History Characters / ThreeTenToYuma2007

* SissyVillain: He's rather effeminate and slightly flamboyant. [[BerserkButton Unfortunately, pointing this out to him earns you a bullet on the spot.]]

* AntiVillain: Defied. When William points out he's not as bad as he said he is, he claims to have been acting out of PragmaticVillainy. [[spoiler: However, he does plant himself into this territory when he kills his gang for their brutal murder of Dan.]]

** Don't insult the mother of anyone he's come to respect. [[spoiler: His gang found that out the hard way.]]
* BigNo: When [[spoiler: Charlie guns down Dan. It's not long, just loud.]]

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler: He's escaped Yuma prison several times. Presumably, he does it again at the end of the film.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: After getting shot in the heart by Wade, he does nothing to fight his fate and looks into Wade's eyes as Wade draws one of Charlie's pistols and shoots him again.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Wade shoots him with his own gun.]]

* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler: Ben Wade shoots him in the throat.]]

* ButtMonkey: Nothing goes right for Dan in the film. His family's struggling, the barn is burned down, his son disrespects him, he lost his leg in the only battle he ever fought in, and while he does get Ben Wade to the train, [[spoiler: it costs him his life.]]

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Uses [=McElroy's=] shotgun after the Pinkerton is [[spoiler: killed by Wade.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's honest and fair, goes on the mission to bring Wade to Yuma himself, and insists to Dan he'll be with him every step of the way. [[spoiler: He only gives up after it's just him, Dan, and William left and the situation is basically hopeless, and even then he assures Dan that he'll pay him anyway and encourages him to give up as well, not expecting him to go up against suicidal odds all by himself.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Of the adults in the posse escorting Ben Wade, he's the only one still alive by the end of the film.]]

* InTheBack: [[spoiler: Shot from behind by one of the railroad enforcers.]]

-->'''[=McElroy=]''': What the fuck kind of doctor are you, anyway?\\
'''Potter''': [[DeadpanSnarker Nice to have a conversation with a patient for a change]].

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: He was a vicious thug and nobody was particularly sorry to see him go.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Antagonizes Wade at every turn and then falls asleep while guarding him.]]

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* DeadpanSnarke: Almost every bit as sarcastic as his boss, but whereas Wade's snark comes from a place of genuine wit, Charlie comes across more as a mean-spirited [[TheBully bully.]]

* TheDreaded: His hang is among the worst and most feared in the west, with Wade himself capable of putting the fear of God into anyone who even happens across him. The Pinkertons rig a carriage ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill into a goddamn armored tank]]'' to protect a cache of loot from him. As Wade sarcastically points out above, that carriage probably cost them more than the loot itself.

%%* TheDreaded

%%* NobleDemon

%%* BeardOfEvil

%%* DeadpanSnarker

%%* FauxAffablyEvil

%%* SissyVillain

* BadassInCharge: Wade is the unquestioned leader of his gang and an extremely dangerous man [[spoiler:capable of gunning down his entire gang before they have a chance to react.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: A Colt Single Action Army "Quickdraw" (4.75) inch barrel with black grips and a gold cross on both sides called the Hand of God, which is said to be cursed so that anyone who isn't Wade touches it dies.

* WeaponOfChoice: Two Smith and Wesson Schofield Model 3 revolvers.

* WeaponOfChoice: A Colt Revolving Rifle fitted with a full-length telescopic sight.

* WeaponOfChoice: A Colt 1851 Navy revolver.

* WeaponOfChoice: A Colt Single Action Army revolver, which Butterfield is shown fanning the hammer with.

* WeaponOfChoice: A Remington 1875 revolver.

%%* DeterminedHomesteadersWife

* IllBoy: He has tuberculosis and needs a dry climate.

* NiceHat: Charlie uses it to identify him during the town shootout.

* NiceHat: The crew called it the "Triggerman" during filming.

* NiceHat: Most of the gang wears cowboy hats or fedoras, Sutherland has a derby, and Nez has a top hat.

* NiceHat: A bowler.

A ruthless pinkerton agent frequently on the hunt for Wade. After his capture, [=McElroy=] joins the posse to escort Wade to Contention.

* {{Jerkass}}: Even at his most mellow he's gruff and grumpy.

-->'''Wade:''' There was young ones running around crying and screaming. No more than three years old. And his boys shot 'em all then pushed 'em into a ditch. Some of them was still crying. But I guess Byron figured that Jesus wouldn't mind. Apparently Jesus don't like the Apache.

* PsychoForHire: Even if he wasn't working for Hollander, he'd probably be off exercising his violent impulses elsewhere considering the sick pleasure he seems to take in hurting people. When Potter expresses his disgust with Tucker's actions, Tucker just smiles and says "just doin' my job, Doc".

* RailroadBaron: Hollander aspires to become this, since he forsees the success of the railroad and wants to have it run through his land.

* ItsProbablyNothing: Weathers tells Butterfield that the stagecoach Ben robbed in the previous scene is probably just running late. Butterfield [[ProperlyParanoid replies that for the money they get paid, Pinkertons never run late.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He's established as an unsympathetic moron when he's introduced, griping about Chinese workers and wishing they had 'negros' to show them what real work is.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Zeke is introduced bitching about the Chinese laborers and how they should have hired 'negros'.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Shot repeatedly in the chest by Charlie Prince.]]

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Wields a shotgun as his primary weapon.

* WorthyOpponent: For Ben Wade, or so it appears at first. It's subverted later when the depth of their hatred for each other is revealed, although Wade claims to have always liked Byron.

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Weathers is shot through the head by one of Ben's gang while driving the stagecoach.]]

%%* BadassBeard

%%* BadassBeard

%%* BadassBeard

%%* BadassBeard

* BadassMoustache: Averted; he's not much of a badass.

->'''Played By:''' Johnny Whitworth

->'''Played By:''' Gretchen Mol

* FamousLastWords: "You know, for a one-legged rancher, he's one tough son of a bitch."

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: Shit...]]

* Age Lift: Butterfield is in his mid-forties in the original film but his late thirties in the remake.

* DecompositeCharacter: Butterfield's role in helping get Wade to the train station and offering the reward, which gets Ben involved, carry over from the first movie. But in that movie Butterfield, not [=McElroy=], is the man Ben talks to during the penguin stagecoach robbery, [[ActionizedAdaptation which is far less bloody than in the remake.]]

The marshal of Bisbee and his two deputies.

->'''Played By:''' Vinessa Shaw

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Weathers is a competent and fair-minded lawman who displays an impressive amount of bravery and ingenuity after the capture of Ben Wade. Knowing Charlie will bring back the rest of the gang, Weathers and his surviving deputy depart with a DecoyConvoy to buy Dan, Butterfield, and the others a head start, despite the amount of risk this exposes Butterfield and Deputy Crawley to.

* BadassGrandpa: His hair might have 'gone all grey', but it's a bad idea to mess with him. He's tough, ruthless and has NervesOfSteel.

->'''Played By:''' Luke Wilson

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:The only members of the posse he kills are Tucker and [=McElroy=], a bully and a killer respectively. He ends the movie by gunning down the remainder of his gang, starting with Charlie, who had just gunned down Dan.]]

%%* WarriorPoet

* {{Jerkass}}: At least to his father.

--'''[=McElroy=]''': What the fuck kind of doctor are you, anyway?\\

* PsychoForHire: Even if he wasn't working for Hollander, he'd probably be off exercising his violent impulses elsewhere considering the sick pleasure he seems to take in hurting people.

%%* CheerfulChild

%%* {{Jerkass}}

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Along with Zeke, Moons is killed by Charlie Prince.]]

%%* BadassInCharge

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Wade sure is a witty son-of-a-bitch.
%%-->''"Well, would you look at all this? You all spared no expense this time, Byron. I gotta say, though, it's probably cheaper just to let me rob the damn thing."''

%%* FriendlyEnemy
%%* HiddenDepths

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:The only members of the posse he kills are Tucker and [=McElroy=], a bully and a killer respectively.]]
* NamedWeapons: Wade's pistol is called the Hand of God which is said to be cursed so that anyone who touches it that isn't Wade dies.

* AmbiguouslyGay: His loyalty to Wade borders on obsessive love, and he appears jealous of the young barmaid Wade sleeps with.

%%* TheGunfighterWannabe

* WorthyOpponent: For Ben Wade, or so it appears at first. It's subverted later when the depth of their hatred for each other is revealed.

%%* SurprisinglySuddenDeath

* TheBully: Tucker is a sadistic jerk who enjoys taunting others and causing misery. Notably he only bullies Dan, who is under his boss's thumb, and Wade when he's tied up and supposedly helpless.

* GreenEyes: Wade makes a note of them.

->'''Played By:''' Peter Fonda