History YMMV / OldWest

* MoralEventHorizon: Benjamin Hares was already proven to be an [[NeverMyFault irresponsible]] and [[DirtyCoward yellow-bellied]] {{con man}} JerkWithAHeartOfJerk when he once again tries to sell out Grace behind her back, but when she says they're done and tries to throw him out of her home, he snaps, slaps her without feeling sorry for it and [[DomesticAbuser starts battering her]] more. While he gets what's coming to him, [[HeroicBSOD Grace's sense of self-worth is ruined]] because of this.

*** When Jake finds Grace beaten up by her husband, [[TroubledBackstoryFlashback he has a flashback]] of his final night with his parents and [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge attacks Benjamin in utter fury]] before [[spoiler:killing him]]. Unfortunately, he's afterwards thrown out by the emotionally shaken Grace, leaving their once good relationship strained for a time.

* LawfulEvil: When [[BigBad Dufayel]] first appears, he makes a point of giving the people of Mud, Grace and Beans a chance to leave without bloodshed and offers to reimburse their migration. While he agrees with [[TheDragon Ramirez]] that making such an appearance isn't necessarily wise, he states that it would be "ungentlemanly" not to give them a way out before taking up more drastic measures. He also appeals to the business contacts made with the late Tortoise John that [[IOwnThisTown give him the right over Mud]]. It's not until all his more legal efforts to drive the heroes fail and [[spoiler:he finally becomes bankrupt]] that he [[ThisMeansWar pulls out all the stops]].

* CrossesTheLineTwice: When Grace withdraws her planned saloon night due to Teddy's cold and Mrs. Bigby arrives to babysit Teddy as promised, Jake scares the poor woman away and casually tells Grace that he told her to come back another day.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: If you listen fully the various [[CountryMusic country songs]] of which lyrics are used as {{epigraph}}s in every chapter while reading, you can feel how fittingly they've been chosen for that particular chapter. For example, "Don't put dirt on my grave just yet" by Creator/HaydenPanettiere in the 14th chapter suits well the defiance of Grace and Beans against Dufayel's effort to drive them away from their properties.

* LawfulEvil: When [[BigBad Dufayel]] first appears, he makes a point of giving the people of Mud, Grace and Beans a chance to leave without bloodshed and offers to reimburse their migration. While he agrees with [[TheDragon Ramirez]] that making such an appearance isn't necessarily wise, he states that it would be "ungentlemanly" not to give them a way out before taking up more drastic measures. He also appeals to the business contacts made with the late [[spoiler:Tortoise John]] that [[IOwnThisTown give him the right over Mud]].

** When Angelique and Chuck [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave Mud]] before Dufayel decides to enter into an open war, Rango feels loneliness that reminds him of the time he was still a pet living in a glass box and isolated from the rest of the world. He experiences a good deal of nervousness as he tries to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, caught up between Mud's trigger-happy townsfolk and Dufayel's ruthless determination. Following his fruitless private meeting with Dufayel, he ends up lying to Beans once again to keep her from becoming more worried.

** When Grace was a child, her mother died due to a tumor. After she grew up, she was swept off her (metaphorical) feet by Benjamin Hares, despite her father's warnings. After one year of marriage, she was abandoned by her conman of a husband after he sold everything they owned to escape his debts. Penniless and pregnant, she was forced to return to her father. He died before she had laid ten eggs, and then [[spoiler:all but one of them were smashed by robbers, leading her to kill them in blind rage]]. Her home is then targeted by Dufayel who eventually hires Benjamin to use his undissolved marriage to Grace and sell her lands to him in exchange for covering the incorrigible conman's debts. When Grace attempts to retaliate for this new betrayal, [[DomesticAbuse she's beat up by Benjamin]] and witnesses [[spoiler:him getting killed by Jake's vengeful poison fangs]]. The normally stalwart woman is left for weeks [[HeroicBSOD heartbreakingly downhearted]] and unable to face Jake or nearly anyone else.

*** When Jake finds Grace beaten up by her husband, he has a flashback of his final night with his parents and [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge attacks Benjamin in utter fury]] before [[spoiler:killing him]]. Unfortunately, he's afterwards thrown out by the emotionally shaken Grace, leaving their once good relationship strained for weeks.
** When Angelique and Chuck [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave Mud]] before Dufayel decides to enter into an open war, Rango feels loneliness that reminds him of the time he was still a pet living in a glass box and isolated from the rest of the world. He experiences a good deal of nervousness as he tries to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, caught up between Mud's trigger-happy townsfolk and Dufayel's ruthless determination. Following his fruitless private meeting with Dufayel, he ends up lying to Beans to keep her from becoming more worried.

* MoralEventHorizon: Benjamin Hares was already proven to be an [[NeverMyFault irresponsible]] and [[DirtyCoward yellow-bellied]] {{con man}} JerkWithAHeartOfJerk when he once again tries to sell out Grace behind her back, but when she says they're done and tries to throw him out of her home, he snaps, slaps her without feeling sorry for it and [[DomesticAbuser starts battering her]] more.

** Jake has a dose of JerkassWoobie to him. He was raised by [[AlcoholicParent James Douglas]] who returned home every night under the influence and [[DomesticAbuse beat Jake's mother Selena]]. James [[ForcedToWatch forced little Jake to watch]] the last of these beatings so that he'd become a man like James. James was then driven away by the townsfolk and the severely injured Selena was killed by the deputy Amos who always despised her. Jake run off to the desert where a hawk nearly caught him the next day and tore off his tail. While recovering from this loss, he [[spoiler:was caught by humans as part of a rattlesnake round-up. Before escaping with Reth's help, Jake saw dozens of snakes getting decapitated and skinned by a sadistic human]]. That was the hell from where came Rattlesnake Jake, the Grim Reaper of the Mojave desert.

** When Angelique and Chuck [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave Mud]] before Dufayel decides to enter into an open war, Rango feels loneliness that reminds him of the time he was still a pet living in a glass box and isolated from the rest of the world. He experiences a good deal of nervousness as he tries to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, caught up between Mud's trigger-happy townsfolk and Dufayel's ruthless determination. Following his fruitless private meeting with Dufayel, he ends up lying to Beans to keep her become more worried.

** When Angelique and Chuck leave Mud before Dufayel decides to enter an open war, Rango feels loneliness that reminds him of the time he was still a pet living in a glass box and isolated from the rest of the world. He experiences a good deal of nervousness as he tries to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, with the ruthless Dufayel and Mud triggerhape

** Jake has a dose of JerkassWoobie to him. He was raised by [[AlcoholicParent James Douglas]] who returned home every night under the influence and [[DomesticAbuse beat Jake's mother Selena]]. James [[ForcedToWatch forced little Jake to watch] the last of these beatings so that he'd become a man like James. James was then driven away by the townsfolk and the severely injured Selena was killed by the deputy Amos who always despised her. Jake run off to the desert where a hawk nearly caught him the next day and tore off his tail.

** Teddy has grown up with just his loving mother to look after him because his father abandoned them before his birth [[spoiler:and all his nine siblings were killed by robbers when Teddy hadn't hatched yet]]. Upon first coming to Mud, he's dejected by the [[FantasticRacism prejudiced hostility]] of the townsfolk and too shy to try to approach other children to play with them. He also has sight problems that cause him to collide with objects, giving him insecurities about surviving the harsh desert. Bad Bill's gang [[WouldHurtAChild beats him up]] just to threaten his mother to sell her lands. One day after Teddy first meets his absent father, he witnesses Benjamin beating his mother. Despite the fact that he does the sensible thing and rushes straight to Mud to get help, he afterwards calls himself a coward for leaving his mother.

** When Grace was a child, her mother died due to a tumor. After she grew up, she was swept off her (metaphorical) feet by Benjamin Hares, despite her father's warnings. After one year of marriage, she was abandoned by her conman of a husband after he sold everything they owned to escape his debts. Penniless and pregnant, she was forced to return to her father. He died before she had laid ten eggs, and then [[spoiler:all but one of them were smashed by robbers, leading her to kill them in blind rage]]. Her home is then targeted by Dufayel who eventually hires Benjamin to use his undissolved marriage to Grace and sell her lands to him in exchange for covering the incorrigible conman's debts. When Grace attempts to retaliate for this new betrayal, she's beat up by Benjamin and witnesses [[spoiler:him getting killed by Jake's poison fangs]]. The normally stalwart woman is left for weeks [[HeroicBSOD heartbreakingly downhearted]] and unable to face Jake or nearly anyone else.

** When Grace was a child, her mother died due to a tumor. After she grew up, she was swept off her (metaphorical) feet by Benjamin Hares, despite her father's warnings. After one year of marriage, she was abandoned by her conman husband after he sold everything they owned to escape his debts. Penniless and pregnant, she was forced to return to her father. He died before she had laid ten eggs, and then [[spoiler:all but one of them were smashed by robbers, leading her to kill them in blind rage]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Benjamin Hares was already proven to be an [[NeverMyFault irresponsible]] and [[DirtyCoward yellow-bellied]] {{con man}} JerkWithAHeartOfJerk when he once again tries to sell out Grace behind her back, but when she says they're done and tries to throw him out of her home, he snaps, slaps her without feeling sorry for it and [[DomesticAbuser starts battering her]] more.

* LawfulEvil: When [[BigBad Dufayel]] first appears, he makes a point of giving the people of Mud, Grace and Beans a chance to leave without bloodshed and offers to reimburse their migration. While he agrees with [[TheDragon Raminez]] that making such an appearance isn't necessarily wise, he states that it would be "ungentlemanly" not to give them a way out before taking up more drastic measures. He also appeals to the business contacts made with the late [[spoiler:Tortoise John]] that [[IOwnThisTown give him the right over Mud]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Benjamin Hares was already proven to be an [[NeverMyFault irresponsible]] and [[DirtyCoward yellow-bellied]] {{con man}} JerkWithAHeartOfJerk when he once again tries to sell out Grace behind her back, but when she says they're done and tries to throw him out of her home, he snaps and [[DomesticAbuser starts battering her]].

* LawfulEvil: When [[BigBad Dufayel]] first appears, he makes a point of giving the people of Mud, Grace and Beans a chance to leave without bloodshed and offers to reimburse their migration. While he agrees with [[TheDragon Raminez]] that making such an appearance isn't necessarily wise, he states that it would be "ungentlemanly" not to give them a way out before taking up more drastic measures. He also appeals to the business contacts made with the late [[spoiler:Tortoise John]] that [[IOwnThisTown give him the right over Mud]], and is outraged when Raminez and [[PsychoForHire Henry]] act threateningly with Grace and Beans while discussing with them about buying their lands.