Once and for all!!! (A poll)

[Guest TankerHC]

Based on massive amounts of time in exhaustive research (About 10 minutes) here is a list of the top rated Gunfighters in TV, Movies, Western Novels, and Comic Books. Left out are people like Tom Horn, Judge Roy Bean and others because those people did actually exist and did actually gun down people (Justly and unjustly) and did go West but not to a Hollywood back lot.

 

Here is your list of Gunfighters who never existed. Which one is the greatest?

 

 

[Ted S.]

Sorry, everyone knows it's The Waco Kid....Harmonica comes in at a close second...

Edited February 22, 2014 by Ted S.

[TrickyNicky]

You left off Paladin.

Either way I went with Roland Deschsain. Those gunslingers were some BA dudes.

[FUJIMO]

No Josey Wales ???

[Guest TankerHC]

No Josey Wales ???

 

Josey Wales wasn't actually a gunfighter in the fictional gunfighter sense. As a fictional character, in the book he actually wasnt a sniper (Going to have to get into some Historical fact here, because Josey was a real live fictional character) considering that to qualify to be a sniper during the Civil War, arguably the best, Berdans Sharpshooters rarely took a shot beyond 200 yards, unless they pulled out one of their special target rifles then they might take a shot out to six thousand yards, as Berdans Sharpshooters History notes, "The storied exploits of the Sharpshooters were equally extraordinary'; possibly some of them were even true". So it is unlikely Josey Wales would have been able to even make the Ferry rope shot, even with the best rifle of the day. Josey Wales wasnt a fictional gunfighter, he was a fictional Confederate soldier who came home to his fictional farm and his fictional family, who were murdered by the fictional Redlegs commanded by the fictional Redlegs Captain who ran all over the south randomly killing family members of former Confederate soldiers he didnt like. Happened all the time. 

 

On the other hand, the strangled deputy also known as "The Stranger on Horseback" who put the whores and midget in charge and painted the town red, was actually a real fictional gunslinger. He killed many men, and may have even been a relative of Josey Wales based on appearances alone. But there is some truth that either Josey Wales or The Stranger on Horseback have a modern day descendant who has also killed many fictional bad guys. Name of Harry Callahan. The resemblance is uncanny, I have met him myself.

 

But anyway, thats why I left him off the list.  

[R_Bert]

Robocop?

 

Yosemite Sam?

Edited February 22, 2014 by R_Bert

[Caster]

Matthew Quigley? He may not like pistols but he never said he didn't know how to use one.

[RED333]

John Wayne!!!

[frankmako]

john wayne is first, then clint eastwood. 

[daddyo]

"Fill yore hand, you sonofabitch!"

Edited February 22, 2014 by daddyo

[tartanphantom]

Nobody.

 

[luvmyberetta]

I don't know if everyone else is too old or if I'm too young, but I've only heard of about five of those movies. :shrug:

[Grunt67]

 Frank Morgan 1st, Nathan Stone 2nd.( of course he was killed in a street fight,( Autumn Of The Gun )

[bersaguy]

John Wayne                  Shootest

Clint Eastwood              Pale Rider

Henry Fonda                Warlock

Yul Brynner                  Magnificent Seven

[RED333]

All right, I will say it,

ALL OF THEM ARE GOOD!

[hipower]

Really, really hard pick. My wife will say John Wayne aka, Rooster,  without question.

 

I would lean more toward the man with no name Eastwood character.

[Dolomite`s Breezy]

Absolutely  love J W movies..

 

He was JW.. and he played it always the same.. there was no different roles for him.It was always the same..

Same with  Clint Eastwood..

 

But have to love both of them

[whitewolf001]

Ben Wade portrayed by Russell Crowe in 3:10 to Yuma would've gotten mine had he been a choice. I despise Crowe as a person BUT he is a good actor and that character in that movie was just a BAMF.

[Good_Steward]

No Brett Maverick? What about Paladin? Doc Holliday? Lash LaRue?

[Garufa]

What about Shane?

[Guest TankerHC]

Absolutely  love J W movies..

 

He was JW.. and he played it always the same.. there was no different roles for him.It was always the same..

Same with  Clint Eastwood..

 

But have to love both of them

 

You must have never seen Clint in "Paint your Wagon"

[Guest TankerHC]

No Brett Maverick? What about Paladin? Doc Holliday? Lash LaRue?

 

Brett and Bart are both there, Doc Holiday isnt fictional and Paladin wasnt on any of the top ten lists. 

Edited February 23, 2014 by TankerHC

[Spiffy]

Isn't Roland and The Gunslinger the same person? King's Dark Tower Series?

[RED333]

So much for "

Once and for all!!! (A poll)

[Guest TankerHC]

Isn't Roland and The Gunslinger the same person? King's Dark Tower Series?

 

I thought the same. And your probably correct. But, two different lists listed them as two different people from two different parts of the series. So on that I dont know.