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1	[[quoteright:300:[[VideoGame/DillonsRollingWestern https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dillon_lastranger.png]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:300:[[Music/MartyRobbins No one dared to ask his business]]\
3	No one dared to make him tell\
4	The stranger there among them had a tough and sturdy shell\
5	(Tough and sturdy shell)]]
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7	Although they are not often seen in fiction, armadillos are often associated with TheWildWest when they do appear, and are occasionally given stereotypical traits of cowboys or depicted wearing cowboy attire.
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9	This is likely because the most widespread armadillo species -- the nine-banded-armadillo -- is common in the southern United States, including the state of Texas. Additionally, the association with cowboys in particular may come from the fact that armadillos' leathery shells both easily lend themselves to said depictions and give them a reputation as hardy animals.
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11	Subtrope of NationalAnimalStereotypes, for America (and the state of Texas in particular) and Mexico. For another stereotype of armadillos, see ShyShelledAnimal. For another animal emblematic of the West, see WesternRattlers.
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14	!!Examples:
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19	* The mascot of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, Andy the Armadillo, wears a cowboy outfit.
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23	* ''Manga/OnePiece'' features [[https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Madilloman Madilloman]], a minor member of the Beasts Pirates who is capable of manifesting armadillo features and dresses himself like a gunslinger.
24	* Armadillomon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' is given a Texan accent in the English dub, courtesy of the late Creator/RobertAxelrod.
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28	* The comic book ''[[https://www.risingsuncomics.com/armadillo-justice Armadillo Justice]]'' deals with a trio of alien anthropomorphic armadillos who get stranded on Earth and now defend it from [[InsectoidAliens hostile ant invaders]]. At least one of them is dressed in a stereotypical cowboy outfit, while the other two wear more modern clothing.
29	* In Paul Dini's ''Mutant, Texas'' series, we have Rollalong Diller, a mutant armadillo who acts as Sheriff Ida Red's deputy. He keeps an ant farm outside of the titular town.
30	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' has Blockhead Bill, an elderly armadillo who talks like WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam.
31	* The ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' villain Armordillo is an enhanced armadillo from the state of "Taxes", who talks like every stereotype of Texans.
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35	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'', an ode to {{Spaghetti Western}}s, an armadillo wearing a ''sombrero'' is among the first characters the titular protagonist meets early on.
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39	* The music video to Music/TheClash's 1982 hit song "Rock the Casbah" was filmed in Austin, Texas, and includes an armadillo walking on the side of the road, between the band members, and following a Muslim and a Hasidic Jew into the city and to the Clash concert.
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43	* ''Ride/WaltDisneyWorld'': Invoked. The defunct ''Pleasure Island'' area had a building called the "Neon Armadillo Music Saloon," It was a Western-themed saloon for country bands to perform at. The building's neon sign featured a moving image of a jumping armadillo.
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47	* The NES platformer ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_(video_game) Armadillo]]'' stars an armadillo in a cowboy hat and bandana named Billy the Shell.
48	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r6VJ4RAMfY Armadillo Alley: Cowboy Bowling]]'', apparently made by the creators of the infamous ''VideoGame/ElfBowling'' PC game, being more or less the same thing anyway. Just swap the following: Santa Claus -> Unnamed Sheriff, elf pins -> outlaw pins and bowling balls -> actual armadillos.
49	* ''VideoGame/BountyOfOne'': The Armarauders and their [[BossBattle Sheriff]] are FunnyAnimal armadillos in a WeirdWest themed game. Naturally, they attack by rolling at you and bouncing off the sides of the screen.
50	* The ''VideoGame/DillonsRollingWestern'' series takes place in a setting largely inspired by TheWildWest, and its protagonist Dillon is an anthropomorphic armadillo who wears typical cowboy clothing such as a hat, a belt, and boots.
51	* ''VideoGame/HornOfTheAbyss'', a GameMod for ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagicIII'', has armadillos as tier 3 creatures of a CattlePunk-themed new town Factory, alongside such units as Gunslingers with QuickDraw ability.
52	* Played with in ''VideoGame/MegaManX1'', where the boss Armored Armadillo is portrayed as a [[SamuraiCowboy samurai]].
53	* In the ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' series, they're so thick that a town is named after them.
54	* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': Toothpick is an armadillo working for the BigBad, sent to terrorize the old Western town of Cotton Mouth Bluff. While there, Toothpick fits right in with the setting, toting guns and wearing a cowboy hat and a vest with a star badge, among other cowboy garb.
55	* In ''VideoGame/SonicMania'', in Act 1 of Sonic and Tails' [[TheWildWest Mirage Saloon Zone]], the Armadilloid enemies consist of tiny robotic armadillos piloting bigger ones, allowing them to shoot at Sonic and Tails, much like the Turtloid enemies in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2''. Knuckles' Act 1, as well as Act 2 of the same stage feature the return of Roller, a robotic armadillo previously seen in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' who defends itself with a roll attack.
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59	* The Furry Comic ''Tina of the South'' stars one of these. A rare female example too.
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63	* Downplayed in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bubsy}}'' pilot. Arnold the armadillo has nightmares about being hit by a truck on a road somewhere in the west (it's sandy, with cacti along the road.) Later, a news anchor mentions that "last year, over 10,000 armadillos were run over by trucks in the state of Texas alone."
64	* ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'': Played For Laughs and averted with Henry Armadillo, who despite his Texan accent is [[MisplacedWildlife actually from Greenland]].
65	* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', an armadillo with a Texan accent named the Amarillo Kid is an occasional antagonist to the penguins.
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