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There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend.
~ Tuco when confronting his enemies. Also his most famous quote.
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
~ Tuco after killing Elam.
If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
~ Tuco.

Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez, also known as just "Tuco" for short, is the titular main protagonist of the western spaghetti film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

He is a criminal who used to affiliate with Blondie, but after a falling out, seeks revenge on him. However, they both are forced to work together to recover two-hundred thousand dollars of Confederate gold.

He was portrayed by the late Eli Wallach, who also portrayed Don Altobello in The Godfather, Part III.

Biography[]

Tuco is wanted in over 15 states and his crimes ranges from burglary to rape to murder. In the beginning of the movie, Blondie (The Good) and Tuco seemingly cooperate with each other but Blonde then betrays Tuco and claims his bounty and later abandons him in the desert, Tuco retaliates by robbing a gun store with the intentions of holding Blonde hostage. Tuco recruits his old friends Chico, Pedro, and Ramon to help but it ended in disaster in his first attempt.

Tuco finds Blonde again and sentences him to suffer in the desert just as Tuco did but after hours of walking Blonde comes across a dying soldier who tells him the location of a hidden treasure ($200,000 in gold to be exact). Tuco's greed takes over and he does everything to keep Blonde alive and he ends up with him at a church where Tuco also meets his brother Pablo who is also a priest and caretaker of the wounded soldiers inside the church. Tuco has an argument with him over his decision to become a priest and they get into a physical fight, so he leaves.

The duo then sets off to find the treasure disguised as confederate soldiers only to get captured by a band of passing union soldiers. They are brought to a concentration camp where Tuco meets Angel Eyes (The Bad) who proceeds to torture him and forces him to reveal the location of the treasure. Tuco gives in and tells Angel Eyes that he doesn't know where the gold is hidden, but informs him that Blondie knows location. Tuco later gets put on a train which is headed to a far off town where he is to be hanged, but manages to escape and kill Corporal Wallace (thus getting even for the beating, too).

After heading into town, he decides to take a bath, where he finds one of the bounty hunters who had been tracking him down, Elam. Surprised, then annoyed, Tuco kills the man. He then meets up with Blondie, and the two then kill Angel Eyes' men, finding out that Angel Eyes has escaped. They head to the bridge leading to Sad Hill, where they come across a Union camp and watch a war going on. Blondie then has the idea of blowing up the bridge, and get to work on it. They both duck for cover. Tuco cowers from the exploding bridge.

The next morning it's shown that he fell asleep in that exact same position. Blondie wakes him up and they get going. As Blondie comforts a dying soldier, Tuco heads for the cemetery on a horse and Blondie shoots it. The bandit realizes that the cemetery is right nearby and eagerly looks for the grave of "Arch Stanton". He finally finds it and, to his confusion, there's no gold inside, only Stanton's body. So he, Blondie and Angel Eyes have a shootout. He and Blondie decide to kill Angel Eyes, but Blondie kills Angel Eyes first and reveals he unloaded the bandit's gun the night before, and the grave with the gold is the one right next to Arch Stanton's.

He then forces Tuco to stand on a grave marker with a rope around his neck, and then rides away, leaving Tuco calling for Blondie. Once Blondie is a good distance away, he aims a rifle, he found in Angel Eye's scabbard, and shoots at the rope, severing it and leaving Tuco to land face first onto his share of the gold.

The movie ends with Tuco, hands bound with thin twine, screaming at Blondie in the distance: "Hey, Blondie! You know what you are? Just a dirty son-of-a-b-!".

Skills and abilities[]

Despite being a thief and not a bounty hunter like Blondie or a skilled assassin like Angel Eyes, Tuco is incredibly skilled in his own right as at the beginning of the film he manages to take on three assassins (one of them was left injured) and precisely shoot several targets in a gun store. His gunslinging skills are surpassed by Blondie and Angel Eyes. Tuco is also shown to have remarkable endurance as he manages to survive being stranded in a desert and taking beatings from Wallace.

  • Colt 1851 Navy Pistol: Tuco uses a Colt 1851 Navy Percussion after converting it to a gun store. It became his primary weapon throughout the film where he used it to kill Elam, Angel Eye's men, and to his final duel until Blondie unloaded the gun rendering it useless.
  • Remington 1858 New Army: At the beginning of the film, Tuco carries a Remington 1858 which he uses to kill two of his assassins and leaves one of them injured with one arm. When Blondie captured him, Blondie took his gun and didn’t give it back to him.

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           Dollars Trilogy Villains

Movies
A Fistful of Dollars: The Man with No Name | Ramón Rojo | Miguel Rojo | Esteban Rojo | John Baxter | Chico
For a Few Dollars More: The Man with No Name | El Indio's gang (El Indio, Groggy, Niño, Juan Wild, Blackie, Chico, Cuchillo, Frisco, Hughie, Paco, Sancho Perez, Slim, Manuel) | Guy Callaway | Baby Cavanagh
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Man with No Name | Angel Eyes | Tuco | Corporal Wallace | Elam

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