Roy Rogers

"Until we meet again, may the Good Lord take a liking to you."

Roy Rogers (1911 - 1998) was a star of over a hundred "singing cowboy" movies, as well as a long-running series that began on radio and moved to television.

Generally accompanied by his Cool Horse Trigger, his gal Dale Evans, and one or both of his sidekicks, Pat Brady and Gabby Hayes.

He also has a fast food chain named after him. Make of that what you will.

Roy Rogers provides examples of the following tropes:

• Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate
• Cool Horse: The golden palamino Trigger. He even got his own comic book, he was so famous.
• Cowboy
• The Danza: Most of the characters he played were also called "Roy Rogers".
• Impractically Fancy Outfit
• The Western: Acted in westerns for 50 years.

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References to Roy Rogers in other works:

• Probably the most famous, from Die Hard:

Gruber: Who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?
McClane: I was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those sequined shirts.
Gruber: Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?
McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

• In Gladiator, the protagonist has a horse whose name is "Trigger" in Latin.
• "Roy Rogers", song by Elton John
• "Front Row Cowboy", song by Eric Bogle