Cowboys & Aliens and its film adaptation.Said chimp has a robotic hand, and the wild west is being plagued by space worms. The Chimp With The Brown Hat stars the titular chimp in the wild west circa 1880.
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However, the bulk of the series is actually set in Britain, with an arc set in Victorian London and a finale set at Loch Ness, where the monster is revealed to be Dracula. Billy The Kids Old Timey Oddities starts out this way, with Billy being recruited into a very strange travelling circus.American Vampire: The vampire Villain Protagonist Skinner Sweet had started out as a Wild West outlaw, and several stories concerning him take place there.Tite Kubo's debut work, the four-volume manga Zombiepowder., revolves around "powder hunters" drifting from town to town searching for an Immortality Inducer in a New Old West-inspired setting.
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In the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, we see that the cocky American pilot Donald Curtis did indeed fulfill his dream of becoming a big Hollywood star, and we're shown a poster for a movie he made, which seems to involve him as a cowboy who encounters a Tyrannosaurus rex - probably an homage to The Ghost Of Slumber Mountain, The Valley of Gwangi, and The Beast of Hollow Mountain. How this works out, we can't tell however, as the series was cancelled after the second book.
Except that the "West" Mingchao is journeying to is Hollywood.
The Wild West meets Journey to the West, complete with martial arts and Chinese Zodiac-inspired magic. Also see Southern Gothic, Lovecraft Country, Campbell Country, and Überwald for other types of spooky regional settings. There's also Sinister Southwest, when a Western United States setting is invoked for (less fantastic and more mundane) horrors. If it overlaps with Canadian Western, expect to see a Grim Up North where Evil Is Deathly Cold.Ĭompare and contrast with Cattle Punk and Space Western, which take more of a sci-fi approach to the Old West although there is some occasional overlap. If the story is set in the backdrop of historical military conflicts (such as the American Indian Wars, Mexican-American War, American Civil War, or the Mexican Revolution), then it becomes a Weird Historical War. The Weird West genre and settings tend to heavily overlap with Alternate History, Fantasy Americana, and Historical Fantasy (or Urban Fantasy if it's a Weird version of the New Old West). If the setting is more like a modernized New Old West, then expect to see more relatively recent cryptids such as chupacabras, or Urban Legends such as the Roswell UFO and aliens hidden at Area 51. Indian Burial Grounds, Magical Native Americans, and various entities from Native American Mythology (such as skinwalkers and wendigos note even though wendigos actually originated from the Great Lakes region) also tend to show up as sources of supernatural strangeness. Ghosts, zombies, vampires, and werewolves are common elements. Weird West works often invoke horror tropes. Daylight Horror and Light Is Not Good are common elements in these tales in a region where the dry season resembles the Thirsty Desert trope, it is shade that is sacred.
Many smaller frontier settlements were gradually abandoned over time, becoming (literally haunted) Ghost Towns. The lawless setting also meant plenty of violent deaths and unfinished business, fuel for ghostly tales. The frontier as a whole was traditionally viewed (and still is viewed, to some extent) as the meeting place of civilization and the unknown. The Wild West is, if you think about it, a logical choice for the Speculative Fiction treatment.
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