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* ''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 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/SevenWarriors'', another Hong Kong output from the late 80s. With Creator/LoLieh as the BigBad, a Manchurian warlord terrorizing a village, and Adam Cheng, Creator/JackyCheung, and Creator/{{Tony Leung|ChiuWai}} as members of the seven. The movie is notably LighterAndSofter than most adaptations though, with Tony's character being the PluckyComicRelief and the onscreen violence downplayed.

* 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 [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs so surreal]] and [[MindScrew intentionally fragmented]] that the reader doesn't really realize the connection until it's FridgeBrilliance.

* Briefly alluded to in the first ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' light novel. When Goblinslayer asks for help against the Goblin army that will be moving against the farm where he lives Spearman and Witch are the only ones from outside of his party to volunteer to help him. As Dwarf Shaman, High Elf Archer and Lizardman Priest come down to join them Witch murmurs, " So that makes six of us. Or will it be seven?". It's at this point Guild Girl takes things in a different direction by pulling strings and getting the rest of the Guild on board with defending the farm. After this, Goblinslayer turns around to find that Priestess had been standing in his blind spot, staff in hand and ready to go, without saying a word. Witch's count had been correct and it indeed had been seven.

* Briefly alluded to in the first ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' light novel. When Goblinslayer asks for help against the Goblin army that will be moving against the farm where he lives Spearman and Witch are the only ones from outside of his party to volunteer to help him. As Dwarf Shaman, High Elf Archer and Lizardman Priest come down to join them Witch murmurs, " So that makes six of us. Or will it be seven?". It's at this point Guild Girl takes things in a different direction by pulling strings and getting the rest of the Guild on board with defending the farm. After this, Goblinslayer turns around to find that Priestess had been standing in his blind spot, staff in hand and ready to go, without saying a word. Witch's count had been correct and it indeed had been seven.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' the first major arc, the Land of Waves, quickly turns into this plot. Team 7 is hired to act as bodyguards for a cantankerous old man named Tazuna but instead of protecting him from ordinary bandits on the journey home, they discover he has been marked for death by Gatou, a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive shipping magnate and crime lord]], who has taken over his impoverished country and wants to stop Tazuna from building a bridge to the mainland and thus break his economic tyranny, and has hired dangerous ninja assassin [[DragonInChief Momochi Zabuza]] and his gang of missing-nin to take him out. It ends with the people of Tazuna's village being inspired to make a stand against Gatou's army of hoodlums.

* 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.

* Russian movie ''Film/{{Dikiy vostok}}'' a.k.a. ''Film/TheWildEast''. In this version of the famous plot, a group of midget circus runaways decide to form their own community to flee the chaos but come under attack from Mongolian motorcycling ruffians. In response, of course, the midgets hire seven tough guys to defend them.

* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'''s arc ''The Valley of Fellows'' is a riff on ''The Magnficent Seven'', with Sherlock, Billy, and five other outsiders being the only ones to help protect Vermissa Valley from the Scrowrers. At the end, there's even a shot of the tombstone for the fallen calling them "The Magnificents" and revealing that the bodyguard character Goodnight Lowe is also Birdy Edwards from ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear''.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' the first major arc, the Land of Waves, quickly turns into this plot. Team 7 is hired to act as bodyguards for a cantakerous old man named Tazuna but instead of protecting him from ordinary bandits on the journey home, they discover he has been marked for death by Gatou, a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive shipping magnate and crime lord]], who has taken over his impoverished country and wants to stop Tazuna from building a bridge to the mainland and thus break his economic tyranny, and has hired dangerous ninja assassin [[DragonInChief Momochi Zabuza]] and his gang of missing-nin to take him out. It ends with the people of Tazuna's village being inspired to make a stand against Gatou's army of hoodlums.

* The comedy film ''Film/ThreeAmigos!'', where the Mexican villagers recruit the heroes of silent westerns, not knowing they're just actors.

* In Season 5 of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Rick's competent, battle-hardened group is recruited to join the Alexandria Safe-Zone because the survivors of the community are soft, sheltered, and largely incompetent.

* The "Losers' Club", in Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{IT}}''. The Losers are the group of misfit children who are united by their unhappy lives. They share the same misery and torment from being the victims of bullying at the hands of Henry Bowers and band together as they struggle to overcome the eponymous It.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy'' has a downplayed version of this after the {{Wham Episode}}s midway into Season 12 throw off the initial WholePlotReference to ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]''. The main difference is that here, since the Reds and Blues crashlanded on the planet Chorus during a CivilWar, the storyline is less “defending and TrainingThePeacefulVillagers” and more “getting the two sides of the civil war to perform a successful EnemyMine [[spoiler:against [[TheManBehindTheMan the true masterminds of the conflict]]"]]. Other than that, it stays surprisingly close to this trope’s general set-up [[note]]To further clarify, it has [[CasanovaWannabe Tucker]], [[TheAtoner Carolina]], and [[AIIsACrapshoot Epsilon]] all sharing TheHero role, [[OnlySaneMan Wash]] as TheLancer, [[LazyBum Grif]] and [[FluffyTheTerrible Freckles]] both as TheBigGuy, [[TVGenius Simmons]] and [[MadDoctor Dr. Emily Grey]] both as TheSmartGuy, [[DrillSergeantNasty Sarge]] as [[MentorArchetype The Old Guy]], [[TheCutie Donut]] and [[WorstAid Doc]] both as [[NaiveNewcomer The Young Guy]], and both [[CloudCuckoolander Caboose]] and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Lopez]] as [[PluckyComicRelief The Funny One]]. Some of the characters’ roles overlap, though, as [[BewareTheSillyOnes an angry Caboose]], Wash, and Doc (at least when under the influence of [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin his O’Malley]] SplitPersonality]]) can also be seen as TheBigGuy, and Sarge is also increasingly pushed into the role of TheLancer as the arc goes on[[/note]].

No, you haven't been reading Wiki/TVTropes for [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife so long]] that everything is blending together. This is actually a relatively common plot device. Take the basic plot of a bunch of cool guys + awesome goal + clearly defined personality types + any other overtones of ''Film/SevenSamurai'' you can think of and bam! Instant "team on a mission" story!

* Parodied and lampshaded out the wazoo in ''The Magnificent Seven Samurai Cats'', one of the component stories of ''[[Literature/TheAdventuresOfSamuraiCat SamuraiCat Goes To The Movies]]''.

The trope title and [[TropeNamer namers]] are ''Film/SevenSamurai'' (''Shichinin no samurai'') and ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]'', the latter of which is famous for both transferring the Kurosawa classic to the Old West ([[ApprovalOfGod with Kurosawa's blessing]]) and being a classic in its own right. (A trivial note: ''Film/SevenSamurai'' was originally released in the USA as ''The Magnificent Seven''; the English title was changed to a direct translation of the Japanese title later to avoid confusion with the remake.) Nevertheless, this trope is OlderThanFeudalism, going as far back as Creator/{{Aeschylus}}'s play ''Theatre/SevenAgainstThebes''.

* Briefly alluded to in the first Goblinslayer light novel. When Goblinslayer asks for help against the Goblin army that will be moving against the farm where he lives Spearman and Witch are the only ones from outside of his party to volunteer to help him. As Dwarf Shaman, High Elf Archer and Lizardman Priest come down to join them Witch murmurs, " So that makes six of us. Or will it be seven?". It's at this point Guild Girl takes things in a different direction by pulling strings and getting the rest of the Guild on board with defending the farm. After this, Goblinslayer turns around to find that Priestess had been standing in his blind spot, staff in hand and ready to go, without saying a word. Witch's count had been correct and it indeed had been seven.

* ''Series/KungFu: The Legend Continues'' had an episode called "Dragonswing", where Caine and Peter assemble a team of Shao Lin alumni to help a friend rescue his girlfriend from the thugs who've taken over his Northwestern town. Robert Vaughn guest-starred as Rykker, a mercenary [[ActorAllusion very similar]] to his ''Magnificent Seven'' character.

* Arthur and his six Sarmatian knights in the 2004 ''Film/KingArthur'' movie, with the Britons and the "Woads" as the villagers and the Saxons as the bandits. The scene after the battle of Badon Hill with the graves of the knights who fell is lifted straight from Kurosawa.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'', [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters seven]] protagonists flee their invaded capital and recruit seven allies to help them fight back.

* ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' obviously, in that its stated premise is ''Film/SevenSamurai'' [[LikeThatShowButWithMecha With (Steam Punk) Mecha]].

No, you haven't been reading Wiki/TVTropes for [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife so long]] that everything is blending together. This is actually a relatively common plot device. Take the basic plot of a bunch of cool guys + awesome goal + clearly defined personality types + any other overtones of ''Film/SevenSamurai'' you can think of and bam! Instant "team on a mission" story!

* The second episode of ''Series/DarkMatter2015'' features the main characters (of whom there are seven, counting the Android) defending a mining settlement against corporate goons. Showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi has listed ''The Seven Samurai'' among the series's influences. Interestingly, the protagonists were originally a crew of [[PsychoForHire brutal mercenaries]] hired as deniable enforcers to ''destroy'' the settlement, but changed sides because of AmnesiacDissonance.

* In ''Film/TheSevenMagnificentGladiators'', a bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.

* The second episode of ''Series/DarkMatter2015'' features the main characters (of whom there are seven, counting the Android) defending a mining settlement against corporate goons. Showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi has listed ''The Seven Samurai'' among the series's influences. Interestingly, the protagonists were originally a crew of [[PsychoForHire brutal mercenaries]] hired as deniable enforcers to ''destroy'' the settlement, but changed sides because of AmnesiacDissonance.

* The second episode of ''Series/DarkMatter2015'' features the main characters (of whom there are seven, counting the Android) defending a mining settlement against corporate goons. Interestingly, the protagonists were originally a crew of [[PsychoForHire brutal mercenaries]] hired as deniable enforcers to ''destroy'' the settlement, but changed sides because of AmnesiacDissonance. Showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi has listed ''The Seven Samurai'' among the series's influences.