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* TastyGold: After escaping from the Tulipan, Flores pulls an arrow out pf his horse and gites it: discovering that it is solid gold.

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* TastyGold: After escaping from the Tulipan, Flores pulls an arrow out pf of his horse and gites it: discovering that it is solid gold.
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* {{Bandito}}: Flores and his band of comancheros are a gang of banditos working for Colonel Torres.
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* BolivianArmyEnding: Played with. The movie ends with Yellow hair and Pecos taking shelter behind a door that is immediately riddled with bullets by the Mexican army. However, this is intended to represent the {{Cliffhanger}} for a MovieSerial, and TheTeaser for the next 'chapter' shows the duo alive and well.

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* BolivianArmyEnding: Played with. The movie ends with Yellow hair and Pecos taking shelter behind a door that is immediately riddled with bullets by the Mexican army. However, this is intended to represent the {{Cliffhanger}} for a MovieSerial, FilmSerial, and TheTeaser for the next 'chapter' shows the duo alive and well.
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* BolivianArmyEnding: Played with. The movie ends with Yellow hair and Pecos taking shelter behind a door that is immediately riddled with bullets by the Mexican army. However, this is intended to represent the {{Cliffhanger}} for a MovieSerial, and TheTeaser for the next 'chapter' shows the duo alive and well.
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* HeroStoleMyBike: Yellow Hair and the Pecos Kid steal a stagecoach from the stage station in order to escape from the comancheros. They end up abandoning it on a Mexican beach.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: None of the Mexican soldiers could hit the broad side of a barn.

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* MixedAncestry: Yellow Hair is the daughter of a caucasian father and a Native American mother.

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* MagicPokerEquation: Pecos gets dealt a 5, 6, 7 and a pair of 8s. He goes to discard one the 8s in the hopes of completing a straight but, on a subtle signal from Yellow Hair, instead keeps the 8s and discards the other cards. He gets dealt a 9 and the other two 8s. However, the game is disrupted before he can reveal his cards.
* MixedAncestry: Yellow Hair is the daughter of a caucasian Caucasian father and a Native American mother.
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* LovableRogue: The Pecos Kid is even described as this in his on-screen introduction.
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* HumanShield: Twice Yellow Hair and Pecos use Colonel Torres as a human shield to prevent his troops from firing on them: first when they are escaping after busting Pecos out of prison, and again at the end when they are surrounded in the Mexican village.
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* HorsebackHeroism: Yellow Hair conducts almost all of her raid to break Pecos out of the Mexican fort on horseback.

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* SoiledDove: The Pecos Kid's 'girlfriend' Rainbow, although exactly how much of a 'heart of gold' she has is up for debate.


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* SoiledDove: The Pecos Kid's 'girlfriend' Rainbow, although exactly how much of a 'heart of gold' she has is up for debate.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Yellow Hair faces discrimination from both the Apaches and the whites. One of the Apache warriors is attempting to force her to become his wife, while Tortuga orders her tossed out of the saloon as "half-breed scum".


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* SoiledDove: The Pecos Kid's 'girlfriend' Rainbow, although exactly how much of a 'heart of gold' she has is up for debate.
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* MixedAncestry: Yellow Hair is the daughter of a caucasian father and a Native American mother.
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* SuddenlySpeaking: Flores--the leader of the comacheros--is described as mute in his introduction, and does not speak for the entire film. At the very end of the film, Colonel Torres and his have Yellow Hair and the Pecos Kid cornered when the badly wounded Flores staggers in and screams "Kill them!"
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* KarmicDeath: Shayowteewah--the chief of the Tulpani--dunks intruders into his realm in molten gold; [[WaxMuseumMorgue turning them into gold statues]]. During the battle in the CollapsingLair, he attempts to push the Pecos Kid into the pool of liquid gold, only to overbalance and fall into the pool himself, and be transformed into a gold statue.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: The Tulpani do this to the Comancheros they capture: driving a hot needle through the lips of one; cutting the eyelids of a second and leaving him staked out staring at the sun; and a third is dunked in molten gold.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: The Tulpani do this to the Comancheros comancheros they capture: driving a hot needle through the lips of one; cutting the eyelids of a second and leaving him staked out staring at the sun; and a third is dunked in molten gold.


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* WaxMuseumMorgue: The Tulpani dip some of the trespassers into their realm in molten gold, turning them into gold statues. They then use these statues as decoys to confuse and disconcert other invaders.
* WhipItGood: After stealing the stagecoach to escape the comancheros, Yellow Hair uses the driver's whip to hold off her pursuers: wielding it with some considerable skill.
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* SkinnyDipping: On the beach in Mexico, Yellow hair takes an early morning swim to clean up. The Pecos Kid is a little discombobulated when he wakes up and spots her drying off: still naked.
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* WhyDidHaveToBeSnakes: The Pecos Kid declares that he is "fearless...except for snakes".

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* WhyDidHaveToBeSnakes: WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The Pecos Kid declares that he is "fearless...except for snakes".

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* EarAche: During a tense negotiation, the Pecos Kid makes his point by shooting Tortuga's earring off (along with a chunk of his ear).



* SexualExtortion: Tortuga charges his girls room and board and, if they can't pay with cash, the have to pay in 'other ways'.




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* WhyDidHaveToBeSnakes: The Pecos Kid declares that he is "fearless...except for snakes".

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* HumanSacrifice: As a lost tribe of Aztecs, the Tulpani still practise human sacrifice.



* HumanSacrifice: As a lost tribe of Aztecs, the Tulpani still practise human sacrifice.

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* HumanSacrifice: As a lost tribe of Aztecs, ShutUpGunshot: The gambling woman quells the Tulpani still practise human sacrifice.BarBrawl at Tortuga's by firing TwoShotsFromBehindThebar in the ceiling, and then telling Yellow Hair and Pecos that they should get before they start trouble.
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* RailingKill: Pecos kills one of Tortuga's thugs by shooting the underside of the landing he is standing on. The thug topples forward through the railing and lands on the poker table below: smashing through it.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Yellow Hair shoots the gambler who grabs her from behind through the foot to force him to unhand her. He spends the rest of the fight hopping around in agony.


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* BarBrawl: One erupts in Tortuga's saloon after Pecos shoots one of Tortuga's thugs and he [[RailingKill topples through the railing]] and crashes on to the poker table: spraying gold coins across the room.
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* BlastingItOutOfTheirhands: The Pecos Kid shoots the sacrificial dagger of the chief's hands as he is about to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice Yellow Hair]].

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* BlastingItOutOfTheirhands: BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: The Pecos Kid shoots the sacrificial dagger of the chief's hands as he is about to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice Yellow Hair]].
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* BlastingItOutOfTheirhands: The Pecos Kid shoots the sacrificial dagger of the chief's hands as he is about to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice Yellow Hair]].


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* CollapsingLair: The shot Pecos fires to [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoot the dagger out of the chief's hands]] causes vibrations that trigger a collapse of the entire Tulpani cave system.


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* HumanSacrifice: As a lost tribe of Aztecs, the Tulpani still practise human sacrifice.

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* ActionGirl: Yellow Hair
* AnimalAssassin: The Tulpani roll tumbleweeds filled with rattlesnakes into the canyon where Yellow Hair and the Pecos Kid are holed up.



* ColdBloodedTorture: the Tulpani do this to the Comancheros they capture: driving a hot needle through the lips of one; cutting the eyelids of a second and leaving him staked out staring at the sun; and a third is dunked in molten gold.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: the The Tulpani do this to the Comancheros they capture: driving a hot needle through the lips of one; cutting the eyelids of a second and leaving him staked out staring at the sun; and a third is dunked in molten gold.



* SissyVillain: The villainous Colonel Torres is a dandy, and hinted to be homosexual.
* TaeKwonDoor: One of the Apaches knocks out a sentry at the Mexican fort by swining the heavy fort gate into him.

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* SissyVillain: The villainous Colonel Torres is a dandy, and hinted is strongly implied to be homosexual.
homosexual (and possibly an {{Ephebophile}}).
* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The man Who Knows tells the Pecos that the horn is the key to gaining access to the Tulpani's secret cave system. Arriving at the seemingly dead end box canyon, Pecos blows through the horn and the reverberations cause a secret entrance to open.
* TaeKwonDoor: One of the Apaches knocks out a sentry at the Mexican fort by swining swinging the heavy fort gate into him.




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* UnorthodoxHolstering: Yellow Hair carries a revolver thrust through the back of her waist sash. When a gambler grabs her from behind, she able to reach behind her, grab the gun, and [[AgonyOfTheFeet shoot her attacker in the foot]] without drawing it.
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* BreakingOutTheBoss: Yellow Hair has to break Pecos out of the prison in the Mexican fort in order to recover the horn containing the TreasureMap.




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* TwangHello: During the confrontation with Tortuga in the saloon, one of the gamblers attempts to sneak a peek at Pecos' cards; which are lying face down on the table. As his hands are about to touch the cards, Yellow Hair throws her knife into the cards; pinning them to the table.
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* ClickHello: When Pecos attempts to sneak into Colonel Torres' office, he finds the Colonel's pistol pressed against his head and hears the click of the hammer being cocked.


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* GroinAttack: Yellow Hair takes Colonel Torres hostage bey reaching through the flap at the back of his long-johns, grabbing his balls and squeezing.


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* TaeKwonDoor: One of the Apaches knocks out a sentry at the Mexican fort by swining the heavy fort gate into him.


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* TreasureMap: The Pecos Kid steals the map to the Mayan gold which Grey Cloud has engraved on a deer antler.
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''Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold'' is a 1984 SpaghettiWestern directed by Mattt Climber, and written by Climber and John Kershaw.

Fiery blonde half-breed Yellow Hair and her easygoing sidekick the Pecos Kid are after a fortune in Mayan gold. The courageous duo have run-ins with an army of Mexican soldiers, a gang of dastardly bandits, and a lethal tribe of Aztec warriors while searching the countryside for said gold fortune.

!!''Yellow Hair and the Tropes of Gold'':

* ColdBloodedTorture: the Tulpani do this to the Comancheros they capture: driving a hot needle through the lips of one; cutting the eyelids of a second and leaving him staked out staring at the sun; and a third is dunked in molten gold.
* GatlingGood: The Mexican soldiers have a Gatling gun in their fort.
* SissyVillain: The villainous Colonel Torres is a dandy, and hinted to be homosexual.
* ATasteOfTheLash: Colonel Torres has a captured Indian flogged for the pleasure of hearing him scream.
* TastyGold: After escaping from the Tulipan, Flores pulls an arrow out pf his horse and gites it: discovering that it is solid gold.
* TheTropeKid: Yellow Hair's sidekick is The Pecos Kid.

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