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* Averted in ''Film/TheWildGeese''. When the mercenaries are abandoned, it's suggested that they rouse the local population with the aid of the African politician they've just rescued. It's quickly shown to be unworkable; the tribesmen don't have modern weapons, there's a regiment of the dictator's PraetorianGuard approaching and the politician refuses to lead his people to slaughter.
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* Averted in ''Film/TheWildGeese''. When the mercenaries are abandoned, it's suggested that they rouse the local population with the aid of the African politician they've just rescued. It's quickly shown to be unworkable; the tribesmen don't have modern weapons, there's a regiment of the dictator's PraetorianGuard approaching and the politician refuses to lead his people to slaughter.slaughter.
* Downplayed in ''Film/{{Stargate}}''. The natives are oppressed and cowed through fear of Ra's powers, but as soon as they are shown evidence that Ra and his minions aren't actually divine and can be challenged, they're quite willing and eager to fight back, with no motivation needed from the heroes. A few lessons on how to operate Earth weaponry and they're good to go.
* Downplayed in ''Film/{{Stargate}}''. The natives are oppressed and cowed through fear of Ra's powers, but as soon as they are shown evidence that Ra and his minions aren't actually divine and can be challenged, they're quite willing and eager to fight back, with no motivation needed from the heroes. A few lessons on how to operate Earth weaponry and they're good to go.
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* The kung-fu movie ''Film/BeachOfTheWarGods'' recycles the Seven Samurai premise in a Ming dynasty fishing village raided by Japanese pirates, with the hero (played by Creator/JimmyWangYu) and his ragtag team of martial artists training local fishermen in fending off invaders.
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* [[UrExample Ur-film example]] is ''Film/SevenSamurai'', where the samurai plan to let a few bandits past the village gates at a time so that the villagers can ZergRush them with bamboo spears from a safe distance.
* ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]'', for instance, is a direct western adaptation of Kurosawa's film.
* And ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars'' has a RecycledInSpace version.
* The Taiwanese film, ''Film/BeachOfTheWarGods'' tells the story of a village being ravaged by Japanese pirates on a regular basis, until a heroic warrior and drifter band together six other warriors to help battle the pirates.
* ''Film/SevenSwords'' is a Chinese version.
* Done in a silly manner in the movie ''Film/ThreeAmigos''. The villagers couldn't do much except dig and sew, which was a problem since the heroes couldn't do much except pretend to be cowboys in silent movies. But with a plan cobbled together from the big finales of their various movies, a RousingSpeech that got a bit lost in the middle, and a lot of digging and sewing by the villagers, the day is saved (if you're wondering how this all works, the villagers sewed copycat outfits of the Amigos to distract the bad guys while the real Amigos picked them off, and the digging is for a large, hidden water pit to trap several of the banditos' horses).
* AppliedPhlebotinum film example: ''Film/GalaxyQuest''... again, not that the actual heroes have the skills that they're given credit for, either.
* Done in ''Film/{{Argo}}''. Not the actual ''Argo'', but the fictional FilmWithinAFilm ''Argo'', and made to sound like an allegory for the Iranian Revolution itself, gaining the approval of some Iranian guards at the airport.
* Done in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', by Robin and Azeem. They actually weren't peaceful (or villagers for that matter), but Robin and Azeem ''did'' ultimately make them more effective.
* The SpaghettiWestern ''[[Film/{{Trinity}} They Call Me Trinity]]'' has the heroes teaching a community of pacifists to fight back against the villain who wants the land they've built on. The villagers are so peaceful that they have no idea how to fight, and the heroes end up repeatedly clobbering them during the training exercises.
* The whole premise in ''Film/{{Defiance}}'', which is about a group of Jewish refugees. As they gathered more people, they begin training able-bodied people (including women) to fight for survival with weapons taken from the hands of dead Nazis.
* In ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', Ash is inexplicably seen teaching the medieval villagers, including their soldiers, on how to use a halberd. Somewhat justifiable in that he's teaching them to wield the weapons in a manner similar to a quarterstaff (halberds and pikes were normally for attacking horsemen), but staves already ''were'' used as weapons in medieval times.
* The movie ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'' has Clint Eastwood as NoNameGiven train the villagers to fight. DarkerAndEdgier because they aren't peaceful, just cowards, and he really doesn't care much for them.
* {{Subverted}} in ''Film/IpMan'', where our hero trains the workers at Quan's factory in Wing Chun to help them resist a group of bandits, only for the bandits to prevail anyway until Ip Man pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment. The main thing the workers accomplish is a DivideAndConquer variant: to keep various small groups of bandits busy long enough for him to show up and deal with them one at a time rather than forcing him to fight all of them at once.
* This is how they deal with the bad guys in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''. The villagers weren't exactly peaceful, however; rather, they were worn out from trying to fight the current BigBad's father some ten years earlier, and just didn't want to get involved again. Having a dragon on their side changed their minds.
* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' has the villagers contribute by making a fake version of their town to lure the bandits into it and then blow it up. Then the heroes lead the whole town in a massive brawl with the remaining bandits.
* Parodied in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', where the Peaceful Villagers are so inept that Robin and company have to do pretty much everything themselves.
* In ''Film/The36thChamberOfShaolin'', the eponymous "36th Chamber" of the hero's training is to find and train commoners to retaliate against an evil regime of some kind. Although he pretty much does all the killing himself, it's an interesting coda to the most protracted TrainingMontage in martial arts cinema.
* Subverted in ''Film/HighNoon'', where Gary Cooper plays a marshall who hears that a criminal gang is coming to his [[TheWildWest Wild West]] town bent on revenge. Despite the fact that he was already planning on leaving, he spends most of the movie attempting to rally the villagers to the defense of their town. Everyone else proves too cowardly to fight, however, and he is forced to take on the gang almost singlehandedly.
* ''Film/CaveDwellers'' has Ator ride into a village and ''immediately'' start this sequence (seriously, he begins the "This is what we'll do" speech before he even gets off his horse)... only to get pissed off on realizing the villagers aren't playing along. Turns out they're not on his side.
* Done to a degree and lampshaded in ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven.'' After Balian knights all of the men in the village as a group, the priest asks if making a man a knight will make him a better fighter, to which Balian simply responds "yes."
* A GoneHorriblyWrong example in ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', where both Col. Kurtz and the villagers he's trained have descended into madness.
* ''Film/MagnificentWarriors'' have the heroes training the entire village of Kaal, whose forces consist of mostly civilian militia, in order to repel an invading Japanese force, who comes equipped with cannons and automatic weapons. They win... against the first wave of Japanese invaders, but then it was subverted when the villagers ends up facing a second wave, whose forces includes ''tanks'', at which point the citizens of Kaal ends up torching their homes to the ground to avoid a fatal second battle.
* The backstory of ''Film/TheSiege'', where Iraqi fighters trained (and abandoned) by the CIA have returned to America for vengeance.
* A variation of this happens in ''Film/DeathWish3'', where Paul Kersey teaches the retirees how to fight back against the young hoodlums that have moved into their neighborhood.
* Hercules does this early in ''Film/Hercules2014''. [[spoiler:It bites him in the ass when it turns out their leader is a tyrant.]]
* In ''Film/GoWestYoungLady'', all of the men in Headstone are formed into a {{Posse}} and ride out to raid Killer Pete's hideout. However, Killer Pete knows of this and plans to have the posse wiped out in an ambush by Chief Big Thunder Cloud's tribe, while he and his gang loot the town. Learning of this, Bill sends one of the women to warn the men, and hurriedly organizes the rest of the townswomen into a fighting force that ambushes the gang and does a good job of subduing them by pelting them with pots and pans and whacking them with brooms.
* Averted in ''Film/TheWildGeese''. When the mercenaries are abandoned, it's suggested that they rouse the local population with the aid of the African politician they've just rescued. It's quickly shown to be unworkable; the tribesmen don't have modern weapons, there's a regiment of the dictator's PraetorianGuard approaching and the politician refuses to lead his people to slaughter.
* ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]'', for instance, is a direct western adaptation of Kurosawa's film.
* And ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars'' has a RecycledInSpace version.
* The Taiwanese film, ''Film/BeachOfTheWarGods'' tells the story of a village being ravaged by Japanese pirates on a regular basis, until a heroic warrior and drifter band together six other warriors to help battle the pirates.
* ''Film/SevenSwords'' is a Chinese version.
* Done in a silly manner in the movie ''Film/ThreeAmigos''. The villagers couldn't do much except dig and sew, which was a problem since the heroes couldn't do much except pretend to be cowboys in silent movies. But with a plan cobbled together from the big finales of their various movies, a RousingSpeech that got a bit lost in the middle, and a lot of digging and sewing by the villagers, the day is saved (if you're wondering how this all works, the villagers sewed copycat outfits of the Amigos to distract the bad guys while the real Amigos picked them off, and the digging is for a large, hidden water pit to trap several of the banditos' horses).
* AppliedPhlebotinum film example: ''Film/GalaxyQuest''... again, not that the actual heroes have the skills that they're given credit for, either.
* Done in ''Film/{{Argo}}''. Not the actual ''Argo'', but the fictional FilmWithinAFilm ''Argo'', and made to sound like an allegory for the Iranian Revolution itself, gaining the approval of some Iranian guards at the airport.
* Done in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', by Robin and Azeem. They actually weren't peaceful (or villagers for that matter), but Robin and Azeem ''did'' ultimately make them more effective.
* The SpaghettiWestern ''[[Film/{{Trinity}} They Call Me Trinity]]'' has the heroes teaching a community of pacifists to fight back against the villain who wants the land they've built on. The villagers are so peaceful that they have no idea how to fight, and the heroes end up repeatedly clobbering them during the training exercises.
* The whole premise in ''Film/{{Defiance}}'', which is about a group of Jewish refugees. As they gathered more people, they begin training able-bodied people (including women) to fight for survival with weapons taken from the hands of dead Nazis.
* In ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', Ash is inexplicably seen teaching the medieval villagers, including their soldiers, on how to use a halberd. Somewhat justifiable in that he's teaching them to wield the weapons in a manner similar to a quarterstaff (halberds and pikes were normally for attacking horsemen), but staves already ''were'' used as weapons in medieval times.
* The movie ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'' has Clint Eastwood as NoNameGiven train the villagers to fight. DarkerAndEdgier because they aren't peaceful, just cowards, and he really doesn't care much for them.
* {{Subverted}} in ''Film/IpMan'', where our hero trains the workers at Quan's factory in Wing Chun to help them resist a group of bandits, only for the bandits to prevail anyway until Ip Man pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment. The main thing the workers accomplish is a DivideAndConquer variant: to keep various small groups of bandits busy long enough for him to show up and deal with them one at a time rather than forcing him to fight all of them at once.
* This is how they deal with the bad guys in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''. The villagers weren't exactly peaceful, however; rather, they were worn out from trying to fight the current BigBad's father some ten years earlier, and just didn't want to get involved again. Having a dragon on their side changed their minds.
* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' has the villagers contribute by making a fake version of their town to lure the bandits into it and then blow it up. Then the heroes lead the whole town in a massive brawl with the remaining bandits.
* Parodied in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', where the Peaceful Villagers are so inept that Robin and company have to do pretty much everything themselves.
* In ''Film/The36thChamberOfShaolin'', the eponymous "36th Chamber" of the hero's training is to find and train commoners to retaliate against an evil regime of some kind. Although he pretty much does all the killing himself, it's an interesting coda to the most protracted TrainingMontage in martial arts cinema.
* Subverted in ''Film/HighNoon'', where Gary Cooper plays a marshall who hears that a criminal gang is coming to his [[TheWildWest Wild West]] town bent on revenge. Despite the fact that he was already planning on leaving, he spends most of the movie attempting to rally the villagers to the defense of their town. Everyone else proves too cowardly to fight, however, and he is forced to take on the gang almost singlehandedly.
* ''Film/CaveDwellers'' has Ator ride into a village and ''immediately'' start this sequence (seriously, he begins the "This is what we'll do" speech before he even gets off his horse)... only to get pissed off on realizing the villagers aren't playing along. Turns out they're not on his side.
* Done to a degree and lampshaded in ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven.'' After Balian knights all of the men in the village as a group, the priest asks if making a man a knight will make him a better fighter, to which Balian simply responds "yes."
* A GoneHorriblyWrong example in ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', where both Col. Kurtz and the villagers he's trained have descended into madness.
* ''Film/MagnificentWarriors'' have the heroes training the entire village of Kaal, whose forces consist of mostly civilian militia, in order to repel an invading Japanese force, who comes equipped with cannons and automatic weapons. They win... against the first wave of Japanese invaders, but then it was subverted when the villagers ends up facing a second wave, whose forces includes ''tanks'', at which point the citizens of Kaal ends up torching their homes to the ground to avoid a fatal second battle.
* The backstory of ''Film/TheSiege'', where Iraqi fighters trained (and abandoned) by the CIA have returned to America for vengeance.
* A variation of this happens in ''Film/DeathWish3'', where Paul Kersey teaches the retirees how to fight back against the young hoodlums that have moved into their neighborhood.
* Hercules does this early in ''Film/Hercules2014''. [[spoiler:It bites him in the ass when it turns out their leader is a tyrant.]]
* In ''Film/GoWestYoungLady'', all of the men in Headstone are formed into a {{Posse}} and ride out to raid Killer Pete's hideout. However, Killer Pete knows of this and plans to have the posse wiped out in an ambush by Chief Big Thunder Cloud's tribe, while he and his gang loot the town. Learning of this, Bill sends one of the women to warn the men, and hurriedly organizes the rest of the townswomen into a fighting force that ambushes the gang and does a good job of subduing them by pelting them with pots and pans and whacking them with brooms.
* Averted in ''Film/TheWildGeese''. When the mercenaries are abandoned, it's suggested that they rouse the local population with the aid of the African politician they've just rescued. It's quickly shown to be unworkable; the tribesmen don't have modern weapons, there's a regiment of the dictator's PraetorianGuard approaching and the politician refuses to lead his people to slaughter.
