Wiki ballad of buster scruggs9/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Crowd Song: He leads the patrons of a Bad-Guy Bar in a song mocking the man he's just killed.Cowboy: He's a singing cowboy right out of a Golden Era Western.Combat Pragmatist: He's a showman, but when he has to, his methods become "downright Archimedean".Breaking the Fourth Wall: He frequently speaks directly to the audience.To be fair, he does tell the audience upfront to not "let (his) white duds and pleasant demeanor fool (us)." He's also a violent killer, who escalates bad situations he gets into, delights in killing his foes, especially in drawn-out and painful manners, and is a pragmatic fighter and dishonorable duelist on top of all that, preferring to use tricks and dirty tactics rather than fight honorably. Bright Is Not Good: He's an all white wearing cheery singing cowboy straight from the golden era of western cinema. ![]() Beware the Silly Ones: He's a cheerful singing cowboy with a comically expansive vocabulary clad in perfectly white duds just about everyone underestimates him, to their regret.He later kills Curly Joe's brother in an excessively violent way. Berserk Button: Buster is generally pretty good-natured even when it comes to his enemies, but when Curly/Surly Joe's brother calls him the "West Texas Twit" seemingly by mistake, his expression hardens for a moment.The way he kills one opponent is pretty sadistic, too, shooting off his fingers one by one. There's also little question that he loves killing, and celebrates his own violence with a song-and-dance. At the same time, he doesn't go out of his way to defuse situations, and it could be argued that he in fact escalates the situations to give himself an excuse to kill. Ambiguously Evil: It's certainly arguable just how evil he is, considering the setting and the fact that everyone he kills is armed or at least threatening him.Always Someone Better: He's killed by a younger gunslinging songbird, with the final page of the story indicating that the cycle of the best being killed by someone better will continue.Buster seems to be aware of his status as this, though, since he says to the audience not to "let his white duds and pleasant demeanor fool you." Even then, he's awfully polite until he gets insulted, and he's genuinely impressed with an opponent who keeps trying to kill him with a severe lack of fingers. Affably Evil: Buster's a cheerful, charismatic cowboy who obeys house policy and loves singing as much as he loves mercilessly gunning down everyone who threatens him.I figure that's just a human material, and him that finds in it cause for anger and dismay is just a fool for expecting better." "I don't hate my fellow man, even when he's tiresome and surly and tries to cheat at poker. ![]()
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