History Main / ShowdownAtHighNoon

* In {{Series/The Adventures of Superboy}} episode "Threesome, Part 2," Superboy has one of these with Luthor, Metallo, & Odessa Vexman on a deserted street in Smallville. The scene comes complete with a Western-style musical score. This one is most like version B.

* The Music/MartyRobbin's song ''Big Iron'' is this trope in spirit, when the Arizona Ranger and Texas Red have their showdown.

* ''Big Iron'' is this trope in spirit, when the Arizona Ranger and Texas Red have their showdown.

* The NewOldWest movie ''Extreme Prejudice'' (1987) culminates with a pre-arranged shootout over the LoveInterest by her suitors, Texas Ranger Jack Benteen and his childhood friend turned drug kingpin Cash Bailey.

A DeadHorseTrope (no pun intended) right up there with ChainedToARailway, but many works that featured it before it became cliche are still around. Its familiarity, of course, makes it a favorite [[TheParody parody]]. In said parody, one character is required to say, "This town ain't big enough for the two of us." Quite rarely will it occur to them that some urban expansion could solve all their problems.

* In {{Series/The Adventures of Superboy}} episode "Threesome, Part 2," Superboy has one of these with Luthor, Metallo, & Odessa Vexman on a deserted street in Smallville. The scene comes complete with a Western-style musical score.

* Ironically, in matter of historical fact gun duels have been more common among upper-class "gentlemen" who put great value on personal honor, rather than the lower-class characters who dominate Westerns. Perhaps the most famous example of such a duel is the 1804 duel in which American Vice President Aaron Burr killed Treasury Secretary AlexanderHamilton. The difference here is that dueling pistols were not at all accurate nor meant to be accurate -- the point of the duel was to prove you cared enough about the grievance to risk your life. That Aaron Burr actually ''hit'' and ''killed'' Hamilton was a freak occurrence.

* ''[[Anime/Pokemon]]'' does this in the DP Galactic Battles episode ''Where No Togepi Has Gone Before.'' During the scene before Brock's Happiny and the evil Togepi fight, the background is a desert, and then, after a few seconds, the two Pokémon clash with one another.

* ''Anime/Pokemon'' does this in the DP Galactic Battles episode ''Where No Togepi Has Gone Before.'' During the scene before Brock's Happiny and the evil Togepi fight, the background is a desert, and then, after a few seconds, the two Pokémon clash with one another.

* ''HighNoon'', despite what one would think, actively ''subverts'' this, as the hero sneaks up behind the gang of villains, gun already drawn, and yells for them to drop their guns before shooting one in the neck and leading to a tense chase. Furthermore, noon only marks the ''arrival'' of Frank Miller and co., not the showdown itself.

** ''OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' has variety B between [[spoiler:the hero, supporting his noose-hanging brother with his shoulders. The eerie harmonica music accompanied by this scene overlapping with the showdown is the harmonica being pushed into the hero's mouth at the time of the execution. It comes together perfectly as the hero guns the bad guy down.]]

* ''HotFuzz'' spoofed this with [[spoiler:Angel and most of the villains at once]] in an idyllic English village. [[spoiler:It quickly turned into a action move shoot-out.]]
* ''{{Tombstone}}'': The duel between Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo. They stand an arm's length from one another, circle slowly, and draw.
* Played with in Sam Peckinpah's ''PatGarrettAndBillyTheKid''. Billy, finding one of his friends had been badged by Garrett, ends up doing the TenPacesAndTurn version. Once his opponent starts counting off steps, Billy simply turns and waits, gun drawn for his opponent to turn. [[RashEquilibrium Of course, Elam's character didn't exactly wait until ten to turn around]].
* Creator/KevinKline and BrianDennehy in ''{{Silverado}}'', although the time of day is never mentioned.
* The endings of the western spoofs ''SupportYourLocalSheriff'' and ''SupportYourLocalGunfighter'' are both extended parodies of this trope.

* ''ThreeOClockHigh'' transports the trope into a high school, replacing the gunfight with a fistfight scheduled for after school at 3:00. The name of the film is a riff on "high noon" and "high school."

* ''OnceUponATexasTrain'' climaxes with a showdown between Cotton's gang of {{Young Gun}}s and the combined team of retired outlaws and retired Rangers in a ghost town.

* In ''Series/Doctor Who'', The Eleventh Doctor gets into one of these. A Time Lord and a Cyborg. This was in the episode A Town Called Mercy.

* This kind of duels replaces traditional FPS {{Boss Fight}}s in the ''Call of Juarez'' series (except in ''[[VideoGame/CallOfJuarezTheCartel The Cartel]]'':

** Also happens frequently in ''Videogame/RedDeadRedemption'' as a random event, in some parts of the story, and if Marston is caught [[CardSharp cheating at poker]][[hottip:*:This results in an easy way to farm honor: if you shoot the gun out of your opponent's hand, you get honor points, in addition to the fame you would get for just winning the duel. Then you can go back to the poker table, get caught cheating again, and repeat as necessary]].

* Parodied in ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'': After Guybrush has rearranged the mysterious wind idol near the Vaycaylian Wind Control Device, De Singe arrives with a rifle and demands that Guybrush surrender his Poxed hand. A brief period of staring silence follows, complete with close-ups of both Guybrush's and De Singe's faces in a style parody of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' before the former breaks the silence with "Make me!" and the latter pulls out the rifle and shoots him sky-high. Of course, Guybrush is still alive when he lands on the ground and gets up.

* You get to participate in a few of these in ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' and ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood''.

* The final [[WizardDuel duel]] between HarryPotter and [[BigBad Voldemort]] ends up one of these (a Type B), except [[spoiler: both wizards fire at the exact moment the sun rises.]] Additionally, [[spoiler: Voldemort lost long before the duel ever actually began.]]

* Subverted in ''WayneAndShuster'''s Fist Full of Dollars sketch where, after the climactic gunfight in which dozens of bullets are fired at Schuster with no effect, he reveals that he was using the old "brick wall under the poncho" trick.

* ''TheGunsOfNavarone''. While in a firefight in some ruins, Spyros Pappadimos and a German officer find themselves facing off, each armed with a machine gun. They advance slowly toward each other and eventually start firing. [[spoiler:Both are killed in the gun battle]].

* ''TheQuickAndTheDead'', Sam Raimi's overlooked masterpiece.

* ''RedDeadRevolver'', being a love letter to the SpaghettiWestern, has this as a frequent occurrence. Not only is there a WholePlotReference to ''TheQuickAndTheDead,'' but a showdown is how you defeat the final boss.
** Also happens frequently in ''RedDeadRedemption'' as a random event, in some parts of the story, and if Marston is caught [[CardSharp cheating at poker]][[hottip:*:This results in an easy way to farm honor: if you shoot the gun out of your opponent's hand, you get honor points, in addition to the fame you would get for just winning the duel. Then you can go back to the poker table, get caught cheating again, and repeat as necessary]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': The year: PresentDay. The place: a forest in [[TrappedInTVLand TV-land]]. The time: right now. A water ski and life jacket-wearing [[{{Batman}} Robin]] squares off with the [[SpaceWestern Off-World Outlaw]]. On the sidelines a grizzly and a [[CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] {{Expy}} hold their breath in rapt attention. The trope collapses like a starcruiser from ReversePolarity-induced temporal feedback when Robin socks his opponent in the face while he's distracted by the cheering bear.

* You get to participate in a few of these in ''CallOfJuarez''.

** Also happens frequently in ''RedDeadRedemption'' as a random event, in some parts of the story, and if Marston is caught [[CardSharp cheating at poker]].