However, the bulk of the series is actually set in Britain, with an arc set in Victorian London and a finale set at Loch Ness, where the monster is revealed to be Dracula. Billy The Kids Old Timey Oddities starts out this way, with Billy being recruited into a very strange travelling circus.American Vampire: The vampire Villain Protagonist Skinner Sweet had started out as a Wild West outlaw, and several stories concerning him take place there.Tite Kubo's debut work, the four-volume manga Zombiepowder., revolves around "powder hunters" drifting from town to town searching for an Immortality Inducer in a New Old West-inspired setting.How this works out, we can't tell however, as the series was cancelled after the second book. No Man's Land, an OEL Manga by Jason DeAngelis, throws The Legions of Hell in The Wild West, and The Hero is a gunslinging demon hunter.And even before that is revelaed, this is after all JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and thus "every dirty trick" in the race includes the trademark weird Stand powers, along with the all-new weird supernatural power of Spin. A cross country race to the finish line where any and every dirty trick is allowed becomes more than just that when mysterious corpse parts lead back to The President of the United States. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run.Except that the "West" Mingchao is journeying to is Hollywood. The Wild West meets Journey to the West, complete with martial arts and Chinese Zodiac-inspired magic. It is not unknown for an ongoing Western series to have an episode or two of weirdness, even an ambiguous one. The West also has its own cryptids and urban legends, the most famous of them being the chupacabra and Area 51. Also expect to see some elements from Native American Mythology such as the skinwalker and wendigo ( even though that second legend actually originated from the Great Lakes region). Ghosts, zombies, vampires, and werewolves are common elements. Weird West works often invoke horror tropes. Daylight Horror and Light Is Not Good are common elements in these tales: in a region where the dry season resembles the Thirsty Desert trope, it is shade that is sacred.
The Magical Native American also tends to show up here, for obvious reasons. The lawless setting also meant plenty of violent deaths and unfinished business, fuel for ghostly tales. The frontier as a whole was traditionally viewed (and still is viewed, to some extent) as the meeting place of civilization and the unknown. The West is, if you think about it, a logical choice for the Speculative Fiction treatment.
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