Difference between revisions of "James Bronson"
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|Image = [[File:Owtd-pc-docbronson.jpg|200px]] | |Image = [[File:Owtd-pc-docbronson.jpg|200px]] | ||
|Name = James "Doc" Bronson | |Name = James "Doc" Bronson | ||
| − | |Born = | + | |Born = 1837 (40) |
|Role = Doctor | |Role = Doctor | ||
|Group = [[:Category:PCs (OWTD)|PCs]] | |Group = [[:Category:PCs (OWTD)|PCs]] | ||
|Status = PC (Active) | |Status = PC (Active) | ||
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| − | <p>AKA "Doc"; "Butcher of | + | <p>AKA "Doc"; "Butcher of Purgatory" |
<p>Actor: [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000314/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Charles Bronson]</p> | <p>Actor: [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000314/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Charles Bronson]</p> | ||
=Concept= | =Concept= | ||
| + | Small-Town Doctor with a Dark Past | ||
=Tropes= | =Tropes= | ||
| + | [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RetiredMonster Retired Monster]; [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StartingANewLife Starting a New Life] | ||
=Details= | =Details= | ||
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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
| − | * | + | * Born in [date], to a upper middleclass family. |
| − | * For reasons TBD, family moved West when he was a teen. | + | * For reasons TBD, family moved West, to Columbus, OH, when he was a teen. |
* Parents wanted him to go to have a proper education and he went to medical school | * Parents wanted him to go to have a proper education and he went to medical school | ||
* Mom or dad or both were killed by bad people that were trying to extort his family | * Mom or dad or both were killed by bad people that were trying to extort his family | ||
| − | * Doc goes on killing spree a la "Punisher" and kills most of the bad guys earning him the nickname "The Butcher of | + | * Doc goes on killing spree a la "Punisher" and kills most of the bad guys earning him the nickname "The Butcher of Purgatory" ([https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident Noodle Incident]) |
| − | * | + | * Chief Deputy US Marshal Charles C. Tompkins of the Southern Ohio District captures Doc and gives him a chance to capture the rest of the gang legally |
* Doc becomes a deputy marshal and turns a new leaf to capture the remaining bandidos | * Doc becomes a deputy marshal and turns a new leaf to capture the remaining bandidos | ||
* Doc becomes a respected lawman for several years; overlapping time of civil war | * Doc becomes a respected lawman for several years; overlapping time of civil war | ||
| − | * Meets a nice Mexican girl and they get married, have 1 kid | + | * Meets a nice Mexican girl and they get married, have 1 kid (Marisol) |
| − | * Job is too hazardous, bad guys he puts in jail threaten his family | + | * Job is too hazardous, bad guys he puts in jail threaten his family; wife killed |
| − | * Doc feels he has too much to lose and decides to retire as lawman and put his education to use and become a doctor | + | * Doc feels he has too much to lose and decides to retire as lawman and put his education to use and become a doctor; moved to Tompkins' district, just appointed US Marshal of Colorado |
| + | :* Marisol remains in Columbus with the grandparents | ||
* '''## Sep 1876:''' He opens up or takes over a small clinic in [[:Category:Babylon|another town]] away from the bad guys. Builds up successful business and gains reputation as doctor (Healer 3); not many people remember he was once the "butcher" | * '''## Sep 1876:''' He opens up or takes over a small clinic in [[:Category:Babylon|another town]] away from the bad guys. Builds up successful business and gains reputation as doctor (Healer 3); not many people remember he was once the "butcher" | ||
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=Notes= | =Notes= | ||
| − | [[Category:Old West-The Debt]][[Category:Personalities (OWTD)]][[Category:PCs (OWTD)]] | + | [[Category:Old West-The Debt]][[Category:Personalities (OWTD)]][[Category:Babylon]][[Category:PCs (OWTD)]] |
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AKA "Doc"; "Butcher of Purgatory"
Actor: Charles Bronson
Concept
Small-Town Doctor with a Dark Past
Tropes
Retired Monster; Starting a New Life
Details
Causa Vitæ
Background
- Born in [date], to a upper middleclass family.
- For reasons TBD, family moved West, to Columbus, OH, when he was a teen.
- Parents wanted him to go to have a proper education and he went to medical school
- Mom or dad or both were killed by bad people that were trying to extort his family
- Doc goes on killing spree a la "Punisher" and kills most of the bad guys earning him the nickname "The Butcher of Purgatory" (Noodle Incident)
- Chief Deputy US Marshal Charles C. Tompkins of the Southern Ohio District captures Doc and gives him a chance to capture the rest of the gang legally
- Doc becomes a deputy marshal and turns a new leaf to capture the remaining bandidos
- Doc becomes a respected lawman for several years; overlapping time of civil war
- Meets a nice Mexican girl and they get married, have 1 kid (Marisol)
- Job is too hazardous, bad guys he puts in jail threaten his family; wife killed
- Doc feels he has too much to lose and decides to retire as lawman and put his education to use and become a doctor; moved to Tompkins' district, just appointed US Marshal of Colorado
- Marisol remains in Columbus with the grandparents
- ## Sep 1876: He opens up or takes over a small clinic in another town away from the bad guys. Builds up successful business and gains reputation as doctor (Healer 3); not many people remember he was once the "butcher"
