Ben Wade
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[edit] About
The film itself gives no specific age for Ben Wade, although a scan of a script page places Ben's age at 38.
Ben dresses in black and has his gun ("The Hand of God") tricked out with crosses on either side of its handle, likes to quote the Bible to justify his own actions, sketch things and rob stage-coaches carrying Southern Pacific Railway pay-packets; he's a fast shot and a hard task-master, perfectly willing to kill one of his own for being "weak [and] stupid." He also has a fetish for green-eyed women (or possibly just people with green eyes), a Machiavellian turn of mind, a born Tempter's interest in moral dialectic and a bad background--Pinkerton Detective Agency man Byron McEllroy (Peter Fonda) claims his father was a "drunken gravedigger" and his mother a "diseased whore".
WARNING: SPOILERS
Ben himself tells Dan Evans (Christian Bale) that his mother left him at a train station when he was a child, told him to read the Bible until she came back, and then didn't. He came to Dodge City when he was as young as Dan's son William, and seems to have been a wanted man pretty much ever since. Ben is infamous and proud of it, seems (self-)educated beyond both his means and his profession, and calls himself "rotten as Hell." Yet he eventually does decide to give himself up and get on the 3:10 train to Yuma prison, perhaps due to Evans' influence.
[edit] Pairings
The most popular pairings involving Ben are both slash: Ben Wade/Dan Evans and Ben Wade/Charlie Prince.
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