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16-year-old Jonah Hex performs his manhood trials with his adoptive brother (& rival for the love of Liluye) Noh-Tante. He is left for dead by a rival tribe, the Kiowas, and is then shot in the stomach by renegade scalphunters slaughtering the Kiowas. He is nursed back to health by a trapper.