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13 | A pair of cattle horns is mounted on the hood or sometimes the front grille of their vehicle is a visual trope that's often used along with style of dress to show that a character is from the western part of the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates, or occasionally more specifically that they are from Texas or somehow involved in the cattle business. Sometimes it can also just be there because they're a lover of the West. |
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15 | Your driver may be a FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit. |
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17 | Not to be confused with HoodOrnamentHottie. |
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20 | !!Examples: |
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23 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
24 | * In ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp: Season Zero'' #4, GoodOlBoy Smitty comes [[TheCavalry flying to the rescue]] in a helicopter gunship with longhorn steer horns mounted on the front. |
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27 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
28 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', one of the broken down cars in the junkyard during the "Worthless" number is a long-bodied roadster with hood hornments. It states that it took a Texan to a wedding, one assumes that it was a wealthy Texan if he could afford a car like that. |
29 | * The owner of Dinoco in ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' is a limo with a horn hood ornament functioning as a moustache. |
30 | * ''WesternAnimation/ACarsLifeSparkysBigAdventure'': Steer horns are one of the modifications Sparky adds when he tricks himself out. |
31 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', Butcher Boy has a massive pair of bull horns mounted on the roof of his car, which he uses as a weapon in ''Slaughter Race''. |
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34 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
35 | * In ''Film/DeathWish'', Tucson businessman Ames Jainchill drives a station wagon with a set of horns on the bonnet and a second, larger set on the roof. |
36 | * ''Film/GunsGirlsAndGambling'': In keeping with his title, The Rancher is chauffeured around in a white stretch limo with a set of longhorn horns mounted on the front. |
37 | * In ''Film/{{North}}'' North's first stop when looking for a new set of parents is Texas, where his prospective parents pick him up in the airport driving an airport cart with horns, followed by a AbsurdlyLongLimousine with horns on the front. |
38 | * In ''Film/ScotlandPA'', when Joe [=McBeth=] becomes owner of a successful restaurant, he buys a new car with steer horns on the hood as a status symbol. They're a ChekhovsGun as well: [[spoiler:he dies at the end by falling off a roof and getting impaled on those same horns.]] |
39 | * In ''Film/{{Sunset|1988}}'', cowboy movie star Tom Mix drives a huge Packard convertible with steer horns mounted on the front. Mix actually had a car like this in RealLife. |
40 | * Julius jacks a convertible with buffalo horns on the hood in ''Film/Twins1988'', but later mentions that he returned it. "He was a cowboy!" |
41 | [[/folder]] |
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43 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
44 | * ''Series/{{Cannon}}'': In "Country Blues", the VictimOfTheWeek is a country and western singer who drives a white convertible with massive horns on the grill. |
45 | * In ''Series/{{CSI}}'', Grissom investigated the case of a man with Down's Syndrome who was working at a ranch. The murder weapon turned out to be a pair of these, and the killer their owner, a cocky ranch hand. |
46 | * ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': |
47 | ** Boss Hogg has a pair of giant horns on his white Caddy convertible. |
48 | ** Boss Hogg's [[PolarOppositeTwins Polar Opposite Twin]] Abraham Lincoln Hogg has a pair of horns on his black Caddy convertible. |
49 | ** Boss Hogg's nephew Hughie has a pair of small horns on his white VW Beetle convertible. |
50 | * In one ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' episode, the paramedics are flagged down by a guy wanting to report an accident. He was dressed Western-style and had a pair of these on the hood of his car. |
51 | * In ''Series/JJStarbuck'', Starbuck was a self-made Texas billionaire who toured the country in his white 1964 Continental that came complete with steer horns on the hood and a horn that played ''The Eyes of Texas'', using his wealth to help people. |
52 | * During the ''Series/TopGear'' Botswana Special, Jeremy Clarkson takes this one step further and decorates the hood of his Lancia Beta with an entire bull skull he found while traversing the Kalahari Desert. |
53 | [[/folder]] |
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55 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
56 | * For at least part of his career, Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield used a limo with cow horns mounted on the front. |
57 | [[/folder]] |
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59 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
60 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Horns are a common adornment on ork vehicles (and ork PowerArmor), usually taken from some large and hostile creature to show the ork is capable of beating something bigger and stronger than itself. |
61 | [[/folder]] |
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63 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
64 | * In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', Trevor can add a pair of horns to his signature Canis Bodhi pickup's hood or roof (or both), which fits well with his rebellious lifestyle and his love for living in the desert. |
65 | [[/folder]] |
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67 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
68 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Doug Dimmadome's Dimmobile. |
69 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': One episode has a character who's a Western-stereotype rich cattle guy, and his stone-age car sports a pair |
70 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'': Longhorn, the half-man and half-steer villain, has a truck named Bessie Mae outfitted with a pair of horns. |
71 | * ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'': Old Smokey is a huge flatbed truck driven by Porkchop with a pair of bull horns attached to the grill. |
72 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Occasionally seen driven by wealthy Texans. In one episode, Hank rents a 70s Cadillac Eldorado from Buck Strickland to impress a potential client; his neighbor Khan notes the bull horns and calls it a "silly cow car." |
73 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Rich Texan has a pair of horns on his giant Cadillac. |
74 | * ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': Cliffjumper's vehicle mode is a 70s Dodge Challenger sporting these, on account that his robot mode also sports horns on his head. |
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