History Film / JonahHex

* KickTheDog: Turnbull's entire EstablishingCharacterMomsnt is this, from descriptions of how he wiped out hospitals and schools during his part in the Confederate Army, to tracking down Jonah's family after he turned against him and forced Jonah to watch as his wife and son are burnt to death before branding Jonah with a disfiguring scar and leaving him to die.

* IrishExplosivesExpert: [[TheDragon Burke]] is a rather psychotic Irish mercenary with a fondness for explosives, though he also likes to kill up and close with his Bowie knife

* CaptainErsatz: "Snake-Man" from the arena fights is a subscale [[ThreeHundred Uber-Immortal.]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics Lilah/[[spoiler:Tallulah Black]] is so hideously scarred that Hex is the only man who can stand to bed her. In TheMovie, she's played by MeganFox.

* GenreSavvy: President Grant catches on immediately to what Turnbull is up to when he hears exactly what targets have been hit.

''Jonah Hex'' is a 2010 post-Civil War anti-hero {{Western}} film loosely based on the Creator/DCComics [[ComicBook/JonahHex character of the same name]]. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film is directed by Jimmy Hayward and stars Josh Brolin as the title character, Jonah Hex, and also stars John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, and MeganFox. The film was released on June 18, 2010.

* StupidSexyFlanders: Admit it, guys.

The original draft of the film was penned by the creators of ''{{Film/Crank}}''. It was cut down from its original running time to just over 70 minutes (to make it more action-oriented, or so the rumors say), and went over like a lead balloon.

During Grant's presidency, Jonah Hex is a remorseless BountyHunter. In the AmericanCivilWar he was a rebel whose honor put him afoul of a confederate general, Turnbull, who murdered Jonah's family while Jonah watched. As a result of the ordeal, Jonah's face is disfigured and he can talk with the dead. After staging his own death, Turnbull, with a group of rebel stalwarts, hatches a plan to bring the Union to its knees. Grant wants Hex to stop it. While the nation readies to celebrate Independence Day, Hex and an unlikely ally have little time to stop Turnbull and his weapon of mass destruction.

* PopStarComposer: Prog Metal band {{Mastodon}} composed the score.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics Lilah/[[spoiler:Tallulah Black]] is so hideously scarred that Hex is just about the only man who can stand to bed her. In TheMovie, she's played by MeganFox.

* CaptainErsatz: "Snake-Man" from the arena fights is basically a subscale [[ThreeHundred Uber-Immortal.]]

* ProgressivelyPrettier: We're supposed to believe that people find Jonah ugly, but apparently he's good-looking enough to bed Lilah, the town prostitute (free of charge, that is.) Whereas in the comics, he practically looks like "The Cryptkeeper."
** In all fairness, the scar IS disfiguring and quite disgusting to look at. The problem is, Hex is played by [[MrFanservice Josh Brolin]].
*** Also in fairness, it's pretty clear that their relationship was NEVER based on looks (one thing from the comics that they got right).

''Jonah Hex'' is a 2010 post-Civil War anti-hero {{Western}} film loosely based on the DCComics [[JonahHex character of the same name]]. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film is directed by Jimmy Hayward and stars Josh Brolin as the title character, Jonah Hex, and also stars John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, and MeganFox. The film was released on June 18, 2010.

* {{BFG}}: [[ExaggeratedTrope To the point of being a]] DoomsdayDevice. It's a rotary ''bombard cannon'' whose cannonballs are subsequently [[StuffBlowingUp detonated]] by an EnergyBall containing unknown {{Phlebotinum}}. [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Designed by]] EliWhitney, no less. [[CompleteMonster Turnbull tests it on an unsuspecting town.]]

''Jonah Hex'' is a 2010 post-Civil War antihero {{Western}} film loosely based on the DCComics [[JonahHex character of the same name]]. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film is directed by Jimmy Hayward and stars Josh Brolin as the title character, Jonah Hex, and also stars John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, and MeganFox. The film was released on June 18, 2010.

* ActionGirl/ DarkActionGirl: Lilah.

* [[BlownAcrossTheRoom Blown Out The Window]]

* GenreSavvy: President Grant catches on immediately to what Turnbull is up to when he hears exactly what targets have been hit.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[ArrestedDevelopment Gob Bluth]] is a Lieutenant.
** [[strike: [[{{Watchmen}} The Comedian]]]] [[strike: [[{{Supernatural}} John Winchester]]]] [[strike: [[GreysAnatomy Denny Duquette]]]] Jeffery Dean Morgan makes a cameo as Quentin Turnbull's dead son.
** [[ConAir Cyrus Grissom]] is working with [[{{Film/GhostRider}} Blackheart.]]
** [[{{Fringe}} Phillip Broyles]] as the gun shop owner.
** Turnbull has a rather epic [[TheDragon Dragon]] in [[TheXMen Magneto]].

* MonumentalDamage: ''Narrowly'' [[AvertedTrope averted.]] A cannonball from the DoomsdayDevice clips the side of the still-under-construction Washington Monument.

* OfCorsetsSexy: Lilah

** In all fairness, the scar IS disfiguring and quite disgusting to look at. The problem is, Hex is played by [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Josh Brolin]].

* SoiledDove: Lilah

* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Lilah keeps a knife in her bustier, but it was taken when she was "throughly searched."