sketch from Webvideo/BrandonRogers is this in spades. For some context, it tells the story of a [[ClusterFBomb Cluster F-Bombin']], [[BestialityIsDepraved horse humpin']] outlaw and a sex addicted prostitute, both of whom are [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes irrationally afraid of Indians]] and, more importantly, are going through each and every town in the Wild West that has a mapmaker in the hopes of getting a map to Grimehollow, a town where [[LivingForeverIsAwesome no one ever dies]]. The real kicker, though, is at the end, when its revealed that [[spoiler:they were ''in'' Grimehollow all along, that all the mapmakers they've killed were actually the same guy [[ResurrectiveImmortality getting resurrected]] into a different form each time, and that no matter where they try running off to, they will always end up coming right back to Grimehollow.]]
346* The {{Creepypasta}} ''Home on Derranged'' is about a cowboy who gets lost on his ranch one day and is chased back to his house by an [[HellishHorse undead horse]].
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350* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' also had its share of Wild West and sorcery, particularly the Scarecrow entity, a long-forgotten superweapon that acted like a life-draining vampire.
351* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' crossed this with a SpaceWestern. The hero was a MagicalNativeAmerican with a Shaman as a mentor, and his steed was a cybernetic transforming horse with a bipedal form. The head of the outlaw gang was a thrall (possibly undead) of a cyborg dragon sorcerer. One of the outlaws was an ork in all but name, and add the halfling-like Prairie People for additional fantastic elements.
352* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
353** The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' CowboyEpisode "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE13Showdown Showdown]]" is about Batman trying to unravel one of Ra's al Ghul's plots by investigating its roots in the Old West, when Jonah Hex (who is also in the ''JLU'' episode below) ran afoul of Ra's' son.
354** In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' {{Time Travel|Episode}}ing CowboyEpisode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E12WeirdWesternTales The Once and Future Thing: Weird Western Tales]]", Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman are all [[TimeTravel sent back in time]] to the Wild West, teamed up with a bunch of Western-era DC characters (including Jonah Hex), and encounter, among other things, a laser gun that splits into six smaller parts, android exoskeletons, and [[MechanicalAnimals robot dinosaurs]]. This is all because a villain stole [[TimeMaster Chronos]]' time belt and had been [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit messing around with time travel]], [[GivingRadioToTheRomans introducing a lot of anachronistic technology to this setting]].
355* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': Book 4 has the [[Recap/InfinityTrainS4E3TheOldWestCar Old West Car]], a world based on the Wild West that is populated by [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant, talking bugs]]. When [[Characters/InfinityTrainDuet Min-Gi, Ryan, and Kez]] go there, they run into some trouble when it turns out that Kez had previously angered the car's residents.
356* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' had a CowboyEpisode revolving around one of Jackie's ancestors, an [[ChineseLaborer immigrant railroad worker]] who lived in a desert town of eastern California, where he encounters a bunch of characters who are [[GenerationXerox depicted as being Wild West counterparts of the show's main/recurring cast]]. The Weird West part comes into play when it's revealed that the town's {{corrupt|Politician}} {{Mayor|Pain}} (who's this era's counterpart of [[EvilBrit Valmont]]) is secretly allied with the [[DragonsAreDemonic demonic dragon]] ([[SealedEvilInACan turned living statue]]) [[BigBad Shendu]].
357* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' had a {{Time Travel|Episode}}ing CowboyEpisode, in which Agents J and K are on a mission to stop a giant alien monster from awakening and destroying the city of Phoenix, Arizona in the present day. So then they resort to {{time travel}}ing back to the 19th century, where they visit a nearby frontier town and must track down the whereabouts of the evil alien in question.
358* ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa''. On top of the fact that all the characters are {{Funny Animal}}s who were [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted by a meteor]], one antagonist was an undead prospector by the name of "Skull Duggery," who drowned when his gold mine flooded.
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