10 Movie Characters WWE Should Base New Gimmicks On

8. The Man With No Name (Dollars Trilogy)

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Legitimate cowboy gimmicks aren't the easiest thing to pull of in modern day wrestling. Maybe it's because cowboys aren't much of a thing anymore, or maybe it's because the gimmick has been done to death over the last 50 years.

So maybe the alternative is to avoid the generic cowboy schtick, with the big ten-gallon hat and the frequent use of the word "Yeehaw!" and focus on a gaucho with more of an edge. Enter Clint Eastwood's iconic, cigarillo-chomping outlaw from Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" that includes A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

This dusty hombre exuded a very particular type of badassery without having to say much at all, which is an ideal situation for the multitudes of hard bodies Vince McMahon brings in who can barely form a sentence without having an embolism. Just put a hat and poncho on 'em, stick a cigarillo in their mouth and tell them to stare at everything as if the sun is blinding them forever.

I know I'd be geeked to watch a 300-pounder strut down the entrance ramp in a poncho while a whistle-heavy Western tune played behind him.

 
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