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3[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mighty_marvel_western_vol_1_1.jpg]]
4[[caption-width-right:350:L-R - Two Gun Kid (firing into the air), Rawhide Kid (firing two guns into the ground) and Kid Colt (firing off to his left, your right.[[note]]None of these supposed sharpshooters are even looking in the direction they are firing[[/note]]]]
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6Masked men, lawmen, dudes, owlhoots and vigilantes! From the battle of the Alamo to the dusty streets of Tombstone, the men and women of the West that was are finally unearthed in this scrapbook of memories from the personal collection of the modern-day Phantom Rider! Featuring entries on the Black Rider, Tex Dawson, Gunhawk, Kid Colt, the Masked Raider, the Outlaw Kid, the Phantom Rider, the Rawhide Kid, the Steam Rider, the Two-Gun Kid, and more!
7-->-- ''Marvel Westerns'' (2006) #1
8[[foldercontrol]]
9[[folder:In General]]
10* TheTropeKid: ComicBook/RawhideKid, the ComicBook/TwoGunKid, the Ringo Kid (not related to John Wayne's Ringo Kid in ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}''), the Apache Kid, The ComicBook/OutlawKid, the Arizona Kid, the Prairie Kid, the Texas Kid, the Western Kid, the Gunsmoke Kid, the Dakota Kid and inversions ComicBook/KidColt and [[ComicBook/{{Gunhawks}} Kid Cassidy]], all from Creator/MarvelComics. According to Creator/StanLee, Marvel publisher Martin Goodman loved Westerns, and was ''particularly'' fond of this trope for some reason.
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13!!Characters
14%%[[folder:Apache Kid]]
15%%!!Apache Kid
16%%[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1032580_aloysius_kare__earth_616.jpg]]
17%%!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Aloysius Kare
18%%!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Dazii, Alan Krandal, Allan Krandell, Dazii Aloysius Kare, Danzii Kane
19%%!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Two-Gun Western'' #5 (November, 1950)
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21%%Alan Krandal is a kid who was raised by Apache Chief that fights for anything threatened in his homeland.
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23%%[[/folder]]
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25%%[[folder:Arizona Annie]]
26%%!!Arizona Annie
27%%[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1040486_1358.jpg]]
28%%!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Annie (last name unrevealed)
29%%!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Arizona Girl
30%%!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Wild West'' #1 (March, 1948)
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32%%A western hero with an attitude and a gun, Annie was one of the few female heroes of her time, but had a solid reputation as one of the fastest draws with a gun in the Wild West.
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34%%[[/folder]]
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36[[folder:Black Rider]]
37!!Black Rider
38[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/361540_176150_black_rider.jpg]]
39!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Matthew Masters
40!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Cactus Kid, Black Mask, Dark Western Avenger, Morris Masters, Doc Masters
41!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All Winners'' #2 (December, 1948)
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43At a young age Masters watched his parents get murdered by some looters. Wanting and seeking justice this young man grew to be a man and tracked the men who killed his parents. Calling himself the Cactus Kid, he shot and killed them. Arrested and pardoned, he went on to medical school and settled in Leadville, Texas. Now nick-named Doc by the local town folk, Morris led a good life, until he came across a land robber, not wanting to tarnish his reputation he became the Black Rider.
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45* ClarkKenting: During his days as the Black Rider, his would-be girlfriend Marie Lathrop thought Matthew was a coward. In his disguise, he advised her not to be so harsh on him.
46* CoolMask: Another bearer of the Eternity Mask.
47* DramaticIrony: On passing the Eternity Mask to Dennis Piper, he warned him not to hand it over to the Scientists Guild, who'd originally made the Mask. Dennis would unwittingly do so. In fact, the part of ''Marvel Comics'' #1000 showing this came before the page showing Masters passing the mask to Dennis in the first place.
48* TheTopicOfCancer: One of the few Western heroes to live out the end of the Wild West, Masters developed terminal cancer in the 30s.
49[[/folder]]
50
51[[folder:Kid Colt]]
52!!Kid Colt
53[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kid_colt_9.jpg]]
54[[caption-width-right:350:Kid Colt is about to shoot someone to the right of you.]]
55!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Blaine Colt
56!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Mr. Jones, Johnny Colt, Kid Arbuckle, Blaine Cole
57!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/KidColt'' #1 (August, 1948)
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59Kid Colt was a nickname for Blaine Colt, a cowboy who was renowned for his quick draw and temper. He lived a relative easy and peaceful life until his father was murdered by bandits. Colt was furious and devastated with grief over his father's murder and sought out to find those that where responsible. When he finally found the murders, he challenged them to a gunfight. Kid Colt won and killed his father's killers. He was however wrongly accused of murder when he did this, even though it was a fair gunfight (which was not illegal in the Wild West during this period of time). He was branded an "Outlaw" and got a price on his head. From that point on, Colt was on the run for the law wherever he went. He traveled to many places in the West, trying to do what was right in fighting crime, but also himself trying to stay out of the long arms of the law.
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61* CoolHorse: Like all Marvel western heroes, Kid Colt had a cool horse. His was named Steel.
62* CoolShades: He wore a pair of round teashades during the ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'' miniseries, apparently trying to evade detection from the authorities.
63* DeadlyDistantFinale: Kid Colt is killed in the ''Blaze of Glory'' miniseries, shot InTheBack by the BountyHunter Gunhawk who was looking to claim the price on Colt's head.
64* TheDrifter: A wanted man, Kid Colt keeps drifting from town to town so the law doesn't catch up with him.
65* HairTriggerTemper: Kid Colt had a notoriously short fuse. It was his temper that got him in the situation where he was branded an outlaw, it would continue to plague him throughout his career: landing him in scrapes that more level-headed heroes could have walked away from.
66* HeroWithBadPublicity: Kid Colt was branded an outlaw for killing his father's killers in a fair gunfight. (Some more recent retellings have had Colt admit that he is not sure if it was a fair fight or not, as he doesn't remember if he gave them a chance to draw.) Wherever he travels in the WildWest, he is a still a wanted man, and has to keep looking over shoulder for lawmen and {{Bounty Hunter}}s.
67* InTheBack: How Kid Colt dies in the ''Blaze of Glory'' miniseries: shot in the back by the BountyHunter Gunhawk who was looking to claim the price on Colt's head.
68* TheTropeKid: Or 'The Kid Trope' in this case.
69* YoungGun: Of all of Marvel's western heroes, Colt was the most impulsive and immature.
70[[/folder]]
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72[[folder:Masked Raider]]
73!!Masked Raider
74[[quoteright:330:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7486054_marvel_comics_1001_masked_raide_nycc_variant.png]]
75!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Jim Gardley
76!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Streak
77!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/MarvelMysteryComics Marvel Comics]]'' #1 (August, 1939)
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79The Masked Raider was the first adventurer of the Old West published by Marvel Comics. He was Jim Gardley, a young cowpoke in 1830s Texas. He was originally approached with the offer to serve as hired muscle for a powerful rancher. When he found out the boss wanted him to "convince" all the small ranchers in the area to sell their lands to him at dirt cheap prices, Gardley turned down the offer. The rancher then framed him for cattle rustling and had him jailed.
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81Escaping, Gardley started preparing himself to take revenge. He created the costume identity of the Masked Raider, perfected his aim and draw and partnered himself with a feral white horse by the name of "Lightning". His costume consisted of a red shirt, black pants, brown boots, a white hat and a black mask.
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83* CoolMask: One of the bearers of the Eternity Mask, made of Eternity itself, which grants whoever holds it power equal to whatever they face.
84* DyingAlone: Gardley was attacked and fatally wounded by unknown assailants in 1880. He was found by Dr. Matthew Masters, who removed the Eternity Mask from his face, inadvertently killing Jim.
85* HeroicVow: On becoming the Masked Raider, he vowed to "forever fight the lawless, bring justice to the oppressed and help the poor."
86* LegacyCharacter: Aside from being the first bearer of the Eternity Mask, which passed through a ''lot'' of hands over the next two centuries, in the modern day there's a new Masked Raider running around.
87* NoodleIncident: The exact circumstances by which Jim found the Mask are unclear.
88* {{Retcon}}: Originally, there was nothing special about Gardley's clothing. It was just a disguise, made of ordinary cloth. The Eternity Mask stuff happened in 2019's ''Marvel Comics #1000''.
89[[/folder]]
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91[[folder:Outlaw Kid]]
92!!Outlaw Kid
93[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lance_temple_outlaw_kid_earth_616_from_blaze_of_glory_vol_1_2_0001.jpg]]
94!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Lance Temple
95!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Masked Avenger of the West, Outlaw
96!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/OutlawKid'' #1 (September, 1954)
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98->''"Lance, in his grief, disowned that side of himself. (But) when the bandanna comes up, he is once again certain and sure. He is the Outlaw Kid and his mind is clear and he knows what must be done."''
99-->-- DramatisPersonae for Lance Temple, in ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory''
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101A lawyer and Civil War veteran living with his blind father. He promised his father that he would never take-up a gun again, but he wanted to right the wrongs in a near-lawless frontier so he donned a mask. Which caused him to experience a split personality, one for justice and one to obey his fathers wishes.
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103* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Lance Temple remembers nothing from his actions as the Outlaw Kid, other than a vague feeling that he had been there.
104* HiredToHuntYourself: Lance Temple hired himself to hunt himself, in the ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'' miniseries.
105* PreAsskickingOneLiner: ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'': has many of these in its final issue. But the best are courtesy of the ComicBook/OutlawKid.
106-->''C'mon, you owlhoots! '''C'mon!''' You want a piece of me?! '''C'mon!!!''' I may be bound for hell but I'm TakingYouWithMe!''
107* SplitPersonality: Lance Temple, AKA the Outlaw Kid developed this in ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'' after his SecretIdentity gave his gun-hating father a heart attack. Now Lance Temple searches for the Outlaw Kid to avenge his father's murder, unaware that the face behind the Outlaw Kid's mask is [[TheKillerInMe his own.]] Even by the end of the series, he hasn't fully recovered, though the two wind up becoming a pretty badass SplitPersonalityTeam for a bit there.
108* SplitPersonalitySwitchTrigger: Lance Temple becomes the Outlaw Kid if anyone pulls his bandanna over his face. [[spoiler:In the final issue of ''Blaze of Glory'', [[SplitPersonalityTeam he does that himself]].]]
109* SplitPersonalityTeam: Lance starts off ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'' wanting to avenge himself upon his other personality, the Outlaw Kid, who he believes killed his father. In reality, it was the shock of discovering his son ''was'' the Outlaw Kid that killed his father. As the 4th issue begins, Lance starts coming to terms with the truth, and willingly [[TheHatMakesTheMan pulls his mask over his face]] to become the Outlaw Kid.
110* TheHatMakesTheMan: A more mundane example is Lance Temple's mask in ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'', which if pulled over his face causes him to switch to his other personality, the Outlaw Kid.
111* TheKillerInMe: In ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'', Lance Temple is hunting down the Outlaw Kid, unaware until the final issue that he ''is'' the Outlaw Kid. He is driven to tears when he finds out. {{Downplayed|Trope}} because he's the only one who thinks the Outlaw Kid is a killer, and it's an InternalReveal to boot.
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113
114[[folder:Phantom Rider]]
115!!Phantom Rider
116[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/429016_phantom_rider1.jpg]]
117!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Carter Slade
118!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Ghost Rider, Night Rider, Son of the Spirits, He Who Rides The Night Winds, Frontier Phantom, Phantom of the Plains
119!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/TheGhostRider'' #1 (February, 1967)
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121Carter Slade, the first man to wear the mask, debuted in ''The Ghost Rider'' #1 (Feb. 1967). He battled evil while dressed in a phosphorescent white costume, complete with a full-face mask, cape, and the requisite white hat. Slade received his outfit and his white horse from Flaming Star, a Native American medicine man. He recruited a young sidekick named Jamie Jacobs whom helped him during his missions. Eventually, Carter was killed in a gunfight. Jamie Jacobs vowed to follow in the foodsteps of his friend and mentor.
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123* TerrorHero: Slade relies on trickery to scare his foes, especially in the early stories when he's not yet an accomplished gunfighter. He doesn't actually have supernatural powers, but his enemies don't know that.
124[[/folder]]
125
126[[folder:Rawhide Kid]]
127!!Rawhide Kid
128[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rawhide_kid_ii.jpg]]
129!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Jonathan Clay
130!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Johnny Bart, Johnny Clay, Jeb Kent, Trey, Dances-Naked-With-Glee
131!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Rawhide Kid'' #17 (August, 1960)
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133When Johnny Bart was an infant, his parents, the Clays, were killed in a raid by Cheyenne Indians. The infant Johnny was overlooked by the Cheyenne raiders, however, and was soon found by Ben Bart, a Texas Ranger. Bart adopted Johnny and raised him on his ranch outside Rawhide, Texas. Bart named his adopted son "Johnny Bart." Ben Bart was one of the fastest gunmen in the Texas Rangers. When Johnny was sixteen, Ben, who by then had retired from the Texas Rangers, began teaching him how to use a gun. By the time that Johnny had reached his eighteenth birthday, Ben had taught him all he could, and Johnny had become even faster and better than Ben was at using a gun.
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135Shortly after his eighteenth birthday, Johnny Bart went into Rawhide to buy the month's provisions for the ranch. Once he was gone, a drifter named Hawk Brown confronted Ben Bart and challenged him to draw his gun; Brown hoped to make a reputation for himself by outdrawing the renowned Ben Bart. Unknown to Ben, Brown had an accomplice named Spade hiding nearby Just as Ben drew his sixguns, Spade called out to Bart from behind, distracting Ben just as Brown and Spade had planned. Brown took the opportunity to gun Ben Bart down.
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137On his return, Johnny Bart found his adoptive father's corpse and buried him. Johnny vowed to avenge Ben Barr's death. He could tell that two men were responsible for Ben's death from the way the bullets struck him as if he had half turned around to see someone behind him. Johnny rode to Rawhide, where Brown and Spade were claiming that Ben Bart had started a fight with Brown and that Brown had outdrawn him fairly Johnny confronted Brown, who drew his guns on him. But before Brown could squeeze his triggers, Johnny drew his own guns and fired them, wounding Brown in the arm. Seeing Spade in the mirror about to shoot him from behind, Johnny, without turning around, fired over his own shoulders, hitting Spade in his gun arm. Johnny Bart left Brown and Spade to be taken into custody. Johnny declared he would not return home to the ranch, but would use his gun-fighting prowess to fight evildoers like Brown and Spade wherever he could, no matter what the odds were against him. Johnny called himself the Rawhide Kid after the town in which his gun-fighting career began.
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139Despite being declared an outlaw, the Rawhide Kid continued to defend the weak and helpless and to battle criminals. Among the most notorious or unusual of his many adversaries were the Cougar, the original Red Raven, the Ape, the Tyrant of Tombstone Valley, the Masked Maverick, Marko the Manhunter, and the strange alien called the Living Totem.
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141The Rawhide Kid sometimes joined forces with other legendary gunfighters, including Kid Colt, the second Phantom Rider, and the Two-Gun Kid. The Rawhide Kid even allied himself with members of the Avengers who visited his time period.
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143The Rawhide Kid was still an active gunfighter as late as 1897. It has not yet been revealed how, when, or where he died.
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145* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: The Kid's usual M.O. (along with every other cowboy hero of the TheFifties and TheSixties). If the writers were feeling edgy enough, the hero might occasionally shoot the villain in the hand or shoulder, but shots intended to kill or seriously harm were a big no-no.
146* CoolHorse: Like all Marvel western heroes, Rawhide had a cool horse. His was named Nightwind.
147* FieryRedhead: The Kid is a redhead whose hot temper sometimes lands him in trouble.
148* GayCowboy: The Kid in the eponymous 2003 limited series (but ''not'' in regular continuity, Earth 616 appearances). His over-hyped sexuality caused the books to be rated inappropriate for minors to read, even though the only indication he was gay was by offensive innuendos and implications.
149* GetBackInTheCloset: This is supposedly the sole reason why the 2003'' miniseries Marvel MAX imprint, even if he was just somewhat hinted to be gay. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18502_the-5-most-unintentionally-offensive-comic-book-characters.html Through constant and offensive innuendo.]]
150* TheGunslinger: Typical of Creator/MarvelComics' western heroes of TheFifties and TheSixties, Rawhide is equal parts Trick Shot and Quick Draw, able to draw with blinding speed and always disabling his opponents without killing them.
151* TheTropeKid: The "Rawhide" Kid.
152* TwilightOfTheOldWest: The 1985 miniseries is set in 1897 and has an aging Kid pondering the place of gunfighters in the new century.
153* WeAllDieSomeday: The Rawhide Kid provides the final spoken line of the SpaghettiWestern miniseries ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory:'' ''[[GrandFinale The Last Ride of the Western Heroes]]'':
154--> "Men die. Every single one of us. That's a fact and that's our fate."
155** The last page also gives us "Only the legends are forever."
156* YoungGun: In the 1985 miniseries, Rawhide acquired a sidekick named Jeff Packard, a.k.a. Understudy, who fit this trope.
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159%%[[folder:Ringo Kid]]
160%%!!Ringo Kid
161%%[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1073091_rngok112.jpg]]
162%%!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Rand (First name unknown)
163%%!!!'''Notable Aliases:'''
164%%!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Ringo Kid'' #1 (August, 1954)
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166%%His father was Caucasian and his mother was a Comanche, and because of that he was an outcast from his heritage. He became a western gunfighter who dressed all in black. He received his nick name from practicing shooting bottles, because he liked the ringing sound they made. The Ringo Kid also had a sidekick named Dull Knife, and a horse named Arab.
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168%%[[/folder]]
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170%%[[folder:Tex Taylor]]
171%%!!Tex Taylor
172%%[[quoteright:241:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1484715_tex.jpg]]
173%%!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Tex Taylor
174%%!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Prairie Kid
175%%!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Wild West'' #1 (March, 1948)
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177%%Tex lived with his father on their ranch in Whisperin' Valley, near Wishbone, Texas. One day the head of the "Cattlemen's Protection League" attempted to extort protection money from Tex's father. His father refused and the head of the League rode off, threatening the man.
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179%%Tex joined the Army during the Civil War. While away in the Unior Army at war, Tex received a letter saying that his father had been killed and that he had sold the ranch to the League before his demise.
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181%%Tex returned to find that the head of the League had rigged an election and became Sheriff, afterwards forcing Tex's father to sign the ranch over to him, and then had him killed. Tex investigated matters and discovered that the town mayor was responsible for everything. The mayor was interested in the gold deposits on the ranch of Tex's father. Tex killed the mayor, and then vowed to spend his life hunting criminals all over the west and destroying them.
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183%%[[/folder]]
184
185[[folder:Two-Gun Kid]]
186!!Two-Gun Kid
187[[quoteright:164:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twogunkid.gif]]
188!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Matthew Hawk (Born Matthew Leibowitz)
189!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Clay Harder, Matthew Leibowitz, The No-Gun Kid
190!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Two-Gun Kid'' #60 (November, 1962)
191
192One of the Wild West's most famous gun-fighters, Two-Gun Kid journeyed forward to modern times alongside the Avengers to face new challenges as a man out of time.
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194* BadassNormal: No powers, only skill with guns.
195* BountyHunter: During the ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'', Matt Hawk became a licensed bounty hunter and worked alongside She-Hulk, helping her to apprehend super-villains.
196* {{Cowboy}}
197* DominoMask: A deliberate design choice to make him look more like a superhero.
198* FakingTheDead: When the dates of his "deaths" as both Matt Hawk and the Two-Gun Kid drew near, he faked his death as Matt Hawk so he could devote his Two-Gun Kid identity to foiling an international conspiracy aimed at controlling the world's economy.
199* FishOutOfTemporalWater: One of reason because, the first time, he refuse to stay with the Avengers prefering return to his era.
200* GunsAkimbo: He use two pistols.
201* TheGunslinger: He is one of the fastest and best gunfighters of his time, rivaled only by Kid Colt and the ComicBook/RawhideKid.
202* LifeWillKillYou: He eventually dies in his sleep in a New York hospital in 1942.
203* SomethingPerson / TheTropeKid: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin He's a young man with two guns.]]
204* TimeTravel: After the battle with Kang, Two-Gun offered his services to the Avengers and was awarded reserve membership in absentia while he explored 20th century America with Hawkeye as his guide. Howewer he became increasingly homesick, though, and later returned to his own era.
205** More later, however, it has been revealed that She-Hulk, after dealing with the Time Variance Authority, was given the chance to free one time traveling Avenger out of continuity limbo. She chose the Two-Gun Kid. It was clarified that his heroic nature prevented him from being returned to his own time, as he would inevitably try to fix things.
206** At some point in the future, Matt Hawk would became too old to continue crime fighting and returned to his past to a period analogous with the amount of time he had aged.
207* TraumaCongaLine: The deaths of his wife, his daughter and of his best friend Boom Boom Brown (deaths which might have been prevented with the modern medicine Two-Gun saw in the future) made him cynical and fatalistic.
208[[/folder]]
209
210%%[[folder:Western Kid]]
211%%!!Western Kid
212%%[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2009430_994944_tex_dawson_gunslinger1_1_73_super.jpg]]
213%%!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Tex Dawson
214%%!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Gun-Slinger
215%%!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Western Kid'' #1 (December, 1954)
216
217%%Tex Dawson was the star of his own magazine in "Western Kid". He was a cowboy in the time of other famous Marvel cowboys such as Rawhide Kid and Kid Colt.
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219%%[[/folder]]

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