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  • Angst? What Angst?: Evil Eb is more annoyed than angry about The Man With No Name killing all of his friends; they even become drinking buddies after their duel.
  • Awesome Music: As hilariously bad as this game is, some of its music is very catchy, such as the CDTV version's main theme (a remix of the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
    • The cutscene where the man with the cigarette asks a Lee Van Cleef expy if he can give him the time. The latter looks at his stopwatch with a real-life photo of a girl for about 20 seconds while loud organ music plays before just saying "no", and then the game continues, and the character never appears again.
    • Since all gang members except for Wildcard McVee are encountered by simply entering and exiting any building, the majority of things The Man With No Name does are amusing yet practically pointless in the long run.
    • If you choose to "get back on the train", the train flies off into space at warp speed.
  • Bile Fascination: The game attracts a lot of people wanting to see the Deranged Animation, the Jerkass tendencies of The Man With No Name, and the generally bizarre things that happen.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: The Man With No Name (apparently harmlessly) shooting a kid for getting his name wrong while smiling and being on a train that then goes to space at warp speed.
  • Designated Hero: The Man With No Name barely does anything that can be considered heroic. Most of time, he just dicks around doing nothing and doesn't even look for his sister, which is supposedly the reason why he is in The Town With No Name in the first place. He is a jackass to most characters he meets in the game and he even has the option to attempt to kill the man with the cigarette. When you get the alternate ending, he shoots a child just for getting his name wrong.
  • Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: While the cutscenes are very entertaining, actually playing the game can be quite a pain, since you lose all your progress if you fail any of the shootout segments, and none of the cutscenes are skippable. You're probably better off looking up videos of the game online.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Mr. Diablo/Retard Abraham Lincoln/Vampire Abraham Lincoln, the undertaker who slides across the screen accompanied by a short organ rendition of the funeral march whenever you kill one of the game's bosses, with the exceptions of Zippy Zeke and Crafty Clint, is often considered by many to be the funniest moment in the entire game due to his uncanny resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, disturbing facial expression, and his unexpected presence in a game already filled with bizarre occurrences.
  • Fan Nickname: Retard Abraham Lincolnnote  and Vampire Abraham Lincolnnote  for Mr. Diablo.
  • Memetic Mutation:
  • Obvious Beta: On a purely technical level, the graphics are obviously unfinished in several places, and the voice samples often cut off prematurely on the CDTV version (though they generally play fine on the PC version). A look through the game's files also indicates that it was originally meant to be more of a full-on adventure game, rather than the Boss Game that it effectively ended up as. Even then, one of Evil Eb's gang members, Immortal Isaac, is The Ghost, and only Wildcard McVee has any sort of puzzle associated with him.
  • Quirky Work: Certainly has that feeling with random surreal elements such as the priest that floats to heaven or the train that goes to space in one of the endings.
  • Scrappy Mechanic: The lack of checkpoints makes playing it all over a chore, since the cutscenes bar the intro aren't skippable and each scene loads between each other.
  • So Bad, It's Good: For a game trying to parody the Western genre and have comedic elements in it, it fails so hard that it somehow warps back to being hysterical. Although there's a possibility Delta 4 was trying to invoke this trope, given how little effort they even bother putting into it, so it may get into Stylistic Suck territory.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: The song that plays when the train takes off into space if you decide to get back on it sound almost, but not quite like "The Imperial March".
  • That One Boss: Wildcard McVee is the only boss in the game the player must actively seek out, as he only appears when you choose to play cards in the saloon after defeating Crafty Clint; your opponent is the Bartender if you play the card game any other time. Beat him and he challenges you to a duel outside. However, he's actually lying and will instead shoot you dead without warning unless you immediately gun him down before he finishes making his offer for a duel. There's no way to know this in advance either.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Has an awful lot of gore for a game that was labeled as "all ages". Also a prostitute scene; not explicitly shown, but it's obvious what's going on.


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