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* TheGamblingAddict: Caco. He loses money in a game of roulette while chasing down Drake in the casino.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Hutch comments on a gallows being put up in the town square. "They got some nasty folks around here. They hang people, too."


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* ClothingDamage: Hutch's new clothes get torn in a brawl at the beginning of the film.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Drake's henchman Maurice, who insults the "Negro" Thomas.
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* GentleGiant: Hutch Bessy. Don't push him, though.
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* KickTheDog: Drake trash-talks Cacopoulos when they finally meet, calls him a "lice-infected jailbird" and tells him how pathetic he is, that he can only arouse pity.
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Cacopoulos faints after he's shot from gunfight with Drake]]. Hutch assumes him to be dead, but Thomas checks his pulse and proves him wrong.

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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Cacopoulos faints after he's shot from a gunfight with Drake]]. Hutch assumes him to be dead, but Thomas checks his pulse and proves him wrong.
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After Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy (Terrence Hill and BudSpencer) are robbed by the bandit Cacopoulos (Eli Wallach), they learned that Caco gave it all away, and is on his own mission of revenge against those who abandoned him, Zapata soldier Paco and casino owner Drake. On the way, they are joined by an acrobat (Brock Peters) who helps Caco to get Cat and Butch's money back.

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After Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy (Terrence Hill and BudSpencer) Creator/BudSpencer) are robbed by the bandit Cacopoulos (Eli Wallach), they learned that Caco gave it all away, and is on his own mission of revenge against those who abandoned him, Zapata soldier Paco and casino owner Drake. On the way, they are joined by an acrobat (Brock Peters) who helps Caco to get Cat and Butch's money back.
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After Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy (Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer) are robbed by the bandit Cacopoulos (Eli Wallach), they learned that Caco gave it all away, and is on his own mission of revenge against those who abandoned him, Zapata soldier Paco and casino owner Drake. On the way, they are joined by an acrobat (Brock Peters) who helps Caco to get Cat and Butch's money back.

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After Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy (Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer) BudSpencer) are robbed by the bandit Cacopoulos (Eli Wallach), they learned that Caco gave it all away, and is on his own mission of revenge against those who abandoned him, Zapata soldier Paco and casino owner Drake. On the way, they are joined by an acrobat (Brock Peters) who helps Caco to get Cat and Butch's money back.
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The Trinity series came two years later, so Hutch cannot possibly be an expy of Bambino.


** Cat seems like a bland Expy of the Man with No Name, while Hutch plays a variation on his character from the Trinity series.

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** Cat seems like a bland Expy of the Man with No Name, while Hutch plays a variation on his character from the Trinity series.Name.



* HeterosexualLifePartners: Butch and Cat

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Butch Hutch and Cat
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I made a mistake. The men of Caco's old partner had intended to kill him as soon as he got out of jail.


* PsychoforHire: Cacopoulos has shades of this. He's hired to get Cat and Hutch and kills his employer to take their money for himself. However he grows out of it.
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* IronicNickname: Caco calls Hutch "Tiny" a few times.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Caco is slightly smarter than he appears.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Caco NotMeThisTime: Though Cacopoulos is slightly smarter than a bandit and a murderer, he appears.did not kill the deputy while he was out at the pub, and someone else framed him while he was passed out.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Cat and an army of revolutionaries arrive to save Caco and Hutch from the firing squad.
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** Another one occurs when Cacopoulos and Hutch infiltrate a place of execution, where Paco (Livio Lorenzon) is ordering the deaths of revolutionaries.
-->'''Hutch''': Like you said. Child's play.
-->'''Cacopoulos''': Leave it to me.
-->''(Cut to the two of them about to be executed by the firing squad)''
-->'''Hutch''': Leave it to me, huh?
-->'''Cacopoulos''': I didn't force you to come.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cacopoulos. Sure, he's a bandit and a murderer, but one who occasionally helps the poor and needy. He even decides to give back the money he stole from Cat and Hutch.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cacopoulos. Sure, he's a bandit and a murderer, but one who occasionally helps the poor and needy. He even decides to give back the money he stole from Cat and Hutch. He does seem to want to make everybody happy.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cacopoulos. Sure, he steals Cat and Hutch's money. But after a while he offers to give it back. He's generally a nice guy to anyone who doesn't stab him in the back.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cacopoulos. Sure, he's a bandit and a murderer, but one who occasionally helps the poor and needy. He even decides to give back the money he steals stole from Cat and Hutch's money. But after a while he offers to give it back. He's generally a nice guy to anyone who doesn't stab him in the back.Hutch.


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* SpitTake: Hutch does one when he finds out that the old man the had been staying with had bern rescued from poverty by Cacopoulos.
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** Cacopoulos is a mellower, more friendly and playful [[TheGoodtheBadandtheUgly Tuco]].

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** Cacopoulos is a mellower, more friendly and playful kinder, gentler, slightly smarter [[TheGoodtheBadandtheUgly Tuco]].



* GentleGiant: Hutch Bessy.

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* GentleGiant: Hutch Bessy. Don't push him, though.
* GilliganCut: When the newly wealthy Cat and Hutch see a man having his picture taken:
-->'''Hutch''': You know, I've never had my picture taken.
-->'''Cat''': Well, now's as good a time as any.
-->''(beat)''
-->'''Hutch''': No.
-->''(Cut to him sitting in front of a camera.)''
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Ace High (Italian: I quattro dell'Ave Maria, literally translated as "The Four of the Hail Mary") is an Italian spaghetti Western by Giuseppe Colizzi from 1968. The film is the second in a trilogy started with God Forgives... I Don't! and ended with Boot Hill.

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Ace High (Italian: I quattro dell'Ave Maria, literally translated as "The Four of the Hail Mary") is an Italian spaghetti Western by Giuseppe Colizzi from 1968. The film is the second in a trilogy started with God ''God Forgives... I Don't! Don't!'' and ended with Boot Hill.
''Boot Hill''.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Paco and Drake, some of Caco's old partners.


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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Caco was abandoned by his partners during a heist, causing him to start getting his revenge on them.
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* DistractedbytheSexy: Caco sleeps with a hooker at a cantina, and wakes up to find that [[spoiler: she stole all his money]]. Oops.

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* DistractedbytheSexy: DistractedByTheSexy: Caco sleeps with a hooker at a cantina, and wakes up to find that [[spoiler: she stole all his money]]. Oops.



* FriendtoAllChildren: Cacopoulos comforts several babies while talking to Hutch, a sign of his tender and gentle side.

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* FriendtoAllChildren: FriendToAllChildren: Cacopoulos comforts several babies while talking to Hutch, a sign of his tender and gentle side.



* JerkwithaHeartofGold: Cacopoulos. Sure, he steals Cat and Hutch's money. But after a while he offers to give it back. He's generally a nice guy to anyone who doesn't stab him in the back.

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* JerkwithaHeartofGold: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cacopoulos. Sure, he steals Cat and Hutch's money. But after a while he offers to give it back. He's generally a nice guy to anyone who doesn't stab him in the back.



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%% * TheStoic: Cat Stevens.

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%% * TheStoic: Cat Stevens.



* TokenMinority: Thomas, who is a black acrobat.

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* TokenMinority: Thomas, who is a black acrobat.
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* TheUnreveal: We never get to learn in his penultimate scene what his grandfather used to say because he faints mid-sentence.

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* TheUnreveal: We never get to learn in his Cacopoulos' penultimate scene what his grandfather used to say because he faints mid-sentence.
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* TheUnreveal: We never get to learn in his penultimate scene what his grandfather used to say because he faints mid-sentence.
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* PsychoforHire: Cacopoulos has shades of this.

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* PsychoforHire: Cacopoulos has shades of this. He's hired to get Cat and Hutch and kills his employer to take their money for himself. However he grows out of it.
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* FourTemparementEnsemble: Hutch is Choleric, Cat is Melancholic, Thomas is Sanguine and Caco is Phlegmatic.

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* FourTemparementEnsemble: FourTemperamentEnsemble: Hutch is Choleric, Cat is Melancholic, Thomas is Sanguine and Caco is Phlegmatic.
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* FourTemparementEnsemble: Hutch is Choleric, Cat is Melancholic, Thomas is Sanguine and Caco is Phlegmatic.



* GambitRoulette: An almost literal example. Cat, Hutch and Thomas use a magnet on the roulette wheel to help Caco win his money back.
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Cacopoulos faints after he's shot in the arm from gunfight with Drake]]. Fortunately he's fine by the end.

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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Cacopoulos faints after he's shot in the arm from gunfight with Drake]]. Fortunately he's fine by the end.Hutch assumes him to be dead, but Thomas checks his pulse and proves him wrong.
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* CatchPhrase: Caco has, "My grandfather used to say..."
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* TheGadfly: Caco playfully teases a drunken Hutch by pretending to be his own Wanted poster and changing his expression every time he looks away.



* {{Troll}}: Caco playfully teases a drunken Hutch by pretending to be his own Wanted poster and changing his expression every time he looks away.


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* {{Troll}}: Caco playfully teases a drunken Hutch by pretending to be his own Wanted poster and changing his expression every time he looks away.



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* GentleGiant: Hutch Bessy.


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* HeelFaceTurn: Caco, in a sense. He was hired by a banker to go after Cat and Hutch, although he kills the banker and goes after them himself, eventually befriending them on his revenge mission.


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* PsychoforHire: Cacopoulos has shades of this.

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