Post by Z451 on Nov 2, 2013 4:41:39 GMT
Jonah Hex
Raised by his alcoholic father Woodson Hex, Jonah was a regular victim of physical abuse as a child.
His father eventually stopped supporting him and sold him into slavery with an Apache tribe at the age of 13 during 1851.
They worked him constantly until one day when he saved their chieftain from a puma, and he was welcomed as a full-fledged member of the tribe.
The chief took Jonah in as his own son, but his adopted brother Noh-Tante grew jealous.
Noh-Tante shared Jonah's affections for a young girl named White Fawn, so he betrayed his brother during their manhood rite at the age of 16 and left Jonah for dead with their enemies the Kiowa.
He is rescued by a Cavalry patrol, although they shoot him in the gut when he tries to stop their slaughter.
Left for dead a second time, he is nursed back to health by an old trapper in the woods.
Returning to his tribe's camp, he finds them long since gone.
Jonah joined the Confederate States Army during the Civil War to protect his homeland, rising to the rank of lieutenant in the Cavalry alongside his close friend Jeb Turnbull.
His conscience made it difficult for him to fight against abolitionists, and he eventually decided to surrender to the Union Army at Fort Charlotte.
Despite his refusal to give up information on the whereabouts of his men, they were able to track them down by the mud on his shoes.
Hex's entire unit was captured, and the General made his men believe that he had given them up.
There is a massacre executed by the higher command, and barely a handful of men survive to escape.
Jonah Hex goes down in Southern history as a turncoat and a traitor.
Eventually returning to his village in 1866, Jonah finds that Noh-Tante had since married White Fawn.
He declares Noh-Tante's betrayal to the chieftain, but the accusations were denied and it was decided that they would deliberate through trial by combat.
Noh-Tante sabotages Jonah's tomahawk, forcing him to cheat and end the fight with his knife.
For breaking the rules of combat and murdering his son, the chieftain declares that Jonah will be branded with the mark of the demon and exiled under penalty of death.
Years later when he returned again to rescue a kidnapped white woman, he was captured and White Fawn was shot dead by the chieftain for trying to help him escape.
Jonah killed his adopted father in return, and gunned down half the tribe who went after him with the help of Henri d'Aubergnon.
Jonah Hex was inspired to become a bounty hunter after murdering his first criminal, the outlaw "Mad Dog" Lucas McGill.
He gunned down Mad Dog while the man was beating his wife outside of a saloon; in his inebriated stupor, Hex believe him to be his own father Woodson abusing his mother Ginny.
The local deputy insisted that even drunk it was the fastest draw he'd ever seen, and gave him the massive bounty on McGill's head.
Hex accepted the money and scattered it on the streets as he left town by horseback.
His first bounty poster was in 1866 on an old army buddy named Eddie Cantwell.
The manhunter Arbee Stoneham stole Hex's reward by murdering Cantwell and then humiliated him by taking his guns.
Eight years later they met again while Hex was bringing down the Jason Crowley gang, and he intended to take revenge on Stoneham but found him wheelchair-ridden; the two men went for a drink instead.
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His father eventually stopped supporting him and sold him into slavery with an Apache tribe at the age of 13 during 1851.
They worked him constantly until one day when he saved their chieftain from a puma, and he was welcomed as a full-fledged member of the tribe.
The chief took Jonah in as his own son, but his adopted brother Noh-Tante grew jealous.
Noh-Tante shared Jonah's affections for a young girl named White Fawn, so he betrayed his brother during their manhood rite at the age of 16 and left Jonah for dead with their enemies the Kiowa.
He is rescued by a Cavalry patrol, although they shoot him in the gut when he tries to stop their slaughter.
Left for dead a second time, he is nursed back to health by an old trapper in the woods.
Returning to his tribe's camp, he finds them long since gone.
Jonah joined the Confederate States Army during the Civil War to protect his homeland, rising to the rank of lieutenant in the Cavalry alongside his close friend Jeb Turnbull.
His conscience made it difficult for him to fight against abolitionists, and he eventually decided to surrender to the Union Army at Fort Charlotte.
Despite his refusal to give up information on the whereabouts of his men, they were able to track them down by the mud on his shoes.
Hex's entire unit was captured, and the General made his men believe that he had given them up.
There is a massacre executed by the higher command, and barely a handful of men survive to escape.
Jonah Hex goes down in Southern history as a turncoat and a traitor.
Eventually returning to his village in 1866, Jonah finds that Noh-Tante had since married White Fawn.
He declares Noh-Tante's betrayal to the chieftain, but the accusations were denied and it was decided that they would deliberate through trial by combat.
Noh-Tante sabotages Jonah's tomahawk, forcing him to cheat and end the fight with his knife.
For breaking the rules of combat and murdering his son, the chieftain declares that Jonah will be branded with the mark of the demon and exiled under penalty of death.
Years later when he returned again to rescue a kidnapped white woman, he was captured and White Fawn was shot dead by the chieftain for trying to help him escape.
Jonah killed his adopted father in return, and gunned down half the tribe who went after him with the help of Henri d'Aubergnon.
Jonah Hex was inspired to become a bounty hunter after murdering his first criminal, the outlaw "Mad Dog" Lucas McGill.
He gunned down Mad Dog while the man was beating his wife outside of a saloon; in his inebriated stupor, Hex believe him to be his own father Woodson abusing his mother Ginny.
The local deputy insisted that even drunk it was the fastest draw he'd ever seen, and gave him the massive bounty on McGill's head.
Hex accepted the money and scattered it on the streets as he left town by horseback.
His first bounty poster was in 1866 on an old army buddy named Eddie Cantwell.
The manhunter Arbee Stoneham stole Hex's reward by murdering Cantwell and then humiliated him by taking his guns.
Eight years later they met again while Hex was bringing down the Jason Crowley gang, and he intended to take revenge on Stoneham but found him wheelchair-ridden; the two men went for a drink instead.
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