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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: PlayedForLaughs in the start of the race. The riders all take off at a gallop after the starting gunshot, whooping and screaming... and slow down to a walk as soon as the spectators can't see them. [[CaptainObvious This is an ENDURANCE race, not a sprint.]]

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: PlayedForLaughs in the start of the Ocean of Fire race. The riders all take off at a gallop after the starting gunshot, whooping and screaming... and slow down to a walk as soon as the spectators can't see them. [[CaptainObvious This is an ENDURANCE race, not a sprint.]]sprint,]] and the sudden drop in speed evokes an AnticlimaxCut.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Sheik beheads a raider without any particular effort.

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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Sheik sheikh beheads a raider without any particular effort.



* ArtisticLicense / BasedOnAGreatBigLie / VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Take your pick. For "loosely based", even Frank Hopkins didn't claim he romanced a Sheik's daughter. For "artistic license", they fiddled with geography a fair bit for the sake of drama. As for the "great big lie", well, basically everyone ''but'' Frank Hopkins says he was never even within a continent of the race. Which, according to Arab consultants, never existed either.

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* ArtisticLicense / BasedOnAGreatBigLie / VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Take your pick. For "loosely based", even Frank Hopkins didn't claim he romanced a Sheik's sheik's daughter. For "artistic license", they fiddled with geography a fair bit for the sake of drama. As for the "great big lie", well, basically everyone ''but'' Frank Hopkins says he was never even within a continent of the race. Which, according to Arab consultants, never existed either.



* HandshakeRefusal: Sheik Riyadh refuses to shake Frank's hand, which is explained as if he were to touch an infidel, he would lose his ability to predict the future.
** After Frank wins the race, Sheik Riyadh proudly offers to shake Frank's hand.

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* HandshakeRefusal: Sheik Sheikh Riyadh refuses to shake Frank's hand, which is explained as if he were to touch an infidel, he would lose his ability to predict the future.
** After Frank wins the race, Sheik Sheikh Riyadh proudly offers to shake Frank's hand.



-->'''Sheik Riyadh:''' If I had the ability to foretell the future, perhaps I would have bet on a painted horse.

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-->'''Sheik -->'''Sheikh Riyadh:''' If I had the ability to foretell the future, perhaps I would have bet on a painted horse.



* MightyWhitey: Two counts: First, Hopkins comes to be seen as a champion of the Native Americans (perhaps forgivable, as he is indeed half-Indian, and on an Indian horse). Second, the entire premise is that he beats the Arabians and the Bedouins at their own race, on their own land, against their champion riders and horses. And also has to bat off the Sheik's daughter, to boot.

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* MightyWhitey: Two counts: First, Hopkins comes to be seen as a champion of the Native Americans (perhaps forgivable, as he is indeed half-Indian, and on an Indian horse). Second, the entire premise is that he beats the Arabians and the Bedouins at their own race, on their own land, against their champion riders and horses. And also has to bat off the Sheik's sheikh's daughter, to boot.



* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The Sheik's jailer who tries to cut Frank loose during the raider attack shreiks at the top of his lungs once the Sheik beheads one of the raiders

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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The Sheik's jailer who tries to cut Frank loose during the raider attack shreiks at the top of his lungs once the Sheik sheikh beheads one of the raiders

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Karmic Death is "No matter how evil the villains are, the good guys can't just kill them: heroes are supposed to be better than that. [...] So, the writers arrange for the villain to die in a manner that is completely his own fault. Or, at least, obviously not the hero's." However, that's not what happens here. Frank didn't care if Katib survived when he triggered the trap. Also, merging quote into the Pre Mortem One Liner entry.


* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Katib is killed by his own trap]].



* PreMortemOneLiner: Frank gives one before he sends [[spoiler:Katib]] falling into his own trap.
-->'''Frank:''' Nobody hurts my horse.

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* PreMortemOneLiner: Frank gives one says "Nobody hurts my horse" before he sends [[spoiler:Katib]] falling into his own trap.
-->'''Frank:''' Nobody hurts my horse.
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Fixing spoilers.


* KarmicDeath: Katib is killed by his own trap.

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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Katib is killed by his own trap.trap]].
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Frank carries the message that results in the Wounded Knee Massacre, becomes the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and culminates by basically making the government to declare the Mustang horse a protected species.

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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The film's Frank carries carried the message that results resulted in the Wounded Knee Massacre, becomes became the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and culminates by basically making made the government to declare the Mustang horse a protected species.



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Hopkins and Hidalgo win the race. They then return to America where Hopkins sets Hidalgo free along with hundreds of other mustangs unto the American plains.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Hopkins and Hidalgo win the race. They then return to America where Hopkins sets Hidalgo free free, along with hundreds of other mustangs unto mustangs, into the American plains.]]



* BoringButPractical: a raider pulls out a badass looking sword. Frank pulls a knife. The raider finds this hilarious... [[spoiler:until Frank throws the knife into his chest, killing him instantly]].

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* BoringButPractical: a A raider pulls out a badass looking badass-looking sword. Frank pulls a knife. The raider finds this hilarious... [[spoiler:until Frank throws the knife into his chest, killing him instantly]].

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Frank is no one to mess with if you hurt Hidalgo, as Katib learns the hard way.



%%* DrowningMySorrows: Frank.

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%%* * DrowningMySorrows: Frank. Frank becomes an alcoholic to deal with his guilt after the fiasco at Wounded Knee.



* SaveTheVillain: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]. It looks like Frank is going to help Katib when he lands on one of his own traps, but after what he did to Hidalgo, Frank is in no mood to show mercy, instead activating the trap completely and sending Katib to his death.



%%* ThisIsUnforgivable: "Nobody hurts my horse."

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%%* * ThisIsUnforgivable: Frank tells Katib this before sending him into his own trap: "Nobody hurts my horse.""
* TranquilFury: Frank is deadly calm when he takes his revenge on Katib.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: PlayedForLaughs in the start of the race. The riders all take off at a gallop after the starting gunshot, whooping and screaming... and slow down to a trot as soon as the spectators can't see them. [[CaptainObvious This is an ENDURANCE race, not a sprint.]]

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: PlayedForLaughs in the start of the race. The riders all take off at a gallop after the starting gunshot, whooping and screaming... and slow down to a trot walk as soon as the spectators can't see them. [[CaptainObvious This is an ENDURANCE race, not a sprint.]]
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* BoringButPractical: a raider pulls out a badass looking sword. Frank pulls a knife. The raiders finds this hilarious... [[spoiler:until Frank throws it into his chest, killing him instantly]].

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* BoringButPractical: a raider pulls out a badass looking sword. Frank pulls a knife. The raiders raider finds this hilarious... [[spoiler:until Frank throws it the knife into his chest, killing him instantly]].
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That was not the correct conjugation.


* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Hopkins and Hidalgo wins the race. They then return to America where Hopkins sets Hidalgo free along with hundreds of other mustangs unto the American plains.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Hopkins and Hidalgo wins win the race. They then return to America where Hopkins sets Hidalgo free along with hundreds of other mustangs unto the American plains.]]

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* AntiHero: Frank is a type II.

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* %%* AntiHero: Frank is a type II.



* BaldOfAwesome: Jaffa again.
* BarBrawl

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* BaldOfAwesome: Jaffa again.
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%%* BarBrawl



* TheBigRace

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* %%* TheBigRace



* DeadpanSnarker: Frank
* DrowningMySorrows: Frank.
* EpicRace

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* %%* DeadpanSnarker: Frank
* %%* DrowningMySorrows: Frank.
* %%* EpicRace



* FemmeFatale: Lady Davenport aspires to be this. [[spoiler:Frank's not buying it]].

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* %%* FemmeFatale: Lady Davenport aspires to be this. [[spoiler:Frank's not buying it]].



* HighClassGlass

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* %%* HighClassGlass



* SecondPersonAttack: As seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnjRUVYRY8 this trailer]] at around 2:08.

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* %%* SecondPersonAttack: As seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnjRUVYRY8 this trailer]] at around 2:08.



* ThirstyDesert: So much.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: "Nobody hurts my horse."

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* %%* ThirstyDesert: So much.
* %%* ThisIsUnforgivable: "Nobody hurts my horse."



* TheWildWest

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* %%* TheWildWest

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* InformedAbility: The sheikh offers Frank Turkish coffee, claiming foreigners think it's too strong. Frank downs it like a shot, claiming cowboy coffee isn't done until a horseshoe can stand up in the pot.



* MagicalNativeAmerican: Chief Eagle Horn in Buffalo Bill's show (played by Floyd Red Crow) could qualify.
** They get away with it because he's giving advice to Frank as an Indian elder traditionally advises a younger man.

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* KlatchianCoffee: The sheikh offers Frank Turkish coffee, claiming foreigners think it's too strong. Frank downs it like a shot, claiming cowboy coffee isn't done until a horseshoe can stand up in the pot.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Chief Eagle Horn in Buffalo Bill's show (played by Floyd Red Crow) could qualify.
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qualify. They get away with it because he's giving advice to Frank as an Indian elder traditionally advises a younger man.
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* MixedAncestry: Frank as portrayed in the film is half Native American and half white.

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