History Film / Silverado

* BigBadDuumvirate: Cobb and [=McKendrick=].

''Silverado'' is a 1985 [[TheWestern Western]] film that's something of a {{Reconstruction}} of the genre. Released in the theaters July of that year, it was directed by Creator/LawrenceKasdan and starred many well-known (or soon to be well-known) actors, including Creator/KevinKline, Creator/DannyGlover, Creator/ScottGlenn, Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/BrianDennehy and Creator/JohnCleese.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Mal gives a non-verbal one when one of the toughs trying to throw him out of the breaks the bottle of whiskey that he had just bought.

* PosthumousCharacter: [=McKendrick=]'s father, who was killed by Mal, escalating the feud between the families.

* TheSevenWesternPlots: This is a combination of the Outlaw and Ranch plots, as the heroes are all implied to be {{Retired Outlaws}}s and end up fighting to save the honest homesteaders from a CorruptCorporateExecutive {{Rancher}} and a sheriff whom one of said heroes used to ride with.

* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Mckendrick shoots Emmett's pistol out of his hands during the final fight in town. It was accidental, mind you, as Mckendrick was aiming at Emmett and not his gun, but it still destroyed Emmett's pistol and forced Emmett to find another way to kill Mckendrick.

* PosthumousCharacter: [=McKendrick]'s father, who was killed by Mal, escalating the feud between the families.

* PunchClockVillain: Sheriff Langton is just trying to keep order in his town, but that puts him at odds with our heroes by enforcing the residents' racist views and holding Jake for execution.

* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: Mal gives a non-verbal one when one of the toughs trying to throw him out of the breaks the bottle of whiskey that he had just bought.

* CluelessDeputy: See SmartPeoplePlayChess for an example of [[PlayedForLaughs how this is used]].

* LampshadeHanging
-->'''Emmett:''' Lyin' Pete always said you'd hang. I guess tomorrow at dawn he'll be proved right.\\
'''Sheriff Langston:''' Ten A.M.\\
'''Emmett:''' Oh, right- I always thought they did it at dawn

''Silverado'' is a 1985 [[TheWestern Western]] film that's something of a {{Reconstruction}} of the genre. Released in the theaters July of that year, it was directed by Creator/LawrenceKasdan and starred many well-known (or soon to be well-known) actors, including Creator/KevinKline, Creator/DannyGlover, Creator/ScottGlenn, Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Brian Dennehy and Creator/JohnCleese.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [=McKendrick=] won't let one of his men kill a boy, even though the boy saw their faces. They opt to kidnap him instead.

-->'''Emmett:''' Lyin' Pete always said you'd hang. I guess tomorrow at dawn he'll be proved right.
-->'''Sheriff Langston:''' Ten A.M.
-->'''Emmett:''' Oh, right- I always thought they did it at dawn

-->'''Jake:''' Friend of yours?
-->'''Emmett:''' He is now.
-->'''Jake:''' Who is he?
-->'''Emmett:''' Oh, a guy who got run out of town.
-->'''Paden:''' Just like us. (''Mal tips his hat in greeting to them'')

* FriendlyEnemy: Paden and Cobb used to ride together. They're still friendly with each other even though time has put them on opposite sides.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The racism of the American frontier is in full display, though our heroes are all [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory conveniently without racial bias]].

* YoungGun: Jake is young, brash and cocky but backs it up with all the gunfighting and horseriding stunts of a western action hero.

* AffablyEvil: Cobb.

* BadassBoast:
-->'''Mal''': Now, I don't wanna kill you, and you don't wanna be dead.

* DeterminedWidow: When introduced, Hannah's a DeterminedHomesteadersWife, but he's TooDumbToLive. An early love interest for Paden, until he meets Stella in the eponymous town.
** She later gets [[ShipTease ship teased]] with Emmett. [[spoiler: But she's with Paden in his final (and the movie's penultimate) scene.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** [=McKendrick=] won't let one of his men kill a boy, even though the boy saw their faces. They opt to kidnap him instead.
** On a milder note, while Sheriff Langston’s efforts to maintain a quiet and orderly town means an outsider is sentenced to death for acting in self defense, and running out of town a man who’s only crime is being black, he also knows full well the problem was the bartender, and quickly tells him not to push his luck.

* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: As a posse is chasing the leads into some hills, several warning shots come from Danny Glover's character, who is hiding somewhere out of sight. As his shots ricochet off nearby rocks and cacti, a deputy says: "Let's go, he ain't hittin' nothin'". This prompts the sheriff, played brilliantly by Creator/JohnCleese, to retort: "You idiot, he's hit everything he's aimed at". [Cue the sheriff's hat getting knocked off by the next shot.]
* FriendlyEnemy: Paden and Cobb.

** Paden (Type D) outdraws Cobb in the final battle
** Emmett (Type A) shoot needles off cactuses
** Mal (Type B) hits ''everything'' he aims at with his rifles.
** Jake (Type D and Type A) shoots two different guys at the same time, in different directions.

-->'''Mal''': Looking for this?
* {{Homage}}: The entire movie is Lawrence Kasdan's love letter to the classic {{Western}}.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Mal is astonishingly accurate with his Henry rifle. Also Emmett, who picks off [[UpToEleven cactus needles]] at several yards.
* InTheBack: Averted when, after Jake hid in the bar when the bad guys were after him, he sneaks out behind them as they are walking down the two sides while he standing on the corner. After carefully stepping back to line up the angle for his [[ImprobableAimingSkills trick shot]] ''just'' right, he yells, "Hey!" and they both spin around on him, just in time for him to plug both of them at the same time.

* NoodleIncident: When Cobb tells the story of how Paden's reaction to Tyree's KickTheDog moment (actually, he ''shot'' the dog, but that's another trope) got him arrested, Paden's reply ''has'' to be a joke. Either way, how ''did'' he get out of jail?
--> '''Paden:''' It evened out in the end, though. They locked me up. The dog sprung me.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Three times. To wit:

* OhCrap: When Paden encounters the bandits from his backstory, he points out whatever it is of his that they currently have on them. None of them say "so what?" presumably because they [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat left him to die of exposure in the desert]].
--> '''Paden:''' You're wearing my hat.
--> [''Bandit slowly reaches for his holster'']
--> '''Paden:''' Your fingers better not be ticklin' my ivory-handled Colt.
* {{Posse}}: Sheriff Langston organises a posse to chase Emmett, Paden and Jake when they escape from the Turley jail. However, he calls off the chase when he encounters resistance from Mal, leading to the immortal line:
-->"Today my jurisdiction ends here!"
* ProfessionalGambler: Slick. "Scuse me, Sheriff, I'm a gambler, lookin' to run [[BlatantLies an honest game]]. Who would I talk to about that?" Paden also talks in gambling metaphors and mutters about bad luck.

* RetiredOutlaw: Paden
-->'''Emmett:''' [''after Cobb shoots a man for embezzling''] You used to ''ride'' with that guy?
** There are hints at the other three having been less than law abiding in the past.
*** Emmett and Jake both seem fairly well versed in jail-breaks.
*** Some of the things Mal says about his time in Chicago (not the nicest of places in the 1880's) suggest that he might have been involved in some dubious activities.
*** All four are quite skilled at gunplay and show little hesitation towards killing, although they tend to avoid killing the mostly innocent (compare the jail-break to the rest of the movie).

** Langston is honest, but ''extremely'' strict; and not above changing the law to save his own skin, "Today my jurisdiction ends here."
* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Cobb and Paden, although the time of day is never mentioned.
* StockBritishCharacters: Creator/JohnCleese plays a British Bobby Sheriff in a small frontier town.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Sheriff Langston plays chess with himself, showing that he is intelligent and SurroundedByIdiots. He plays with a deputy sitting across the board from him, but turns the board around after each move to play both sides.

* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: Mal gives a non verbal one when one of the toughs trying to throw him out of the breaks the bottle of whiskey that he had just bought.
* YoungGun: Jake

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Lampshaded when corrupt town sheriff Cobb indicates to Paden that he'll harm Stella if Paden moves against him, even though Cobb acknowledges she has nothing whatsoever to do with their dispute. He does however know Paden (whom he used to work with when they were robbers) got caught while protecting a wounded dog he'd previously claimed to despise, so figures the threat will make Paden back off. It works at first, but Stella figures out what's happened and talks Pade8n into fighting Cobb anyway.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [=McKendrick=] won't let one of his men kill a boy, even though the boy saw their faces. They opt to kidnap him instead.