Characters / Tex Willer

A character sheet for the main cast of the Italian Western comic series Tex Willer.

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Tex Willer

Tex Willer

The main lead, whose lifestory the narrative follows.

• The Ace
• Agent Scully: Aliens, dinosaurs, black magic, zombies, ghosts, people returned from the dead. He has met them all, some multiple times. Yet he keeps claiming "I don't believe in anything I can't stick my finger into."
  • Justified by having had multiple run-ins into Scooby Doo Hoaxes and other fakes (the most epic being Hamatsa the Cannibal God, supposedly a man-eating giant who was revealed as a giant movable mannequin with a guy in each leg and one behind the face to make it seem alive) and some magics getting explained away scientifically by El Morisco and other educated people.
  • He also claims that, while most of the native sorcerers and shamans are posers, some of them do have some sort of powers.
• Back in the Saddle: After an eventful youth he left the adventuring life of violence for some years to live with his wife Lilyth in the Navajo reservate. Some ten years later Carson came to ask him to return to the Texas Rangers. At that point Tex was already so full of the "nice and quiet" ordinary life he pretty much Jumped at the Call.
• Beneath the Mask: Looks like and is often dismissed as a mere hardened though guy; is both intelligent and gold-hearted.
• Berserk Button: Questioning his honor or abusing a weaker person, such as being racist towards someone of minority.
• Born Lucky: And he knows it, to Carson's chagrin.
• Celibate Hero: The only one to ever win his love was Lilyth, and she's dead. His comment on the issue was "my road will never end again", hinting he finds relationships restricting. Compare this to how he generally dislikes being controlled in any way.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: According to himself, he has faced so much injustice during his life he hates it in all of its forms. His lower class origins might have much to do with this.
• Combat Pragmatist: Give him a duel with precise rules, and he'll follow the rules to the letter while trying to abuse the unwritten parts. Give him a fight without rules, and he'll do everything he can to make sure he can walk away and the enemy can't.
  • The crowning achievement may be his second duel with Ruby Scott, where he used the fact he had been shot in his dominant arm in the first duel about half a hour prior to drive his skilled opponent and almost as pragmatic opponent in a Villainous Breakdown over it and throw him off his game.
• Cool Horse: Dynamite during the early years. He tamed Dynamite himself when he was part of a wandering rodeo circus.
  • Meaningful Name: Considering Tex' love and skills with explosives, his horse couldn't have had a more appropriate name.
• The Cynic: While he at first might seem like a rather optimistic guy, that's only him having great faith in his own skills. His view of the world and the humankind is rather bleak, and counts as A World Half Full at best.
• Determinator: Never ever gives up. Ever. That's why he's still alive.
• The Dreaded: The whole quartet is extremely fearsome, but Tex is by far the most feared, with criminals describing him as worse than plague and cholera put together. At least one gang leader who had dealt with him was so shaken by the experience he would allucinate Tex chasing him for the rest of his life.
• Going Native: From the start he found no place in the white society, being restless and reckless. He only settled down when finding a home among the Navajos.
• Good Is Not Nice: Tex is always nice to women and kids. For the rest: "I'm a forgiving man... but never twice for the same person."
• Guile Hero: Uses both his wits and his guns to solve problems.
• The Gunslinger
• Farm Boy: He was born in a poor cattle ranch.
• Fastest Gun in the West: Well known for being invincible in a duel, no matter who comes after him. The one guy who defeated him, Ruby Scott, had to use a holster that allowed him to shoot without extracting, but not only Tex had already pulled out his gun when he was shot, Tex won the second round with his off hand (having been wounded in his right arm the first time and refusing to wait long enough to heal to fight the second duel).
• Fictional Texas Ranger: Tex has had a rather on-off relationship with the Rangers: quitting and re-joining in turns according to in how good terms he happens to be with the bosses. Now he has been in good terms with the organization for a long time.
• Former Teen Rebel: Tex has self-admitted troubles dealing with authority, or any kind of control laid on him by the society.
• A Friend in Need: Helps his friends and uses their help. A great part of the stories start with such a help request, and his network of friends covers all of North America, and one in Argentina.
• Everything is Big in Texas: Originally from Texas, until moved to live in the Navajo reservate in Arizona.
• Happily Married: With Lilyth, for as long as it lasted.
• Heart Broken Badass: After Lilyth died, Tex not only rampaged the mandatory revenge, he was ouright depressed and spent three years doing pretty much nothing but avoiding people and slacking.
• The Hero
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Hidden under thick layers of macho stoicism.
• Honor Before Reason: His own code of honor, that is.
• Hot-Blooded: His true nature is passionate, but he doesn't allow himself to show his "weak" emotions, only anger. For a The Hero Tex is easily provoced into violence, gets insulted and insults others, and shows no respect for the poor jaws of even the people high in the society's pecking order.
• Hypocrite: Tex lies without a second thought to drive his own goals, but if anyone dares to call him out, immediate asskicking is quaranteed. He also expects everyone else to respect the law and has special kind of hatred for the rich people who believe themselves to be above the laws - yet he's more than happy to break them himself, though usually for a good cause.
  • Pragmatic Hero: As he explained to a lady early on, he found out that such a lawless and violent approach is the more efficient way to stop the people he fights, otherwise he would fail.
• I Work Alone: Originally Tex avoided company or long-standing relationships of any kind. Carson was the first one to manage to break his isolationism, and even that required some real work. Years later Tex would still claim Carson was clinging to him and impossible to get rid of, while it's obvious he was always happy to see him when they met.
• In Harm's Way: Growing middle-aged hasn't cured his adrenaline addiction. While he wishes the wild west would be less wild for the sake of the people living there, he acknowledges he couldn't enjoy living in a peaceful surrounding.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Not only because he has to, he enjoys it. Then again, the ones subjected to it more often than not had it coming.
• Like an Old Married Couple: Tex and Carson, I'm looking at you.
• The Lost Lenore: Lilyth to him.
• Magnetic Hero
• Maligned Mixed Marriage: Married a Native woman. Has had troubles for it from both the European settlers and by the other Natives, some of whom refuse to accept him as one of them.
• Men Don't Cry: No, not even when their beloved dies. We're macho here, okay?
• Mighty Whitey: Joins a Native American tribe, ultimately becomes its leader. Subverted in that he only becomes the chief via marriage - in this fictionland Navajos have high chiefs, and the position is hereditary. Therefore marrying the chief's daughter and only child makes him the "crown prince".
• The Mourning After: Ah, true love and peaceful family life... how uneventful you are. Instead, heartbrokedness makes for more interesting heroes. Adios, Lilyth!
• Nerves of Steel
• Never Gets Drunk
• No Holds Barred Beat Down: Tex is not above beating the loving life out of who ever he considers to be in the need of it.
• Oblivious to Love: Sometimes to such extends one wonders if he's just pretending he doesn't get it as his modus operandi to deal with the ladies.
• Papa Wolf: Played with. He first allows Kit into the most dangerous of places and situations, and then worries his heart out for his safety. (Though he has very little success when trying to keep Kit out of the danger's way, so perhaps he just doesn't bother any more.) If anything then does happen to Kit...
• Parental Abandonment
  • Disappeared Dad: His father, Ken Willer, was murdered by cattle thieves when he was a young adult. Naturally, retribution followed.
  • Disappeared Parental Substitute: On the Willer home ranch lived also a man called Gunny Bill, a veteran of the Mexican war, who taught Tex to shoot. Yes, he was killed too.
  • Missing Mom: His mother died at some point during his early life. All we know of her is her name: Mae Willer.
• Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Tex originally married Lilyth to save his skin, but soon realized she was just the right woman for him.
• Pet the Dog: There are moments where Tex can be incredibly sensitive and kind to ladies.
• Playing with Fire / Stuff Blowing Up: Tex gets MythBusters levels of excitement when he gets to burn or explode something, therefore he eagerly finds excuses to do so. He once bragged he'd be able to teach use of dynamite to college students, if they actually studied it.
• Rags to Riches: After being poor for all of his life, he becomes first a member and then the leader of the Navajo tribe. Later gold is found from the Navajo mountains, and in the precent Tex always has as much money as he needs.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Grows up to be one, even though (or because) he himself has had so much problems dealing with authority figures in his life.
• Rescue Romance: How he and Lilyth met? He had been caught by the Navajos, was tortured by them and about to be killed when Lilyth stepped in and proclaimed he belongs to her.
• Retired Badass: Tried it, when he married Lilyth and finally seemed to find a place he could call a home in the Navajo reservate. Of course, the universe didn't let it last.
• Retired Outlaw: He was often on the wrong side of the law when younger (but those dead guys totally had it coming), but switched the sides and joined the Texas Rangers.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: To revenge first his father, then his brother, and most notably his wife. And some other times too, when situations have required it.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Once again, he doesn't only do this out of necessity, but he actively enjoys breaking the rules.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: His Dead Little Brother Sam was a sensible, cautious man who just wished to live a quiet, honest life running his ranch. Tex... not so much.
• The Stoic: His outer appearance.
  • Not So Stoic: He never shows happiness beyond a faint smile, and sadness not even that much; but he can and will show emotion in the form of anger.
• Unstoppable Rage: When he loses his temper. It happens a lot. It's up to Carson then to try to minimize the casulties.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Carson. He's always very respectful towards Tiger.
• Walking the Earth: In his troublesome youth. He's now all settled down in the Navajo reservate, only leaving it when a need arises, or some of his friends calls him for help.
• Working-Class Hero: While he is both very aware and very proud of it, he also has high esteem for real education, and has made sure his son is going to be better read than he himself.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Despite having faced his share of evil ladies, Tex doesn't harm women, though he's not afraid of defending himself if his life is in danger or to insult them.

Kit Carson

More than a friend: a hermano. Met Tex in the Texas Rangers, and over the years became unseparatable with him.

• Back in the Saddle: Some time after Tex left the Texas Rangers to live with the Navajos, Carson was Kicked Upstairs to Desk Jockey jobs. Let ten years pass, and he pays a visit to Tex to ask him to return to the old days of adventure. Tex heartily agrees, and Carson too is happy to be on the field again.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Braids, Beads and Buckskins
• The Casanova: Has this reputation (to his great dislike), but is actually The Charmer targeting the women. Unlike The Casanova who predates on women to get sex Carson genuinely likes women and knows how to speak to them, which is why they in turn instinctively like him back.
  "Mr. Carson, be honest with me, am I fat?" "You're femininely softly curved."
• Foil: Word of God says all the three compadres are foils to Tex: Carson is the older Tex, Tiger is the Native Tex, and Kit is the younger Tex. Carson also has an opposite personality to Tex.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's so snarky you'd think he needs oiling.
• Fictional Texas Ranger: Carson was a member before Tex and unlike him has stayed loyal to them through years. Perhaps because of this his career has been more impressive. While we don't know his exact rank, he's implied to be a higher officer (he was a major in Navajo Blood, and since then he's probably been promoted).
• Guile Hero: Extremely smart. Sometimes he'll join Tex and the others after having effectively tracked down the villain and all evidence alone and only because he needs some more firepower to take them down.
• Gunslinger: These days, yes. Earlier in his long and adventurous life he has been a Hunter Trapper and an Army Scout, among other things.
• Historical Domain Character: Not quite, but named after and partially inspired by the real Kit Carson, a frontierman and a soldier of the Old West who was quite popular in Italy when the comic started.
• Honorary Uncle: To the other Kit.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: More prone to drinking - and getting drunk - than Tex (who won't spit into the glass either), but not to the level of being The Alcoholic.
• The Lancer: To Tex. Loves to argue with him about his decisions... Then goes along with them anyway.
• Last-Name Basis: Tex sometimes does call him Kit, but most often he's Carson to everyone. "Look, it's Tex and Carson!"
• Like an Old Married Couple: Tex and Carson, I'm looking at you.
• The McCoy
• The Medic: Not a doctor, and they all have to have some basic skills with injuries, but Carson sometimes has shades of this.
• No Guy Wants an Amazon: He prefers feminine women. Also it doesn't hurt if they're busty.
• Obfuscating Drunkedness and Obfuscating Distracted-By-Sexy: Knows his role and how to use it.
• Old Master: Many, many younger opponents have made the mistake of dismissing him because of his age. Most often it was their last. Carson is an old fox and knows every single trick in the book and then some. He didn't survive to this age in such a dangerous enviroment by luck.
• Older Sidekick
• Only Sane Man: Takes this role amongst the True Companions, attempting to be the voice of reason especially to Tex. It rarely works, yet sometimes he does get the last word.
  "If you had listened to the older and the wiser this wouldn't have happened."
  "I rememeber it the next time."
  "What next time?"
• Smoking Is Cool: Cicars are way cool.
• Southern Gentleman: We don't know which state he's originally from, but he does have shades of this trope. He likes both to drink and to play cards (and unlike Tex he can get drunk or lose), he's well-behaved and well-spoken, and always very chivalrous to women.
• The One That Got Away: Lena Parker. They're now having a Long-Distance Relationship. Word of God even says Lena's daughter Donna is his illegimate child.
• Team Chef: The resident cook. His coffee is especially praised.
• Team Mom: Well...
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tex. Constantly Lampshaded by the younger Kit.
  "Are they always like this?" "They enjoy it!"
  "Did you hear the way that insolent speaks to me!?" "Uncle, you do know he's like that just because he likes you so much."

Kit Willer

Son and the only child of Tex and Lilyth.

• Ambiguously Brown / But Not Too Foreign: How light or dark his skin is varies.
• Badass Native: He clearly identifies himself as a Navajo instead of a white.
• Badass in Distress: It's very common of Kit to get kidnapped (justified by many people specially seeking to use him against his father) or injured in a way that's totally life-threathening but won't leave a scar. If we were unforgiving readers, we'd be wondering how can he be in such a good health with both lungs full of bullet holes... However, he doesn't lose his badass credibility, as he often finds a way to help himself instead of needing to be saved.
• Boarding School: To ensure his education, Tex sent him from the reservate to various schools, the first of which was a missionary school kept by Catholic monks, and last of which was a Military Academy. However, Kit dropped out and came back home.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Enjoys life. Especially life filled with gun fights.
• Character Development: Started out extreemly wild, has matured and calmed down to some extend.
• Cunning Linguist: English, Spanish and Navajo. Here, those are his native languages. He can also speak at least French and some German, plus various Native American languages, such as Lakota.
• Dead Guy Junior: Expect Carson is still alive and kicking.
• Depending on the Writer: His personality and how much attention he gets as a character varies greatly on who is writing the story in question. This is partly because some writers feel if given too much attention he starts robbing it from his father.
• Disguised in Drag: A couple of times, due to his youthful appearence, much to his dismay.
• Doom Magnet: Anyone who becomes either a close friend or a lover to him is quaranteed to die or be Put on a Bus.
• Enfante Terrible: As a child he had the habit of shooting people's hats from their head with an arrow, his excuse being that his father had told him to not shoot at people and dogs and "Little Hawk never misses".
• Fearless Fool: Has grown out of it somewhat, but sometimes still pulls off stunts running mostly on Rule of Cool and Conservation of Ninjutsu. The others aren't amused by them.
• Foil: Word of God says all the three compadres are foils to Tex: Carson is the older Tex, Tiger is the Native Tex, and Kit is the younger Tex.
• Give Him a Normal Life: Being born poor into a violent world where the strong rule, Tex wanted Kit to have something better. He sent him to schools, wishing him to get a career in the army. However, Kit wanted to be a The Gunslinger like his dad, dropped the school and came back.
• Good Parents: Tex tries his best. Most notably accepts (after some objects) Kit's decision to turn down the respectable life he had arranged for him, letting him follow his own dreams.
• The Heart: The other three have practically brough him up together. While they shrug off their own wounds and mostly stay calm about each other's injuries, something happening to Kit allows them to show more emotion. Also he sometimes acts as a mediator between the friendly arguing of Tex and Carson
• Hero-Worshipper: Hero worships his father, has every right to. Yet sometimes there's signs of more mixed feelings. Kit is also trapped under the gigantic shadow of his father, both as a character and a person.
  "Fine then! You've decided for me. And as usual, it's impossible to change your mind."
• Hidden Depths: Seems carefree and laidback, but sometimes is seen questioning his life and what he wants from it. He is well aware the lot he has chosen isn't the rosiest one.
• Honor Before Reason
• Hot-Blooded
• I Just Want to Be Badass: His goal in life: to become a hero of the frontier just like his dad and his dad's friends.
• In Harm's Way: An adrenaline junkie extraordinaire.
• Jumped at the Call: Not only waited by the phone, but made calls for the call.
• Like Father, Like Son: Go on and tell it to him, hearing it never gets old for him.
• Missing Mom: Lilyth.
• Nice Guy: All around likeable.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Eternally in his late teens/early twenties.
• Plucky Guy: People keep dying around him but he continues to be cheerful.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Often when in a tight spot, he scolds himself saying something along the lines "You're a Navajo, you should do better than that."
• Raised by Natives: Grew up in the central Navajo village.
  "It takes a village to raise a child."
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Tiger's blue.
• Smarter Than You Look
• The Smart Guy
• Someone To Remember Her By: He's all that Tex has left of Lilyth.
• Young Gun
  "I heard you're already a better shot than your father." "I practise a lot."
• Warrior Prince: Not too often but sometimes we're reminded Kit is the rightful heir of becoming the next chief of the Navajo tribe after his father.

Tiger Jack

A Navajo warrior and the other "brother" Tex has.

• Aloof Big Brother: Not blood brothers, but fills this role for Kit.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Bullying Tiger is a bad, bad idea.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Kit.
• The Big Guy
• Braids, Beads and Buckskins
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Out of the True Companions Tiger is the one most ready to use really brutal ways.
• Empty Shell: A potential character interpration.
• Foil: To Tex. Word of God says all the three compadres are foils to him: Carson is the older Tex, Tiger is the Native Tex, and Kit is the younger Tex.
• Heroic BSoD: When he learns of Taniah's suicide. An extremely ill-timed loss of function, as he's Exploring the Evil Lair with Tex at the moment and about to be attacked by the mooks.
• Honor Before Reason: Soundly inverted: Tiger is a very sensible, practical person who rather avoids fights if he can walk out of them.
• Made of Iron: Can and will take obscene amount of maiming.
• The Mourning After: A widower like Tex: it originally brought them so closely together.
• Noble Savage
• Proud Warrior Race Guy
• The Quiet One
  "He is so silent I sometimes feel I'm riding with my own shadow."
  "He speaks little but makes sense."
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Kit's red.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After his young wife, Taniah, was Made a Slave, raped by the said slave owner, and committed a suicide.
• Scarily Competent Tracker
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Never in the army, but the life on the frontier is war-like enough on its own right.
• Smarter Than You Look: He's far more than a mere Dumb Muscle. Tiger has been spotted discussing the culture of the Paleo-Indians.
• The Stoic: While Tex is Hot-Blooded beneath the surface, Tiger is truly stoic to the core.
• Used To Be A Boisterous Bruiser
• Verbal Tic: "Ugh".
• Warrior Poet
• Zen Survivor

Montales

Firstly introduced as a mexican desperado who helped Tex in his quest, he later became a Governor. He often appears to help our heroes when they head to Mexico.

• Cool Old Guy: In later stories, Montales's aged, but is still a man of action.
• Distressed Dude: Starting from his second encounter with Tex, where he's locked in a prison island, sometimes Montales has to be helped.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Like all the mexican characters.
• Kicked Upstairs: Subverted: as a governor he still does his best to help Tex.
• La Résistance: Lead one during his first appearence.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: Montales is honest through and through to the very end.

Jim Brandon

Officer of the "Red Jackets" (the Mounties), Jim Brandon is Tex' main ally and friend in Canada along with Gors Jean.

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• The Fettered: Unlike Tex, he's reluctant to break the law.

Gros Jean

A massive mestizo trapper of great strength and courage, initially sent as a hired gun against Tex, he eventually befriended him and became one of his recurring allies in Canada.

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• Boisterous Bruiser: The most iconic example before the introduction of Pat.
• Butt-Monkey: During his first appearence he tends to be a bit of a comic relief.
• Dumb Muscle: Not very brillant. Probably the most iconic moment is when he's seen demolishing the last pillar of a tavern while he's still inside (he gets out in time though).
• Gratuitous French: Most of his catchphrases are in French.
• Heel–Face Turn: Originally was on the bad guys' side, but was soon hired by Tex when said bad guys dropped him.
• Made of Iron
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Jim Brandon.
• Stout Strength: He has quite a pot belly, but is also very strong.
• Telephone Polearm: In a memorable example, he fended off the attack of hungry wolves by throwing the massive logs composing the hut they were blocked in at them.
  "I'm going to turn those hairy devils into jam!"

Pat Mac Ryan

A giant of an Irish boxer who joined Tex and Carson after they helped him against some thugs. He often reappears as a recurring ally, notorious for his enormous strength.

• Anachronism Stew: In one of his most memorable moments, he charges at the bad guys' ranch riding on a Ford car, which were avaible around the 1905. According to Bonelli, it was intentionally done as both Rule of Funny and Rule of Cool.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Even more so than Gros Jean.
• Boxing Battler: Subverted: he's a boxer, but when it comes to fighting outside of the rings he'll improvise.
• Dumb Muscle: Not exactly a genius. In his defense he's perfectly aware of it and is smart enough to always have enough money to send Tex a telegram the moment he realizes he has no idea what's happening.
• Establishing Character Moment: He's first introduced while he's arguing with two crooks who want to force him to throw the following match.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It's very easy to get him angry.
• Hidden Depths: He's not as stupid as some people may think:
  • He's quick to realize when he's over his head and call Tex' help, and always makes sure he has the money for the telegram.
  • Know perfectly people sees him just as Dumb Muscle, and can take advantage of it.
  • His brief stint in the army is made of this:
    • He was in a fort's saloon playing poker against some soldiers when he realized they were cheating and demanded his money back. Then, being still not exactly a genius, when they resisted and started a fight, he ended up grabbing the saloon's pillar, and is then forced to enroll to pay the damages.
    • He quickly proves himself a perfect soldier by following his orders to the letter and to the best of his abiliies, to the point the fort commander trusts him with important missions. That he takes and plans to execute as best as he can because he wants out of the army.
    • When he's framed as the accomplice of a bandit gang he sends Tex a telegram, and signs it "Pat the Irishman" and gives him a meeting point close to the fort but sufficiently away to not be found by the troopers searching for him, both to not be arrested in case someone intercept the message and to tip Tex off that things are worse than usual.
    • When Tex asks him what happened Pat tells him everything and points out his suspicions on how exactly he got set up. Tex agrees with him, and they're right.
    • When everything's cleared the colonel tells him the mission paid for the damage and thus he's free to go, but also offers him a promotion to corporal. Pat not only knew enough to not be fit for prolonged military life, but also has the sense to ask for Permission to Speak Freely before threatening the colonel to smash his office if he tried to keep him there.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: While Gros Jean at least can use guns well, Pat's a bad shot. During his first attempt with a Winchester he was told to shoot at a boulder right in front of him: he ended up hitting a vulture flying way over it. He thought that the gun was faulty and bent it with his bare hands.
• Motor Mouth: He tends to speak a lot.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: While genuinely not a genius, he's known to play up his stupidity to get the advantage on villains.
• Scotireland: While funtionally Irish, a few of his exclamations sounds Scottish.

El Morisco/Ahmed Jamal

An Egyptian scholar now residing in Pilares, Mexico, in a sinister-looking mansion along with his creepy butler, Eusebio. He's a wise man who well versed in science and magic. Tex will often look for his help when he has to deal with "mysterious" facts.

• Agent Mulder: Unlike Tex, he's more open to the supernatural.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: Has humiliated Yama at his own game, and when an evil wizard used a rather complex spell to have someone killed by a demon El Morisco used the same spell to have him devoured by the same demon, soul included.
• Beware the Nice Ones: An easygoing and happy man, who, as said above, once had an evil wizard devoured by a demon.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Has a reputation as a brujo (witchcraft practitioner), and the people of Pilares and surrounding fear him. That in spite of regularly helping people with his extensive medical and magical knowledge-in fact, people who fear him will sometimes admit he saved a relative of theirs before reiterating there's no way he could dabble with magic so much without becoming evil.
• Nice Guy: His sinister reputation is undeserved, as he's one of the nicest people in the cast.
• Non-Action Guy: He can't use guns and is fat, meaning that he can't help in a fight (though he still dares to join Tex and co in dangerous mission himself.)
• Not So Harmless: On the magical side, he's the one who destroyed Rakos and humiliated Yama when the latter tried to use magic to spy on him.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist
  • Fantastic Science: Why he's so well versed in magic: to him it's just another science.
  • Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: His goal on magic.
• Only Known By His Nickname: We discover his real name and origins only in his latest appearence.
• White Mage: He's seemingly well-versed in the arts of white magic, as opposed to Mefisto and Yama.

Mefisto/Steve Dickart

Tex's most tenacious and dangerous foe, he first appeared as Steve Dickart, a spy working for the Mexican government, and later reappeared several times as a full blown sorceror. Upon his death, he tried to use his son Yama to continue his work, and eventually was resurrected by his sister.

• A God Am I: He passes himself as a divinity to the Hualpai.
• Astral Projection: His trademark trick. To the point that, when he comes Back from the Dead, Tex is skeptic that the current enemy is Mefisto because he's not appearing from nowhere to taunt him.
• Arch-Enemy: To Tex.
• Back from the Dead: By doing a Grand Theft Me on the shaman who tried to summon his corpse.
• Beard of Evil: Goatee and mustache of evil.
• Berserk Button: During their fourth encounter, Tex manages to send Mefisto into a frothing rage by reminding him of the asylum he was recovered after his defeat at the hands of Padma.
• British Teeth: The guy has some terrible teeth.
• Crystal Ball: Uses one (sometimes mirrors or smoke) to scry the scenery, looking for his enemies.
• Deal with the Devil: Implied to have made a few implicit ones for his powers, but he never made an explicit one, as he knows what would happen if he failed to hold his side of the deal.
  • In his final storyline he finally makes two explicit ones because the situation got that bad, but he's still prudent. In the first he consecrates his soul to a certain devil in exchange for Yama's soul and sanity being restored, after he had tried everything else. In the second, with his powers made unreliable by Narbas (the man whose body Mefisto had stolen to come back to life) coming in the area and Tex already aiming his gun, Mefisto offers the souls of everyone around in exchange for unleashing a horde of demons on the island, knowing that the service being rendered would allow the devil to claim the reward automatically... But failing to notice that Narbas had reclaimed his body just as Mefisto called out the devil, so he only got the illusion of his triumph before being dragged back to hell.
• Demonic Possession: How Mefisto came back from the dead: a Hindi warlock named Narbas tried to resurrect him on Lily's request, and Mefisto took advantage of this to steal his body and send him to hell in his place. [[spoiler:This leads directly to his final defeat after Narbas figures out how to pull the same trick on one of his followers, as his very presence now makes Mefisto's powers unreliable.
• The Dreaded: Almost all mortals fears him, and many (including his own allies) are terrified. The only exceptions are Lily (who actually has trouble thinking of him as the formidable sorcerer he's become, and even after learning better knows she's one of two persons in the world who have nothing to fear from him), the Baron de Lafayette (who is crazy), and Yama (who knows he's the other mortal who Mefisto won't harm, and thinks he has surpassed him anyway).
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He sincerely loves both his sister and son, and has some (small) lingering feelings for his wife Miriam.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Amazingly enough, he knows this and to not ask too much from his demonic allies lest they demand too big of a price-or just kill him. He also knows better than making an explicit Deal with the Devil, as failing to hold his side of the agreement would have horrible consequences.
• Evil Sorcerer: While most of the other magicians are actually a hoax, Mefisto's power are genuine.
• Exact Words: During their second encounter, Mefisto mentioned that according to what's written in his destiny, he won't die by a man's hand. In the end he's eaten alive by rats.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Trapped in a collapsing castle's dungeons and being mauled and devoured by large rats.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: During his first appearence he's just a spy who occasionally stages as a magician named Mefisto and dressed like a devil. The next time we see him, he's become a full-fledged warlock.
• Godzilla Threshold: In his fourth storyline he reveals he knows some extremely powerful magics he never dared to use before due the risks involved, but the situation had got so bad he was willing to try. Implied to be doing an explicit Deal with the Devil, as that's what he resorts to in his final storyline when he realizes Tex is about to get close enough to just shoot him and he had never dared to do it before because he was fully aware of the risks involved.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: During his third appearence, Padma gives him a taste of his own medicine and uses nightmarish illusions of dragons, serpents, rats and giant spiders to drive him to madness.
• Ignored Expert: Warns Yama against making an explicit Deal with the Devil due the consequences of failing to do his part and Tex being close enough he could foil him, but Yama dismisses the warning as a sign of weakness. Sure enough, Tex foils him.
• I Was Quite a Looker: In his youth he was fairly attractive, and would show even a sixpack when wearing the skintight devil costume he used as a magician.
• Large Ham: Usually when displaying his powers.
• Magicians Are Wizards: Played with: he started out as a magician who on stage acted as if he had been given powers from the devil or was the devil himself, but then got actual powers.
• Magical Eye: Of the hypnotizing variety, which he uses successfully on Carson and Kit.
• Master of Illusion: His power mostly relies on illusions and ghosts.
• Not Quite Dead: During his second appearence he apparently dies by falling to his death from a cliff in the middle of the desert. Turns out, Padma saved him.
• Obviously Evil
• One Degree of Separation: The first battle between him and Tex: Mefisto was helping assassins targeting a presidential candidate, one Abraham Lincoln, Tex was helping the Pinkertons defending Lincoln, and they managed to not meet or even know of each other's involvement in the incident.
• Papa Wolf: He'd do anything for his son - even break his rule and make an explicit deal with the devil if it meant restoring his sanity.
• Sue Donym: The first time as "Doctor Anatas", later as the slightly more elaborated "Doctor Fiesmot from Golconda". Subverted in his latest appearence, where he takes the alias of "Doctor Parker".
• Spirit Advisor: To Yama, his son.
• Squishy Wizard: He's a frail old man and can be killed normally.
• Took a Level in Badass: From a Smug Snake spy to a full blow Sorcerous Overlord. His powers increase at every appearance, and by the time he's finally defeated for good he had surpassed Padma, who had previously crushed him with ease.
• Weaksauce Weakness: He can't conjure anything solid. Then again, his illusion can be pretty effective.

El Muerto/Paco Ordoñez

One of the most famous villains, El Muerto is an horrorifically scarred mexican gunman who holds a grudge against Tex. He threatens his friends and challenge him to a duel.

• Body Horror: His face is scarred by fire, and he often takes advantage of it to intimidate other people.
• It's Personal: His vendetta against Tex Willer, who killed his bandit brothers and caused the fire which disfigured him.
• Only Known By His Nickname: Which doubles as a Meaningful Name.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: His motivations.
• Villainous Breakdown: During the famous duel against Tex he holds up a memento from that night, a faulty carillon watch, and states that the duel will start as the music stops. However, while Tex keeps his cool for all the wait, Paco is sweating and getting more and more impatient. Eventually this leads to his death.

Yama/Blacky Dickart

Mefisto's son, a former wandering artist who took up his father legacy, power and revenge against Tex. He fought the ranger three times with the aid of Mefisto's powers.

• A God Am I: Twice: in his second appearance he passes himself as the incarnation of the god Kukulkan to obtain the help of a group of Mayan survivors, and in his fourth he declares himself as the new incarnation of the Hindu god of death Yama to use a Hindu sect as his followers.
• Arch-Enemy: Considers El Morisco this after being humiliated by him.
• Astral Projection: A favorite trick of his such as with his father, but with a difference: in the fourth appearance his astral projection becomes able of physically interacting with the world, including holding and using weapons.
  • Weaksauce Weakness/Awesome, but Impractical: At long distances he needs an amulet to project his astral body. If the amulet is destroyed the projection stops-and Yama seriously risks to die.
• Bad Boss: He will sacrifice his minions without a second thought, sometimes gleefully so.
• Beard of Evil: Sports the same goatee and mustache of evil as his father.
• Brought Down to Normal: After his third defeat, he was briefly seen in a cameo where he apparently lost his powers and went back with his mother.
  • He's Back!: He's back at full power and more in his fourth appearance.
• Deal with the Devil: Has made a few implicit ones for his powers, and his fourth appearance has him do two explicit ones: he gifts a devil some ancient worshipping icons in exchange for his new Astral Projection, and offers the Devil the soul of one of his followers' beautiful and innocent sister in exchange for his temple to turn into a hell on Earth.
  • Evil Is Not a Toy: When he fails to hold his side of the second deal the Devil makes him suffer by reducing his body to a vegetable and trapping his soul between pillars that eventually drove him to madness.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Sincerely loves his parents, and is saddened when his mother, against his warnings, curses all the demons of hell for restoring his powers and Yama persona and taking him away and gets killed in retaliation.
• Evil Sorcerer: Like father, like son.
  • Sorcerous Overlord: The first time he's helped by some voodoo priests, later he gets some subjects in the form of local natives impressed by his display of magic, and in his fourth appearance he uses his name and powers to obtain the loyalty of a Hindu sect and-with his powers only-four formidable warlocks.
• Genre Blind: Dismisses his father's warnings against making an explicit Deal with the Devil due the consequences of failing to hold his part and Tex being close enough to prevent him from doing just that, believing Mefisto has grown weak and that Tex and his pards will fall victim of the hell on Earth he'll summon through the deal. Sure enough, he fails.
• Jumped at the Call: He left his squalid life as a wandering artist to become an evil wizard.
• Lean and Mean: He's as thin as a rake.
• Never My Fault: Possibly his biggest weakness. He never, ever acknowledges his own mistakes, and is always quick to blame them on others, henchmen and allies alike. Mefisto chews him out for it.
• Non-Human Sidekick: Gets one in his third appearence in the form of Ahriman, the Lord of the Third Circle (who looks like a giant bat with a man-like face.)
• Not Quite Dead: The first time he seemingly drowns when his ship's washed away in the storm. Then he falls into a not-so bottomless pit, and the third time disappears in a blazing flare when hit by an amulet worn by Tex. Turns out, he survived in each occasion, and may have survived his temple collapsing on him in the fourth appearance.
• Obviously Evil
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Goes both ways with Mefisto and El Morisco: on most things his father and Morisco are much more formidable, but in his fourth appearance Yama obtains the one ability they never had, physically striking at his enemies at distance.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge
• Superpowered Evil Side: By his fourth appearance Yama is effectively this to Blacky, being the incarcation of all his evil and having the actual powers.
• Took a Level in Badass: In his fourth appearance he becomes more formidable than in the past thanks to his Astral Projection's new ability to physically interact with the world, and thus being able to grab a weapon and attack his enemies while being invulnerable to their weapons.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Looks almost identical to his father, just leaner and with black hair and good teeth.

Prince Sumankan/The Black Tiger

A Bornese prince who lose everything because of the white man and was Made a Slave. He escaped and tried to took his revenge on them using secret organizations to bring down the country.

• Affably Evil: He even invites Tex and Carson to dinner as he explain his backstory and plans to them.
• Animal Assassin: He disposed of one of his henchmen who was captured with venomous spiders and he tried to kill our heroes by dropping them in the middle of an alligator-infested marsh.
• Animal Motif: The tiger, of course. He's prone to wear a large and showy black tiger mask when appearing in an "official" capacity... And having a few decoys using it to cover for him as needed.
• The Bad Guys Win: He eventually retake his homeland of Kuamantung and personally killed the usurper Van Gulik, and while mortally wounded in the process he died knowing his son would inherit the throne.
• Bodyguard Betrayal: How he lost his kingdom: the Dutch merchant Van Gulik bribed many of his guards to start a coup, forcing him to run to save his young son and fight another day. In particular, his personal bodyguard Bujang murdered his wife and tried to kill his son Daniel something for which Sumankan personally cut him down when he finally came back to retake the throne.
• Disney Villain Death: Subverted: he falls off a cliff after a duel with Tex, but didn't die in the fall and a loyalist saved him and replaced him with a decoy wearing the same clothes and the trademark tiger mask.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While a cruel man, he always showed enough restraint to reserve it for his enemies.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: He raised his son Daniel as a good and honorable man, hoping he would inherit the throne and be a better man than he ever could.
• Expy: Of Sandokan, even sharing most of his Origin Story.
• The Good King: Downplayed: he was a fair and wise ruler in Kuamantung, but could also be extremely cruel with those he deemed his enemies and traitors. He's also aware of his character flaws, and raised his son to be a better man than himself.
• Killed Off for Real: Shot and mortally wounded by his old enemy Van Gulik while he was chasing him. He still managed to kill Van Gulik and see his son one last time.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: During his second appearence he challenges Tex to a sword fight.
• Made a Slave: How he got to America: after his pirate ship was sunk he was retrieved by a ship going to America and forced to work on the railways.
  • Slave Liberation: When he was right he escaped with the other railroad workers.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Master of Disguise: Something he uses to create secret identities and work in the open without being identified, not even by his white pawns.
  • Devil in Plain Sight: You may be talking to him while he's disguised, and even if you've met the Black Tiger you won't realize it unless he decides they need killing.
• Parents as People: He loves his son Daniel more than his own life, and hopes to leave him Kuamantung to rule... But has no problems go behind his back if he deems necessary
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Against the white people, and especally Americans. It doesn't stop him from using white men as pawns (and plans to kill them as soon as they aren't useful anymore).
  • He eventually decides to give up the one against the whites in general... And resume the one against Van Gulik and the traitors that helped him. During the final battle he makes a point of killing his wife's murderer and apologize to her for taking so long, before ending up killing Van Gulik himself.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Was a prince, and he surely doesn't mind getting his hands dirty.
• Villain Respect: He has nothing but respect for Tex, and actually asked his help to retake his old kingdom of Kuamantung. He was incensed when it appeared he had allied himself with Van Gulik, and glad to find out Tex actually wanted to depose him and install Daniel as rajah.
• Villain's Dying Grace: Before the battle to retake Kuamantung he had planned to have Tex, Carson, Tiger Jack and Kit killed, and even knowing they were fighting to depose the usurper Van Gulik and put the Tiger's own son Daniel on the throne he was going to give the order because he knew they wanted to drag him back to the US to face justice... But he was mortally wounded killing Van Gulik, so he instead ordered his men to treat them as allies.

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