Trigun: Badlands Rumble

Trigun: Badlands Rumble is a 2010 film by Madhouse. It is the based on the Trigun manga, written by Yasuhiro Nightow.

Trigun: Badlands Rumble opening debute was at #14 on 10 screens.

A teaser trailer has been released for streaming. The film was shown to an American audience first at the Sakura-Con 2010 in Seattle, Washington on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 5:00 PM, and the director held a 15-minute Q&A session before the movie, explaining the reasons it was not dubbed, subbed, and why it was premiered first at the convention, also explaining the new characters. The movie was shown again on Saturday and Sunday according to the schedule.

Plot
Twenty years before the current story line

Gasback had a robbery with his allies Cain, Michio and. Unbeknownst to them, Vash is withheld captive with the employees of the bank. After the robbery, Gasback is betrayed by Cain with the other two.

In a quicksand surrounded town called Makka, rumors spread of a legendary robber named Gasback is after the town. To protect it, Mayor Kepler has hired bounty hunters. These hunters have been following Gasback from town to town in hopes of getting the bounty.

Vash the Stampede is in town, along with Meryl and Milly, along with the bounty hunter Amelia and Nicolas D. Wolfwood.

Characters
Vash the Stampede

He is also known as the "Humanoid Typhoon" and has a bounty of $$60,000,000,000.00. Twenty years prior to the storyline of Badlands Rumble, he got involved in Gasback's robbery.

Nicolas D. Wolfwood

He is a priest that was saved by Gasback when his money was not accepted by the water vending machine. As payback, he let himself be Gasback's bodyguard until his plan of great robbery ends. Reaching the climax, Nicolas teamed up with Amelia in getting back the Plant that Gasback stole.

Amelia

A very beatiful young bounty hunter who first meets Vash on board a Sand Steamer on her way to Macca City where Gasback is supposed to strike next. She soon tags along with Vash (more or less) and during a dream it is revealed, that her mother's death had something to do with Gasback. Later on she tries to kill him but Vash interferes. She then blames him for her mothers death, since Vash also saved Gasback 20 years ago. Later, at the final showdown, she admits to be Gasback's daughter. But inspired by Vash decides not to take revenge on him, since she also no longer believes that her mother would want that.

Gasback



He is a deadly thief who is shown in the first scene, been betrayed by his Gang on a Bank robery 20 years before the events in the film. Vash saves him and thus makes a decision to "roll the dice" since saving him also means that he would rob and probably kill again. 20 years later he wants to act revenge on his former associates by stealing everything they build during the 20 years he layed low. He is Amelias father, but he only learns this at the end after beeing defeated by Vash.