Line #20 Characters/AFistfulOfDollars


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3	[[folder:Joe]]
4	See [[Characters/DollarsTrilogy this page]] for more information.
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7	[[folder:Silvanito]]
8	--> Portrayed by: Jose Calvo
9	--> Voiced by: Luigi Pavese (Italian), Jack Curtis (English)
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11	* CoolOldGuy: Guns down the last of the Rojos with a rifle.
12	* DefiantCaptive: Keeps his mouth shut while under torture from the Rojos. The undertaker cheerfully points out that he's a stubborn old man who'll die before he talks.
13	* {{Expy}}: Of Gonji, the old man who reluctantly gives Sanjuro room and board.
14	* OlderSidekick: Accompanies Joe on some of his missions, despite thinking the young man's plan to be crazy.
15	* RageBreakingPoint: He normally voices mere annoyance with certain parts of Joe's gambit at worst, but he protests ''vehemently'' when he learns what Joe plans to do with the bodies of the Mexican soldiers they brought to the cemetery. He takes the sanctity of the dead so seriously, he raises his voice for the first time in the film when Joe explains how he'll be using those two bodies.
16	-->'''Silvanito''': I'm alive, and I want to remain with the living, understand? And when I'm dead, I want to remain with the dead, and I would be unhappy if somebody living forces me to remain with the living! I hope that's clear! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And also, I don't like the idea that you placed those bodies there—]][[HeroOfAnotherStory the man we buried in that grave is the only one who ever died of pneumonia in this cursed town!]]
17	* StraightMan: He considers himself to be more sensible than Joe.
18	[[/folder]]
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20	[[folder:Ramon Rojo]]
21	--> Portrayed by: Gian Maria Volontè (as John Wells)
22	--> Voiced by: Nando Gazzolo (Italian), Bernie Grant (English)
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24	He is a member of the Rojo gang - a group of illegal rum-runners controlling a small town called San Miguel - being the middle-eldest. He and his brothers are at war with the Baxter family.
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26	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Just barely, but in the novelization, it is he who offers to let Joe leave with his life if he would just tell him where Marisol is.
27	* AlliterativeName: '''R'''amon '''R'''ojo.
28	* ArchEnemy: He took Marisol away from her desperate husband, and he later becomes this to Joe for beating him and threatening Silvanito.
29	* AxCrazy: He's an enthusiast for violence and destruction.
30	* {{Bandito}}: A classic example, but very smart.
31	* BigBad: The main antagonist.
32	* BloodKnight: Definitely.
33	* CigarFuseLighting: He uses a cigar to light the fuse on the dynamite that blows up the wall around the Baxter house.
34	* ColdSniper: Shown to be able to shoot a mounted soldier more than halfway across the river.
35	* CompositeCharacter: Of Unosuke and Tokuemon. Like the former, he is a marksman who serves as the muscle for his gang. Like the latter, he holds a desperate man's wife captive.
36	* ConspicuousGloves: He wears a single fingerless glove on his gun hand.
37	* DisproportionateRetribution: He makes Marisol his whore just because he thinks her husband owes him on account of a past gambling incident.
38	* DragonInChief: He serves as this to his elder brother Miguel. Miguel is the Don of the family, but Ramon is a much more dangerous fighter, and is the true power of the family.
39	* TheDreaded: Like his counterpart.
40	* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Esteban [[spoiler: shoots Consuela Baxter]], he stops grinning and looks more than a little shocked.
41	* EvilGenius: He's the only one of the villains who has a clue about Joe, and seems to be the Rojos' planner as well.
42	* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts friendly, but is rotten to the core.
43	* ForTheEvulz: This is the only reason in him. He is just an inhuman bastard who enjoys killing and robbing.
44	* FreudianTrio: Of the Rojos, he's the Ego: violent and crazy, but cunning and calculating.
45	* GatlingGood: His first scene involves mowing down a company of Mexican soldiers.
46	* TheHeavy: He's the real force of the Rojos.
47	* ImprobableAimingSkills: He somehow manages to always shoot his targets right through the heart with his rifle.
48	* InstantDeathBullet: {{Averted}}; he's alive for a little longer after Joe shoots him.
49	* {{Jerkass}}: That's putting it mildly.
50	* MurderIsTheBestSolution: He sets up two mass murders within several days rather than try more subtle methods or be content to accept an enemy's surrender.
51	* PetTheDog: He allows Marisol to temporarily reunite with her son during the prisoner exchange, but he draws the line at her husband being present and has Rubio deal with him—and he would have, too, if Silvanito had not pointed a rifle at him, which allowed Joe to successfully defuse the situation before the exchange can go to hell.
52	* PragmaticVillainy: Even as the other combatants have their doubts about the two men in the cemetery, Ramon refuses to take the chance that Joe could be right after all and simply unloads one bullet each into the corpses, just to be certain that they were dead, [[EvilGloating and then taunts the Baxters about it]].
53	* {{Sadist}}: Just look at the SlasherSmile he puts on while mowing down Mexican soldiers.
54	* {{Yandere}}: Holds Marisol captive out of lust for her.
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57	[[folder:Chico]]
58	--> Portrayed by: Mario Brega (as Richard Stuyvesant)
59	--> Voiced by: Renato Turi (Italian), Jack Curtis (English)
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61	* TheBrute: The Rojo gang's muscle.
62	* {{Expy}}: Of Kannuki, the GiantMook. [[spoiler:[[DeathByAdaptation Kannuki makes it to the finale, Chico doesn't]].]]
63	* FatBastard: Overweight and cruel. His first scene is him shooting at a child's feet to scare him off.
64	* GiantMook: He's the first of the Rojo thugs we see, and also one of the most prominent to the point of being billed in the opening credits. He's got a great girth, and he generally isn't very friendly even towards his fellow thugs, except for Vincente, who complains about having to watch Joe until he's ready to open his mouth about Marisol, ultimately getting barreled to death along with him.
65	* IronicNickname: Chico is the Spanish equivalent of calling someone "Tiny", and this heavyweight is anything but.
66	* SquashedFlat: [[spoiler:When Chico and Vincente show up to continue beating up Joe, Joe rolls an ''enormous'' barrel on top of them, and then incinerates their corpses by lighting the spilled liquor on fire to terrorize the still-living Rojos looking for him.]]
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69	[[folder:Marisol]]
70	--> Portrayed by: Marianne Koch
71	--> Voiced by: Rita Savagnone (Italian), Joyce Gordon (English)
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73	* DamselInDistress: Has to be rescued by Joe and re-united with her husband Julio and son Jesus.
74	* {{Expy}} of [[Film/{{Yojimbo}} Nui]].
75	* RapeAsBackstory: Ramon forcibly keeps Marisol to himself away from her husband Julio, using an incident involving a game of Poker as his justification for it.
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78	[[folder:Don Benito/Don Miguel]]
79	--> Portrayed by: Antonio Prieto
80	--> Voiced by: Mario Pisu (Italian), George Gonneau (English)
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82	* AdaptationalJerkass: The novelization portrays him as more thuggish and actively participating in Joe's torture in the storeroom.
83	* BoomHeadshot: How he dies.
84	-->''Miguel crashed to the ground with a bullet in his head and other men joined him as the stranger kept up the incessant fire.''
85	* TheDon: The head of the Rojo family.
86	* DoWrongRight: At the end of the torture scene, he instructs Chico to wait until Joe wakes up to continue torturing him; there's no use getting information from an unconscious man.
87	* DubNameChange: Don Benito in Italian, but referred to as Don Miguel in the US.
88	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The most well-disposed towards Joe even after he betrays them (offering his life for Marisol's location), he laughs as the Baxter home is destroyed and the Baxters are slaughtered but looks horrified when Esteban guns down Consuela.
89	* EvilLaugh: As he watches his brothers and {{Mooks}} wipe out the Baxters.
90	* {{Expy}}: Of Ushitora.
91	* FreudianTrio: Of the Rojo brothers, he's the Superego, the most cautious and reasonable.
92	* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being the most reasonable of the Rojo brothers, he's shown indulging in evil/insane laughter along with the other Rojo brothers and their men during the slaughter of the Baxters (though he doesn't kill any of the Baxters himself).
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95	[[folder:Esteban]]
96	--> Portrayed by: Sieghardt Rupp
97	--> Voiced by: Bruno Persa (Italian), Bernie Grant (English)
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99	* AxCrazy: Just as much as Ramon, perhaps even ''more'' so, since Ramon declined to kill a grieving Consuela Baxter, despite her venomous tirade at the Rojos. Esteban quickly loses any patience and guns the poor woman down right next to her husband and son, a deed that even Ramon seems to disapprove of.
100	* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Being impulsive, thuggish, and not too bright, he is prone to this, and his brothers sometimes point the fact out to him. Most notably, when he suggests simply shooting Joe in the back rather than paying him, it has to be explained to him that trying to shoot such a capable gunslinger in the back is an ''extremely'' risky proposition, with absolutely no margin for error. The words prove prophetic: Esteban is the last Rojo brother alive, and tries to kill Joe by shooting him from hiding, only to miss his shot and then get his head blown off by Silvanito.
101	* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:Lasts a few more seconds than Ramon and tries to shoot Joe from a balcony.]]
102	* FreudianTrio: Of the Rojo brothers, he's the Id, as the most impulsive of all three brothers.
103	* GigglingVillain: Spends the scene when Joe is beaten up by the {{Mooks}} lying down in the corner, laughing his head off.
104	* TheHyena: Especially during Joe and Silvanito's torture, where he even sounds like a literal hyena while cackling.
105	* PragmaticVillainy: In the novelization, when he captures Antonio, he tells his brother that killing Antonio would not be the best idea because he'd be more useful as a hostage. Doubles as a SmartBall, since he's not normally the brother you'd expect to think of that.
106	* {{Sadist}}: He enjoys himself much more than is healthy during the massacres that the Rojo brothers arrange and while Joe is being tortured.
107	[[/folder]]
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109	[[folder:Rubio]]
110	--> Portrayed by: Benito Stefanelli (as Benny Reeves)
111	--> Voiced by: Sergio Graziani (Italian), Ray Owens (English)
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113	* EtTuBrute: The novelization confirms he's so active in Joe's torture because he felt betrayed by him, more than the other Rojos, and thus has taken the betrayal much more personally than the others.
114	* MookLieutenant: Ramon's armor-bearer and caddy of sorts, who holds his gun until he's ready to use it.
115	* SoftSpokenSadist: In his sole line, he quietly threatens to murder an entire family before Silvanito intervenes and Joe defuses the situation by calmly telling the mother to go to Ramon and the father to take his kid home before things really get ugly.
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118	[[folder:John Baxter]]
119	--> Portrayed by: Wolfgang Lukschy
120	--> Voiced by: Giorgio Capecchi (Italian), Bernie Grant (English)
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122	* AdaptationalVillainy: In the film, the only real indication that he's a villain is in his being one of two rival crime lords running San Miguel's black market; otherwise, you'd think him a VillainyFreeVillain. In the novelization, however, after the massacre at the Rio Bravo, the crimes the Baxters committed under his watch are elaborated upon further.
123	* AintTooProudToBeg: When he's outgunned by the Rojos, he offers to skip town. They just shoot him dead.
124	* AuthorityInNameOnly: He's the Sheriff, at least according to himself and his badge, but he's on equal footing with Don Miguel.
125	* DirtyCop: Ostensibly the Sheriff, but he's the leader of a gang of arms smugglers.
126	* EvilCounterpart: He's an American that ended up in San Miguel, just like Joe, but he uses the town as the center of his criminal enterprise.
127	* AFatherToHisMen: When he and Joe first meet, he threatens to have Joe hanged for killing four of his {{mook}}s.
128	* HenpeckedHusband: His wife appears to be the brains of their operation.
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131	[[folder:Piripero]]
132	--> Portrayed by: Josef Egger (as Joe Edger)
133	--> Voiced by: Lauro Gazzolo (Italian), Robert Dryden (English)
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135	The undertaker of San Miguel, and the only other man in town besides Silvanito who makes his living honestly.
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137	* EvilLaugh: After telling Joe what the dynamite he'd procured for him is for in his coming final confrontation with the Rojos.
138	* HeroicBSOD: Briefly undergoes one after the last of San Miguel's bosses carks it, before measuring the corpses for their coffins as Joe rides out of town.
139	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After the Rojos torture Silvanito in the cantina, Piripero, the unfailingly happy old undertaker who falls into despair only when he runs out of customers, looks genuinely horrified at the lengths to which the Rojos will go to recapture Joe. His TranquilFury as he says "Curse them...!" only seals the deal.
140	* {{Undertaker}}: He builds coffins for the bodies left by the Rojos and the Baxters.

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