History Main / ShowdownAtHighNoon

* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has the character Cassidy, an {{Expy}} of the Man With No Name. When using his ultimate ''Deadeye'' ability, Cassidy will drawl "It's high noon ..." and fire a kill shot at each target in view once the attack charges. There's even a tumbleweed. Cassidy will always say "It's high noon" even on maps where it's clearly twilight or night time, leading to MemeticMutation that he has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyschronometria a very bad perception of time.]] [[AscendedMeme The writers realized this]], and later gave him the voice line "Well, it's high noon ''somewhere'' in the world."

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'': The main heroes and villains tend to do this as their final battles ramp up. Most famous being the confrontation between Jotaro Kujo and DIO at the end of [[Manga/StardustCrusaders Part 3]]. In the English dub, Jotaro (voiced by [[Creator/MatthewMercer Matt Mercer]], who also voiced [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Cole Cassidy]]) even says this:
--> '''Jotaro:''' If this were the wild west, the hero would say, "[[ActorAllusion It's high noon.]]" Now get up off the ground and draw your piece, Dio. You're getting one shot.

* Creator/Allan herman's 1962 parody of "The Streets of Laredo", called "The Streets of Miami", feature two business partners shooting it out "in the heat of the sun at the stroke of high noon."

* The endings of the western spoofs ''Film/SupportYourLocalSheriff'' and ''Support Your Local Gunfighter'' are both extended parodies of this trope. The first film also has the eponymous sheriff dealing with a series of hired guns who all confront him in this fashion: "Why do these jaspers always hit town at mealtime?"

* ''Film/{{Swelter}}'' plays this almost completely straight, despite being set in modern day, and the characters almost certainly being aware that they are playing this trope out.
* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog'': The climax has Sonic and Dr. Robotnik fighting on a street in Green Hill, Montana. After Sonic gains his HeroicSecondWind, Tom tells the people to clear off and let the two settle it and both Sonic and Robotnik do a variation of this where they prepare to unleash all the power they got.

* In ''Series/TeenWolf'' Chris Argent has one against a Ghost Rider and comes out victorious. [[spoiler: Even earns a BigDamnKiss [[ShipTease from Melissa]].]]
* ''Series/{{Whiplash}}'': In "Episode at Bathurst", Cobb has a showdown in the main street against an American [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]]: [[InterestingSituationDuel with the gunslinger using his pistol and Cobb using his whip]].

* Allan Sherman's 1962 parody of the Streets of Laredo, called the Streets of Miami, feature two business partners shooting it out "in the heat of the sun at the stroke of high noon."

* But its immediate sequel ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' would have one of its own, although at night. In ''The Reunion'', when Hunter and Omega return to the Batch's ship, they find all the Clone Troopers dead at the hands of Cad Bane, who's after Omega [[spoiler:after being contracted by Lama Su]]. Hunter and Bane face each other down and draw [[spoiler:While eagle-eyed viewers could see Hunter drew his blaster first, Bane proves to be the faster shot and takes him down with a hsot to the chest armour]]. Unlike ''Film/ANewHope'' and its Special Edition remake, there's no debating who shot first, folks. [[spoiler:While not actually stated, Bane's appearance in the next episode with a cybernetic plate on his forehead suggests the aforementioned duel with Boba in the unfinished arc may still have happened.]]

** The Episode “Bullseye!” begins with Linda having a Showdown on creating the "junk sculpture" for the upcoming Modern Installation By Moms Charity auction, with an Close-up to her eyes, while also being asked by both Phineas and Ferb, at the end of the episode when a men in a truck tries to take Linda's junk sculpture away, Linda puts the last piece on the sculpture, a coat hanger, meaning that she won the Showdown, while Candace watches in disappointment and shock (Because she thought that she had finally busted the boys).

The Music: [[https://youtu.be/AFa1-kciCb4 You know the one.]][[labelnote:note]]Ironically, this most iconic of Western tunes was NOT the one accompanying the final showdown. It was an even more dramatic tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYI09PMNazw[[/labelnote]]

The Music: [[https://youtu.be/AFa1-kciCb4 You know the one.]][[labelnote:note]]Ironically, this most iconic of Western tunes was NOT the one accompanying the final showdown.[[/labelnote]]

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

-->-- '''Jesse [=McCree=]''', ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'': The main heroes and villains tend to do this as their final battles ramp up. Most famous being the confrontation between Jotaro Kujo and DIO at the end of [[Manga/StardustCrusaders Part 3]]. In the English Dub, Jotaro (voiced by [[Creator/MatthewMercer Matt Mercer]], who also voiced [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Jesse McCree]]) even says this:

* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has the character [=McCree=], an {{Expy}} of the Man With No Name. When using his ultimate ''Deadeye'' ability, [=McCree=] will drawl "It's high noon ..." and fire a kill shot at each target in view once the attack charges. There's even a tumbleweed. [=McCree=] will always say "It's high noon" even on maps where it's clearly twilight or night time, leading to MemeticMutation that he has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyschronometria a very bad perception of time.]] [[AscendedMeme The writers realized this]], and later gave him the voice line "Well, it's high noon ''somewhere'' in the world."
** The "Reunion" short has [=McCree=] in a quite literal showdown at high noon against his ex-partner and general ex Ashe, as well as her gang when they blow up a train containing a package that they're after, but which [=McCree=] wants for himself.

--> '''Kira:''' Enough! I'm ending you!
--> '''Josuke:''' Then, bring it on. Call out your Deadly Queen!

* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' naturally had a few variations on the theme.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': The year: PresentDay. The place: a forest in [[TrappedInTVLand TV-land]]. The time: right now. A water ski and life jacket-wearing [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Robin]] squares off with the [[SpaceWestern Off-World Outlaw]]. On the sidelines a grizzly and a [[Series/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.

* In [[Series/TeenWolf]] Chris Argent has one against a Ghost Rider and comes out victorious and [[spoiler: even earns a [[BigDamnKiss]] [[ShipTease from Melissa]].]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' features a full set of rules--in the core rulebook, no less--for conducting such a duel, including {{justification}} for the "cue known only to the gunfighters" bit: drawing second [[CrimeOfSelfDefense made things pardonable in the eyes of the law]], so the lead-in to a proper duel consisted of head games intended to make one's adversary draw first, with bonuses given to the rolls of players who can come up with truly terrifying intimidations or biting ridicules to put in the mouths of their characters.

* Devlin challenges Langley to one in ''Film/GhosTown1988''. Langley wins, only to learn that Devlin is ImmuneToBullets.

See also EnnioMorriconePastiche.

--> ''The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet,''

* ''Film/CarryOnCowboy'' (a spoof of CowboysAndIndians films) had this as the climax between the Rumpo Kid and an English plumber. It's {{lampshaded}} as a dead-horse trope much earlier in the movie by TheJudge and the plumber.