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The Expy With No Name

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The Expy With No Name	comment	The Man With No Name from the Dollars Trilogy, as portrayed by Clint Eastwood, is one of the most famous gunslingers in fiction, and an icon of the western genre. One could even argue that Joe/Manco/Blondie is the most iconic cowboy or character from a western in general, surpassing the likes of The Lone Ranger, Django, and Ethan Edwards. What separates him from other similar characters though, is his aloof nature, questionable motives, and his Mysterious Past, which has led to many imitators or influences in the fifty-plus years since the last film in the Dollars Trilogy came out. That said, the basic traits of The Man With No Name originated from "Kuwabatake Sanjūrō", the main protagonist of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. This even extends to settings and genres beyond the western, though said imitators are more likely to appear in a western work of sorts. Said Expy can be identified by some or all of the following traits: They're some kind of drifter or outlaw, who likely works as a Bounty Hunter. Has a stoic and aloof demeanor that makes them hard to read. Isn't known by their actual name, and/or goes by different aliases or nicknames. They have a Mysterious Past that receives little to no elaboration on, at least at first. Usually wields a gun of some sort, and is usually very skilled with it. May use a piece of metal as defense from other projectiles, sometimes by hiding it under their clothes. Is accompanied by western motifs, such as wearing a cowboy hat or a poncho, or having their work of origin take place in a western-like setting. Non-western examples tend to wear outfits or use motifs specific to their setting though some may have Wild West influences. Talks in a low, gravelly voice, if they talk at all. A Sub-Trope of A Fistful of Rehashes, Stock Parodies, Fountain of Expies, and No Celebrities Were Harmed.
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The Expy With No Name / int_12aba7a2	comment	The Town with No Name, a parody of Western films, has another Man With No Name as its protagonist. He's a drifter who comes to the titular town to find his sister, and ends up killing several outlaws. Ironically, it's a side character, not the Man With No Name himself, who is drawn to look like Clint Eastwood.
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The Expy With No Name / int_1869a077	comment	The titular character of Samurai Jack shares some elements of The Man With No Name such as being a lone warrior of few words, known only by their nickname, passes quietly through various places with no permanent residence, defeats the bad guy and then moves along. Phil LaMarr even described his voice for Jack as being a Japanese version of Clint Eastwood. Jack even fights two Western bounty hunters in one episode named after The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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The Expy With No Name / int_3558eaa2	comment	In the Community episode "A Fistful of Paintballs", each member of the study group is dressed as a famous western character. Abed is (naturally, given the title of the episode) dressed as The Man With No Name including his signature poncho, copies his voice and manner of speaking, and is the most aloof member of the group during the paintball game.
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The Expy With No Name / int_3ce03501	comment	Time Squad: The episode Billy The Baby features the Time Squad visiting the Old West while trying to help Billy the Kid become the outlaw history has written him to be. But their outlaw antics attract the Sheriff's attention, who is also known as the Man With No Name to them. The Sheriff looks, and sounds like Clint Eastwood, and challenges Tuddrussel to a duel at high noon.
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The Expy With No Name / int_4139b0e7	comment	William Munny in Unforgiven is more or less an older and retired Man With No Name. In his youth he was a Bounty Hunter and an outlaw who was considered a deadly and ruthless gunslinger - at least, until he settled down with his wife on a farm.
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The Expy With No Name / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Parodied in the episode "Frontierland" where Dean travels back in time to the Wild West and attempts to live his Clint Eastwood fantasies only to be disappointed in the grim reality. The episode is also a Whole-Plot Reference to Back to the Future: Part III.
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The Expy With No Name / int_4a059a74	comment	The Mandalorian/Din Djarin from The Mandalorian, being a stoic Bounty Hunter with a mysterious past (initially) and a ruthless gunslinger who wanders from place to place, and whose Beskar armor can protect him from blaster shots. Fittingly, his name doesn't get revealed until the very end of Season 1. He even gets to meet Boba Fett in Season 2. Din however undergoes Character Development by becoming a Papa Wolf to The Child/Grogu and having a more altruistic personality.
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The Expy With No Name / int_51a7df31	comment	The Stranger in High Plains Drifter rides into a dusty town with the familiar beard, cigar and laconic personality, but is established upfront as being truly brutal, with almost supernatural gun skills. While his Mysterious Past is never fully explained, it's strongly hinted that he may be the ghost of a marshal murdered in the town, back to get revenge.
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The Expy With No Name / int_57d17f2e	comment	Doc from Boot Hill Heroes is the Bounty Hunter archetype with the attire to match.
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The Expy With No Name / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted there is a Plasma Tongue Repeater wielding Solar exalted wandering the south. Noone knows his name and only the only consistent name he called is the Righteous Devil, after the Martial Art he uses.
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The Expy With No Name / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat has Erron Black, a cowboy gun-for-hire who fights via gunslinging and typically serves as an antagonist.
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The Expy With No Name / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Cole Cassidy from Overwatch is modeled after the Man With No Name, with a very similar outfit, a revolver he shoots with near-superhuman accuracy, the (former) withholding of his real namenote In Cassidy's case, he used to go under the criminal alias of "Jesse McCree", before eventually disowning it in the wake of rejoining Overwatch, and a deep voice. Big parts of his past continue to be a mystery over the game's run, such as his life before joining the Deadlock Gang, and how he lost his arm. He also initially refused to join the reformed Overwatch, preferring to work alone as a drifter.
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The Expy With No Name / int_6c8b9d4f	comment	Adventures of the Gummi Bears: The episode "For a Few Sovereigns More" has Duke Igthorne hire bounty hunter Flint Shrubwood to capture a Gummi Bear. Shrubwood is obviously patterned on Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, (while Shrubwood is given a name, it's only used once in the episode, when he's introduced) from his voice and appearance to his theme music (which he plays himself on a reed whistle; it's not quite the iconic "whipporwhill" of A Fistfull of Dollars but it's close). He's easily the most fearsomely capable and implacable antagonist to appear in Gummi Bears, as he subdues Grammi and captures Cubbi with no trouble (he only takes Cubbi, because the Duke was only paying him for one Gummi Bear) and, when betrayed by the Duke, captures him with equal ease. He has no trouble subduing Igthorne's ogres, either. Ultimately, the only thing that stops him is Cubbi's convincing the Duke to let him have the money he's owed.
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The Expy With No Name / int_6e91edcb	comment	Bounty Hamster: Recurring character The Horse With No Name is an anthropomorphic animal parody of the Clint Eastwood character.
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The Expy With No Name / int_83d41855	comment	In the Gargoyles episode "Deadly Force", Broadway watches a western called Showdown that features a character who looks like Clint Eastwood with his cowboy hat and poncho. Said character wins a gunfight with a character bearing a resemblance to Kenny Rogers.
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The Expy With No Name / int_8e569dee	comment	Mad Max after the first movie. He's a drifter, an ex-MFP cop turned road warrior rather than an outlaw or bounty hunter. Several movies have him carrying a pistol-grip shotgun in a low-slung holster. He talks as little as possible and doesn't even give his name a lot of the time, being specifically referred to as "The Man With No Name" in Thunderdome.
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The Expy With No Name / int_942349dc	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Jotaro Kujo, who is directly inspired by the Man With No Name. A stoic, Terse Talker whose longcoat and school uniform hat bring to mind the Man With No Name's poncho and cowboy hat, and who travels to desert land of Egypt during the course of Stardust Crusaders. Hol Horse is a parody of The Man With No Name, as while he is a cowboy who is dressed similarly to the Man With No Name and is a gunslinger, he's also completely incompetent and a giant braggart on top of it all.
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The Expy With No Name / int_94773662	comment	Once Upon a Time in the West: Harmonica, one of the main protagonists of the film, neatly checks most of the boxes here. His real name is never once even mentioned, as his moniker is derived from the musical instrument he often plays when he wants to get someone's attention, is a skilled gunfighter, and his demeanor almost never changes from a hardened look of determination. The only bit of backstory that's ever alluded to, was his brother's murder at the hands of Frank, a sociopathic outlaw whom Harmonica spends the entirety of the film seeking revenge. Fittingly, the film was directed by Sergio Leone, the director of the Dollars trilogy, and was originally set to star Clint Eastwood himself as Harmonica.
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The Expy With No Name / int_97cc37b6	comment	In Neon Genesis EvangeléMon, Shinji's Sandslash talks and acts like this sort of character, right down to quoting lines from The Man With No Name.
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The Expy With No Name / int_994e32db	comment	In Rango, the Spirit of the West takes the appearance of an old gunslinger that speaks with a gravelly voice, wears an old cowboy hat, and also sports a brown poncho. He is even referred to as the Man With No Name, and is highly implied to be Clint Eastwood himself.
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The Expy With No Name / int_9dcf3b36	comment	The Preacher from Pale Rider is another example. His real name is unknown, and he is a mysterious gunfighter who conveniently shows up to a town that needs his help. Like the aforementioned Stranger, he may or may not be a supernatural being, namely The Grim Reaper.
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The Expy With No Name / int_a90893ce	comment	In Annihilation: Conquest, Wraith is pretty much the Kree With No Name, being a Bounty Hunter with a Mysterious Past and a cool gun. He even has the requisite poncho.
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The Expy With No Name / int_b97f910f	comment	Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time has the Poncho Zombie, who is found in the Wild West period and is styled after the Man with No Name from a visual standpoint, wearing a poncho, cowboy boots, and a cowboy hat. The references don't stop there, as on occasion, he may be wearing a metal grate beneath his poncho like the Man with No Name did in A Fistful of Dollars, turning him into a Heavily Armored Mook.
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The Expy With No Name / int_bc8b07	comment	Epic Rap Battles of History: "Bruce Lee vs. Clint Eastwood" features the latter in character as the Man With No Name, shooting outlaws, squinting throughout the video, rapping in his low voice, and wearing his famous getup from the Dollars Trilogy.
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The Expy With No Name / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In Cheese Sandwich's debut episode "Pinkie Pride", he's initially introduced as a Horse With No Name: he's a gruff-voiced loner clad in a poncho and cowboy hat, and he drifts from town to town helping the downtrodden. The very first scene has him in the desert town of Appleloosa. He even has an Ennio Morricone Pastiche as his personal leitmotif. And all of this is deliberately misleading: upon arriving in Ponyville, Cheese reveals he's actually a goofball party planner based heavily on his voice actor, "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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The Expy With No Name / int_c43df4d8	comment	Some incarnations of The Doctor (specifically, the War, Ninth, and Twelfth Doctors) from Doctor Who could qualify, even if the series itself predates the Dollars Trilogy by one year. No Name Given? Check. Mysterious Past? Check. Morally grey motives? Check.
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The Expy With No Name / int_cebbba4f	comment	The Dark Tower: Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger of Mid-World, is the dark fantasy version of TMWNN, a supernaturally skilled gunfighter trying to reverse the destruction of his world (and eventually the entire universe). Stoic, humorless, and quiet, Stephen King has specifically said that Clint Eastwood's performance in Sergio Leone's films was a direct inspiration in creating him.
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The Expy With No Name / int_d29994ae	comment	The Sundown Kid in Live A Live the protagonist of The Wild West chapter is a clear Expy: The Stoic, The Drifter, and poncho-wearing gunslinger.
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The Expy With No Name / int_e4014525	comment	Red Harlow is a laconic Bounty Hunter who is a skilled gunslinger. Unlike most examples, his cynical outlook is actually explained by his backstory in the game's tutorial; His parents were murdered when he was young and he ends up Walking the Earth until he arrives in Brimstone, whereupon he discovers his parents' killers.
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The Expy With No Name / int_f1970fb3	comment	Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath has the titular Stranger, a mysterious bounty hunter in a poncho and hat who speaks in a gravelly voice. Unlike most examples however, he doesn't use guns (and even explicitly states that he doesn't like them), instead using an arm-mounted crossbow that shoots critters.
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The Expy With No Name / int_f8bff330	comment	Wild Guns has Clint as one of the two playable characters who sports the hat and poncho, though carries a BFG as opposed to a revolver.
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