Melton1 — 2 months ago(January 29, 2026 02:13 PM)

We learn that Munny was a psychotic drunk who killed women and children until he was reformed into a good man by his now deceased wife.
The tragedy of the story is that events cause him to revert to his old killer self, culminating in the bloodbath in the saloon.
But that’s not what really happens. Munny’s killing spree is triggered by sadistic townsfolk torturing and murdering his friend Ned. Munny kills those involved and various scumbags from the town. Excessive? Possibly, but it wouldn’t be hard to argue that they all had it coming.
This is a far cry from the child-slaughtering monster we were expecting to see when Munny ‘reverts’.
Did Clint go far enough, or did he pull back to stop us from hating Munny? I can’t help feeling that the story needed him to go full psycho and take out some whores and maybe an irritating kid to really sell the idea that this legendary psycho had fallen back into his evil ways and will be ‘unforgiven’.
Compared the the savage who cut up the girl‘s face, sadistic Little Bill, and various other dirtbags Munny comes off as a justified badass rather than a monster ‍️