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8	'''Jim Cutlass''' is a Franco-Belgian comic book series created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud (Creator/{{Moebius}}), creators of the more famous western ''ComicBook/{{Blueberry}}''. The first album appeared in 1979, and the seventh and final in 1999, it was started due to a legal dispute over the rights to ''Blueberry'', and is a Western sharing many of the characteristics, but taking place in the DeepSouth instead of the west. Jim Cutlass, a lieutenant in the US Army and a veteran of the Civil War, returns from the army to maintain the plantation he has inherited along with his cousin, Carolyn ([[KissingCousins whom he is also in love with]]). After leaving the care of his plantation to Carolyn, Cutlass returns to the army, and becomes entwined in a plot to creak down on a crime movement led by two key characters in TheKlan, Don Clay and Playcard, and at the same time becoming involved in hunting the shadowy White Alligator, a mysterious voodoo practitioner holding an immense power over black people in the south.
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10	Towards the end of his life, Moebius talked about finally doing a {{crossover}} between Cutlass and Comicbook/{{Blueberry}}, but DiedDuringProduction put an end to those plans.
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13	!!Contains examples of the following tropes:
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15	* AnimalAssassin: While Cutlass is in prison, Playcard attempts to dispatch him with a moccasin snake. Though you would expect this to be due to ComplexityAddiction, Cutlass notes that it is a brilliant plan, the snake would never be seen by anyone, and Cutlass would be dead in the morning without a sound.
16	* TheBeastmaster: The White Alligator. He controls a literal white alligator, of immense size.
17	* BigBad: Don Clay and The White Alligator for different clans.
18	** BigBadWannabe: Playcard, who clearly believes himself and Clay to be a BigBadDuumvirate, and behaves as a complete SmugSnake accordingly.
19	* TheBrute: [=McKee=], the brutal sergent from the army, who actually works for Clay, and takes a personal hate to Cutlass.
20	* DespairEventHorizon: For Woodrow, The White Alligators murder of an innocent family. It caused him to lose faith in the cause.
21	* TheDreaded: The White Alligator, both the person and the actual alligator.
22	%%* DumbMuscle: [=McKee=].
23	%%* TheDragon: Playcard.
24	* EvilIsBigger: Clay. The White Alligator also absolutely towers over everyone else.
25	%%* EyepatchOfPower: Clay.
26	%%* FauxAffablyEvil: The White Alligator and Clay.
27	* JerkassGods: the ancestral African spirits. They engineered slave trade to America so they could set foot there. No wonder the White Alligator hates them with a vengeance.
28	* KissingCousins: Cutlass and Carolyn.
29	* TheKlan: Run by Playcard and Clay as a cover up for their criminal activities, against The White Alligator.
30	%%* LightIsNotGood: The White Alligator.
31	* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Given the setting, alligators is a must. But The White Alligator (the reptile, not the person), serves a special mention. To iterate, it is an enormous albino alligator, revered as a creature of the swamp, feared by anyone, and probably controlled by The White Alligator. When Cutlass is abandoned in the swamp by Woodrow, normal alligators surround his canoe. He reassures himself that they would never be able to overturn it, and then he sees this creature on the bank. OhCrap does not even ''begin'' to describe his reaction when it enters the water, easily overturns his canoe, forces him to flee into a tree, ''and then starts cutting down the tree to get to him.''
32	* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The White Alligator.
33	* NightmareSequence: Cutlass' nightmare involving The White Alligator is terrifying. It starts with him happily envisioning his marriage with Carolyn, when suddenly The White Alligator (reptile) bursts in, grows to ''deinosuchus'' like length, and wreaks Cutlass' plantation. Then its master appears, and takes away Carolyn to marry her himself, while she is induced in a very scary zombie-like trance. And apparently The White Alligator has the power to instill this into people at will.
34	* OhCrap: Cutlass gets an absolutely epic one when he sees The White Alligator (the reptile), watching him from a riverbank.
35	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Clay and Playcard are obvious, being members of TheKlan and all, The White Alligator, with his vast anti-white obsessions, is a lighter example.
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37	* RogueAgent: Cutlass, after being WronglyAccused for the murder of a prostitute.
38	* ScaryBlackMan: The White Alligator, despite being an albino.
39	%%* ShroudedInMyth: The White Alligator.
40	%%* SmugSnake: Playcard, in spades.
41	* SuperPersistentPredator: The White Alligator. When Cutlass flees up a tree, the alligator quite literally destroys the tree to get to him.
42	%%* SwampsAreEvil
43	* ThreeWaySex: In ''Thunder In The South'', Clay has sex with two black slaves while being interrupted by Playcard.

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