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The Last Outlaw

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The Last Outlaw	comment	The Last Outlaw is a 1993 HBO Made-for-TV Western directed by Geoff Murphy, written by Eric Red, and starring Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Keith David, Steve Buscemi, John C. McGinley, and Ted Levine.After the end of the American Civil War, a gang of former Confederate soldiers turned outlaw are on a wild bank robbery spree across New Mexico, led by the utterly ruthless Graff, (Rourke) their former Colonel and commanding officer from the war. However, Graff's bloodthirsty attitude and increasing cruelty are alienating some of his men, including his second-in-command Eustis, (Mulroney) who despite his sense of loyalty is growing closer to outright rebelling against Graff.After their latest robbery goes turns into a bloody shootout with US Marshal Sharp (Gavan O'Herlihy) and his posse, several of the outlaws are injured, especially Loomis, (Daniel Quinn) the youngest member of the band. Knowing that pursuit from the marshal and his posse is inevitable, Graff threatens to leave Loomis behind if he can't keep up, and when it becomes clear that Loomis can barely stay in the saddle without help from others, Graff moves to execute Loomis so he won't slow the rest of the outlaws down. This is the breaking point for Eustis, who shoots Graff and leaves him for dead before Graff can kill Loomis.However, Graff survives, and is captured by the posse led by Sharp and McClintock, (Richard Fancy) the wealthy owner of the bank they attempted to rob. Graff soon starts aiding the posse so he can use it as a way to get revenge on his former gang, and with his help the posse becomes almost impossible to escape as they start picking the outlaws off one by one.
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The Last Outlaw / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Last Outlaw / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Wills at first is fairly cowardly, panicking as the posse encroaches on the outlaws and ultimately running off with the money to return it to the posse to get them to call off the manhunt. When Eustis decides to leave him behind, however, Wills decides to Face Death with Dignity and take as many members of the posse with him as he can.
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The Last Outlaw / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Last Outlaw / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Definitely. With the sole exception of Eustis, the entire cast is dead by the end of the film.
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The Last Outlaw / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
The Last Outlaw / int_12575a9f	comment	Marshal Sharp straddles the line between cold and Friendly Sniper. He's a Hero Antagonist, albeit a smug one who thinks too much of himself, and also a deadly shot at long range.
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The Last Outlaw / int_145490c6	type	Still Wearing the Old Colors
The Last Outlaw / int_145490c6	comment	Still Wearing the Old Colors: A number of the outlaws still wear at least parts of their old uniforms, although for most it's just bits and pieces, like Philo's cap. Eustis and Graff are the main ones where it's clear that they're still wearing large parts of their old uniforms.
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The Last Outlaw / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Last Outlaw / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Sharp. He's pompous and not especially likable, but he does genuinely want to see Justice done. It's averted by the rest of the posse, who are entirely concerned with their payment and have absolutely no loyalty to each other or devotion to the idea of justice.
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The Last Outlaw / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Last Outlaw / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Loomis is shot repeatedly in non-vital areas, leaving him mortally wounded and pretty much guaranteeing him a slow death. Eustis is ultimately forced to Mercy Kill him.
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The Last Outlaw / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Last Outlaw / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Sharp is the Hero Antagonist and as close as the film gets to a genuinely good guy, but he's short-tempered, aggressive, and makes it very clear that he wants to see the entire gang dead.
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The Last Outlaw / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Last Outlaw / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Literally. During the heist at the start of the film, Graff finds a derringer pistol on one of the bank employees and throws it aside. Eustis grabs it and hold onto it until the very end of the movie when he uses it to fatally shoot Graff.
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The Last Outlaw / int_2711e392	type	The Complainer Is Always Wrong
The Last Outlaw / int_2711e392	comment	The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Zig-Zagged. Potts is constantly contradicting and complaining about whatever Graff and later Eustis tell him. He's right roughly about half the time.
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The Last Outlaw / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Last Outlaw / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: While the film pointedly avoids making much if any reference to slavery, Graff, who is unquestionably the most evil person in the film, is a former plantation owner, and thus a slave owner as well.
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The Last Outlaw / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Last Outlaw / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The rest of the gang are horrified when Graff kills the hostages during the opening bank heist by setting the bank on fire and leaving behind ignited dynamite to blow them up. Eustis finally has enough when Graff decides to leave Loomis to die, and then moves to shoot Loomis when Eustis tries to intervene.
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The Last Outlaw / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
The Last Outlaw / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: Marshal Sharp straddles the line between cold and Friendly Sniper. He's a Hero Antagonist, albeit a smug one who thinks too much of himself, and also a deadly shot at long range. Give Graff a rifle, and he's the embodiment of every negative stereotype about snipers, which is best seen with his absolutely torturous killing of Loomis.
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The Last Outlaw / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Last Outlaw / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Very heavy on the bitter side. A wounded Eustis manages to escape to Mexico and kills Graff, but the rest of the gang is dead and the money they took during the heist is gone.
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The Last Outlaw / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
The Last Outlaw / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: Only one of the outlaws survives the film: Eustis.
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The Last Outlaw / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
The Last Outlaw / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: All of the outlaws (with the likely exception of Lovecraft) once served in the Confederate army and are now dangerous criminals.
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The Last Outlaw / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Last Outlaw / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Loomis. He easily gets the least respect out of the gang, and spends most of the film dealing with an agonizing leg wound that impedes his ability to move. He ultimately gets the most agonizing and painful death in the film, being repeatedly shot in non-vital areas by Graff until Eustis is forced to Mercy Kill him.
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The Last Outlaw / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Last Outlaw / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Eustis and Lovecraft are pretty friendly and polite for outlaws, and Eustis even has a sense of honor and loyalty. McClintock, for a given value of evil. He's somewhat callous, doesn't care too much about the lives of his posse, and is focused more on getting his money back then anything else, but he's always polite and treats Graff fairly well after taking him prisoner. He even decides to let the outlaws go after Wills returns the money, only for Graff to kill him and frame Wills so the posse will continue the pursuit. He also showed concern for the people in the bank during the heist.
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The Last Outlaw / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Last Outlaw / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: At one point when he thinks Graff is dead and is talking about him, Eustis refers to Graff's leadership in the Battle of Atlanta and calls it the bloodiest battle of the war. Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of the Civil War knows that this is not even remotely close to being accurate. The only way his statement can be remotely justified is if Eustis meant to say that it was the bloodiest battle that Graff and he fought in during the war.
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The Last Outlaw / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Last Outlaw / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Graff throws McClintock off a cliff along with the money after Wills attempts to return it, then frames the outlaws so he can continue his pursuit.
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The Last Outlaw / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Last Outlaw / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Lovecraft gradually starts to lose it and becomes convinced that Graff is immortal and unkillable as he continually leads the posse against the gang. It culminates in him turning against the outlaws so he can at least get a quick death from Graff.
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The Last Outlaw / int_62a596ce	type	Politically Correct Villain
The Last Outlaw / int_62a596ce	comment	Politically Correct Villain: In spite of the gang consisting of ex-Confederate soldiers, the black Lovecraft is still a member and treated with respect by the rest of the gang. The only exception is when Graff refers to him by a racial slurnote the term wasn't necessarily a slur in his time, but the way he uses it makes it one in a conversation with Eustis, but it's ignored otherwise.
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The Last Outlaw / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
The Last Outlaw / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Graff shows no true warmth or respect for anyone, and more than once refers to the members of his gang as if they were his property.
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The Last Outlaw / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Last Outlaw / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: After being left behind by Eustis, Wills decides to go out fighting and spends his last moments engaging the posse in a gunfight and killing several of them.
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The Last Outlaw / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Last Outlaw / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Potts, on occasion. The most notable case is at the start of the film when he's complaining about the ambush at the bank, which was supposed to be unguarded. Eustis, who hasn't yet turned on Graff, tries pointing out that Graff got them out of the ambush alive and correctly guessed that it was there before everyone else, which saved their skins. Potts counters that Graff also got them into the situation in the first place, and force marched them for days to arrive at the bank, only to be wrong about the resistance they'd face once they arrived. It's clear from Eustis's face that this hits home and is another factor that shakes his faith in Graff. Grubb is one of the few members of the posse given a personality, and it's that he's a greedy and unpleasant man. However, after the deaths of McClintock and the Marshall, he tells the rest of the posse they should forget about going for the rest of the gang, they'd already have a large bounty they can claim just from the captured Graf and Philo, they should cut their losses, head back to town, claim the bounty, and call it a day. While a few agree with him, the rest are blinded by the thought of claiming the bounties for all of the gang, and so insist on continuing the hunt. Continuing to hunt the outlaws eventually gets everyone in the posse killed.
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The Last Outlaw / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Last Outlaw / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Lovecraft can't make himself turn on Eustis, but is terrified out of his mind of Graff and the pursuit. In the end he decides that it would be better to kill himself than to let Graff do the deed.
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The Last Outlaw / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Last Outlaw / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: The outlaws are violent criminals, but for the most part they are just in it for the money and would rather avoid killing civilians. Meanwhile, the posse are just as violent and - with the exception of Sharp - are also entirely concerned with money and have absolutely no loyalty to each other. And there's Graff, who is a ruthless and sociopathic murderer playing both sides against each other so he can get his revenge on Eustis.
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The Last Outlaw / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
The Last Outlaw / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Eustis is far more moral than Graff and deeply values loyalty, which leads to him turning on Graff for trying to kill Loomis. However, Graff's torment gradually wears away at him until he's only a little better than his former commander.
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The Last Outlaw / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
The Last Outlaw / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: Graff survives Eustis shooting him because the bullet hits a flask he had been carrying. The rest of the gang don't know this, which leads an increasingly unstable Lovecraft to conclude that Graff is immortal and can't be killed.
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The Last Outlaw / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Last Outlaw / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Eustis becomes increasingly ruthless as Graff and the posse's pursuit increases in intensity. Compare his earlier refusal to abandon an injured Loomis to him abandoning Wills after his horse is shot and it becomes clear that Lovecraft's horse can't carry him. Although in fairness, there is literally nothing that Eustis can physically do to help Wills at that point, whereas Graff could have but refused to try with Loomis.
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The Last Outlaw / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Last Outlaw / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Grubb is a greedy, unreliable Jerkass, so it's hard to feel bad when he's gunned down by the rest of the posse when he tries to get them to turn back rather than continue to pursue the outlaws.
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The Last Outlaw / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Last Outlaw / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Lovecraft commits suicide rather than let himself be murdered by Graff, well aware that whatever Graff does to him will be far worse and much more drawn out.
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The Last Outlaw / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Last Outlaw / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Eustis is shot twice during the final confrontation with the posse, but keeps fighting, kills Graff, and is last seen riding over the river to Mexico.
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The Last Outlaw / int_9f085fbc	type	The Dissenter Is Always Right
The Last Outlaw / int_9f085fbc	comment	The Dissenter Is Always Right: Zig-Zagged with Potts. He is generally the voice of dissent against Graff and his successor Eustis's decisions. While he's clearly wrong at several points, he's right when he points out that Graff's callousness and ruthlessness has made him a danger to everyone around him and later when he bluntly tells Eustis that they should stop trying to engage the posse directly and instead focus on fleeing to Mexico. Wills, terrified for his life after the posse managed to kill two members of the gang, grabs the money they had stolen during their heists and returns it to the posse to get them to stop their chase. While the gang lambasts him for his cowardice, Wills's decision almost works; McClintock is ready to call off the posse once the money is returned and let the outlaws escape, only for Graff to covertly kill him to keep the chase going.
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The Last Outlaw / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Last Outlaw / int_a679184b	comment	Even after his gang turns against him, Graff stops a posseman from mutilating the dead Philo, putting a gun to his face and telling him that his boys will be shown proper respect.
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The Last Outlaw / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Last Outlaw / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Graff's overconfidence. He is a ruthless but highly capable leader and a crack shot. He is also a shrewd judge of character and extremely good at manipulating people. However, this leads him to believe himself superior to everyone and in the end he underestimates Eustis, taking the time to rub his superiority into his face instead of just killing him immediately because he believes Eustis has run out of bullets; what he doesn't count on is Eustis having a hidden derringer pistol.
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The Last Outlaw / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Last Outlaw / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Graff is fairly prone to some dry snark every now and again.
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The Last Outlaw / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Last Outlaw / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Lovecraft turns on the gang so that Graff will at least grant him a quick death. He ultimately doesn't follow through with it and shoots himself instead.
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The Last Outlaw / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
The Last Outlaw / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Graff shows signs of this. He shoots Loomis repeatedly in non-vital areas, keeping him alive but suffering and on the verge of death, just to torment Eustis, and he later fatally wounds Potts right when he reaches the Rio Grande so he can die just inches away from freedom. And of course, he makes it very clear that he's saving Eustis for last just to punish him all the more for his betrayal.
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The Last Outlaw / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Last Outlaw / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Graff's signature way of dispatching his enemies is shooting them in the head, which Sharp and Philo wind up being on the receiving end of. Eustis shoots a fatally wounded Loomis in the head to put him out of his misery.
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The Last Outlaw / int_c3db1619	type	ZigZagged
The Last Outlaw / int_c3db1619	comment	Zig-Zagged with Potts. He is generally the voice of dissent against Graff and his successor Eustis's decisions. While he's clearly wrong at several points, he's right when he points out that Graff's callousness and ruthlessness has made him a danger to everyone around him and later when he bluntly tells Eustis that they should stop trying to engage the posse directly and instead focus on fleeing to Mexico.
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The Last Outlaw / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
The Last Outlaw / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Sharp is firmly a Hero Antagonist (albeit not a very nice one), who believes himself to be capable of taking down the outlaw gang, but he is repeatedly outsmarted by Graff during the heist and their escape afterward. Later on he would have lost the outlaws if not for Graff pointing the posse in the right direction. He winds up getting killed by Graff midway through the film, and Graff then manages to become the leader of the posse.
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The Last Outlaw / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Last Outlaw / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Graff's ruthlessness and sadism were caused when his family was raped and murdered by Union soldiers, which set him off on his current vendetta against the North.
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The Last Outlaw / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Last Outlaw / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: The final posse member tries this against Eustis, but it doesn't work because Eustis hears him cocking his revolver and manages to shoot him first. However, Graff takes advantage of the confusion to get the drop on Eustis.
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The Last Outlaw / int_cdbe4ca	comment	Doomed Defeatist: As Lovecraft goes increasingly unhinged, he becomes convinced that Graff is some kind of immortal Revenant Zombie who cannot be killed. He ultimately betrays the gang to Graff and the posse in exchange for being granted a quick death, but he can't bring himself to shoot Eustis and kills himself instead.
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The Last Outlaw / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Graff cleverly takes control of the very posse that captured him. First, he takes advantage of the confusion caused by the outlaw ambush to kill the posse leader, Marshal Sharp, making it look like he died in the crossfire. He then offers to lead the posse to his former gang, playing on their greed. When an opportunity presents itself, he throws McClintock and his money off a cliff, making it look like the outlaws were responsible, so that the posse has further incentive to hunt down the remaining outlaws. This causes an argument among the remaining posse members, with Grubb and a couple of others trying to persuade the rest to kill Graff and go home and claim the bounty for two dead outlaws, while the others want to keep Graff alive so that he can help them track down the rest of the gang. The argument escalates into a gunfight in which Grubb and his supporters are killed, finally allowing Graff to regain his freedom and become leader of the remaining posse members, effectively turning them into his new gang.
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The Last Outlaw / int_d9850d12	type	Doomed Contrarian
The Last Outlaw / int_d9850d12	comment	Doomed Contrarian: Potts and Wills, the most openly disobedient and contrarian of the gang, are both killed.
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The Last Outlaw / int_db165dcf	type	Doomed Hurt Guy
The Last Outlaw / int_db165dcf	comment	Doomed Hurt Guy: Loomis, no matter how much Eustis tries to defy it.
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The Last Outlaw / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
The Last Outlaw / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: Graff "treats" the shoulder wound he suffered while riding away from the town by pouring gunpowder into it and setting said gunpowder on fire to cauterize the wound. This is an absolutely terrible way to attempt to deal with the wound and in real life would have likely caused worse problems with the potential for internal injuries, sepsis, and killing off a bunch of tissue inside his body. If done in real life or if the film had treated the "cure" realistically, the best case scenario for Graff would have been losing the use of that arm for the rest of his life, the worst case would have been death within days from sepsis.
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The Last Outlaw / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Last Outlaw / int_e16cd24e	comment	Grubb is one of the few members of the posse given a personality, and it's that he's a greedy and unpleasant man. However, after the deaths of McClintock and the Marshall, he tells the rest of the posse they should forget about going for the rest of the gang, they'd already have a large bounty they can claim just from the captured Graf and Philo, they should cut their losses, head back to town, claim the bounty, and call it a day. While a few agree with him, the rest are blinded by the thought of claiming the bounties for all of the gang, and so insist on continuing the hunt. Continuing to hunt the outlaws eventually gets everyone in the posse killed.
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The Last Outlaw / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Last Outlaw / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Philo's face is gruesomely blown apart after Graff shoots him in the head with a rifle.
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The Last Outlaw / int_e769e5b0	type	The Reliable One
The Last Outlaw / int_e769e5b0	comment	The Reliable One: Lovecraft is the most put-together and logical of the gang, and pretty much everyone relies on him for advice. However, he gradually loses it over the course of the film until he finally snaps and betrays everyone to Graff.
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The Last Outlaw / int_ecf76ce6	comment	Decapitated Army: After he is captured, Graff takes the opportunity to eliminate Marshal Sharp, who is not only the posse leader, but also its only member who isn't motivated solely by greed. With him gone, Graff finds it much easier to manipulate the remaining posse members and eventually take control of them.
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The Last Outlaw / int_f7602ddc	type	Handy Cuffs
The Last Outlaw / int_f7602ddc	comment	Handy Cuffs: After the posse takes Graf prisoner, not only do they handcuff his hands in from of him, the rudimentary set that they slap on him has a very long chain between the cuffs so they do virtually nothing to limit Graf's movement. When the gang ambushes the posse, he takes advantage of the chance to kill off the Marshall in the confusion, completely unimpeded by the cuffs and he uses the chain to pull the Marshall off his horse, wrestle away a revolver, and then shoot him.
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The Last Outlaw / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
The Last Outlaw / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: Eustis explicitly says in his opening narration that after the war he still saw himself as fighting for the South, viewing things like robbing banks as stealing from or striking blows against the North. At one point Graff comments to Sharp that the war will never be over.
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The Last Outlaw / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Last Outlaw / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: While Potts is beating Wills up for returning the money, Loomis gleefully joins in and starts whacking Wills with a 2x4 as revenge for his earlier suggestions that they just leave him behind.
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The Last Outlaw / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
The Last Outlaw / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: Graff functions as this to whatever group he's a part of. The outlaws are shocked by his ruthless disregard for lives during the heist, when he intends to burn and/or blow up the bank hostages. Once he becomes part of the posse, he soon begins corrupting and manipulating them. It's all but said that if the posse had survived, it's likely that any remaining members would have simply become Graff's next gang of outlaws.
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The Last Outlaw / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: McClintock, who is otherwise not especially likeable, is worried about the people in the bank at the start. Several of the others besides Eustis voice concern over Loomis in the early going, especially Steve Buscemi's character Philo, and even Potts. Even after his gang turns against him, Graff stops a posseman from mutilating the dead Philo, putting a gun to his face and telling him that his boys will be shown proper respect.
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The Last Outlaw / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: All speaking characters in the movie are male. Women only appear very briefly as background characters in the town and saloon scenes.
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