History Main / ShowdownAtHighNoon

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''. Marty asks Buford if he wants their showdown to happen at high noon, but Buford insists that he "does [his] killing before breakfast." Ultimately, the film provides a DoubleSubversion of the trope when Marty refuses to take his place in the duel, but is forced to anyway. However, he still refuses to actually shoot Buford, relying instead on a BulletproofVest ploy. (Maybe that makes it a ''[[ZigZaggingTrope Triple]]'' [[ZigZaggingTrope Subversion]].)

* ''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.

* ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'': The duel between Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo. They stand an arm's length from one another, circle slowly, and draw.

* Many films about the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (such as ''Film/GunfightAtTheOKCorral'') turn it into this.

* It was actually at sundown, but at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' episode "Coming of the Fuzors Part 1," the Predacons rally around Megatron and the three Maximals ready their weapons, before both sides draw their guns in classic shootout fashion. Comes complete with a riff straight out of the ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly.''

* There was a Nintendo Light Gun game called ''VideoGame/WildGunman,'' and a version of it appeared in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.
** ''Wild Gunman'' was recreated as a microgame for the first ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' game. ''Smooth Moves'' also features an original western quick-draw microgame.
** One of the original Light Gun games for the NES, ''VideoGame/HogansAlley'', did this as one of the game modes. To successfully completely, you ultimately had to draw and shoot accurately in less than a second.
** ''Wild Gunman'' serves as the basis for a Quick Draw minigame in ''VideoGame/OneTwoSwitch''.

* Subverted all to hell in an early scene of ''Film/WyattEarp''. The first gunfight of the film is between two angry drunks, staggering around about ten feet from each other and firing wildly. Both men shoot each other at about the same time, and we (and young Wyatt) are treated to the sight of one of them bleeding out from a [[GroinAttack shot to the crotch]] while a horse that caught a stray bullet screams in pain until it's put down.

* A version of this starts off ''Series/{{Justified}}''. US Marshal Raylan Givens has given a murderous thug 24 hours to leave Miami. As the deadline is about to pass, the two men meet at a terrace restaurant on a sunny Florida day. They sit opposite each other at a table and Raylan gives the thug one last chance to leave town. The thug draws his gun and Raylan kills him. The extremely public nature of the shootout (and rumors about the 24 hour deadline) causes a massive PR headache for the Marshal Service and while the shooting is deemed "justified", Raylan is [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassigned]] to the Lexington, Kentucky office.

* Most films about the gunfight at the OK Corral (such as ''Film/GunfightAtTheOKCorral'') usually turn this bloody ambush into a ShowdownAtHighNoon.

* ''Radio/BleakExpectations:'' During a visit to America (which, unsurprisingly, turned out to be a trap), Pip Bin gets into one of these at the Alright-I-Suppose Corral. Problems ensue when it turns out he and Mr. Benevolent have jumped the gun for a shootout at the stroke of noon, as it were, and it's not even half past nine in the morning. [[spoiler:Also, Mr. Benevolent cheats, giving Pip a literal BàngFlagGun.]] The scene even replicates The Music, with a crying baby, a creaking gate, a spectator tapping his foot.

* ''Radio/BleakExpectations:'' During a visit to America (which, unsurprisingly, turned out to be a trap), Pip Bin gets into one of these at the Alright-I-Suppose Corral. Problems ensue when it turns out he and Mr. Benevolent have jumped the gun, as it were, and it's not even half past nine in the morning. [[spoiler:Also, Mr. Benevolent cheats, giving Pip a fake gun.]]
* ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme:'' Spoofed to Hell in one episode, when the Storyteller, having wound up in an Arizona town is told a man named Big Bad Bob is coming at noon tomorrow, and the villagers ask him to get rid of him. [[spoiler:It turns out they'd prefer Bob kill the Storyteller and take his horse, but Bob's actually an entirely reasonable fellow who just wants to buy a horse, and they come to an amicable agreement.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': Parodied in the climax of "Octi Evil" when Blossom and Buttercup hear Bubbles is captured by Him and go to save her, only to catch sight of one another due to their feud; said standoff is accompanied by intense music and close-up shots, ending with an extreme close-up of their faces with [[ReflectiveEyes the opposing girl reflected in their eyes]]. When the standoff is broken by Bubbles screaming for help, the same sequence of close-ups repeats with the girls having confused expressions, and in the extreme close-up, each girl finally smiles, showing they're finally putting their differences aside for the sake of saving their sister.

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

* ''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.

* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'': Billy, when explaining his backstory to Sherlock and William, describes his final faceoff with Garrett as a quick-draw pistol duel at noon.

* ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'': Muno and Brobee have one in "Dress Up" as they play cowboys, with the gun-shooting replaced with banana-eating to make it suitable for its preschool audience.

* Featured in a ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' Western-themed episode, where [=SpongeBob's=] [[IdenticalGrandson look-alike ancestor]] [=SpongeBuck=] has a showdown with outlaw Dead Eye Plankon. It ends before it even begins, when [=SpongeBuck=] accidentally steps on Dead Eye.

* In the Han Solo novel ''Literature/HanSoloAndTheLostLegacy'', Han faces down legendary Gunslinger Gallandro. The two of them had been working together until Gallandro decides it's time for a showdown. [[spoiler:Gallandro wins the quick draw and wounds Han, but the shooting activates a no-weapons system and Gallandro gets vaporized by lasers]].