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* DropTheHammer: Jeffrey often uses hammers in combat, either wielding or throwing them. In the ActionPrologue, he takes down a robber by flinging a hammer into the robber's head.
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* BloodBrothers: Blood Brothers and a Sister. The titular seven are a band of orphans who were raised together, grew up together, and consider each other as a family.
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* FiveManBand: The seven, and Ying, all fits under this:
** TheHero: Jeffrey.
** TheLancer: Chiu-yan.
** TheBigGuy: Nanny and Steelbar.
** TheHeart: Monk.
** TheChick: Little Archer.
** TheSmartGuy: Dragon.
** SixthRanger: Ying.
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* HellBentForLeather: Ying's preferred clothing choice, being a BikerBabe, including leather jacket and boots.

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* HellBentForLeather: Ying's preferred clothing choice, being a BikerBabe, BadassBiker, including leather jacket and boots.
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* BadassBiker: The titular seven are all skilled bikers who prefers using motorcycles as their mode of transportation. Notably, Tiny Archer and Ying - who joins the group after [[spoiler: Chiu-yan's death]] - also counts as [[BikerBabe Biker Babes]] as well.
* BloodBrothers: Blood Brothers and a Sister. The titular seven are a band of orphans who were raised together, grew up together, and considers each other as a family.

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* BadassBiker: The titular seven are all skilled bikers who prefers prefer using motorcycles as their mode of transportation. Notably, Tiny Archer and Ying - who joins the group after [[spoiler: Chiu-yan's death]] - -- also counts count as [[BikerBabe Biker Babes]] {{Badass Biker}}s as well.
* BloodBrothers: Blood Brothers and a Sister. The titular seven are a band of orphans who were raised together, grew up together, and considers consider each other as a family.
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* KnifeNut: Jeffrey uses throwing knives as his backup weapon, notably grabbing scalpels and chucking them into the DeadlyDoctor assassin.
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* ContemptibleCover: Some alternate DVD covers would depict Michelle Yeoh's Ying in [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110923/mediaviewer/rm1176476672 a tight, leather leotard and fishnet stockings]]. Sexy as it is though, at no point in the movie did she wear anything of the sort.
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** TheBigGuy: Nanny.

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** TheBigGuy: Nanny.Nanny and Steelbar.



* LeapAndFire: Done by most of the characters, especially YIng and Jeffrey.

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* LeapAndFire: Done by most of the characters, especially YIng Ying and Jeffrey.
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* HappyFlashback: [[spoiler: The remaining six of the seven had a flashback reminiscing over their happy times together as a team as they bid Chiu-yan an emotional farewell]]. Jeffrey notably [[FiringInTheAirALot fires an entire magazine from his pistol into the air]] while shouting at the top of his voice after [[spoiler: blowing up Chiu-yan's motorcycle together with his corpse]].
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* ActionGirl: Michelle Yeoh's character, Ying. Hilary Tsui's TIny Archer also counts, but she's more of a CuteBruiser.

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* ActionGirl: Michelle Yeoh's character, Ying. Hilary Tsui's TIny Tiny Archer also counts, but she's more of a CuteBruiser.CuteBruiser given her small size.
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Wonder Seven is a 1994 GirlsWithGuns action movie directed by Creator/ChingSiuTung, starring Roger Kwok, Li Ning, and Creator/MichelleYeoh.

Jeffrey (Ning) is an orphan, raised with six fellow friends in the orphanage, consisting of his best friend Chiu-yan, the eldest Nanny, the sole female Tiny Archer, the bald-headed Monk, buddies Steelbar and Dragon, where they call themselves the Wonder Seven - a team of seven vigilante bikers who assists the police in fighting crimes. Considering each other as close as family, the seven has been through thick and thin, until an eventful encounter with the mysterious Ying (Michelle Yeoh) may jeopardize their relationship.

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!!Wonder Seven contains the following tropes:

* ActionGirl: Michelle Yeoh's character, Ying. Hilary Tsui's TIny Archer also counts, but she's more of a CuteBruiser.
* BadassBiker: The titular seven are all skilled bikers who prefers using motorcycles as their mode of transportation. Notably, Tiny Archer and Ying - who joins the group after [[spoiler: Chiu-yan's death]] - also counts as [[BikerBabe Biker Babes]] as well.
* BloodBrothers: Blood Brothers and a Sister. The titular seven are a band of orphans who were raised together, grew up together, and considers each other as a family.
* CoolShades: Worn by most of the seven throughout the movie, even on the poster. BigBad Chun-ho on the other hand wears SinisterShades.
* ContemptibleCover: Some alternate DVD covers would depict Michelle Yeoh's Ying in [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110923/mediaviewer/rm1176476672 a tight, leather leotard and fishnet stockings]]. Sexy as it is though, at no point in the movie did she wear anything of the sort.
* DeadlyDoctor: One scene had an assassin trying to execute the seven's benefactor while disguised as a doctor, but Jeffrey sees through the assassin's disguise.
* DropTheHammer: Jeffrey often uses hammers in combat, either wielding or throwing them. In the ActionPrologue, he takes down a robber by flinging a hammer into the robber's head.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The main characters are a group of seven orphans who grew up together and are a tight-knit vigilante force that considers each other as family. Even by the end of the movie, the team's name still fits, because [[spoiler: with Chiu-yan's death, and Ying joining the gang, it's still a group of seven]].
* FamilyOfChoice: The titular seven, again. Unrelated by blood, but considers each other the closest they have to a family.
* FireForgedFriends: The titular seven.
* FiveManBand: The seven, and Ying, all fits under this:
** TheHero: Jeffrey.
** TheLancer: Chiu-yan.
** TheBigGuy: Nanny.
** TheHeart: Monk.
** TheChick: Little Archer.
** TheSmartGuy: Dragon.
** SixthRanger: Ying.
* GigglingVillain: Chun-ho, a sadistic BloodKnight, laughs at the sight of death. He laughs when sending his team of bikers against the seven, gleefully guns down policemen in the final shootout while gloating, and takes pleasure at the sight of pure carnage.
* GirlsWithGuns: While Michelle Yeoh did get to use firearms in ''Film/{{Supercop}}'' and its sequel, ''Film/Supercop2'', here she gets to go full John Woo on mooks, firing guns at everything that gets into her way and taking names in shootouts lifted from Creator/MoonLee's films.
* GunsAkimbo: Chun-ho uses dual Uzis in the finale, at one point killing seven policemen in sucession while gloating.
* HeelFaceTurn: Granted, Ying was never portrayed as a villain in the movie, but [[spoiler: it turns out she's the girlfriend of Chun-ho, the BigBad, and when she realize how evil he truly is, she immediately turns to suppoort Jeffrey and the titular seven]].
* HellBentForLeather: Ying's preferred clothing choice, being a BikerBabe, including leather jacket and boots.
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler: Chun-ho, the BigBad, eventually dies when his helicopter crashes into the penthouse of the building where the climax occurs]].
* ImprobableAimingSkills:
** Ying, who can gun down mooks while speeding on her motorcycle. In the climax she leaps across from her motorcycle onto Jeffrey's, firing away with her pistol in the process, and nails eight mooks without missing a shot.
** Jeffrey, when it comes to throwing knives.
* InterruptedSuicide: A variation. The first meeting between Ying and Jeffrey happens near a pier where Jeffrey saw Ying standing near the water's edge in a flowing black dress, [[BarefootSuicide her shoes removed]], and seemingly contemplating suicide. He surprises her and tries to talk her from jumping in, but it turns out she never intends to jump anyway. And since RuleOfPool can happen anytime, both of them still ends up in the water.
* IronicName: Ironic Nickname. [[spoiler: Chiu-yan, the best friend of Jeffrey, whose name literally translates to "Superman"]], is the only member of the seven to die in the film.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler: Part of Chiu-yan's last words, combined with IRegretNothing after being shot in the junkyard shootout]].
* KnifeNut: Jeffrey uses throwing knives as his backup weapon, notably grabbing scalpels and chucking them into the DeadlyDoctor assassin.
* KnowsTheRopes: Chiu-yan uses a lasso as an impromptu weapon while kicking ass, skillfully using it to ensnare one of the robbers while spinning his motorcycle around in the opening scene.
* LeapAndFire: Done by most of the characters, especially YIng and Jeffrey.
* MeaningfulName: Some of the titular seven's nicknames...
** Tiny Archer, the sole female, is the youngest member, and also uses [[TheStraightAndArrowPath a mini-bow and arrow as a backup weapon]].
** Shaolin Monk is the balding member of the group, and also skilled in Shaolin-inspired fighting moves.
** Nanny, the chubby BoisterousBruiser, is the eldest of the team and caretaker for what his fellow teammates needs.
* MeaningfulFuneral: [[spoiler: For Chiu-yan. It ends with Chiu-yan being given a grand farewell, see VikingFuneral]].
*MeleeATrois: The final battle, with the Wonder Seven ([[spoiler: Ying now replacing the deceased Chiu-yan]]), Chun-ho and his mooks, and the police. Although it's partially subverted in a way that the Seven aren't actively targeting the police since they are on the side of good, and spends most of their confrontation with the cops subduing them nonfatally, but Chun-ho had no qualms ordering his mooks to kill everybody that gets in their way.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Some of the titular seven doesn't have a name, although it's justified as they are orphans who grew up in the streets and simply adopts nicknames for themselves. Like Steelbar, Monk, Tiny Archer, and Chiu-yan (whose name literally translates to "Superman").
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Chiu-yan, who dies in the junkyard ambush]]. The climax is a RoaringRampageOfRevenge dedicated to avenge him.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Played straight initially, since Tiny Archer is the sole female of the group, but then it becomes TwoGirlsToATeam when Ying joins the Seven after [[spoiler: Chiu-yan's death]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Chun-ho's number two, TheDragon, gets pumped full of lead when Ying and the other six of the titular seven ([[spoiler: sans Chiu-yan]]) fires their guns on him ''all at the same time'', with seven handguns being emptied into his body. If the bullets doesn't kill him, the lead poisoning probably will.
*TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ying is the tomboy (albeit a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, since she doies wear dresses a few times), and Tiny Archer is the girly girl.
* VikingFuneral: [[spoiler: Chiu-yan is given one of these in his final sendoff, by having his dead body strapped to his beloved motorcycle, which is then sent sprinting off a cliff at full speed, before Jeffrey [[ShootTheFuelTank shoots its fuel tank]], causing the motorcycle to explode with Chiu-yan still on it, cremating him with his transport]].

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