History Characters / Rango

** When Rango unwittingly sets him on fire Bill slides him a gun and takes the fight outside rather than simply gun him down right there. Notable because his entrance to the saloon involved shooting into the floor.

* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: His Gatling gun/rattle seems to have no realistic way of working (What is the firing mechanism for that thing?), but more importantly, it's very cool.

-->'''Beans:''' Go to Hell!
-->'''Jake:''' Where do you think I come from?
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: When he encounters Rango for the first time, he breaks his bravado by daring him to shoot Jake with his one bullet. Rango is unable to do it, and Jake berates him for giving the town false hope and for lying about his identity.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: He's completely devoid of sympathy and pity for the newcomer Rango, going as far as to humiliate and disgrace him for pretending to be a legend rather than just killing him, his thought process likely being that [[PragmaticVillainy killing Rango would only lionize]] him and prove his claims of heroism. Notably, however, frauds and liars are his BerserkButton, so his excessive cruelty is likely fueled by that hatred. As to whether he is ''completely'' devoid of empathy is left up to question, [[spoiler: though he gains a fair bit of VillainRespect for Rango in the end after he proves himself.]]

* NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler: He refuses to kill Rango, and chooses to disgrace him instead by destroying his reputation as a hero. He and Rango also let the other walk away with their lives; Rango earns his respect by fulfilling his own legend, while Rango lets Jake take revenge on Tortoise John by dragging him out of Dirt.]]

* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Rango doesn't kill the helpless Mayor at the end of the film, but he does give him to [[TheGrimReaper Rattlesnake Jake]] to answer for his betrayal. Jake accept this as his soul payment before he drags the Mayor to his doom.]]

A fearsome, ferocious desert rattlesnake with a Gatling gun for a tail, Rattlesnake Jake is the secondary antagonist. He is called the Grim Reaper, and lauded by many as a ruthless killer who "doesn't leave a town without taking a soul." [[spoiler: He secretly worked for the Mayor until near the end, when the Mayor turns on Jake.]]

* AmbitiousSituation: Given that his first appearance involves him getting run over by a car and having his midsection flattened (but he immediately recovers from it), and he never interacts with anyone but Rango, it’s unclear if he’s a ghost or just an eccentric hermit with cartoon physics on his side.

* TheComicallySerious: While most of the citizens of Dirt are eccentric in one way or another, Elgin remains grim and self-serious through and through (along with Wounded Bird).

%%* AlphaBitch: Subverted.

* TheComicallySerious: While most of the citizens of Dirt are eccentric in one way or another, Elgin remains grim and self-serious through and through.
* FaceOfAThug: His grim appearance and demeanor certainly give off a sinister vibe but is one of the good guys.

* KilledOffscreen: He’s last seen being dragged out of Dirt kicking and screaming by a very pissed-off Rattlesnake Jake, whom he double-crossed and tried to kill only minutes earlier. [[NothingIsScarier It’s safe to assume that Jake didn’t show him mercy, or deliver a quick death.]]

* SoftSpokenSadist: He has the gentle voice of Creator/NedBeatty and is generally calm and cordial, while also being an unscrupulous monster.

* WiseOldTurtle: [[SubvertedTrope But not a benign one]]. He’s been around long enough to witness the construction of Las Vegas and is the oldest citizen in Dirt by a long shot, using the knowledge he has amassed over the decades for his own ambitions.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnnyDepp

* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Creator/BillNighy.

* TheSmartGuy: he's notably the one who realizes Rango has only detailed how six of the seven Jenkins Brothers were killed in his story, and he's generally the most educated person in dirt.

* AnimalFacialHair: his fur grows into a massive beard that hangs from his face
* DirtyCoward: Played with, as he immediately backs off when Rango fires back at his YourMom comment in the bar, but otherwise is perfectly willing to ride into battle with the rest of the posse

* FaceOfAThug: his squinted eyes and long facial hair give him a far more intimidating appearance than he actually lives up to

* TooMuchInformation: His contribution to the campfire discussion immediately incurs this
-->'''Spoons''': I found [[BeyondTheImpossible an entire human spinal column]] in my fecal matter once

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: thinks Rango referring to "something in his eye" is his hereditary conjunctivitis rather than the massive arrow sticking out of his right eye
* CreatorCameo: He's voiced by the film's director

* MadeOfIron: He has an arrow going ''through his eye and out the back of his head'' and is largely unfazed

* TheAlcoholic: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him so drunk he's passed out in the saloon, only waking up to mistakenly order a drink when he hears Rango ask for water. He follows it up later by regaining enough consciousness to shout "drinks all around!"
* CaptainObvious: a lot of his dialogue involves this. Most notably when he checks the pulse on the Hawk that's [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill currently buried under a mountain of sand after a giant metal water tower fell on its head]]

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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlfredMolina

An armadillo that doesn't have the best luck with crossing the road or cars.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: He's shown to have his midsection crushed after being ran over by a car. A little later, however, he's perfectly fine.
* SpiritAdvisor: He has this general vibe -- Rango is the only character who interacts with him, and he appears whenever Rango is near "the other side of the road", a mystical realm.
* WildWestArmadillo: He's the first character Rango meets upon being released from his vivarium.

* ConspicuousConsumption: He holds a gigantig flask of "Vintage Rainwater" in his desk which he shares with guests as a sign of his wealth and position.

* WickedCultured: A gang of inbred thieves who know how to play "Music/RideOfTheValkyries" like an orchestra. With banjos and the like.

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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlfredMolina

An armadillo that doesn't have the best luck with crossing the road or cars.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: He's shown to have his midsection crushed after being ran over by a car. A little later, however, he's perfectly fine.
* SpiritAdvisor: He has this general vibe -- Rango is the only character who interacts with him, and he appears whenever Rango is near "the other side of the road", a mystical realm.
* WildWestArmadillo: He's the first character Rango meets upon being released from his vivarium.

* GagBoobs: She has large and pretty obvious boobs that shake when she talks.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:As he attempts to drown Rango and Beans, he betrays Rattlesnake Jake, the very same character he hired to do his dirty work, and even attempts to shoot him while telling him that "pretty soon, no one will believe you even ''existed''." However, it doesn't work because all the bullets are missing, and Jake gives him the exact same line before dragging him off to his doom.]]
* LightIsNotGood: He appears as the BigGood of the entire story, and mostly wears white, particularly a white hat, which is seen as a symbol of good in Old West movies, [[spoiler:but his true nature is much eviler than he lets on]].

* SmallTownTyrant: He's the [[spoiler:BigBad of the film who deliberately cuts off his people's supply of water to force them into handing over their land for his own purposes]].

* {{Expy}}: He bears an unmistakable resemblance to Noah Cross, Creator/JohnHuston's character in the 1974 film ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''. In terms of role, he also echoes Mr. Morton from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' pretty closely, [[spoiler: due to being a EvilCripple rich man trying to modernize the West through a real estate scheme]].

* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts very friendly and well-meaning, almost grandfatherly, before we get to know his true intentions.
* FlippingHelpless: [[spoiler: Rango's escape from the flooding bank vault knocks the Mayor out of his chair and leaves him on his back, unable to do anything but try to reason with Rango... who turns him over to Jake, who the Mayor had been trying to double-cross just moments ago. Needless to say, Mayor John is unable to do anything to stop Jake dragging him off.]]

* LightIsNotGood: He aappears as the BigGood of the entire story, and mostly wears white, particularly a white hat, which is seen as a symbol of good in Old West movies, [[spoiler:but his true nature is much more evil than he lets on]].

* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Lacking even Rattlesnake Jake's noble side, the Mayor has manipulated the town and hidden his corruption from them. Caring only about his own vision of the future, he is even willing to murder and double cross even Jake to push it forward. Even him being against Jake trying to kill Beans for not signing the contract is hypocritical, since he doesn't have a problem with trying to drown her (and Rango) in his own water vault.]]

-->'''Beans:''' Go to hell!

* LargeHam: He has almost as much a flair for the dramatic as Rango, weaving threats of Hellfire and damnation into his speech at every opportunity.