History Awesome / TexWiller

* In "On the Trails of the West", Tex and an anonymous salesman rout a large band of Apache Jicarillas. How? Easy: the salesman worked for Mauser and was trying to sell a scoped [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_1888 Gewehr 1888 rifle]], with three times the range of the lever-action Winchesters used by the Apache. Between that and losing their chief at the first shot, it didn't take much to make them run.

** Still, Tex and Carson now have to deal with the SmallTownTyrant that had set Scott on Tex for giving a much needed lesson to his son (who had started shooting around the town for the hell of it and nearly hit Tex and Carson while they were eating peacefully at a restaurant) and said son... Or they would, if Scott's Indian wife hadn't arrived in town to try and prevent the duel after her tribe's shaman told her that Scott would surely die if he faced Tex: upon discovering she's late and her man is dead, the woman swears revenge, calmly walks up to the hick's son, and kills him on the spot for being the cause of the duel (Tex, after all, had faced Scott in two honorable duels, while the hick's son was just a cowardly bully who should have just taken his lesson, and she knew it), with his bodyguards being too shocked to do anything but scream as she walks away until their shouts call the sheriff in. The news of his son's death, and how it had happened, drive the hick into a VillainousBreakdown in which he ends up burning down his house around himself.

* ''Sangue Navajo'' (Navajo Blood) is a crowning ''storyline'' of awesome. It starts when two {{Corrupt Hick}}s on a train shoot four Navajo kids ForTheEvulz, and both the governor of Arizona and colonel Elbert, commander of Fort Defiance, try and pass the murder for self defense to protect the two rich men. Tex replies to that with an awesome, if bloodless (almost: an idiot tried to shoot Tex and was promptly killed for that), RoaringRampageOfRevenge:

* In "Black Gold!", Bob Braddock, CorruptHick and mayor of the city of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Hellsfire]], is forced to appoint a sheriff to avoid trouble with the governor of Texas ([[GenreSavvy who, by the way, has just sicked on him Tex and Carson]]), and, in a mocking ceremony, appoints his one-armed doorkeper Randy Nelson. Randy's reaction? ''Publicily arrest Braddock for the two murders he witnessed''. Tex and Carson, who show up as it happens, waste no time in declaring him Crazy and help him.

** Still, Tex and Carson now have to deal with the CorruptHick that had set Scott on Tex for giving a much needed lesson to his son (who had started shooting around the town for the hell of it and nearly hit Tex and Carson while they were eating peacefully at a restaurant) and said son... Or they would, if Scott's Indian wife hadn't arrived in town to try and prevent the duel after her tribe's shaman told her that Scott would surely die if he faced Tex: upon discovering she's late and her man is dead, the woman swears revenge, calmly walks up to the hick's son, and kills him on the spot for being the cause of the duel (Tex, after all, had faced Scott in two honorable duels, while the hick's son was just a cowardly bully who should have just taken his lesson, and she knew it), with his bodyguards being too shocked to do anything but scream as she walks away until their shouts call the sheriff in. The news of his son's death, and how it had happened, drive the hick into a VillainousBreakdown in which he ends up burning down his house around himself.

** One for the writers, as they managed to have Tex and Mefist fight each other without actually meeting in person or even learning of each other's involvement, as it's set well before their official first encounter.

** Tex' one arrives soon after: as soon as he wakes up, Tex, weakened by the blood loss, has the medic inject him with an eccitant and then ''[[TheDeterminator walks in the local saloon to challenge Scott to a rematch]]''. A rematch that Tex wins ''with his off hand'' (as the right arm had been wounded in the first duel), thanks to Scott having a VillainousBreakdown at the sheer shock of Tex being already there rather than in a bed trying to survive the blood loss.

** Elbert, who is not an idiot (and had actually tried to stop the shooting, as he was on the same train), has called for reinforcements and, received a squadron from Fort Wingate, attacks first. As soon as he leaves, Tex and the Navajos capture the remaining garrison of Fort Defiance and burn it to the ground, and then ''capture Elbert's attack force'';

* In "Black Gold!", Bob Braddock, CorruptHick and mayor of the city of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Hellsfire]], is forced to appoint a sheriff to avoid trouble with the governor of Texas ([[GenreSavvy who, by the way, has just sicked on him Tex and Carson]]), and, in a mocking ceremony, appoints his one-armed doorkeper Randy Nelson. Randy's reaction? ''Publicily arrest Braddock for the two murders he witnessed''. Tex and Carson, who show up as it happens, waste no time in declaring him CrazyAwesome and help him.

** One for the writers, as they managed to have Tex and Mefist fight each other without actually meeting in person or even learning of each other's involvement, as it's set well before their official first encounter.

* "A Quiet Man" tells a tale of Sam Willer, Tex' younger brother, and what happened when a seven-men gang attacked the Willers' family ranch. Everyone thought him soft and weak because he doesn't like killing... Then [[BewareTheQuietOnes he killed the entire gang]].

** Later in the story, Braddock's men believe his brother is going to let them take the fall and try and kill him, Randy, Tex and Carson. Braddock's men number sixteen. Tex and Carson ''casually kill twelve of them and beat up the ringleader'', with the other three surrendering out of fear for their lives.

* In "On the Trails of the West", Tex and an anonimous salesman rout a large band of Apache Jicarillas. How? Easy: the salesman worked for Mauser and was trying to sell a scoped [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_1888 Gewehr 1888 rifle]], with three times the range of the lever-action Winchesters used by the Apache. Between that and losing their chief at the first shot, it didn't take much to make them run.

* In the recent "The Immortal Warrior, Tex, armed with a Winchester, had to face a hitman armed with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharps_rifle Sharps rifle]], a [[SniperRifle]], near the limit of the Sharps' range, and well beyond the theorical range of a Winchester... ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills And still shot and killed him]]''. And in spite of the hitman saying [[ThisCannotBe it was impossible]] before dying from the wound, [[RealityIsUnrealistic it is possible in real life: Tex knew that his round would reach the distance but would have dropped, so, applying a common trick of real life snipers, he calculated the round's drop and aimed high enough the hitman was hit in the chest]].

* In the recent "The Immortal Warrior, Tex, armed with a Winchester, had to face a hitman armed with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharps_rifle Sharps rifle]], [[SniperRifle the gun sharpshooters are named for]], near the limit of the Sharps' range, and well beyond the theorical range of a Winchester... ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills And still shot and killed him]]''. And in spite of the hitman saying [[ThisCannotBe it was impossible]] before dying from the wound, [[RealityIsUnrealistic it is possible in real life: Tex knew that his round would reach the distance but would have dropped, so, applying a common trick of real life snipers, he calculated the round's drop and aimed high enough the hitman was hit in the chest]].

* In "The Hour of the Massacre", Tex and an anonimous salesman rout a large band of Apache Jicarillas. How? Easy: the salesman worked from Mauser and was trying to sell a scoped [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_1888 Gewehr 1888 rifle]], with three times the range of the lever-action Winchesters used by the Apache. Between that and losing their chief at the first shot, it didn't take much to make them run.

* In the recent "The Immortal Warrior, Tex, armed with a Winchester, had to face a hitman armed with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharps_rifle Sharps rifle]], [[SniperRifle the gun sharpshooters are named for]], near the limit of the Sharps' range, and well beyond the theorical range of a Wincherster... ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills And still shot and killed him]]''. And in spite of the hitman saying [[ThisCannotBe it was impossible]] before dying from the wound, [[RealityIsUnrealistic it is possible in real life: Tex knew that his round would reach the distance but would have dropped, so, applying a common trick of real life snipers, he calculated the round's drop and aimed high enough the hitman was hit in the chest]].

** still, the US Army remains too powerful, and when they'll bring their forces to bear the Navajos, in spite of their valour and their easily defended territory, will lose. That's why Tex got an embedded reporter (a journalist who was on the train when Hope and Barlow started shooting and denounced them on his newspaper) and, after capturing the second military expedition, had him send a reportage to the great newspaper of the East Coast. The result: the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Denver Post, the Baltimora Express, the Kansas Courier, the Santa Fe Examiner and the Phoenix Post started an hell of press campaign that caused the Department of War to categorically order to cease any and all operations that could provoke the Navajos and ''the Congress'' to order the start of an enquiry about the facts, with the governor being forced to order the arrest of the two hicks. That's victory, completely bloodless... But not enough;

* In "Black Gold!", Bob Braddock, CorruptHick and mayor of the city of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Hellsfire]], is forced to appoint a sheriff to avoid trouble with the governor of Texas ([[GenreSavvy who, by the way, has just sicked on him Tex and Carson]]), and, in a mocking ceremony, appoints his one-armed doorkeper Randy Nelson. Randy's reaction? ''Publicily arrest Braddock for the two murders he witnessed''. Tex and Carson, who show up as it happens, waste no time in declaring him CrazyAwesome and help him.

* In "Black Gold!", Bob Braddock, CorruptHick and mayor of the city of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Hellfire]], is forced to appoint a sheriff to avoid trouble with the governor of Texas ([[GenreSavvy who, by the way, has just sicked on him Tex and Carson]]), and, in a mocking ceremony, appoints his one-armed doorkeper Randy Nelson. Randy's reaction? ''Publicily arrest Braddock for the two murders he witnessed''. Tex and Carson, who show up as it happens, waste no time in declaring him CrazyAwesome and help him.

* In the recent "The Immortal Warrior, Tex, armed with a Winchester, had to face a hitman armed with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharps_rifle Sharps rifle]], [[SniperRifle the gun sharpshooters are named for]], near the limit of the Sharps' range, and well beyond the theorical range of a Wincherster... ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills And still shot and killed him]]''. And in spite of the hitman saying [[ThisCannotBe it was impossible]] before dying from the wound, [[RealityIsUnrealistic it is possible in real life: Tex knew that his round would reach the distance but would have dropped, so, applying a common trick of real life snipers, he calculated the round's drop and aimed high enough the hitman was hit in the chest]].

* In "The Hour of the Massacre", Tex and an anonimous salesman rout a large band of Apache Jicarillas. How? Easy: the salesman worked from Mauser and was trying to sell a scoped [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_1888 Gewehr 1888 rifle]], with three times the range of the lever-action Winchesters used by the Apache. Between that and losing their chief at the first shot, it didn't take much to make them run.

* Padma versus Mefisto. For most of the story arc Padma had not stopped Mefisto, trying instead to turn him to good. When at the end he's forced to actually fight him, and holding back as he was not allowed to kill, he conjured such nightmarish illusions that Mefisto was reduced to an harmless idiot from the sheer fear. Remember, Mefisto's the same guy who can casually deal with hellish powers...

** In short, Tex started and ''won'' an Indian War, ''without killing a single soldier'', in order to have justice.

* ''Sangue Navajo'' (Navajo Blood) is a crowning ''storyline'' of awesome. It starts when two millionaires shoots four Navajo kids ForTheEvulz, and both the governor of Arizona and the military authorities try and pass the murder for self defense. Tex replies to that by burning a fort to the ground, capturing his whole garrison and two squadrons from another fort and reporting to the press in Washington what was happening and why, informing the public opinion that a new Indian war was about to start because two murderers were being protected by the authorities, resulting in the Department of Defense stopping any combat action against the Navajos (this as soon as a general read the articles on the Washington Post) and the Congress ordering the arrest of the murderers. Then Tex tops that by obtaining that it will be the Navajos to ''arrest'' the murderers, because they deserved death but they were to be sentenced and executed by law but the Navajos still had the right to make sure they would be arrested.