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Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The random guy getting killed by some offscreen shooter right before the opening credits. This scene is never explained nor mentioned again.
The scene is almost immediately followed by a narration describing the start of the bounty hunter profession, so one can assume it is one of the wanted criminals being ambushed and killed.
Complete Monster: El Indio is arguably the most repulsive villain in the history of Westerns. He has a man's innocent wife and baby killed, and he had killed the lover of Mortimer's sister and raped the sister, driving her to kill herself in the process.
Hell Is That Noise: Indio's watch chime. Every time it plays, you know someone is going to die horribly. At least until the end, when Manco interrupts the first cycle using Mortimer's watch, turning the tables on Indio.
Magnificent Bastard: Indio's one step ahead of Mortimer and the Man With No Name for much of the movie.
Moral Event Horizon: El Indio seems to truly cross this when he has an innocent child and its mother shot to death offscreen to get back at the man who sold him out. However, it is later revealed that he had crossed it long before the film began.
Stupid Sacrifice: Mortimer's sister shooting herself while her fiance's murderer is raping her. It would have saved a lot of lives if she had aimed slightly upward and just shot the rapist (or at least shot him first).
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