History ComicBook / JonahHex

* LineOfSightName: In ''All Star Western'' #34, Jonah needs an alias when signing a hotel register. He sees a sack of George Brand Flour being wheeled past in a wheelbarrow, and signs the book 'George Barrow'.

* EvilAlbino: The Autumn Brothers

* HangingJudge: Jonah confronts one in the story "The Hangman" in ''Weird Western Tales'' #35. Marshal Sam Lehman is a CorruptHick who is both the town marshal and judge. He makes almost every offence a hanging offence (such as hanging a saloon girl for filching ten dollars from a drunken cowhand) as the frequent public hangings attract business to the town.

* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: The story "Casket Canyon" from ''Jonah Hex'' v2 #66, has Hex arriving to a snowbound village which has been partaking in cannibalism after the a disease killed their livestock.

* SelfOffense: In UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, Jonah was leading the patrol of Confederate troops who shot and killed and Stonewall Jackson.

* MarkOfShame: His trademark disfigurement was punishment for using a weapon other than a tomahawk in a sacred battle, even though his opponent cheated by sabotaging Hex's and forced him to resort to a knife to defend himself.

* TheNativeRival: Jonah's saving of the Apache chief he was sold into slavery to earned him this trope with the chief's son Noh Tante.

* ChainedToARailway: Jonah does this to a corrupt PinkertonDetective (who has just murdered a 13 year old boy) in #13 of the original series.

* ArchEnemy: Quentin Turnbull, who is dead-set on avenging his son's death at Fort Charlotte Massacre, and restoring the South to its former glory.

* HellholePrison: Fort Charlotte

* TheRemnant: The Fort Charlotte Brigade, Confederate soldiers sworn to bring the Confederacy back (and incidentally to kill Jonah Hex).

* WouldntHitAGirl: In the DC Showcase, [[TheVamp Madam Lorraine]] states this despite the fact [[TheDogShotFirst she'd just shot at him twice and had tried to have him murdered]]. Understandably, [[WouldHitAGirl she's proven wrong.]]

* OddCouple: Many stories contrast Jonah with the significantly friendlier Bat Lash. The ComicBook/{{New 52}} ''All-Star Western'' pairs Jonah with prissy Eastern criminal psychologist Dr. Amadeus Arkham. TheyFightCrime.

The character has appeared in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' episodes. Also, [[Film/JonahHex a feature film]] was released on June 18, 2010 starring Josh Brolin and Creator/MeganFox. The results were... less than auspicious, with reviews ranging from mixed to horrible, and a box office that suffered heavily (thanks mostly to competition from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''). There is also the animated short, ''WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseJonahHex'', that serves as a bonus feature for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood''; interestingly, it's written by Joe Lansdale, who wrote the Hex-starring Batman TAS episode "Showdown" (and some of the aforementioned Vertigo series). He was made part of the Series/{{Arrowverse}} with an appearance in the time-travelling series ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''.

* KavorkaMan: Jonah is as ugly as sin, and has little in the way of social skills, but has maintained relationships with some incredibly gorgeous women: White Fawn, Mei Ling, Emmylou Hartley, Adrian Sterling, Stiletta, Gina Gold, Tall Bird, etc.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. Hex and other characters often have the sort of attitudes you'd expect from the 19th century. Hex himself is a subversion -- "progressive" enough to marry a Chinese woman, and treating all races, colors, and creeds equally... but only because he ''hates'' all races, colors, and creeds equally.

** One clear example was the group that Jonah Hex once joined (against his will) called Five Warriors From Forever. The team was created by a time-based villain called Lord of Time and consisted of heroes from different historical periods, such as the Viking Prince (who is a viking), Black Pirate (who is, off course, a pirate), Miss Liberty (a vigilante from the American Revolution), and Enemy Ace (a WWI German pilot), and were gifted with various powers that allowed them to beat both the JusticeLeague and the Justice Society.

Jonah has a rather grim background. Raised with unrelenting abuse from his drunken father, the boy was sold as a slave to a Native American Apache tribe. Years passed and he saved the Apache chief from a puma. He was adopted by the chief as his own son, and the chief's real son grew to resent him. When the boys came of age, Jonah's adoptive brother left him for dead during their rite of passage, in the hands of an enemy tribe. Facing torture, Jonah was saved by white bounty hunters who massacred the tribe for their scalps, and shot him too after he objected to their killing of children.

Jonah has a rather grim background. Raised with unrelenting abuse from his drunken father, the boy was sold to a Native American tribe, until he came of age and joined the Confederate forces in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. Hex was appointed an officer as a result of his repeated success in battle. Deciding to resign his commission after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, he inadvertently left clues to his old unit which led to it being found by Union forces. Wrongly accused as a traitor, Hex left on his own, unwanted by either side even while he still wore his gray Confederate officer's uniform.

Eventually, he was adopted by another Native American chief, but was challenged to a duel of honor by his jealous son who cheated in his favor. When Jonah was forced to kill him with a knife, the chief punished him by scarring his face, giving him the hideous "Mark of the Demon."

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* WeirdWest: The three Vertigo mini-series were this, as they included things like functioning Voodoo, humanoid tentacle monsters from time before man, and Native American bear spirits.
** There's also the TimeTravel escapades.

* GodIsEvil : Jonah expresses this view on several occasions, believing that the kind, just God of Christianity is just a comforting delusion for those who don't know God's cruelty as well as he does.

* SexSlave: Emmylou Hartley ended up as this when Indians attacked her family's wagon train. The only survivors of the attack were herself, her older sister and her cousin. Her sister shot herself with her husband's rifle rather than surrender, while her cousin was tortured to death when she refused a forced marriage with an Indian. With her cousin's fate in mind, Emmylou submitted, escaping her captors four years later and encountering Jonah Hex, who saved her from her pursuers.

* KavorkaMan: Jonah is as ugly as sin, and has little in the way of social skills, but has maintained relationships with some incredibly gorgeous women: White Fawn, Mei Ling, Stiletta, Gina Gold, Tall Bird, etc.