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* SpotTheImposter: Drew is able to tell that the first figure he sees on the Kahuna's boat isn't the real Kahuna, because the real Kahuna is left-handed.

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* MsFanservice: Jenny, played by ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' Playmate Susan Kiger, a WalkingSwimsuitScene who takes her bikini top off for the flimsiest of reasons.



* TheVamp: Alexa, who uses herself as bit to lure the Hermit into a position where she can kill him.

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* TheVamp: Alexa, who uses herself as bit bait to lure the Hermit into a position where she can kill him.
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* DirtyOldMan: He travels with an inflatable sex doll, and hits on every attractive woman he meets. He is enough of a LoveableRogue, however, that he seems to have a reasonable success rate as a pickup artist.


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* TheVamp: Alexa, who uses herself as bit to lure the Hermit into a position where she can kill him.
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* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: When Kincella shoots Kimo at his club, Kincella's bartender--who is secretly on Kimo's payroll--pulls a shotgun from behind the bar and tries to kill Kincella.

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* PaperThinDisguise: Drew walks out of the hotel past Skater, who is looking for him, in a disguise consisting of badly fitting wig, powder in his moustache, and glasses.



* ProperltParanoid: making contact, Drew immediately checks out of his hotel and leaves no forwarding address. As he explains to Alexa, he trusts Harris but does not know anything about Harris' agent or where their loyalties. This turns out to be a sensible precaution, as the agent is really a SixthRangerTraitor who tries to kill Cowboy when she can't locate drew.

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* ProperltParanoid: ProperlyParanoid: When Harris calls Drew and tells him that some details of the operation and that his agent on the island will be making contact, Drew immediately checks out of his hotel and leaves no forwarding address. As he explains to Alexa, he trusts Harris but does not know anything about Harris' agent or where their loyalties. This turns out to be a sensible precaution, as the agent is really a SixthRangerTraitor who tries to kill Cowboy when she can't locate drew.Drew.
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* ProperltParanoid: making contact, Drew immediately checks out of his hotel and leaves no forwarding address. As he explains to Alexa, he trusts Harris but does not know anything about Harris' agent or where their loyalties. This turns out to be a sensible precaution, as the agent is really a SixthRangerTraitor who tries to kill Cowboy when she can't locate drew.
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* ReverseMole: Mailei is actually working for Harris and reporting on the plans of TheSyndicate to take over Hawaii. However, when she is sent to help the Seven, she reveals her true colours as a SixthRangerTraitor.
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* OhCrap: The look on SixthRangerTraitor Mailei's face when Drew tosses her a [[BlackSpot yellow lei]] at the end of the film and she knows that the jig is up.


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* SixthRangerTraitor: Mailei reveals herself to a ReverseMole inside TheSyndicate: providing to information to Harris and the feds on their plans to take over Hawaii, and then sent to help the Seven to stop them. However, she later turns out to be a double agent, providing TheSyndicate with information about how much the feds know, and tries to kill Cowboy.
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* NiceHat: Cowboy never goes anywhere without his trademark ten-gallon hat.
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* GunTwirling: Cowboy does this when he draws his gun before shooting Butterfly, and when he holsters it again afterwards.


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* HeroStoleMyBike: Drew snatches a trail bike off some random guy who is picking up his mail to chase after the assassin who tried to shoot him at the airport. At least he shoves a handful of cash into the guy's hand before he takes it, which is just as well, as Drew winds up setting fire to the bike to create a signal fire to attract Alexa's attention.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Two of Sevano's Seven--Cowboy and the Professor--never have their real names disclosed. {{Lampshaded}} when Jenny asks Cowboy what his first name is, and he replies "Drugstore".
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* BlackSpot: Kimo delivers a lei to his targets, so his hitmen will know who they aiming at.


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* CardboardPal: Drew uses the Professor's sex doll to make it look there are two people in his car, and throw the Kahuna's men off his trail. Skater is shocked when he shoots 'her' with a shotgun and 'she' explode.
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* TheMagnificenSevenSamurai: The government hires Drew Sevano to put the seven crime lords out of commission before their plan to size control of Hawaii comes to fruition. In turn, Drew hires another six professionals assassins and formulates a plan to take down all seven targets in a half hour window.

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* TheMagnificenSevenSamurai: TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: The government hires Drew Sevano to put the seven crime lords out of commission before their plan to size control of Hawaii comes to fruition. In turn, Drew hires another six professionals assassins and formulates a plan to take down all seven targets in a half hour window.
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* JapaneseTourist: When a woman finds Cowboy NotQuiteDead in the beach carpark, she stops a passing family of Japanese tourists for help. While the father is trying to get someone to call an ambulance, his wife and two children are busy taking photos of Cowboy's body.
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* TheMagnificenSevenSamurai: The government hires Drew Sevano to put the seven crime lords out of commission before their plan to size control of Hawaii comes to fruition. In turn, Drew hires another six professionals assassins and formulates a plan to take down all seven targets in a half hour window.

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Perhaps best known today for being the first instance of the 'shoot the swordsman' gag that would later be made famous by ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.



* AffablyEvil: Butterfly controls all of the drug traffic in Hawaii. However, he is also hip and charming man who is shown moving easily through the youth scene of islands, where he is liked and respected.

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* AffablyEvil: Butterfly controls all of the drug traffic in Hawaii. However, he is also a hip and charming man who is shown moving easily through the youth scene of islands, where he is liked and respected.


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* GroinAttack: Alexa plants the bomb she is using to kill the Hermit directly between his legs. BOOM!
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* AffablyEvil: Butterfly controls all of the drug traffic in Hawaii. However, he is also hip and charming man who is shown moving easily through the youth scene of islands, where he is liked and respected.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Jenny slowly strips to reveal [[WalkingSwimsuitScene her bikini]], and then bends provocatively over the engine of her pickup at the gas station to distract Kimo's {{mook}}s so they don't notice what Cowboy is doing to their car. It works.
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* VehicularSabotage: Cowboy jabs a knife through the fuel tank of Kimo's limo, so the car will be forced to stop for gas.


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* WhoWearsShortShorts: WalkingSwimsuitScene Jenny, who occasionally puts on a pair of extremely abbreviated denim cutoffs over her bikini bottoms: seeming so she can take them off again later.
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Jenny spends almost the entire movie in a succession of different bikinis (sometime changing between them on camera); occasionally supplemented by [[WhoWearsShortShorts a very short pair of denim cutoffs]].

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* AttemptedRape: The Hermit attempts to rape Alexa when she infiltrates his estate. However, Alexa was expecting this, as her plan for his assassination relied on women being his weakness.



* PocketProtector: Mailei doublescrosses Cowboy, shoots him, and leaves him for dead. However, Cowboy survives because the bullet the deflects off his lucky medal he wears on a chain round his neck.

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* PocketProtector: Mailei doublescrosses doubles-crosses Cowboy, shoots him, and leaves him for dead. However, Cowboy survives because the bullet the deflects off his lucky medal he wears on a chain round his neck.



* YouHaveoutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Kahuna's faithful driver Charlie is wounded during their getaway, the Kahuna's shoots him and shoves him off the side of the boat.

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* YouHaveoutlivedYourUsefulness: YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Kahuna's faithful driver Charlie is wounded during their getaway, the Kahuna's shoots him and shoves him off the side of the boat.
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* ImpersomatingAnOfficer: Two of Kimo's hitmen pose as police officers and guide the senator's car into an ambush, and then kill the senator's driver afterwards.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: Ed infiltrates Mr. Lee's building by posing as a cleaner. He stands around dusting the outer off ice till he sees Lee's bodyguards leave.
* PocketProtecor: Mailei doublescrosses Cowboy, shoots him, and leaves him for dead. However, Cowboy survives because the bullet the deflects off his lucky medal he wears on a chain round his neck.

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* ImpersomatingAnOfficer: ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Two of Kimo's hitmen pose as police officers and guide the senator's car into an ambush, and then kill the senator's driver afterwards.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: Ed infiltrates Mr. Lee's building by posing as a cleaner. He stands around dusting the outer off ice office till he sees Lee's bodyguards leave.
* PocketProtecor: PocketProtector: Mailei doublescrosses Cowboy, shoots him, and leaves him for dead. However, Cowboy survives because the bullet the deflects off his lucky medal he wears on a chain round his neck.
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* PocketProtecor: Mailei doublescrosses Cowboy, shoots him, and leaves him for dead. However, Cowboy survives because the bullet the deflects off his lucky medal he wears on a chain round his neck.

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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: The Professor takes out his target from eight miles away by sitting on the balcony of his hotel room and calculating timing, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and a host of other variables, and then clicking the trigger of his customized gas gun.



* CarFu: Drew takes out Skater by reversing his car into at high speed.



* EurekaMoment: Cowboy is trying to work out how to deal with Kimo's bulletproof limo when he spots a couple of kids pitching horseshoes in the park. A lightbulb goes off and exclaims "That's it! Horseshoes!", much to Jenny's confusion.

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* EurekaMoment: Cowboy is trying to work out how to deal with Kimo's bulletproof limo when he spots a couple of kids pitching horseshoes in the park. A lightbulb light bulb goes off and exclaims "That's it! Horseshoes!", much to Jenny's confusion.confusion.
* FlareGun: Cowboy uses a flare gun to blow uo Kimo's limo after first dousing it in gasoline.



* TheSyndicate: The seven most powerful crime lords in Hawaii join forces to cripple federal law enforcement on the islands so they can stage a takeover.

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* TheSyndicate: The seven most powerful crime lords in Hawaii join forces to cripple federal law enforcement on the islands so they can stage a takeover.takeover.
* YouHaveoutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Kahuna's faithful driver Charlie is wounded during their getaway, the Kahuna's shoots him and shoves him off the side of the boat.
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* CampingACrapper: T.K. takes out Mr. Chen by waiting till he enters the changing shack on his private golf course, then dropping a bomb on it from a hang glider.


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* DestinationDefenestration: Ed kills Mr. Lee by sliding him along his conference table and out the window of his penthouse: without opening it first.


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* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: Ed infiltrates Mr. Lee's building by posing as a cleaner. He stands around dusting the outer off ice till he sees Lee's bodyguards leave.

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* AlohaHawaii: The film is set in Hawaii and trailing the mob bosses involves the heroes checking out a lot of the tourist hotspots.

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* AlohaHawaii: The film is set in Hawaii and trailing the mob bosses involves the heroes checking out a lot of the tourist hotspots. Beaches, tropical jungles and hula dancers abound.


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* EurekaMoment: Cowboy is trying to work out how to deal with Kimo's bulletproof limo when he spots a couple of kids pitching horseshoes in the park. A lightbulb goes off and exclaims "That's it! Horseshoes!", much to Jenny's confusion.
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* AlohaHawaii: The film is set in Hawaii and trailing the mob bosses involves the heroes checking out a lot of the tourist hotspots.


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* HardWorkMontage: There is a montage of the Professor, Alexa and Jenny acquiring the vehicles, painting them, fitting them out, assembling the gas gun, etc.
* ImpersomatingAnOfficer: Two of Kimo's hitmen pose as police officers and guide the senator's car into an ambush, and then kill the senator's driver afterwards.
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''Seven'' is a 1979 American action neo noir crime film directed by Andy Sidaris and starring William Smith.

In sun-drenched Hawaii, a dynamic criminal organisation run by seven ruthless professional kingpins intends to liquidate its political leaders, and when they fulfill their plans, take over the 50th State and pillage the land. Although this may be true, the government will soon retaliate by summoning the unconventional special agent Drew Sevano, who, in turn, assembles an invincible and well-equipped army of six other deadly agents; all assigned their target of choice. But things are looking bleak and the mandatory half-hour time frame for the completion of the operation is already tight. Will Sevano's Seven succeed?

Not to be confused with the [[Film/{{Se7en}} the 1995 serial killer film]], or any other movie titled ''Seven''.

!!Tropes in ''Seven'' include:

* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: One of the federal agents is assassinated while sitting in the front row of a tiki show. By the dancer on stage who hurls a flaming spear into his chest.
* EmbarrassingCoverup: The Professor deliberately uses this to get through airport security. When he opens his bag, an inflatable sex doll automatically inflates. Security are so busy laughing at this that they wave him through without checking the rest of his gear.
* TheSyndicate: The seven most powerful crime lords in Hawaii join forces to cripple federal law enforcement on the islands so they can stage a takeover.

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