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* OnlyAFleshWound: Gets shot in the leg during the FinalBattle; it barely slows him.
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'''Chris''': What about him?\\
'''Vin''': Well, as he was falling people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good." Tch, so far, so good.
'''Chris''': What about him?\\
'''Vin''': Well, as he was falling people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good." Tch, so far, so good.
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* AffablyEvil: He frames his deeds in a symphatetic light, and is nothing but polite when he has conversations with any of the Seven. In fact, during the making of the film, Brynner said that Wallach was ''too'' benevolent as Calvera.
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TheSixthRanger: The only members of the Seven he seems to have any real friendship with are Britt (mimicking the RealLife friendship between Robert Vaughn and James Coburn) and Chris. The others seem to view him either with indifference (Bernardo) or outright hostility (Vin, who attempts to get Chris not to hire him).
*TheSmartGuyTheSmartGuy: He and Harry share this role. When Harry tries to get Lee to leave with him though, Lee refuses.
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* SharpDressedMan: For a bandit, at least. [[ActorInspiredElement It was Wallach's idea]] to dress Calvera well, to demonstrate what he actually did with his loot.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's quite laid-back and is one of the fastest guns out there.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: He has the fewest lines of the seven and is the best with a gun and a knife.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: He has the fewest lines of the seven and is the best with a gun and a knife.
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* GunsAkimbo: Carries two guns (a Colt Single Action Army 7.5-inch barrel and a Colt Single Action Army 5.5-inch barrel), though not at once.
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-->'''Harry''': I'll be damned. ''[dies]''
-->'''Chris''': Maybe you won't be.
-->'''Harry''': I'll be damned. ''[dies]''
-->'''Chris''': Maybe you won't be.
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* LetThemDieHappy: As [[spoiler: he lies dying]], he begs Chris to admit that they weren't actually fighting for a bunch of dirt farmers for room, board, and twenty dollars. Chris obliges, spinning a yarn about gold that puts a smile on Harry's face before the end.
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* HypocriteHasAPoint: When he sends the Seven away, he gives them an anecdote about the time he robbed a bank in Texas and the government sent a whole army after him. Although he had an army sent after him because he had a gang of forty men, Calvera correctly states that the Seven, who are mostly white, will get a fair trial and be released on bail if caught, while Calvera's gang, all Mexican, will be racially profiled almost instantly.
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The only actor of the Seven who didn't become a big star in some way.
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* LargeHam
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulu: During their first confrontation, he tells Calvera to ride on. Calvera doesn't take it well.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the gunslinger archetype. His sharp eye, fast hands, and take-no-crap attitude has given him... a life of jumping at every shadow for fear of the next person to try to take his title, and paying exorbitant amounts of money to sleep in stables and storehouses because inn-keepers are afraid their place will be shot up if they let him have a room.
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* ChangedMyMindKid: Originally turned down an offer to join.
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* HomelessHero: Brynner described Chris as "a dirty bum. Really, the only things clean about him are his gun and his soul".
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* NiceHat: Which he never takes off.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's jovial, laid-back and easygoing, yet also one of the deadliest gunslingers in the film.
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-->'''Chico''': Villages like this they make up a song about every big thing that happens. Sing them for years.
-->'''Chris''': You think it's worth it?
-->'''Chico''': Don't you?
-->'''Chris''': It's only a matter of knowing how to shoot a gun. Nothing big about that.
-->'''Chico''': Hey. How can you talk like this? Your gun has got you everything you have. Isn't that true? Hmm? Well, isn't that true?
-->'''Vin''': Yeah, sure. Everything. After awhile you can call bartenders and faro dealers by their first name - maybe two hundred of 'em! Rented rooms you live in - five hundred! Meals you eat in hash houses - a thousand! Home - none! Wife - none! Kids... none! Prospects - zero.
-->'''Chico''': Villages like this they make up a song about every big thing that happens. Sing them for years.
-->'''Chris''': You think it's worth it?
-->'''Chico''': Don't you?
-->'''Chris''': It's only a matter of knowing how to shoot a gun. Nothing big about that.
-->'''Chico''': Hey. How can you talk like this? Your gun has got you everything you have. Isn't that true? Hmm? Well, isn't that true?
-->'''Vin''': Yeah, sure. Everything. After awhile you can call bartenders and faro dealers by their first name - maybe two hundred of 'em! Rented rooms you live in - five hundred! Meals you eat in hash houses - a thousand! Home - none! Wife - none! Kids... none! Prospects - zero.
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* RealMenWearPink: He wears a pink-looking shirt for most of the film.
* KnightInSourArmor: He has nothing to show for a lifetime of exploits and even laments the fact that he never got to settle down with a family like the villagers did.
* TheGunslinger: He's unquestionably stated to be the best QuickDraw alive with both gun and knife and proves it, though [[spoiler:it's not enough to keep him from being killed in the climactic firefight]].
* GuileHero: What strikes the viewer about Chico is that he's not the best gunfighter, so he uses his wits to prove himself useful, such as his BavarianFireDrill tactic and his infiltration of Calvera's camp.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Dresses in rich dark colors.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulu: During their first confrontation, he tells Calvera to ride on. Calvera doesn't take it well.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob:He's reduced to He was once a highly-paid BountyHunter, but now works chopping wood for his breakfast.breakfast so he's willing to accept the measly pay the villagers are offering.
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* InstantFanClub: The village children.Deconstructed — the mob of kids who follow him around everywhere end up getting him killed as they wander out into a gunfight and he tries to get them into cover.
* MultiEthnicName: Bernardo O'Reilly: "Irish on one side, Mexican on the other, and me in the middle."
* MultiEthnicName: Bernardo O'Reilly: "Irish on one side, Mexican on the other, and me in the middle."
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Demanding his money up front to cover the exorbitant cost of his terrible lodgings.
* NervousWreck: He's become completely paranoid due to frequent attempts on his life. No civilian wants him around because of the inevitable violence that will happen when someone tries to kill Lee to take his fame, and his nerves are completely shot from his experiences.
* TheParanoiac: He's a jumpy paranoid wreck due to the repeated and near constant attempts on his life from individuals trying to kill the famous gunslinger to take his fame.
* ScrapHeapHero: He starts as a sunsetting gunfighter, who lives hiding from his numerous enemies, fearing the bullet faster than his own which will eventually kill him. He hides even during the first confrontation with Calvera. But, during the climax, he faces his demons and saves a group of farmers, dispatching quickly a bunch of bandits and showing that he really is a hell of a gunfighter. After this, his posture and expression seem to show that he has regained the courage of his old days (and, in a twist of irony, he is then immediately killed by a random bullet).
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Not quite.He's convinced that there has to be some kind of hidden profit motivating Chris and the others to take on such an apparently unprofitable job, and spends most of the film trying to find out what it is. He is, accordingly, the only one of the seven who decides to walk away after Sotero sells them out to Calvera, when it becomes clear that there is no profit to be had. Subverted when Harry returns during the final shootout, saving Chris at the cost of his own life.
* AccidentalAimingSkills: He kills a bandit fleeing on horseback with a single pistol shot from a longish distance. When Chico calls it the best shot he's ever seen, Britt calls it the ''worst'' - he had aimed for the ''horse'', because he wanted to take one of the bandits ''alive'' and question him about the strength of the bandit group.
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* KnifeNutFastestGunInTheWest: He's fast with both guns and knives. Early in the movie, he shows just how fast he is by using a thrown knife to kill an opponent who has a gun.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He takes several seconds to line up a pistol shot from a longish distance, and he still claims to have missed his intended target.
* KnifeNut: His weapon of choice is a throwing knife. His introduction to the audience is him being forced into a face-off against a guy who fancies himself a gunslinger: his gun against Britt's throwing knife. Britt wins. This isn't to say that he's not also a very good marksman with a gun.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He takes several seconds to line up a pistol shot from a longish distance, and he still claims to have missed his intended target.
* KnifeNut: His weapon of choice is a throwing knife. His introduction to the audience is him being forced into a face-off against a guy who fancies himself a gunslinger: his gun against Britt's throwing knife. Britt wins. This isn't to say that he's not also a very good marksman with a gun.
* ClothingDamage: His hat gets a hole shot through it. Britt gives a sombrero to replace it, which comes in handy when infiltrating Calvera's camp.
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* TheGunfighterWannabeDressingAsTheEnemy: He successfully infiltrates Calvera's camp in sombrero.
* TheGunfighterWannabe: The rest of the group tries to dissuade him from going along with them, since they believe that his pride is only going to get himself killed.
* TheGunfighterWannabe: The rest of the group tries to dissuade him from going along with them, since they believe that his pride is only going to get himself killed.
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* IChooseToStayIChooseToStay: In the end, he decides to abandon his ambitions of becoming a gunfighter and settles down in the village.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: He tags along behind the other more experienced gunslingers on the ride to the Mexican village.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:A half-example, since he's a composite of Kikuchiyo, who dies, and Katsushiro, who lives.]]
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farming villages like the one they're defending, and generally quite clever.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Though he has to think about providing food for his many men as well.
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* {{Expy}}: Subverted and later lampshaded. While Lee is not a direct adaptation of any of the Seven Samurai, Robert Vaughn, twenty years later, in a film which was intentionally ''[[Film/BattleBeyondTheStars The Magnificent Seven...In Space!]]'', would revisit the role as a character who was almost identical, albeit less sympathetic.
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A greedy treasure seeker and
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* BavarianFireDrillBavarianFireDrill: He rings the village church bell, pretending that the bandits are coming, to bring the villagers out to give the Seven a proper greeting.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:His Kikuchiyo half, in this case.[[spoiler:A half-example, since he's a composite of Kikuchiyo, who dies, and Katsushiro, who lives.]]
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* CanonForeigner: He is the only one of the seven who isn't directly adapted from ''Film/SevenSamurai''. His characterization as a fighter who's lost his nerve would have been unbecoming of any samurai.
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* CanonForeigner: He is the only one of the seven who isn't directly adapted from ''Film/SevenSamurai''. His characterization as a fighter who's lost his nerve would have been unbecoming of any samurai.samurai (especially the ronin at the beginning of ''Seven Samurai'' who is fed by the farmers and spends his money on gambling).
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* VillainousValour: He Although he usually sends out scouts to steal and fight for him, he isn't afraid to fight on the front line in the final battle.
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!!Vin (Creator/SteveMcQueen, (Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, Robert Fuller)
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** He's also critical of Texan racism towards Mexicans. "In Texas", he declares, "only Texans can rob banks".
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-->"If God did not want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep."
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!!Chris Adams (Creator/YulBrynner, George Kennedy[[note]]the third one[[/note]], Creator/LeeVanCleef[[note]]the fourth one[[/note]])
-->'''Chris:''' "I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything."
A veteran gunslinger of Cajun origin. When he hears from the villagers why they hope to try and barter for guns and ammunition, he suggests that they would be better served trying to recruit professional gunmen to defend them instead. Though initially reluctant to accept the role, in the end, he assembles a RagtagBandOfMisfits and leads the defense of the village. The only character to appear in all four films.
* BadassBaritone: Chris has a deep, resonant voice that oozes badassery.
* BaldOfAwesome: Under his hat.
* CigarChomper: He's fond of cigarillos.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dresses in rich dark colors.
* TheDrifter: He's drifting South when the villagers meet him.*
* TheGunslinger
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Vin.
* IGaveMyWord: He took a contract with the villagers and he'll see it through.
* TheLeader
* NiceGuy: A textbook example.
* NiceHat: Which he never takes off.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Makes one wonder why a cowboy played by Yul Brynner would have a distinctly American-sounding name like '''Chris Adams'''. His subdued-but-noticeable Russian accent is handwaved by him being Cajun ([[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign an accent that definitely doesn't sound Russian]])
* TheStoic
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Harry.
!!Vin (Creator/SteveMcQueen, Robert Fuller)
-->'''Vin''': Reminds me of that fellow back home that fell off a ten story building.\\
'''Chris''': What about him?\\
'''Vin''': Well, as he was falling people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good." Tch, so far, so good.
A drifter and a gambler currently completely bankrupt due to losing at poker, he joins the defense because he can't stand the alternative of working off the debt in a store. One of the three members of the initial band to survive, he returns only for the first sequel.
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDrifter: He's just wandering until he meets Chris
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When he and Chris escort a dead Indian to a cemetery whilst under fire.
* TheGambler: Not a very good one, having lost everything at poker.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Chris.
* TheLancer
* NumberTwo
* TheStoic
!!Bernardo O'Reilly (Creator/CharlesBronson)
An Irish/Mexican gunslinger who joins the band due to having fallen on hard times.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Shot by the fleeing bandits while trying to protects three boys. He exchanges a few words with the boys about their fathers before he dies.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: When Chris first meets up with him, he's chopping wood. Chris says he heard Bernardo was "down on his luck". Bernardo's reply is "No, I'm doing this because I'm an eccentric millionaire."
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: He's reduced to chopping wood for his breakfast.
* FriendToAllChildren
* FriendlySniper: He's often posted on rooftops with his rifle.
* TheHeart: He's the one who points out that while the gunmen eat nice meals, the villagers have tortillas and a few beans. They soon fix that...
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: He was a well-paid BountyHunter; now he has to chop wood for a living, so even the measly pay the villagers are offering is a fortune.
* InstantFanClub: The village children.
* NiceGuy
* SayMyName: [[spoiler:[[InvokedTrope Invokes]] this as he dies.]]
* TheStoic
* UnwantedAssistance: [[invoked]][[InUniverse Within the film,]] his InstantFanClub [[spoiler:ends up getting him killed during the final battle when he has to pay attention to protecting them instead of being able to concentrate on what he's doing.]]
!!Lee (Creator/RobertVaughn)
A veteran gunslinger of considerable skill who is suffering from a crisis of confidence, as the terrifying reputation he has built has made life difficult for him and his nerve has been shattered due to all the deaths on his hands.
* BrokenAce: Lee is a {{Deconstruction}} of the swaggering gunslinger archetype. He is originally found sleeping in a stable for an extortive rent because the innkeeper won't rent a proper room to him for fear that he'll get into a fight inside the inn. He's skittish and paranoid from being jumped too many times, and has nightmares from the fights he's been in.
* CanonForeigner: He is the only one of the seven who isn't directly adapted from ''Film/SevenSamurai''. His characterization as a fighter who's lost his nerve would have been unbecoming of any samurai.
* CatapultNightmare: He scrambles across his room in a panic when he awakens from a nightmare.
* TheDandy: He's undoubtedly the best dressed of the seven.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: While trying to catch flies in his hand. "There was a time I could have got all three."
* NiceGuy: Hinted at, with his interactions with the villagers.
* TheQuietOne: Except for Britt, he speaks the fewest lines. He has 16 while Britt has 11.
* ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest: His life as a deadly and notorious gunfighter had led to him constantly being attacked by men who want to claim his reputation for themselves, which in turn has left him a paranoid and lonely wreck.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Finally finds his nerve in the climactic final battle and ends up killed right afterward.
* SharpDressedMan: Stylishly, in the gunslinger equivalent of a tailored business suit.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Not from a "formal" war...but his own war of being a long-time gunfighter.
* TheSixthRanger
* TheSmartGuy
* TheStoic: Very quiet and withdrawn, but in a more sensitive fashion.
** NotSoStoic: Is shown screaming for mercy while he had that nightmare.
!!Harry Luck (Creator/BradDexter)
A greedy treasure seeker and Chris's best friend.
* ChangedMyMindKid: When he [[spoiler:returns for the final battle.]]
* ConMan
* TheEveryman
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The only actor of the Seven who didn't become a big star in some way.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Not quite.
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath: Rides back into town to help Chris, but is shot and killed by the Bandits.]]
* TheSmartGuy
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Chris.
!!Britt (Creator/JamesCoburn)
A quiet cowboy who's just as skilled with a knife as with a gun, and joins the Seven to further test his skills.
* BadassBaritone: Britt has a deep, smooth voice (courtesy of James Coburn) that oozes badassery.
* BadassBoast: Chris delivers one for him by proxy, describing him to the villagers as the best they could hope to find with gun or knife, completely uninterested in money.
-->'''Miguel:''' If he is the best with a gun and a knife, with whom does he compete?\\
'''Chris:''' Himself.
** He delivers another one when the seven, after getting kicked out of town, are debating whether or not to go back. It's one of his longest lines
-->'''Britt:''' Nobody throws me my own gun and says run. Nobody.
* TheBigGuy
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: shot by the bandits as they flee after Calvera is killed. He rises to his feet and draws his knife, but falls over dead, the knife sticking into the wall in front of him.]]
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Knife]]: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as [[spoiler:he draws his famous blade during the final battle, but is shot to death before he can use it.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his opening scene, (which lasts 2:28) he only speaks a total of five words. He also uses a knife in a gunfight and ''wins.''
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/SevenSamurai Kyuzo]], and the biggest {{Expy}} of the bunch. James Coburn said he deliberately incorporated Seiji Miyaguchi's performance as Kyuzo into his performance.
* KnifeNut
* TheQuietOne: Britt is ''very'' quiet, using as few words as humanly possible. Throughout the entire film he has only eleven lines, most of them quite short.
* SilentSnarker: Despite his terseness, Britt has no difficulty communicating his opinions. His response to a hotheaded cowboy trying to provoke him with insults is to pointedly pull his hat down over his eyes and go back to napping.
* SpiritedCompetitor: As described by Chris, Britt doesn't care about money - it's the challenge to his skills that motivates him.
* TheStoic
!!Chico (Creator/HorstBuchholz, Julian Mateos)
A young, inexperienced gunslinger who wants to make a name for himself. [[spoiler: Having given up on the gunslinger life to marry Petra, he is thusly one of the fifty men kidnapped to be slaves in the first sequel.]]
* BadassInDistress: During the second film.
* BavarianFireDrill
* BoomerangBigot: He really dislikes farmers, but [[spoiler:ends up becoming one himself at the end so that he can stay in the village with Petra.]]
* CallToAgriculture: Despite explicitly stating in an earlier scene that he had no intention of settling down, [[spoiler:he does just this at the end so that he can stay with Petra.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Of Katsushiro (the inexperienced young man who [[spoiler:has a relationship with a farmer's daughter]]) and Kikuchiyo (the hotheaded wannabe who [[spoiler:comes from a farming village]]).
* TheGunfighterWannabe
* GuileHero: What strikes the viewer about Chico is that he's not the best gunfighter, so he uses his wits to prove himself useful, such as his BavarianFireDrill tactic and his infiltration of Calvera's camp.
* HotBlooded: The most of the Seven.
* IChooseToStay
* KidAppealCharacter
* LargeHam: At times. Not as wacky as Kikuchiyo, but has a few moments.
* LeeroyJenkins: He lacks the patience of his comrades, charging into a shoot-out and nearly getting his head blown off and attempting to pistol-whip Calvera. In the latter case, Chris manages to stop him getting killed right there and then.
* MeaningfulName: Chico means "kid" in Spanish.
* NaiveNewcomer
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Horst Buchholz does pretty much nothing to hide his German accent.
* SarcasmBlind: Vin and Chris sarcastically suggest that he go and ask Calvera his plans for the night. Chico does ''exactly that'', infiltrating Calvera's camp and even speaking directly with Calvera under the cover of the particularly dim fire in the camp. Without being discovered as a spy, Chico slips away from Calvera's camp, returns to the village, and tells everyone the awful truth that [[spoiler:Calvera's men are starving and have nowhere else to turn for food]].
* TagalongKid
* TheTeamWannabe
* TokenRomance: With Petra.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:His Kikuchiyo half, in this case.]]
* YoungGun
!!Calvera (Creator/EliWallach)
The enigmatic leader of the bandits terrorizing the village.
* AffablyEvil / FauxAffablyEvil: In fact, during the making of the film, Brynner said that Wallach was ''too'' benevolent as Calvera.
* AlasPoorVillain: You feel at least a little bit of pity for him when he dies.
* BackstabBackfire: Tries to shoot Chris in the back during the final battle. However, Chris is too quick for him and kills him.
* BadassMustache
* BadBoss: An extremely mild version. He doesn't outright abuse his men; he even openly admits the responsibility he carries for looking after them. But he seems cold and careless about the casualties from the first gunfight (unless [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation he's upset about the loss as well and doesn't want to think about it]].)
-->'''Calvera:''' Talk, talk! They´re all dead anyway. Forget about them. [[WeHaveReserves There´s still plenty of us here to make them pay.]]
* {{Bandito}}
* BeardOfEvil: With a wispy mustache.
* BigBad: Organised and put together enough to be a serious threat.
* DiesWideOpen: After his FamousLastWords.
* TheDreaded: Is mentioned frequently throughout and has about five appearances in the entire film.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's appalled at the lack of religion and how a church is impoverished. He still robbed it, though.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: "You came back... For a place like this? Why? A man like you -- Why...?"
* EvilIsHammy: And steals every scene.
* FamousLastWords: See EvilCannotComprehendGood.
* GirlyRun: As characteristic of his actor, his run is quite dainty and delicate.
* GoldTooth: Has a couple of them.
* GoodHairEvilHair: His hair is sweaty and slicked down.
* {{Jerkass}}: Crass, mean and cruel to the farmers.
-->"If God did not want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep."
* ItsAllAboutMe: Though he has to think about providing food for his many men as well.
* LargeHam
* {{Leitmotif}}: An awesome one that made Eli wish he'd ridden his horse better.
* NiceHat: A black sombrero.
* PetTheDog: He steals to provide for his men.
-->'''Calvera:''' What if you had to carry my load, huh? The need to provide food, [[AFatherToHisMen like a good father]], to fill the mouths of his hungry men. Guns, ammunition — you know how much money that costs? Huh? Huh?
* PragmaticVillain: Attempts to be this by sending the Seven away so that they don't bring the US Army with them. It backfires horribly.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Wears a garish red shirt that offsets his black trousers and hat.
* SmugSnake: Pompous and likes to hear himself talk.
* VillainousValour: He isn't afraid to fight on the front line in the final battle.
* WeaponOfChoice: A Colt Single Action Army "QuickDraw" (4.75 inch barrel).
-->'''Chris:''' "I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything."
A veteran gunslinger of Cajun origin. When he hears from the villagers why they hope to try and barter for guns and ammunition, he suggests that they would be better served trying to recruit professional gunmen to defend them instead. Though initially reluctant to accept the role, in the end, he assembles a RagtagBandOfMisfits and leads the defense of the village. The only character to appear in all four films.
* BadassBaritone: Chris has a deep, resonant voice that oozes badassery.
* BaldOfAwesome: Under his hat.
* CigarChomper: He's fond of cigarillos.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dresses in rich dark colors.
* TheDrifter: He's drifting South when the villagers meet him.*
* TheGunslinger
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Vin.
* IGaveMyWord: He took a contract with the villagers and he'll see it through.
* TheLeader
* NiceGuy: A textbook example.
* NiceHat: Which he never takes off.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Makes one wonder why a cowboy played by Yul Brynner would have a distinctly American-sounding name like '''Chris Adams'''. His subdued-but-noticeable Russian accent is handwaved by him being Cajun ([[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign an accent that definitely doesn't sound Russian]])
* TheStoic
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Harry.
!!Vin (Creator/SteveMcQueen, Robert Fuller)
-->'''Vin''': Reminds me of that fellow back home that fell off a ten story building.\\
'''Chris''': What about him?\\
'''Vin''': Well, as he was falling people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good." Tch, so far, so good.
A drifter and a gambler currently completely bankrupt due to losing at poker, he joins the defense because he can't stand the alternative of working off the debt in a store. One of the three members of the initial band to survive, he returns only for the first sequel.
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDrifter: He's just wandering until he meets Chris
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When he and Chris escort a dead Indian to a cemetery whilst under fire.
* TheGambler: Not a very good one, having lost everything at poker.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Chris.
* TheLancer
* NumberTwo
* TheStoic
!!Bernardo O'Reilly (Creator/CharlesBronson)
An Irish/Mexican gunslinger who joins the band due to having fallen on hard times.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Shot by the fleeing bandits while trying to protects three boys. He exchanges a few words with the boys about their fathers before he dies.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: When Chris first meets up with him, he's chopping wood. Chris says he heard Bernardo was "down on his luck". Bernardo's reply is "No, I'm doing this because I'm an eccentric millionaire."
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: He's reduced to chopping wood for his breakfast.
* FriendToAllChildren
* FriendlySniper: He's often posted on rooftops with his rifle.
* TheHeart: He's the one who points out that while the gunmen eat nice meals, the villagers have tortillas and a few beans. They soon fix that...
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: He was a well-paid BountyHunter; now he has to chop wood for a living, so even the measly pay the villagers are offering is a fortune.
* InstantFanClub: The village children.
* NiceGuy
* SayMyName: [[spoiler:[[InvokedTrope Invokes]] this as he dies.]]
* TheStoic
* UnwantedAssistance: [[invoked]][[InUniverse Within the film,]] his InstantFanClub [[spoiler:ends up getting him killed during the final battle when he has to pay attention to protecting them instead of being able to concentrate on what he's doing.]]
!!Lee (Creator/RobertVaughn)
A veteran gunslinger of considerable skill who is suffering from a crisis of confidence, as the terrifying reputation he has built has made life difficult for him and his nerve has been shattered due to all the deaths on his hands.
* BrokenAce: Lee is a {{Deconstruction}} of the swaggering gunslinger archetype. He is originally found sleeping in a stable for an extortive rent because the innkeeper won't rent a proper room to him for fear that he'll get into a fight inside the inn. He's skittish and paranoid from being jumped too many times, and has nightmares from the fights he's been in.
* CanonForeigner: He is the only one of the seven who isn't directly adapted from ''Film/SevenSamurai''. His characterization as a fighter who's lost his nerve would have been unbecoming of any samurai.
* CatapultNightmare: He scrambles across his room in a panic when he awakens from a nightmare.
* TheDandy: He's undoubtedly the best dressed of the seven.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: While trying to catch flies in his hand. "There was a time I could have got all three."
* NiceGuy: Hinted at, with his interactions with the villagers.
* TheQuietOne: Except for Britt, he speaks the fewest lines. He has 16 while Britt has 11.
* ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest: His life as a deadly and notorious gunfighter had led to him constantly being attacked by men who want to claim his reputation for themselves, which in turn has left him a paranoid and lonely wreck.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Finally finds his nerve in the climactic final battle and ends up killed right afterward.
* SharpDressedMan: Stylishly, in the gunslinger equivalent of a tailored business suit.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Not from a "formal" war...but his own war of being a long-time gunfighter.
* TheSixthRanger
* TheSmartGuy
* TheStoic: Very quiet and withdrawn, but in a more sensitive fashion.
** NotSoStoic: Is shown screaming for mercy while he had that nightmare.
!!Harry Luck (Creator/BradDexter)
A greedy treasure seeker and Chris's best friend.
* ChangedMyMindKid: When he [[spoiler:returns for the final battle.]]
* ConMan
* TheEveryman
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The only actor of the Seven who didn't become a big star in some way.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Not quite.
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath: Rides back into town to help Chris, but is shot and killed by the Bandits.]]
* TheSmartGuy
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Chris.
!!Britt (Creator/JamesCoburn)
A quiet cowboy who's just as skilled with a knife as with a gun, and joins the Seven to further test his skills.
* BadassBaritone: Britt has a deep, smooth voice (courtesy of James Coburn) that oozes badassery.
* BadassBoast: Chris delivers one for him by proxy, describing him to the villagers as the best they could hope to find with gun or knife, completely uninterested in money.
-->'''Miguel:''' If he is the best with a gun and a knife, with whom does he compete?\\
'''Chris:''' Himself.
** He delivers another one when the seven, after getting kicked out of town, are debating whether or not to go back. It's one of his longest lines
-->'''Britt:''' Nobody throws me my own gun and says run. Nobody.
* TheBigGuy
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: shot by the bandits as they flee after Calvera is killed. He rises to his feet and draws his knife, but falls over dead, the knife sticking into the wall in front of him.]]
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Knife]]: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as [[spoiler:he draws his famous blade during the final battle, but is shot to death before he can use it.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his opening scene, (which lasts 2:28) he only speaks a total of five words. He also uses a knife in a gunfight and ''wins.''
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/SevenSamurai Kyuzo]], and the biggest {{Expy}} of the bunch. James Coburn said he deliberately incorporated Seiji Miyaguchi's performance as Kyuzo into his performance.
* KnifeNut
* TheQuietOne: Britt is ''very'' quiet, using as few words as humanly possible. Throughout the entire film he has only eleven lines, most of them quite short.
* SilentSnarker: Despite his terseness, Britt has no difficulty communicating his opinions. His response to a hotheaded cowboy trying to provoke him with insults is to pointedly pull his hat down over his eyes and go back to napping.
* SpiritedCompetitor: As described by Chris, Britt doesn't care about money - it's the challenge to his skills that motivates him.
* TheStoic
!!Chico (Creator/HorstBuchholz, Julian Mateos)
A young, inexperienced gunslinger who wants to make a name for himself. [[spoiler: Having given up on the gunslinger life to marry Petra, he is thusly one of the fifty men kidnapped to be slaves in the first sequel.]]
* BadassInDistress: During the second film.
* BavarianFireDrill
* BoomerangBigot: He really dislikes farmers, but [[spoiler:ends up becoming one himself at the end so that he can stay in the village with Petra.]]
* CallToAgriculture: Despite explicitly stating in an earlier scene that he had no intention of settling down, [[spoiler:he does just this at the end so that he can stay with Petra.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Of Katsushiro (the inexperienced young man who [[spoiler:has a relationship with a farmer's daughter]]) and Kikuchiyo (the hotheaded wannabe who [[spoiler:comes from a farming village]]).
* TheGunfighterWannabe
* GuileHero: What strikes the viewer about Chico is that he's not the best gunfighter, so he uses his wits to prove himself useful, such as his BavarianFireDrill tactic and his infiltration of Calvera's camp.
* HotBlooded: The most of the Seven.
* IChooseToStay
* KidAppealCharacter
* LargeHam: At times. Not as wacky as Kikuchiyo, but has a few moments.
* LeeroyJenkins: He lacks the patience of his comrades, charging into a shoot-out and nearly getting his head blown off and attempting to pistol-whip Calvera. In the latter case, Chris manages to stop him getting killed right there and then.
* MeaningfulName: Chico means "kid" in Spanish.
* NaiveNewcomer
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Horst Buchholz does pretty much nothing to hide his German accent.
* SarcasmBlind: Vin and Chris sarcastically suggest that he go and ask Calvera his plans for the night. Chico does ''exactly that'', infiltrating Calvera's camp and even speaking directly with Calvera under the cover of the particularly dim fire in the camp. Without being discovered as a spy, Chico slips away from Calvera's camp, returns to the village, and tells everyone the awful truth that [[spoiler:Calvera's men are starving and have nowhere else to turn for food]].
* TagalongKid
* TheTeamWannabe
* TokenRomance: With Petra.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:His Kikuchiyo half, in this case.]]
* YoungGun
!!Calvera (Creator/EliWallach)
The enigmatic leader of the bandits terrorizing the village.
* AffablyEvil / FauxAffablyEvil: In fact, during the making of the film, Brynner said that Wallach was ''too'' benevolent as Calvera.
* AlasPoorVillain: You feel at least a little bit of pity for him when he dies.
* BackstabBackfire: Tries to shoot Chris in the back during the final battle. However, Chris is too quick for him and kills him.
* BadassMustache
* BadBoss: An extremely mild version. He doesn't outright abuse his men; he even openly admits the responsibility he carries for looking after them. But he seems cold and careless about the casualties from the first gunfight (unless [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation he's upset about the loss as well and doesn't want to think about it]].)
-->'''Calvera:''' Talk, talk! They´re all dead anyway. Forget about them. [[WeHaveReserves There´s still plenty of us here to make them pay.]]
* {{Bandito}}
* BeardOfEvil: With a wispy mustache.
* BigBad: Organised and put together enough to be a serious threat.
* DiesWideOpen: After his FamousLastWords.
* TheDreaded: Is mentioned frequently throughout and has about five appearances in the entire film.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's appalled at the lack of religion and how a church is impoverished. He still robbed it, though.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: "You came back... For a place like this? Why? A man like you -- Why...?"
* EvilIsHammy: And steals every scene.
* FamousLastWords: See EvilCannotComprehendGood.
* GirlyRun: As characteristic of his actor, his run is quite dainty and delicate.
* GoldTooth: Has a couple of them.
* GoodHairEvilHair: His hair is sweaty and slicked down.
* {{Jerkass}}: Crass, mean and cruel to the farmers.
-->"If God did not want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep."
* ItsAllAboutMe: Though he has to think about providing food for his many men as well.
* LargeHam
* {{Leitmotif}}: An awesome one that made Eli wish he'd ridden his horse better.
* NiceHat: A black sombrero.
* PetTheDog: He steals to provide for his men.
-->'''Calvera:''' What if you had to carry my load, huh? The need to provide food, [[AFatherToHisMen like a good father]], to fill the mouths of his hungry men. Guns, ammunition — you know how much money that costs? Huh? Huh?
* PragmaticVillain: Attempts to be this by sending the Seven away so that they don't bring the US Army with them. It backfires horribly.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Wears a garish red shirt that offsets his black trousers and hat.
* SmugSnake: Pompous and likes to hear himself talk.
* VillainousValour: He isn't afraid to fight on the front line in the final battle.
* WeaponOfChoice: A Colt Single Action Army "QuickDraw" (4.75 inch barrel).
