History Characters / AFistfulOfDollars

* FluffyTheTerrible: Chico is the Spanish equivalent of calling someone "Tiny", and this heavyweight is anything but.

[[folder:The Man With No Name/Joe]]
--> Portrayed by: Creator/ClintEastwood
--> Voiced by: Enrico Maria Salerno (Italian), Clint Eastwood (English)

A gunman who arrives at a small town being torn apart by warring gangs. He quickly realizes that he can make a profit for himself by offering his services to both gangs.

* AntiHero: He is ruthless and unabashedly seeks money, but he has a soft spot for Silvanito and the family he encounters.
* BadassCape: He wears a long poncho, and he's one of the best gunslingers of the film alongside Ramon.
* BerserkButton: He guns down several gangsters for laughing at his mule.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: At least in the film, we don't see the results of his getting drunk off his mind at the Rojo party, except for his singing in an obviously slurred manner while having to be carried to his quarters by Chico and Esteban. The novelization elaborates a little further.
** This is actually subverted in the film; he ''pretends'' to be drunk senseless, but it's just a trick so he can [[spoiler: get out unwatched by the Rojos and help Marisol and her family escape.]]
* CelibateHero: This is expanded in the novelisation, where he pauses on his way out after passing information to Mr. and Mrs. Baxter when he hears the couple knocking boots through the wall. He becomes "angry at the stirring he felt in his own loins" before reminding himself that, "A man with a woman on his mind was never fully in command of any situation."
* TheChessmaster: He's incredibly crafty, and plays off both gangs in the town to his advantage.
* CoffinContraband: He uses this tactic to escape from San Miguel without the Rojos noticing--specifically, ''he'' is the contraband. He stops only to watch the Rojos utterly annihilate the Baxters in their search for him.
* CombatPragmatist: He'll shoot first, wear a boiler plate as armour and, at one point, takes out a pair of {{Mooks}} with a [[ImprovisedWeapon barrel]].
* CompositeCharacter: While mostly based on Sanjuro, his skill with a revolver and his "fanning" technique are taken from Unosuke, who himself is combined with Tokuemon to create the character Ramon Rojo.
* ContractOnTheHitman: He leaves the Rojos because he overhears them plotting to kill him when the job is finished, to avoid paying him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Always has a witty one-liner for the occasion.
* {{Determinator}} Manages to haul himself out of the Rojos' house alive after having suffered a beating from them.
* TheDrifter: ''The'' classic Western example. He wonders into the town for no apparent reason (in the original cut) and immediately sets himself to work on the issue of the gangs.
* FastestGunInTheWest: Is an expert of the QuickDraw and has a rather large kill count. In [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D60si9Z0A68 this video]], he kills 16 people.
* GuileHero: He depends as much on his cunning as his phenomenal skill as a pistolero, spending most of the first half of the movie playing both gangs against each other expertly.
* TheGunslinger: A truly iconic example.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: His marksmanship is superhuman. He's a gunman portrayed by Creator/ClintEastwood, so this is a given.
* ImprovisedArmor: He uses a metal piece in his showdown with Ramon.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Treats everyone who's not a Rojo or a Baxter with a degree of kindness.
* KnightErrant: He's uncharacteristically more earnest in his treatment of Marisol and her family.
* MacheteMayhem: Wields a machete at one point to wreck the house Marisol's kept in and kill one of the Rojos' men.
* MadeOfIron: Endures and recovers swiftly from a pretty bad beating at the hands of the Rojos.
* MessianicArchetype: It's not explicitly stated, but he is a mysterious man who arrives into town on a mule, is subjected to his own "flagellation" and appears to "resurrect" several times thanks to the breastplate he crafted for himself.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: For much of the movie, he is only out to make some quick cash, and while he's doing that he's all but invincible in fights and plays all the other characters for suckers. It's only when he tries to do something nice by helping Marisol and her family escape that the bad guys get wise to him ...
* NoNameGiven: Nobody calls him "Joe" but the cooper, Piripero.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Pretends to be drunk off his ass at the Rojos' party, only so he can be put to bed and out of the Rojos' mind, enabling him to sneak out and help Marisol and her family get away.
* OlderThanTheyLook: If he was 36 like Eastwood actually was in ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'', then in ''A Fistful of Dollars'' he's at least 45 to 47 years old, even though he looks 34.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Like [[Film/{{Yojimbo}} Sanjuro]], Joe sees the gang war as an opportunity for profit. Until he learns about Marisol's captivity...
* PlayingBothSides: His plan for dealing with the Baxters and the Rojos.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Despite being just as handy with a rifle.
* SignatureHeadgear: A staple of an Eastwood gunslinger.
* TheStoic: He's always level-headed, and doesn't talk much.
* TranquilFury: As always, when he's angry it's expressed as a slow burn.

* {{Determinator}} Manages to haul himself out of the Rojos' house alive after having suffered a beating from them.* * * TheDrifter: ''The'' classic Western example. He wonders into the town for no apparent reason (in the original cut) and immediately sets himself to work on the issue of the gangs.

* WeaponOfChoice: A Colt Single Action Army revolver with a 5.5 inch barrel, dubbed the "Artillery" model. Joe's revolver features silver rattlesnakes on the grips.

* WeaponOfChoice: A Winchester. And he always aims for the heart.

%% * Badass Cape: His iconic poncho.
%% * Berserk Button: Don't laugh at his mule.

%% * The Chessmaster: He's incredibly crafty.

* {{Determinator}} Manages to haul himself out of the Rojos' house alive after having suffered a beating from them.
%% * The Drifter: ''The'' classic Western example.

%% * Knight Errant: In his treatment of Marisol.

* BadassCape: His iconic poncho.
* BerserkButton: Don't laugh at his mule.

* TheChessmaster: He's incredibly crafty.

* TheDrifter: ''The'' classic Western example.

* KnightErrant: In his treatment of Marisol.

* BerserkButton: He normally voices mere annoyance with certain parts of Joe's gambit at worst, but he protests ''vehemently'' when he learns what Joe plans to do with the bodies of the Mexican soldiers they brought to the cemetery. He takes the sanctity of the dead so seriously, he raises his voice for the first time in the film when Joe explains how he'll be using those two bodies.
-->'''Silvanito''': I'm alive, and I want to remain with the living, understand? And when I'm dead, I want to remain with the dead, and I would be unhappy if somebody living forces me to remain with the living! I hope that's clear! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And also, I don't like the idea that you placed those bodies there—]][[HeroOfAnotherStory the man we buried in that grave is the only one who ever died of pneumonia in this cursed town!]]

* CoolHat: A staple of an Eastwood gunslinger.

* FingerlessGloves: He wears a single one on his gun hand.

* BadassMustache

* CoffinContraband: He uses this tactic to escape from San Miguel without the Rojos noticing--specifically, ''he'' is the contraband. He stops only to watch the Rojos utterly annihilate the Baxters in their search for him.

* FreudianTrio: Of the Rojo brothers, he’s the Id, as the most impulsive of all three brothers

* NotSoAboveitAll: Despite being the most reasonable of the Rojo brothers, he's shown indulging in evil/insane laughter along with the other Rojo brothers and their men during the slaughter of the Baxters (though he doesn't kill any of the Baxters himself).

* Undertaker: He builds coffins for the bodies left by the Rojos and the Baxters.

* TheUndertaker: He builds coffins for the bodies left by the Rojos and the Baxters.

[[folder:The Man With No Name/Joe/Manco/Blondie]]