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*** Someone will be [[Reluctant Warrior|Reluctant]]
*** Someone will be a [[Token Evil Teammate|Jerk]]
*** Someone will be a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
*** Someone will [[Pet the Dog]]
*** At least one will die [[Heroic Sacrifice|Heroically]]
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# The team decides to return.
# There is another attack; the people join in both enthusiastically and competently. Several of the team are injured or killed; the attackers are defeated soundly, but not always completely.
# The people indicate that they now can and will defend themselves when/if the attackers return; what remains of the team [[But Now I Must Go|departs]].
See also [[Training the Peaceful Villagers]].
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* ''[[The 13th Warrior]]'', but with Vikings...
* ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]''
* George Clooney and the Weinstien company are remaking the film yet again, but with mercenaries in present day Thailand.
* ''[[World Gone Wild]]'', starring Bruce Dern, Michael Pare, and Adam Ant, is ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' but without the fantastic script, amazing direction, or brilliant acting, set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where water is the most precious commodity on earth.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Blake's
* ''[[The Seven Swordsmen]]'' TV series
* The ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' episode "The Magnificent Warriors"
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* Obviously, ''[[The Magnificent Seven (TV series)|The Magnificent Seven]]''.
* ''[[Kung Fu]]: 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 [[Actor Allusion|very similar]] to his ''Magnificent Seven'' character.
* The ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' episode "The Moment of Truth".
* The ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'' episode "The Swords of Wayland" - at least at first. The plot soon took the outlaws away from the village and in search of the stolen [[McGuffin]].
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*** Also, Knights of the Old Republic 2 wasn't made by Bioware.
** Correction: Three (or four in ''[[Dragon Age]]'') save the galaxy/world, the rest patiently slack in the base.
*** There are some all-out NPC battles in Dragon Age, and the NPC character types still (partially) fit. Alistair is, arguably, [[The Hero]] who makes the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] {{spoiler|either by giving his life to kill the archedemon, or giving up his freedom to become king}}, The Lancer is [[Token Evil Teammate]] Morrigan, Sten is [[The Stoic]] and thus, also, [[The Quiet One]] who is also a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]], Zevran is the (semi) [[Reluctant Warrior]] and [[Lovable Traitor]] who joins you after you defeat his band of assasin [[Tricksters]], Wynne is [[The Obi-Wan]], Leliana is [[Naive Newcomer]] {{spoiler|so she says}} who likes to [[Pet the Dog]], and Oghren is the [[Boisterous Bruiser]] [[Comic Relief]]. Shale shares the [[Deadpan Snarker]] with Morrigan, [[The Big Guy]] with Sten, and proves to be a very sardonic [[Comic Relief]] alternative to Oghren.
** Bioware likes this trope so much that they built the party members of ''[[Video Games/Mass Effect|Mass Effect]]'' after it. Shepard is the Hero. Kaiden is the Lancer. Ashley is the big guy. Liara is the smart guy. Wrex is the Old Guy (he is a couple hundred years old). Tali is the young guy. Garrus is... whatever's left.
*** If you see Tali and Liara as both being Smart Guys in different fields, then Garrus could be the Young Guy. Shepard becomes his mentor, after all, and his character development reflects what he picks up from your own behavior as a Paragon or Renegade.
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* ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' has the episode "Bounty Hunters". It even mentions Kurosawa in the opening.
* ''[[Justice League Crisis On Two Earths]]'' involves the six 'core' Leaguers (the same from the series, less Hawkgirl, and with Hal Jordan as [[Green Lantern]]) join an alternate universe Luthor to save said alternate universe from evil versions of themselves.
* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' had a very deliberate [[Shout-Out]] to this in the form of "The Magnificent Kiwi." When you're dealing with a [[Space Western]], this plot's going to show up.
** Also, according to [[Word of God|series creator Robert Mandell]], this trope was also the inspiration for the series' entire premise, in the form of Waldo and Zozo contacting Earth to help them defeat [[God Save Us From the Queen|the Queen of the Crown]] and her [[Evil Empire]].
* ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'' has an episode where the five crew members are called by a little boy to save their playground from a garbage man intent on turning it into a landfill. The boy is under the impression that they are heroes instead of actors, and the LilyMu crew is under the impression that it's all a publicity gig!
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