Basic Trope: Classic Western tropes applied to a contemporary or future setting.
- Straight: The Wild West, even today, is still as wild as it used to be. The Sheriff of the local county, Marston Hubert takes down Gangbangers, The Cartel, and The Mafia alongside his Deputy Sheriff Patricia Blaze.
- Exaggerated: Space Western: If you got rid of the blasters, robots, aliens, Hover Tanks and the casual mention that the story is taking place on the western plains of Mars, it would be a story that could have been filmed with John Wayne (and maybe it did).
- Downplayed: It's in a period between The '50s-The '80s, but it still feels like The Wild West.
- Justified:
- Conservatives who haven't moved on kept classic Western tropes alive, and just live with the new gadgets and gizmos.
- The story takes place during the Twilight of the Old West and thus devices like cars, phones and semi-automatic weapons (and quick police response) are still not widely available.
- The story takes place in a location that is still very far off from human civilization even in the Twenty-First Century (ex. deep within the Australian Outback) so the good old ways still work well (and they will even more once the newfangled methods to call for help are taken out by the plot).
- Inverted: The Wild West of the 19th century is instead a place where discrimination is heavily frowned upon, and where homosexual relationships are common.
- Subverted: It appears nothing has changed, considering the violent landscape, but these pieces of violence are actually well contained and not hurting anything else.
- Double Subverted: That's what the American Propaganda films would like you to believe.
- Parodied: The setting is supposedly in today, yet The Wild West literally never changes. Not even an automobile exists in this weird land of America.
- Zig-Zagged: Whether or not it's the 1800s or the 2000s is Depending on the Writer.
- Averted: The Wild West is completely gone. America has changed a lot.
- Enforced:
- The Creators want to show how The Wild West is practically eternal due to people not moving on from the past.
- The Creators are interested in seeing how classic Western tropes are applied in today's society.
- The writers want cowboys with machine guns and old fashioned Gatling Guns are out of the question. Now, NEW Gatling guns, perhaps they can get behind that.
- Lampshaded: "Nothing really changes in the west, huh?"
- Invoked: Wild West Park mates the new with the old.
- Implied: Our Establishing Character Moment with Jim is him riding a horse through Monument Valley looking like the Man with No Name yet hearing what seemed to be diegetic cookie-cutter "western film" music through a smart phone.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: When Marston trains his rookie deputies, he gives a long speech about how "we are not in the Wild West!"
- Discussed: Marston and Patricia are having some beer together, as Marston goes into a Rambling Old Man Monologue about how nothing really changes in the west.Marston: Y'know, Pat, nothin' really changes 'round here. The concept of a bounty and its hunters still exist, the gangsters we keep catchin' are still just outlaws in the end, and we still have to use guns, especially our revolvers. Heck, even the horses that they used to ride back in the 19th century are now replaced by those of steel, but they fulfill the same purpose. It's like we never really move on from the old times, we're just accompanied by new gadgets and gizmos here and there.
- Conversed: "This new show here's set in the 21st century yet it still acts like it's the 19th century."
- Deconstructed: Marston's idealist view of the West quickly runs into reality. There are a lot of shades of grey with his criminal enemies, most bounties aren't particularly interesting, and gunslinger shenanigans will get you suspended these days.
- Reconstructed: Marston decides he's in a Revisionist Western instead and continues using Western tropes to make sense of reality.
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