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# TheHero will receive the CallToAdventure. He will then [[AvengersAssemble assemble]] a RagtagBunchOfMisfits.

* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' is a less serious take on this trope, borrowing heavily from ''Film/ThreeAmigos'', as well.

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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': This trope pertains to Bolt and his six puppy mill friends in “The Seven.” Lampshaded in that they name themselves after the [[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 American movie version]] and discuss the merits of this film versus [[Film/SevenSamurai its Japanese predecessor]].

* ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', wherein six superheroes are assembled to defend Earth from an evil norse god and his alien army.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' series was [[HiddenInPlainSight a stealthy example]] of this plot. [[spoiler:Seven heroes, check. Populace periodically ravaged by marauding raiders, check. Heroes working for little or no reward, check. NaiveNewcomer Hero, check. Fraud hero, check. Fraud hero who is redeemed? Check.]] However, the narrative is so surreal and [[MindScrew intentionally fragmented]] that the reader doesn't really realize the connection until it's FridgeBrilliance.
* Back in the UsefulNotes/GoldenAgeOfComicBooks, there was the team, the ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory''. Made up of The Crimson Avenger, Shining Knight, the Star Spangled Kid, Stripesy, and the Golden Age versions of Vigilante (a cowboy style hero), Green Arrow and Speedy. Together they fulfilled this role. Later retcons also continued their tales.
* Creator/BenTemplesmith's ''ComicBook/SingularitySeven'': Earth is forever changed one dark summer night when tiny alien machines known as nanites drift down from outer space. They transform a normal human into a god-like being known as the Singularity, who drives the remnants of humanity underground and to the brink of extinction. Now Earth's only hope lies in the hands of a RagTagBunchOfMisfits of "Specials" - humans mysteriously immune to the nanites' destructive power.

* ''Marvel Adventures: Avengers'' had an issue like this. In accordance with the series's early title theme of altering famous movie titles, this was called The Avenging Seven. It actually did include a little village beset by raiders, had someone travel far with the village's single most precious treasure, had an extended sequence of TrainingThePeacefulVillagers, and at the end the heroes were paid in three tons of food.

* ''ComicBook/RawhideKid: The Sensational Seven'': When Wyatt and Morgan Earp are taken hostage by Cristo Pike and his pack of pistoleros, Rawhide has no choice but to put together a posse of the greatest western heroes in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse - to rescue the Earp brothers and bring Pike to justice. Enter: Kid Colt, Doc Holliday, Annie Oakley, Billy the Kid, Red Wolf and the most overrated gun in the West: the Two-Gun Kid!

* "Film/TheAvengers2012", wherein six superheroes are assembled to defend Earth from an evil norse god and his alien army.

* "Film/TheAvengers2012", wherein six superheroes are assembled to defend Earth from an evil norse god and his alien army.

* ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'' does it with twelve Vikings and an Arab traveler. They have to stop the Wendol, a savage tribe of cannibals who wear bear pelts and attack a small and not well defended Norse kingdom.