Characters / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Main Trio

"Blondie", The Good

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"Angel Eyes", The Bad

Portrayed by: Lee Van Cleef

Voiced by: Emilio Cigoli (Italian), Lee Van Cleef (English), Simon Prescott (English, extended edition, new scenes), Georges Atlas (first French dub), François Siener (second French dub)

• Ax-Crazy: A very subtle example. He rarely loses his composure, however, notice his maniacal cackle after killing Baker. He is also incredibly sociopathic and sadistic, to the extent that he forces soldiers to play music while other soldiers are tortured.
• Big Bad: He was hired by several people, but winds up becoming the primary antagonist in the search for the gold.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: If you hire him to kill someone, make sure the other guy hasn't got any money to pay him to return the favour.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Inflicted on Tuco, with Wallace as his middleman. Also on Maria.
• Consummate Professional: While he's a vicious, cold-blooded killer, he does not fail to complete jobs when he's paid. In his first scene, he blows a man away after the man unsuccessfully tries to offer double what Angel Eyes's employer paid... and then pockets the money offered, goes back to his employer, and kills him. After all, he'd taken the money.
• Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: He's seen smoking one.
• Dragon Ascendant: Was hired as Baker's hitman, but takes charge of everything himself after he kills Baker.
• The Dreaded: Come on, how could you not be scared of this guy?
• Dressing as the Enemy: Disguises himself as a Union sergeant at a POW Camp in order to track down Bill Carson.
• Dub Name Change: Known as Sentenza in the original Italian.
• Enemy Eats Your Lunch: To Stevens just before shooting him under the table.
• Establishing Character Moment: His dispatch of both Stevens and Baker (the men who hired him) establishes that he's on no one's side.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Discussed Trope. In the extended cut, he's appalled at the poor conditions the wounded/dying Confederate soldiers at the fort have to endure. He even lets one soldier keep an entire bottle of booze. That said, as this is the same guy who remorselessly murdered two of his employers and a child, in addition to later shown effectively running a Union POW camp where those same Confederates are routinely mistreated and tortured, this moment of "kindness" doesn't exactly fit with his otherwise pure evil character, and was understandably deleted.
• Evil Counterpart: To Blondie, who definitely is an Anti-Hero but does the right thing in the end.
• Evil Laugh: He laughs very sinister after he kills Baker and funny enough, he's introduced as The Bad after his evil laugh.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has the deepest voice of the trio and is outright evil.
• Faux Affably Evil: He may act outwardly polite, but he's a greedy assassin who will kill people, torture others, and beat up women to get money.
• Fingore: If you look closely, he’s missing the tip of one of his fingers. It’s never explained why.^note Not for the character, at any rate; in real life, actor Lee Van Cleef lost part of the digit while building a playhouse for his daughters.
• Fluffy the Terrible: The name "Angel Eyes" isn't exactly threatening. "Angel Eyes" is called "Sentenza" in Italian, which means judgement, or verdict. His English name is supposed to echo this, meaning "Judgement in the eyes of God", but it comes off sounding more like he's just a handsome guy with dreamy eyes. It was originally something Clint Eastwood ad-libbed while filming.
• Freudian Trio: The Superego - Utterly cold, cares only about the money, doesn't give a damn about other people's lives. ^note  This is superego in terms of the trope; he is nothing like how Freud actually used the term- ones concern with rules and social conventions; Angel Eyes instead is a ruthless scumbag and better fits the actual Freudian Ego, trying to satisfy the wants of the Id in a calculating, rational manner
• Gold Fever: Not as bad as Tuco, but his motivation for killing so many people.
• Greed: The motivating factor of all three protagonists, but especially Angel Eyes.
• The Heavy: The biggest threat in the movie. Everything else that happens is simply because, well, there's a War going on.
• Hired Guns: He is best described as a mercenary.
• Identical Stranger: He greatly resembles Colonel Douglas Mortimer, who at the point in time this film is set would still be fighting for the Confederates. This would technicallly make Angel Eyes Mortimer's Criminal Doppelgänger.
• I Gave My Word: He always carries out his jobs for whoever pays him. Just don't expect him to support you after payment.
• Ironic Nickname: Wears a perpetually narrow-eyed sneer. The intended meaning, "judgment in the eyes of God," fits his personality — but not his morality, making it ironic in that aspect, too.
• It's All About Me: His reason for killing Baker, the man who hired him to kill Stevens.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: He interrogates Tuco this way, courtesy of Union Cpl. Wallace.
• Lack of Empathy: Amazingly, he shows no remorse whatsoever for his actions, and is generally emotionless. This trait is downplayed in the extended cut, however.
• Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer: Angel Eyes is what happens when this guy becomes The Heavy and gives his employers the boot.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The Mean. Very much so.
• Only in It for the Money: Will gladly turn on his employer if paid to do so. In fact, his Establishing Character Moment has him kill Stevens after Baker has paid him and return to Baker, only to kill him because Stevens gave him money before Angel Eyes killed him.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He's known only as Angel Eyes, though in the Italian version he goes by Sentenza (meaning "sentence", presumably alluding to a death sentence, which he pretty much is).
• Pet the Dog: He gets one in the extended version, where he appears to show sadness at the sight of several wounded soldiers at a fort, before allowing the sergeant he has questioned to keep the alcohol he used to bribe him with.
• Professional Killer: Is a soulless mercenary who hunts down and executes targets for the money. He's portrayed as an utterly cold-blooded sociopath who doesn't so much as bat an eye while having a man tortured in front of him, extorts money from prisoners of war, and always sees a job through to the end once he's been paid.
• Psycho for Hire: Greed aside, he enjoys too much of his job. One of his most sadistically unnecessary acts is when he forces soldiers to play music while Tuco is brutally tortured, and clearly he had done so before.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Subverted. Although he appears to maintain a code of always seeing a job through once he's been paid, that doesn't mean he won't take the money after completing the contract and going after his employer, which is exactly what he does with Baker. Unlike most depictions of this trope, Angel Eyes having this type of golden rule is portrayed only to further illustrate how much of a monstrous sociopath he is.
• Smoking Is Cool: To contrast even more with Blondie, he has a pipe.
• The Sociopath: Is the only firmly evil character of the trio. He betrays his own employers for cash, tortures people for info, has a huge Lack of Empathy, and is notoriously sadistic.
• Sociopathic Soldier: As part of his disguise in the Union camp.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Never raises his voice because he knows that his victims have heard him the first time.
• The Starscream: Kills Baker after hearing Stevens' confession about the case of coins.
• Villainous Cheek Bones: It's Lee Van Cleef, whose infamous cheekbones provide one of the page's images.
• We Have Ways of Making You Talk: His way of getting the name of the cemetery out of Tuco involves getting Corporal Wallace to rough him up until he spills the beans. Averted with Blondie, who he doesn't treat any similarly because he knows that, unlike Tuco, he's no idiot.
• Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem beating a hooker in order to extract information, and prove how evil he is. Despite the film being made decades ago, this still holds up rather well, as it is set in The American Civil War, a time period when hitting a girl would have been proof of just how bad you were.
  • Subverted by Lee Van Cleef - he had a stuntman perform that scene because he refused to even stage slap a woman.
• Would Hurt a Child: Kills Stevens' son. To be fair, the boy had a rifle.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After torturing the name of the cemetery out of Tuco, he turns him over to Corporal Wallace to be delivered to the proper authorities. He then compliments Blondie on being smart enough to understand that he'd similary dispose of him, too, upon learning the name of the grave.

Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, The Ugly

Portrayed by: Eli Wallach

Voiced by: Carlo Romano (Italian), Eli Wallach (English), Claude Bertrand (first French dub), Paul Borne (second French dub)

• The Alcoholic: Chugs whiskey like a pirate frequently throughout the film. It seems, though, that he can hold his liquor.
• Animal Motifs: Known as The Rat, Tuco is a greedy, foul and vulgar criminal and despite his limited knowledge, he's a very resourceful and cunning survivor who literally has the guts to digest a cigar and his nasty and rude behavior makes a social outcast in society with so many people wanting him dead.
• And I'm the Queen of Sheba: Sarcastically introduces himself to a dying Bill Carson as "Lincoln's grandfather".
• And Starring: "and Eli Wallach in the role of Tuco." Only in the US version; the European prints billed the three principal actors together ahead of the title.
• Anti-Villain: Tuco is the most morally ambiguous of the trio, where Angel Eyes is purely evil and Blondie leans more towards good in the end. He has an extensive rap list of crimes including rape, murder and embezzlement, but he's also the most likable and sympathetic character in the entire movie, and is sort of an underdog loser, who's Laughably Evil to boot. He also has a strong love for family, shown in the scene where he gets into a fight with his brother after finding out about the deaths of his parents, whom he supposedly turned to a life of crime to care for and whose passing he was genuinely thunderstruck by. It's shown that while he's a bad man, he's also terribly misguided, which is what makes him so "Ugly" inside.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He's quite hyperactive and generally talks and acts on impulse. The cemetery scene is worth noting.
• Ax-Crazy: Completely unhinged, moody and prone to extreme rage and violence, Tuco's unpredictable nature is often a force to be reckoned with and also makes him completely untrustworthy.
• Badass Boast:
  "But if you miss, you had better miss very well. Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive...he understands nothing about Tuco." (Chuckles) "Nothing."
• Bandito: Redefined the Bandito character as a sympathetic figure rather than a merely malevolent one, and set the trend for the creation of many more characters like him.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He may be a Laughably Evil goof, but he is every bit as dangerous as the other two. Maybe even more so. Blondie has enough first-hand experience from his near-fatal trek through an open desert to unload Tuco's gun before the Mexican Standoff so he doesn't have to face him in a gunfight.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Is energetic and quite temperamental. He also has the friendly, welcoming demeanor to go with it.
• Bond One-Liner: "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." Actually improvised on the spot by Eli Wallach. Also to Wallace: "You made a lot of noise, my friend."
• Book Dumb: In some scenes he is seen having a hard time to read, but he is not stupid and can be quite cunning at times.
• Can't Bathe Without a Weapon: A vengeful man, whom Tuco had previously shot in the arm and permanently disabled, catches him naked in a bathtub. He delivers a long speech about how he tracked Tuco down, and how he had lots of time to learn to shoot with his left hand... which is cut off when Tuco shoots him with a gun hidden under the bathtub bubbles.
  Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
• Catchphrase:
  • "There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend..."
  • A variation in the infamous chicken soliloquy from a deleted scene: "The world is divided into two parts: those who have friends, and those who are lonely, like poor Tuco."
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: With Blondie. It's originally part of their get-rich-quick scheme, but later becomes real when they go after the big money.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: From Wallace, courtesy of Angel Eyes.
• The Comically Serious: He'll occasionally do the silliest things completely stone-faced. For example, watch him roll a bullet chamber up and down between his palms; his utmost sincere look of concentration makes the scene inherently funny.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Is a hairy, goofy, scruffy, slovenly klutz compared to the more mature, soft-spoken and reserved Man With No Name and Angel Eyes (not unlike Daffy Duck, actually), but is capable of shooting with incredible speed and accuracy, escaping from an armed guard by cunning use of the train tracks, as well as nearly killing Blondie several times only for him to be saved by luck (or cannonfire). When he first meets said armed guard, he threatens to take him down. We think he's just blowing smoke until it actually happens.
• Curse Cut Short: The famous last line of the film - "HEY BLONDIE! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE? JUST A DIRTY SON OF A BAAAAAA!!!"
• Dashing Hispanic: Despite being called "The Ugly", he's a charismatic Unkempt Beauty; he looks like a scruffy Pedro Infante.
• Determinator: He just won't give in on catching up to Blondie or searching for the gold.
• Dressing as the Enemy: He takes on Carson's identity after his death, something which comes to bite him in the ass when Angel Eyes gets hold of him.
• Dynamic Entry: His very first scene shows him crashing through a window.
• Enemy Mine: With Blondie.
• Enter Stage Window: He gets the drop on Blondie this way.
  "There are two kinds of spurs, my friend. Those that come in by the door; those that come in by the window."
• Establishing Character Moment: Gunning down the men who were sent to kill him while apparently enjoying a meal. In addition to Foreshadowing how Tuco gets ambushed in the most unlikely of times, it sets him up as The Comically Serious because his freeze-frame intro has him holding a chicken leg in his hand.
• Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: Being a bandito, he has surprisingly spotless teeth.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He is an outright Anti-Villain who is cowardly and prioritizes his survival, but he deeply loves his family and is genuinely distraught to learn that his parents have passed away.
• Everyone Has Standards: He's appalled at the carnage of the Civil War and he pulls one quick when Blondie reveals the corpse he dug and genuflects.
• Evil Gloating: "Shoot, don't talk."
• Eye Scream: Wallace gets him to reveal to Angel Eyes the name of the cemetery where the gold is buried by pressing down on Tuco's eyes with his thumbs. This was Eli Wallach's own suggestion; he'd seen doctors revive drunken soldiers that way during his time in the military.
• Faux Affably Evil: When he's taunting Blondie, he speaks in a reserved, cool manner (that is, until Blondie pisses him off). Regardless, Blondie himself isn't fooled, and is never really intimidated by Tuco. Except for the two occasions in which Tuco actually comes close to killing him.
• Flanderization: In the spinoff novel A Dollar to Die For, his more complex qualities were mostly omitted in favour of his greed and opportunism. His vulnerable side remains, though.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish to Pablo's Responsible, but it's subverted when Tuco gets his Motive Rant after he learns his parents are dead.
• Freudian Trio: The Id - Hyperactive, distractible, excitable, loses his temper fast and gets it back just as quick.
• Functional Addict: He can handle cigars and the occasional piece of snuff just fine.
• Gangsta Style: In an early example, he finishes off a baddie using this technique, during the famous "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!" scene.
• Girly Run: Tends to skip and bound with his upper arms close to his chest, hands slightly out from his sides. This "Wallach frolic" is part of what makes him The Comically Serious.
• Gold Fever: One could argue that Tuco has it the worst. Just watch his "Gold Ecstasy" when he finally digs up the treasure during the finale.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He's quite feisty; When Blondie rescues him the first time, they're both laughing about it like old friends. Then, in the next scene, he's screaming countless obscenities as Blondie prepares to turn him in for the bounty.
• Heavy Sleeper: He's so hardened by rough living that after he and Blondie blew up the bridge, he slept soundly and deeply through the commotion of soldiers leaving the trenches. Blondie takes advantage of this by unloading his gun.
• Hidden Depths: The scene at the gunsmith's shop doubles as an Establishing Character Moment. Tuco manages not only to show that he can pick the best components of various revolvers and custom-build one, he also demonstrates here that he's a deadly crack shot.
• Hollywood Healing: Recovers very quickly from the beating he took from Corporal Wallace.
• Hypocritical Humor: Earlier in the film, Tuco repeatedly loses out in his rivalry with Blondie because he can't stop monologuing long enough to actually kill him before Blondie escapes by luck or guile. When one of the assassins from the start of the film catches him in the bath and starts monologuing about losing his arm because of Tuco and training himself to fight left-handed to beat him, Tuco shoots him with a gun hidden under the foam and then mocks him for talking instead of shooting.
• I'll Kill You!: After he is left behind in the desert when Blondie dissolves their initial partnership.
• It Works Better with Bullets: His gun during the final showdown. Blondie unloaded it the night before, while Tuco slept.
• Ironic Name: Benedicto and Juan mean "Blessed" and Pacifico means "Peaceful".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Justified since Tuco is the only character whose backstory we learn; Blondie's and Angel Eyes' histories are a complete mystery.
• Justified Criminal: He states that he became a criminal in order to survive and to provide for his family. Given how much he loves his family, there may be some truth in it.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: He isn't successful for any more than twenty consecutive minutes in the film. The sum of Tuco's troubles? Nearly hanged twice, left alone in the desert, sent crashing through a floor, getting distracted from killing Blondie, getting the dying Bill Carson water and come back to find that Blondie got information to the gold first, accidentally getting them both arrested, getting beaten up by Wallace twice, gets hit full-on with cannonfire, and then nearly getting hanged a third time, before being left by himself in the cemetery, alive but stranded. Of course, he is a vengeful, opportunistic bandit who probably deserved what he got in the end.
• Large Ham: Wacky, flamboyant and larger than life in voice and body language.
• Laughably Evil: He's far from a good guy, and he's absolutely hilarious. It's no coincidence that the funniest movie of the Dollars Trilogy is the only one to have a Villain Protagonist; downplayed in that he's rather an Anti-Villain than outright evil.
• List of Transgressions: And it gets longer every time it's read out. Apparently (if you believe at least half of it), he has raped, killed, stolen money from both sides of the Civil War, and gambled with marked cards. It's likely that some of these were added on to boost his bounty, as his initial transgressions is much briefer.
• Lovable Coward: When his cowardice isn't shameful, it's endearing.
• Lovable Rogue: Is even more roguish than Blondie, and several times more lovable. A murderer, thief and alcoholic, but very personable.
• Lovable Traitor: See Dirty Coward above.
• Made of Iron: Gets hit full-on by a blast of cannon fire, has the hell beat out of him by Wallace, jumps out of a moving train and down a pretty steep hill, and is nearly hanged for his crimes on several occasions. And he still comes out of all of that in one piece.
  • Going by what the characters say, Tuco had to endure walking through 70 miles of desert. When he returns the favor, Blondie is noticeably in worse shape at only the 30 mile mark.
    • Tuco absolutely tanks the beating Wallace gives him, going so far as to grab Wallace by the throat and give choking the life out of his tormentor a decent squeeze. It's only when Wallace pushes his thumbs into his eyes that Tuco caves in, which is pretty understandable. Lampshaded by Angel Eyes who later tells Blondie that while Blondie himself wouldn't have talked at all, it's not because he's actually tougher.
• The Man They Couldn't Hang: Because, according to Angel Eyes, a scoundrel like Tuco has a guardian angel as well (Blondie).
• Manly Tears: Sheds quiet, restrained ones after learning about the deaths of his parents.
• The McCoy: Mercurial and hot-headed.
• Messy Hair: He has scruffy black curls.
• Naked People Are Funny: The scene in the cantina bathtub.
• The Napoleon: He's just about 5’7” and is hot-tempered to boot. To put into perspective, Lee Van Cleef is 6'2" and Clint Eastwood is 6'3 ½".
• Never Learned to Read: Tuco is illiterate.
  • In one particularly humorous exchange between him and Blondie.
    Tuco: [finding a note that Angel Eyes had left behind for them] "See you soon, id-id-ids..."
    Blondie: [takes the note] "Idiots." It's for you.
  • Him reading the "Unknown" grave in Sad Hill Cemetery is also priceless: "Un-k... un-k... there's no name on it!"
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The Inbetween. Obviously, one is "The Good", the other is "The Bad", so "The Ugly" is inbetween by default. He is by far the most human character in the whole movie, made likable by how funny and childish he is and caught between the other two outlaws, who act like forces of nature rather than people.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Receives an extremely painful one from Wallace. He gets his revenge after springing from the POW train and breaking Wallace's neck, after which Tuco proceeds to savagely beat his head with a rock.
• Nominal Hero: He can be considered this, his backstory involves running away to become a bandit so he can provide for his family. Although he did eventually abandon that goal to pursue his own vendettas, but the scene in the monastery makes it clear he still loves his family.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: When the one-armed man attempts to kill him while he's bathing only to waste time on Evil Gloating, Tuco wordlessly blasts him and delivers his iconic line that "when you have to shoot, shoot - don't talk".
• Not Good with Rejection: Does not take Blondie severing their partnership well.
• Oh, Crap!: Has three moments: the first when he realizes the true colors of the soldiers whom he has mistaken for Confederates, the second when he notices that Blondie has set up a hangman's noose for him in the cemetery, and the third is his reaction when he thinks Blondie is going to shoot him rather than cut the noose.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Usually vaguely has a plan revolving around getting the money and/or revenge on Blondie and has to improvise around situations to reach his end goal.
• Overly Long Name: His full name is Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, "known as the Rat".
• Pet the Dog:
  • After punching his brother due to his "The Reason You Suck" Speech and walking out on him, Tuco notes that no matter how low he sinks, Pablo will always be the one man who'll offer him a free bowl of soup.
  • A missing scene has him showing pity to peones being enlisted as Confederate soldiers.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Might qualify, given that most, if not all of the humorous moments in the film involve him in one form or another. Unlike most examples, Tuco is the protagonist instead of a side character.
• Really Gets Around: His offscreen promiscuity is mentioned offhand in a conversation.
• Real Men Wear Pink: At one point carries a shredded pink parasol to shield himself from the sun (as well as taunt Blondie, who is crawling through the desert on his hands and knees).
• Red Baron: Tuco is also known as The Rat.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Blondie's Blue.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: In a deleted scene, Tuco learns from his old gang that a rumour went around that he was killed in Albuquerque. But of course, people talk bullshit.
• Serial Spouse: When Pablo notes that he's heard Tuco had a wife, Tuco claims he had lots of them anywhere he could find. One of the crimes he's on trial for early on is bigamy.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Feisty and temperamental, compared to his brother Pablo, who is The Stoic.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Unleashes quite a tirade on Blondie when Blondie turns him in for the bounty for the first time. It's understandable, though.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Continually overestimates his own intelligence. He does get lucky sometimes, though, as seen when ambushed by Elam.
• Smart Ball: "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!"
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The wise guy to Blondie's straight man. The opinion that he's an idiot is just about the only thing Blondie and Angel Eyes solidly agree upon. That said, he's not a complete idiot—just ask Elam, who caught him with more than his holster off but stupidly took the opportunity to gloat about it before Tuco disposes of him with a hidden gun.
• Super Window Jump: His Establishing Character Moment has him shoot some bounty hunters and dive through the window of a saloon, all while still clutching a large chicken drumstick.
• Talk to the Fist: The "shoot, don't talk" line.
• Tempting Fate: The scene where he confuses the Union soldiers for Confederates.
• Third-Person Person: Refers to himself in this manner several times to demonstrate his egotism.
• Unorthodox Holstering: Keeps his pistol dangling around his neck with a piece of rope. Apparently, this was because Eli Wallach kept looking down to check whenever he wore a pistol belt.
• Vague Age: Commonly estimated to be between 40 and 50 years old (Eli Wallach was 50 when he played him), although not even he seems to know his own age.
• Villain Protagonist: Has the most screentime and character development, and is an Anti-Villain.
• With Friends Like These...: With Blondie.

Other Characters

Captain Clinton

Portrayed by: Aldo Giuffre

Voiced by: Pino Locchi (Italian), Bernie Grant (English), Tom Wyner (English, extended edition, new scenes)

• The Alcoholic: That's what he is when we meet him, up until he dies shortly after.
• Go Out with a Smile: Shortly before he dies, he sees that the pointless bridge his men have been dying over has been dynamited out of existence by Blondie and Tuco, and he dies happy that no more of them will perish fighting for it.
• Hypocritical Humor: Tells Blondie and Tuco that he "lacks the guts" to disobey orders and destroy the bridge, moments before leading a suicidal bayonet charge.

Corporal Wallace

Portrayed by: Mario Brega

Voiced by: Renato Turi (Italian), Jack Curtis (English)

• And Starring: Mario Brega gets this in all the opening titles.
• Asshole Victim: His prisoner, Tuco, ends up craftily pushing him out of a moving train to make his escape.
• Beard of Evil: Wallace is an unshaven, slovenly Sociopathic Soldier.
• Chained Heat: He chains himself to Tuco to prevent him from escaping, but it only lasts for ten hours.
• The Dragon: To Angel Eyes, at least in the prison camp.
• Dumb Muscle: Letting a scheming, conniving bandit out of his sight for even a minute onboard a moving train probably wasn't a good idea. Even though said bandit tricked him by telling him he had to use the bathroom.
• Jerkass: Unlike Angel Eyes, he had no inner motivation for what he did, and mercilessly pummeled Tuco simply because Angel Eyes told him to.
• Mutilation Conga: After inflicting a cold-blooded beat down on Tuco (courtesy of Angel Eyes), Tuco makes his escape by pushing Wallace out of a moving train (which either knocks Wallace out cold or kills him instantly), and then Tuco proceeds to bash his former captor's head in with a rock. As if that wasn't enough, Tuco frees himself from a set of handcuffs by placing Wallace's body on the train tracks, which not only breaks the link on the cuffs, but takes Wallace's body with it.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Does torturing prisoners for information not in any way related to the War at hand count? Check.
• Torture Technician: Gets medieval on Tuco's ass by attempting to squeeze out the latter's eyes with his fingers.

Father Pablo Ramirez

Portrayed by: Luigi Pistilli

Voiced by: Nando Gazzolo (Italian), Lloyd Battista (English)

• Affectionate Nickname: A brotherly example in the form of "Pablito".
• Aloof Big Brother: Assuming that Pablo is the older brother, since Luigi Pistilli was 14 years younger than Eli Wallach. When they re-unite, Tuco is open and affectionate while Pablo is more distant and impassive.
• Beware the Nice Ones: For a relative use of "nice", Pablo is gentle and patient, if cold and distant, but do not anger him and do not call him a coward.
• The Dutiful Son: Views himself as this, as he was indeed available to visit his dying father when his brother wasn't. In his adolescence, it was different: he left for the monastery while Tuco stayed behind to look after the family.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Responsible to Tuco's Foolish. Subverted in his hypocrisy shown below.
• Hypocrite: Chides Tuco for not going to see his dying father when, in their childhoods, Pablo was the one who left his family to become a monk and Tuco was the one who had to stay behind to look after them.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Composed and calm, compared to his hot-headed brother.
• The Stoic: Almost as much as Blondie.

Elam

Portrayed by: Al Mulock

Voiced by: Glauco Onorato (Italian), Ray Owens (English)

• Anti-Villain: He's just a bounty hunter after a legitimately wanted criminal, no worse than Blondie (and possibly even a little better considering the racket Blondie pulls once he catches Tuco), and his confrontation with Tuco afterwards isn't entirely unjustified.
• An Arm and a Leg: Tuco shoots his right arm off at the start, and he looks for revenge for the rest of the film.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Instead of just shooting instead of talking, he does a monologue about him having caught Tuco in a position that suits him. However, Tuco uses the time to get ready to shoot him with his weapon that is concealed in the bath suds. Tuco even remarks: "When you have to shoot, shoot don't talk."
• Determinator: Spends over half a year looking for Tuco, so it's no wonder that by the time he found him he took to monologuing.
• Named by the Adaptation: Named "Elam" in the novelisation, since the script writers had envisioned Jack Elam in the role.
• No Name Given: His name is never mentioned.
• Not Quite Dead: He’s first seen falling and clutching a gunshot wound in his chest after failing to shoot Tuco. Probably didn’t expect to see him again.
• Situational Hand Switch: Lost his right arm to Tuco at the beginning of the film and learns to shoot with his left, which, after catching up to Tuco, he squanders by bragging about it instead of just killing him.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted. He gives a speech to Tuco instead of just shooting him while he bathed, and by the time he draws, Tuco shoots him first.
• Too Dumb to Live: Elam walks into an unsecured room where Tuco is taking a bath and just assumes he has no weapons and gloats over his "victory". However the delay he makes just gives Tuco the chance to be ready to fire his concealed weapon and he's doomed the moment he readies his weapon.

Baker

Portrayed by: Livio Lorenzon

Voiced by: Mario Pisu (Italian), Peter Fernandez (English)

A wounded former soldier who'd wanted to go after the gold that Jackson had hidden away somewhere.

• Alas, Poor Villain: Angel Eyes kills him when he's weak and dying.
• Boom, Headshot!: Angel Eyes kills him point blank by shooting him in the face. Four times.
• Decoy Antagonist: Baker's the one who hires Angel Eyes to find the gold, thus setting the plot in motion. Then, Angel Eyes kills him fifteen minutes into the movie and takes over as the Big Bad from there.
• No Kill like Overkill: Gets four gunshots to the face at point-blank range.
• Oh, Crap!: At first, he laughs off the news that his target paid Angel Eyes to bump him off in return. His reaction turns to this when Angel Eyes clarifies that it's not a joke:
  Angel Eyes: But you know the pity is that when I'm paid, I always see my jobs through. You know that.
  Baker: NO! Angel Eyes--!
• Small Role, Big Impact: Baker's hiring of Angel Eyes is what kicks off the story in the first place.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Angel Eyes doesn't feel him necessary any more after he gives Baker the information.

Jackson / Bill Carson

Portrayed by: Antonio Casale

Voiced by: Pino Locchi (Italian), Peter Fernandez (English)

• Almost Dead Guy: Reveals to Tuco that he knows where the gold is, but needs water, and while Tuco looks for water Blondie is told by the dying man the actual location, after which the man promptly dies, requiring Tuco to save Blondie's life in order to find the gold (Tuco had been forcing Blondie to cross a desert with no water in an effort to kill him).
• Eyepatch of Power: Averted. After Carson lost an eye, he was killed in an ambush.
• Eye Scream: The reason for his eyepatch.
• Final Speech: His final words provide Tuco with the cemetery's location and Blondie with the name on the tombstone (each individually) where $200,000 is buried. This forces the two to work together and sets up the rest of the movie.
• Hero of Another Story: We're not told explicitly where all that money came from or why Baker wanted it. In any case the film feels like an epilogue to his story.
• I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: Wants someone, just anyone, to enjoy the gold he hid, so tells Tuco which cemetery it's buried in, and Blondie the name on the grave. At first, he offers Tuco the full information in exchange for water, and gives the second half of the location to Blondie before Tuco can return, because he was about to die either way.

Stevens

Portrayed by: Antonio Casas

Voiced by: Luigi Pavese (Italian), George Gonneau (English)

A retired soldier who had presumably been in the same regiment as Jackson and Baker. He gives Jackson refuge after he was finished storing away the missing gold. However, Baker sends his hitman after him when he suspects such a thing.

• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: He tells Angel Eyes that if Baker had listened to him, the case of coins wouldn't have gone missing.
• Dad the Veteran: He's a middle-aged man with two teenaged sons who fought in the war then came back home to live with his family.
• Face Death with Dignity: He's calm when confronted with an assassin, attempting to bargain with him for his life (or at least to kill Baker too) but never quavering or showing weakness.
• Manly Facial Hair: Stevens is a man with a full face of hair who is brave and calm when facing a man sent to kill him and was also involved in whatever happened with the gold coins to kick off the plot.

Maria

Portrayed by: Rada Rassimov

Voiced by: Rita Savagnone (Italian), Joyce Gordon (English)

Jackson's prostitute girlfriend.

• Cold-Blooded Torture: Inflicted on her by Angel Eyes. Not quite as violent or as protracted as on Tuco, but still quite disturbing.

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